Sougo Tokiwa

Sougo Tokiwa (常磐ソウゴ) is the titular Kamen Rider Zi-O (仮面ライダージオウ) and protagonist of the upcoming season Kamen Rider Zi-O.

Encounter with Sento and Ryuga
to be added

Personality
Sougo is described as an ambitious young man who desires to be a king. However, upon learning of his future self being a tyrant, he decides to change his fate.

Forms
Kamen Rider Zi-O transforms by inserting the Zi-O Ridewatch into the right-hand side of the Ziku-Driver and rotating the Driver 360 degrees. He accesses Armor (アーマー) forms based on previous Heisei Kamen Riders by inserting Ridewatches into the left-hand side of the Ziku-Driver. Though, an apparent side effect is gaining some of the respective Legend Rider's personality and habits.

Devices

 * Ziku-Driver - Transformation device
 * Ridewatches - Transformation trinkets

Weapons
Handheld weapons:
 * Zikan GiLade - Zi-O's personal weapon
 * Ride HeiSaber - Zi-O's personal weapon while using Decade Armor

Suit-equipped weapons:
 * to be announced

Vehicles

 * Ride Striker
 * Time Majin

Portrayal
Sougo Tokiwa is portrayed by So Okuno (奥野 壮). As Kamen Rider Zi-O, his suit actor is Seiji Takaiwa (高岩 成二).

Rider No.
As the leading rider protagonist of Kamen Rider Zi-O, Zi-O is labelled Kamen Rider #35 (仮面ライダー35号) and Heisei Rider #20 (平成ライダー20号).

Etymology
Sougo Tokiwa's name is play on, the place where Shotaro Ishinomori lived and started his manga career during 1956 to 1961. "Tokiwa" also carries the word Toki (とき), which can be translated into time when it is written in kanji "時".

"Zi" in Zi-O's name could mean either time (時) or character (字), representing his "watch" and "Katakana" motifs while the "O" means king (王).

Appearances

 * Icon-build.png Kamen Rider Build
 * Kamen Rider Build: Be The One
 * Zi-O_logo.png Kamen Rider Zi-O
 * Episode 1: Kingd 2068om
 * Icon-build.png Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER