Kuroto Dan

Kuroto Dan (檀 黎斗) is the CEO of Genm Corp.. He is also the true identity of Kamen Rider Genm (仮面ライダーゲンム), also colloquially known as the Black Ex-Aid (黒いエグゼイド).

Past
Kuroto has been CEO of Genm Corp. for at least five years. He was present during Zero Day, when the Bugster emerged from the glitches in ten of the games his company was developing. Working with the Ministry of Health, Kuroto helped design the Gashats and Gamer Driver as a countermeasure to the Bugster, managing to keep Zero Day hidden from the public eye.

Two years later Kuroto was confronted by Kiriya Kujo, a coroner who had found out about Zero Day. Kiriya was given a Gamer Driver and the Bakusou Bike Gashat in exchange for his silence.

Second Bugster Outbreak
Five years after Zero Day, Genm Corp. had finally completed one of the ten games, Mighty Action X. At the press release, the Salty Bugster emerged from Sota Suyama. The Bugster was defeated by Kamen Rider Ex-Aid.

Soon after the incident, Kuroto met with Kyotaro Hinata. Hinata thanked Kuroto for providing the Driver and Gashats. Kuroto responded humbly before asking how the incident was covered up. Sometime later, Kuroto appeared as Genm to interrupt Ex-Aid and Brave's fight against Aranbura. He attacked the two riders, allowing the Bugster virus to escape. After the incident, he was approached by Taiga Hanaya, who had been the rider during the first outbreak. After receiving large piles of cash, Kuroto gave Taiga a new Driver, along with the BangBang Shooting Gashat.

Kuroto was confronted by Hiiro Kagami soon after CR learned that Taiga was a Rider again. Kuroto acknowledged the incident that cost Taiga his medical license, but defended his decision, saying that Taiga was both compatible and capable.

Kuroto came to CR later to apologize, claiming that he underestimated Taiga and didn't predict the latter would take Emu's Gashat. He assured Hiiro that there would be more Gashats ready within a few days. He interrupted Brave and Snipe's fight as Genm, depleting their Rider Gauges. After Ex-Aid and Lazer defeated the Motors Bugster, he finished the monster off to prevent Lazer from getting a sample to study. Using the Shakariki Sports Gashat, he upgraded to his Level 3 form, taking out Ex-Aid and Lazer with one move.

Encountering Ghost
Without speaking a word, he arrives already transformed into Level 2 as Deep Specter and Necrom are fighting a group of Gamma Commandos and Superiors. He joins in fighting the Gamma, summoning his bike with the Shakariki Sports Gashat before performing a Critical Strike finisher to clear away the Gamma, immediately riding away.

For unknown reasons, he stands holding the Shakariki Sports Gashat while looking upon the city during a lightning storm. Later, he triggers the Gashat and a purple digital circle expands from him, but it and the Gashat are pulled into a Gamma Hole resembling a Great Eye interface. When Ayumu steps out holding the Gashat, Genm tries taking it back, but is interrupted by Makoto and Alain, recognizing him from earlier. He fights Specter and Necrom using the Gashacon Bugvisor, disappearing when they counter with the Gan Gun Hand and Catcher. The sketch Ayumu drew of Genm later leads Ghost to mistakenly attack the near-identical Ex-Aid when the Rider tries saving Ayumu from a group of Bugster Viruses and retrieve the Shakiriki Sports Gashat, but a sudden attack by Genm shows Ghost his mistake. The attack knocked away the Gashat, which he takes back before fading into thin air.

"Tricks": Virtual Operations
Kuroto Dan calls Poppi Pipopapo and orders her to record Emu's specs using his specialized VR for later use.

After a point of time, Kuroto Dan visits CR, only to be intercepted by Taiga Hanaya, who demanded him to simulate him by using the VR. Dan actually wants to record Emu's specs again, but Taiga had confiscated Emu's Gashat beforehands. Disappointed, Dan prepares to leave, only to be threatened by Taiga to expose the Protoype Gashats responsible for the Zero Day incident to the public. Leaving him with no choice, Dan finally simulates Taiga, but only once.

After the simulation ends, Taiga ask him to give the data later and to relay his rematch acceptance challenge to Emu before he left, leaving Dan speechless.

As Kuroto Dan visits CR again, Hiiro had been waiting for him in front of the CR Lift. Hiiro demands Dan to simulate him because he can't accept his defeat to Genm. As Hiiro asks what Gashat did Genm use, Dan says that Genm uses the Proto Mighty Action X Gashat, which basically had the same ability perimeter as Ex-Aid. Hearing this, Hiiro became flustered and demanded Dan to simulate him right now. Dan finally agrees to simulate Hiiro.

At the simulation, Dan changes the enemy to Genm and sets the difficulties to Easy (presumably to hinder him for leaking Genm's true power to Hiiro). After the simulation ends, Dan decided to refuse recording Hiiro's data for his own good before he left.

Personality
Despite helping in the fight against the Bugsters, Kuroto appears to have his own agenda regarding the Gashats. Because of this reason, he had no qualms over accepting money from untrustworthy and heartless individuals like Taiga Hanaya in order to continue to create more of them. This demonstrates that Kuroto is willing to do anything to accomplish this goal. And should anyone hinder him in any way, Kuroto would try to manipulate his way out of the problem or dispose of his obstacles regardless of whether they are Bugsters or humans. While this shows a cold-blooded and murderous side to the CEO, it also demonstrates how secretive he is in his goals as on all occasions he made sure he could not be traced. To the CR he appears to be a polite and humble man, who despite having a sense of sympathy and compassion, makes decisions based on practicality. But behind closed doors, Kuroto's real self is shown to be a narcissist who disdains compassion and believes that survival of the fittest is the only thing that matters in battle.

Powers and Abilities
As stated by him, Genm's perimeter is the same as Ex-Aid's. So his overwhelming power didn't come from his equipment, but his own combat experience and ability. This is shown when he easily defeated some of the Ex-Aid Riders, even veterans like Taiga Hanaya, many times. He's even on par with Kamen Riders Specter and Necrom, even while the former is in his strongest form.


 * Bicycle Proficiency: He is extremely skilled in bicycling, which allows him to effectively use his Sports Gamer bicycle as both a weapon and a transport to defeat a large group of Gamma Commandos and Superiors.
 * Close Combat Skills: He has proven himself to be a formidable combatant, as he easily overwhelmed two Ghost Riders at once.
 * Quick Retreat: Through unknown means, after he recovered his Shakariki Sports Gashat, he faded into thin air. This is also shown when he decided to save Aranbura.

Devices

 * Gamer Driver - Transformation device.
 * Rider Gashat - Transformation trinkets.
 * Kimewaza Slot Holder - Carrier strap for the Rider Gashats.

Weapons

 * Gashacon Bugvisor - Standard sidearm weapon.

Vehicles

 * Sports Gamer - Genm's Rider Machine summoned by the Shakariki Sports Gashat.

Portrayal
Kuroto Dan is portrayed by Tetsuya Iwanaga (岩永 徹也)

As Kamen Rider Genm, his suit actor is Satoshi Fujita (藤田 慧) in Level 1 and Yuya Nawata (縄田 雄哉) in Level 2, his bike action suit actor is Keigō Arizono (有薗 啓剛).

Appearances

 * Icon-ghost.png Kamen Rider Ghost
 * Episode 49: Infinity! Power of Humanity!
 * Episode 50: Final Story (Special Edition): Future! Connected Thoughts!
 * Icon-exaid.png Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
 * Episode 1: I'm a Kamen Rider!
 * Episode 2: Another Prodigy with No Thank You?
 * Episode 3: BANG, That Jerk is Coming!
 * Episode 4: An Operation Called Dash!
 * Episode 5: Everyone Gathers for a Clashing Crash!
 * Episode 6: A Hollow Beating in the Heart!
 * Kamen Rider Ex-Aid "Tricks": Virtual Operations
 * Episode 1: Ex-Aid Chapter
 * Episode 2: Snipe Chapter
 * Episode 3: Brave Chapter