Hajime Aikawa

Hajime Aikawa is a mysterious man who is the human form of the Joker, the most feared of the Undead as his victory in the Battle Fight would mark the end of all life on Earth. Unsealed around the time the other Undead were released, Joker battled The Mantis Undead and uses the sealed Category Ace of Hearts to become the wild card Kamen Rider Chalice.

He later seals the Human Undead, who willingly surrendered to him without resistance, using the card to assume human form. The effect of prolonged use of both of these cards to assume their forms resulted with both the Human Undead's compassion for life and the Mantis' Undead's fighting spirit collectively suppressing Chalice's natural destructive impulse as the Joker. However, many of the Royal Club Undead who knew his true identity made attempts to dispose of him. One such attempt by the Giraffa Undead ended with an innocent bystander witnessing the battle being mortally wounded by accident in the skirmish.

Publication Information

Blade : Hajime Aikawa
Japanese : 相川始
Version : Kamen Rider Blade Version
Type : Mysterious Man, Joker Undead
Known As : Kamen Rider Chalice
Affiliation : Undead
Gender : Male
Season : Kamen Rider Blade
HomeWorld : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
First Appearance : Kamen Rider Blade Episod 1 : The Indigo Warrior
Last Appearance : Super Hero Taisen GP : Kamen Rider 3
Number of Appearances :
- 48 : Blade
- 3 : Movies
Portrayer : Ryoji Morimoto
Main View : Full Episod

The dying photographer handed him a photograph of his family and Joker decided to protect his family in order to atone for his death. The Joker took on the identity of freelance photographer Hajime Aikawa since then. Though he thought less of humans originally, Hajime's time at the Jacaranda Cafe with Kurihara's family helped warm him up to humans and eventually, he wished for himself to be human instead of being the Joker.

Though he and Kenzaki disliked each other earlier, Hajime's growing humanity eventually warms up to Kenzaki, who became a dear friend of his, then Garren and later to a limited extent, Mutsuki as well. But when the Caucasus Undead takes most of his cards, the sealed Mantis Undead among them, it causes Hajime to regress back into the Joker after attempting to resist until Leangle unseals Hajime's cards and uses the Undead against him.

Even after managing to reseal them all, the Joker aspect regained control and goes on a rampage until he is provided with the Evolution Paradoxa, allowing Hajime to regain full control of himself. This lasted until the Giriffa Undead was sealed, leaving the Joker the final victor of the Battle Fight. Hajime loses control once more and his impulse as Joker comes forth with the Stone of Sealing creating his army of DarkRoaches to eliminate all life. In the end, Kenzaki is the only one to fight him head on, with Hajime pleading Kenzaki to defeat and seal him.

While in the series ends with Hajime being allowed to live as a human thanks to Kenzaki sacrificing his own humanity and becoming another Joker to put the Battle Fight in a stalemate, the movie provides an alternate ending to the fight that has him sealed by Blade. However, the actions of the Albino Joker four years later forces Kenzaki to have Leangle unseal Hajime to aid in protecting Amane as his true self and later as Chalice. In the end, Hajime sacrificed himself by switching places with Amane to save her and give the other Riders an advantage over their enemy. His spirit was later shown watching over Amane, the girl assured by Kenzaki that Hajime will always be there.

History

Kamen Rider Blade : Missing Ace

The Missing Ace movie provides an alternate ending to the fight that has him sealed by Blade. However, the actions of the Albino Joker four years later forced Kenzaki to have Leangle unseal Hajime to aid in protecting Amane as his true self and later as Chalice. In the end, Hajime sacrificed himself by switching places with Amane to save her and give the other Riders an advantage over their enemy. His spirit was later shown watching over Amane, the girl was assured by Kenzaki that Hajime will always be there.

Kamen Rider Decade

Kamen Rider Chalice was one of the many Kamen Riders who fought in the Rider War against Decade and were all destroyed. They were presumably restored after the destruction (and subsequent revival) of Decade ended the Rider War and the worlds were restored.

OOO, Den-O, All Riders : Let's Go Kamen Riders

Hajime Aikawa returned as Kamen Rider Chalice, making a brief cameo appearance in the film, teaming up with Sakuya Tachibana and Mutsuki Kamijou, as well as the rest of the Kamen Riders. As Kamen Rider Chalice, Hajime was also 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.

Super Hero Taisen GP : Kamen Rider 3

When the history is changed, Hajime becomes one of the brainwashed Riders. But later, Hajime, alongside Mutsuki, Tachibana, and Kenzaki, aided the riders against Shocker after they despise how Shocker acts and also had themselves free from brainwashing after Takeshi Hongo alongside Hayato Ichimonji broke free from Rider Robo.

Kamen Rider × Super Sentai : Chou Super Hero Taisen

To Be Added

Game Appearance

Kamen Rider Blade

Kamen Rider Chalice, with Blade, Garren, and Leangle, is playable in the Kamen Rider Blade video game. Joker is one of many Undead who appear in said game.

All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2

Chalice appears in All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2, but he doesn't use his Wild form in any attack.

Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes

Chalice appears in Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes, he only uses his Wild form as the finisher move.

Kamen Rider Battride War

The Joker Undead appears as a boss in the video game Kamen Rider: Battride War. He only appeared in one chapter, which is set in Kamen Rider Blade's Final Episode, also replaced by Albino Joker as the recurring villain in later chapters. In the second installment, he appears as Joker Undead and as recurring ally.

Forms

Chalice Ace Form

Main Article : Kamen Rider Chalice
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Blade Version
- Type : Joker Undead, Human Undead, Kamen Riders
- Rouzer Cards : ♥A : Change Mantis
- Form : Chalice Ace Form
- Affiliation : Undead
- Announcement : Change!
- Height : 204cm
- Weight : 109kg
- Punching Power : 3.2t
- Kicking Power : 5.2t
- Maximum Jump Height : 45m
- Maximum Running Speed : 100m/4.8
- Senses :
- Defense :
- Finisher :
- Armed : Chalice Arrow
- Appearances : Kamen Rider Blade Episod
Unlike the B.O.A.R.D Riders, Chalice is not a Kamen Rider transformation produced by a Rider System. Chalice is in fact the name of the legendary Mantis Undead of the A: "Change Mantis". The Joker, using the Rouze Card of this sealed Undead, mimics the form, attributes and power of the Mantis Undead via the Chalice Rouzer. Though Chalice favors agility, this "Undead Rider" is basically superior to the B.O.A.R.D Riders in every respect, making him a lethal adversary to either side: Undead or Rider.

Equipment

Device:

Weapons:

Chalice Arrow

Vehicles:

Shadow Chaser

Wild Chalice

Wild Chalice Form
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Blade Series
- Type : Kamen Rider Chalice
- Form : Wild Chalice
- Announcement : Evolution!
- Rouzer Card : ♥K : Evolution Paradoxa + ♥A : Change Mantis
- Height : 204cm
- Weight : 109kg
- Punching Power : 4.2t
- Kicking Power : 6.2t
- Maximum Jump Height : 60m
- Maximum Running Speed : 100m/4.5
- Senses :
- Defense :
- Finisher :
- Armed : Wild Slasher
- Appearances : Kamen Rider Blade Episod
Wild Chalice is the ultimate form of Chalice, which merges the power of the K: "Evolution Paradoxa" with A: "Change Mantis" to unify the powers of the other Rouse Cards of the Heart Suit. Outside of its combat practicality, Wild Chalice serves an even more vital purpose to Chalice. Thanks to the additional power of the Paradoxa, Wild Chalice can suppress the power of the Joker and effectively subdue its influence. To that effect, Wild Chalice becomes an extension of the Joker's "Trump" effect and can harness the powers of all Rouze Cards in the form of the "Wild Card". Interestingly, Wild Chalice has a nearly identical color scheme to Garren's, having a crimson base and green visor.

Device:

Weapons:

Wild Slasher

Vehicles:

Shadow Chaser

Dragonfly Undead

Main Articles : Dragonfly Undead
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Blade Series
- Type : Undead
- Form : Float
- Announcement : Float!
- Rouzer Card : ♥4 : Float Dragonfly
- Height : 208cm
- Weight : 118kg
- Punching :
- Kicking :
- Jump Height :
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- Senses :
- Defense :
- Armed :
- Appearances : Kamen Rider Blade Episod
When Hajime's Ace card was taken by the Eagle Undead, he uses the Float Dragonfly card to assume the Dragonfly Undead. He later gave his Float Dragonfly card to Kenzaki to defeat the Eagle Undead. Kenzaki did and gave back his Ace of Hearts card.

Wolf Undead

Main Articles : Wolf Undead
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Blade Series
- Type : Undead
- Form : Fusion
- Announcement : Fusion!
- Rouzer Card : ♥J : Fusion Wolf
- Height : 223cm
- Weight : 119kg
- Punching :
- Kicking :
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- Senses :
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- Armed :
- Appearances : Kamen Rider Blade Episod
When Hajime lost all of his cards including Ace, Kenzaki gave the Fusion Wolf card to him to assume the Wolf Undead form to battle Mutsuki. This card was shown to be the Wolf Undead also known as Jack Form without the Rouze Absorber.

Black Joker

Main Articles : Black Joker
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Blade Series
- Type : Joker Undead
- Category : King
- Form : Origin Joker
- Announcement :
- Identities : Hajime Aikawa
- Rouzer Card :
- Height : 219cm
- Weight : 116kg
- Punching :
- Kicking :
- Jump Height :
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- Defense :
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- Appearances : Kamen Rider Blade Episod
Technically "wins" the Battle Royale at the end of the series when Giraffa is sealed, but Kenzaki's sacrifice allows Hajime to continue living as a human and need not be sealed, with the Spirit Human keeping him in line. In Missing Ace, he was initially sealed by Blade and remained so in the four-year timeskip. After being unsealed by Leangle to protect Amane from Glaive's assault, Hajime chose to sacrifice himself in order to make Jashin 14 vulnerable for the others to attack, it is unlikely he died however, considering Undead can't be killed.