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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Masahito Shizumiya, Takatora's former friend, who briefly hijacks the role of Armored Rider Zangetsu and has become an Overlord Invase.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Masahito Shizumiya, Takatora's former friend, who briefly hijacks the role of Armored Rider Zangetsu and has become an Overlord Invase.Inves.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Foras is an obvious Expy to Hideyasu Jonouchi/Gridon, being a SmugSnake who ends up as the comedic minion of Bravo...but unfortunately for him he ''also'' turns out to be an Expy of Ryoji Hase/Kurokage, transforming into an Invase and having to be put down by Gaim.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Foras is an obvious Expy to Hideyasu Jonouchi/Gridon, being a SmugSnake who ends up as the comedic minion of Bravo...but unfortunately for him he ''also'' turns out to be an Expy of Ryoji Hase/Kurokage, transforming into an Invase Inves and having to be put down by Gaim.]]
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Kagiomi Shizumiya gave malfunctioning prototype Sengoku Drivers to the people of the Trokia Republic, knowing that they would slowly transform the wearers into Invase, with the intent of achieving a level of existence beyond either humans ''or'' Invase. His son Masahito, who already achieved this by becoming an Overlord, just wants to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Kagiomi Shizumiya gave malfunctioning prototype Sengoku Drivers to the people of the Trokia Republic, knowing that they would slowly transform the wearers into Invase, Inves, with the intent of achieving a level of existence beyond either humans ''or'' Invase.Inves. His son Masahito, who already achieved this by becoming an Overlord, just wants to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
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* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used in the story are incomplete prototypes, and overuse causes one to eventually transform into an Invase. The Shizumiya family, who were part of Yggdrasil, were fully aware of this and used them to experiment on the unwitting populace.]]
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly transforms them into an Invase. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly transforms them into an Invase. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
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* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used in the story are incomplete prototypes, and overuse causes one to eventually transform into an Invase.Inves. The Shizumiya family, who were part of Yggdrasil, were fully aware of this and used them to experiment on the unwitting populace.]]
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly transforms them into anInvase.Inves. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly transforms them into an
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* HonorBeforeReason: Glasya believes so strongly in his ideals that he refuses to compromise them even when he ''knows'' it's a bad idea. When Aim comes along and says "This white Armored Rider is too strong, we need to team up to beat him!", Glasya refuses. [[spoiler:Near the end of the play he insists on having a final battle with Aim, despite knowing full well that there are much more important things going on '''and''' that using the Sengoku Drivers will turn them into Invase, because he wants to prove the strength of his ideals. He loses.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: Glasya believes so strongly in his ideals that he refuses to compromise them even when he ''knows'' it's a bad idea. When Aim comes along and says "This white Armored Rider is too strong, we need to team up to beat him!", Glasya refuses. [[spoiler:Near the end of the play he insists on having a final battle with Aim, despite knowing full well that there are much more important things going on '''and''' that using the Sengoku Drivers will turn them into Invase, Inves, because he wants to prove the strength of his ideals. He loses.]]
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Zig-zagged; the Trokian characters have heard of the term "Invase", but they more commonly call them "the infected". Takatora, on the other hand, just straight-up calls them "Invase".
* NuclearMutant: [[spoiler:The microwave radiation emitted by the Scalar System somehow caused Masahito to mutate from a regular Invase into an Overlord.]]
* NuclearMutant: [[spoiler:The microwave radiation emitted by the Scalar System somehow caused Masahito to mutate from a regular Invase into an Overlord.]]
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Zig-zagged; the Trokian characters have heard of the term "Invase", "Inves", but they more commonly call them "the infected". Takatora, on the other hand, just straight-up calls them "Invase".
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Everyone assumed that Masahito died eight years ago when the Scalar System was activated. In reality he had already transformed himself into an Invase via the flawed Sengoku Drivers and further mutated into an Overlord when the Scalar radiation hit him.]]
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Everyone assumed that Masahito died eight years ago when the Scalar System was activated. In reality he had already transformed himself into an Invase Inves via the flawed Sengoku Drivers and further mutated into an Overlord when the Scalar radiation hit him.]]
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* SoapOperaDisease: The Underground City's Armored Riders all seem to suffer from mysterious chest pains. [[spoiler:These are the harbinger of their transformation into an Invase.]]
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* SoapOperaDisease: The Underground City's Armored Riders all seem to suffer from mysterious chest pains. [[spoiler:These are the harbinger of their transformation into an Invase.Inves.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Kagemasa attempts to kill his brother Masahiko by grappling him while wearing a suicide vest. Unfortunately for him, a mere bomb isn't enough to kill an Overlord Invase.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Kagemasa attempts to kill his brother Masahiko by grappling him while wearing a suicide vest. Unfortunately for him, a mere bomb isn't enough to kill an Overlord Invase.Inves.]]
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* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The entire Underground City is this, being subjects of Kagiomi Shizumiya's "experiments" with the incomplete Sengoku Drivers that slowly transform them into Invase.]]
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* UnknownCharacter: The Orange Ride captain before Aym that disappeared. [[spoiler: The [[AllThereInTheManual novelization]] reveals his name as Simon and that he turned into the Byakko Inves that appears in the stageshow, similar to the fate of Yuya Sumii.]]
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The entire Underground City is this, being subjects of Kagiomi Shizumiya's "experiments" with the incomplete Sengoku Drivers that slowly transform them intoInvase.Inves.]]
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The entire Underground City is this, being subjects of Kagiomi Shizumiya's "experiments" with the incomplete Sengoku Drivers that slowly transform them into
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa spends most of the play bitterly despising Takatora for the death of his brother. However, after that same brother mortally wounds him and Takatora does his best to save him, Kagemasa uses his dying breath to give Takatora his Sengoku Driver so he can finally end the conflict.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa spends most of the play bitterly despising Takatora for the death of his brother. However, after that same brother mortally wounds him and Takatora does his best to save him, Kagemasa uses his dying breath to give Takatora his Sengoku Driver so he can finally end the conflict. Later turns into RedemptionEqualsLife in the novelization when Aim and a bunch of other Trokian civilians find him on the verge of death and treat his wounds, with him repenting for his deeds by helping them rebuild.]]
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''Kamen Rider Zangetsu -Gaim Gaiden-'' is a 2019 [[{{Theatre}} stage play]] SpinOff of the Japanese television series ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', later released on DVD. Actor Yuki Kubota [[RoleReprise reprises his role]] as Takatora Kureshima/Armored Rider Zangetsu in this story co-authored by Creator/NitroPlus's Jin Haganeya and Nobuhiro Mouri, both of whom were secondary writers on the ''Gaim'' TV series (with Haganeya serving as assistant to the show's head writer, Creator/GenUrobuchi).
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in the Trokia Republic, he's shot by a mysterious assailant and falls into the Underground City, where young men are given [[TransformationTrinket Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds]] and forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the ruling elites. Stricken with amnesia, Takatora must slowly recover his memories and unravel the dark secrets behind the republic -- as well as the identity of the {{Revenge}}-obsessed man who attacked him.
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in the Trokia Republic, he's shot by a mysterious assailant and falls into the Underground City, where young men are given [[TransformationTrinket Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds]] and forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the ruling elites. Stricken with amnesia, Takatora must slowly recover his memories and unravel the dark secrets behind the republic -- as well as the identity of the {{Revenge}}-obsessed man who attacked him.
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''Kamen Rider Zangetsu -Gaim Gaiden-'' is a 2019 [[{{Theatre}} stage play]] SpinOff of the Japanese television series ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', later released on DVD. Actor Yuki Kubota [[RoleReprise reprises his role]] as Takatora Kureshima/Armored Rider Zangetsu in this story co-authored by Creator/NitroPlus's Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'s Jin Haganeya and Creator/ToeiCompany’s Nobuhiro Mouri, both of whom were secondary writers on the ''Gaim'' TV series (with Haganeya serving as assistant to the show's head writer, Creator/GenUrobuchi).
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in theTrokia Torkia Republic, he's shot by a mysterious assailant and falls into the Underground City, where young men are given [[TransformationTrinket Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds]] and forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the ruling elites. Stricken with amnesia, Takatora must slowly recover his memories and unravel the dark secrets behind the republic -- as well as the identity of the {{Revenge}}-obsessed man who attacked him.
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in the
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* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly transforms them into an Invase. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
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''Kamen Rider Zangetsu -Gaim Gaiden-'' is a 2019 [[{{Theatre}} stage play]] SpinOff of the Japanese television series ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', later released on DVD. Actor Yuki Kubota [[RoleReprisal [[RoleReprise reprises his role]] as Takatora Kureshima/Armored Rider Zangetsu in this story co-authored by Creator/NitroPlus's Jin Haganeya and Nobuhiro Mouri, both of whom were secondary writers on the ''Gaim'' TV series (with Haganeya serving as assistant to the show's head writer, Creator/GenUrobuchi).
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* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title implies, this is Takatora's stage now. The only other ''Gaim'' cast member to return (as such) is Creator/HochuOtsuka, the narrator.
* AGodAmI: The BigBad [[spoiler:Overlord Masahito]] believes himself to be above humanity and thus the rightful ruler of the planet.
* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title implies, this is Takatora's stage now. The only other ''Gaim'' cast member to return (as such) is Creator/HochuOtsuka, the narrator.
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* HistoryRepeats: According to the BigBad, the tragedy of the Trokia Republic is that they keep repeating the same mistakes perpetrated by Kagiomi Shizumiya and the remnants of the Yggdrasil Corporation.
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* HistoryRepeats: AGodAmI: The BigBad [[spoiler:Overlord Masahito]] believes himself to be above humanity and thus the rightful ruler of the planet.
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* HistoryRepeats:
** According to the BigBad, the tragedy of the Trokia Republic is that they keep repeating the same mistakes perpetrated by Kagiomi Shizumiya and the remnants of the Yggdrasil Corporation.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Yukimura Belial Grunstein might have a name that's associated with {{Satan}}, but he's essentially just the play's Expy for Pierre Oren Alfonso/Armored Rider Bravo: a BadassGay mercenary who turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Yukimura Belial Grunstein might have a name that's associated with {{Satan}}, but he's essentially just the play's Expy for Pierre Oren Alfonso/Armored Rider Bravo: a BadassGay mercenary who turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
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''Kamen Rider Zangetsu -Gaim Gaiden-'' is a 2019 [[{{Theatre}} stage play]] SpinOff of the Japanese television series ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', later released on DVD. Actor Yuki Kubota [[RoleReprisal reprises his role]] as Takatora Kureshima/Armored Rider Zangetsu in this story co-authored by Creator/NitroPlus's Jin Haganeya and Nobuhiro Mouri, both of whom were secondary writers on the ''Gaim'' TV series (with Haganeya serving as assistant to the show's head writer, Creator/GenUrobuchi).
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in the Trokia Republic, he's shot by a mysterious assailant and falls into the Underground City, where young men are given [[TransformationTrinket Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds]] and forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the ruling elites. Stricken with amnesia, Takatora must slowly recover his memories and unravel the dark secrets behind the republic -- as well as the identity of the {{Revenge}}-obsessed man who attacked him.
'''''WARNING:''''' This play assumes that the audience already watched ''Kamen Rider Gaim'', since endgame events and plotpoints are important to the story. Therefore, '''spoilers for ''Gaim'' will be unmarked'''. You have been warned!
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!!Kamen Rider Zangetsu gives us these tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title implies, this is Takatora's stage now. The only other ''Gaim'' cast member to return (as such) is Creator/HochuOtsuka, the narrator.
* AGodAmI: The BigBad [[spoiler:Overlord Masahito]] believes himself to be above humanity and thus the rightful ruler of the planet.
* ApocalypseHow: A Class 0 happened in the backstory, where the Scalar System in the Trokia Republic was activated and turned much of the country into a smoldering crater, setting up the events of the play.
* TheAtoner: Takatora openly says that he's trying to make up for his sins as the head of Yggdrasil by investigating their old research sites an making sure it's all been shut down. At the end of the play he says he's still got a lot of work to do.
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly trasnforms them into an Invase. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Masahito Shizumiya, Takatora's former friend, who briefly hijacks the role of Armored Rider Zangetsu and has become an Overlord Invase.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: The story ends with Takatora leaving the Trokia Republic in the capable hands of his new allies and setting off to investigate Yggdrasil sites all around the world.
* CastOfExpies: An internal example occurs here, since every named character is an obvious stand-in for a character from ''Gaim'' itself. This gets acknowledged by Takatora when he remarks that Aim reminds him of Kouta Kazuraba, and is actively exploited by Kagemasa (Mitsuzane/Micchy's Expy), who briefly convinces the amnesiac Takatora that he ''is'' Mitsuzane.
* CharacterDevelopment: When Takatora first meets him, Aim is downright glib about the fact that he's killed people before, saying that that's just how it is in Trokia and not really giving it any further thought. As the story progresses, he begins understanding the value of human life and ends up developing the same "I'll save everyone!" attitude as Kouta.
* CombatBreakdown: During the final battle both Takatora and [[spoiler:Masahito]] lose their transformations and end up facing off against each other in their civvies (but still wielding their super-powered weapons).
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Foras is an obvious Expy to Hideyasu Jonouchi/Gridon, being a SmugSnake who ends up as the comedic minion of Bravo...but unfortunately for him he ''also'' turns out to be an Expy of Ryoji Hase/Kurokage, transforming into an Invase and having to be put down by Gaim.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: You might not think it's possible to make a Creator/GenUrobuchi story even darker, but ''Zangetsu'' replaces the street dancing and {{Mons}} battles of ''Gaim'' with a straight-up ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]''-style death battle[[note]]Some of the characters still dance, but it's not clear if it's happening in-story or not[[/note]], where practically every named character (even the Kouta Expy) has committed at least one murder by the time the story even begins and they just accept killing as a fact of life. There's also a lot of battles between non-transformed humans wielding knives, guns, and pipes, but it manages to avoid being BloodierAndGorier because the production doesn't use a single drop of stage blood.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Yukimura Belial Grunstein might have a name that's associated with {{Satan}}, but he's essentially just the play's Expy for Pierre Oren Alfonso/Armored Rider Bravo: a BadassGay mercenary who turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Not "demonic" at all, but late in the story Kouta uses his "Man of the Beginning" powers to briefly borrow Aim's body, giving Takatora some words of encouragement and creating a green version of the Kachidoki Lockseed for him to use.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Takatora's skill and experience as Armored Rider Zangetsu could easily resolve the entire situation in about five minutes...which is why he loses both his memory and the Melon Lockseed about ''three'' minutes into the play[[note]]It also seems like he didn't even bring either his Sengoku Driver or Genesis Driver along with him, since he has to take one from the dying [[spoiler:Kagemasa]] in order to transform[[/note]].
* TheDreaded: Much like Takatora himself in ''Gaim'', when the new Zangetsu enters the battle and starts curb-stomping all the other Riders ''at the same time'', they rightly learn to fear him.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:As he's defeated, Masahito has a final moment of clarity where he realizes his misdeeds, apologizes to Takatora, and asks his friend to remember him before he spreads his arms and leaves himself open for the deathblow.]]
* EasyAmnesia: Takatora loses his memories at the start of the play, after getting shot and falling into the Underground City. Over the course of the story he slowly regains bits and pieces as the events unfolding around him remind him of Zawame City, before finally making a full recovery around 2/3 of the way through.
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Masahito is obviously meant to be Takatora without the nobility and buried idealism, instead being selfish and power-hungry.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Kagiomi Shizumiya gave malfunctioning prototype Sengoku Drivers to the people of the Trokia Republic, knowing that they would slowly transform the wearers into Invase, with the intent of achieving a level of existence beyond either humans ''or'' Invase. His son Masahito, who already achieved this by becoming an Overlord, just wants to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: The Trokia Republic is divided 20/80 between the rich elites who live on the surface and the poor "have-nots" who are forced to live in the Underground City and engage in super-powered deathmatches for the amusement of their "betters".
* FakeShemp: [[spoiler:Kouta returns by temporarily possessing the body of Aim; presumably, Keigo Hagiya was cast in the role because his voice is fairly similar to Gaku Sano's, which adds to the illusion.]]
* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used in the story are incomplete prototypes, and overuse causes one to eventually transform into an Invase. The Shizumiya family, who were part of Yggdrasil, were fully aware of this and used them to experiment on the unwitting populace.]]
* HistoryRepeats: According to the BigBad, the tragedy of the Trokia Republic is that they keep repeating the same mistakes perpetrated by Kagiomi Shizumiya and the remnants of the Yggdrasil Corporation.
** The events in the Underground City are basically an abridged version of ''Kamen Rider Gaim'' itself, with the characters fulfilling the same roles (Gaim is a noble idealist while Baron is a cynical social Darwinist and his arch-rival) and going through roughly the same events (Bravo starts off as an overpowering antagonist but undergoes a HeelFaceTurn).
* HonorBeforeReason: Glasya believes so strongly in his ideals that he refuses to compromise them even when he ''knows'' it's a bad idea. When Aim comes along and says "This white Armored Rider is too strong, we need to team up to beat him!", Glasya refuses. [[spoiler:Near the end of the play he insists on having a final battle with Aim, despite knowing full well that there are much more important things going on '''and''' that using the Sengoku Drivers will turn them into Invase, because he wants to prove the strength of his ideals. He loses.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: [[spoiler:The microwave radiation emitted by the Scalar System somehow caused Masahito to mutate from a regular Invase into an Overlord.]]
* ImNotAHeroIm: Kagemasa angrily accuses Takatora of benefiting from his brother's death and passing himself off as the hero of Zawame City; Takatora honestly replies that Kouta was the one who saved the world, and that he himself didn't really do anything.
* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: The rich nobles force the denizens of the Underground City to battle for their amusement, having provided them with Rider Systems and giving empty promises that the last man standing will be allowed to move to the upper city. By the time the story kicks in there are only three Rider Teams left (Orange Ride, Baroque Red, and Green Dolls), and Orange Ride is down to its last three members.
* NextSundayAD: The story takes place "several years" after the events of ''Kamen Rider Gaim''; the play itself was released five years after the TV series ended.
* NotUsingTheZWord: Zig-zagged; the Trokian characters have heard of the term "Invase", but they more commonly call them "the infected". Takatora, on the other hand, just straight-up calls them "Invase".
* OutsideContextProblem: Takatora is an Outside-Context Hero, coming to the Trokia Republic from Japan and helping resolve the long-standing conflict by uniting the Armored Riders to fight against the nobles who oppress them rather than each other (as well as helping them fight an opponent that would have been too strong for any of them to handle).
* PaintItBlack: The Armored Riders of the Trokia Republic, who are far more morally ambiguous than those from Zawame City, use prototype Sengoku Drivers that produce versions of Gaim, Baron, ''et al.'' with black undersuits. Since this already happened to Baron before in his DirectToDVD Gaiden movie, Glasya's Proto Baron suit is just a slight modification of Shura's Black Baron suit.
* {{Qurac}}: The Trokia Republic, which is shown to be a FictionalCounterpart to Kazakhstan.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa]] gets shot in the gut, hangs on while refusing medical treatment, uses a suicide vest, somehow survives ''that too'', and finally dies for real after being stabbed by [[spoiler:his brother Masahito]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa spends most of the play bitterly despising Takatora for the death of his brother. However, after that same brother mortally wounds him and Takatora does his best to save him, Kagemasa uses his dying breath to give Takatora his Sengoku Driver so he can finally end the conflict.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Everyone assumed that Masahito died eight years ago when the Scalar System was activated. In reality he had already transformed himself into an Invase via the flawed Sengoku Drivers and further mutated into an Overlord when the Scalar radiation hit him.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Kagemasa begins the story wanting to take revenge on Takatora, blaming him for the death of his brother Masahito. However, Masahito turns up alive...and he wants revenge on Takatora himself.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Masahito murders his own father Kagiomi and assumes control of his organization. He takes it a step further by killing his younger brother Kagemasa as well.]]
* SoapOperaDisease: The Underground City's Armored Riders all seem to suffer from mysterious chest pains. [[spoiler:These are the harbinger of their transformation into an Invase.]]
* TheSocialDarwinist: Glasya fulfills this role without having the same level of nuance or depth as his Expy source material Kaito Kumon; obviously a side character in a 2-hour play can't get as much CharacterDevelopment as the {{Deuteragonist}} of a 47-episode TV series.
* StockFootage: Takatora regaining his memories is generally represented by still photos from ''Gaim'' projected onto the large screen, and at one point a stock audio clip of Gaku Sano (Kouta) saying "Takatora" is played.
* SuperMode: Takatora receives his own version of Gaim's Kachidoki Arms [[spoiler:from Kouta himself]] in time for the final battle.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Kagemasa attempts to kill his brother Masahiko by grappling him while wearing a suicide vest. Unfortunately for him, a mere bomb isn't enough to kill an Overlord Invase.]]
* ThemeNaming: All the new characters in the story, except for the Shizumiya family, derive their names from the 72 demons listed in the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''.
* UndergroundCity: The Trokia Republic has one, simply named "Underground City" (in English). It's said that about 80% of the country's population lives there, and the vast majority of the play takes place there.
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The entire Underground City is this, being subjects of Kagiomi Shizumiya's "experiments" with the incomplete Sengoku Drivers that slowly transform them into Invase.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Takatora was friends with Masahito Shizumiya eight years before the events of the play, when they had similar personalities, but the fact that Takatora [[CharacterDevelopment developed into a better person]] while Masahito stayed the same arrogant, selfish person he was before is just one of many reasons they oppose each other in the present.]]
Several years after fighting off the Helheim Forest invasion, Takatora Kureshima is traveling the world, cleaning up the messes left behind by the now-dissolved Yggdrasil Corporation. While investigating their former test site in the Trokia Republic, he's shot by a mysterious assailant and falls into the Underground City, where young men are given [[TransformationTrinket Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds]] and forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the ruling elites. Stricken with amnesia, Takatora must slowly recover his memories and unravel the dark secrets behind the republic -- as well as the identity of the {{Revenge}}-obsessed man who attacked him.
'''''WARNING:''''' This play assumes that the audience already watched ''Kamen Rider Gaim'', since endgame events and plotpoints are important to the story. Therefore, '''spoilers for ''Gaim'' will be unmarked'''. You have been warned!
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!!Kamen Rider Zangetsu gives us these tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title implies, this is Takatora's stage now. The only other ''Gaim'' cast member to return (as such) is Creator/HochuOtsuka, the narrator.
* AGodAmI: The BigBad [[spoiler:Overlord Masahito]] believes himself to be above humanity and thus the rightful ruler of the planet.
* ApocalypseHow: A Class 0 happened in the backstory, where the Scalar System in the Trokia Republic was activated and turned much of the country into a smoldering crater, setting up the events of the play.
* TheAtoner: Takatora openly says that he's trying to make up for his sins as the head of Yggdrasil by investigating their old research sites an making sure it's all been shut down. At the end of the play he says he's still got a lot of work to do.
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used by Trokia's Riders are incomplete prototypes, meaning the power from the Lockseed "leaks" into the user and slowly trasnforms them into an Invase. This happens to both Foras and Team Orange Ride's previous Leader.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Masahito Shizumiya, Takatora's former friend, who briefly hijacks the role of Armored Rider Zangetsu and has become an Overlord Invase.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: The story ends with Takatora leaving the Trokia Republic in the capable hands of his new allies and setting off to investigate Yggdrasil sites all around the world.
* CastOfExpies: An internal example occurs here, since every named character is an obvious stand-in for a character from ''Gaim'' itself. This gets acknowledged by Takatora when he remarks that Aim reminds him of Kouta Kazuraba, and is actively exploited by Kagemasa (Mitsuzane/Micchy's Expy), who briefly convinces the amnesiac Takatora that he ''is'' Mitsuzane.
* CharacterDevelopment: When Takatora first meets him, Aim is downright glib about the fact that he's killed people before, saying that that's just how it is in Trokia and not really giving it any further thought. As the story progresses, he begins understanding the value of human life and ends up developing the same "I'll save everyone!" attitude as Kouta.
* CombatBreakdown: During the final battle both Takatora and [[spoiler:Masahito]] lose their transformations and end up facing off against each other in their civvies (but still wielding their super-powered weapons).
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Foras is an obvious Expy to Hideyasu Jonouchi/Gridon, being a SmugSnake who ends up as the comedic minion of Bravo...but unfortunately for him he ''also'' turns out to be an Expy of Ryoji Hase/Kurokage, transforming into an Invase and having to be put down by Gaim.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: You might not think it's possible to make a Creator/GenUrobuchi story even darker, but ''Zangetsu'' replaces the street dancing and {{Mons}} battles of ''Gaim'' with a straight-up ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]''-style death battle[[note]]Some of the characters still dance, but it's not clear if it's happening in-story or not[[/note]], where practically every named character (even the Kouta Expy) has committed at least one murder by the time the story even begins and they just accept killing as a fact of life. There's also a lot of battles between non-transformed humans wielding knives, guns, and pipes, but it manages to avoid being BloodierAndGorier because the production doesn't use a single drop of stage blood.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Yukimura Belial Grunstein might have a name that's associated with {{Satan}}, but he's essentially just the play's Expy for Pierre Oren Alfonso/Armored Rider Bravo: a BadassGay mercenary who turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Not "demonic" at all, but late in the story Kouta uses his "Man of the Beginning" powers to briefly borrow Aim's body, giving Takatora some words of encouragement and creating a green version of the Kachidoki Lockseed for him to use.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Takatora's skill and experience as Armored Rider Zangetsu could easily resolve the entire situation in about five minutes...which is why he loses both his memory and the Melon Lockseed about ''three'' minutes into the play[[note]]It also seems like he didn't even bring either his Sengoku Driver or Genesis Driver along with him, since he has to take one from the dying [[spoiler:Kagemasa]] in order to transform[[/note]].
* TheDreaded: Much like Takatora himself in ''Gaim'', when the new Zangetsu enters the battle and starts curb-stomping all the other Riders ''at the same time'', they rightly learn to fear him.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:As he's defeated, Masahito has a final moment of clarity where he realizes his misdeeds, apologizes to Takatora, and asks his friend to remember him before he spreads his arms and leaves himself open for the deathblow.]]
* EasyAmnesia: Takatora loses his memories at the start of the play, after getting shot and falling into the Underground City. Over the course of the story he slowly regains bits and pieces as the events unfolding around him remind him of Zawame City, before finally making a full recovery around 2/3 of the way through.
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Masahito is obviously meant to be Takatora without the nobility and buried idealism, instead being selfish and power-hungry.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Kagiomi Shizumiya gave malfunctioning prototype Sengoku Drivers to the people of the Trokia Republic, knowing that they would slowly transform the wearers into Invase, with the intent of achieving a level of existence beyond either humans ''or'' Invase. His son Masahito, who already achieved this by becoming an Overlord, just wants to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: The Trokia Republic is divided 20/80 between the rich elites who live on the surface and the poor "have-nots" who are forced to live in the Underground City and engage in super-powered deathmatches for the amusement of their "betters".
* FakeShemp: [[spoiler:Kouta returns by temporarily possessing the body of Aim; presumably, Keigo Hagiya was cast in the role because his voice is fairly similar to Gaku Sano's, which adds to the illusion.]]
* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:The Sengoku Drivers used in the story are incomplete prototypes, and overuse causes one to eventually transform into an Invase. The Shizumiya family, who were part of Yggdrasil, were fully aware of this and used them to experiment on the unwitting populace.]]
* HistoryRepeats: According to the BigBad, the tragedy of the Trokia Republic is that they keep repeating the same mistakes perpetrated by Kagiomi Shizumiya and the remnants of the Yggdrasil Corporation.
** The events in the Underground City are basically an abridged version of ''Kamen Rider Gaim'' itself, with the characters fulfilling the same roles (Gaim is a noble idealist while Baron is a cynical social Darwinist and his arch-rival) and going through roughly the same events (Bravo starts off as an overpowering antagonist but undergoes a HeelFaceTurn).
* HonorBeforeReason: Glasya believes so strongly in his ideals that he refuses to compromise them even when he ''knows'' it's a bad idea. When Aim comes along and says "This white Armored Rider is too strong, we need to team up to beat him!", Glasya refuses. [[spoiler:Near the end of the play he insists on having a final battle with Aim, despite knowing full well that there are much more important things going on '''and''' that using the Sengoku Drivers will turn them into Invase, because he wants to prove the strength of his ideals. He loses.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: [[spoiler:The microwave radiation emitted by the Scalar System somehow caused Masahito to mutate from a regular Invase into an Overlord.]]
* ImNotAHeroIm: Kagemasa angrily accuses Takatora of benefiting from his brother's death and passing himself off as the hero of Zawame City; Takatora honestly replies that Kouta was the one who saved the world, and that he himself didn't really do anything.
* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: The rich nobles force the denizens of the Underground City to battle for their amusement, having provided them with Rider Systems and giving empty promises that the last man standing will be allowed to move to the upper city. By the time the story kicks in there are only three Rider Teams left (Orange Ride, Baroque Red, and Green Dolls), and Orange Ride is down to its last three members.
* NextSundayAD: The story takes place "several years" after the events of ''Kamen Rider Gaim''; the play itself was released five years after the TV series ended.
* NotUsingTheZWord: Zig-zagged; the Trokian characters have heard of the term "Invase", but they more commonly call them "the infected". Takatora, on the other hand, just straight-up calls them "Invase".
* OutsideContextProblem: Takatora is an Outside-Context Hero, coming to the Trokia Republic from Japan and helping resolve the long-standing conflict by uniting the Armored Riders to fight against the nobles who oppress them rather than each other (as well as helping them fight an opponent that would have been too strong for any of them to handle).
* PaintItBlack: The Armored Riders of the Trokia Republic, who are far more morally ambiguous than those from Zawame City, use prototype Sengoku Drivers that produce versions of Gaim, Baron, ''et al.'' with black undersuits. Since this already happened to Baron before in his DirectToDVD Gaiden movie, Glasya's Proto Baron suit is just a slight modification of Shura's Black Baron suit.
* {{Qurac}}: The Trokia Republic, which is shown to be a FictionalCounterpart to Kazakhstan.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa]] gets shot in the gut, hangs on while refusing medical treatment, uses a suicide vest, somehow survives ''that too'', and finally dies for real after being stabbed by [[spoiler:his brother Masahito]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kagemasa spends most of the play bitterly despising Takatora for the death of his brother. However, after that same brother mortally wounds him and Takatora does his best to save him, Kagemasa uses his dying breath to give Takatora his Sengoku Driver so he can finally end the conflict.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Everyone assumed that Masahito died eight years ago when the Scalar System was activated. In reality he had already transformed himself into an Invase via the flawed Sengoku Drivers and further mutated into an Overlord when the Scalar radiation hit him.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Kagemasa begins the story wanting to take revenge on Takatora, blaming him for the death of his brother Masahito. However, Masahito turns up alive...and he wants revenge on Takatora himself.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Masahito murders his own father Kagiomi and assumes control of his organization. He takes it a step further by killing his younger brother Kagemasa as well.]]
* SoapOperaDisease: The Underground City's Armored Riders all seem to suffer from mysterious chest pains. [[spoiler:These are the harbinger of their transformation into an Invase.]]
* TheSocialDarwinist: Glasya fulfills this role without having the same level of nuance or depth as his Expy source material Kaito Kumon; obviously a side character in a 2-hour play can't get as much CharacterDevelopment as the {{Deuteragonist}} of a 47-episode TV series.
* StockFootage: Takatora regaining his memories is generally represented by still photos from ''Gaim'' projected onto the large screen, and at one point a stock audio clip of Gaku Sano (Kouta) saying "Takatora" is played.
* SuperMode: Takatora receives his own version of Gaim's Kachidoki Arms [[spoiler:from Kouta himself]] in time for the final battle.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Kagemasa attempts to kill his brother Masahiko by grappling him while wearing a suicide vest. Unfortunately for him, a mere bomb isn't enough to kill an Overlord Invase.]]
* ThemeNaming: All the new characters in the story, except for the Shizumiya family, derive their names from the 72 demons listed in the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''.
* UndergroundCity: The Trokia Republic has one, simply named "Underground City" (in English). It's said that about 80% of the country's population lives there, and the vast majority of the play takes place there.
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The entire Underground City is this, being subjects of Kagiomi Shizumiya's "experiments" with the incomplete Sengoku Drivers that slowly transform them into Invase.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Takatora was friends with Masahito Shizumiya eight years before the events of the play, when they had similar personalities, but the fact that Takatora [[CharacterDevelopment developed into a better person]] while Masahito stayed the same arrogant, selfish person he was before is just one of many reasons they oppose each other in the present.]]
