Kamen Rider Gai

nihongo|Kamen Rider Gai|仮面ライダーガイ|Kamen Raidā Gai is a fictional character in the tokusatsu production "Kamen Rider Ryuki". He is one of the 13 Kamen Riders the story revolves around. His true identity is Jun Shibaura, age 21, and he is played by Satoshi Ichijou.

Gai is a purely melee-range fighter who relies on brute strength to win, similar to Kamen Rider Scissors and Kamen Rider Tiger. Gai used his intellect more often than anything else, his plans usually involving his Confine Advent card to cancel any weapons from the other Riders and summoning his contract monster Metalgelas to fight alongside him.

Fictional character biography

Jun is a 3rd year college student at Meirin University, extremely well-versed in computers and programming to be in the Matrix Netgame Club. Being the son of a company president, Jun is arrogant in personality, toying with other people's lives for nothing more than a good laugh. He joined the Rider war simply to be the winner of the Rider war, which to him was all a game. Jun even used his Matrix members to fight to the death in a game similar to the Rider war. Shinji began investigating the series of strange killings and found Jun, who reduced Ryuki to blank form by stealing his Dragreder card. He used both Shinji's card and the virus he uploaded to the ORE Journal mainframe to blackmail himself into their head of their company. Shimada eventually managed to wipe out his programming with her own virus, while Raja stole back the Dragreder card. Soon after, Jun was picked up by the police for his ties to the Matrix member murders, getting his father to bail him out with Kitaoka's aid.

Jun even went so far as to reveal the true identity of the other Riders among them, impressed with Kamen Rider Ouja's sadistic nature. To suit that end, Gai kidnapped Yui to start a "Rider party" between him, Kamen Rider Knight, Kamen Rider Raia, and Kamen Rider Ryuki. However, in the middle of the fight, their battle gets intertwined with the one between Kamen Rider Zolda and Ouja, who used Gai a shield to take the blunt of Zolda's Final Advent before killing him with his own. Gai's contract Monster, Metalgelas, was infuriated at his master's death and went after Ohja. He eventually fell victim to Ohja's contract card, becoming the second monster. After the reset, Gai bumps into Shinji being the same rude person he's always been.

In the 13 Riders TV Special, he was consumed by the mirror monster, Death Spider.

pecifications

Alter Ego: Jun Shibaura
* Sight: ~8km
* Hearing: ~10km radius
* Speed: 72km/h
* High jump: 20m
* Punch: 300 Attack Points
* Kick: 300 Attack Points

Contract Monster

"Metalgelas": Resembling a cross between a rhinoceros and a humanoid, Metalgelas was originally the contract Monster of Kamen Rider Gai. It later came into the possession of Kamen Rider Ohja and, together with "Venosnaker" and "Evildiver", became one of the building blocks of the composite Monster "Genocider". Metalgelas, derives it's name from the Greek river god Gelas. Although many depictions of Gelas are that of a bull-horned man, some contexts refer to is as "head of horns".

* Height: 2.35m
* Weight: 270kg

Advent Cards

Metal Visor
* The card reader of Gai was mounted on the left shoulder of the Rider, which he loads by tossing the card up into the card slot.

Metalgelas (4,000 Attack Points)
* Summoned Metalgelas.

Strike Vent (2,000 Attack Points) - "Metal Horn"
* Equipped Gai's right hand into a gauntlet that resembled the forehead of Metalgelas.

Final Vent (5,000 Attack Points) - "Heavy Pressure"
* Metalgelas carried Gai as a lance, with the Metal Horn acting as spearhead, and rushed towards its opponent.

Confine Vent
* A generic card that could be used by any of the 13 Riders. Nullified the effect of the Advent Card of the target Rider for one round.

References

* [http://www.toei-video.co.jp/DVD/sp21/ryuki.html Kamen Rider Ryuki (DVD)]
* [http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ryuki/ Kamen Rider Ryuki @ TV Asahi]
* [http://members.fortunecity.com/jillun/ryuuki/ Kamen Rider Ryuuki Spoiler Page]