Kamen Rider Kuuga (
仮面ライダークウガ Kamen Raidā Kūga?) is the protagonist and
eponymous character of the 2000
Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Kuuga. Unlike other Heisei Rider series that have at least 2 characters who are considered Kamen Riders, Kuuga is the only Kamen Rider appearing in the Kuuga series. In the series, he is referred simply as
Kuuga. His motif is the
stag beetle. Kuuga's name in Japanese comes from the readings for "clear-self" (
空我 Kūga?)."Godai" translates to "five great" and is also one of the names for the five elements in Japanese philosophy. This relates to Kuuga's forms and their relations the five elements.
An alternate version of Kuuga appears as one of the main supporting characters in the 2009 series Kamen Rider Decade. Yusuke Godai (五代 雄介 Godai Yūsuke?, portrayed by Joe Odagiri) is a young, happy-go-lucky, multi-talented man said to possess 1999 (later 2000) different abilities. He is an honest person that fights to protect everyone's smile. He and his younger sister, Minori, lost their mother while they were both young and later their father in Afghanistan when they were older and living with their father's friend Tamasaburo Kazari. Yusuke's trademark, along with his positive-thinking ideology, is to always give a thumbs up (the Roman sign to convey that everything is alright) to everybody around him.
On the day he returns to Japan from Indonesia at the airport, Yusuke's life changes as he returns with a mask for Sakurako Sawatari, who assisted in Professor Natsume's archaeological finding of the Linto (
リント Rinto?) Tribe and a mummified corpse. The finding creates a disruption, unsealing a strange monster that attacks the archaeologists. Receiving a distress call from them, Yusuke makes his way to the excavation site, seeing the light that marks the rebirth of the Gurongi Tribe. By the time he arrives at the scene at daybreak, he finds the police investigating the area and meets detective Kaoru Ichijo and finds a strange belt tied to the visions he's been seeing. He later meets Ichijo as he and Sakurako are brought to police station to learn the archaeologists were all slaughtered by the mysterious monster, later referred to as "Unidentified Life Form #0", before being given the belt, the Arcle, to translate the markings on it.
On the day he returns to Japan from Indonesia at the airport, Yusuke's life changes as he returns with a mask for Sakurako Sawatari, who assisted in Professor Natsume's archaeological finding of the Linto (リント Rinto) Tribe and a mummified corpse. The finding creates a disruption, unsealing a strange monster that attacks the archaeologists. Receiving a distress call from them, Yusuke makes his way to the excavation site, seeing the light that marks the rebirth of the Gurongi Tribe. By the time he arrives at the scene at daybreak, he finds the police investigating the area and meets detective Kaoru Ichijo and finds a strange belt tied to the visions he's been seeing. He later meets Ichijo as he and Sakurako are brought to police station to learn the archaeologists were all slaughtered by the mysterious monster, later referred to as "Unidentified Life Form #0", before being given the belt, the Arcle, to translate the markings on it.
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