[KaiserBlue]

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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

My enjoyment of Build was cooling a bit around the time Black Hole Evol debuted; the end of the series dragged on a bit. It was a cool costume, but I can't help but find it one more instance of what frustrated me about Build: there were just too many forms!

And OH MY GOSH, that Evol Trigger is bulky. Between this and some of the later Ex-Aid stuff, I thought we'd seen the most cumbersome possible belt configurations in the franchise. Then the people who designed Saber were all, "Hold my beer," and I just feel really, really bad for those suit actors. There's a level of obvious impracticality I have a hard time getting past. At least the Hiden Driver managed to be relatively sleek... or modern Kamen Rider has just ruined my sense of what qualifies as sleek.

No, you're right that a zero one was sleek, a lot of the upgrades were out of the way and took up barely any space on the belts, even 02 was just a new face plate and progrise key.

And the belts the suit actors usr are mainly mixes of hollow plastic and foam, so no real weight on the belts part is encumbering them. The suits on the other hand are bulky and quite restricting.

On the Evol Blackhole figuarts, i feel that at the price they were charging, they could've given it a cloth skirt. It seams pointless otherwise to engineer such great leg articulation, only to stifle it with a thick plastic skirt.

The design itself is superb, the redone visor, especially, highlights the cobra motif moreso than phase 1. Its bright whitish-pink hue evokes a sense of otherness and encroaching danger as it sits, in contrast, atop an amalgam of black and white, turning and interlocking to form this otherworldy armor.

Also, love your snake reference at the start of the review