Character's,ORE Journal Stuff,Other's

Characters

• Shinji Kido/Kamen Rider Ryuki (城戸 真司／仮面ライダー龍騎 Kido Shinji/Kamen Raidā Ryūki^?): The main protagonist. He is a good-hearted, friendly, naive idealist who works at the ORE Journal as a journalist trainee, but ends up being dragged to the Mirror World. Eventually, he contracts Dragredder and becomes Kamen Rider Ryuki to protect people's lives and stop the Rider War.
• Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight (秋山 蓮／仮面ライダーナイト Akiyama Ren/Kamen Raidā Naito^?): A cold loner who fights constantly and is frequently unemployed. He received his Advent Deck before the start of the series. He accepted Kanzaki's offer to join the Rider war to give his fiancé, Eri Ogawa, a full recovery as she was in a mysterious coma ever since an encounter with Darkwing. Ren later contracted with Darkwing and became Kamen Rider Knight.
• Yui Kanzaki (神崎 優衣 Kanzaki Yui^?): A 19 year old woman who had been aiding Ren prior to the series. Yui's purpose for joining Ren is to find clues about her long lost brother Shiro. But unbeknownst to her, she has a mysterious connection with Mirror World and its monsters.
• Sanako Kanzaki (神崎 沙奈子 Kanzaki Sanako^?): Shiro's and Yui's grandmother. She took an immediate dislike for the hard as nails Ren, but welcomed the clumsy Shinji with open arms. Sanako considers herself to be a wise woman and says that her intuition is never wrong.
• Shūichi Kitaoka/Kamen Rider Zolda (北岡 秀一／仮面ライダーゾルダ Kitaoka Shūichi/Kamen Raidā Zoruda^?): A self-proclaimed "super-lawyer" who tends to only help someone if he has something to gain. Because he has a terminal case of cancer and was been given only a few months to live, he accepted Kanzaki's offer to join the Rider war. His prize is to be immortal so that he could continue his extravagant lifestyle. Because of his illness, he suffers from frequent dizzy spells and fainting.
• Gorō Yura (由良 吾郎 Yura Gorō^?): Shuichi's loyal servant who is highly skilled with household work and hand-to-hand combat. He is also aware of Kitaoka's activities as a Rider and helps as much as he can. Goro was once Kitaoka's client. Because of that, Kitaoka's condition was not diagnosed in time. Feeling in debt, Goro decided to be his loyal servant and bodyguard forever. He would later serve as the second Zolda.
• Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ohja (浅倉 威／仮面ライダー王蛇 Asakura Takeshi/Kamen Raidā Ōja^?): A sadistic criminal man who has contract with Venosnaker.
• Shirō Kanzaki (神崎 士郎 Kanzaki Shirō^?): The mysterious man and scientific genius who created the Kamen Riders for the purpose of creating a Rider War. He is Yui's beloved older brother, whom was taken to live with his relative in America thirteen years prior. Kanzaki researched the Mirror World, which eventually killed him. But in reality, Kanzaki entered the Mirror World as an entity, reappearing at Seimeiin University until a mysterious experiment relating to his research. Though thought to be cruel, Kanzaki's intent for the Rider war is for his sister's life. In the end of the series, Shiro finally honors his sister's wishes decides to alter time so that Yui remained dead, thus negating Mirror World itself and all deaths that occurred because of its creatures and the Rider War.
• Kamen Rider Odin (仮面ライダーオーディン Kamen Raidā Ōdin^?): Kanzaki's righthand man.

[edit]ORE Journal Staff

• Daisuke Ōkubo (大久保 大介 Ōkubo Daisuke^?): Chief Editor and Shinji's senior. He can a bit silly at times.
• Reiko Momoi (桃井 令子 Momoi Reiko^?): A no-nonsense reporter whose goal is to cover the truth behind the disappearances.
• Nanako Shimada (島田 奈々子 Shimada Nanako^?): A programmer.
• Megumi Asano (浅野 めぐみ Asano Megumi^?) (30-50): Formerly Kitaoka's ex-secretary, she returned into his life claiming that the two of them were to be married. Megumi is a strong individual and quite capable in a fight, however she is quite ditzy, which was why Kitaoka had fired her. She would later be hired by Daisuke as a journalist for ORE.

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• Masashi Sudō/Kamen Rider Scissors (須藤 雅史／仮面ライダーシザース Sudō Masashi/Kamen Raidā Shizāzu^?) (5-6): A detective using his job to effectly cover up his illegal activities disposing of any witnesses to his acts. He had a partner, the older Tomoyuki Kaga who owned the Antique and Collection shop, until the older man's demand for a bigger cut in the profit made Masashi kill him, plastering him into the wall of his own shop seconds before Shiro Kanzaki appeared and offered him a Card Deck explaining the terms of accepting it. Masashi took it gladly and made his Contract with the Mirror Monster Volcancer, becoming Kamen Rider Scissors and playing a part in the disappearances as he feeds his victims to Volcancer. He and Kamen Rider Knight confronted each other once prior to the series, neither aware of each others' identity.
• Miyuki Tezuka/Kamen Rider Raia (手塚 海之／仮面ライダーライア Tezuka Miyuki/Kamen Raidā Raia^?) (13-23): A mysterious and enigmatic fortune-teller. His good friend Yuuichi was the one approached by Kanzaki Shiro to join the Rider war, but after he refused, the monster that targeted him finally took his life. Tezuka takes the Card Deck on his behalf and becomes Kamen Rider Raia. Kanzaki would later attempt to escalate the battle by giving Tezuka one of two Survive cards, but he passes it to Ren instead. Tezuka would later avenge Yuuichi by destroying the monster that ate him only to be killed by Ohja later on after taking a fatal hit meant for Ryuki.
• Ejima (江島 Ejima^?) (11-12): A former professor at Seimeiin University, he was the one who help Kanzaki perform the experiment that resulted with Eri's coma. Since then, Ejima left the university and wandered the city with a Seal card in hand to protect himself from the Mirror Monsters. But once he loses the card, Ejima ran back to his lab to plea Kanzaki to help him as he's attacked by a Terabiter. Though saved from the monster, Ejima dies of a heart attack as he sees Yui and laments that she should have never been born.

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