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The summer movie of Kamen Rider Blade, shown alongside Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger The Movie Full Blast Action.

The film takes place in an alternate timeline in which Kenzaki seals the Joker Undead and thus ending the Battle Fight. After a Time Skip of four years, Undead suddenly start reappearing. These Undead are fought by a trio of new Kamen Riders, as the originals lost their powers and moved on with their lives. The new Riders are led by Tachibana, the new chairman of BOARD.

After realizing the Undead have returned, Kenzaki reunites the old crew in hopes of assisting the new Riders. Tachibana explains to the ex-riders that, after the final battle between Hajime and Kenzaki, BOARD planned to permanently seal the Undead. However, they were attacked by a mysterious assailant, who stole the majority of the Rouze Cards. To combat this threat, Tachibana developed three artificial Rider Systems. Unfortunately, the new Riders do not want to work with the old ones, causing friction between the two groups.

It turns out someone within BOARD is a traitor, who starts killing the new Riders. It is up to the original crew to find out who it is, before said someone can execute their scheme.


The movie contains the following tropes:

  • Alternate Continuity: This film takes place in a world where Kenzaki sealed Hajime instead of Taking a Third Option like he did in the show.
  • Big Bad: Junichi Shimura/Kamen Rider Glaive/Albino Joker
  • Bittersweet Ending: The Albino Joker is killed, but at the cost of Hajime making a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Continuity Snarl: Much like with Episode FINAL, being written by someone who wasn't the head writer caused a few of these to pop upnote  - the movie is clearly meant to be an alternative to the last 2 episodes of the shownote , but even taking that into account, there's still a few of these.
    • Since this timeline's version of Blade didn't become an Undead, the second Kenzaki sealed Hajime, the Albino Joker would've won due to the nature of the sealing stone, as well as the fact that he would've been the last remaining Undead by default. Additionally, it's stated that "humanity", not the Human Undead, won the last battle fightnote .
    • The Spider Undead is sealed in the same manner that lead to the creation of the "improperly sealed" card, yet Leagle is never possessed by said Undead.
    • The Girafa and Tarantula Undeads (both King-category Undeads) act more like regular monsters than the higher-ups they are in the show.
  • Effective Knockoff: The new Kamen Riders are copies of the originals, but use an artificial Undead as a power source, rather than a Category Ace. But they aren't any less effective, however.
  • Empathic Environment: Albino Joker's appearance is accompanied by omnious storm clouds that come out of nowhere.
  • Expy: An in-universe version; the Missing Ace Riders' powers are modeled on the four from the TV series: Glaive is Blade, Larc is a combination of Garren and Chalice, and Lance is Leangle.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Hajime in the movie, who switches places with Amane as the Albino Joker's power source so Kenzaki can destroy it and weaken the Albino Joker, killing Hajime in the process.
  • One-Winged Angel: The Albino Joker's transforms into a four armed demon after sacrificing four Category King cards and Amane.
  • Outside-Context Problem: The Albino Joker. Having sealed every Undead already with there being no indication of there being another one, he comes out of nowhere and what really throws them off is how intelligent he is compared to the normal Joker, who in his natural state is a raging beast. By the time they figure that out, he's already played them like fiddles and gotten what he wants.
  • Red Herring: It's hinted that L'arc is the villain of the film early on. Then she gets offed by the real villain, Junichi Shimura/Glaive.
  • Refusal of the Call: Both Mutsuki and Shiori are reluctant to join Kenzaki in wanting to fight the newly revived Undead. Mutsuki wants to move on from his past as a Kamen Rider and live a normal life, while Shiori is about to marry.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass:
    • Amane, having lost her father figure in Hajime, became a delinquent who frequently shoplifts.
    • Kotarou managed to publish his book about Kamen Riders, which became a bestseller. The resulting fame and fortune turned him into somewhat of a snob. He gets better when he reunites with his old friends and helps them like in the old times.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Albino Joker kills off the two other movie Riders once he's done using them as Unwitting Pawns.

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