[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Vaguely related to Kiba, but I like the Horse Orphnochs's design. In fact, I like the look of all the Orphnochs in general. Some people find the fact that they're all monotone in colour to be dull, but I actually think that makes them all the more striking.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

This right here is something I came around to after a point. To be fair, it can be a little tricky when you're binging your way through the show to keep track of what the minor ones are even supposed to be, but the designs are all great, and that strong, unified identity within the group makes them stick out as a whole, and the monsters literally being gray is perfectly suited to Faiz for a few different reasons.

The few Orphnoch kills that've been shown have an element of the victim dissolving into sand (or at least that's how it looks to me?), so the monsters looking like they were carved out of marble seems like a linked design choice. It definitely plays as Powerful, even the zero-level ones that show up early.

And the great big horseshoe on Horsepower's chest is so great. I don't know if I can even explain why, but it's a very fun touch. It's... I think maybe I love it because of the baked-in Kamen Rider dissonance of Yuuji having a very serious, sad story, and the actor getting it all out in the scene, and then there's this gigantic horse monster who is really into horse motifs. It's this juxtaposition of Very Serious Storytelling and Very Designed Suit, and that tension in production is something that's maybe the heart of Kamen Rider to me.