The Fangires are the story's adaptation of the fictional Vampire creature of European folklore (their name being a combination of Fang and Vampire). These creatures are Stain Glass monsters that feed and sustain themselves by consuming the life force of humans, leaving their fallen prey in a transparent glass like state.
In order of appearance in the series as follows.
Itoya Ryo
Itoya Ryo (The Spider Fangire) is a severe mentally disturbed Fangire and is the first shown in the series. After facing Aso Yuri, he develops an extreme obsession for her. This obsession carries on for twenty years and is passed on to Yuri's daughter, Megumi, whom he now intends to "marry" just like he had tried previously with Yuri.
Tsugami Kaoru
Tsugami Kaoru (The Horse Fangire) is a Fangire who prefers attractive women as his meals. At first a successful businessman in the 1980s who consumes the life energies from his female secretaries. In the present, he's a male model and agent who scouts female models as a more definite means of satisfying his tastes.
Miyazawa Hitomi
Miyazawa Hitomi (The Octopus Fangire) is a talented violinist who uses her seductive skills of playing to lure victims for consumption. After starting a career as a professional violinist with the overseeing of Kurenai Otoya, and later being discovered. She returns by the present to seek revenge on Aso Megumi for her mother, Yuri, damaging her violin.
Natsukawa Aya
Natsukawa Aya (The Moth Fangire) was a former botanist who had previously developed a crush on Kurenai Otoya. After the twenty-two years of growing bitter, Natsukawa eventually became a lawyer and decided to get revenge on Otoya by sullying his name and reputation.
Kuramae Noboru
Kuramae Noboru (The Sheep Fangire) is an extreme fan of Aso Megumi. To the point of stalking her, he eventually encounters another Fangire, Itoya Ryo, who shares his interest. But after Ryo seemed to be intent on taking Megumi for himself, Noboru forces him out of the picture and plans to "marry" Megumi instead.
Omura Takeo
Omura Takeo (The Frog Fangire) was a violin maker responsible for creating the Black Star Violin. After killing those he didn't deem worthy of ownership of his creation, and meeting Kurenai Otoya, he encounters Otoya's son, Wataru twenty-two years later and instructs him in how to properly make violins.
Earwig
The Earwig Fangire was among those who had been interrupted by Aso Yuri from feeding. However as he took it a bit personal, he decided to get back at her quite sooner that most others did.
Miyake Toru
Miyake Toru (The Rhinoceros Fangire) is a talent agent who's preferred meals are young people with great dreams ahead of them. Believing the energy they put into making their dreams come true to be most exquisite. He works as a scout for in order to seek out young talented people to feed on and then collects something that was involved with their goal as a trophy or a grave memorial or sorts.
Sakaguchi Sakichi
Sakaguchi Sakichi (The Seastar Fangire) is a mentally disturbed thief on the run from Nago Keisuke. With a preference for female athletes, he comes after the life of Kurosawa Mami various times.
Ladybug
The Ladybug Fangire is a vengeful, grudge filled Fangire. Bitter over the lives of his friends being taken by IXA over the years. He kidnaps Nago Keisuke and Eritate Kengo believing that Aso Megumi was the IXA System's user.
Yamashita
Yamashita (The Chameleon Fangire) is a clothing store owner who feeds on those who had purchased items from his stores. At first owning and operating the clothing store, Luxur, in the 80s. He was forced to relocate after being discovered by the Wonderful Blue Sky Org. After twenty-two years of hiding, he restarted his operations once again with a new clothing store.
Takeuchi Shinji
Takeuchi Shinji (The Grizzly Fangire) is a desperate and tormented individual torn over the love of his wife, Ryoko, and the fear of being sentenced to death by his own kind. After restoring his relationship with Ryoko and successfully evading execution by the hands of Queen in the 80s, by the present he is now depressed over Ryoko's deteriorating health and has since resorted to stealing various valuables such as jewelry in order to make his wife's last days happy.
Shark
The Shark Fangire is among various Fangires under the service of the Checkmate Four. Of one these services, he was ordered along with Itoya Ryo by Bishop to track and eliminate the newest traitor Queen, Suzuki Mio.
Cicada
The Cicada Fangire is of the various Fangires under the service of the Checkmate Four. Among these services was acting as an envoy for the 1980s Queen, Maya. After having to remind her of her duties, he decided to remove her distraction by eliminating Tanahashi. However as Nago Keisuke negated his death, he still lives on and serves to the present day.
Crab
The Crab Fangire is one of the minuet few Fangires to take advantage of the Wonderful Blue Sky Org's imprisonment under false charges and freely feeds on many Humans during that time.
Abel
Abel (The Warthog Fangire) is an exceptionally powerful Fangire seeking to be King of the Checkmate Four. With enough strength to go toe to toe against the likes of Kiva's Emeror From and Rook individually. He seeks out to kill the current King, whom he has heard can display special powers and is hidden amongst the human populace, and resorts to killing anyone who exerts special abilities in the hopes that they are King.
Kurosawa
Kurosawa (The Moose Fangire) is of the various Fangires serving under the Checkmate Four. After promising to Look after the previous Queen's son, Nobori Taiga, 22 years ago, Kurosawa now acts as Taiga's, the new King, assistant. Due to his promise with the previous Queen, he sees the new Queen, Suzuki Mio, unfit for Taiga and as Queen.
Numakawa
Numakawa (The Tortoise Fangire) is an unfortunate individual who was sentenced to execution by his own kind for loving a human.
Kaede
Kaede (The Horsefly Fangire) is a Fangire captured by human scientist, Professor Kanda, and forced into cannibalism for his experiments. After encountering King, Kaede decided to use Kanda so as to gain greater power in order to survive being marked as a traitor.
Rat
The Rat Fangire is a disgruntled individual with a grudge against the Fangire Queen, Maya. After being interrupted and prevented from killing Aso Yuri twice by Maya. The Rat's grudge against her as gone on twenty-two years later and now wishes to exact revenge on the current Queen, Suzuki Mio.
Checkmate Four
The Checkmate Four are the Four most powerful of the Fangire species. Naming themselves after the last four of six chess pieces. Each is named ofter the tattoo they brandish.
Rook
Rook (The Lion Fangire) is the first introduced of the Checkmate Four. Bestowed with unbelievable power, strength and skill, but not patience, he constantly uses these to entertain himself with his "time play" games. Because of these games, he has often become the object of revenge for multiple people. After falling in battle due to the IXA System in the 1980s, Rook reemerges in the present only to find himself at a loss of what to do as he has, by now, played every single game variation that he can possibly think of.
Maya
Maya (The Pearlshell Fangire) is the matriarchal member of the Checkmate Four. Commanding respect and fear even from the likes of of fellow member, Rook, as well as stunning beauty. Despite her sole duty to destroy traiterious Fangires who choose to fully coexist with humans, she develops a curiosity towards the humans so as to better understand why so many fellow members of the Fangire species find a fondness for them.
Suzuki Mio
Suzuki Mio (The Pearlshell Fangire) is a good hearted yet shy and clumsy individual. After regularly putting herself down because of her shortcomings and bettering herself after meeting Kurenai Wataru. She now copes with learning of, and accepting the merciless role as the latest Queen of The Checkmate Four, the main enforcer of the Fangire species.
Bishop
Bishop (The Swallowtail Fangire) is the scheming, behind the scenes member of the Checkmate Four. Aside from his duty as the administrative, propagandist commander of the Fangires, he has personally taken up the duty of awakening the newest Queen and seeking out a new King after going so long as a member of the four with out them.
Nobori Taiga
Nobori Taiga is the modern day King of the Checkmate Four and of the Fangire species. In order to fulfill his role, he has since become the president of a technicians company "Development & Pioneer", using it to secretly find and destroy anything that would further Human advancement. Despite his duty as King to prevent Humanity to progress beyond the Fangire's control he is not above being kind or even friendly with them as evidenced by his relationship to Kurenai Wataru.
King
King is the husband of Maya, head of the Checkmate Four and master of all Fangires. After hearing of Maya's possible affair with the Human, Kurenai Otoya, he sets out in order to discern the truth of this rumor.
| KAMEN RIDER KIVA |
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| Kiva | IXA System | Saga |
| Characters | 13 Monster Races |
| King of Hell Castle | Climax Deka |
| Preceded by Den-O | Succeeded by Decade |
