Be it Naruto, Doraemon, One Piece, Bleach, Pokemon, Digimon or what have you, if you're an anime franchise in the 90's and 00's, these tropes are basically all but guaranteed to show up in your given summer movie. Disposable villain with generic motivations, a bunch of colourful goons for the secondary characters to beat up, maybe a brand-new setting with a one-note gimmick but the art team put a lot of work in making it pretty, and, of course, the child-appeal movie-exclusive character that is a snotty kid that shows up in the movie and befriends our heroes and has character development, but it's kind of meaningless since the character's exclusive to that movie and won't affect anything in the series. And honestly, having watched a lot of these 'non-serial' movies that tie in to an ongoing anime (or live-action show, if we're talking about Kamen Rider or Super Sentai), they do go through a lot of similar beats. And "Clockwork Island Adventure" basically serves as exactly what one of these older filler movies would be.
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