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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Except the flags are actually cool looking. They're the same idea as a cape. Functionally dubious, but they add something to flow in the wind and make the suit look heroic.

Gaim makes it very easy to take the flags seriously. They're basically batons withe fabric. Hardly absurd. Jinba's just really puffy. It's not even the jinba armour itself, it's the fact that the rest of the suit is the normal form-fitting, low-armoured shape. Kachidoki would have the same problem, except the skirt armour fixes that problem and fills out the rest of the shape.

The flags and puffiness are there for the same reason, though: Gaim's designs are based off of samurai armor. The flags are an actual thing some samurai wore called "sashimono" and both the Jinba and Kachidoki suits are designed to look like different kinds of samurai armor, which could be very thick and bulky. I can get not liking the look of the suit for personal aesthetic reasons, but it does fit what the show was going for. And I'm personally happy to see it get used more because Jinba is still my favorite Gaim armor. I think it looks great (and it doesn't just stand there and play with its gun).