[KamenRiderBlack]

To be quite honest, these pale in comparison to the older SICs that were by Takeya (he also designed for Amemiya's "Hakaider: Mechanical Violator" movie).

Other than the SIC OOO's, I'm actually very disappointed with Kenji Ando's recent work/designs. They really feel like they're adding arbitrary details that don't add to the original designs. Despite their posability, the last Kamen Rider 1 and 2 re-redesigns for SIC have been terribly sloppy.

Takeya's last Kikaider 01 set was beautiful and very poseable too, very well designed as a figure and as a redesign itself, it's very thoughtful. These new ones are really just adding lines to a regular humanoid body, it's good-fanart level, not SIC level for me.



Honestly, Takeya's old Hakaider still feels a lot more intimidating and cool with way less lines. I think these are actually also closer to Ishinomori's original designs in how sleek they still feel, despite the additional textures and details.



I really was hoping Takeya would be the one to return and redo all of the SICs instead of Ando redesigning every single one, including the classics...