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- For the A.R. World version, see Junichi Kaito.
- "So... Become mine. Grand power. In order to revive you, I sacrifice a human life!"
- ―Junichi's proclamation[src]
Junichi Shimura (志村 純一, Shimura Jun'ichi) is the main antagonist of Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace. He is the true identity of Albino Joker (アルビノジョーカー, Arubino Jōkā) who transforms into Kamen Rider Glaive (仮面ライダーグレイブ, Kamen Raidā Gureibu, Masked Rider Glaive).
History[]
Background[]
The Albino Joker is a Joker-class Undead with a white and red color scheme, as opposed to Aikawa's black and green colors. In the event that all the Undead, including the Joker, were sealed, it creates an irregular situation in which there is no winner of a Battle Fight. Thus, the Albino Joker is tasked to release the Undead and restart the Battle Fight all over again. He was responsible for attacking Kei Karasuma and Sakuya Tachibana, taking all the Rouse Cards from them.
New Generation[]
In this special, time passes, and Junichi Shimura eventually joins BOARD, which is now operated by Sakuya Tachibana. He takes up the role of Kamen Rider Glaive, being the new Blade. He is armed with the Glaive Rouzer, a modified version of the Blay Rouzer. He appears hidden in the bushes when Natsumi Miwa is persecuted by Peacock Undead.
Kamen Rider Glaive appears watching to Natsumi Miwa and Shin Magaki is chased by Peacock Undead, he was walking while waiting for the perfect time to help them.
Junichi gives the Rouzer card to Shin and Natsumi
Natsumi and Shin continue running from the Undead. Natsumi finds a steel pipe and tries to get Shin to cover her escape, claiming that men are supposed to protect women. This fails and the Undead continues chasing them until an explosion destroys it. The mysterious figure approaches them, no longer hiding and throws them both Change Kerberos Rouse Cards. He returns back to his human form.
- "Can't escape your destiny, but it is the will of the cards that become Kamen Riders"
- ―Junichi Shimura meeting Natsumi and Shin[src]
Junichi offers them both to be Kamen Riders. He also explains that the incident with the Undead ended once, but the power of the Kamen Riders is needed again. Natsumi and Shin refuse and give back the cards. Junichi says to himself that they will return and that it is their fate is to become Riders. Behind Junichi is Kazuma Kenzaki, who becomes a garbageman.
Missing Ace[]
When all the Undead are sealed, he kills his own subordinates and disguises himself as Shin to fool the other riders, but Shiori figures out Shimura's plan and he is exposed. His plan is to obtain the power of Jashin 14 using the Vanity Card, his main target is Amane Kurihara because it's revealed that her father entered the location of Jashin 14, so only one of his blood can be sacrificed. During the fight with the Albiroachi, Kenzaki tells Mutsuki to unseal Hajime, which he does. With Hajime released, he goes out and protects Amane, taking her to safety. Shimura catches up with them and Hajime transforms into the Black Joker to fight Shimura; unfortunately, still exhausted after being unsealed, Shimura defeats him. In some magazines, there are shots of the Albino Joker wielding a red scythe at the location of this scene; however, this weapon was never seen in the movie. Although Black Joker is the most powerful of all possible Jokers, the Black Joker is extremely exhausted and therefore is defeated.
He then uses the Category King cards to create the Vanity Card and seals Amane in it. He then goes on to revive Jashin 14 by inserting it into an ancient tablet, fusing with the beast to obtain its power. He then appears to the Riders in his new form and attempts to kill them. Hajime concocts a plan to free Amane and stop Shimura: to trade places with Amane. Hajime tells Kenzaki to destroy the tablet. Kenzaki hesitates knowing he'll kill Hajime, but Hajime convinces him and destroys it, weakening Shimura. Kenzaki then changes into King Form and uses his Royal Straightflash attack to split Jashin, thus Shimura dies in the explosion that insured from the monster's death.
Kamen Rider Decade[]
Rider War[]
Kamen Rider Glaive appears with other Kamen Riders commanded by Wataru Kurenai, but all are murdered by Decade in episode 1 of Kamen Rider Decade in the dream of Natsumi Hikari and then conclude the dream with Decade as the only Rider in the Rider War [Rider War]
The Destroyer of Worlds[]
All the Riders killed by Decade.
In the special version of episode 31, Kamen Rider Glaive is seen as one of the many Kamen Riders who fought in the Rider War against Decade and were all destroyed. They were presumably restored after the destruction (and subsequent revival) of Decade at the end of the Rider War and the worlds were restored. [The Destroyer of Worlds]
Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates[]
During the events of Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates, Kamen Rider Diend Complete Form summons Glaive alongside seven other Movie Riders using the Attack Ride Card Gekijouban to defeat Kamen Rider G Den-O. Here, Glaive uses Gravity Slash, possibly in order to better go along with the other Riders' ranged finishing moves.
Type HIGH SPEED! The True Power! Type High Speed is Born![]
Kamen Rider Glaive in Tevile-Kun
Kamen Rider Rider Glaive make an appearance with other Riders and kaijin monsters when Shinnosuke and Kiriko discover the knock-off versions of the Televi-Kun, an abandoned warehouse after they meet Roidmude 027
Video Game appearances[]
Kamen Rider battle Ganbaride[]
Kamen Rider Glaive card
Kamen Rider Glaive is a playable character with the other Heisei and Showa Kamen Riders in Kamen Rider Battle Ganbaride.
Kamen Rider Riderbout[]
Kamen Rider Glaive , Albino Joker and Jashin-14 appears as a playable character with the other Heisei and Showa kamen Riders in Kamen Rider Riderbout.
Kamen Rider: Battride War series[]
Kamen Rider: Battride War[]
Blade confronts Albino Joker.
Albino Joker appears as a Boss in the video game Kamen Rider: Battride War, fighting against Kamen Rider Blade.
Kamen Rider: Battride War II[]
Albino Joker
Albino Joker appears as a Boss in the video game Kamen Rider: Battride War II, fighting against Kamen Rider Blade and Joker Undead.
Kamen Rider Battle Rush[]
Kamen Rider Glaive appears as a playable and support character in the video game Kamen Rider Battle Rush using Gravity Slash.
Masked Rider Expansion[]
Kamen Rider Glaive Masked Rider Expansion card
Kamen Rider Glaive appears as a playable character in this trading card game with other Kamen Rider Heisei-Era, Kamen Rider Showa-Era, Super Sentai, Metal Heroes and other Heroes.
Kamen Rider Buttobasoul[]
Kamen Rider Glaive Medal
Kamen Rider Glaive is a playable character in Kamen Rider Buttobasoul.
Personality[]
Junichi Shimura, also known as the Albino Joker after his transformation, is driven by ambition and a desire for ultimate dominance. Shimura is calculated and manipulative from the start, eager to betray and deceive everyone around him in order to achieve his aims. Shimura's ability to take on human form enables him to integrate into BOARD, gaining access to key resources and information through his position.
Beneath his pleasant demeanor is a ruthless and remorseless person. This ruthlessness is demonstrated further when he betrays and murders his companions, Natsumi Miwa and Shin Magaki, in order to clear any obstacles in his way. Shimura possesses undeniable intelligence and resourcefulness. Along with his strategic mentality, this enables him to carry out intricate plans, such as the unlocking of Jashin-14 and his eventual merger with the beast. Shimura's ultimate goal of becoming the ultimate Undead via this union exemplifies his unwavering quest of power and superiority. However, his collapse is caused by the very attributes he embodies—overconfidence—which leads to his defeat.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Biological Immortality: As an Undead, Junichi Shimura can survive from any physical injuries, no matter how grave they may be. However, upon fusing himself with Jashin 14, he is susceptible to being destroyed alongside the giant entity.
- Human Disguise: Since Junichi Shimura is an Undead, he can shift himself from his human to Undead form, making him similar to Royal Club Undeads.
- Albiroachi: He can generate his own army of Darkroachi, the Albiroachi without the help of the Sealing Slab.
Weaknesses[]
- Amane Kurihara: Albino Joker as Jashin 14 is invincible but as seen in the movie, when Hajime changes places with Amane, it causes his power to go down, making vulnerable to the attacks of BOARD Riders.
Forms[]
Kamen Rider Glaive
- "Open Up!"
- ―Transformation announcement[src]
- Rider Senses
- Hearing: 5 km.[2]
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 300 AP[1] (3 t.)
- Kicking Power: 500 AP[1] (5 t.)
- Resistance: 120 t.[2]
- Maximum Jump Height: 35 m.[1]
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m. per 5 sec.[1]
- Special Attacks
- Gravity Slash: 3500 AP[1] (35 t.)
Shimura transforms into Glaive using the original Change Kerberos Rouse Card created by Hiroshi Tennoji in conjunction with the Glaive Buckle, which utilizes the Leangle Buckle's Open Up system. He is equipped with the Glaive Rouzer. By scanning the Mighty Gravity Rouse Card in the Glaive Rouzer, Glaive can perform the Gravity Slash finishing attack.
Appearances: New Generation, Missing Ace, Decade Episodes 1, 7 (Flashback), 31 (Special Version only) , Treasure de End Pirates, Type HIGH SPEED! (Image).
Kamen Rider Leangle
- "Open Up!"
- ―Transformation announcement[src]
- Rider Senses
- Hearing: 10 km.[2]
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 300 AP[3] (3 t.)
- Kicking Power: 490 AP[3] (4.9 t.)
- Maximum Jump Height: 30 m.[3]
- Maximum Running Speed: 100 m. per 5 sec.[3]
- Special Attacks
- Tapir Remote: 2200 MP[4] (22 t.)
- Polar Blizzard: 1200 MP[4] (12 t.)
- Bee Stab: 400 FP[4] (4 t.)
- Squid Smog: 2000 MP[4] (20 t.)
- Rhinoceros Rush: 800 FP[4] (8 t.)
- Dragonfly Float: 1000 FP[4] (10 t.)
- Blizzard Clash: 2400 AP[2] (24 t.)
- Blizzard Gale: 1800 AP[2] (18 t.)
- Spinning Dance: 3600 AP[2] (36 t.)
- Screw Rush: 1400 AP[2] (14 t.)
- Blizzard Venom: 3800 AP[2] (38 t.)
Leangle's default form assumed by using the Leangle Buckle and Change Spider Rouse Card. The transformation fuses the user with the DNA of the Spider Undead. Leangle has higher ability parameters than Blade and Garren, allowing him to compensate for the fact that he cannot assume other forms like them.
This form is exclusive to Dream Dome! Kamen Rider Blade vs Dekaranger!.
Albino Joker
- Statistics
The Albino Joker (アルビノジョーカー, Arubino Jōkā) is Shimura's true form. A second Joker that rose to power after Hajime was sealed in the movie, he strives to create the Vanity Card using the power of all four Category King Rouse Cards. One of the most fearsome powers of the Albino Joker is that, even without having won the Battle Fight, (although he may technically have, considering Hajime was sealed away), he is able to generate an army of Albiroachi without the help of the Sealing Slab.
Unlike his counterpart Black Joker, Albino Joker has a lot of abilities, making him the most powerful Undead.
- He can shoot energy beams from his hand.
- He can assume his own human disguise, similar to the Royal Club Undead.
- He can unseal Undead and force them to loyally serve him as in the movie, all Undead try to help Albino Joker hunt Amane rather than go rogue and fight among themselves.
- He can generate his own army of Darkroachi, the Albiroachi without the help of the Sealing Slab.
Albino Joker controlling Jashin 14
- Statistics
After using the Vanity Card to seal Amane into the slab as a sacrifice, the Albino Joker is granted control over Jashin 14, an ancient creature that is nigh-indestructible. He is easily able to swat away attacks by all four of the Riders, even with Garren and Blade using their Jack Forms. However, after Hajime replaces Amane as the sacrifice then makes Blade destroy him, this form is severely weakened, and the Riders are able to attack him at last, until both Jashin and the Albino Joker are destroyed by Blade's Royal Straightflash.
This form is exclusive to Missing Ace.Equipment[]
- Glaive Buckle: Transformation device
- Chalice Rouzer: Transformation belt as the Albino Joker
- Rouse Cards: Allow Glaive to perform special attacks
- Rouse Bank: Cards holder
- Glaive Rouzer: Glaive's personal weapon
Undeads[]
Rouse Cards[]
Rider Card[]
KamenRide: Glaive
- "KamenRide: Glaive"
- ―Diendriver summoning announcement[src]
Glaive as summoned by Diend Complete Form.
- KamenRide: Glaive (カメンライドグレイブ, Kamenraido Gureibu): A Rider Card containing the power of Kamen Rider Glaive, possessed by Kamen Rider Diend. It one of the eight cards used by Diend Complete Form. It summons Kamen Rider Glaive. [Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates]
Behind the Scenes[]
Portrayal[]
Junichi Shimura is portrayed by Yuuki Kuroda (黒田 勇樹, Kuroda Yūki),who previously portrayed Hiroshi
in Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and later played a similar character Junichi Kaito in Kamen Rider Decade. As Kamen Rider Glaive and Albino Joker, his suit actor was Naoki Nagase (永瀬尚希, Nagase Naoki),In Kamen Rider Glaives appearance in Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates, his suit actor was Toshihiro Ogura (おぐら としひろ , Ogura Toshihiro).
Etymology[]
- Kamen Rider Glaive name comes from the middle French glaive, and east from the old French glaive, from the Latin gladius ("sword")
Concept Art[]
Albino Joker was designed by Yasushi Nirasawa, who also in charge of the rest of the Undeads. While similar in design to the original black Joker, Albino was given a mirror reflection design and is colored white to resemble the Orphnochs from Kamen Rider 555, while the red gives allusion to the monster being soaked with the blood of his victims. Nirasawa admitted in page 86 of UNDEAD GREEN BLOOD that he regretted designing Albino Joker to be a mirror opposite of his template, since it denied the monster from getting its own soft vinyl figure (he testified that had Albino being a simple color repaint, it would have made it possible for the soft vinyl figurines to do the same).
Notes[]
- Glaive's use of the Glaive Rouzer makes him analogous to Blade, whereas Natsumi Miwa is analogous to Garren and Lance is analogous to Leangle.
- Albino Joker is a negative color swap of the Joker Undead.
- In some playing card decks, there are two Jokers, one Black, and the other one Red. In this case, Hajime would represent the suits of Spades and Clover (Black Joker) while Junichi would represent the suits of Hearts and Diamonds (Red Joker); note the color of Hajime's body and Junichi's visor in their Undead forms.
- Since Red Jokers usually outrank Black Jokers, this would be fitting for Junichi being the most powerful Undead.
- In some playing card decks, there are two Jokers, one Black, and the other one Red. In this case, Hajime would represent the suits of Spades and Clover (Black Joker) while Junichi would represent the suits of Hearts and Diamonds (Red Joker); note the color of Hajime's body and Junichi's visor in their Undead forms.
- Instead of being sealed into a Rouse Card, the Albino Joker met his demise by being destroyed alongside Jashin 14. However, external sources such as Rouse Card Archives and Kamen Rider Zukan would feature the design of the Rouse Card.
- According to Natsumi Miwa, Junichi's Zodiac sign is Sagittarius and his Blood type is O. Given his Undead nature though, this information would have been likely to be falsified anyway.
- The Albino Joker's origins were left unexplained in the film. However, according to external sources, the Albino Joker's role is to restart the Battle Fight in the event that there is no winner.[6]
Appearances[]
Kamen Rider Blade
- Kamen Rider Decade
- Episode 1: Rider War
- Episode 7: Super Trick of the Real Criminal (Flashback)
- Episode 31/Finale: The Destroyer of Worlds (Special Version only)
- Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates
- Type HIGH SPEED! The True Power! Type High Speed is Born! (only Image)
See also[]
- Hajime Aikawa - Original first Joker Undead.
- Kazuma Kenzaki - Second Joker Undead.
- Hajime Shijyo - Artifial Undead Joker in Kamen Rider Decade.
- Junichi Kaito - Alternative Counterpart and user of the Kamen Rider Glaive in Kamen Rider Decade.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Shogakukan. (2005). Masked Rider Blade: Complete Works. p. 98-99. ISBN 978-4091051035.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Kamen Rider Official Data/Perfect File.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 (2004). Kamen Rider Leangle.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Rouse Cards.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Shogakukan. (2005). Masked Rider Blade: Complete Works. p. 106. ISBN 978-4091051035.
- ↑ 『週刊 仮面ライダー オフィシャルパーフェクトファイル』デアゴスティーニ・ジャパン
External Links[]
- Junichi Shimura on Kamen Rider Official
- Kamen Rider Glaive on Kamen Rider Official
- Albino Joker on Kamen Rider Official
- Jashin 14 on Kamen Rider Official
