Kamen Rider Gaim

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Gaim : Kamen Rider Gaim
Japanese : 仮面ライダー鎧武／ガイム
Version : Kamen Rider Gaim
Label :
- Kamen Riders : #24
- Heisei Riders : #15
Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
Appeareance : Kamen Rider Gaim

Main Article : Kamen Rider Gaim Characters

History

In Zawame City, a large company known as the Yggdrasill Corporation transformed the once bustling suburban city into a jōkamachi. To escape the resulting feeling of oppression, many of the youth in Zawame formed dance crews called Beat Riders to bring joy back into peoples' lives. Also rising in popularity is the Inves Game, a simulator that uses strange devices known as Lockseeds to summon monsters known as Inves. Kouta Kazuraba, a member of the dance group Team Gaim, tries to find his place in the world while torn between his loyalty to his teammates and his sister Akira's insistence that he starts acting like an adult and find a proper job.

Team Gaim

Main Article : Team Gaim

Team Gaim is a street dance group which Kouta Kazuraba belongs to, where he is known as the 2nd best dancer. They are long-standing rivals of Team Baron and later become former rivals as all the Beat Riders put aside their differences to dance together in their own choosing and liking. They are identified by their Happi-themed modern outfits and logo, later they are united together with all of the other Beat Rider teams

Kouta Kazuraba / Kamen Rider Gaim : Is an earnest and cheerful young adult who is naïve, wanting to help others but ends up sometimes causing trouble than good due to his short-sightedness. He is originally the second-in-command of Team Gaim.
Mitsuzane Kureshima / Kamen Rider Ryugen : Is initially a member of Team Gaim, nicknamed by the others, a smart yet manipulative youth who concealed his familial relation to his older brother Takatora.
Mai Takatsukasa : Is another member of Team Gaim, originally a shrine maiden at the Takatsukasa Shrine as a child before the Yggdrasill Corporation tore it down as part of their development on Zawame.
Chucky : Is another member of Team Gaim. She is a bit tomboyish but is one of the teams best dancers. She provides medical assistance for the Armored Rider resistance force during Inves invasions, especially treating Peko when he is attacked by Shinmugurun and when Mitsuzane forces Mai to come with him.
Rica : Is another member of Team Gaim. She is not as good as Chucky, but she makes up for it in encouraging the others.
Rat : Is a member of Team Gaim who prefers flashy performances and often manages to bring up the team's mood after losses, but sometimes he pushes his luck too far.
Yuya Sumii : Is the former leader of Team Gaim who went missing in Helheim Forest after having obtained a Sengoku Driver from Sid.

Team Baron

Main Article : Team Baron

Team Baron is the rival team to Team Gaim, dressed in black and red long coats. While their leader Kaito is strongly against cheating, there are group members are prone to cheat in Inves Games to win their ranks. Though they usually do this while Kaito was not around, he learns the truth when they caused the Deer Inves's attack on Zawame.

Kaito Kumon / Kamen Rider Baron : Is the leader of Team Baron who bears a strong hatred towards the Yggdrasill Corporation as their development of Zawame resulted in his father's construction company being closed while he spend his childhood in a poor household.
Zack / Kamen Rider Knuckle : Is another member of Team Baron who originally serves as second-in-command in Kaito's absence before Kaito entrusts his leadership to him. He is an excellent dancer and loyal to Kaito. Zack was formerly a member of a Team Severe Beat.
Peko / New Generation Rider Kurokage Shin : Is another member of Team Baron. He is loyal to Kaito, but cheats to help Team Baron win at the Inves Game. He was originally invited by Mai to join Team Gaim, but refused and joined Team Baron because they were the top dance team in history.

Team Raid Wild

Main Article : Team Raid Wild

Team Raid Wild is one of the dance crews in Zawame. They were first seen losing against Team Baron in a Inves Game. Later, their leader, Hase, turned into an Inves after eating an prematured Lockseed and was murdered by one of Yggdrasill's New Generation Riders.

Ryoji Hase / Kamen Rider Kurokage : Is the leader of Team Raid Wild whose he and his members were dressed in black and yellow clothes.

Team Invitto

Main Article : Team Invitto

Team Invitto is a street dance group led by Hideyasu Jonouchi. Upon Oren taking him under his wing after Hideyasu begged for his help to improve his fighting skills by training, he must work at Charmant as payment, which leads to Hideyasu becoming a Yggdrasill member.

Hideyasu Jonouchi / Kamen Rider Gridon : Is the leader, and only male member, of Team Invitto whose other members consists of girls. He is known for his ironically, cowardly tactics and being the weakest amongst the Armored Riders.
Meiya : She confesses to Team Gaim that she doesn’t like Jonouchi very much anymore, which he overhears and is depressed over.

Team Red Hot

Main Article : Team Red Hot

Team Red Ho is a street dance group in Zawame City and one of the Beat Rider teams. Three of the team members firstly appeared to Team Baron that they will get a Sengoku Driver in order to compete with other teams' respective Riders. Their leader went to the Drupers where he bought the belt from Lock Dealer Sid and a Durian Lockseed.

Sonomura : Is the leader of Team Red Hot whose members wear red flame themed clothing, motivated by own fame and freedom.

Others

Oren Pierre Alfonzo / Kamen Rider Bravo : His birth name Gennosuke Oren, is an effeminate and muscular ex-soldier in the Parachute Regiment who spent 10 years in France to become a pâtissier.
DJ Sagara : Believing that one must shine to be remembered by others, is a mysterious man whose only agenda is to see the future unfold in terms of who can obtain the power of Helheim Forest. Sagara originally supported the Yggdrasill Corporation.
Akira Kazuraba : Is Kouta's older sister. After the death of their parents, she has taken an office job at a Yggdrasill Corporation-affiliated company.

Yggdrasill Corporation

Main Article : Yggdrasill Corporation

The Yggdrasill Corporation, Co. Ltd. is a powerful international conglomerate that has set up shop in Zawame for having the highest frequency of Crack occurrences, having built the city from the ground up by destroying almost everything and literally remodeling Zawame, as well as taking the city's "sacred tree" and opening a Crack to Helheim Forest through it for research purposes. While the corporation has its hands in many fields and covers almost all socioeconomic aspects of city-dwelling

Takatora Kureshima / Kamen Rider Zangetsu : Is Mitsuzane's older brother who is a project leader in the Yggdrasill Corporation's Research and Development branch. Though a realist willing to commit horrible acts if for the greater good of humanity
Lock Dealer Sid / New Generation Rider Sigurd : Is one of Takatora's subordinates, aiding him to sell Lockseeds needed for the Inves Game before beginning Takatora's experiment with the prototype Sengoku Drivers.
Ryoma Sengoku / New Generation Rider Duke : Is a brilliant scientist in the Yggdrasill Corporation's research division who conducts experiments to develop the Armored Riders' Drivers as part of Project Ark.
Yoko Minato / New Generation Rider Marika : Is Ryoma's female bodyguard when he hands out the Genesis Drivers after the events of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle. She uses her Genesis Driver to become the Arabian warrior-like Kamen Rider Marika, whose form is Peach Energy Arms.
Amagi Kureshima : Is the patriarch of the Kureshima family with influence in the Yggdrasill Corporation, and the father of Takatora and Mitsuzane. Despite building a childcare facility for the orphans of Zawame like Ryoma and Tōka
Kurokage Troopers : Are a group of Yggdrasill Corporation soldiers who have armors based on the form of Kamen Rider Kurokage. These soldiers transform with the use of the mass production version of the Sengoku Driver, which lack the user lock function present in the prototype models, and the common Matsubokkuri Lockseed.

Drupers

Main Article : Drupers

Drupers is a fruit parlor owned by Kiyojiro Bando, where he is known for his parfaits. Drupers is where Kouta and his friends hang out, and Bando will often give them advice and information on what is happening around town. Lock Dealer Sid often does his business of selling Lockseeds in a corner room of the establishment.

Kiyojiro Bando : Is the owner Drupers. When Kouta and his friends are in trouble, Bando will give them the right kind of advice on how to move forward, and often cheer them up with a parfait.
Iyo : Is Bando's only staff member, serving as a waitress. However, when the shop is threatened by a fight between Kouta and Armored Rider Bravo

Inves

Main Article : Inves

Inves, the name of which derived from the term "invasive species", are strange monsters that are thought to only exist within the newly popular Inves Game, which involves Lockseeds. They hail from an alternate realm known as Helheim Forest where they normally feed on unripe Lockseeds, summoned to Zawame via Lockseeds opening zipper-like portals called "Cracks" for them to travel. It is later revealed that the dimension was originally the home of the Femushinmu race before it was consumed by the Helheim Forest, the Inves revealed to be organisms that have mutated as the result of eating the mysterious fruit of Helheim Forest that the Lockseeds are developed from.

Over Lords

Main Article : Over Lord Inves

The Over Lord Inves are powerful Inves who rose above the ordinary kind and maintained their intelligence. They are few in number due to the wish made by Roshuo that led to series of wars that nearly drive his people to extinction with only a few survivors that are unable to revive their race. The Over Lords' existence is initially known to only DJ Sagara and Ryoma Sengoku's group, with Kouta, Kaito and Mitsuzane learning of their existence as well later from the respective group, the latter keeping Takatora Kureshima in the dark as the Over Lords possess something that they need for their agenda, ultimately revealed to be the Forbidden Fruit.

Dēmushu : Is a brute of an Over Lord Inves in crimson armor who enjoys fighting and is prone to anger, seeing humans as weak apes that deserve death by someone as strong as himself.
Redyue : Is a feminine and sadistic Over Lord Inves in jade armor who uses others as her personal play things until she discards them when they are no use to her, having killed off her own parents upon becoming an Over Lord.
Roshuo : Is the leader of the Over Lord Inves in chalk armor, resting deep within the ruins. Having endured Helheim Forest when it consumed his world, Roshuo became its king and used the Forbidden Fruit to turn the world into one that reflects his ideals of the strong ruling over the weak.
Dyudyuonshu : Is a Vermilion Bird Over Lord Inves who serves under Redyue, armed with a snake sword called Dēngoshuimu which is capable of channeling energy blasts like the Sonic Arrows and redirect them away from himself.
Gurinsha : Is a white cattle Over Lord Inves who serves as Roshuo's guard and personal soldier, armed with a large sword called Aashuimu. Given the mission to assist Redyue, Gurinsha leads the Inves in abducting the people of Zawame to power Redyue's machine.
Shinmugurun : Is a Black Tortoise Over Lord Inves who serves under Redyue, armed with a battle axe called Dimubu. Shunmugurun is destroyed by Gaim Kiwami Arms using the Hinawadaidai-DJ-ju.
The Queen : Is Roshuo's dead bride whom Roshuo seeks to revive with both of the Forbidden Fruits and human sacrifices in Zawame. She served as the Maiden of Fate for the Femushinmu and bestowed upon Roshuo both the Golden Fruit of the Femushinmu and the Golden Fruit of humanity.