Story
Yaguruma, while TheBee, had his own personal army of ZECT Troopers called Shadow, which had yellow stripes on their uniform, indicating that they are an elite unit of ZECT Troopers. He is a perfectionist, believing in a philosophy known as "Kanzen Chōwa". When he's calm, he's a caring person who possesses a strict code of teamwork and demands perfection. He cares deeply for his team members, and in battle he is a brilliant tactician. However, he's also impulsive, brash and quick to anger. It is interesting to note that during battle he primarily uses kicks, foreshadowing his later role as Kamen Rider KickHopper.
Publication Information
- Protagonist : Sou Yaguruma
- Japanese : 矢車 想
- Rider Users :
- Gender : Male
- HomeWorld : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Season : Kamen Rider Kabuto
- First Appearance : Kamen Rider Kabuto Episod 6 : My Flower OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
- Number of Appearances : 10 (Kabuto), 2 (Decade), 3 (Movie)
- Portrayer : Hidenori Tokuyama
After Tendou defeated him, Yaguruma became obsessed with revenge which caused to disregard the safety of his team which cost him TheBee Zecter and his position at Shadow. With the loss of his dignity and rank, Yaguruma went through self-loathing, seeing himself as a loser who can't keep his ideology and started a new one based on hell and darkness. However, he still shows compassion to Kageyama, allowing him to let him under his wing and putting him out of his misery after he became a Native Worm saying that they will always be partners.
Kamen Rider Kabuto : God Speed Love
In the movie adaptation Kamen Rider Kabuto God Speed Love set in an alternate timeline, however, he appeared as a high-ranking ZECT official in league with Kamen Rider Ketaros and is still the wielder of the TheBee Zecter. He commanded the counterattack against Neo-ZECT and was able to annihilate a majority of the Neotroopers with his ZECT Trooper team (Shadow did not appear for some unknown reasons), calling it a "perfect mission". Despite this, he was killed on combat with Kamen Rider Hercus. His last words lamented having received a "perfect death."
Kamen Rider Decade
Yaguruma later appears in Kamen Rider Decade episodes 2 and 3 with his partner PunchHopper appear in the World of Kuuga during a dimensional distortion caused by Narutaki to fight Decade. However, when they start focusing their rage on Kuuga, Narutaki causes another dimensional distortion that sends the two to another world where Kamen Riders Delta and Tiger appeared to be waiting
Kamen Rider Decade : All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Due to wanting to experience the hell that is Dai-Shocker, he sides with them. Diend summons PunchHopper, Gai, and Raia to fight him and Ouja. He fights PunchHopper and appears to have the upper hand. The results are not shown.
OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
Kamen Rider KickHopper was part of a group of reinforcement riders led by Akira Date/Kamen Rider Birth to aid the primary riders in defeating the Rock Great Leader. All the Kamen Riders got on their bikes and performed the All Rider Break attack which destroyed the Great Leader.
Video Game appearances
- Kamen Rider Kabuto video game
Form
Style
As TheBee he focused on boxing with both punching and kicking in terms of Kickboxing. But as KickHopper, he focuses mainly on his legs and kicks, in terms of Tae Kwon Do. In his first appearance, he assumed the form of Kamen Rider TheBee. Later on, he became Kamen Rider KickHopper.
TheBee Masked Form
- TheBee Masked Form
- Henshin! ― Transformation announcement
- Height: 192cm
- Weight: 127kg
- Punching Power: 8t
- Kicking Power: 9t
- Maximum Jump Height: 21m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100m/8.6s
- Masked Form is TheBee's strong, heavily armored, but less offensive form resembling a beehive.
- This is the default form until the rider rotates TheBee Zecter around the wrist to initiate the Cast Off command.
TheBee Rider Form
- TheBee Rider Form
- Cast Off : Change Wasp! ― Transformation announcement
- Rider Height : 192cm
- Rider Weight : 92kg
- Punching Power : 3t
- Kicking Power : 6t
- Maximum Jump Height : 39m
- Maximum Running Speed : 100m/5.6s
- Finisher Power : 17t
- Rider Form is TheBee's sleeker, faster, and more offensive form which merely resembles the wasp motif.
- In this form TheBee can initiate the Clock Up command to travel at near light speeds to match the speed of Worms.
- By pressing a button on TheBee Zecter, the Rider Sting tachyon-powered punch is activated, allowing the user to pierce through a Worm with the stinger on the TheBee Zecter.
KickHopper
- KickHopper
- Henshin: Change KickHopper! ― Transformation announcement
- Rider Height : 192cm
- Rider Weight : 93kg
- Punching Power : 3t
- Kicking Power : 6.5t
- Maximum Jump Height : 39m
- Maximum Running Speed : 100m/5.6s
- Finisher Power : 20t
- Unlike all of the other Riders in Kamen Rider Kabuto, the Kamen Rider Hopper Series Riders only have one form that they transform into.
- Kamen Rider KickHopper has a green Acrida cinerea motif and by raising the legs on the Hopper Zecter, KickHopper can jump high into the sky.
- By lowering the legs on the Hopper Zecter, the energy is concentrated into a tachyon-powered Rider Kick.
- The impact upon landing on the ground again powers up another kick.
Equipment
Devices
- TheBee:
- TheBee Rider Brace : TheBee's transformation brace
- TheBee TheBee Zecter : TheBee's transformation device
- TheBee Rider Belt : KickHopper's transformation belt
- KickHopper:
- KickHopper Rider Belt : KickHopper's transformation belt
- KickHopper Zecter : KickHopper's transformation device
- TheBee:
- Zecter Needle : TheBee's prick-stinger used to perform Rider Sting attack
- KickHopper:
- Anchor Jack : The gold-joints installed onto the left leg of KickHopper
- Machine Zectron : TheBee's Rider Machine, as KickHopper, he use this on Playstation 2 game
- KickHopper Ring : Which bears the likeness of Kamen Rider KickHopper is exclusive to Kamen Rider Wizard's Wizard Ring toyline.
- Sou Yaguruma is portrayed by Hidenori Tokuyama, he later portrayed Hiroto Sutou / Go-On Gold in Engine Sentai Go-Onger.
