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- For the A.R. world version from Kamen Rider Decade, see Kamen Rider Gai (A.R. World).
- "Because it's fun! And it let me prove my personal supremacy."
- ―Jun explaining why he made his game.[src]
- "You... But I was making the game more fun!"
- ―Gai's final words as Ouja betrayed him.[src]
Jun Shibaura (芝浦 淳, Shibaura Jun) is a college student who transforms into Kamen Rider Gai (仮面ライダーガイ, Kamen Raidā Gai, Masked Rider Gai). He participates in the Rider Fight solely for the sake of winning, treating everything he is involved in as a game.
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History
Kamen Rider Ryuki
Jun Shibaura is a 3rd year college student at Meirin University, extremely well-versed in computers and programming to be in the Matrix Netgame Club. He joined the Rider Fight simply to be the winner, seeing it as nothing more than a game. Shibaura even used his Matrix members' thrill-seeking urge against them to fight to the death in a game similar to the Rider War while he watched from the shadows.
Investigating the matter, Shinji meets Shibaura when he reveals to the journalist as the mastermind behind the game of death. When the Mirror Monsters arrived, they transformed and fight one of the Mirror Monsters. After the defeating the monsters however, he later attacks Ryuki and steal 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 Miyuki Tezuka stole back the Dragreder card. Soon after, Shibaura was picked up by the police for his ties to the Matrix member murders, getting his father to bail him out with Shuichi Kitaoka's aid.
Shibaura even went so far as to reveal the true identity of the other Riders among them, impressed with Takeshi Asakura's sadistic nature. To suit that end, Shibaura 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 Kamen Rider Ouja, who used Gai as a shield to take the blunt of Zolda's Final Vent before killing him with his own hands. Metalgelas was infuriated at its master's death at the hands of Kamen Rider Ouja and went after him only to fall victim to Ouja's contract card.
Oddly, Gai, like Kamen Rider Scissors and Kamen Rider Imperer, didn't reappear in the epilogue after Kanzaki reverted time.
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Kamen Rider Diend summons Kamen Rider Gai, Raia, and PunchHopper in the World of Decade to fight KickHopper and Ouja. Armed with the Metal Horn, he and Raia fights against Ouja, but the result of the fight is not shown. [Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]
OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
Kamen Rider Gai was part of a group of reinforcement riders led by Akira Date/Kamen Rider Birth to aid the primary riders in defeating the Rock Great Leader. All the Kamen Riders got on their bikes and performed the All Rider Break attack which destroyed the Great Leader. [OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders]
Appearances in other media
OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders: ~Let's Look! Only Your 48 Riders~
Type23. - Ice Pop! The Dragon Allocates Pace!
Kamen Rider Gai appears with Ryuki, V3, and W. According to Kivat-Bat the 3rd, Gai is considered the least compatible match.[Type23. - Ice Pop! The Dragon Allocates Pace!]
Type33. - Advent! The Bride of the Prince!
Kamen Rider Gai appears with Faiz ,Kuuga Pegasus Form, and OOO Tajadol Combo. According to Urataros, Gai is considered the least compatible match.[Type33. - Advent! The Bride of the Prince!]
Video Game appearances
Kamen Rider Ryuki (Video Game)
Kamen Rider Gai appears as playable character in the PS1 game. Like the other Ryuki Riders, he summons his Contract monster, Metalgelas and uses his Advent cards with his finisher being Heavy Pressure.
Climax Heroes Series
Kamen Rider Climax Heroes OOO
Kamen Rider Gai appears in the video game with the others Kamen Riders of the Heisei Era, in Kamen Rider Climax Heroes OOO.
Kamen Rider Climax Heroes Fourze
Kamen Rider Gai in the video game with the others Kamen Riders of the Heisei Era, in Kamen Rider Climax Heroes Fourze.
Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes
Kamen Rider Gai is an playable character with the other Kamen Riders in Super Climax Heroes.
Kamen Rider Riderbout
Kamen Rider Gai appears as a playable character with the other Heisei and Showa Kamen Riders in Kamen Rider Riderbout.
Kamen Rider Break Joker
Kamen Rider Gai appears as a playable character with other Riders and monsters in Kamen Rider Break Joker.
Kamen Rider Batton-Line
Kamen Rider Gai appears as a playable character in Kamen Rider Batton-Line among other Riders in the game.
Battle Spirits
It is the tenth collaboration pack and the fifth collaboration with the Kamen Rider franchise. CB10 was released in Japan on December 21st, 2019. This set includes spirit, magic, and nexus cards in all six colors,Kamen Rider Gai appears with other Kamen Riders and Monsters in Battle Spirits.
Gai Battle Spirits Cards Included
- Kamen Rider Gai(Common)
Personality
Shibaura is a self-centered and arrogant man who takes pleasure in flaunting his superiority and toying with other people's lives for nothing more than a good laugh. He has no qualms about taking others' lives or leading others to do so. He prides himself in his resourcefulness and intelligence, which allows him to be able to manipulate other people the way he sees fit. However, such a trait eventually becomes the reason for his death, as he arrogantly (and wrongly) thinks that his intelligence will enable him to control Takeshi Asakura - one of the most dangerous participants of the Rider War, only to be manipulated himself in the end.
Family
- Unnamed father
Abilities
- Programming: Shibaura has great knowledge in programming and is capable of hacking computers by sending them a virus, Shibaura hacked the PC of the editorial department of "ORE Journal" to steal the subscribers' data. He is also a member of the Matrix Netgame Club and like the other members in the team, he has a routine to create and play his own video games.
- Expert Gamer: Shibaura is an expert in playing all kind of video games.
- Master Manipulator: Shibaura has been shown to be charming and persuasive, using his status and knowledge of other riders to convince allies and foes alike to do his bidding. These ways of manipulating were what allowed him to keep his lies to make all the riders fight each other to the death in their death game.
Kamen Rider Gai
- Rider Height: 195 cm
- Rider Weight: 100 kg
Rider Senses:
- Eyesight: 8 km
- Hearing: 10 km
Ability Parameters:
- Punching Power: 15 t (300 AP)
- Kicking Power: 15 t (300 AP)
- Maximum Jump Height: 20 m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m per 5 seconds
Special Attacks:
- Metalhorn: 100 t (2000 AP)[note 1]
- Heavy Pressure: 250 t (5000 AP)[note 1]
- Advent: Metalgelas: 200 t (4000 AP)[note 1]
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Shibaura can transform into Kamen Rider Gai using his Card Deck and V Buckle upon forming a contract with Metalgelas. His Visor, the Metalvisor (メタルバイザー, Metaru Baizā), is mounted on his left shoulder. Gai's punching power and kicking power are identical to Zolda's, while his jump height and running speed are higher. However, his jump height is still overall poor in comparison to the rest of the 13 Riders.
Through the use of his Strike Vent Advent Card, Gai can arm himself with the Metalhorn (メタルホーン, Metaru Hōn), a gauntlet derived from Metalgelas' head.
By using his Final Vent, Gai can execute his finisher, Heavy Pressure (ヘビープレッシャー, Hebī Puresshā), which equips him with the Metal Horn if he does not already possess it. Gai next grabs onto Metalgelas' head with his legs and points the Metal Horn in front of him. Metalgelas then runs into the enemy, resulting in Gai striking it with the Metal Horn.
Appearances: Ryuki Episodes 15-19, 28, All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker, Let's Go Kamen Riders
Contract Monster
- Main article: Metalgelas
Equipment
- Card Deck - Transformation device and Advent Card holder
- V Buckle - Transformation belt
- Advent Cards - Trinkets that enable a Rider to summon Contract Monsters, access equipment, and use special abilities
- Metalvisor - Gai's Visor that enables him to use Advent Cards
Vehicles
- Rideshooter - Motorcycle used by any Rider to enter the Mirror World
Rider Card
- KamenRide: Gai (カメンライドガイ, Kamenraido Gai): A Rider Card containing the power of Kamen Rider Gai. Used by Diend to summon Kamen Rider Gai armed with Strike Vent. First used in the World of Decade to fight Ouja and KickHopper. Also available to be summoned by Diend in Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes OOO.
Relationships
Enemies
- ORE Journal: When Shibaura took control of the company, he became an unruly and controlling boss towards his employees, merely using them for his own purposes and benefit.
- Daisuke Okubo: Used him to promote his death game all over Japan.
- Reiko Momoi: Forced her to clean the ORE Journal office.
- Nanako Shimada: Regarded her as a second-rate systems engineer.
- Kamen Riders:
- Shinji Kido/Kamen Rider Ryuki: Shibaura considers Shinji useless and he takes every opportunity to put everything against him. He pretended to be Shinji's ally in order to get the latter involved in his macabre game.
- Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight: Shibaura called Ren useless in all respects, and considered him a coward and a hindrance for not having the courage to kill him when he had the opportunity.
- Miyuki Tezuka/Kamen Rider Raia: Shibaura considers Tezuka's predictions to be in vain.
- Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja: Shibaura believed that he could manipulate Takeshi as part of his plan, however he ended up being killed at the hands of the latter instead.
- Shuichi Kitaoka/Kamen Rider Zolda: The lawyer who helped Shibaura get out of prison. Upon learning that Shuichi was Zolda, Shibaura saw him as an interesting individual and another enemy in his game.
Others
- Yui Kanzaki: Shibaura kidnaps her and and uses her as bait to lure the other Riders out into battle.
- Shiro Kanzaki - The one responsible for giving Shibaura the Card Deck, allowing him to transform into Gai.
Behind the scenes
Portrayal
Jun Shibaura is portrayed by Satoshi Ichijo (一條 俊, Ichijō Satoshi). As Kamen Rider Gai, his suit actor was Takeshi Mizutani (水谷 健, Mizutani Takeshi).
Concept Art
Meme
- Main article: Takeshi Asakura#Meme
Since his last appearance in Rider Gathering, several fans began to depict Kamen Rider Gai as a human shield (as he was used as one by Ouja to defend Zolda's Final Vent), earning the "Guard Vent" nickname. During a stage greeting for Rider Time: Kamen Rider Ryuki, Satoshi Ichijo (actor for Shibaura) admitted to have not heard of this meme until recently, but finds it interesting and considered Guard Vent as a "nice naming".[5]
Notes
- His Rider name, Gai, is a on'yomi reading for the kanji "Yoroi" (鎧 lit. "armor"), as his Rider form appearance is heavily armored as with his Mirror Monster, Metalgelas.
- Like other Riders, Shibaura died an ironic death: He loved to manipulate other people but was killed by a person he thought he could manipulate, technically having himself manipulated in the end.
- Gai is one of three riders in the series who has their Visor attached to their suit (in Gai's case, the Visor is mounted on his shoulder), the other two being Imperer whose Visor is mounted on his knee, and Verde whose Visor is mounted on his thigh. The same is said for their respective American counterparts.
Appearances
Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Episode 15: Iron Mask Legend
- Episode 16: Card of Destiny
- Episode 17: The Grieving Knight
- Episode 18: Jailbreak Rider
- Episode 19: Rider Gathering
- Episode 28: Time Vent
- Kamen Rider Ryuki (comic)
- Kamen Rider Ryuki (manga)
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Kamen Rider OOO
Kamen Rider Outsiders
- ep.1 Mirror World Treasure and Ouja's Return (flashback)
See also
- Cameron & Brad Barrett - Shibaura's American counterparts in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.
References
Footnotes
External Links
- Kamen Rider Ryuki Spoiler Page
- Jun Shibaura on Kamen Rider Official
- Kamen Rider Gai on Kamen Rider Official