He takes up the job as Birth so to earn one hundred million Yen for the surgery to remove the said bullet. The bullet causes him greater pain over time and starts to affect his performance in battle. After taking up Dr. Maki's offer to work for the Greeed with a bribe, he reveals that he was doing so at Kougami's behest, which would earn him the amount of money enough to afford his surgery. He was later wounded on the job to the point where he can no longer fight effectively and resigned his position from the Kougami Foundation, obtaining his money and leaves the country to get his surgery done with Shintaro succeeding him. Later, he returns after recuperating from his surgery and becomes the user of Birth Prototype Version to fight against the Greeed.
Publication Information
- Protagonist : Akira Date
- Japanese : 伊達 明
- Rider Users : Kamen Rider Birth, Kamen Rider Birth Proto Type
- Gender : Male
- Season : Kamen Rider OOO
- Homeworld : Earth (Main Timeline Continuity)
- First Appearance : Kamen Rider OOO Episod 16 : An End, the Greeed, and a New Rider
- Last Appearance : Kamen Rider × Super Sentai : Super Hero Taisen
- Number of Appearances : 26 (OOO), 4 (Movies)
- Potrayer : Hiroaki Iwanaga
- Main View : Full Episode & Download (Torrent)
Date first appeared as Birth while using the Breast Cannon on Mezool as the Mega Greeed Out of Control to damage her and release two of Uva 's Core Medals. For the rest of his time as Birth he would fight the Yummy to collect their Cell Medals while also helping some of their hosts and assisting OOO when needed. He also trains Goto to take his position after finishing his task as Birth.
Personality
Date is a happy-go-lucky man who hates reading manuals and has a tendency in mixing up names (he often calls Ankh as "Anko"). Despite this, he enjoys getting his job done perfectly and believes risking big in order to win big, thus proclaiming that he'll be taking all the cell medals from here on out. Date is a people person, admitting his own desire, yet he makes it a personal rule of his to not use others to reach his goal, as well as not doing anything that will make him cry.
He is also somewhat reckless, getting Ankh in a line of fire while fighting the Kabuto and Kuwagata Yummy. Date is also known to love eating oden, even making oden in Kiyoto Maki's research lab, while at the same time taking up residence and making a big mess out of it, much to Maki's ire. He has taken a liking to Shintaro Goto, training him in order to take up the mantle of Birth once his job is over. He has a big brother-little brother/father-son dynamic with Shintaro and he is always happy to see the latter grow.
When he comes back to Japan after his surgery and sees how his "son" has now becomes his own man and doing better than he was before, he exclaimed that "father is happy". Before battle, Date tends to say "Now, let's start earning". In the battle with the Unicorn yummy he shown difficulty in battle that may be involved with a bullet that is lodged in his brain.
His fighting style as Birth is a combination of mixed martial arts and pro wrestling techniques, as shown in particular against the Omu and Unicorn Yummy. Due to his dislike for reading manuals, his use of the Birth system tends towards the "learn as you go" approach and as such, he is not as effective as Shintaro when it comes to using the exosuit and its armaments.
OOO, Den-O, All Riders : Let's Go Kamen Riders
As all of the primary Kamen Riders face the Great Leader of Shocker, Date led all of the secondary riders (including the dark riders) to support the primary riders.
W, OOO, Fourze : Movie War Mega Max
Akira returns to Japan for aiding Satonaka after receiving a call about the berserk Kamen Rider Poseidon. He fights it by transform into Birth Prototype but lost easily and even the aid from Goto won't help. As the result, the Proto-Birth Driver was damaged and Akira was later hospitalized alongside Goto. At the next day, he returns alongside with Goto to help Eiji for some minutes without transforming. Of course he is defeated as a result. In the end, he helps Chiyoko clean up Cruise Crousier after the battle is finished.
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai : Super Hero Taisen
Date and Goto arrive to assist Eiji in fighting Bujira and his offshoots. Once Gokai Red and Kamen Rider Diend finish their battle, Gokai Red wipes Birth and Proto-Birth out. When Gokai Red and Kamen Rider Decade were revealed to acted like a villain, Birth and Proto-Birth, along with any Riders and Sentai warriors are actually in another strange dimensions where they are held, as both Decade and Gokai Red set them free and the time for counterattack against Dai-Shocker and Dai-Zagyack.
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard : The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle
- Main article : Nobunaga (Sengoku Movie Battle)
Video Game appearances
- All Kamen Rider : Rider Generation
Abilities
Medicine
Date is a skilled combat medic with years of experience under his belt. He is able to treat people's wounds with whatever he has on him and figure out the best way possible to treat them.
Forms
Birth
- Kamen Rider Birth
- Height : 199 cm
- Weight : 92 kg
- Punch power : 3.5 t
- Kick power : 8 t
- Jump power : 45 m
- Speed : 100m/5s
- Like Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider Birth's powers stem from the Cell Medals that power the Greeed and their Yummy creations. However, Kamen Rider Birth's powers originate solely from the Kougami Foundation's technology developed by Kiyoto Maki to utilize the power of the Cell Medals. On Birth's armor there are capsules called Receptacle Orbs, in which the Birth CLAWs system is stored until a Cell Medal is used to summon the weapons. It was first thought that, due to using Cell Medals as opposed to Core Medals, Birth was, at first, at a disadvantage against the Greeed.
However, as Kamen Rider Birth, Shintaro shows an extreme proficiency in utilizing the system, single-handedly combating three Greeeds on even grounds by strategically using the Cutter Wings, Caterpillar Legs, and Shovel Arms until he uses all CLAWs weapons in Birth Day Mode to defeat them, surpassing his predecessor, Akira Date, who wasn't capable fighting against an single Greeed. Kamen Rider Birth's exosuit originally had a self-destruct function built into it. However, the self-destruct function was disabled by Shintaro Goto when Kiyoto Maki defected to the Greeed side.
Birth Prototype
- Kamen Rider Birth Prototype
- Height : 199 cm
- Weight : 92 kg
- Punch power : 3.5 t
- Kick power : 8 t
- Jump power : 45 m
- Speed : 100m/5s
- Kamen Rider Birth Prototype is the first design of the Kamen Rider Birth System using an early version of the Birth Driver. Its full combat capabilities are not known because it was designed to only operate at 70% power for testing and nearly all of its features are still set up for data collection. The Birth Prototype's design differs from the standard Kamen Rider Birth armor by having a series of markings known as Optical Markers, which include various sensors used in the early test stages, and are a bright red to show up more easily on camera. It cannot access all of the Birth CLAWs units, and is only compatible with the Crane Arm and Breast Cannon.
Shintaro Goto first uses the Prototype system after the production version is heavily damaged in the final fight with Kazari. Later, Akira Date returned to Japan and became the user of the Prototype Version to end the Greeed conflict. The Birth Prototype Driver is later damaged by Poseidon during the events of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax. It was later fixed after the event, as Akira was once more became Birth Prototype in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen against Gokai Red and Bio Hunter Silva, and later against Dai-Shocker and Dai-Zangyack.
Birth Crane Arm
- Crane Arm! ― Activation announcement
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- The green Crane Arm unit, referred to as the "Springer Haken" ("Jumper Hook" in German), is a powerful winch attachment that is contained in the Receptacle Orb on Kamen Rider Birth's right shoulder. The winch allows him to scale buildings as well as collecting any leftover Cell Medals with one sweep. As a weapon, it can be used as a whip to damage opponents from far. This unit is first used by Nobunaga to fight the Pteranodon Yummy in Movie War Core. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Crane Arm forms the tail.
- Breast Cannon! ― Activation announcement
- The red Breast Cannon unit, referred to as the "Salamander Launcher", is a powerful energy cannon that is held in the Receptacle Orb on Kamen Rider Birth's chest. Due to its size, using it hinders Kamen Rider Birth's mobility. The cannon can be charged up to multiple levels of power by using additional Cell Medals. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Breast Cannon forms the head.
Birth Drill Arm
- Drill Arm! ― Activation announcement
- The blue Drill Arm, referred to as the "Brighton Bit", is held in the Receptacle Orb on Kamen Rider Birth's right forearm. Its powerful drill bit can extract Cell Medals from the bodies of Greeed and Yummy. It was eventually upgraded by Doctor Maki to increase its power after it got broken, allowing it to tear enough Cell Medals out of Kazari's hybrid Yummy to reduce them to a normal one. The Drill Arm can also be combined with the Crane Arm by activating both simultaneously, allowing Birth to use it as a powerful ranged attack. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Drill Arm forms the stinger.
- Catepillar Leg! ― Activation announcement
- The purple Catepillar Leg, referred to as the "Haze Crawlers", are held in Receptacle Orbs on Kamen Rider Birth's legs, and allow him to move easily over tough terrain and execute heavy kicks and grind on opponents using its tracks. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Caterpillar Legs form the lower body.
Birth Shovel Arm
- Shovel Arm! ― Activation announcement
- The orange Shovel Arm, referred to as the "Vermillion Bucket", is held in the Receptacle Orb on Kamen Rider Birth's left forearm, increasing his power to where he can lift Yummy off of the ground with it. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Shovel Arm forms the right claw.
- Cutter Wing! ― Activation announcement
- The yellow Cutter Wing, referred to as the "Solent Edges", is held in the Receptacle Orb on Kamen Rider Birth's back, allowing him to fly. The unit can also magnetically collect Cell Medals by flying over them. It can also be used as an oversized boomerang. When CLAWs Sasori is activated, the Cutter Wing forms the left claw
Birth Day
- Birth Day
- Birth Day is the name for when all six Birth CLAWs units are summoned and attached to Kamen Rider Birth. Costing six Cell Medals, it is extremely risky when Kamen Rider Birth activates this combination on his own, and requires Kamen Rider OOO to back him up. This form can also perform a powerful attack called Cell Bash, where the Breast Cannon fires a powerful energy blast without the expenditure of any Cell Medals.
- Birth Rebirth
- Height : 201 cm
- Weight : 98 kg
- In Kamen Rider Wizard's S.I.C. Hero Saga, Akira Date transforms into a new form of Birth known as Kamen Rider Rebirth.
Devices Weapons Vehicles Wizard Ring
- Main Article : Birth Ring
Related Post : Source : Wikipedia / kamenrider.wikia
