[SPLIT LIP]

W, OOO, and Den-O are good first series. They're solid intros to the workings and MO of Kamen Rider.

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Originally Posted by NGW

Funny enough, that's a pretty solid example of why I don't really get the love for the SIC line. It takes a design and makes it look mushy and dirty. Like someone with greasy hands took a clay representation of a suit and kinda squished it up a bit with their fingertips or something. I dunno, I just do not get it.

That's a shockingly immature way of describing it. "Greasy hands?" Seriously?

SIC is awesome because it's organic. The "dirt" is for a weathered, washed look that exemplifies detail. It's not so much a suit, it's a body.
SIC, actually, looks better to me in most cases. It takes silly, basic designs like Xtreme and makes them cool. Wheras the real Xtreme has silly little shoulder pads and a dinky sheild, the SIC makes it huge and greebly. They're like biomechanical bugmen, with a "carapace" design to the legs and shoulderpads and chest and stuff. Granted I didn't post a very good picture, leaving out the fine details that make SIC great, but if it wasn't for SIC I would never have given Kamen Rider the time of day past Skull. SIC makes everything dramatic and cool, like making Cyclone's scarf super long, or really heroic proportions in the armour.

They're art. Hand-sculpted, creative, unique art that takes something and makes it wild and, well, imaginative. Hell, I wouldn't own any W stuff were it not for SIC, as the Figuarts for W are garbage.