Michal Minato

is a young man from the future who operates as the heroic . However, his timid nature allowed the Greeed Poseidon to possess him as .
==History==
===Movie War Mega Max===
Hailing from the 2050s (possibly 2051 when adding 40 years to 2011), Michal gained the Aqua Driver and the Aqua Miraider to fight monsters that appeared in his time, but ironically couldn't transform at first because he was afraid of water and his overall fear of being too weak to become a Rider. Receiving the Poseidon Driver from the elderly Kosei Kougami, Kougami believes that the Poseidon Driver can help Michal overcome his timidness and fear, and grant him more power. However this proved futile, and even as Poseidon, Michal couldn't win against the creatures of his time and lost, Michal was then knocked out of his transformation. Just as he was about to give up, the black hole that was created by Kiyoto Maki's death appears, and the Core Medals and Cell Medals from the past entered his body, resulting in a Greeed forming inside the Poseidon Medals. This new Greeed develops an intense desire to fight, and Michal is almost instantly overwhelmed by the new being. With Michal's personality subdued, Kamen Rider Poseidon fights in their home time period for a brief while, but after a time anomaly forms as a result of a meteor containing SOLU crashing into the ocean in the present day, the Poseidon entity sees its chance and dives through, heading off to fight the Kamen Riders of the past.
It arrives in the era of Kamen Rider OOO, and easily overwhelms a small troop of Kougami's soldiers, but is quickly intercepted by Ankh and Eiji Hino, who take some of his Cores in order to fight back. Poseidon flees to recuperate. Without the extra Cores to stabilize him, Michal starts regaining control. Eiji confronts the dark Rider, and suppresses the Greeed's personality, but it soon resurfaces. After Kamen Rider Poseidon loses more of the Core Medals in his body to Eiji and Ankh, the Greeed splits apart with Michal, gaining his own body in the form of Kamen Rider Poseidon. Michal profusely apologizes to Eiji and Ankh, telling his story to the two to Ankh's amusement. But Eiji tells him the true meaning of being a Kamen Rider, having the courage to see tomorrow no matter what it may bring. Just as the battle with Poseidon seems bleak, Michal arrives on his Aqua Miraider, and realizes that what he needed was not power, but courage, and transforms into the heroic Kamen Rider Aqua. He turns the tides quickly, and uses his Oceanic Break together with OOOs' Prominence Drop to finish Poseidon off. He thanks OOO for all he has done for him, then leaps through the time anomaly on the Aqua Miraider, to protect his time as a Kamen Rider. 
During the final battle against Kannagi's forces, he returns to the present and gives Eiji the Super Core Medals. He then dashes off to aid the Seven Legendary Riders in battle against the eight Dummy Inhumanoids, going up against a recreation of Greeed Kazari and destroying it with his Aqua Vortex. 
==Video Game appearances==
===Kamen Rider Battle Ganbaride===
Kamen Rider Aqua appears as a playable character in this video game.
===Kamen Rider Break Joker===
Kamen Rider Aqua appears as a playable character with other Riders and monsters in Kamen Rider Break Joker.
===Super Hero Generations===
Kamen Rider Aqua is a playable character with other Kamen Riders of the Heisei Phase 2 era in the video game.
===Kamen Rider Buttobasoul===
Kamen Rider Aqua is a playable character in Kamen Rider Buttobasoul.
==Personality==
Michal is a very timid young man who was chosen to become Aqua, but was actually afraid of the water that powered the Driver. Because of this, it sapped his confidence and made him fear monsters. When Kougami offered him the stronger Poseidon Driver in the hopes of overcoming the fear in Michal, it did not work as Michal had decided to call it quits after losing. That would eventually cause Poseidon to turn into a Greeed and possess him into doing its evil work.
Coming into the past, he admited to Eiji about his fears and did not understand how Eiji was able to become so strong and wished to become stronger. In the end, Michal came to the conclusion that what he needed wasn't power, but the courage to fight, something he lacked when he first became a Rider. Using this newfound courage, he defeats Poseidon and the rest of the dummies created by Kannagi.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Adept Waterbike Riding: Michal is able to ride a motor waterbike with adeptness. 
===Former Powers===
* Greeed Physiology: Similar to Eiji, Maki, and Shingo, Michal's absorption of the Core Medals had forcibly mutated him into a Greed, granting him several superhuman powers and abilities as Poseidon's host.
* Kuzu Yummies: Using Cell Medals, Michal as Poseidon can summon Kuzu Yummies to serve him.
* Temporal Freezing: Since Poseidon's Core Medals are from the future, Michal can halt time itself if needed.
* Aquakinesis: Being a water-based Greeed, Poseidon can shoot powerful bursts of water through his Deepest Harpoon.
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Aqua===
*Aqua Driver: Transformation belt
*Aqua Miraider: Rider Machine
===Poseidon===
*Poseidon Driver: Transformation belt
*O Medals: Transformation device
*Deepest Harpoon: Personal weapon
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Michal Minato was portrayed by . As Kamen Rider Aqua, his suit actor was while his suit actor as Kamen Rider Poseidon was .
In Kamen Rider Zi-O, his suit actor was .
===Etymology===
*His given name, Michal, means "brook" or "stream" in Hebrew, which could be a reference to him being Kamen Rider Aqua.
*"Minato" (湊) means "port" or "harbor", tying him further with his seawater theme.
===Dub names===
In the Korean Book of Masked Rider Encyclopedia 21st Century and Korean dub of Kamen Rider Zi-O entitled Masked Rider Zi-O (가면라이더 지오 gamyeonlaideo jio), which aired in South Korea, Michal Minato is renamed Minharu (민하루 minhalu).
===Concept Art===
==Notes==
*Kamen Rider Aqua is designed in homage to the Double Riders and the futuristic aesthetic of the suit was inspired by the 1982 film .DETAIL OF HEROES Kamen Rider OOO Special Feature Photo Collection March 30, 2012 ISBN: 978-4798603742
==Appearances ==
* Kamen Rider OOO
** Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max
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