Kamen Rider Raia

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Actor: Hassei Takano

Specifications

Hassei Takano as Miyuki Tezuka

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• Sight: ~10km
• Hearing: ~10km radius
• Speed: 72km/h
• High jump: 40m
• Punch: 200 Attack Points
• Kick: 300 Attack Points

Contract Monster

Evildiver

• Length: 2.00m
• Weight: 30kg

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Advent Cards

Evil Visor

• The card reader resembled Evildiver and was mounted on the left forearm of the Rider as a small shield.

Evildiver (4,000 Attack Points)
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• Summoned Evildiver.

Swing Vent (2,000 Attack Points)
Evil Whip

• A whip that resembled the tail of Evildiver.

Final Vent (5,000 Attack Points)

Haido Beson (Hydro Basin)

• Raia stood on top of Evildiver as if it were a surfboard, and rammed into his opponent.

Copy Vent
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• A generic card that could be used by any of the 13 Riders. Allowed Raia to replicate one of the weapons of his target Rider. Compare with Kamen Rider Verde's Copy Vent card.

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• Upgraded Raia to his Survive form, supposedly. He never used the card himself but gave it to Kamen Rider Knight instead.

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Trivia

• "Raia" derives from the scientific terms, Rajiformes & Raja, the genuses that relates to Rays and Skates

• Kamen Rider Raia is a variable, but mainly melee-based fighter. He has very few weapons to call his own aside from a thorned-whip. However, his Copy Vent card allows him to copy the weapons of his opponent or his ally, such as Kamen Rider Ryuki's Strike advent. His Final Vent "Hide Venom" involves riding Evildiver like a surfboard and ramming into an opponent. Raia was given a Survive Advent card, but choose to give it to Kamen Rider Knight before he had a chance to ever transform into a Survival form.

• Tezuka was not the original deck holder that was chosen to become a Rider. The real chosen one was Yuichi Saito, an excellent pianist and dear friend to Tezuka, who had lost his ability to play when a mugger (later revealed to be Takeshi Asakura) broke his hands and ruined his ability to play. Had Yuichi chosen to fight and win, Kanzaki would restore his hands. Saito refused, and as such was eaten by the monster Guldthunder. Tezuka later contracted Evildiver and became a Rider to avenge him. In a concept drawing, they depicted Yuichi Saito as Kamen Rider Blue if he had contracted Guldthunder, instead of being eaten by him. Conincidentally, this same monster is modelled after a phoenix. When the main writers heard about the initial ideas, they scrapped the idea to bring that Rider into the series, since another Rider, Kamen Rider Odin, would inevitably have contract with a different phoenix-type monster, GoldPhoenix.

• He is a very accurate fortune-teller that believes in predestination.

• His prize is to stop the Rider war and change their fates, similar to Shinji, Kamen Rider Ryuki.

• Raia died in a fight against Ouja. When Ouja performed his Final Advent against Ryuki, Raia pushed him out of the way and took the attack instead. He died shortly afterwards due to his wounds. In the 13 Riders, Raia was killed by Verde's Final Vent.

• In an interesting note, in the 13 Riders, Kamen Rider Knight pushed Ryuki out of the way to take Verde's Final Vent. Coincidentally, Verde was the one who killed Kamen Rider Raia in the 13 Riders.

• Had Raia kept or at least used the Survive card once, according to concept art, his contract monster Evildiver would have became Exodiver.

• Raia is among the few honorable and noble Riders in the series. He gave his Survive card to Knight, even though that could have made him stronger. He also sacrificed himself and took Ohja's Final Vent, contrary to what Ohja did to Gai by using him as a shield. Being a very accurate fortune teller, he probably knew that Ryuki is better off being the one to stop the Rider war while Knight was better off with the Survive card.

• In the 13 Riders TV Special, Tezuka was friends with Ren and had once loved Eri Aikawa, Ren's girlfriend. Though he became a Rider to help Aikawa, he still felt that the war between the Riders should be stopped.

• Hassei Takano, the actor who played Tezuka/Raia was later selected to play the role of Ichimonji Hayato/Kamen Rider 2 in the movie Kamen Rider the First, a movie remake of the original Kamen Rider series. Many argue however that Takano would have been better suited as the role of Hongo Takeshi/Kamen Rider 1. This also makes him one of the few actors to play two different Riders in two different series/movies.

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References

• Kamen Rider Ryuki (DVD)
• Kamen Rider Ryuki @ TV Asahi
• Kamen Rider Ryuuki Spoiler Page