Go Shijima

"Let's... Transform!"

- Go's previous transformation call as Mach

"Tracking... terminating... both done at mach speed! Kamen Rider... Mach!"

- Mach's roll call

Go Shijima (詩島 剛) is Kiriko Shijima's younger brother, the son of the Roidmudes creator, Professor Banno and freelance photographer who utilizes Signal Bikes to transform into Kamen Rider Mach (仮面ライダーマッハ), as well as Kamen Rider Drive's Shift Cars for additional power. He had been stationed in America, but returned to Japan to aid with the emerging Roidmude crisis. Go is prejudiced towards the Roidmudes and goes to great lengths to destroy all Roidmudes, even the ones that protect humanity and the ones that desire to live in peace.

Past
Sometime ago, Go and Kiriko lost their parents, with what's left of their father's memorial under a tree. Since Kiriko is the only family member left for him, Go deeply cares for her as much as Kiriko does for him.

He left Japan and resided in America, where Harley Hendrickson, Krim Steinbelt's mentor recruited him to test the Mach System he made. During his days in America, he met one of Krim's Shift Cars, Amazing Circus, and even encountered two Roidmude siblings, Gunman and 018, as he tried to take them down along with their Slowdown syndicate. He chased them to Japan, while at the same time abandoning his training.

Some time in the past, he discovered about his father's fate of being killed by his own creations, the Roidmudes. Now most of the Roidmudes are currently targeting him for being a son to the Roidmude creator, he also now sees them as "evil" for what they did to his father, planning to avenge his father's death and destroy what his late-father left behind. However, knowing the Roidmudes are after those who are related to his father, he has to avoid his sister from becoming their target without her knowing their ties with their father.

Return to Japan
Mach is first seen visiting the Drive Pit on his own, speaking to Mr Belt. Later, when his older sister gets attacked by an evolved Volt Roidmude, he counter attacks him, leaving shortly after Shinnosuke comes to help her.

Go made his first introduction in his civilian form in front of Shinnosuke, who was investigating a Heavy Acceleration in a landshark's house. He challenged the latter in a competition to find the culprit first before disappearing. Despite Shinnosuke and Genpachiro found the culprit, Naoki but Go Shijima appeared and reveal the truth: Naoki is the culprit but the Roidmude they face earlier was a different person. He called Kiriko as she and Drive watched him defeated Gunman easily. Once the battle was over, Kiriko and Mr. Belt introduced Shinnosuke to Go, learning that he is Kiriko's younger brother, much to Shinnosuke's shock.

When three robbers called the Slowdown Gang announce their robbery on the internet with their Slowdown Wristbands from Gunman and 018, Genpachiro assembled a team of SWAT and the Special Investigation Unit members went into action. However, while the robbers were on their way, Go as Mach created his own Heavy Acceleration and interrogated the robbers before destroying their wristbands. Using that information, he infiltrated the Roidmude siblings but got himself caught along with Mashin Chaser until Shinnosuke, Kiriko and his Signal Bikes came to rescue. He transformed into Mach and destroyed the Roidmude siblings with their Cores. Shinnosuke finally understood Go's personality and accepted the term "big brother" given to him by Go.

The Ride Crosser & revelation of Protodrive's Fate
Shinnosuke and Go receive jobs to guard a model who is bullied by a Roidmude who calls a truce with the stalker of the model. During the job, Chase intervenes but with his non usual emotions for his sake to search for his lost memory. Soon, Chase, Shinnosuke, Go, and Kiriko are shocked to learn the truth of Chase being the first Kamen Rider Drive after Chase is shocked to learn that his machine is able to combine with Go's machine out of his will. This truth also gives Chase more shock. Soon, after continuing the case, Shinnosuke become hesitant to defeat Chase after he was rebooted by Medic.

Type Dead Heat & Confrontation with the Reaper
When investigating marriage scam incidents and battling Voice Roidmude and his minions, Shinnosuke finds Go beaten by a newly healed Heart. Having no choice, he forced himself to use the unfinished Shift Dead Heat and defeated Heart along with killing two of Voice's lackeys. With the Drive System gone haywire, Drive pleads with Go to stop him. Later, while battling against the Voice Roidmude, Chase arrives to cover the latter's escape. Their battle comes to a draw when Mach Arabull and Tune Chaser Bat's Rider Kicks collide. Mach participate in the battle again and for the first time used the finished Shift Dead Heat, assuming Deadheat Mach and destroyed Voice and his lackeys.

During Drive & Mach's confrontation with the Judge Roidmude, Mashin Chaser appears and saves Judge. He then triggered the Ride Crosser combination on his own and resorted to eliminate the Riders. However, Tridoron arrives, allowing Drive to forcibly separate the Ride Crosser. Go as well forced himself to participate in the case again after being duped by the real Judge as his red herring. Chase later returned to aid the Judge Roidmude but is intercepted by Go, who transforms into Mach. Though Chase initially gains the upper hand, Mach overpowers him as Deadheat Mach. Chase attempts to activate the Ride Crosser combination but to no avail, as Mach did not bring his Ride Macher along with him. After Drive defeats Judge, Chase became furious and blasted purple energy from his Fang Spidey at the Riders. However, Mach jumps up into the air and strikes Chase with his Zenrin Shooter powered by his Dead Zone state. Afterwards, Chase retreats.

When five simultaneous murders are reported at the same time, Go as Mach and Drive confronted Chase for the murders, which ultimately ended with them forced to face Medic and her Reaper Legion. As they flee, Mach managed to defeat one member, Roidmude 104. He would later discovered that the murders were just baits used to separate Drive from his allies, with the Tire Exchange Shift Cars under Medic's trance and Mach himself forced to deal with Heart. In the end, he was forced to lend Drive Shift Dead Heat at the cost of his own safety.

"How are we supposed to trust a murderer?" "I have never once killed a human!" "You think I believe you?! I have to destroy all the Roidmudes as soon as possible! I'll never believe you...because you're all evil!"

- Mach confronting Chase when the latter kidnaps Kiriko to have Drive meet him for a Final Showdown.

Shinnosuke thanks Go for passing Shift Dead Heat to him in the nick of time. Though Go, still not feeling at ease about Chase, leaves. Mr. Belt figures that they need to find a way to finish off the battle as Type Formula without any self-inflicting injury. Back at the Unit, five men appear in the office. Jun thinks that they want to get a driver's license, but Kyu recognizes them as the victims from the five homicides. Go and Kiriko try to fend off the victims, but Kiriko gets knocked out and carried away by two of them. Mr Belt deduces that the bodies were copies created by Medic, which was how forensics believed that they died at the same time. Beneath a highway, one of the "victims" passes Kiriko to Chase, who then disintegrates all the remaining three victims. He is stopped by Go, who transforms into Mach. As Mach asks Chase how could he toy with human life, it undoes part of Chase's reprogramming back to its original state, causing Chase to put down Kiriko on the ground and step back in shock. As a confused Chase wonders what he has done, Medic appears and renders him unconscious. She sends her Reapers after Mach, who fights them in his Dead Heat form. After the fight, he collapses in exhaustion. He wakes up to find Shinnosuke and Kiriko, and tells the former that Chase wants to fight fair and square. After Drive defeats Mashin Chaser in battle, The Ride Chaser is left at the Drive Pit.

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Vs. Kamen Rider Drive Spring Vacation Combining SpeciaI
In the movie prequel special, Go is seen taking a picture of an unknown phenomenon that appears in the sky until it disappeared after a few minutes. During his second time finding the phenomena and taking more pictures of it before it disappeared again, he encountered Kamen Rider 3, who attacks Go as a test drive of his abilities only to be spared and be told by the Rider that Go wasn't the one he was after, but someone else. He shows up to rescue Shinnosuke, Kiriko and a Ninninger member, Takaharu from Hiruchameleon's attack, and also telling them about Kamen Rider 3's existence. He, Kiriko, Shinnosuke, and Takaharu found the mastermind behind phenomena, Shocker, whose Great Leader spoke with Doctor D/Roidmude 089 through the android's belt. Gou aided his partner and the Ninningers in defeating the Shocker forces. However, Hiruchameleon escaped. After the battle and the Ninninger's departure, Go is still suspicious about who Rider 3 was and what's he up to.

Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3
After Shocker alters the timeline by sending Kamen Rider 3 back to 1973 to defeat the original Double Riders, Go has a job on Super Regeneration System to create something called "Rider Town", until he met Takumi Inui. After his encounter with Takumi, he joined Yuto Sakurai, and the other Rider resistances whose on a run from Shocker. Although, he, Yuto and Shinnosuke also helped out Kyoichiro, whose on a run from both Shocker and Rider resistance recently. He and Yuto later meets Sakuya Tachibana, and one of 3 other main Royal Card Riders, whereas Mutsuki Kamijou becomes an young evil leader of some Shocker's branch, while Kazuma Kenzaki is held as a prisoner. At some point, he fights against Kamen Riders Leangle & Chalice. Go later then participates in the final battle against the Great Leader in an effort to restore the timeline, but overwhelmed by multiple kaijin and killed. He stays dead even with the timeline fixed, with Kiriko and Shinnosuke mourning for his passing.

D-Video Special: Kamen Rider 4
The timeline is altered once again after the events of Super Hero Taisen GP, where time itself is stuck in a strange loop on April 4, 2015. Go is repeatedly killed over and and over again as Shinnosuke attempts to correct the timeline. His death is finally undone when Shinnosuke sacrifices himself to ensure Go's survival. It's later revealed that Takumi is the cause of the time loop that allowed Kamen Rider 4 to exist due to his strong wish not to lose any more people, and is revealed to be the Great Leader of Shocker himself. However, Faiz sacrifices himself to prevent more time distortions from happening and destroyed the History Modifying Machine for good which reverts the timeline back to its original state.

Restoring the Rider's faith
"I don't have to push myself to get stronger anymore... That's because...I'm already strong!"

- Go regains his faith in himself.

He later gets involved in a fight with Shoot Roidmude to keep him busy, in order for Drive Type Formula to intercept missiles launched by the Roidmude successfully, but Go is defeated following the berserker state of Deadheat Mach, which gives the Roidmude an opening to critically damage his belt, The belt is repaired afterwards by Rinna Sawagami. However, Go, seeing both the Roidmudes and Drive consequently receiving further and further upgrades, becomes furious out of jealousy and lack of confidence and begs Rinna to power up his Mach Driver as well. But Mr. Belt reassures Go, that Mach Driver Honoh works in the same principal as the Drive System does and that the Mach System is just as capable of evolving, implying that he was missing something. Realizing, thanks to Kiriko, that he's already strong enough, Go calls off the impending power-up, having restored faith in himself (which was lost in waves of impatience) granting him access to the Sudden Dead Heat function, which causes Dead Heat Mach form to go berserk on the user's own will, with him being able to control the Rider form fully. Thus, he and Drive were able to finish the Shoot Roidmude once and for all.

After Go leaves the Drive Pit, Rinna reveals to have a second Mach Driver to carry her experiments on.

Revealing The Kamen Riders' Identity and Chase's Redemption
Roidmude 007 searched for an imprisoned serial killer who specialized in killing police officers and asked him to work as a team to become the fused hybrid Sword Roidmude with a new Viral Core. Go suggested jokingly to finish the Roidmude alongside the prisoner after their first battle, but got denied by Shinnosuke and Krim. While Sword Roidmude attacked the hospital to kill Hayase, Go bought some time until Shinnosuke is ready to finish the Roidmude with the upgraded Drive Driver and kill it without killing the host. After Shinnosuke defeated Sword Roidmude, Go reverted in front of Kyu and Gen after Shinnosuke showed his identity as Kamen Rider Drive in front of the public.

The next day, Go was surprised to learn that Chase was still alive and became stressed out. After learning that Shinnosuke was injured while searching for him alongside Kiriko, he warned Kiriko to not trust Chase or any Roidmude. When Sword Roidmude revived, Go rescued Shinnosuke by accessing Deadheat Mach, but he was overwhelmed by the rage of Sword Roidmude and is forced to revert. Kiriko panicked and attacked Sword Roidmude, but got defeated easily and almost killed until Chase rescued her. Go was shocked to see Chase transform into Kamen Rider Chaser and easily overpower the Sword Roidmude. Despite everyone being happy of his return as a Kamen Rider, Go was still displeased and got angry at the fact a Roidmude was now a Kamen Rider.

Go's Reasoning and The Beginning Duel of the Bike Riders
Soon after, Rinna introduced the new weapons, Ride Booster. Go and the rest were happy to see this new weapon. Go asked why she created two and Rinna answered that those are for Mach and Chaser, shocking Go and angering him. Kiriko tried to convince Go about Chase, but Go still refused to accept Chase as Kamen Rider and they have a bad debate which resulted in Go getting slapped by Kiriko. After the rest have to go for a meeting, Go was met by a woman. She asked him a favor to go searching for her brother. Go later met Shinnosuke during his investigation. Surprised to see him without Kiriko, he asked and knew that Kiriko was searching for Chase. Shinnosuke asked Go why he still hates Chase and only to be answered that all Roidmudes are evil. But just then, the surrounding people around them went berserk. Go looked at a boy who was struggling with his own parents, trying desperately to save him and stop the quarrel. Shinnosuke watched Go's action was his unusual and warned him, only to be answered that Shinnosuke didn't know everything about him. Right at the time, Advanced Roidmude number 050 came and told him off about happiness, angering Go and he attacked it. However, Go was less focused on fighting and it caused him to be overwhelmed easily. Just before he was finished, Chase saved him. After the battle was over, despite thanking him, Go attacked Chase. Chase didn't fight back and immediately reverted from his Kamen Rider form. Go was still desperate and forced himself to attack Chase, but was stopped by Shinnosuke. Soon, Go who is depressed, revealing a shocking truth that Dr. Banno, the one who created the Roidmude were in fact, is the main brain of making them corrupted and also his father. Which is why, Go tried to destroy all Roidmudes to take the responsibility for what his father had done.

Falling Into The Trap, Temporary Betrayal To The Kamen Riders, and Post-Brainwashed Re-Atonements
Without Go noticing, he was actually being manipulated. His hatred towards Roidmudes because of his father was explained to be the target so he would have his soul be taken and become a Hybrid Roidmude. While he was wandering around at night on his own with suffering hallucinations of Shinnosuke, Kiriko and Banno, Brain came out of nowhere and offered a chance for Go to meet Roidmude 001, but he refused. Transforming into Mach with anger, he furiously fights Brain. As Brain falls to the ground and seemingly to get the upper hand, the Roidmude suddenly took out his iPad, revealing a strange glowing blue screen for Go to see. Afterwards, while Drive was fighting the Open Roidmude, he came out along side with Brain, which shocked both the remaining two riders and Kiriko. He fights both Drive and Chaser, and goes on par with Drive's Type Formula with Shift Deadheat at ease. Before Drive got defeated, Chaser uses his Shingou-Ax's finisher and helped both Drive and himself escape. Afterwards, he cancelled the transformation and sneered with a face of anger and frustration.

After his third battle with Kamen Rider Chaser, Chase sees he has the same snowflake symbol on his neck that people who have had their memories altered by 001.

After he was saved by Chase and regains his memories, he can now see the difference which Roidmude is evil or not, as well as now with trusting Chase because not he only saved him, but he also saved Kiriko in the past for real. Not only that, Go felt guilty for having himself manipulated and unintentionally alling with the Roidmudes, especially attacking his own sister and leading to the death of Shinnosuke at the hands of Freeze, thus trying to re-atone himself, with Chase's help.

Personality
Go has a very impulsive and outgoing personality, whose hyperactivity may have worsened during his time in America. He is also very intelligent, which coupled with his robust physique, makes him a very capable detective. He is also pretty competitive, as seen with him challenging Shinnosuke to find and finish Gunman. A freelance cameraman himself, Go has a habit of picturing any nearby couples either intentionally or not.

He has a flair for drama and is also quite the jester. Despite being entirely capable of subtlety, he prefers to make his entrance in a proud, flashy manner, going so far as to call his sister to his debut battle in Japan, just so that she can witness how cool he is. These traits ultimately resulted in him liking to rush into danger.

Go has a catchphrase that goes, "Tracking, terminating, both done at Mach speed! Kamen Rider Mach!" (追跡、撲滅、いずれもマッハ！仮面ライダーマッハ！)

In his battles with the Roidmudes, he likes to repeat his introduction of himself whether he starts fighting, even though he has said it in Episode 12 already, presuming to show off the coolness of himself. However, as shown in Episode 14, in his first fight with Roidmude 096, he is so determined to finish his introduction that he gives the Roidmude a chance to attack him, and even escaping. In his next encounter with him and Roidmude 069, he skipped it and goes straight to the fighting part. He fixed this problem afterwards in future episodes by saying it really fast.

For all of his bluster, however, Go is also a realist, ready to use any means to defeat his enemy, even considered himself much of a monster as the ones they fight due to the fact that both the Kamen Riders and the Roidmudes use Core Driviars as the source of their powers. And also, he bears the pain of taking the responsibility of what Dr Banno, who in fact is also his father for the corruption of Roidmude.

He does have a serious side, especially when it is to protect his sister from dangers and harms. He has a big hatred to the Roidmudes that's near fanatical in belief, hating even Chase, despite he had returned to normal currently. His sense of justice seemed to have altered due to his time in America, having suggested that they should kill Taga when he fused with 007 into the Sword Roidmude, and came close in killing Reiko out of rage when she was the Seeker Roidmude when she manipulated him into a trap.

His hatred for Roidmudes is so great that he even went so far to say that Chase is just the 109th Roidmude, ignoring his past heroics as Protodrive or his return as Kamen Rider Chaser. In Episode 22, even when Chase temporarily got back to his original settings during the time he was brainwashed by Medic, he still doesn't budge, continuing his thoughts about all the Roidmudes are evil, unaware that it was all her plan to lure Drive out. However, he does show a little bit of sympathy to Roidmude 072 back in Episode 20, but those feelings were only temporary once, until after he was saved by Chase from Roidmude 001's memory alteration like how the Roidmude saved his sister when he was Proto-Drive, Go finally understands which Roidmude(s) is evil or not.

Powers and Abilities

 * Peak Human Physicality
 * He has a very athletic physique - a trait he shares with his sister. He easily demonstrates acrobatics way above that of average human's, shown to be able to somersault over tall walls, hand-standing for minutes on end, jumping from a tall tower to a roof over a great distance, then landing safely on his bike.


 * 4th Wall Awareness
 * During his debut, he could comically see and interact with Shinnosuke's imaginations, which are supposed to be seen by the viewers only. He is also currently the only one to do so.

Family

 * Kiriko Shijima - older sister
 * Tenjuro Banno - father
 * Sukimo Shijima - mother
 * Sachiko Emoto

Forms
Some of Kamen Rider Mach's Signal Bikes alter the suit based on a certain attribute, whereas other Signal Bikes arm him with a certain element or weapon, by changing the Kourin Signal (コウリンシグナル) on his right shoulder for a Signal Exchange (シグナル交換). These two types of Signal Bikes can be used in conjunction with each other. Mach can also use Kamen Rider Drive's Shift Cars for the same effect through a Tire Exchange (タイヤ交換).

By hitting the Boost Igniter on the Mach Driver Honoh between one and four times, Mach can activate the special ability of a Signal Bike or Shift Car currently placed within the Driver. After raising the Signal Landing Panel, pressing the Boost Igniter, and pushing the Signal Landing Panel back down, Mach can unleash a Full Throttle (フルスロットル) finishing move.

Kamen Rider Mach's ending theme is entitled "Full Throttle".

Equipment

 * NEX-Core Driviars - Kamen Rider Mach's power source, an upgrade of the Core Driviars

Devices

 * Mach Driver Honoh - Transformation device
 * Signal Bikes - Gives access to Mach's forms and powers, depending on which bike is used
 * Shift Cars - Borrowed/taken from Drive to give Mach additional forms and powers

Weapons

 * Zenrin Shooter - Mach's primary weapon
 * Tire Specific Items - Weapons that come from certain Shift Cars (borrowed from Drive):
 * Rumble Smasher - Mach Arabull's drill-based item via the Kourin Signal Arabull
 * Cure Quicker - Mach Naorl's first aid kit-based item via the Kourin Signal Naorl

Vehicles

 * Ride Macher - Mach's primary Rider Machine
 * Ride Crosser - Ride Macher combined with the Ride Chaser
 * Ride Booster Red - Mach's Rider Machine

Portrayal
Go Shijima is portrayed by Yuu Inaba (稲葉 友).

As Kamen Rider Mach, his suit actor is Jun Watanabe (渡辺 淳). This is his second time suit acting for the Secondary Riders. The first was Kamen Rider Beast.