With the release of the rental version of Kamen Rider OOO × W feat Skull Director's Cut film a few days ago, here are the compiled changes that happened on Kamen Rider W's part, Skull's Message for W.
Read the first part, Kamen Rider OOO: Nobunaga's Desire here. Since “Skull's Message for W” is both present and a flash back, the edits are categorized into W (Double) and Skull for better understanding.
Kamen Rider W: Present
- Extended shot of W looking at the Yummy and complaining about it before jumping.
- Extended shot of W vs Yummy. Terui is shown arriving in his bike in the background. Camera then changes to focus on him removing his sword from his bike. There’s a little bit more of W vs Yummy and only afterwards Terui finally arrives.
- Extended shot of the scene where Akiko runs away. Terui stumbles around and then uses his catchphrase on himself.
- Two extra shots of Fuuto while Shotaro describes Akiko’s situation. The description is expanded compared to the original one.
- Shot of Akiko’s back while the expanded explanation continues. Afterwards, she goes and lists everyone (comrades, father, Terui, etc, with the Kamen Rider form of each one flashing on screen)
- In the original, there was a shot of the river while Akiko remembered her father’s words about staying by her side. In the DC, there’s a quick flashback to the day she talked with her father on the phone that is going to be detailed later in the movie.
Kamen Rider Skull: Past
- Extended shot of Melissa in her room complaining calling Soukichi to complain about how he’s doing nothing to protect her and it’ll be a big problem.
- Completely new scene. Soukichi and his partner are actually shown driving by Fuuto in their car. They don’t speak anything to each other, just look at a paper and then it starts raining. There’s also a shot of them leaving the car under heavy rain, while in the original the car was just shown parked outside with lighter rain.
- Completely new scene. Soukichi and his partner enter into the theater under the rain. Meanwhile, the Bat Dopant woman is standing outside, a man bumps into her, she acts like there was no problem, but right afterwards beats him up and then walks in the direction of the theater.
- Shot of Soukichi walking through the agency and turning on the lights before going into the Skull room.
- There’s a longer shot of the architecture expert. Soukichi takes him and his informant wishes him well while they leave. There’s also an extra exterior shot of the Yaguchi Entertainment Company.
- There’s a new shot of Skull touching the Memory in his driver and his scarf blowing. There’s also a few extra seconds of Shroud dodging Bat’s attacks.
- The first shot of Skull beating up Masquerades is slightly exchanged before the camera cut.
- A few extra seconds of Skull vs Spider, just enough for two punches. Afterwards, Bat beating up Shroud.
- New extended cut of Soukichi escaping running through the Yaguchi agency again.
- Completely new scene. After the Yummy flies with Akiko, Shotaro and Terui stand up and shout for Akiko. Shotaro then complains about the Yummy and starts thinking about monsters in general. He goes on to remember the events of Begin’s Night, including Soukichi’s death. He decides that he’ll have to protect Akiko, and then Philip corrects him, saying that “we” will. Terui cries that he won’t let it steal his bride.
Kamen Rider Skull: Past
- Completely new scene. Melissa walks alongside Fuuto’s ocean, singing. Soukichi finds her, tells her that she won’t need to run away now, he already knows the identity of the Spider Man. She actually already knew about his identity. He makes a promise to her to bring him back and then leaves with “Nobody’s Perfect” playing. However, right afterwards, Shroud appears and reveals that Spider Man will die if a memory break is used on him. She wonders if Soukichi will still fight.
- Extended cut of Soukichi facing Matsu. The punch that drops his glasses doesn’t do so in the Director’s Cut. Soukichi grabs Matsu, but he hits him with his knee. Soukichi then hits him, grabs him again and punches him. Only then the glasses fall and Melissa arrives.
- When Soukichi seems the spider in Melissa’s hand, there’s a flashback to Yaguchi blowing up.
- When Matsu mentions the attack on the theater where he used the Spider abilities, there’s new an extended cut where he explains the details before the flashback, and the flashback itself is longer.
- Flashback after the spider is implanted on Melissa is extended. Matsu is shown shouting about finding Melissa and then runs through the other way. Soukichi now is shown realizing that’s the reasons she avoided him in the present, rather than his voice during the flashback (which is cut in this version).
- When Matsu touches Melissa’s shoulder and says “look”, now the camera moves away sooner, showing his face while he talks, rather than just his arm like in the original cut.
- They actually CUT one or two seconds of Melissa running through the corridor before being punched by Spider Man.
- Spider Man’s face takes the screen and he laughs at Soukichi.
- New close up of Bat Dopant’s face.
- After Soukichi says that Matsu sold his soul for a Gaia Memory, there’s a flashback to them together in the past.
- After Akiko awakens, she wonders about where she is.
- A black bar with “Director’s Cut” written there covering part of the “Gaia Memories” screen at the end of the W story.
