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Originally Posted by Frontier

Is there any significance to Vice's mouth being covered up? I don't know if it's for a gag or there's a deliberate reason we don't see his mouth.

Wearing a face mask for fashion reasons rather than for health reasons is sometimes considered a sort of counter-culture or kind of a "punk" look in Japan, you can see an example of this in the protagonist of Neo The World Ends With You, where the protagonist has a facemask on their chin for the whole game, or if you google smth like "Shibuya fashion" you're likely to come across at least a couple people with masks on

I'm assuming this is why Vice has a facemask on? I guess being a literal devil is pretty punk lol

It's also possible covid influenced the use of a face mask, I could see how having a kamen rider character wear a face mask might be a good way to encourage kids to wear there's? Tho he only seems to wear it in his devil form, not when he's a rider, so I'm not really sure

(I think in photos and such it's not as obvious, but in this belt commercial it's super obviously a face mask over the helmet)

I'm not sure if it'll be used in any meaningful way in the show? I guess there might be some secret to it, but as of now we don't know

In my mind it seems likely to me that it may serve as a way for bandai to sell "vice's face mask" as a popular cloth facemask for kids, tho that's just a guess