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Ranking Reiwa Rider Aesthetics
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07-12-2025, 11:58 AM
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Enchilada645
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Okay so going in order on series since I don't really think I can rank them.
Zero-One:
Overall solid throughout and I do love the distinct styles of Kamen Riders between the various factions. You kind of start to lose that with the Ark later, but overall solid technological designs. Don't have much to say on this one.
Saber:
Probably my favorite aesthetic so far if only because you have so many different flavors of sword wielding Kamen Rider, yet they all manage to stick together through different design quirks. I never really had a problem with the Swordriver either, and the design philosophy is somehow so good that Falchion manages to fit nicely despite his suit being a Ghost body retool.
Revice:
Alright, time for people to burn me at the stake because I probably have the most volatile take on this. Revice was when I realized
a lot of the Rider Fandom has the most boring taste in aesthetics
and I shouldn't take anyone who says something about a Rider's looks seriously after that. Revi's alt forms are mostly at fault here. While I like Revi's colors, the issue is they blend in too well with each other, so when you get the minor armor changes the base alt-forms give you kind of just... don't get anything unique. Like I cannot remember any Revi form specifically, they're all just a blob that blends together. That includes most of Shin-Revice, in which I scoff at the idea of it being any better than Thunder Gale which has a unique color style I recognize instantly in comparison.
That said for Revice I do think the design differences between the suits is a bit too drastic. I think the main three kind of work, but Demons kind of just throws everything off with its aesthetic in general.
Geats:
Uh... it's baby's first create-a-rider pretty much and I think it's cool for that. It's also the one series where I realize Base Form is an inaccurate title for Riders now, Image Form would probably be better. Because while Geats has an iconic Image Form in Magnum Boost, it is by no means the basic form that Geats or any other Rider starts off with. That said, I think the Armors are cool and I like the gimmick of them being either upper or lower armor, even if some work better in both regards than others.
Gotchard:
Probably my second favorite aesthetic in which you get three distinct styles of Riders for the main trio and a lot of fun derivatives with later entrants. Also I just love the way some of Gotchard's forms look aesthetically, Platina being a standout. I don't think they're all standout though, Valvarad Kurogane comes to mind. That said, I don't think I've made it known but I do like Twilight Majade actually. But I think they could have added some black and gold stickers to her legs to make it match a bit better. It's a solid suit, I just think a couple of decals on the legs would make it come together just a bit more.
Gavv:
Honestly real fun design wise and while I get complaints about the bodysuits... I also think it fits well story-wise. Like Shoma's Gavv is modified so him gaining a kind of rough but still material styled bodysuit below his candy armor works. And in that same line of thought, Vram's makes perfect sense when you consider his Gochizo are artificial and made by Nyelv trying to replicate the Rider powers that Gavv had shown off by that point.
My own main real complaint is just any Bitter Gavv (and by extension Bake) form that isn't BakiBaki Sticks. They're all just flat prints on jagged armor that change the pattern. At least BakiBaki added further to the armor in a creative way. And continuing on with that, the fact that Bake is just the Bitter Gavv armor slapped onto a Valen style bodysuit feels lazy, especially when it hardly makes a difference when the first cookie Bitter Gavv shows up and looks 50% the same aside from the bodysuit.
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