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>>9847975
Rock in himself was a group contribution from everyone in the staff. Kitamura envisioned him as a one-man Sentai group with different helmets similar to 11, but only colors change as memory was very limited. The overall artwork direction was Inafune seeing him in the same vein as Astroboy and who knows who reccomended the Casshern details, such as a transforming dog robot, and the blue fire breathing enemies from 2 outright being called Friender, just like Casshern's fire breathing, Jet-Transforming blue robot.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was Inafune's pitch to give more character to the Items from MM2, he clearly began prework on X based entirely on Casshern once Zero became a no-go be Mega Man X himself.

>>9830313
Aping so hard even in the concept art from the early 90's he had Casshern's high collar and C symbol.