Kamen Rider The Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation

is a Japanese superhero Tokusatsu crossover film between Kamen Rider Gotchard and Kamen Rider Geats, and is the 14th Movie War. The film also features Rinne Kudo's debut as Kamen Rider Majade ahead of her televised debut in Episode 19. 
==Production==
===Pre-Production===
During the planning concept stage, the tentative title for the film was https://twitter.com/Gotcha_toei/status/1740314997446893840 The text reads 仮面ライダー ケミっこぐ○し, but is a direct reference to Sumikko Gurashi
===Filming===
Filming occurred throughout October.https://twitter.com/SolCaesar/status/1710824839496466579https://twitter.com/TokuRed/status/1710825403458457823
===Post-Production===
In 2023, it was announced that a crossover film between Geats and Gotchard would premiere in the Winter of 2023.https://twitter.com/toeiHERO_movie/status/1715125675232039040 On November 5, 2023, it was announced that VTuber Shirakami Fubuki had joined the cast as the Geats Chemy.https://twitter.com/toeiHERO_movie/status/1720961626940326096
On November 26, 2023, it was announced that Rie Takahashi had joined the film’s cast.https://x.com/toeihero_movie/status/1728572274746576899?s=46&t=kvVTFRlDrMw64bBxzGBO6g The artist for the film’s ending theme was revealed to be blank paper, a collaborative effort between KENJI03 of BACK-ON and his wife Koda Kumi.https://x.com/kr_avex/status/1728571790103072943?s=46&t=kvVTFRlDrMw64bBxzGBO6g On December 3, 2023, several voice actors were announced to have joined the cast.https://twitter.com/toeiHERO_movie/status/1731108509931184174
==Synopsis==
Houtaro Ichinose and his friends continue their search for the Chemies, and Ace Ukiyo and his friends confront the Jyamato, who have appeared again, when suddenly the "Strongest Level 10 Chemy", X Wizard appears. Its mysterious magical powers have transformed Keiwa Sakurai and the others into the form of Chemies! In addition, as many as five "Strongest Level 10 Chemies" and the Geats Chemy, which looks just like Kamen Rider Geats, will appear at the same time!
Perplexed by the series of unusual situations, Houtaro and his friends, Ace, and Keiwa, who has been turned into a Chemy, form teams to take on the "Strongest Chemy Capture Game"! What is the terrifying purpose hidden in this game? What is the mystery behind Geats Chemy's appearance? Will Kamen Rider Gotchard and Kamen Rider Geats be able to clear the hurdles that await them...?https://kamenrider-winter.com/story.html
==Continuity and Placement==
*Kamen Rider Gotchard: The film takes place between episodes 15 and 16.https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/gotchard/16/
*Kamen Rider Geats: The film takes place between Kamen Rider Geats: Final Stage and Kamen Rider Geats: Jyamato Awaking.
==Plot==
Flashing back to years ago, Ace mourns over the death of his dog in a traffic accident. In the wake of his death, the dog’s soul materializes into a brightly colored spirit.
In the present day, Rinne, Sabimaru, and Renge are accompanied by Supana as they investigate a ghost incident at an abandoned restaurant. Simultaneously, Houtaro is late for said mission as he scrambles out of the house before being stopped by his mother Tamami for his recent poor academic performance. Houtaro yells at her for being annoying and calls her names as he leaves, leaving Tamami angry. Houtaro arrives at the restaurant just as the team finds Utsubocchama, a Chemy haunting the restaurant and capture it. 
However, shortly, they become surrounded by several Jyamato who intend to attack. Keiwa, Michinaga, and Neon arrive and transform to fight the Jyamato, and are shortly joined by Ace, while Houtaro and Supana transform as well to assist in eliminating the Jyamato. 
After a short round of introductions, Keiwa, Michinaga, and Neon are shot by X Wizard, who turns them into Chemies. They chase after the Level 10 Wizard Chemy to a warehouse where they meet up wuth Tsumuri. X Wizard advises the team to find the other Level 10 Chemies before she will turn them back, kickstarting a new Desire Grand Prix as Tsumuri navigates. 
At the Alchemist Academy, Minato expresses his concerns with the new game the team are forced to play, but is reassured by investigator Licht Kugimiya who see this as a new opportunity. 
Tsumuri splits them into four teams: Team 1 with Sabimaru, Renge, and Neon, Team 2 with Supana and Michinaga, Team 3 with Houtaro and Keiwa, and Team 4 with Rinne, Ace, and the mysterious Geats Chemy. 
Teams 1 and 2 succeed in capturing Exceedfighter and Lixion, while Team 4 uses Team 3 as bait to capture X Fortress, though Ace is not interested in working with his Chemy counterpart at all due to his disdain with pets. That night, Houtaro and Keiwa rest up after their misfortunes against attempting to capture X Fortress and devise a way to outsmart Ace. Back at Kitchen Ichinose, Tamami looks at photos of Houtaro from when he was younger while thinking on his actions from that morning, saying he reminded her of his father, Tamami's husband. 
The next morning, Rinne and Ace move in to capture Xeggdrasil while Houtaro and Keiwa try to show him up. However the two are blasted to a distance, leading for Houtaro to accidentally find BeetlX. After both Chemies manage to crash into each other, Houtaro captures both with his quick thinking, impressing Ace. The teams gather back to the warehouse to turn in their captured Chemies, and X Wizard turns Keiwa, Michinaga, and Neon back. After X Wizard surrenders herself into a Chemy Card, the two teams then go their separate ways. 
Six months later, Houtaro captures all 101 Chemies and achieves a new alchemist rank. However the arrival of X Wizard and the Geats Chemy makes him realize that he was in a dream. Simultaneously, Neon dreams of running after her “Prince Charming”, Michinaga dreams of eating a large steak, Keiwa dreams of becoming a full-fledged police officer, and Rinne dreams of meeting her father Fuga. 
While Houtaro falls through the dream world, Ace appears in an attempt to save him. X Wizard appears and reveals that she put the team to sleep so they can live out their greatest wishes. In the past, X Wizard played with a group of human children, but their memories of X Wizard were ultimately erased by the Alchemist Association, leaving X Wizard sad and heartbroken from being left alone again. Houtaro refused to stay in his dream as he wanted to apologize to his mom for his hurtful words, allowing Ace to activate his powers and wake everyone up. 
Minato and Tsumuri await the team at the warehouse as they awaken, and Houtaro invites X Wizard to join him to achieve his dream. However Kugimiya appears, saying that everything was set up to lure Ace out. Absorbing X Wizard to become the Wizard Malgum, Kugimiya uses his powers to put the general populace to sleep, with a nightmare that would eventually kill them, and summons several Jyamato in the process. Geats, Gotchard, Buffa, and Valvarad stay behind to fight Kugimiya while Tsumuri brings the others to the academy. Minato advises using The Sun and Unicon cards to dispel Kugimiya's magic, but only an elite Alchemist can handle that power. 
Deciding that her father may be able to help them, Rinne willingly subjects herself to Kugimiya's spell to enter the dream world, while Keiwa and Neon defend her from Jyamato. Meeting with her father and presenting him the two cards, he grants Rinne the Alchemisdriver, and she returns to reality with the power of Kamen Rider Majade. With the rest of the Riders struggling against Kugimiya’s onslaught, Majade single handedly eliminates the Jyamato and the Wizard Malgum with her new powers.
With Kugimiya on the ropes, he reveals that he was a former participant of the Desire Grand Prix who was defeated by Ace over two millennia ago, and only studied alchemy to exact his revenge on the man who humiliated him. After re-absorbing X Wizard, Kugimiya summons a giant black hole in the sky, which sucks everything up. He fires a lethal shot at Ace, but the Geats Chemy jumps to take the shot for him, before being absorbed by Kugimiya, who becomes Geats Killer. Houtaro and Ace transform into Gotchard and Geats respectively to fight Geats Killer, but they are overwhelmed by his power. The five Level 10 Chemies recognize the dire situation and lend their assistance to Gotchard, transforming him to Kamen Rider Star Gotchard. With new power, Star Gotchard and Geats IX defeat Geats Killer, freeing X Wizard and the Geats Chemy. 
Kugimiya is arrested by Minato, while Ace realizes the Geats Chemy's identity, his late dog Constantine. Ace and Constantine were inseparable until the latter's accident that claimed his life. Constantine's longing and love for Ace allowed him to live as a spirit. When X Wizard first attacked the team, Constantine took the blast that would have turned Ace into the Geats Chemy and became the Geats Chemy himself. Ace tears up and says his goodbyes before Constantine disappears. At that point, everyone gives their farewells and go their separate ways. 
Ace returns to his family home and reminisces about Constantine’s old dog house, while Houtaro apologizes to his mom. Keiwa helps an old lady down the street, Neon reads a letter from Kyuun, Michinaga goes back to work with his colleagues, and Tsumuri maintains Ace's shrine. In the end, Houtaro and gang hold a welcoming party for X Wizard.
==Characters==
===Kamen Riders===
Kamen Rider Gotchard	Houtaro Ichinose
Kamen Rider Geats 	Ace Ukiyo
Kamen Rider Tycoon 	Keiwa Sakurai
Kamen Rider Na-Go 	Neon Kurama
Kamen Rider Buffa 	Michinaga Azuma
===Debatable Riders===
Valvarad	Supana Kurogane
===And Introducing Majade===
Kamen Rider Majade	Rinne Kudohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/GB6JBf8bUAArDug?format=jpg&name=small
===Allies===
*Tsumuri
*Sabimaru Tsuruhara
*Renge Icho
*Minato
*Tamami Ichinose
*Fuga Kudo
*John
*Kyuun 
====Chemies====
*Hopper1
*Steamliner
*Madwheel
*Utsubocchama
*Golddash
*X Wizard
*Geats Chemy
*Exceedfighter
*Lixion
*X Fortress
*BeetlX
*Xeggdrasil
*Kamantis
*Apparebushido
*Unicon
*The Sun
===Villains===
Wizard Malgam	Licht Kugimiya
Geats Killer 	Licht Kugimiya
Jyamato Rider	Various Jyamato
*Mahou Tsukai Jyamato
==Cast==
;Geats Cast
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;Gotchard Cast
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===Suit Actorshttps://japanactionenterprise.com/news/1887/===
*Kamen Rider Gotchard, Kamen Rider Tycoon: 
**During scenes where both Riders are required to be on-screen together, Tycoon is suit-acted by .
*Kamen Rider Geats, Valvarad: 
**During scenes where both characters are required to be on-screen together, Geats is suit-acted by .
*Kamen Rider Majade: 
*Kamen Rider Na-Go: 
*Kamen Rider Buffa: 
*X Wizard: 
*Wizard Malgam, Geats Killer: 
==Forms and Collectibles Used==
===Ride Chemy Cards=== 
*Card Used: 
**Gotchard
*** Hopper1, Steamliner, Wrestler G, Antrooper, Mechanichani, Golddash, Tycoon Chemy (in Chemy Riser, offscreen), Kamantis (in Gotcharge Gun), Apparebushido (in Gotcharge Gun), X Assemble 
**Valvarad 
***Madwheel, Buffa Chemy (in Valvarusher & Chemy Riser), Gekiocopter, Gutsshovel
**Majade
***Unicon, The Sun
**Renge
***Na-Go Chemy (in Chemy Riser)
*Form Used: 
**Gotchard
*** Steamhopper, Antwrestler, Goldmechanichor, Star Gotchard
** Majade 
***Sununicorn
**Valvarad
***Tri Custom, Gutsshovel Custom
===Raise Buckles=== 
* Buckle Used: 
**Geats 
***Magnum, Boost, Monster, Propeller, Boost MarkII, Laser Raise Riser, Boost MarkIX
**Tycoon
***Ninja, Bujin Sword
**Na-Go
*** Beat, Fantasy
**Buffa
***Zombie
*Form Used:
**Geats
***MagnumBoost Form, MonsterMagnum Form, Armed Propeller (Upper half), LaserBoost Form, GeatsIX, Boost Form (Upper half)
**Tycoon
***Ninja Form (Upper half), Bujin Sword
**Na-Go 
***Beat Form (Upper half), Fantasy Form (Upper half)
** Buffa
*** Zombie Form (Upper half)
==Errors== 
*It is not explained how Rinne was able to release herself from Kugimiya's sleeping spell, though she most likely broke through with the cards' powers before she transformed, or one method of breaking it is realizing the difference between dream and reality.
*It is not explained how Kugimiya, who participated in the Desire Grand Prix and lost, was able to retain his memories, though they were most likely retained through his long-time practice of alchemy. It is also possible that the administration had not yet begun erasing memories of its losing participants around this time.
*When X Wizard reverses the Chemy spell, it is unknown why Constantine had not turned back as well, as he was still the Geats Chemy towards the latter half of the movie.
==Music==
*"All for Love"
** Artist: blank paper (KENJI03 & Koda Kumi)https://twitter.com/Ben77878871/status/1727267096214868479 
==Marketing==
A teaser poster featuring Hopper1 and the Geats Chemy was unveiled on October 10, 2023.
On October 29, 2023, a teaser trailer featuring the various Chemies was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s6uV9AQLI On the same day, a campaign for the film began with the convenience store chain Lawson.https://twitter.com/toeiHERO_movie/status/1718425240551006544 On November 12, 2023, another teaser was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgINIWEO0g On November 19, 2023, another teaser was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwDvfOQkx8
On November 26, 2023, the film’s first full trailer was released.https://x.com/toeihero_movie/status/1728572022928609301?s=46&t=kvVTFRlDrMw64bBxzGBO6g On December 3, 2023, another trailer was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaDyFwtp88 On December 10, 2023, another trailer was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7zJDDxd2k On December 17, 2023, another trailer was released featuring the film's ending theme song "All for Love".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ9MEb6UXY8
==Release==
==Notes==
*Count at movie end
**Ride Chemy Cards in Gotchard's possession: Hopper1, Steamliner, Skebows, Apparebushido, Odorippa, Kamantis, Antrooper, Wrestler G, Pikahotaru, Smaphone, Spicle, Ganvhale, Mechanichani, Golddash, Saboneedle, Hawkstar, Raidenji, Junglejan, Venomdake, Gorillasensei, Mitemirror, Stagvine, Bussasorry, Greatonbo, Bountybunny, Panpakaparka, Tsupparihebi, Televi, Catchula, Happyclover, Bambamboo, Buglesia, UFO-X, X-Rex, X Wizard, Beetlx, Exceedfighter, Lixion, X Fortress, Xeggdrasil, Utsubocchama
**Ride Chemy Cards in Majade's possession: Unicon, The Sun, Pilets, Deepmariner, Burningnero, Yamibat, Renkingrobo
**Ride Chemy Cards in Valvarad's possession: Madwheel, Gutsshovel, Gekiocopter
**Ride Chemy Cards in Renge and Sabimaru's possession: Dokkirimajin, Energyl, Sasukemaru, Gengenchoucho, Bulletbaang, Hiikescue, Bakuonzemi, Doctorkozo, Flayrose
**Replichemy Cards in the Three Dark Sisters' possession: Repli-Steamliner, Repli-Pikahotaru, Repli-Bulletbaang, Repli-Odorippa, Repli-Skebows, Repli-Apparebushido, Repli-Wrestler G, Repli-Venomdake, Repli-Gorillasensei, Repli-Gekiocopter, Repli-Flayrose, Repli-Greatonbo, Repli-Kamantis, Repli-Catchula, Repli-Antrooper
*In contrast to previous Movie Wars, Geats summer movie did not feature an announcement of the Geats and Gotchard crossover, which had been a tradition since Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker.
*During the scene where Tamami lectures Houtaro about his grades, she reminisces on her youth while holding a yo-yo, this is in reference to the actress' past role as Saki Asamiya in the TV drama .
*According to director Kyohei Yamaguchi, the opening scene where the Alchemy Academy students capture Utsubocchama was inspired by the 1984 film and the entire set was built inspired by said film.Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE Gatchard & Geats Strongest Chemie★Great Gotcha Operation Pamphlet Published December 22, 2023 / Composed, edited and written by Yoda Kuninori (Light Army) / Publisher: Toei Business Promotion Department
*Tycoon, Na-Go, and Buffa Chemies were originally meant to be separate entities like Geats Chemy. However, due to it meaning introducing too many additional characters, it was decided that X Wizard's magic would transform Keiwa, Neon, and Michinaga into Chemy instead.『仮面ライダー THE WINTER MOVIE ガッチャード&ギーツ 最強ケミー★ガッチャ大作戦』パンフレット 2023年12月22日発行 / 構成・編集・文：用田邦憲（Light Army） / 発行所：東映 事業推進部
*During the scene in X Fortress, Ace and Rinne were seen eating Akai Kitsune & Midori no Tanuki brand noodles, one of the collaborators for Kamen Rider Geats and the film.
*Director Kyohei Yamaguchi makes a cameo in the film as a suspect that Keiwa interrogates. Eitoku was originally meant to play the suspect but could not do so due to a scheduling conflict with filming the main Gotchard series, forcing Yamaguchi to "reluctantly" take his place.https://youtu.be/xMLprUuLdog?si=Wh1viROr0u2GXOV4&t=1349https://twitter.com/Gotcha_toei/status/1740567502089056466
*During the dream sequence where Keiwa police records state that his residence is 202 Crystalia, Sekkoku-cho, Byunkyo-ku, Tokyo, a reference to the from .https://twitter.com/Gotcha_toei/status/1740567497441775658
*The events of the film would have repercussions on the subsequent storyline of Kamen Rider Gotchard:
**Episode 16: Rinne possesses Unicon and The Sun, and at the time, lost her ability to transform and perform alchemy.
**Episode 17: Kugimiya's actions resulted in the closure of the Alchemist Academy, and the Alchemys Union deciding to eliminate the students.
==External Links==
*Official Website
*Official Twitter
===Footnotes===
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