Like I said in the review of the music video, the lyrics all have to do with Goto rather than Date. And there's no better way to show this than to listen to the lyrics of "Reverse/Re:Birth," their image song. The whole story's building to it, Core shows him as Birth (despite being non-canonical), and we're kind of just waiting for the kid to get his shit together and become Birth. So I'm not entirely sure how that hiring process went, or if the interview was just "I want 100 million yen and I won't explain why," "GREAT, YOU'RE HIRED!" But knowing Kougami.Īs far as awkward positions go, Date is in a big one, both in-story and as far as the audience is concerned. But Maki's not the one who hired him-Kougami was. His only hope was to resort to the black market-every doctor had a price, and he was betting that 100 million yen would be a good enough price to get his surgery done.ĭate became Birth in order to earn this money, but he never told anyone outside of Maki, who had to know his medical conditions in order to determine what effects the Birth System would have on the human body. However, if somebody didn't remove it, he would likely die from the injury-repetitive movement would cause that bullet to travel deeper and cause more extensive damage. His recovery was miraculous, but there was still a bullet deep in his brain, and nobody wanted to risk removing it because of the potential damage they could cause. But the departure didn't go as smoothly for Date as it had for that boy it's unclear exactly when, but implicitly soon after, Date himself became a victim of the war when he was shot in the head. The war was taking a turn for the worst, and sometime after Date got a passing glimpse of a nearly catatonic Japanese teenager being removed from the hospital by his politician parents for safer treatment at home, he learned that they too would have to leave. It was during a civil war in Africa that he came to realize that no matter how much he and his fellow doctors contributed, the moment they had to leave, there was no network in place to continue the work they'd done.
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Nicknamed "The Fighting Doctor," Date was a doctor who worked with an organization that's probably Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières and traveled to countries that desperately needed medical care, particularly in poor areas and warzone. Further kudos go to Eitoku, Birth's suit actor, for carrying that energy in his fighting style, eventually going into something more like wrestling at times, and to Yoshifumi Oshikawa, who managed to match Eitoku's Date so well as Proto-Birth that you can't even notice the change in suit actors for him.
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And I think it all comes down to the performance by Hiroaki Iwanaga, who takes a character who's kind of in an awkward situation and could be really easy to hate and makes him absolutely lovable.
#HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAMEN RIDER OOO FULL#
OOO is full of surprises, but I think the biggest one for the staff is how popular Akira Date, the first Kamen Rider Birth and ultimately Kamen Rider Birth-Prototype (a.k.a.