Imagin

This article is about a race of monsters in Kamen Rider Den-O.

Imagin (イマジン, Imajin, from "imagine" and "Djinn"/"Majin") are a monster race that are the antagonists (and in a handful of cases, secondary protagonists) in the Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Den-O.

Background[]

The Imagin were originally beings from the distant future who lost their physical forms due to an event in the past erasing their own time, becoming dependent on the memories of others in order to survive. These Imagin have forgotten their pasts but retained their personalities. Led by Kai, they arrive to the year 2007 to find weak-hearted humans to use as time-portals, in hopes of finding the key figure to the Junction Point, and destroy said person so their future can become a reality again. Imagin possess humans upon forging a contract, fashioning a physical form through their host's imaginations.

The hosts, recognized by the sands of time spilling from their bodies, are offered a single wish by the Imagin. In exchange, the Imagin is able to dive into the most treasured moment of the person's past. As displayed, however, the host must remember making the contract for the Imagin to successfully travel to the past. Additionally, due to the greatly delicate nature of the contract, if the contract holder forgets or dies before the contract is completed, the Imagin bound to him or her will fade away, as was nearly the case for Sieg. ^{[The Prince's Goodbye Lullaby]}

Often times the wishes asked by the hosts are "fulfilled" in violent and haphazard ways with innocent beings often getting hurt in the process. Opening the human like a door, a portal is revealed that leads to the appropriate time, severing their ties to the human in the process. From there, the Imagin takes over a host's body or simply manifests itself in its physical form and begins causing massive chaos. In turn, due to the laws of time, everything and everyone destroyed in the past no longer exists in the present and indirectly creating more Imagin from the destruction of their timeline. However, as Ryotaro learned in time, the restoration of these things rely on just being remembered. Also, if an alteration to the past prevents the contract from ever being made in the first place, the damage will be negated completely due to it never having happened, as was the case with the Ivy Imagin. However, it appears that should the Imagin have been destroyed in the past, its destruction is not undone. This is doubtful though, as shown in other episodes. It has also been shown that Imagin who already have a physical form can freely possess people and fly to the past without the need for a contract.

Later history[]

Dai-Shocker[]

As one of the races of the Nine Worlds, the Imagin are part of the Dai-Shocker alliance, a coalition of all villain organizations fought by the Kamen Riders, who have ambitions to conquer the multiverse.

The Albinoleo Imagin as well as the New Mole Imagin were part of the Dai-Shocker army that was fought and wiped out by a gathering of 25 Kamen Riders in the World of Decade after Dai-Shocker started their invasion of the worlds. ^{[Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]}

The Scorpion Imagin was one of several monsters who accompanied Apollogeist in the World of Black RX. It was destroyed by Decade using Faiz Axel's power. ^{[RX! Dai-Shocker Attack] [Black × Black RX]}

The Cobra and Gecko Imagin were members of the Dai-Shocker remnant, Super Shocker, that appeared in the World of the Rider War. ^{[Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010]}

Shocker Greeed[]

The Imagin were among the various evil organizations and monster races which were allied with Shocker in an alternate timeline where they conquered the world thanks to the Shocker Greeed. The Albinoleo Imagin, Owl, Scorpion, Oct and Mantis Imagin were among Shocker's army of monsters. ^{[OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders]}

Shocker-Zangyack Alliance[]

Several Imagin - Gecko, Bat and Mole - under the Alligator Imagin were part of the revived Dai-Shocker assembled by Decade to wipe out the Super Sentai, ensuring the survival of the Kamen Riders. After Dai-Shocker's alliance with Dai-Zangyack was revealed, both organizations were wiped out by a gathering of Kamen Riders and Super Sentai. ^{[Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen]}

Space Shocker[]

One revived Imagin, the Gecko Imagin, was a member of Space Shocker, an evil amalgamation organization similar to Dai-Shocker, which aimed to conquer the universe. It was actually a front for the revival of the Space Crime Syndicate Madou. ^{[Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z]}

World within the Magic Stone[]

The souls of defeated Imagin, among the other monster races fought by the Kamen Riders, surfaced in the world within the Magic Stone which was ruled by the evil wizard Amadum with the Molech Imagin and a trio of New Mole Imagin being part of said army of monsters. Amadum's army of monsters were fought and destroyed by the 15 Heisei Riders when they were summoned to this world. ^{[The Kamen Rider Rings] [Neverending Story]}

While in control of someone else[]

The Imagin have the ability to take control of their Contract Holder, if said Contract Holder is put in certain amount of danger, before, during or after the Contract is forged, they have this ability. In addition, not all Imagin can simply take over their Contract Holder, but others as well, while this occurs (presumably) the person's consciousnesses is sent into an area of the mind where the Imagin's primary color scheme is the background, as shown when Urataros, Kintaros and Ryutaros were battling Decade, using his friend Natsumi Hikari as their host. ^{[Super Den-O Beginning]}

In some cases of Imagin possession, a person's eyes change color to that of the Imagin, the hair altered into style with a streak of it also changed to the color of the Imagin. In some cases, even the host's attire changes to reflect the Imagin's personality. There are also rare Imagin showing the ability to split into two or more entities that can survive independent of each other. Normally, when this happens, there is a clear difference between them, either physical or they'll have completely different personalities. The Imagin used by Kamen Riders also have shown the ability to turn into weapons similar to the weapons or attacks they use, this was first shown with Deneb and his ability to change into the Denebick Buster used Kamen Rider Zeronos' Zero Form, New Den-O is a more prominent user, primarily using Teddy as the Macheteddy and in Cho-Den-O Trilogy he uses Urataros and Kintaros as the Uratazao and Kintaono. Unlike most Kamen Rider villains, who normally have greedy or selfish motives for their actions, the Imagin attack the past due to self preservation, wanting to keep their race alive.

Singularity Points[]

A "Singularity Point" (特異点, Tokuiten) in Kamen Rider Den-O is a human who has the ability to exist outside of time itself, and be unaffected by changes in their own past. This ability also allows them to suppress an Imagin's will when it takes over their body and is not tempted by the free wish an Imagin can grant. From this, any Imagin contracted to Singularity Points are usually unable to take a physical form in the present time, and directly possess their Singularity Point.

Types of Imagin[]

There are a variety of types of Imagin. Each type have their own traits that defines their own type.

Taros[]

Taros are the four Imagin contracted by Ryotaro Nogami/Kamen Rider Den-O, with their primary motifs being folk tales with a "Tarou" as the protagonist.

• Momotaros - Only initially cares for the joy of fighting, he learns to respect being comrades with his host.
• Urataros - Bonded with a Singularity Point, being the only one who sees it as a merit.
• Kintaros - Emotional and physically strong; only wished to grant wishes; saved from oblivion by Ryotaro.
• Ryutaros - Childish and annoying; likes Ryotaro's sister Airi; originally intended to kill Ryotaro but changed his mind later for Airi's happiness.

Kamen Rider Zi-O[]

• Futaros - A friendly Taros contracted with Ataru Hisanaga to bring the Kamen Riders back into existance after Super Time Jacker Tid creates the Real World.

Good Imagin[]

Imagin that are essentially don't agree with the overall goal of the Imagin, either because they don't care for it, or they have other agendas (mostly to support Den-O).

• Sieg
• Deneb
• Teddy (Neotaros)

Evil Imagin[]

The evil Imagin, which make up the majority of the Imagin population see the Taros as villains or traitors to their cause.

• Bat Imagin
• Chameleon Imagin
• Crust Imagin
• Crow Imagin
• Rhino Imagin
• Ivy Imagin
• Owl Imagin
• Whale Imagin
• Wolf Imagin
• Jelly Imagin
• Tortoise Imagin
• Scorpion Imagin
• Spider Imagin
• Bloodsucker Imagin
• Molech Imagin
• Cobra Imagin
• Salamander Imagin
• Gecko Imagin
• Newt Imagin
• Wasp Imagin
• Bluebird Imagin
• Rabbit Imagin
• Anthopper Imagin
• Kraken Imagin
• Mole Imagin
• Leo Imagin
• Pandarabbit Imagin
• Snail Imagin
• Oct Imagin
• Armadillo Imagin
• Albinoleo Imagin
• Snowman Imagin
• Death Imagin
• Negataros
• Pink Rabbit Imagin
• Clown Imagin
• Ghost Imagin
• Phantom Imagin
• Shadow Imagin
• Mysterious Imagin
• Alligator Imagin
• Piggies Imagin
• Mantis Imagin
• Eve
• Ore Imagin (stage-show only)
• Centipede Imagin (stage-show only)
• Rose Imagin (stage-show only)
• Hawk Imagin (manga only)
• Cat Imagin (novel only)
• Turkey Imagin (novel only)
• Hydra Imagin (unused)
• Three-Leveled Bellied Imagin (crossover with Crayon Shin-chan)

Gigandeaths[]

Whenever an Imagin is defeated, they sometimes reform their bodies along with a berserk state of mind, warping into one of three types of massive creatures called Gigandeath (ギガンデス, Gigandesu?, from "Gigantes"). The number of Gigandeaths emerging from an Imagin can be from a single Gigandeath, to two different types, to an entire army of them. These monsters are mindless and are filled by the urge of destroy. A Gigandeath is harder to destroy than a Imagin as Den-O uses the DenLiner to destroy them. All three Gigandeaths are augmented into the Nega DenLiner's arsenal.

• Gigandeath Heaven
• Gigandeath Hades
• Gigandeath Hell

Gallery[]

• TV
• Movie/Special Exclusive
• Decade/Zi-O

• Ally
• Evil

• Taros
• Other

Momotaros

Momotaken

Urataros

Uratazao

Kintaros

Kintaono

Ryutaros

Sieg

Deneb

Denebick Buster

• Normal
• Gigandeath

Bat

Chameleon

Crust

Crow

Rhino

Ivy

Owl

Whale

Wolf

Jelly

Tortoise (Turtle)

Tortoise (Rabbit)

Scorpion

Spider (Red Eyes)

Spider (Green Eyes)

Bloodsucker

Wasp

Bluebird

Rabbit

Anthopper (Ari)

Anthopper (Kirigiris)

Kraken

Mole (Ax Hand)

Mole (Drill Hand)

Mole (Claw Hand)

New Mole (Hippo Hand)

New Mole (Claw Hand)

New Mole (Cross Hand)

New Mole (Ax Hand)

Leo

Leo Soldiers

Pandarabbit

Snail (Male)

Snail (Female)

Oct

Armadillo

Snowman

Albinoleo

Death

Gigandeath Heaven

Gigandeath Hell

Gigandeath Hades

• Ally
• Evil

Teddy

Macheteddy

• Gaoh
• Negataros
• Shiro
• Other

Molech

Cobra

Gecko

Newt

Salamander

Negataros

Clown

Pink Rabbit

Ghost

Shadow

Phantom

Unnamed Imagin
(Labeled as Mysterious Imagin by most media)

Piggies

Mantis

Eve

Buriburizaemon

Three-Leveled Belly

???

Alligator

Futaros

Behind the Scenes[]

The Imagin were designed by the late Yasushi Nirasawa (韮沢 靖, Nirasawa Yasushi), who previously worked on the designs for the Undead in Kamen Rider Blade, the Horrors in GARO, and the Worms in Kamen Rider Kabuto. These designs are detailed in the "Imagin Works: Say Your Wish…" (イマジンワークス SAY YOUR WISH…, Imajin Wākusu SAY YOUR WISH…) artbook.

Notes[]

• The Imagin's sand form are based on the sand in hourglasses.
• Despite being the primary villains in Kamen Rider Den-O, several mysteries concerning the Imagin were never revealed, such as what happened to their human bodies or how they joined Kai's forces in the first place.
• Even though the Imagins that are on Den-O's side have gained physical forms, most of them didn't travel through time by themselves but through other time traveling means.
• Almost every Imagin has their name or part of it written on their body, usually in a way where it's not obvious and blends in with their design.

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Almost every Imagin is based on a different fable with the taros based on fables with "taro" in the name

Appearances[]

Kamen Rider Den-O
Kamen Riders
TV Series: Kamen Rider Den-O: (Ryotaro Nogami - Momotaros - Urataros - Kintaros - Ryutaros - Sieg) - Kamen Rider Zeronos: (Yuto Sakurai - Deneb - Past Man)
Movie-exclusive/Special: Kotaro - Kotaro Nogami - Gaoh - Negataros - Ghost Imagin - Shiro - Kuchihiko - Mimihiko - Reiji Kurosaki - Eve - Anna
Arsenal
Transformation Devices
Den-O Belt - Rider Pass - K-Taros - Zeronos Belt - Zeronos Cards - New Den-O Belt - Gaoh Belt - Master Pass - Den-O Belt (Nega Den-O) - Yuuki Belt - Golden Khakkhara - Pure Silver Metal Stick - G Den-O Belt
Weapons
Den-O: DenGasher - DenKamen Sword - Momotarosword - Uratarod - Kintaros Ax - Ryuvolver
Zeronos: ZeroGasher - Denebick Buster
New Den-O: Macheteddy - Uratazao - Kintaono - Momotaken - DenGasher
Gaoh: GaohGasher
Nega Den-O: Nega DenGasher
Yuuki: Ghost Imagin's sword - Shiro's Whip - Shiro's Spinning Tops - SavageGasher
Oni Brothers: Golden Khakkhara - Pure Silver Metal Stick
G Den-O: DenGasher (G Den-O)
Rider Machines
Machine Den-Bird - Machine ZeroHorn - Machine GaohStriker - Machine Nega DenBird - Machine New Den-Bird
Time Transports
DenLiner - ZeroLiner - KingLiner - New DenLiner - GaohLiner - Nega DenLiner - Ghost Train - Battleship of Oni
The Ally Imagin and the Support Characters
The Taros: Momotaros - Urataros - Kintaros - Ryutaros
Other: Sieg - Deneb - Teddy
DenLiner: Owner - Naomi - Hana - Stationmaster
Milk Dipper: Airi Nogami - Seigi Ozaki - Isse Miura
The Imagin
Contract holders
Kai - Death Imagin
Bat Imagin - Chameleon Imagin - Crust Imagin - Crow Imagin - Rhino Imagin - Ivy Imagin - Owl Imagin - Whale Imagin - Wolf Imagin - Jelly Imagin - Tortoise Imagin - Scorpion Imagin - Spider Imagin - Bloodsucker Imagin - Molech Imagin - Cobra Imagin - Salamander Imagin - Gecko Imagin - Newt Imagin - Wasp Imagin - Bluebird Imagin - Rabbit Imagin - Anthopper Imagin - Kraken Imagin - Mole Imagin - Leo Imagin - Pandarabbit Imagin - Snail Imagin - Oct Imagin - Armadillo Imagin - Albinoleo Imagin - Snowman Imagin - New Mole Imagin - Pink Rabbit Imagin - Clown Imagin - Ghost Imagin - Phantom Imagin - Shadow Imagin - Piggies Imagin - Mantis Imagin
Other: Gelnewt
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