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Okay, so I have been watching the past few Kamen rider Series (Starting with Kiva, but have been archive binging my way through Kabuto) And something I noticed has me curious. Almost all the kamen rider helmets/masks/what ever, have a jewel-looking thing in the center of the foreheads, or somewhere in the middle of the design, (Double's was the red gem at the point of the double-W shaped crest, Kiva's is between the tongs/ears of the bat design that includes the eyes, Etc.) Do these serve any real purpose? A camera maybe? Or are they purely decorative, and if they are, why do practically all the modern (Heisei) Riders have them. And if they serve a purpose, why don't the sentai rangers helmets/masks have them as well?

Edit: I checked and all the riders, (Main/Title riders) except Hibiki (Has a dragon face in the spot where it would be,) and maybe Den-O (Couldn't tell, I think I remember seeing it, but didn't looking now) Have them.
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propably cameras, though I was curious to. From all we know in Decade's spin-off, we can't really see through the helmets' eyes and the suit actors have to see through a little gap in the middle. I think the eyes and that "thing" on the forehead are neon lights.
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Xander Blaze wrote:propably cameras, though I was curious to. From all we know in Decade's spin-off, we can't really see through the helmets' eyes and the suit actors have to see through a little gap in the middle. I think the eyes and that "thing" on the forehead are neon lights.
I've never seen them light up. Maybe they're some sort of thing for digital tracking, like the white balls on a motion capture suit, though that doesn't explain why the sentai rangers don't have them.

On the other hand, most sentai teams have SOMETHING there, Goseiger's gold symbol, etc, and Hibiki has that silly looking dragon face instead, so *Shrug*.
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hunter-urufu wrote: On the other hand, most sentai teams have SOMETHING there, Goseiger's gold symbol, etc, and Hibiki has that silly looking dragon face instead, so *Shrug*..
Probably just design aesthetics to make them look good.

Hibiki riders had an oni/demon face on their forehead. In some instances the face enlarge and cover their helmet like Shuki's.
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The jewel is a traditional part of the mask since the original Kamen Rider. Traditionally it's called the 0 Signal, although it's called the O Quartz in OOO, the Terminal Eye in W, Signal Pointer in Decade, Access Signal for IXA (it's not listed for Kiva on the official page as far as I can tell) etc...
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takenoko wrote:The jewel is a traditional part of the mask since the original Kamen Rider. Traditionally it's called the 0 Signal, although it's called the O Quartz in OOO, the Terminal Eye in W, Signal Pointer in Decade, Access Signal for IXA (it's not listed for Kiva on the official page as far as I can tell) etc...
Huh. So does it actually DO anything (As in, in the setting.) I could see on a tech based rider like IXA it serving as a sort of IR port for data or some such, but on a more magic based rider, like Kiva, I see less reason. But hey, you learn something new everyday
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As Take said, it's just a design aesthetic that has been carried across most of the rider costumes. They attempt to give it an official name in each series, but I think its just for show.
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the o signal as its sometimes called is just for show its been around since the showa riders so they sometimes put it in new riders designs like W
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Maybe they are infra-red :P
Though I'd seen the neon-lights on the eyes lights up in Kuuga and W
Must be very uncomfortable for the suit actors
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hunter-urufu wrote:Huh. So does it actually DO anything (As in, in the setting.) I could see on a tech based rider like IXA it serving as a sort of IR port for data or some such, but on a more magic based rider, like Kiva, I see less reason. But hey, you learn something new everyday
V3's O Signal supposedly let him record and analyze battle data, but I don't know about any others.
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In sky rider that was a Signal pointer
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