Very Cool and Badass.....

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUgeIdVVAAAKspn.jpg

Any new scans yet?

Not yet but maybe tomorrow......

Classic video game characters looked better than that, at least in their artwork if not in the game itself. If that was the best they could do based off so-called classic games, they probably should've done something else. The gashats on their own are enough of a homage to the old games.

I really hate this statement. It's nothing but a shutdown of a discussion, plus a little condescending (It's a kids' show so it's ok if ABCXYZ is done). If it's just a kids' show and our views don't matter, why are you watching and why are we talking about it? Do something more productive.

That's not entirely the point I guess but eh

You wanted stuff based off of Assassin's Creed, kids in Japan wouldn't really know that. It's a kid's show because that means they need to keep it kid friendly, and Ex-Aid designs are pretty anime-esque instead of buggy, which I'm sure went well with kids. Especially considering Ex-Aid did really well

It's not a question of "our views don't matter"
It's a question of "we have to see it from someone else's point of view".
Which is difficult to do for anyone.
You're not the targeted audience, so your edgier wants won't be satisfied in any case.

i already like Ex-Aid a lot, but I think that if I would have seen it when I was 10yo, that thing would be the best thing I've ever seen
Catchy themes, colorful design, HIT/KABOOM onomatopoeias etc...

When you compare that to what 10yo have now like Super Ninja Steel, I feel like Ex-Aid is the 10yo dream.

To agree with Annuga here, you must also remember the cultural differences. In the West, it tends to be sexual innuendo that will damage a kids show (pick any anime edited for syndication and a good 50% at least will be editing the appearances of female characters)...yet they’re aimed at the same demographic.
Shows that suffer from this, like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Digimon are aimed at young boys here in the west...and young boys in the east. Same demographic, different standards.

It’s the same with violence. Sure, you get people up in arms over young boys being exposed to gritty, realistic, dark video games, like Deus Ex, Destiny, Assassin’s Creed, etc...but it doesn’t change anything. They’re still there and in the public eye.
In Japan? That kind of video game would have a 18 rating, and kept as far away from kids as possible, perhaps even censored. There is no way a kid in Japan would know - or realistically care - about such a game. They’d much rather buy a toy of something obviously based on the types of games they know and like - like Kirby, Sonic, or the quintessential JRPG - and Kamen Rider exists to sell toys to those kids. Snipe was their reference to American games - outside of hardcore western gaming otaku, western games are usually perceived as overly gritty and bloody...basically charicatires of Call of Duty.

I mean, I get what you mean by saying that the ‘its Just a kids show’ isn’t a defence in light of the likes of Gaim...but come on, man, you have to be realistic with what you want/expect. My best friend would love an openly-gay main rider, but that’s not happening any time soon. Nor is a female main or second rider. Expecting a Kamen Rider - which is still a Japanese kids show hero, regardless of whether or not that is a good excuse to end the discussion with - to be made to American standards, or like Garo - which doesn’t exist to sell toys and is for Japanese adults - is pointless and you have to expect to be simply dismissed if you insist on focusing on such lofty, impossible goals.

I only put out Assassin's Creed as an example of video game motifs (in this case for Brave as he's fantasy-based) that would've looked much better than the nonsense we got, not that I literally wanted that. The Ex-Aid Riders as they are would probably fit in perfectly in something like Kamen Rider SD, which caricatured Showa Riders' designs. But they're awful as a "real" look.

It has nothing to do with "edginess" (I'd only wish Rider went back to the grit of Kuuga-Hibiki). It has to do with aesthetics. Gaim took a concept that on paper looked absurd and made it look cool. Ex-Aid was the exact opposite.

What’s ‘cool’ is subjective. I personally do thing the Ex-Aid suits are cool. In particular, I adore all of the Level 2 suits, as well as Zombie, Fantasy/Legacy, Muteki, etc...
Point is, again, Ex-Aid’s aesthetics worked for he target audience - and for some westerners.

Did Ex-Aid’s suits suck? To you, yes, but that isn’t an objective fact. I don’t think so, and clearly I’m not alone. Thinking they suck is fine...but claiming they suck objectively and that they wasted an opportunity is blatantly untrue.

Bandai and Toei could have made grittier deigns, yes. But would they have sold as well? Who knows, maybe they would have.
But the designs they did do sold amazingly, so clearly, they made the right decision for the success of the franchise.

Ex-Aid wowed me and made me wish the games in our world did the same thing.