【Kamen Rider My-Th】Even though it has a Zodiac motif, a cat is mixed in...? The Kamen Rider My-Th x HGDG "Zodiac Clock" with unique dial decorations becoming a hot topic is decided to be released!

Casually looking at the clock hung on the wall, you do a double take thinking “Huh?”. Having such a mechanism is the “Zodiac Clock” by Kamen Rider My-Th x HGDG. At a quick glance, the impression is a calm Japanese-style clock incorporating the Zodiac. However, looking at the dial thoroughly, it is clearly different from ordinary Zodiac clocks. The biggest sense of discomfort is the 12 o'clock position. What is there is unexpectedly a “cat”. Speaking of the Zodiac, it should continue with Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit... yet why is a cat there? This seemingly small difference becomes an entrance drawing viewers into a story unique to “Kamen Rider My-Th”. Rather than just a tool to confirm the time, it makes you want to think “What kind of meaning does this mark have?”. It is a clock that stimulates such curiosity.

What becomes a major feature of this clock is the twelve types of Ride X-Eggs marks placed at each hour position. What serves as its motif are the Ride X-Eggs used by the “Zodiac Alliance”, an organization that awakened from a 100-year sleep. In other words, the dial itself connects with the settings of the work. Differing from goods drawing character figures largely, because dropping symbolic marks into the design, if people who do not know it see it, they can enjoy it as an interior with atmosphere, and if people who know the work, they can savor a feeling as if “an item from that world exists in reality”. Such reserved work-likeness is quite an interesting part as goods to display in daily spaces. Even though recalling the work every time looking at it, it does not color the whole room entirely in character goods. That exquisite sense of distance is the charm.

What serves as the foundation of the design is the design of “Wadokei” (Japanese clocks) that have been used in Japan since ancient times. While basing on Japanese clocks that make you feel the air of an era different from modern clocks, rather than reproducing as is, it is boldly arranged in accordance with the worldview of “Kamen Rider My-Th”. By having Ride X-Eggs marks enter inside the old-fashioned impression, while looking like an old item, it finishes in a unique figure felt somewhere as an unknown tool as well. Is it a slightly mysterious feeling like “nostalgic yet never seen before”? Considering the setting named “Zodiac Alliance” that awakened from a 100-year sleep, the combination with the motif named clock reminding of long time also has strange persuasiveness. Rather than simply adopting a Japanese-style design, the place where even the element named “time” looks connected to the air of the work is the interest of this item.

Main unit size is about 300mm x 300mm x 46mm. It is a size where presence as a wall clock can be enjoyed, and twelve types of marks incorporated into the dial can also be viewed firmly. Typical of items appearing from Harold's Gear, what it aims for is not a mere practical item, but a retro-modern interior that changes even the atmosphere of a room. Because having Japanese elements, matching with Japanese-style rooms is of course fine, and daring to display among modern furniture to enjoy the gap in design seems to suit as well. Above all, a clock is something naturally directing eyes to in daily life. Morning, noon, and night, every time confirming the time, the existence of the Zodiac Alliance enters the field of vision. In a form differing again from goods appreciated inside a collection case, you can incorporate the world of “Kamen Rider My-Th” into daily living.

And after all what concerns at the end is the “cat” placed at 12 o'clock. The initial question “Even though it's the Zodiac, why a cat?” does not leave the head easily even after gazing around the clock once. However, that very thing might be the aim of this design. Letting a slightly unexpected existence slip into the completed image of the Zodiac. That sense of discomfort moves the imagination of viewers, inviting them to the mysterious and deep world of “Kamen Rider My-Th”. While ticking time as a clock, the “Zodiac Clock” simultaneously leaves even the atmosphere of a story in the room. Seeming old yet new, Japanese-style yet somewhere alien. And every time looking at 12 o'clock, you will surely think again: “By the way, who on earth is this cat?”.