Kamen Rider 555 the Movie: Paradise Lost

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劇場版 仮面ライダー555 パラダイス・ロスト

The Kamen Rider 555 movie. Came out August 16, 2003. Was a double feature with the Abaranger movie.

Plot

A parallel universe story about the 555 characters.

Important things that happen

  • Despite being an alternate world story, the movie is where people first learn that Takumi is an Orphenoch. This is not revealed on the TV series until episode 34, which aired September 21st, almost a full month after the movie came out. So people who saw the 555 movie had some foreknowledge of what was to come on the TV series.
  • This is also the first instance of Faiz Blaster Mode. Blaster Mode doesn't appear on the TV series until episode 39, which aired October 26th.
  • Keitarou transforms into Kaixa.

Guinness World Record

At the time, had the most extras in the cast for a single movie. There were 10,000 extras as the Saitama Super Arena. This was out of a total of 90,000 applicants.

In the end credits, their names spell "Thank you" in the original and "See you again!" in the director's cut.

Biblical references

Paradise Lost refers to an epic poem about the fall of man from the Bible. There is talk of Faiz being a savior, who will come back to life and bring peace to the world. This is not unlike Jesus being the Messiah and dying for our sins only to be brought back to life. There's also the Mari/Mary similarity.

List of differences from the actual show

  • オルフェノクが世界を実質的に掌握し、人類のほとんどがオルフェノクと化している。このため、街の人々がオルフェノクを見ても平然としており、逆にライダーを見て驚き逃げ出すという演出が施された。
  • 劇場版オリジナルのライダー・サイガ、オーガが登場する。
    • 本編放送前のクロスプログラム映像には登場している。
  • 仮面ライダーデルタ（デルタのベルト）、花形、ラッキークローバーは登場していない。
  • クレインオルフェノクが激情態に変身する。
  • 村上峡児は首から上だけの生命維持装置に繋がれた状態で登場する。
  • 乾巧と草加雅人のヘルメットに、スマートブレインのロゴがペイントされている[2]。
  • 木場勇治・長田結花・海堂直也がオルフェノクであることは人間達に知られている。
  • 流星塾に関する描写・発言はない。
  • 園田真理が草加雅人を「雅人」と呼ぶ。
  • 海堂直也が長田結花を恋愛対象と見ている。

Characters

Movie Riders: The Emperor Belts

Kamen Rider Psyga

Based on the Greek letter Psi Ψ.

Kamen Rider Ouga

Alternate spellings are Orga, Oga.

Based on the Greek letter Omega Ω. Name is based on "omega", but there is a theory it also uses the kanji 王我 which mean "ruler" and "self". Since these are called the Emperor's Belts, there is some credibility to this theory.

Song

"Justiφ's -Accel Mix-" - Singer ISSA (Da Pump)

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