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Amane Kurihara (栗原 天音 Kurihara Amane) is Haruka's nine year-old daughter (10 in episode 13, 25 in Zi-O) and Kotaro's niece.
She returns in Kamen Rider Zi-O, in which she transforms into Another Blade (アナザーブレイド Anazā Bureido), an Another Rider derived from Kamen Rider Blade.
History
She is a rude girl who treats only Hajime nicely. She also treats her own uncle, Kotaro, as a small idiot, even calling him by name. She is the reason that Hajime discovers what it means to be human.
In Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace, a heart-broken Amane became a sukeban at age thirteen. It is revealed that Amane's father died at the mountain ranges in Thailand due to the power of the Ancient Relief that her father opened, as it was told by Sakuya Tachibana, before Junichi Shimura, who later revealed to be the Albino Joker attempting to put harm on her. Rendering unconscious, she was initially rescued by Chalice, who was being released by Leangle from the Human Card, however Albino Joker attacked Joker and took Amane away from him. Albino Joker uses her for the Vanity Card but then she is saved by Hajime, who sacrifices himself in order to defeat Jashin-14.
Kamen Rider Zi-O
Amane still works in the Jacaranda Cafe and thinks about Hajime and Kenzaki. With her feelings for Hajime still lingering, White Woz manipulates those emotions for the creation of Another Blade, making Amane attack multiple photo studios and asking the staff about Hajime's whereabouts.
Sougo confronts Another Blade and defeats her until Hajime appears and seemingly thinks that Sougo is trying to attack Amane. She sees for most likely the first time Hajime transforming into Chalice. In the end, Sougo, Geiz, and Black Woz fuse into Zi-OTrinity and destroy the Blade Anotherwatch with Time Break Burst Explosion.
Afterwards, she is reunited with Kenzaki and Hajime.
Forms
- "Blade!"
- ―Transformation announcement[src]
- Height: 201.0 cm.
- Weight: 101.0 kg.
- Creator: White Woz
- Year of Origin: 2019
- Position of year: Right Shoulder blade
- Name and position: "BLADE"; Left Shoulder blade
- Powers and Abilities
- Energy Beam: Another Blade can fire a light-blue energy blast from her thorax armor.
- Dark Energy: Another Blade can generate dark energy and channel it as energy slashes or energy bursts.
- Joker Undead Energy Absorption: Another Blade can absorb the energy of the Joker Undead to amplify her strength. The siphoned Undead turns human as a result.
- World Destruction: After absorbing the Joker Undead's powers, Another Blade, as the only Undead left, wins the Battle Fight and begins the end of the world.
- Stone of Sealing Summoning: As the winner of the Battle Fight, Another Blade can summon the Stone of Sealing.
- Weapons
- Unnamed sword: A sword with a buzz saw equipped on its hilt. It has a similar appearance to Kamen Rider Blade's Blay Rouzer.
- Weapons
Appearances: Zi-O Episode 29-30
Equipment
- Anotherwatch - Transformation trinket
Notes
- Amane has appeared as a child, a teenager and an adult throughout the franchise history. Hikari Kujiwara portrayed her as a child in Kamen Rider Blade, and as an adult 14 years later in Kamen Rider Zi-O. Miku Ishida portrayed a teenage Amane in Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace, a future-set story which was filmed concurrently with the TV show while Kujiwara was still a child.
- She is the third Kamen Rider alumni character to become an Another Rider.
- Unlike the Ex-Aid character Kuroto who transformed into Another OOO, she transforms into an Another Rider that originated from her own series. The same can also be said for Dark Shinji from Ryuki.
- She is the first non-rider of the previous series to be an Another Rider.
- She is the second Another Rider to have a different year than her Kamen Rider counterpart. The first is Hiryu Kakogawa, who also shares the same year with her: 2019.
- Amane is also the first female host to become an Another Rider.
- As with most Another Riders, Amane as Another Blade is the opposite to both Kazuma Kenzaki and Hajime Aikawa. Kenzaki willingly sacrificed his own humanity, in the process becoming a second Joker Undead to give Hajime a chance to live peacefully as a human, thus averting the Undead Battle Fight, and consequently distancing himself from Hajime as a result. Whereas Amane was unwillingly turned into an Another Rider into drawing Hajime out of hiding, which in turn drew out the now-Undead Kenzaki and fight Hajime, consequently restarting the Undead Battle Fight that would lead to the end of the world.
- Amane's situation parallels Mutsuki Kamijo, both had their wills overwritten as a result of an Undead power (Mutsuki was influenced by Spider Undead while Amane took the role of Joker Undead after absorbing it from Kenzaki and Hajime). On the other hand, her (temporary) status as a victor of Battle Fight by being a human with the Undead's power is an ironic reference to the corrupt BOARD chairman Hiroshi Tennoji, who created and fused with the artificial Kerberos Undead to become the victor himself.
- Unlike the other Another Riders, Amane's transformation resembles the original Blade's transformation.
Appearances
See Also
- Kazuma Kenzaki - Original Kamen Rider Blade
- BladeArmor - the result of using Blade Ridewatch
