[Layton13]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I... didn't love the Phase 2 Deadman? It's a little Showa in how furry and creepy it is, which isn't my aesthetic. Also, the Phase 1 version was an origami gorilla in a little vest! That's brilliant!

interesting, and hilariously, I feel the same way about the Phase 1.

I like the idea behind origami, but... It kinda doesn't work?

The Phase 1's look like Sentai monsters to me, in the worst way. They look gaudy, fake and just don't feel like actual creatures to me in a way Rider Kaijin usually do.

Even as artificial as the book on the Megid looked, it still felt more like something that fits in that world more than the Phase 1's. When I look at a Megid, I see a homunculi abomination made out of a book; when I look at a Phase 2, I see an eldritch, demonic twisted animal.

The Phase 1's feel like weird, colourful origami awkwardly layered on top of something more primal and subuded. It clashes in the worst way for me.