Kaito is the son of a construction worker. When businessmen from Yggdrasill Corporation shut down his father's company; Kaito and his family became poor, which causes his father to become drunk and abusive towards his family and in the end, they committed suicide. After that, he was placed in an orphanage which was located near the Takatsukasa Shrine and thus he had a vendetta against Yggdrasill and sought the power to destroy the company. As a child, he often watched Mai dance, but always declined playing with her as he was shy. Her dancing was the reason why he was able to find the strength to continue on in life.
Publication Information
- Gaim : Kaito Kumon
- Japanese : 駆紋 戒斗
- Version : Kamen Rider Gaim
- Alter Ego : Kamen Rider Baron
- Known as :
- Monsieur Banane
- Lord Baron
- Type :
- Armored Riders
- Leaders Of Team Baron
- Affiliation : Team Baron
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Season : Kamen Rider Gaim
- First Appearance : Transform! The Orange from the Sky!?
- Last Appearance : Kamen Rider Build : Be the One
- Number of Episode Appearances :
- 45 : Gaim
- 8 : Movies
- 1 : TV special
- Portrayer :
- Main View : Full Episod
In high school, Kaito briefly bumped into Kouta Kazuraba and found him weak for apologizing instead of fighting him. In 2011, when he was 16, Kaito left the orphanage. He later joins Azami's dance team, which included Zack and Peko, taking leadership of the team and naming it Team Baron.
Beat Riders Saga
As Team Gaim started to get popular with Kouta Kazuraba's possession of the Sengoku Driver, he finds himself with Sid, obtaining his own Sengoku Driver along with the Banana Lockseed. By accepting this new profound power, he also obtains the Lock Vehicle: Rose Attacker. Once realizing that plucking the fruits from the forest grants him a Lockseed, he creates his own alliance with Hideyasu Jonouchi and Ryoji Hase, providing them with Lockseeds of his own. However, the alliance is short-lived and he is almost defeated by Gaim and Ryugen. Then the new Armored Riders: Gridon and Kurokage transform in front of him, but soon betray and gang up on him. Thankfully, Gaim and Ryugen intervene, defeating the two Armored Riders.
The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle
The event takes place before a Lockseed hunt Inves Game event. He, along with the other Beat Riders' Armored Riders are competing for special Rider Battle event, until the event were interrupted by a sudden appearance of Nepenthes Monster, who is ordered by Kamen Rider Bujin Gaim to kidnap Mai as he mistakes her for The Priestess of Fate. This is also led him, Gaim and Ryugen to follow Bujin Gaim's right hand monster in a suddenly raining Helheim, but also resulting them brought by Bujin Gaim into his world of alternate Sengoku period where the previous Heisei Kamen Riders are called "Bujin".
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai : Super Hero Taisen
The event begins in the prequel of the movie and takes place after his first initial encounter with Over Lord Demushu. He appears, assisting Gaim and Ryugen against an infamous evil organization, named Badan Underground Empire. Though he refuses to join Gaim, Ryugen and the ToQgers against Badan at first, he changes his mind instead because he has nothing else to do. Baron and Ryugen plan to lure Moguraroid out of the building by pretending to battle each other, so that Kouta and Right can get Mai out of the Badan's turf. With the revelation that there are two Moguraroid brothers, the three Riders and ToQ 1gou are joined by the other four main ToQgers for a final battle. With Gaim and the ToQgers taking care of the Moguraroid twins separately, Baron and Ryugen finish off Badan's remnants. As the ToQgers leave, Kaito sees the Rainbow Line leaving, due to having a bit of imagination left in him.
Kamen Rider gaim : Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup!
After Mitsuzane from the original world finally reveals his true face to the Beat Rider resistance, Kaito is approached by DJ Sagara to challenge Gaim from another world, until he is brought by Lapis into that particular world, where the Beat Rider teams compete in soccer matches. He finds out that Zack is the only Rider in Team Baron, while Bravo, Jonouchi and a still alive Hase are a team in Team Charmant. Being new to that world, his arm that was infected by Redyue's attack is suddenly cured, due to the alternate world's Helheim not invading Earth. He also receives soccer training from famous J-League player Kengo Nakamura and finally becomes captain of this alternate world's Team Baron. He meets Lapis, the one who brought him to this world, for the first time when suddenly, an unknown grasshopper kaijin called Inago comes out from Lapis.
Kamen Rider Gaim & Drive : Movie War Full Throttle
When Drive and Gaim join forces, a replica of Kaito as a servant is created by ZZZ Megahex using data of the real Kaito Kumon collected from Kouta Kazuraba's memories. But the replica proved too much like the original as he quickly turns on Megahex on the grounds that everything the being stands for is a flawed, helping the Kamen Riders battle Megahex's replica army and then holding the army of ZZZ Megahex drones so Gaim and Drive cam reach Planet Megahex and destroy the being for good. Once Megahex is destroyed, the Kaito replica shuts down like all the other replicas that Megahex created.
Kamen Rider Gaim Gaiden : Kamen Rider Baron
Taking place after he made an alliance with Ryoma and before he met Demushu. Kaito met a twin of himself named Shapool. He was sedated by Shapool and soon taken by his butler, Alfred and his comrades due to being mistaken as Shapool to his mansion. Kaito soon escaped after learning that he was about to be killed by Alfred as Shapool's father ordered. He managed to find Shapool and was encountered by Alfred. He faced Alfred when he transformed into Kamen Rider Tyrant.
D-Video Special : Kamen Rider 4
Due to the re-alterations of time made by Shocker, Baron later appeared, along with Kamen Riders 4, Dark Kiva, Sasword, and Ouja to fight against the Kamen Riders as they catch onto Shocker's latest schemes. During the final loop, Baron is destroyed alongside Sasword by Zeronos Zero Form's Buster Nova Full Charge.
Gaim Gaiden : Kamen Rider Knuckle
Although he doesn't appear in the present day scenes, he does appear in flashbacks, having exiled Shura from Team Baron. Kaito would appear as a spirit to Zack after the latter fought Shura.
Kamen Rider Ghost : Legendary! Riders' Souls!
Kaito is resurrected as Lord Baron and summoned by Frey alongside Sagittarius Nova, immediately making clear that he doesn't take orders and is fighting for himself. He confronts Takeru Tenkuji who is looking for signs of Frey with Akari. He scoffs at Takeru's question of being Frey's servant, saying that he came to test his strength. Engaging Takeru in a brief skirmish when he transforms into Kamen Rider Ghost, Kaito is unimpressed and insists that Takeru tells him why he fights, with Takeru replying that he fights to protects his friends.
Kamen Sentai Gorider
Along with Yoko Minato, Kaito found himself in a chapel inside a pocket dimension in the shape of an amusement park. Confronting Emu Hojo, Kaito and Yoko were met by another deceased Kamen Rider, Kaoru Kino as well as the undead Kazuma Kenzaki. Content with his death and not interested in learning why he and the other Riders were gathered, Kaito walked out of the chapel with Yoko following him. Soon realizing that some force was preventing them from leaving the space, leading them back to the chapel, Kaito and Yoko transformed again as the Riders were confronted by the forces of Shocker, with Baron destroying Space Ikadevil.
Kamen Rider Build : Be the One
Lord Baron appears alongside powerful monsters fighting against Heisei Kamen Riders, until Zi-O intervenes to finish them off.
Video Game Appearances Baron is among the vast majority of Kamen Riders that are avaliable in this arcade game. Notably, he is shown to use additional Legend Rider Lockseeds to assume Den-O Arms and Wizard Arms. Baron, alongside Gaim and Ryugen were dragged for creating movies for Cinema in Battride War second sequel. Baron used Mango Arms as his Final Form. Baron returns in the third sequel of Battride War with Lemon Energy Arms as his Final Form and Lord Baron as his Ultimate Form.
Powers and Abilities
- Imagination
- Being one of the few adults possessing imagination, he can see the Ressha of the ToQgers.
- Indomitable Will
- Being a born fighter with a code of honor due to his experience to survive his own in cleaner way after Yggdrasill took away everything he had from Zawame in a dirty way, Kaito refuse to have his mind corrupted, to be either manipulated by Kougane in Soccer World, or consumed by Helheim's Fruits or brainwashed by Megahex. The only one who successfully did this to him, is Shocker, but it is unknown how they did this.
- Over Lord Powers
- When he ate the Fruit of Helheim, Kaito gains some of the Over Lords' abilities:
- Helheim Plant Control : He can freely control Helheim flora.
- Healing Factor : He has increased health regeneration, allowing him to take lethal damage and still able to recover shortly afterwards. Although he has a limit that is lower than Kouta.
- Crack Creating : He can open countless cracks to summon Inves from the Helheim Forest. Kaito gains this ability after becoming an Over Lord when he eats the Fruit of Helheim.
- When he ate the Fruit of Helheim, Kaito gains some of the Over Lords' abilities:
Kamen Rider Baron
- Main Article : Kamen Rider Baron Characters
- Origin : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- Version : Kamen Rider Gaim
- Type : Armored Riders
- Arms : Baron
- Alter Ego : Kaito Kumon
- Announcement : Come On! Banana Arms: Knight of Spe~ar!
- Height : 208 cm.
- Weight : 114 kg.
- Punching power : 8.8 t.
- Kicking power : 12.4 t.
- Maximum jump height : 24 m.
- Maximum running speed : 100 m. per 6.1 sec.
- Appearances :
- Banana Arms is Baron's default banana-based armored European Knight form. Accessed through the Banana Lockseed, this form bears the Burn Casque, a pun on Banana helmet with the Burn Sight visor.
- Main Article : Kamen Rider Baron Characters
