Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation

This article is about a movie in Kamen Rider Zero-One and Kamen Rider Zi-O.

WARNING: This movie contains scenes of gun violence, blood and murder. Viewer discretion is advised!

Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation
A movie for Kamen Rider Zero-One and Kamen Rider Zi-O
Tribute to	Kamen Rider (1971)
Release Date	Theatrical: December 21, 2019 (Japan) March 2020 (International) DVD/Blu-Ray May 13, 2020
Production Information
Writer(s)	Yuya Takahashi
Director	Teruaki Sugihara
Order in Continuity
Previous	I'll Take Care of Your Life
Next	I am an Actor, Shinya Owada
Previous	2019: Apocalypse
Next	Kamen Rider Zi-O NEXT TIME: Geiz, Majesty
Production Order
Previous	Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease
Next	Kamen Rider Zi-O NEXT TIME: Geiz, Majesty

Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation (仮面ライダー 令和 ザ・ファースト・ジェネレーション, Kamen Raidā Reiwa Za Fāsuto Jenerēshon) is a Japanese superhero crossover film between Kamen Rider Zero-One and Kamen Rider Zi-O, and the 11th overall installment of the Movie War series of films. It is intended to be the first successor to the Heisei Generations Series, and serves as a tribute to the original Kamen Rider series. In the film, Sougo travels to the World of Zero-One to assist Aruto in fixing the damages caused by a Time Jacker, while Aruto learns of his family's history as well as his own powers.

Synopsis

12 years ago, the Daybreak Town Accident changed the world and brought forth a new prosperity towards artificial intelligence. But what if that were to all change?

Sougo Tokiwa gave up his conquest for power after he chose to reset the world and live a mundane life. However as a Time Jacker began to alter history once again, Sougo is forced to take up the mantle as Kamen Rider Zi-O once again, as he meets Aruto Hiden, the native Rider of the world he has to save.

This is the story of two Kamen Riders from two different worlds, whose fight together will ultimately determine the fate of all reality.

Continuity and Placement

• Kamen Rider Zero-One: The film is set sometime between episode 9 and episode 15, as Zero-One uses Breaking Mammoth but Horobi and Jin still inhabit their hideout in Daybreak Town. The fact that Zero-One does not use Shining Hopper makes it likely that it takes place before episode 10.
  • The post-credits scene featuring Gai Amatsu as Thouser takes place sometime after Project Thouser.
• Kamen Rider Zi-O: As confirmed by producer Shinichiro Shirakura, the film is set sometime after the series finale and before Kamen Rider Zi-O NEXT TIME: Geiz, Majesty. This fact is shown with Sougo, Geiz, and Tsukuyomi losing their memories right after the film.

Plot

Aruto Hiden wakes up from a dream he had of the Daybreak Town Accident. Realizing that he was late, he hurriedly rushed out of his apartment for Hiden Intelligence, spotting several types of Humagears he didn't know existed on the way. Arriving at the building, Aruto is subdued by the Humagears in the building and is shocked to discover that there was a new CEO, Will, who attacks him as Another Zero-One.

At Hikarigamori High School, Tsukuyomi poses a question to both Sougo and Geiz, asking them what they'd do should the world end. Upon reaching their classroom, they discover that all the faculty and students were robots, who were teaching themselves their revolution against humanity. After their teacher and the students deduced the trio to be humans, they move in and attack them, but Woz arrives and rescues them, later restoring their memories.

Aruto is thrown out of the building and activates his Driver, but the Rider Model mystically appears from the ground. He transforms into Zero-One to fight him, but his powers were sapped away shortly and his Driver taken. With no choice left, Aruto runs from the Humagears attacking him in public led by the Berotha Magia and Okureru as the Kuehne Magia. He was later rescued by Isamu Fuwa and Yua Yaiba and taken to the human resistance. After meeting Izu, who explained that there was a temporal disturbance in their universe, a platoon of Humagears led by Will, Horobi, and Jin began to raid the resistance base. Wanting to help fight, Soreo Hiden gives him a Forceriser, allowing him to transform into Kamen Rider Zerozero-One. In the midst of the resistance's defeat, Zi-O's team arrived and were successful in driving the Humagear force back. After explaining that the cause of this was due to Finis, a Time Jacker, Aruto goes back to 2007, 12 years in the past with Zi-O's team.

At the HidenExpo 2007 conference, Korenosuke Hiden presented the Humagears to the audience. In his office, his secretary Will expressed a desire to also be happy from taking over human labor. Disregarding this as an error, Korenosuke laughs it off. Arriving in 2007, Aruto and the Zi-O team reach the development factory and fight the Humagears that were terrorizing the workers. Aruto confronts Kamen Rider Ichi-Gata, whom he recognized as his father at the time. Soreo revealed he was doing this in order to bring happiness to Humagears, and was seemingly willing to bring down humanity to do so. He revealed that he was working on the Ark Satellite, which caused the events to happen in the present day.

Chronologically, Finis arrives and presents Will with the Another Zero-One Watch, in which she explains that in the future, the revolution was stopped. Somewhere nearby, the Zi-O team encounter Finis, who wants to take all of the Kamen Rider powers for herself to prevent the rise of Ohma Zi-O. By corrupting the powers she took from Sougo, she transforms into Another 1, and Sougo transforms into Zi-O Trinity. Later, Sougo and Geiz fight the Another Rider using their Time Mazines. Geiz throws his Time Mazine into the Another Rider, but becomes damaged and is forced to abandon it.

Now armed with the powers of Another Zero-One, Will attacks Soreo, who also revealed that he was planning on destroying the satellite so that humanity doesn't fall. Both Aruto and Soreo transform to fight Will, but he takes them both down and stops Soreo's bomb. Satellite Ark then launches into space, activating its control over all the Humagears on Earth. Will returns to Hiden Intelligence and kills Korenosuke while Soreo, now controlled by the Ark, attacks Aruto. Another 1 arrives in their area, and Geiz saves Aruto, telling him that there's nothing else they can do in that time period. Sougo picks them up and they return to 2019.

Returing to the resistance base, the resistance tell Aruto that Izu gave herself up to stop the attack and was taken by Will. Aruto heads over to the conference center and exclaims his dream of a coexistence between human and Humagear. After Soreo reveals himself in the audience, Shesta announces that an emergency vote will occur at this point, for as to whenever Aruto should become president. As Soreo held the majority of the stocks at the company, his vote is absolute. In the end, he voted no, and the Ark corrupted every single HumaGear in the audience, in which Will sends to attack Aruto. In the lobby, the resistance as well as Zi-O's team arrive to help fight the Humagears. Aruto faces his father and announces his intent to defeat his father and regain his powers. Elsewhere, Horobi and Jin fight Geiz, Tsukuyomi, and Woz, and Isamu and Yua fight a group of Humagears outside, later taking out Another Zero-One themselves.

Sougo confronts Finis, who had used Geiz's Time Mazine to come from the past. They both transform into Zi-O II and Another 1 respectively and fight. Aruto continues his fight with this father, who ultimately let his son defeat him, later revealing he was faking his evil nature this whole time, to ensure that Aruto was serious about having both human and Humagear coexist. With his death and "yes" vote, Aruto becomes president and receives the Zero-One Driver.

Another 1 absorbs Geiz's Time Mazine and becomes Another New 1. The Zea satellite is launched, and Aruto transforms into Zero-One to help Zi-O fight Another 1. Zero-One attacks her with Rocking Kaban Dynamic, and they attack her with other Progrisekeys and GrandZi-O. They finally finish her with their combined 'Rising Impact Time Break'. Everything returns to normal. Daybreak Town, Soreo, and Ark meet their original fates once again.

Later, Aruto and Team Zi-O meet again. Woz tells Aruto that everything has turned back to normal and only him and Izu will remember the events due to being connected to each other through Satellite Zea. Before leaving, Sougo says that he must erase Aruto's memories as well in order to return everything to normal. Aruto resists and both of them transform and engage into a friendly duel.

Mid-Credits Scenes
Everything returns to normal. Jin and Horobi, back in their base, wonder for how long would humanity continue to rule over the Earth. Jun immediately calls Shesta and Sanzo and requests them to create a Rider System for him while he practices his pose. Fuwa tells Yua about a dream in which he was turned into a Humagear. He asks Yua to destroy him if such a thing happens in reality. Yua asks him about his actions if she is turned into one, and Fuwa ensures her that he will crush her.

Sougo, Geiz and Tsukuyomi return to their High School. Sougo teases Geiz because the latter slept during the class, but Geiz disagrees. Tsukuyomi comments that the truth is written on Geiz's face, which reminds Sougo of Zi-O's visor, but he doesn't tell them about it.

Aruto misses Soreo while staring at the Humagear body in his office. When Izu arrives, he asks her to change the design of his business cards and explains it, but Izu remembers Aruto's recent journey through timeline.

Post-Credit Scene
On the boundary of the Daybreak Town stands a golden Kamen Rider under the moonlight. He claims that his schemes are going exactly as he planned, or instead at 1000% rate.

Characters

Kamen Riders

Kamen Rider Zero-One	Aruto Hiden
Kamen Rider ZeroZero-One
Kamen Rider Vulcan	Isamu Fuwa
Kamen Rider Valkyrie	Yua Yaiba
Kamen Rider Ichi-Gata	Soreo Hiden
Kamen Rider Zi-O	Sougo Tokiwa
Kamen Rider Geiz	Geiz Myokoin
Kamen Rider Woz	Black Woz
Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi	Tsukuyomi

And Introducing Thouser

Kamen Rider Thouser

Gai Amatsu

Allies

• Izu
• Korenosuke Hiden
• Jun Fukuzoe
• Sanzo Yamashita
• Shesta
• Teruo Nikaido
• Ono
• Ito

Villains

Another Riders

Another Zero-One	Will
Another 1	Finis

MetsubouJinrai.net

Kamen Rider Jin	Jin
Kamen Rider Horobi	Horobi

Magia

Trilobite Magia	Various
Battle Magia	Various
Berotha Magia	Unnamed Humagear
Kuehne Magia	Okureru

Other

• Mamoru

Cast

Zero-One Cast

• Aruto Hiden (飛電或人, Hiden Aruto): Fumiya Takahashi (高橋文哉, Takahashi Fumiya)
• Isamu Fuwa (不破 諫, Fuwa Isamu): Ryutaro Okada (岡田龍太郎, Okada Ryūtarō)
• Izu (イズ, Izu): Noa Tsurushima (鶴嶋乃愛, Tsurushima Noa)
• Yua Yaiba (刃 唯阿, Yaiba Yua): Hiroe Igeta (井桁弘恵, Igeta Hiroe)
• Jin (迅, Jin): Daisuke Nakagawa (中川大輔, Nakagawa Daisuke)
• Horobi (滅, Horobi): Shuya Sunagawa (砂川脩弥, Sunagawa Syuya)
• Jun Fukuzoe (福添 准, Fukuzoe Jun): Kazuya Kojima (児嶋一哉, Kojima Kazuya)
• Sanzo Yamashito (山下三造, Yamashita Sanzō): Arata Saeki (佐伯 新, Saeki Arata)
• Korenosuke Hiden (飛電是之助, Hiden Korenosuke): Tokuma Nishioka (西岡徳馬, Nishioka Tokuma)
• Soreo Hiden (飛電 其雄, Hiden Soreo): Koji Yamamoto (山本 耕史, Yamamoto Kōji)
• Hiden Zero-One Driver, A.I.M.S. Shot Riser, MetsubouJinrai Forceriser: Maynard Plant (メイナード・プラント, Meinādo Puranto), Blaise Plant (ブレイズ・プラント, Bureizu Puranto, Monkey Majik)
• Kamen Rider Thouser (仮面ライダーサウザー, Kamen Raidā Sauzā, Voice): Nachi Sakuragi (桜木那智, Sakuragi Nachi)

Zi-O Cast

• Sougo Tokiwa (常磐 ソウゴ, Tokiwa Sogo): So Okuno (奥野 壮, Okuno Sō)
• Geiz Myokoin (明光院 ゲイツ, Myōkōin Geitsu): Gaku Oshida (押田 岳, Oshida Gaku)
• Tsukuyomi (ツクヨミ, Tsukuyomi): Shieri Ohata (大幡 しえり, Ōhata Shieri)
• Woz (ウォズ, Wozu): Keisuke Watanabe (渡邊 圭祐, Watanabe Keisuke)

Guest Cast

• Finis (フィニス, Fīnisu) : Rina Ikoma (生駒里奈, Ikoma Rina)
• Will (ウィル, Wiru) : Soko Wada (和田聰宏, Wada Sōkō)
• Resistance member: Ryuji Kasahara (笠原 竜司, Kasahara Ryūji), Hayato Takenaka (竹中隼人, Takenaka Hayato), Yuki Shiomi (潮見勇輝, Shiomi Yūki), Tom Constantine, Takayuki Sato (佐藤隆幸, Satō Takayuki), Gaimon (ガイモン, Gaimon), Yurika Hashimoto (橋本ゆりか, Hashimoto Yurika), Fumina Suzuki (鈴木 ふみ奈, Suzuki Fumina), Yusuke Sano (佐野祐介, Sano Yūsuke)
• Civilian: Happy Endo (ハッピー遠藤, Happy Endō)
• Humagear Teacher (先生ヒューマギア, Sensei HyūmaGia): Shin Nagahama (長濱 慎, Nagahama Shin)
• Voice of Another 1 (アナザー1号の声, Anazā Ichigō no Koe): Kouji Ishii (石井 康嗣, Ishii Kōji)

Forms and Collectibles Used

Progrisekeys

• Key Used:
  • Zero-One
    • Rising Hopper, Biting Shark, Flaming Tiger, Freezing Bear, Breaking Mammoth
  • Zerozero-One
    • Rising Hopper
  • Vulcan
    • Shooting Wolf
  • Valkyrie
    • Rushing Cheetah
  • Jin
    • Flying Falcon
  • Horobi
    • Sting Scorpion
  • Thouser
    • Amazing Caucasus
• Form Used:
  • Zero-One
    • Rising Hopper, Biting Shark, Flaming Tiger, Freezing Bear, Breaking Mammoth
  • Zerozero-One
    • Rising Hopper
  • Vulcan
    • Shooting Wolf
  • Valkyrie
    • Rushing Cheetah
  • Jin
    • Flying Falcon
  • Horobi
    • Sting Scorpion

Zetsumerisekeys

• Key Used:
  • Zero-One
    • Rocking Hopper (in Attache Calibur)
  • Ichi-Gata
    • Rocking Hopper
  • Thouser
    • Awaking Arsino
• Form Used:
  • Ichi-Gata
    • Rocking Hopper

Ridewatches

• Watch used:
  • Zi-O
    • Zi-O, Zi-O Ridewatch II, Zi-OTrinity, GrandZi-O
  • Geiz
    • Geiz
  • Tsukuyomi
    • Tsukuyomi
• Rider Armor(s) used:
  • Zi-O
    • Zi-O II, Zi-OTrinity, GrandZi-O
  • Geiz
    • N/A
  • Tsukuyomi
    • N/A
• Kamen Rider(s) summoned in GrandZi-O:
  • Ghost Ore Damashii, Ex-Aid Action Gamer Level 2, Gaim Orange Arms, Blade Ace Form, OOO Tatoba Combo, Kabuto Rider Form, Den-O Sword Form, Ryuki, Hibiki, Decade, Wizard Flame Style, Drive Type Speed, Build RabbitTank Form, Kuuga Mighty Form, Agito Ground Form, Faiz, Kiva, Double CycloneJoker, Fourze Base States
• Weapon(s) summoned in GrandZi-O:
  • Zikan Girade, Saikyo Girade

Ghost being summoned

Ex-Aid being summoned

Gaim being summoned

Blade being summoned

OOO being summoned

Kabuto being summoned

Den-O being summoned

Ryuki, Hibiki, Decade, Wizard, Drive and Build being summoned

Kuuga, Agito, Faiz, Kiva, W and Fourze being summoned

Miridewatches

• Watch used:
  • Woz
    • Woz
• Futurering(s) used:
  • Woz
    • N/A

Errors

• Aruto was able to use the Rise Hopper despite the fact that it is stored in Satellite Zea, which was underground.
• After utilizing Rising Dystopia against Ichi-Gata, ZeroZero-One pushes and pulls the Force Executor on the Forceriser twice to perform Rising Utopia, in which he only had to push and pull the trigger once.

Theme Song

The theme song for the film is Another Daybreak, performed by both J & Takanori Nishikawa, who also performed Zero-One's theme song REAL×EYEZ.

Alternate Posters

Announcement poster.

Zero-One poster.

Zi-O poster.

Ichi-Gata poster.

Vulcan and Valkyrie poster.

Woz, Geiz, and Tsukuyomi poster.

International Releases

The film was screened in Indonesia on March 18, 2020 by FeatPictures.

The film was originally planned to be released in Thailand on March 26, 2020 by DEX & Japan Anime Movie Thailand in Thai dub. But on February 29, 2020, a special theater release for 100 people was held.

The film premiered in Singapore on March 7, 2020, by Golden Village.

The film was screened in Malaysia on March 14, 2020 by TGV Cinemas, in Japanese with Bahasa Malay, English and Chinese Subtitles. The screening only lasted for 3 days before the cinema shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On April 2020, the film was made available on iTunes in Southeast Asia.

The release of this film in Taiwan is set on April 24, 2020.

The release of this film in Hong Kong is set on May 8, 2020.

Thailand poster

Thailand alternate poster.

Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore poster

Taiwan poster

Notes

• Progrisekey Count at movie end
  • Progrisekeys in Zero-One's possession: Rising Hopper, Biting Shark, Flaming Tiger, Freezing Bear, Breaking Mammoth
  • Progrisekeys in Vulcan's possession: Shooting Wolf, Punching Kong
  • Progrisekeys in Valkyrie's possession: Rushing Cheetah, Lightning Hornet
  • Progrisekeys in Jin's possession: Flying Falcon
  • Progrisekeys in Horobi's possession: Sting Scorpion, Amazing Hercules
  • Zetsumerisekeys in MetsubouJinrai.net's possession: Berotha, Kuehne, Ekal, Neohi, Onycho, Vicarya, Gaeru, Mammoth, Dodo
• This is the first Movie War:
  • to be released on the Reiwa Era.
  • to serve as a crossover between two series from different eras.
  • to feature a movie-exclusive Rider and not to feature Legend Riders, and the first since then to be written by only one writer with no other writers involved since Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie Wars Genesis.
  • to feature two female Riders from their different eras.
  • to not have allies from the previous series appearing in this film.
  • to have a unique ending theme that is not a mashup of opening themes since Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders.
• The existence of a human resistance forces fighting against Another Zero-One and the Humagears lead by Will, due to the timeline changes caused by Time Jacker Finis, is similar to the group of humans fighting against enemy machines called Humanoise in the future shown in the year 2121 (Kamen Rider Kikai's era), in which was subconsciously created from Sougo Tokiwa's increasing potential as Zi-O.
  • It also resembles the alternate reality of Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, with a world primarily ruled by an enemy faction with one member of said enemy faction’s species (Yuji Kiba/Izu) aiding the resistance, much to the reluctance of some people (Masato Kusaka/Isamu Fuwa).
  • The fact that this is a callback to any apocalyptic future is referenced by Tsukuyomi and Geiz in the film, where they called it an act of deja vu.
• Horobi and Will are the only known old generations of the Humagear to have their module (or possibly their own body) to be upgraded into the new generation in the movie.
• Despite Another Riders can only be defeated by the same Legend Rider power they possess, in this film, Vulcan and Valkyrie are able to destroy Another Zero-One.
  • This may suggest that secondary Riders are able to destroy Another Riders based on the primary Rider.
  • However, there are also instances in Kamen Rider Zi-O where an Another Rider can be defeated by other powers, but their Anotherwatch will still be intact. In the latter case, Vulcan and Valkyrie's attack may simply have been powerful to destroy Will's body.
  • This wouldn't be the first time where secondary Riders were able to destroy Another Riders based on the primary Rider, as Diend's summoned Specter and Brave were able to destroy Another Ghost and Another Ex-Aid, respectively.
• Kamen Rider ZeroZero-One's transformation effect uses the same metal locusts that would later be used for Metalcluster Hopper.
• This is the first time Zi-O changes into GrandZi-O while retaining its Rider form.
  • Interestingly, the transformation effect removed the Zi-O statue from the line-up.

Ohma Zi-O transformation effect in the background

• In the end of the movie, Zi-O's transformation effect is modified to resemble to Ohma Zi-O's transformation effect. This could potentially be due to him utilizing Ohma Zi-O's abilities to remove his and Aruto's memories of the movie.
• This movie marks the second time GrandZi-O summons all 19 Heisei Main Riders since Zi-O episode 43, as well as the first time GrandZi-O summons Ryuki, Blade, Kabuto, Kiva and Decade.
• Certain scenes in the film foreshadow events that would take place in Zero-One's second and third arcs:
  • Aruto, Isamu and Yua face against Hiden Intelligence, after it has been taken over by Gai Amatsu during the third arc.
  • One of Another Zero-One's abilities is summoning a swarm of grasshoppers,, mirroring MetalCluster Hopper's ability pre-introduction of the Progrise Hopper Blade.
  • Izu announcing her wish to be with Aruto, mirrors the first episode of the third arc, where Izu initially chose to return to Hiden under Gai, but eventually decided to side with Aruto for his belief in 'doing what is the best for Humagears and humans'.
  • Isamu and Yua's banter about killing each other one day, should they become Humagears, mirror the final episodes of the second arc, and the early episodes of the third arc, where Isamu comes into direct conflict with Yua, who sided with Gai Amatsu. The concept of 'human becoming evil' also foreshadows the introduction of the Raiders.
  • Will's concern of the future of the Humagears foreshadow's Jin philosophy after his resurrection during the middle of the second arc.
  • Will as an old Humagear to receive a new Humagear body mirroring Naki and Ikazuchi after both of their proper resurrection.

External Links

• Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation Official Website