Kamen Rider Kaixa

Kamen Rider Kaixa (仮面ライダーカイザ) is a fictional suit of high-tech power armor seen in the 2003-2004 Japanese television series Kamen Rider 555.

Kamen Rider Kaixa may refer to any the following characters.

Main wearer

 * Masato Kusaka
 * Keitaro Kikuchi
 * Yuji Kiba

Other User

 * Kouta Takamiya
 * Unknown two Ryuseiji members
 * Kiyotaka Nishida
 * Takahisa Shindo
 * Saeko Kageyama

Kaixa Gear
The Kaixa Gear was the third set of Kamen Rider Gear developed by the Smart Brain Corporation to protect the Orphnoch King. The Kaixa Gear was more powerful, but slower than the Faiz Gear. It still did not match the Delta Gear for speed or strength, but possessed greater functionality. Its power came at a price: while all of Smart Brain's Rider Gears were intended for Orphenochs only, the Kaixa Gear is the only set that will kill any non-Orphenoch user soon after donning it.

Its first known wearer is Kouta Takamiya, but the belt destroyed him when he burned up all of his implanted Orphnoch DNA. Two more Ryuseiji members were forced to use the power of Kaixa to protect the others from Smart Brain, and paid for it with their lives. The suit's primary wearer is Masato Kusaka, who had a great deal more Orphnoch DNA implanted into him, but it began to run out near the end of the series. A weakened Kusaka had his belt taken by Kiba. After recovering his faith in humanity, Kiba as Kaixa joined Takumi and Mihara in battling the fully awakened King, but the Kaixa Gear was destroyed in battle. Other known wearers include Kiyotaka Nishida, Takashi, and Saeko Kageyama (Lobster Orphnoch).

Kamen Rider Kaixa
Ability perimeters
 * Height: 189cm
 * Weight: 95kg
 * Punching power: 3t
 * Kicking power: 7t
 * Maximum jump height: 30m
 * Maximum speed: 100m/6.3 seconds

Once transformation is completed, the Kaixa Armor has several key features in its design to protect protection to the user.

Like all gear, the Kaixa armor manifests when the Kaixa Driver generates Photon Blood, a glowing substance generates the soft Sol Foam suit, Sol Metal armor, and Fullmetal Lung chest armor via traveling through the two yellow Photon Streams lines that gives Kaixa greater strength at the cost of speed. The steams end at the Photon Terminals at the gauntlets and Power Anklet greaves, the right Anklet having a Energy Holster that the Kaixa Pointer can be connected it.

The helmet is unique due to its Global Feeler antenna to link up to Smart Brain's networks and the X Finder visor that gives Kaixa incredible vision to see in darkness, giving the illusion of a glowing eye, and a limited amount of x-ray vision.

Arsenal

 * SB-913B Kaixa Driver - Kaixa's transformation device.
 * SB-913P Kaixa Phone - A sideflip "swing" cellphone device serves as the controller for Kaixa Gear.
 * Kaixa Mission Memory - A small metallic card key containing the information of the Kaixa Armor.
 * SB-913C Kaixa Shot - Digital camera-shaped knuckle-duster.
 * SB-913B2 Kaixa Pointer - Binocular-shaped pointer which enables to produce an energy drill deathblow.
 * SB-913X Kaixa Blaygun - A special weapon that is both a pistol, a dagger and a lightsaber.
 * SB-913V Side Basshar - Kaixa's sidecar motorcycle that can transform in a robot-like Battle Mode.

Rider Cards

 * Kamen Ride: Kaixa: A Rider Card containing the power of Kamen Rider Kaixa. Used by Diend to summon Kamen Rider Kaixa. This card is included with the DX Diendriver toy and is used by Diend in Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride.

Other Names
There is much confusion surrounding the Rider's name, as his design is based on the Greek letter Chi (Χ), and people have often mispronounce it as "chi". The Greek letter Chi is actually pronounced "kie", as the Greek letter system originated in Europe, not Asia, so while there is a similar name, it's pronunciation is entirely different.

The official transliteration is "Kaixa", although some would argue that the pronunciation is closer to "Kaiza" due to the katakana used. Other variations in his name include the following:


 * Kamen Rider Kaiza
 * Kamen Rider Kaiser
 * Kamen Rider 913
 * Kamen Rider Chi
 * Kamen Rider Χ