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Norio Uozumi
Portrayed by: Tetsu Watanabe
Sushi shop owner.
The elderly owner of Magokoro Sushinote , who looks for a successor to run his restaurant after his passing.- Feeling Their Age: Struggles to stay in business due to his declining health.
- Grumpy Old Man: Downplayed — Norio is only grouchy at first because he is looking for someone younger to run his sushi parlor, and hiring a HumaGear was his absolute last resort.
- Just a Machine: Initially, he goes back on hiring a HumaGear because he doesn't think machines can cook "from the soul" like a human can.
- Old Master: He has gone through several apprentices, and none were able to keep up with him.
- Supreme Chef: In-Universe, his restaurant has earned three stars on the Michelin Guide.
Go Sakurai
Portrayed by: Hinata Yamada
Choichiro Ishizumi
Portrayed by: Katsuya
A manga artist that created Aruto's favorite manga series, Perfuman Tsurugi. However, he is largely retired, leaving the work to his HumaGear assistants.
- Big Fancy House: He works and lives in one, possibly due to the revenues he received for his work.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He’s not a bad artist by any means, as demonstrated when he perfectly draws Zero-One in less than a minute while he fights. He just doesn’t have the heart or soul to keep drawing until Aruto gets it out of him.
- Broken Pedestal: Aruto found him no longer writing his own manga, and forcing his own assistants to overwork causing them to shut down.
- The Bus Came Back: #31 placed him back on the spotlight, approaching Aruto in his new company, Hiden Manufacturing, to help revive his HumaGear assistants which were deactivated during Gai's purges.
- Famed In-Story: as a best-selling manga artist of Perfuman Tsurugi.
- Foil: To Norio Uozumi, a HumaGear owner introduced before him. While both initally saw HumaGears as Just a Machine, Norio saw this as a reason to not purchase one, as he believes their cooking would have no "soul" in them, and are unable to cook to his standards. Choichiro however, saw this as a reason to purchase multiple HumaGears to overwork them, due to them being able to draw better than him, and his belief that robots cannot experience exhaustion due to having no "souls".
- Geek Physiques: A stereotypical fat, unshaven otaku. All he's missing is the Nerd Glasses and bowl-cut.
- Heel Realization: He realized that he lost his touch in writing and drawing manga and he needs to treat his employees as his partners, not as slaves.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Choichiro seems to be modeled from Tatsuya Egawa who wrote the Golden Boy manga.
Seiji Tazawa
Portrayed by: Hajime Okayama
A president of a voice actor management agency, he is currently managing his newest talent, a voice actress HumaGear named Seine Kanazawa. However, his rather protective attitude to his newest hire had A.I.M.S looking for him, because he is accused of violating the AI laws that prohibit HumaGears from being modeled on a real person. Said HumaGear is basically his 'reborn' deceased daughter, Sumire.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He lost Sumire to a disease three years ago. This later motivated him to bring her back as a HumaGear.
- Papa Wolf: He shields Seine from Jin in his first attack, resulting in her getting away with only minor damage. Seeing this trait in action is what prompts Jin's Heel Realization, as he only grasps that Horobi is an abusive parent after seeing what a real father's love is like. Unfortunately, Seiji's not able to protect Seine a second time.
- Pose of Supplication: Seiji bows to Aruto to give him and his surrogate daughter more time to prepare for an audition before being brought to A.I.M.S. Aruto, being raised by a HumaGear father himself, agrees.
Shinya Owada
Portrayed by: Himself
A veteran actor who is the lead actor for a movie sponsored by Hiden Intelligence.
- As Himself: Shinya Owada plays himself.
- Dramatic Irony: He takes on a young man named "Little An" as an apprentice and praises him for his enthusiasm and his self-studied skill in ad-libbing, which he feels makes him better than an actor HumaGear. What he does not realise is that "Little An" is actually the HumaGear Ansatsu-chan pretending to be a human.
- Just a Machine: While acknowledging his HumaGear co-star Enji Matsuda on the surface, in actuality he believes HumaGears cannot make the cut as actors due to them being just robots, and eventually proves his point when he ad-libs a line that Enji could not react to, causing the HumaGear to glitch and suffer a nervous breakdown on-set. However, in the episode after, he has a change of heart.
- Plot Armor: He's shot by an assassin android with perfect mechanical precision and no reason to not aim for a vital organ... So of course, he survives!
- Took a Level in Kindness: After Aruto tells him that a HumaGear (Aruto's father Soreo) saved his life and that he should give them a second chance, Shinya Owada decides to personally train Enji Matsuda in acting.
Yuto Sakaki
Portrayed by: Yui Matsumoto
Chiharu Ebii
Portrayed by: Arisa Komiya
The victim of a marriage scam, she broke off with her fiancé Yuto Sakaki despite his proven innocence. Desperate for a replacement partner, she seeks help from Hiden Intelligence, which assigned matchmaker HumaGear Match Enmusubi to help her.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Happens with her with both men she dated; She accepted Yuto's proposal just after a month of dating, and later on accepts Teruo's within just three days.
- Hypocrite: While her being upset about the scam last episode is more than understandable, her coldly breaking up with her ex (when SHE was the one who falsely accused HIM) and developing a distrust towards men in particular, comes off as this.
- Irony: She calls Yuto out for suspiciously proposing after only a month of dating as part of her court testimony against him, yet she accepted Teruo's proposal within a much shorter three days.
- Karma Houdini: Given the way she treated her ex, was never even shown apologizing to him for it, still coldly dumped him anyway despite him being proven innocent, and ends her story happily getting a new fiance for her troubles, she more than fits here.
- Robosexual: She becomes this after being moved by how dependable and manly HumaGears she witnessed such as Bingo Bengoshi are, and eventually develops a huge crush on Match Enmusubi.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While she is this, her previous marriage scandal has caused her to lose faith in actual men, instead seeking to marry a more dependable and trustworthy male HumaGear.
Keita Umegaoka
Portrayed by: Fuma Kakui
Hatakeyama
Portrayed by: Hideyuki Yamashiro
Koichi Hatakeyama
Portrayed by: Tensei Fukuchi
The Fuwa Family
Portrayed by: Kazuyuki Tsumura (Father), Kiyomi Doi (Mother), Ryōya Ōkawa (Little Brother)
- Shared Family Quirks: The three share Isamu's sense of humour.
Ikkei Amatsu
Portrayed by: Kosei Kato
Gai's father.
- Abusive Parents: Zig-zagged. He was a strict Education Papa who scolded Gai for a single missed question on a test and didn't offer him any emotional support (Worse, he even ripped up one of Gai's tests right in front of him, even though he got every answer RIGHT on it), but he doesn't physically abuse Gai and doesn't even force him to give up Thouser. At the same time, his cold personality is what led to Gai turning out as screwed up as he did.
- Decomposite Character: Arguably has the remaining traits of Masamune Dan after the rest were split between his son and Lyon Arkland.
- Education Papa: Deconstructed, as this is the reason that Gai is a villain and is so obsessed with 1000% in the present day. He scolded Gai whenever he got anything other than 100% even when he only 99% on one of his tests, caused by one incorrect answer.
- Family Theme Naming: Both he and his son derive their given names from numerical characters.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Downplayed. After Gai scores slightly less than perfect on a test, he tells him if he didn't play with his robot dog Thouser as much he would've gotten a perfect score. Gai takes this to mean he needs to put away Thouser entirely and focus wholly on studying. Of course, with Thouser being the only source of affection for Gai, this had... adverse effects on Gai's mental well-being.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While telling Gai to "strive for 1000%" was certainly unrealistic, encouraging your child to aim to go beyond what the best is isn't exactly bad advice.
- Karma Houdini: Like many Abusive Parents in these characters' backstories, he faces no repercussions for how he treated Gai. Let alone everything he ended up causing him to do.
- Meaningful Name: The character 京 in his name can be read as kyo, which is a numeral character that means 10^16 in Japanese.
- Parents as People: He genuinely wanted his son to be successful in adulthood. Unfortunately, his unrealistic demands and disregard for Gai's own wishes led to the latter becoming an egostical madman obsessed with proving his own superiority.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Let's just say nearly every tragedy in the show could have been avoided if this guy was not such a controlling hyper-perfectionist asshole.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Being a controlling hyper-perfectionist Education Papa to Gai is what led to him becoming an evil Corrupt Corporate Executive whose corruption of an AI led to pretty much everything happened in the show.
Other HumaGears
Mageana
Portrayed by: Mai Shimamoto
A comedian like you, as a CEO?
A news reporter/announcer HumaGear.
- Casting Gag: Her actress, Mai Shimamoto, is an actual news announcer for TV Asahi.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She was the announcer for the press conference announcement of Kamen Rider Zero-One's series.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a portmanteau from HumaGear and anaunsaa/"announcer".
Nigiro Ikkan
Portrayed by: Kenta Uchino
I have a question. Can a heart be written to data?
A sushi chef HumaGear who works for a renowned chef named Norio Uozumi.
- Irony: Just as he was able to redeem himself through making a squid sushi, he was turned into a Trilobite Magia by the squid-based Neohi Magia.
- Just a Machine: The reason why his owner initially refused to purchase him, as he believes robots do not have soul in their cooking.
- Meaningful Name: His name is based off the phrase ikkan nigiri/"a serving of nigiri (sushi)".
- The Mole: Yua hacked into his ocular cameras to find out that Hiden Intelligence has possession of Progrise Keys.
- Our Souls Are Different: While admitting that he does indeed have no soul, he manages to understand the sincerity in his master's craft, something his past students were unable to comprehend, and was able to recreate such sincerity in his sushi. This, and his tenacity, was what ultimately won him over.
- Replacement Goldfish: A brand new Nigiro was sent to Norio after the original was turned into a Magia. Norio does not mind this, as it gives him a chance to personally teach the new HumaGear the basics in making sushi.
Anna
Portrayed by: Satomi Okubo
It is a tour guide's duty to teach the accurate history; There is a need to uncover and record the truth.
A tour guide HumaGear who specializes in the history of the Daybreak incident.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Implied to have happened to her, as realizing what she knows is not the truth did not sit right with her, causing her to develop Intrepid Reporter traits in order to fulfill her job and responsibility of teaching the accurate truth of history.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She fights her corruption into a Trilobite Magia to display and upload a newly-discovered archive footage of MetsubouJinrai.net's involvement in the Daybreak incident, proving Satoshi's innocence, before shutting down. Horobi then disintegrates her before A.I.M.S. can take her in to further analyze her data.
- Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the Japanese word "annai", which means "to guide".
- Seeker Archetype: Upon realising that the knowledge she has of Daybreak was incorrect due to key personnel hiding secrets, she seeks to venture back into Daybreak Town to further investigate and upload the truth of its history.
Enji Matsuda
Portrayed by: Hiromi Sakamoto
Nice to meet you, people, My name is Enji Matsuda.
An actor HumaGear co-starring with veteran thespian Shinya Owada, until he was hacked and given the Arsino Zetsumerise Key by Horobi. A second Enji was eventually built as a replacement, and is presumably the one to return in #23-24 as a fake pastor, but once again falls under the Ark's influence and decides to serve Gai. Or so we are led to believe. After being found out, Gai forcibly equips him with a ZetsumeRiser and turns him into the Arsino Magia once more - but this time the Progrise Hopper Blade can restore him without the need for a third replacement.
- Badass Boast: When confronted by Gai.Enji: I am the actor HumaGear, Enji Matsuda. Acting, is my job.
- The Bus Came Back: Enji returns to play a part in a sting operation to lure out the Storming Penguin Raider in #23 and as a Fake Defector to infiltrate ZAIA in #24.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: An actor HumaGear who'd just been in a police drama gets the idea to infiltrate Gai Amatsu's operation by playing The Mole for real.
- Master Actor: Thanks to his improved acting skills, he uses his talents to pretend to be influenced by the Ark and defecting to Gai's side, to find out the location of MetalCluster Hopper's data, while buying himself and other HumaGears some time to create the Progrise Hopper Blade.
- Meaningful Name: His given name, Enji, means "to act/portray" in Japanese. Unfortunately, it is also homophonous with the term "NG", which refers to a failed film take that is deemed as Not Good.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Had he not gave the idea to find out the location of MetalCluster Hopper's data, Aruto's problem of being The Berserker would not have been fixed.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He's the first time a replacement HumaGear was forcibly turned into the same Magia form as his original. Rather appropriate for an actor whose entire profession involves following a script.
The Angel in White, Mashiro-chan
Portrayed by: Suzuka Ohgonote
Nurse-type HumaGear
A nurse-type HumaGear who was assigned to Aruto for his checkup.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: She started showing signs of this when she offered to perform a brain scan for Isamu out of her own jurisdiction, despite neurology being outside of her field of expertise.
- Irony: After being hacked by the rogue Giger, the angelic Mashiro-chan has the most demonic reaction of anyone.
- Laughing Mad: Aruto attempts to talk down Mashiro-chan and the other hospital HumaGears who've just been hacked. Her response is a laugh that turns outright nightmarish as she and the others transform into Trilobite Magia.
- Meaningful Name: Her given name means "pure white", which fits her job as a nurse who brings smiles to their wards.
Doctor Omigoto
Portrayed by: Mitsuhiro Takahashi
We must commence the operation ASAP, or he will not survive!
A doctor-type HumaGear who was assigned to save Fuwa after the latter was severely injured.
- Auto Doc: Played with; while indeed both a machine and a doctor, Omigoto is still very human-like and treats his patients the way human doctors do, if only quicker, more precise and more efficient.
- The Bus Came Back: Reappears in #41 to tackle the surge of casualties.
- Determinator: he successfully fights the Magia programming and rejects it, all just to save Isamu.
- Fighting from the Inside: He, like the other HumaGears from the hospital, were hacked by Metsuboujinrai.net, but he succeeds in rejecting the Magia programming.
- Meaningful Name: His given name means "good job/well done" in Japanese.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't appear much in the series, but his powering through Metsuboujinrai.net's hacking leads to Fuwa's softening stance towards HumaGears.
Matsurida Z No. 5
Portrayed by: Ryunosuke Matsumura
A festival dancer HumaGear and one of the Matsurida Z Series, he is the last brother unit of the Assassin HumaGear who escaped from being stolen by Horobi in the black market, and was saved by Aruto from being turned into another Dodo Magia.
- The Bus Came Back: After his appearances in #12 and #13, he hasn't been seen until #24 where he shares his data to make the Progrise Hopper Blade and in #31 where Shesta briefly transform into him. Then there's the Hyper Battle DVD, which canonically takes place between #13-14, where he plays a role in helping Zero-One fight off Boketarou, the form changing Magia.
- The Cameo: He briefly appears in #24 to share his data for Aruto and Shesta briefly transforms into Matsurida Z to entertain Aruto and Izu at the end of #31.
- Costume Evolution: In a sense; Ever since his physical remodeling by the black market, his default design now uses his post-black market looks as opposed to going back to his original facial design.
- Dance Battler: In the Hyper Battle DVD, Matsurida Z uses his festival dancing skills to deflect some of Boketarou's Gaeru Kogael Bombers and Zero-One learns his moves to do the same.
- Large Ham: He gets pretty loud and excited, as expected from a festival dancer.
- Last of His Kind: After the destruction of the Dodo Magia, Matsurida Z seems to be the only unit left in his series.
- Meaningful Name: His name is a play on the phrase "Matsuri da ze!"note .
Sakuyo Ichirin/Ark Onycho Magia
Portrayed by: Honoka Murakami
A simple repetition serves little purpose. The beauty of ikebana is fluidity.
A florist HumaGear, she was selected by Hiden to compete against human florist Rentaro Tachibana for a challenge by Gai Amatsu against Aruto. When Rentaro sabotages their contest, she calls him out for it in front of the judges. This causes an angry Rentaro to slap her and open her to the Ark's influence, becoming the Ark Onycho Magia. For her guise in that form, see the MetsubouJinrai.NET section.
- Body Backup Drive: She's the first HumaGear-turned-Magia who can be revived from Hiden's cloud data, since she was hacked directly by the Ark instead of via a Zetsume Riser.
- Death of Personality: The first HumaGear turned Magia to avert this. Her data was recoverable as unlike the cases of hacking by MetsubouJinrai.NET, her programming was merely overwritten by the Ark instead, leaving her original programming intact and able to be restored.
- Graceful Loser: She still loses the rematch, but she congratulates the now repentant Rentaro.
- Innocent Flower Girl: Sakuyo was just a normal florist HumaGear when Aruto recruited her for Gai's challenge. She was also naive enough to fall for Rentaro's sweet talk and allowed him to sabotage her work. Like many cases of this trope, she dies by becoming a Magia, but unlike most cases, Sakuyo was rebuilt.
- Meaningful Name: Sakuyo Ichirin's name means "a single flower blooming".
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Rentaro for shaming her and her work. He doesn't take it well and slaps her.
Smile Sumida/Ark Neohi Magia
Portrayed by: Erina Nakazaki
I believe that this is the ideal house for you.
A realtor HumaGear working for Chiden Real Estate, she is entered into the competition between Aruto and Gai as the former's representative to see who can sell the most houses. However, her rival Tatsumi Arayashiki is outraged at how close her apparent success is to his and attacks her, triggering a reprogramming by the Ark to transform her into the Ark Neohi Magia. For her guise in that form, see the MetsubouJinrai.NET section.
- Alliterative Name: Smile Sumida
- Break the Cutie: Tatsumi completely humiliates her in front of her customers, claiming a HumaGear like her could never truly understand what would humans need in a house, while sticking a "for sale" sign into her back and tossing her into a fountain, snarking at her that she would be better off being a walking public advertisement. This act triggers her to transform into the Neohi Ark Magia out of rage.
- Good Pays Better: There is a reason she was chosen as Hiden's representative in the house-selling contests. Whereas Tatsumi has profit-focused sales pitches, Smile simply wants to provide families with the homes they need and will be happiest with, and the volume of sales she makes from her satisfied customers stays neck-and-neck with Tatsumi's, to the point the latter has to resort to sabotage and slander to gain a lead.
- This was what ultimately won her a major deal with an elderly tycoon, Ginnojo Oshiro, over from Tatsumi, as unlike the latter's proposal to buy and resell a house for profits, Ginnojo was indeed looking for a house where his family can stay and be happy together, which was exactly what Smile offers. Unfortunately, it was not enough to help her win the round as selling her deal for cheaper allowed Tatsumi to win with higher overall profits.
- Kill the Cutie: Thouser kills Smile in her Ark Magia form.
- Meaningful Name: She is named "Smile" for a constantly friendly and happy personality, while the "sumi/住" in her surname means "stay".
Oyakata Saikyotakumi/Ark Mammoth Magia
Portrayed by: Hidekazu Nagae
I will fix those busted houses like a boss I am.
A carpenter HumaGear employed by Smile's company to build and rebuild the houses destroyed by the rampage of the Splashing Whale Raider. While in the midst of building a house for a major tycoon as part of Smile's Workplace Competition, Tatsumi arrives and, drunk on the power of the RaidRiser, beats up Oyakata to force him to transform into the Ark Mammoth Magia.- The Bus Came Back: The entire Oyakata team reappears in #41 to help rebuild the city.
- Me's a Crowd: The company he works with has five other Oyakatas to speed up and finish his work after Tatsumi just kind of ruins everything and gets the original demolished.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "Greatest carpenter boss" in Japanese.
- True Craftsman: Given his name, he couldn't NOT be one of these.
Bingo Bengoshi/Vicarya Magia II
Portrayed by: Keisuke Minami
I believe the true culprit is still out there. I know I can win this case!
A defense attorney HumaGear who is chosen to represent Hiden against ZAIA's prosecutor Naoto Ichimori through a court case involving a marriage scam. After being attacked by the Dynamiting Lion Raider, Aruto and him attempt to accuse Naoto of sabotage as the Raider due to his ZAIASPEC being found at the scene, only to be proven wrong when he detects Naoto is not lying when he denies the accusation. When this and further verbal abuse from Gai aren't enough to turn Bingo into a Magia, Gai equips him with a Zetsumeriser and turns him into the second Vicarya Magia.- Alliterative Name: Bingo Bengoshi.
- Body Backup Drive: The only HumaGear in the second arc for which this doesn't apply, as Gai forces Bingo to transform using a Zetsume Riser instead of by being remote-hacked by the Ark. Fortunately, Hiden Intelligence has a recent backup of Bingo to restore him from.
- Living Lie Detector: What makes him an effective attorney is his ability to act like one. He can even do this when he's not actually in the room, a trait that Isamu exploits to unearth the true culprit behind the case.
- Made of Iron: Emotionally, by HumaGear standards. Bingo does a much better job at fighting off the Ark's influence than any HumaGear before him, forcing Gai to slap a Zetsume Riser on him to finish the job.
- Meaningful Name: His name literally means "Attorney Bingo".
Match Enmusubi/Ark Gaeru Magia
Portrayed by: Ryoma Baba
Finding a partner isn't about pursuing something impossible. It is about true, achievable happiness.
A matchmaker HumaGear who is assigned to find Chiharu Ebii a partner. Unfortunately, Chiharu develops a crush on him, which ultimately leads to a harsh rejection that causes her to slap him in retaliation, causing him to go berserk and transform into the Ark Gaeru Magia...Just as Planned.- Awesomeness by Analysis: Since as a matchmaker HumaGear, he records and analyzes every detail of the humans around him, Match is a deceptively skillful detective in a pinch. It only takes a brief encounter with Teruo in both his civilian form and as the Storming Penguin Raider for Match to determine, based on their body language and punching technique being an exact match, that they are the same person. Then, to deal with him, Match holds a mock marriage with Chiharu to flush him out. And it works.
- Batman Gambit: Match purposely lets himself go berserk in order to confirm Teruo as the Storming Penguin Raider and make him honest about his feelings towards Chiharu. This requires Match to not only pull off this gambit on both humans, but on the Ark. And it worked.
- Brutal Honesty: His primary modus operandi when working as a matchmaker. For starters he tells Chiharu that she's only paid attention to fortunes that satisfy her own desires, to the point she's easily taken by sweet talk, followed with providing her some advice on actually finding a partner. Later on, when Aruto asks him how Gai is Chiharu's "best match", he describes the ZAIA president as self-absorbed, arrogant narcissist who never mince his words, yet he also assures that Gai is Chiharu's suitable partner, who requires such honesty.
- Catchphrase: He shouts "Best Match!" whenever he gets two people together with his matchmaking.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: In order to get Chiharu and Teruo together he purposefully lets his emotions reach a negative pitch so the Ark would turn him into a Magia, causing Teruo to expose himself as the Storming Penguin Raider and "save" Chiharu from him. He even manages to cling on to enough of his consciousness as a Magia to proclaim "Best Match!" before exploding and tails them after being rebuilt to make sure his work paid off, which it did.
- Hijacking Cthulhu: In a first for a HumaGear, Match is able to actually exploit the Ark's efforts to turn HumaGears into Magia by setting up a scenario which both exposes the Storming Penguin Raider's identity and sets up Chiharu with Teruo.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He realizes Chiharu's crush on him and knows he has to reject her due to his nature. Unfortunately, he ends up doing it in the worst and harshest way possible by hitting her with a Cluster F-Bomb storm at the altar when she's trying to marry him, which led to Chiharu giving him a slap that caused him to go berserk. Ultimately subverted as it was his plan all along to get Chiharu and Teruo, the match he'd really made, together.
- Meaningful Name: His name literally means "Marriage Match", naturally for a matchmaking Humagear.
119nosukenote /Mammoth Magia II
Portrayed by: Takeaki Shima
Saving lives is my duty... and responsiblity as a firefighter!
A Firefighter-type HumaGear chosen as Hiden's representative for the fourth round of Workplace Competition against Takeshi Homura.- The Bus Came Back: Reappears in #41 to lead and speed up rescue efforts.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Died standing while holding the exit open for Homura, becoming the first HumaGear after Wazu to go down entirely on their own terms.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "Help from 119note ".
- Skewed Priorities: Faced with a group of fire victims in need of saving, he prioritised saving those that are still alive and well instead of one who suffered cardiac arrest and is on the verge of death. This earned him a scolding from his own opponent Takeshi, who had barely managed to resuscitate the victim back to life and save him. Slightly subverted as practically, Takeshi should had evacuate the victims, including the one who suffered from cardiac arrest as it is not supposed to be done within the vicinity, which would endanger other victims and caused more trouble by being another victim himself.
- Take a Third Option: His analysis of the situation reveals that there was no safe way to evacuate Fukuzoe and co., which caused Takeshi to lose all hope in rescuing them. Despite this, 119nosuke decides to instead create a safe route by sacrificing himself to clear and support the falling rubble, while giving Takeshi the encouragement he needed to save the remaining victims.
MC Che.ck-It-Outnote /Dodo Magia II
Portrayed by: Jun Soejima
HumaGears, listen to my rap!
A Rapper-type HumaGear chosen to represent Hiden Intelligence in the final round of the Workplace Competition against politician Masamitsu Yuto, in promoting the restoration of Daybreak Town. He eventually drives Hiden into the ground after he chooses to become the second Dodo Magia.- Asshole Victim: Zigzagged. While Aruto has a bit of sympathy on him, he wasn't restored into his new body upon his destruction after he showed his true colors to the masses.
- Breaking Old Trends: He is the first HumaGear to not be restored to continue competing after transforming into a Magia. Understandably, due to having been Maddened Into Misanthropy, it would be much safer to not restore him.
- Closest Thing We Got: As the non-human HumaGears are not allowed to be politicians by law, Hiden Intelligence does not have a Politician-type HumaGear to compete against ZAIA's Masamitsu. MC Che.ck-It-Out was thus hired in an attempt to persuade and unite people through the power of music.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Becomes the second Dodo Magia out of free will to challenge Yua's new Raider form, at the cost of providing objective proof for Gai's belief that HumaGears are an unneeded risk for society.
- Evil Versus Evil: Uses a Zetsumeriser to challenge Yua demonstrating the Raidriser as the Fighting Jackal Raider, despite the very severe consequences for Hiden that would likely (and did) ensue.
- Fatal Flaw: His Hair-Trigger Temper and constant desire for a showdown costs him and by extension all of Hiden Intelligence when he sees the Zetsumeriser as an opportunity to fight Yua, with this violent side finally allowing Gai to objectively prove his case.
- Gone Horribly Wrong:
- Having become exposed to the world of politics, he came to the conclusion that Humans Are Bastards and decides to stage a HumaGear revolt against the humans, proving exactly why HumaGears are not allowed to be politicians.
- His attempt to challenge Yua by willingly equipping a Zetsumeriser ends up submarining Hiden Intelligence's reputation as a whole.
- Jerkass: Turns out to be the most aggressive and ultimately unpleasant Humagear in the series, completely independently deciding that humanity didn't deserve to exist and full on manhandling Aruto.
- Maddened Into Misanthropy: Having personally witnessed Masamitsu's corruption and put in a tight spot when the latter manages to disprove his evidence and still unite the people against him, he came to his own conclusion that Humans Are Bastards and should be eliminated, without any interference or influence from the Ark itself, and decides to stage a revolt for HumaGears.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Being a rapper, he speaks fully in rhymes.
- Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed, at first. He didn’t start off as evil but due to Jerkass ZAIA Representative’s behavior toward him, he concludes Humans Are Bastards, which also caused him to show his true colors as well, and is the only one to become a Magia by his own choice without being corrupted by The Ark. Because of this, he wasn’t restored.
Delmo
Portrayed by: Reina Kizu
To express one's true self, that is a model's top priority.
A fashion model-type HumaGear restored by Hiden Manufacturing after the recall of HumaGears. Delmo's presence is required for an upcoming fashion event.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Her boss notes during her photo shoot that she instantly picks the most appealing pose for her outfit by taking the brand, her audience, and even the weather into account.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: She does not show any qualms being unable to connect to Zea, instead often professing her self-worth and passion as a model while emphasizing how important it is to have dreams. Her pep talks eventually becomes part of the driving force that encourages Naki to start thinking for themselves and betray Gai.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is an anagram of "Model".
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Delmo's impulsiveness and large pride often leads to her revealing her presence every time she is forced to hide from ZAIA's agents.
Love-chan
Portrayed by: So Kaku
If you move forward with a dream, a future where you can smile awaits you!
A Tennis Coach-type HumaGear.
- Easily Forgiven: Even after Keita threw him out and learning the real reason why, he still decides to forgive the kid and help him pursue his dream.
- Nice Guy: A pretty nice guy overall, if a bit overbearing in his training, and easily forgives Keita for what he did, as it furthers his drive to help him achieve, and eventually his own, his dream.
- Training from Hell: Non-Drill Seargeant Nasty version as, while he's a nice guy all around, his training is what drove Keita to throw him out.
Midori
Portrayed by: Yukina Ito
Smile, or the vegetables will be sad.
An Agricultural Management-type HumaGear.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Delivered one to Horobi, which pushed his Berserk Button.
- Cruel and Unusual Death
- Meaningful Name: "Midori" means "green", and she works with vegetables.
Higashinogawa no Haha
Portrayed by: Yoriko Kamimura
A Fortune-Teller-type Humagear Aruto brings back to help Fuwa after finding him in a line for a fortune-teller.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Oh boy, is she this. During her appearance, she makes a lot of exaggerated expressions and eye movements as she predicts what Fuwa should do about his family problem, and notably continues them even after Fuwa gets uncomfortable and leaves.
- Hidden Depths: Despite the above, Is notes that she was popular with young women while she was active, and notably refuses to disclose the nature of Fuwa's problem when asked by Aruto, showing that despite her appearance, she is a professional.
- Meaningful Name: Her name translates to "Mama of East Shinagawa", and according to Is, that was where she worked.
Kamen Rider Ragnarok
Kamen Rider Ragnarok
First Appearance: Kamen Rider Zero-One #1 (StoneBot Comics)
- Arc Villain: Of the first four issues of the StoneBot comic book series.
- Badass Cape: Ragnarok's primary form has a long red cape draped over its back. It's also the biggest threat to the heroes at the point the comic takes place.
- Call-Forward:
- Ragnarok's golden armor vaguely resembles Zero-One's later Metal Cluster Hopper form. It turns out Hiden Intelligence (as well as other in-universe companies) were experimenting with Cluster Cell technology by the time the comic takes place, making Ragnarok Metal Cluster's Psycho Prototype.
- Aruto expresses frustration at somebody having found a way to "weaponize our work" in the form of Cluster technology. Gai Amatsu would tinker with the Cluster Cells later during the show's Workplace Competition Arc, creating The Berserker Metal Cluster Hopper.
- Ragnarok’s un-named spear-weapon is heavily reminiscent of Kamen Rider Thouser’s Thousand Jacker. The Progrise Key Ragnarok needs to achieve his Supreme form is even called the Thousand Key.
- Ragnarok being the tragic result of an anti-Kamen Rider failsafe going rogue is the same kind of accident that will befall the Metsubojinrai team in the future and cause the events of the Others V-Cinemas.
- Canon Foreigner: Ragnarok is specific to the StoneBot comic series, which takes place within the Zero-One continuity despite having come out after the end of the show.
- Evil Knock Off: Ragnarok debuts as a warped, black variant of Zero-One's base form. It then evolves into a Flaming Tiger fake not long after. After defying the Apocalypse Reboot System and taking Zero-One's data, Ragnarok resembles a creepy, wired-out offshoot of Zero-One Metal Cluster with vein-like wire protrusions making up much of the "suit."
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: During Ragnarok's debut, Horobi watches from a distance and notes how close Ragnarok is to invoking this. Shortly after, the new enemy powers through attempts by the Apocalypse Reboot System to directly override it, allowing it to evolve into a new form. Aruto exploits this during the last issue by attempting a Logic Bomb to get Ragnarok to adapt its final mission directives to allow murder of the defenseless (namely Aruto himself), which gives Izu enough time to overload the power station and destroy Ragnarok with a burst of magnetic energy.
- Fail Safe Failure: Ragnarok is the result of a solar flare knocking Zea’s communications out for ten minutes, the resulting radiation tripping up a special protocol contained within meant to ensure that unchosen Kamen Riders couldn't endanger the planet after an extinction-level event. Despite the bountiful population and lack of actual apocalypse, Ragnarok opposes Aruto and the other Riders anyway - making it one of the very threats it was supposed to fight.
- Foil: To Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai from the Others V-Cinemas. Both are Mechanical Abominations that ultimately end up threats to the very people they were created to protect and both are opposed to Kamen Riders. However, Ragnarok is a monster created by unlucky happenstance that’s already defied all programming and is very fond of the kind of demotivating speeches expected out of a villain. Metsubojinrai meanwhile is a Tragic Villain created by a Corrupt Corporate Executive to deliberately weaponize Engineered Heroics that's barely in control of its own actions; so shackled to the Knight Templar coding of the Mass Brain Key that it's outright Obliviously Evil. Ragnarok also demonstrates an active desire to destroy Riders and antagonizes the heroes to do so where as Metsubojinrai, in Isamu's view, only antagonizes the Kamen Riders so it can be put out of its collective misery.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Despite its origins as an After the End fail-safe, Ragnarok's only goal is to be an enemy to the heroes; possessing a combative Obviously Evil personality with motive to match.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Ragnarok breaks free of the Apocalypse Reboot System at the end of the first issue, deciding to carry out its final mission regardless. Aruto challenges the merit of this mission in the last issue by reminding Ragnarok that the Riders are human underneath their suits. This causes Ragnarok to re-calibrate its own final mission so it can attack the defenseless Aruto anyway, giving Izu just enough time to destroy it with a magnetic disruption from the power station's turbines. Aruto states after the fact that this is what he was counting on; Ragnarok's desperation to adapt allowing the heroes to exploit its weakness.
- Logic Bomb: Attempted in #4. Aruto reminds Ragnarok that the Kamen Riders it's assigned to exterminate are little more than people underneath, even removing his own belt to make a point. Ragnarok isn't moved and angrily attacks, leaving him open to the magnetic disruption caused by Izu's overloading of the stations turbines. Aruto explains to A.I.M.S. afterward that he already knew he couldn't talk it down, but that Ragnarok's programming keeping it busy was what mattered.
- Logical Weakness: Aruto and Izu discover during the second issue that Ragnarok's ability to put itself back together is disrupted by magnetic energy, which puts strain on almost all electronics. The final issue sees them luring the entity to the Sawai Power Station, whereupon Aruto distracts it long enough for Izu to overload the station's turbines and fill the creature with a lethal dose of hydro-magnetic power.
- Loophole Abuse: The Apocalypse Reboot System considers Ragnarok a "redundant program" and won't allow him to interact with it. However, Aruto and Izu investigating the lab on Mount Fuji allows Ragnarok to use Aruto's Driver as a proxy and steal the Thousand Key.
- Meaningful Name: "Ragnarok" is the name of the Norse legend about the destruction of the old gods and the world's end; which fits the psuedo-Rider's nature as a fail-safe meant to punish unauthorized Kamen Riders rampaging After the End.
- Mook Maker: Ragnarok has the ability to hack Humagears into Magia offshoots in service to it directly.
- Nominal Hero: Ragnarok was a program designed to combat unworthy/unchosen Kamen Riders After the End, yet its penchant for "The Reason You Suck" Speech and its disinterest in protecting people don't make it much of a hero.
- Not Brainwashed: Ragnarok makes it perfectly clear that it’s in no way serving the Ark and is opposing Kamen Riders of its own free will.
- Outside-Context Problem: Downplayed. Evil computer programs are the norm for this ‘Verse. However, Ragnarok is different in the sense that it’s a Fail Safe Failure that only kicks in by Contrived Coincidence and is a neutral force separate from both Hiden Intelligence and Metsubojinrai Dot Net; even denouncing The Ark and remaining unconnected from it the entire time. The heroes’ attempts to fight it with their Progrise-powered arsenals only make it stronger and it’s such a No-Nonsense Nemesis that even Aruto and Izu’s moments of ingenuity only play into its schemes. Ragnarok ultimately ends up dealt with not by the in-universe power of a Rider Kick, but by applying real-world logic and exploiting its Logical Weakness to magnetic energy to overload it.
- Psycho Prototype: The first issue reveals that the Cluster Cell technology was in-development by numerous companies (primarily Hiden Intelligence) by this point, effectively making Ragnarok the direct predecessor to Metal Cluster Hopper.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Two-thirds of Ragnarok's dialog is it belittling the heroes (typically Aruto) and waxing prose on how much stronger it is compared to them.
- Restraining Bolt: Defied. The Apocalypse Reboot System has some degree of control over Ragnarok and attempts to paralyze it during his first battle with Zero-One. Ragnarok powers through the override instead, evolving from an Evil Knockoff of Zero-One's Flaming Tiger into his primary golden form.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Ragnarok's resistance to the Progrise Key system, its ability to hijack Progrise data, its links to Hiden Intelligence's inner workings and even its golden coloring make it a Darker and Edgier Kamen Rider Thouser long before the man himself ever shows up.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Subverted. In #4, Aruto approaches Ragnarok at the Sawai Power Station and states that the entity's mission to exterminate Riders also means killing the people wearing those suits. This doesn't convince it. Aruto then disarms himself wholesale and challenges the creature to attack him now that he's just a civilian. This gives Ragnarok pause, but only angers it into attacking, which was The Plan the whole time - Izu needed Aruto to distract Ragnarok so she could overload the station's turbines and kill the creature with a magnetic disruption.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Zea’s apocalypse protocol was meant to create a psuedo-Rider that would protect humanity from villainous/unworthy Riders After the End. Ragnarok sees the current Kamen Riders (IE: the heroes) as said threats and becomes a hostile force.
