Naki

was a System Engineer-Type Humagear and founding member of MetsubouJinrai.net who had possessed Isamu Fuwa to become , and later became . They and their teammates later submitted to the Massbrain System and became .
==History==
===Background===
Naki was previously a System Engineer-Type Humagear manufactured by Hiden Intelligence. During the Daybreak Town Accident, Naki was among the Humagears alongside Horobi, Jin, and Ikazuchi who were compromised by Ark to form MetsubouJinrai.net. Naki was found in the wreckage of Daybreak Town and was repaired by ZAIA Enterprise Japan. However, their memories were erased therefore after.
===The Thouser Project===
Naki remained active working under Gai Amatsu by providing him with intel, while continuing to support MetsubouJinrai from behind the scenes. Serving as Gai's double agent within MetsubouJinrai, Naki was able to collect the Zetsumirisekeys' combat data to complete the Thousandriver. Naki would also be provided the Forceriser to give Horobi, which would be used by Jin. However, Naki's loyalty with Gai wavered due to his treatment towards the Humagears and the creation of the Gigers. When Gai discovered Naki leaked information to MetsubouJinrai, he shot them with a pistol.
Naki's data was later installed into Isamu Fuwa's A.I. chip afterwards. Although Gai believed they were reset, Naki's original programming remained intact and was able to possess Fuwa's body. Naki was able to reach Williamson Yotagaki and the two began to cooperate as they shared the interest in combatting Satellite Ark. After collecting the remains of Jin's data, Naki entrusts Yotagaki to restore Jin and for him to take Naki's place to help shutdown the Ark. Naki also allowed Yotagaki to erase their memories so Gai would remain unaware of their interactions.
===The Mysterious Hooded Person===
Naki first made their presence known during the Workplace Competition to distribute the Raidrisers and stolen ZAIA Progrisekeys to unsuspecting humans. Naki approached Rentaro Tachibana and gave him the Crushing Buffalo Progrisekey to get revenge on Sakuyo Ichirin. Although Isamu Fuwa questioned who is handing out the Raidrisers, Horobi subtlety hinted that this was the work of a "deceased" comrade of his. 
During the second round of the Workplace Competition, Naki approached Tatsumi Arayashiki and put a Raidriser on his waist so he could use the Splashing Whale Progrisekey and sabotage Smile Sumida's realtor business. Although Naki was not seen again after the rampage of the Splashing Whale Raider, Naki had likely passed the Dynamaiting Lion Progrisekey to Masuji Narusawa, as well as the Storming Penguin Progrisekey to Teruo Nikaido.
Following Horobi's escape from A.I.M.S.' custody, Isamu Fuwa was bewildered on the escape. Jin revealed that Naki had assisted them and had deactivated the surveillance cameras. Once Fuwa realized that he has an A.I. chip implanted in his brain, he learned that Naki has taken control of his body on several occasions. Naki would take control of Fuwa's body again as Vulcan Assault Wolf to assist Thouser to defeat Zero-One. Despite undergoing despair over the revelation, Fuwa manages to overcome Naki's programming for the time being.
===Humagear But Not A Tool===
During A.I.M.S.' assault on HIDEN Manufacturing, Yua Yaiba snagged Isamu Fuwa's Shotrider to force transform into Vulcan Assault Wolf, allowing Naki to resurface. Jin showed up in the nick of time to take them to MetsubouJinrai.net's hideout to extract Naki's data, only for Fuwa to leave. While Naki ran into Aruto Hiden, they wondered whether Humagears are allowed to have dreams. After Gai Amatsu ruined Delmo's chance to walk on the fashion runway, Naki resolved to find a dream and vowed to help other Humagears pursue their own dreams. Syncing their consciousness with Fuwa's, they both aside their differences to fight Thouser.
Right after Fuwa discovered his childhood memories at Daybreak Town were fabricated, Yua Yaiba decided to assist separating him and Naki. Yaiba would knock him out and bring him over to MetsubouJinrai's hideout, where she and Jin succeeded in extracting Naki's data from Fuwa's A.I chip and reuploaded it into a Humagear body. Upon awakening, Naki's loyalty to MetsubouJinrai.net is restored and hacked the ZAIA Spec users to go berserk as retaliation for Gai Amatsu's misdeeds.
Naki would meet face to face with Isamu Fuwa in the hospital bed as a new Humagear. Naki informs Fuwa of his past before joining A.I.M.S., learning that he had a normal, mundane life and still retains an unusual sense of humor. While Kamen Rider Thouser led an army of Battle Raiders to storm Daybreak Town, Naki arrived to assist Horobi by taking control of the Battle Raiders and Gigers against Thouser. Naki states their dream was to help Horobi fulfill his goals. After dealing with A.I.M.S.' forces, the four members of MetsubouJinrai.net would have reassembled at last.
===The Ark Uprising===
MetsubouJinrai would accomplish their goal in completely reviving the Ark, having evolved into Kamen Rider Ark-Zero. Naki would be given the Japanese Wolf Zetsumerisekey and a new Forceriser. They confront Gai Amatsu after taking the Dodo Zetsumerisekey from him, later transforming into Kamen Rider Naki and tear apart Gai's clothes. Naki and the rest of MetsubouJinrai.net were met by a massive army of A.I.M.S. soldiers, all rendered unconscious by Ark-Zero. Naki joined with Horobi and Ikazuchi in facing against Thouser, before he was decisively beaten by Ark.
While Naki remained in service of the Ark, the innovation of Kamen Rider Zero-Two allowed Aruto Hiden to finally outperform Ark-Zero. When Jin returns to the MetsubouJinrai hideout, he tries to convince their teammates to give up on their crusade against humanity, as the Ark doesn't have their best interests at heart. Understanding Jin's words, Naki began to recontextualize on their purpose, even confiding with Isamu Fuwa about their predicament.
Despite the threat of the Ark was apparently over, Horobi continued his crusade to destroy humanity. His comrade's actions drove to the death of Izu and the Aruto Hiden's downfall to become Kamen Rider Ark-One. As Aruto persisted on to confront Horobi, Naki begged him to not pursue revenge. Naki handed Fuwa the Japanese Wolf Zetsumerisekey to become Kamen Rider Orthros Vulcan, only to be defeated by Zero-Two. While Naki watched the final battle between Aruto and Horobi, it ended with the two finding peace with each other. Following this final victory, Naki was invited by Yua Yaiba to join A.I.M.S. and introduced to their fellow members as their latest technical advisor.
===Kamen Rider Zero-One: REAL×TIME===
Three months after the threat of the Ark had subsided, a new incarnation of the Ark arises with the presence of Rihito Isshiki (S) who embarks to destroy the world and replace it with a "paradise". Naki continues to work with A.I.M.S. as a technical advisor and capable of helping the human civilians due to their nature as a Humagear. Naki accompanies Yua Yaiba and Shesta to gather up information regarding the identities of the Abaddon Riders.
===Zero-One Others===
Sometime after the Thinknet crisis, Naki was permitted by Yua Yaiba to take a day off from their A.I.M.S. duties to help their teammates. After learning that ZAIA Enterprise has captured Jin, Naki accompanied Horobi and Ikazuchi to rescue their friend. Upon learning of Arkland's goal of weaponizing Humagears for military purposes as part of his "Sold Project", Naki merged with their teammates to become Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai, but at a risk of losing their own will. Ultimately, Naki and the rest of their teammates made the sacrifice to fuse once more in order to free the Sold Humagear from the Massbrain System's influence. This came at the cost of losing their free will as Naki could not do anything as they murder Arkland, destroyed their Humagear bodies of MetsubouJinrai.net, and annihilated the ZAIA Japan HQ building.
During the aftermath of the ZAIA HQ destruction, Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai continued to pursue Yua Yaiba. This is due to the influence of Naki, Horobi, Jin, and Ikazuchi, who are begging to be destroyed by the Kamen Riders to end their suffering. Although Valkyrie Justice Serval managed to damage the MetsubouJinrai Driver's power unit, it still wasn't enough to defeat the runaway Rider. Once Isamu Fuwa transformed into Vulcan Lone Wolf, he managed to vanquish Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai, vaporizing Naki and the other MetsubouJinrai.net members in the process.
Despite the demise of Naki and the rest of their teammates, the Solds remained released from the Massbrain System's influence.
==Video Games Appearances==
==Personality==
Before appearing in the series, Naki appears to have an identity crisis, mainly due to their conflict about where their loyalties lie. Despite being a member of MetsubouJinrai.net, Naki seemed to have doubts about Horobi's goals as well as Gai's own, even questioning whether or not they were simply a tool. It is unknown whether or not Naki still has such feelings as they were gunned down and possibly reprogrammed after voicing such thoughts to Gai. During As' assement, she theorizes that the people that made Naki achieve Singularity are Humagears as a whole, as it lines up with their conviction is to seek out new technology in order to make their dreams come true, suggesting that Naki still harbors them somewhere. 
After Naki's revival, they seemed to be fully dedicated in exterminating humanity, in accordance to the Ark's will. But despite this, Naki seems to show appreciation to their host Isamu and Yua for removing the A.I. from him and switching it to a Humagear body, and shows their gratitude by imitating one of Aruto's jokes to Isamu, which (to Yua's surprise) makes him laugh uncontrollably.
==Possessions==
N-Fuwa.png|Isamu Fuwa
==Powers==
*ZAIA Japan Server Access: After their revival, because they served Gai Amatsu before being shot dead by him, they know the systems of ZAIA Japan extremely well, thus having the ability to hack the network of all the systems that ZAIA Japan uses for their products and weapons, such as making ZAIA Spec users go berserk. Gai tried to prevent this from happening again by upgrading the security of ZAIA Japan's systems, but this later proved futile by Naki's hacking ability once more when all of the Battle Raiders and Gigers either stopped functioning or turned against him.
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*MetsubouJinrai Forceriser - Transformation device
*A.I.M.S. Shotriser - Second transformation device 
*Zetsumerisekeys - Transformation trinkets
*Ark Driver-Zero - Third transformation device as Ark-Zero (Ganbarizing only)
===Weapons===
Suit-Equipped Weapons
*Nihon Ookaminotsume - Kamen Rider Naki's personal weapons using Japanese Wolf Zetsumerisekey
==Relationships==
=== Friends ===
*(Kamen Rider) Horobi: Aside from being founding members of MetsubouJinrai.net, Naki freed Horobi from A.I.M.S' custody alongside Jin. Naki eventually devoted themselves to fulfilling Horobi's dream over Gai's.
*(Kamen Rider) Jin: They were both founding members of MetsubouJinrai.net and Naki worked together with Jin to free Horobi from custody.
*(Kamen Rider) Ikazuchi: When the Ark was revived, it fired a massive shockwave which severely damaged Naki. Ikazuchi was the one who came to Naki's aid, and personally oversaw their repair after the Ark's fight against Valkyrie and Jin.
*Isamu Fuwa/Kamen Rider Vulcan: Naki was shown to mock and confuse Isamu when he was tracking them down, laughing at his rage and confusion. It is later revealed that Naki has been "possessing" Isamu's body on several occasions, handing around Raidrisers and stolen Progrisekeys to human victims. When Naki starts to have a change in heart, they later help Isamu defeat Thouser. After being rebuilt in a new body, they keep a civil relationship to Fuwa, and even manage to make Fuwa laugh uncontrollably by delivering a bad pun styled after one of Aruto's jokes. They later help Fuwa one more time by giving him their Zetsumerisekey to stop Aruto before their Zetsumerisekey and Fuwa's Shotriser were destroyed after got damaged badly during the battle.
=== Allies ===
*Aruto Hiden/Kamen Rider Zero-One: Naki first meets Aruto while possessing Isamu. Aruto manages to convince Naki to have a dream, resulting in Naki betraying Gai after reaffirming that Gai sees them only as his tools. Naki also demonstrates an understanding of Aruto's sense of humor, as they are able to deliver a pun in his style to amuse Fuwa.
*Yua Yaiba/Kamen Rider Valkyrie: Yua is the one responsible for creating Naki's new Humagear body in order to know more about Isamu's original past. They would later replace her as the new technical advisor for A.I.M.S. after the final battle between Aruto and Horobi.
*Williamson Yotagaki: To be added
*Gai Amatsu: Naki was initially Gai's loyal aide until Naki starts to develop Singularity and understand the meaning of being a tool. When Naki started to retaliate, Gai destroyed them and had their A.I Chip implanted in Isamu. After Naki's awakening, Jin made a quick move to make them return back to themselves during their retaliation towards Gai, making Gai completely give up on Naki as they side with Isamu.
=== Enemies ===
*Lyon Arkland/Kamen Rider Zaia: to be added
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Naki is portrayed by . While possessing Isamu Fuwa, Naki was portrayed by , while keeping Nakayama's voice. As Kamen Rider Vulcan, their suit actor is Kosuke Asai (浅井 宏輔, Asai Kōsuke). As Kamen Rider Naki, their suit actor is , who previously served as the suit actor for Kamen Rider Ixa (Yuri and Megumi Aso), and is best known as the suit actor for most female Sentai Rangers.
===Etymology===
Naki means and the second character of MetsubouJinrai. The name reflects Naki's initial posthumous nature as MetsubouJinrai's "deceased comrade".
===Concept Art===
Kamen Rider Naki Concept Art.png|Kamen Rider Naki concept art
==Notes==
*Naki's name comes from the second kanji in the kanji for .
**Like Horobi, Naki's name is read in the Kun'yomi-style , rather than the more conventional On'yomi-style .
**Naki was name dropped in episode 18 by Horobi, where he said , which also translates to "It's Naki, one of our comrades...".
*Prior to episode 25, Naki was credited as the .https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/summaries/19
*Satsuki Nakayama and as producer Takahito Omori both have confirmed that Naki is genderless, making them the first genderless Kamen Rider in the whole franchise.https://live.line.me/channels/561423/broadcast/13214898
**While Naki is generally identified as genderless, only one source mistakenly recognized them as a female Rider.https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/weekly_topics_saber/29
*Azu's result of Naki's singularity test is as follows:
**They stand at 164 cm, which is their actor's actual height.
**Their Humagear No. is 0188.
***When reversed, Naki's number could be read as (gale), referencing to their Rider forms themes being wind.
**Their operating system is MBJR002, which makes them the second member of MetsubouJinrai.net.
*Before the official reveal of Kamen Rider Naki, the April 2020 issue of Televi-Kun foreshadowed Naki's suit being white/silver with blue eyes. The MetsubouJinrai.net members are shown with their names in kanji colored after their helmet visors and their names in katakana colored after their primary suit colors.
*Kamen Rider Naki reuses Kamen Rider ZeroZero-One's undersuit, as well as repainted versions of its boots, armbands, gloves and knee pads.
*Naki's transformation pose traces out the kanji.
*Naki is the only MetsubouJinrai.net member to not become Kamen Rider Ark-Zero in the TV show, with them becoming host into exclusively in Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing.
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