Kisaragi Gentarou

如月弦太朗

Played by: Fukushi Sota 福士蒼汰

History

Kisaragi Gentarou is a third year student at Ama High and is Kamen Rider Fourze. His parents died in a traffic accident while he was in third grade. Gentarou ended up living with his grandfather, Kisaragi Goro. Due to his grandfather's job as a motorcycle mechanic for various race circuits, Gentarou was constantly moving and left behind his friend, Joujima Yuuki. It wasn't until the second year of high school when he reunited with Yuuki. While in the cafeteria, Gentarou got on the wrong side of the football team and forced to take some hits because they took Yuuki as hostage. During this beating, the Orion Zodiarts appeared and tried to defend Yuuki from it as a regular human. Utahoshi Kengo was able to force the Orion Zodiarts to retreat.

Gentarou followed Yuuki and Kengo to the Rabbit Hutch where he took the Fourze Driver from Kengo. With a bit of help from Yuuki, he was able to use the belt to transform into Fourze. After defeating the Orion Zodiarts, Kengo allow Gentarou to use the Fourze Driver. With some inspiration from Nozama Tomoko, Gentarou decided to create the Kamen Rider Club so Fourze is now Kamen Rider Fourze. In over the course of time, he added members to the Kamen Rider Club like Kazashiro Miu, JK, Daimonji Shun, and Nozama Tomoko. He initially distrusted Sakuta Ryuusei as he would not show his true side but ended up allowing him to join as an apprentice member after seeing a glimmer of his true side by punching him after defeating the Lynx Zodiarts.

When Gentarou, Yuuki, Kengo, and Ryuusei went to Subaruboshi High to investigate Zodiarts, Gentarou was killed by Ryuusei so Aries could save his friend, Jirou. With the help of Tachibana and Kengo, he was revived with the power of the Cosmic Switch and was able to access his final form as Fourze.

Personality

Despite looking like a delinquent with his pompadour haircut and his non-Ama High school uniform, Gentarou is actually pretty nice and willing to socialize with anyone. His main desire is to make everyone his friend which came from his parents being happy every time he made a friend. Gentarou goes to many lengths to make his current and future friends happy such as jumping into canals to find items (love letter and keychain) and going to JK's home town to see his father so he could make JK see reason. He accepts the bad side of people like JK's tendency to use people and forgives them for doing awful things (Ryuusei killing him). He is afraid of the supernatural. Also he doesn't seem to be interested in having a relationship with anyone. Gentarou's greatest strength is the ability to bond with people and thus he actually the best person for the Fourze Driver since the bond between people is vital to survive in space.

As Fourze, he likes to brawl with the enemy but can fight smart with the Switches. He has shown many times that he can use Switches in clever combinations which is necessary for Cosmic States due to its ability to add Switch properties to other Switches.

Trivia

Unlike the other members of the Kamen Rider Club, he does not have a connection with a previous Kamen Rider with his name. Kisaragi is made of the kanji "like" and "moon", so his family name means "like the moon". Kisaragi all together is the name of the second month of the lunar calendar.
His given name is yet another something-tarou. The gen in his name means "string from an instrument" but I also notice that in geometry, it means "chord (straight line joining two points on a curve" which is kind of what he does with the various kids in the school.

When he appeared in the OOO Wonderful Movie, he did not have the pompadour haircut.