Its focusing on the layer in-between the top layer of armor and shotaro, why would it show any of shotaro underneath?
Because the cut ins for people who are known to wear armor usually show their clothing underneath and such? Compare with Riderman's:
The cut ins shows him wearing pants underneath and even part of his human arm.
maybe there is no reason, maybe it was purely done for aesthetics? we don't know, thats not a real argument.
also ps that skin contact argument doesn't work as things like that have happened in plenty of toku series.
Why is it not a "real argument"? At best, you can argue that the changes to his body are minimal, but they're directly shown to happen on screen and you've got nothing to deny that.
You're basically now going all "I get to say when a part of the show doesn't count!"
I could see your point if we had seen cases of those abilities working through clothes too, but it's exactly the opposite in this case. For example, vs Utopia, we see Shotaro blocking Utopia's energy absorption ability with his boss' hat, even though he goes on to use it against W CJX in the same episode.
so.... theres something more reasonable about him going through a metamorphosis and then physically ripping himself in half?? if thats the case where be his organs yo?
"Central partition" (The silver line going through W's center, which for some reason isn't mentioned by that scan's text at all, even though its exterior is drawn in there). W's official specs make it clear that it IS always split in half, with an "organ" that exists specifically to connect and coordinate them. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that even his internal body is split, I guess, you could interpret it as just a superficial layer, the description doesn't really make it clear either way.
However, considering how we do see his entire body splitting in the show, you've got one interpretation that makes no sense, and another that lines up with the abilities W is shown to have...
oh wait its just yellow light in between, obviously this doesn't give credit to either side because the attack was clearly not made with either of those concepts in mind.
You claim that I'm trying to read the creator's intentions, and yet you write something like that? The Central Partition is described in the official site as regulating and controlling the flow of "Gaia Force" and coordination of the two parts, so seeing a bunch of energy when it's directly exposed seems pretty consistent.
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/double/rider/double.html
It's also consistent with CJX:
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Look what happens inside the Extreme form when, the "central partition" segments move away from each other, creating the Crystal Server:
Hey, a bunch of energy between them...
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Furthermore, the description of the W Driver in the site specifically mentions
enhancing/strengthening Shotaro's
body with a transformation, rather than just "Shotaro". "翔太郎の肉体を強化変身させ". Why would they say 翔太郎の肉体 rather than just 翔太郎 if it weren't an actual transformation of his body?
If you look at the description of obviously armored Riders, like Fourze, it just mentions "装着者", user, rather than 装着者の肉体/user's body. In addition, the description of the Accel Driver in the official site actually directly mentions "Terui Ryu's body" being transformed and Accel's body being "created", which gives even less space for doubt.
アクセルメモリをスロットインすることで、照井竜の肉体を変化させ、仮面ライダーアクセルのボディを生成する。
It makes more sense to you, NeonZ this is your one major issue. You see what you want to see, assume that thats just how it works and then spout it out like everyone thinks the same way. not everything done in tokusatsu has some completely spelled out answer there are plenty of gray spaces, this is one of them. you just need to learn that sometimes you should just learn to let go and realize that its really not that big of a deal either way.
How am I "assuming' if everything I'm saying has basis in official material? The answer here seems to be spelled out in several different places through several different ways. I'm not trying to explain the changes that go through Shotaro's body when he turns into W, I'm just saying that it must change and there's evidence in the series itself that it's the case, alongside official material outside of it which pretty much states that it's what happens.
However, it seems like you're the kind of person who's only satisfied by direct and simple exposition, disregarding anything else, even to the point that you construct a completely baseless assumption and stick with it even if it just creates more problems (like all the official stuff, even scenes from the show itself, that you've outright dismissed, or wrote them off as "inconsistencies", just because they don't line up with your view).
I know how to differentiate my own viewpoint from what's actually official. For example, I think there are several things in Decade's show that suggest they wanted to make him a cyborg or at least tie his Rider form to Tsukasa himself in some way besides the belt, but I know they never went far enough to make that actually official, and you won't see me actually trying to "prove" that it's the right view, because I know it isn't the official one.
W's case here is different. The opposite idea (W is just a external armor) actually clashes with elements from the show and other official material.
