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Episode 23; Man With the Qualifications; 資格ある者
	Kamen Rider Agito episode
Writer	Inoue Toshiki
Director	Tasaki Ryuuta
Original air date	July 8, 2001
Viewership	12.8%
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Kamen Rider Agito
< Ep 22	Man With the Qualifications 資格ある者	Ep 24 >
Aired with GaoRanger Quest 20

Air date: July 8, 2001 (2001-07-08)

Important things that happened

Hikawa does a body check-up on Ozawa's request; the doctor explains Hikawa is man who bears pain. Despite all the muscles are tearing, Hikawa feels no problem until the body reaches its limits, even he has trouble in standing up straight. Ozawa awares Hikawa cannot master using the G3-X because he puts a lot of force into his movements. She describes G3-X has an AI program that has a will of its own; Hikawa's forceful movements clash with the AI, resulting it does damage to his body.
Ozawa considers finding someone else who can harmonize with the AI's will. She decides Shouichi is a carefree person who can be a good candidate to try the G3-X suit. Hikawa refuses to let Shouichi replace him in using the G3-X. He trains extensively just to make Ozawa give him another chance.
Houjou passes the first maneuver in the V1 System suit. He changes position with Hikawa who prepares to go through the maneuver in the G3-X. Houjou accidentally points his gun at G3-X; the G3-X AI turns on, causing the Rider to attack Houjou. As G3-X is about to deliver a finishing punch on the unconscious Houjou, he stops and hears a call saying an Unknown is sighted. G3-X deploys to the battle site immediately. The episode ends with G3-X defeating the Apis Mellitus Unknown and then points the GX-05 weapon at Agito.

TV Asahi site

Kamen Rider G3-X

仮面ライダーG3-X

Unknown

Apis Mellitus (アピス・メリトゥス)

Voiced by: Takada Yumi (高田由美)
Bee Lord ビーロード

Guest Stars

Professor Takamura Kousuke - Shimizu Kouji → 高村光介 - 清水紘治
College Student - Ogura Toshihiro → 大学生の男 - 小倉敏博
Boy A - Mizuno Shigeki → 少年A - 水野樹希

Recurring

Kouno Kouji - Taguchi Kazumasa → 河野浩司 - 田口主将
Police Official - Kazi Kentarou → 警視庁幹部 - 加地健太郎
Police Official - Kanou Ken → 警視庁幹部 - 狩野謙
Police Official - Noguchi Masahiro → 警視庁幹部 - 野口雅弘

Voice Actress

Apis Mellitus - Takada Yumi → アピス・メリトゥス - 高田由美

List of Guests in Agito

Songs Used

Trivia

The V1 System's design is similar to metal heroes like the ones from the Space Sheriff series.
Shouichi and Ozawa test Hikawa in whether he really puts a lot of force into his movements. Shouichi notices Hikawa can pick up Momen-tofu, but not Kinugoshi-tofu. Tofu has two meanings: Momen means firm while Kinugoshi means soft. The Kinugoshi-tofu obviously breaks as Hikawa puts a lot of force to pick it up with a pair of chopsticks.[1]
Shouichi shows his license in this episode. From it you can see his address. All the years are written in Heisei year terms. It says that it will expire on Shouichi's birthday 2003 (Heisei 15). There's also another date April 1, 1980 (Showa 55), probably the assumption for Shouichi's birthday? There's a date September 11, 2000 (Heisei 12) on it.
The GX-05 is a folding weapon for G3-X. The Rider enters the 132 password to activate the transformation code and then manually changes the weapon into gun mode. The folding concept is probably inspired by the folding UC-M21 submachine-gun from the RoboCop 2 movie which the gun is used by the antagonist, Hob.
- The GX-05 also draws inspiration from Minigun as the barrel rotates when firing bullets. G3-X is equipped with two ammo packs next to the battery device; the Rider can reload once the GX-05 runs out of ammo.

Staff

Original Creator:	Ishinomori Shoutarou (石ノ森章太郎)
Supervisor:	Onodera Akira (小野寺章)
Writer:	Inoue Toshiki (井上敏樹)
Director:	Tasaki Ryuuta (田崎竜太)
Producer:	Matsuda Saeko (松田佐栄子) (TV Asahi) Shirakura Shinichirou (白倉伸一郎) Takebe Naomi (武部直美) Tsukada Hideaki (塚田英明) (Toei)
Music:	Sahashi Toshihiko (佐橋俊彦)
Cinematographer:	Inokuma Masao (いのくままさお)
Editor:	Osada Naoki (長田直樹)
Action Director:	Yamada Kazuyoshi (山田一善) (Japan Action Enterprise)
Production:	TV Asahi (テレビ朝日) Toei (東映) ADK (エーディーケー)

Transcript

Kamen Rider Agito 23 Transcript

External Links

note: site below is no longer accessible.

Toei site (story)

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 |'''Man With the Qualifications'''<br>資格ある者
 |[[Kamen Rider Agito 24|Ep 24]] >
+|-align="center"
+|colspan="3"|Aired with [[GaoRanger Quest 20]]
 |}
 Air date: {{Start date|2001|07|08}}
 ==Important things that happened==
-*Ozawa explains that the G3-X has an AI program that has a will of its own. Since Hikawa puts a lot of force into his movements, when he clashes with the AI it does damage to his body.
+*Hikawa does a body check-up on Ozawa's request; the doctor explains Hikawa is man who bears pain. Despite all the muscles are tearing, Hikawa feels no problem until the body reaches its limits, even he has trouble in standing up straight. Ozawa awares Hikawa cannot master using the G3-X because he puts a lot of force into his movements. She describes G3-X has an AI program that has a will of its own; Hikawa's forceful movements clash with the AI, resulting it does damage to his body.
-*Houjou deploys in the V1 System without permission and succeeds in driving away an Unknown.
+*Ozawa considers finding someone else who can harmonize with the AI's will. She decides Shouichi is a carefree person who can be a good candidate to try the G3-X suit. Hikawa refuses to let Shouichi replace him in using the G3-X. He trains extensively just to make Ozawa give him another chance.
-*Ozawa considers finding someone else who can harmonize with the AI's will. She decides Tsugami Shouchi would be a good candidate.
+*Houjou passes the first maneuver in the V1 System suit. He changes position with Hikawa who prepares to go through the maneuver in the G3-X. Houjou accidentally points his gun at G3-X; the G3-X AI turns on, causing the Rider to attack Houjou. As G3-X is about to deliver a finishing punch on the unconscious Houjou, he stops and hears a call saying an Unknown is sighted. G3-X deploys to the battle site immediately. The episode ends with G3-X defeating the Apis Mellitus Unknown and then points the GX-05 weapon at Agito.
-*She gives Hikawa another chance, but while doing some testing with the V1 System, Houjou accidentally points his gun at the G3-X, causing the AI to turn on. Hikawa in the G3-X destroys the V1 System, but stops when he hears a call saying there's an Unknown.
-*Hikawa deploys in the G3-X and fights the Unknown with Agito, using the GM-05 for the first time. After defeating the Unknown, Hikawa points the GM-05 at Agito and the episode ends.
-http://tvarc.toei.co.jp/tv/user/program/browse3.asp?Command=Old&StrNum=23&SID=144
+[https://web.archive.org/web/20030408102155/http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/agito/story/arasuji_23.html TV Asahi site]
 ==[[Kamen Rider G3-X]]==
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 ==[[Kamen Rider Agito Guests|Guest Stars]]==
 *{{g2|高村光介|清水紘治|Professor Takamura Kousuke|[[Shimizu Kouji]]}}
+*{{g2|大学生の男|小倉敏博|College Student|[[Ogura Toshihiro]]}}
+*{{g2|少年A|水野樹希|Boy A|[[Mizuno Shigeki]]}}
 ===Recurring===
 *{{g2|河野浩司|田口主将|Kouno Kouji|[[Taguchi Kazumasa]]}}
@@ Line 49: / Line 51: @@
 *{{g2|アピス・メリトゥス|高田由美|Apis Mellitus|[[Takada Yumi]]}}
-==Songs Used==
+[http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~ganmaru/sfx/rider/agito/act_epi.html List of Guests in Agito]
+==[[:Category: Kamen Rider Agito Lyrics|Songs Used]]==
 *[[Kamen Rider AGITO]]
 *[[BELIEVE YOURSELF]]
 ==Trivia==
-*The V1 System looks a lot like the heroes from the Space Sheriff series.
+*The V1 System's design is similar to metal heroes like the ones from the Space Sheriff series.
-*Shouichi shows his license in this episode. From it you can see his address. All the years are written in Heisei year terms. It says that it will expire on Shouichi's birthday 2003 (Heisei 15). There's also another date April 1, 1980 (Shouwa 55), probably the assumption for Shouichi's birthday?  There's a date September 11, 2000 (Heisei 12) on it.
+*Shouichi and Ozawa test Hikawa in whether he really puts a lot of force into his movements. Shouichi notices Hikawa can pick up Momen-tofu, but not Kinugoshi-tofu. Tofu has two meanings: Momen means firm while Kinugoshi means soft. The Kinugoshi-tofu obviously breaks as Hikawa puts a lot of force to pick it up with a pair of chopsticks.[https://www.earthsourcefoods.com.au/blogposts/2017/3/17/what-is-momen-tofu]
+*Shouichi shows his license in this episode. From it you can see his address. All the years are written in Heisei year terms. It says that it will expire on Shouichi's birthday 2003 (Heisei 15). There's also another date April 1, 1980 (Showa 55), probably the assumption for Shouichi's birthday? There's a date September 11, 2000 (Heisei 12) on it.
+*The GX-05 is a folding weapon for G3-X. The Rider enters the '''132''' password to activate the transformation code and then manually changes the weapon into gun mode. The folding concept is probably inspired by the folding UC-M21 submachine-gun from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_2 RoboCop 2] movie which the gun is used by the antagonist, Hob.
+**The GX-05 also draws inspiration from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun Minigun] as the barrel rotates when firing bullets. G3-X is equipped with two ammo packs next to the battery device; the Rider can reload once the GX-05 runs out of ammo.
 ==Staff==
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 |{{name|TV Asahi|テレビ朝日}}
 |{{name|Toei|東映}}
-|{{name|ADK|株式会社エーデイーケイ}}
+|{{name|ADK|エーディーケー}}
 }}
 |}
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 ==External Links==
+''note: site below is no longer accessible.''
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030408102155/http://tvarc.toei.co.jp/tv/user/program/browse3.asp?Command=Old&StrNum=23&SID=144 Toei site] (story)
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