Jun Shibaura

Jun Shibaura is Kamen Rider Gai, a fictional character in Kamen Rider Ryuki. He is one of the 13 Kamen Riders the story revolves around.

History

He is a 3rd year college student at Meirin University, extremely well-versed in computers and programming to be in the Matrix Netgame Club. Being the son of a company president, Jun is arrogant in personality, toying with other people's lives for nothing more than a good laugh. He joined the Rider War simply to be the winner, which to him was all a game. Jun even used his Matrix members' thrill-seeking urge against them to fight to the death in a game similar to the Rider War while he watched from the shadows. Investigating the matter, Shinji meets Jun when he reveals to the journalist as the mastermind behind the game of death. When the Mirror Monsters arrived, they transformed and fight one of the Mirror Monsters.

Publication Information

• Host : Jun Shibaura
• Japanese : 芝浦 淳
• Rider : Kamen Rider Gai
• Gender : Male
• Season : Kamen Rider Ryuki
• Motif : Rhinoceros, Maximilian Knight, Grappler
• Rider Type : Anti-Villain, Hero (Only : OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders)
• Homeworld : Earth
• First Appearance : Iron Mask Legend
• Last Appearance : OOO, Den-O, All Riders : Let's Go Kamen Riders
• Appearances : 5 (Ryuki), 1 (Ryuki Special), 1 (Movie)
• Portrayer : Satoshi Ichijo

After the defeating the monsters however, he later attacks Ryuki and steal his Dragreder card. He used both Shinji's card and the virus he uploaded to the ORE Journal mainframe to blackmail himself into their head of their company. Shimada eventually managed to wipe out his programming with her own virus, while Miyuki Tezuka stole back the Dragreder card. Soon after, Jun was picked up by the police for his ties to the Matrix member murders, getting his father to bail him out with Shuichi Kitaoka's aid.

Kamen Rider Ryuki : 13 Riders

In the 13 Riders TV Special (alternate retelling), Jun also spat in Shinji's ordeal to end the Rider War, which he and his college friends laughed. He was also one of the conspirators started by Kamen Rider Verde to trap Shinji in a "truce" between the fighters. Later he and the remaining fighters fought Ren and Shinji as Knight and Ryuki respectively to finish them off. Later after Ren dies with Shinji mourning by his side, Gai, while away from the big fight with mirror monsters, went to finish Shinji after his Ryuki deck was destroyed by Kamen Rider Odin, but was consumed by the mirror monster DiSpider.

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

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

Fighting Style

Gai is a close range specialist. He uses brute force over his opponents, as well as his intellect. His strategies often involve overpowering his opponent with a combination of his powerful Strike Vent and his Contract Monster Metalgelas, as well as negating his opponent's Advent Cards through his strategically important Confine Vent. However, Gai lacks a defensive weapon, and he's one of the least agile of the Ryuki Riders.

Form

Kamen Rider Gai

• Kamen Rider Gai
  
  
  • Height : 195cm
  • Weight : 100kg
  • Sight : 8km
  • Hearing : 10km
  • Maximum Running Speed : 100m/5s
  • Maximum Jump Height : 20m
  • Punching & Kicking Power : 15t (300AP)
  • Similar to Kamen Rider Scissors and Kamen Rider Tiger. Gai is a melee fighter who relies on brute strength and his intellect more often than anything else, Gai's attack methods usually involve his Confine Vent card to cancel any weapons from the other Riders while using the Metal Visor on his left-shoulder to conjure his Metal Horn gauntlet as well as summoning his contract monster Metalgelas to fight alongside him and execute his Heavy Pressure Final Vent, carried by his Contact Monster as a lance, with the Metal Horn extended in front of him to pierce through the opponent.

Contract Monster

Metalgelas

• Main List : Metalgelas

Metalgelas is a Mirror Monster that was originally contracted to Kamen Rider Gai but was later contracted to Kamen Rider Ouja. This makes him one of 5 Mirror Monsters that had more than 1 contractor. Together with Venosnaker and Evildiver, it became one of the building blocks of the composite Monster Genocider.

Advent Deck

• Advent (AP : 4000) : Summons Metalgelas.
• Strike Vent (AP : 2000) : Conjures Metal Horn.
• Confine Vent : Nullifies the effect of the Advent Card of the target Rider for one round. (He has 2 copies of this card).
• Final Vent (AP : 5000) : Executes Heavy Pressure. Kamen Rider Gai rides on Metalgelas with the Metal Horn extended in front of him to pierce through the opponent.

Rider Cards

• Kamen Ride: Gai: A Rider Card containing the power of Kamen Rider Gai. Used by Diend to summon Kamen Rider Gai armed with Strike Vent. First used in the World of Decade to fight Ouja and KickHopper. Also avaliable to be summoned by Diend in Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes OOO.

Info:

• Jun Shibaura is portrayed by Satoshi Ichijo. As Kamen Rider Gai, his suit actor was Takeshi Mizutani.
  
  
  • His Rider name, Gai, is a kun'yomi reading for the kanji "Yoroi" ("armor"), as his Rider form appeared as he is heavily armored along with his Mirror Monster, Metalgelas.
  • Like other Riders, Jun died an ironic death: He loved to manipulate other people, but was killed by a person he thought he could manipulate, technically having himself manipulated in the end.

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Source : Wikipedia / kamenrider.wikia