As reimaginings of the original suits, I'm not really a fan of them. Amazons did a better job staying faithful while reimagining and updated the design.

As designs on their own, however, they look awesome.

I gotta disagree with that. Amazons took a design that was aiming for more organic look and made them look like mech suits. While I like the suits, they completely disregarded what the original was aiming for.

100% this. They fail completely at being Kamen Rider Black updates. Looking at them without context I wouldn't even have guessed they are supposed to be that.

On their own they're fine though.

whoa
bit too... edgy, for me.

I like it, but not as a live action Kamen Rider Black.
It also looks more in line with what we got with RX?which is weird.
The RX series had a less serious tone and yet it looked more like the Ishinimori Design (Batta Man)
It?s all weird x)

Not really digging these. Neither have the personality or identity of the originals. They're very generic sci-fi bug men. The elegance and character of the original Black designs is nowhere to be found here.

Not bad suits by themselves but poor updates to the characters. Overdone IMO.

I'm not a big fan. I quite like the balance of suit and organic elements on the original black, but this skews too organic bugman for a good update. If you gave these a new head and changed the deco you'd basically have Another Rider versions of Black and Shadow Moon.

I like the SIC-ness of it all and I like how they made Shadow Moon a little more gaudy than Black Sun with them edge lord spikes and those metallic details. :lolol
Could it have been better? Yes, but I'm enjoying what I'm seeing so far. One thing I wish to see is that they have him go from green to black when he transforms, cause that would be an awesome tribute to the manga.

My initial reaction was "whoa, I hate these." And while I've warmed to them a little, I'm still not really feeling the designs, especially for Kamen Riders, and especially especially for updates of Black.

Part of what makes Black's design so compelling is its smooth, almost alien simplicity. It's elegant, slim, and maintains a very streamlined silhouette. It balances the darkness of the character's origin with the heroism of his mission, while still maintaining Ishinomori's funky, bubbly weirdness.

These are... alien in a different way. They're monstrous and grotesque, which is obviously the point, but I dunno. They could have done a better job of balancing the "hero" part of it instead of going full bore into the monster part. There isn't a hint of levity or irony in the designs, and without that, they feel a tad try-hard, and kind of tip over into edgelord nonsense.

Black looks... fine, I guess. I don't hate it. But Shadow Moon is far too overdone -- there's just way too much going on. My eye just doesn't know where to look. They're both... a lot... but Shadow Moon in particular is A LOT a lot.

Y'know, I think my main problem is that they're just... not very imaginative? Like, they're kind of bog standard "what if Kamen Rider was for grown ups" fan arts. They fit too well into the SIC and Another Rider design language to be particularly surprising.

I'm still looking forward to Black Sun, and I'm sure these suits will look better in motion... but right now these are not the tea for me.

Is a small fan film donated by fans, right? You prob would or do not expect kamen rider shin, shin ultraman, shin godzilla quality. There might not be shin goremger given the anime jetman base on did a live action squadron and mmpr didnt do well in japan either in serious contemporary take. The sic toy looking suit is kind of whatever. Minami kitaro original actor could pop up via cameo or two. Shadow moon human actor never get to shine or interactz with his nrother black sun in original 1988 since he is already corrup reborn once he appear again. We might see a henshin and alter ego persona instead here.