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Shogo Azuma (東 省吾, Azuma Shōgo) was a squad leader of ZECT.
History[]
Shogo Azuma is the leader of Team Azuma, one of the several teams within the organization, and was in charge of the "Kabuto Capture Operation" led by ZECT HQ to capture Kamen Rider Kabuto. Azuma keeps to monitor Soji Tendo, believing him is Kabuto's user, and stopped Yuzuki Misaki of Team Tadokoro, who was trying to contact him on her own. He told her that the capture operation was underway, and had her temporarily join his team to help out. The operation was to use the worm that was left behind as a decoy to lure Kabuto out, saying that it was necessary to achieve that.
After that, he succeeded in taking Tendo into custody, but Misaki, who was in charge of the interrogation, was swept up in Tendo's pace and was unable to get anything out of him, so he tried to switch to torture. However, the facility was attacked by Pulex Worm alongside a group of Worm (Chrysalis), Azuma and Mikio Soeno was killed by the Worm, his appearance also mimicked by the Worm. The corpse of them eventually found by Soji Tendo and Arata Kagami.
Personality[]
Azuma is a cold-blooded person who does things at all costs. In order to hunt down Kabuto, he can give the fellow members with order to give up the elimination of Worm and let them continue to kill more citizens, only with that can lure out Kabuto and capture him to complete the task from his superiors. At the same time, he also felt that Misaki's verbal interrogation method was too soft, and planned to conduct physical torture on Tendo.
However, it was because of letting Worm run away that Pulex Worm had the opportunity to attack into the facility and eventually killed Azuma.
Behind the scenes[]
Portrayal[]
Shogo Azuma is portrayed by Atsushi Ogawa (小川 敦史, Ogawa Atsushi), who previously portrayed Tetsuya Sawaki in Kamen Rider Agito and Masahiko Minami in Kamen Rider 555. He would later go to portrays Tanahashi in Kamen Rider Kiva.
Appearances[]
Kamen Rider Kabuto
- Episode 5: Order to Capture!!
- Episode 6: My Flower