Toru Hojo

is a police officer who has a rivalry with Makoto Hikawa and Sumiko Ozawa of the G3 Unit. He would briefly become for a short period of time, and became the main user of the .
==History==
Initially, Hojo firmly believed that Makoto Hikawa was unsuited to be G3's user and while he thought he was an excellent cop and detective, he was "selected" because of the Akatsuki incident.
Some time after, Hojo managed to become G3's user, but was quickly re-evaluated and lost rights to the G3 to Makoto once more. This starts a feud as Hojo slowly attempts to find ways to make Makoto lose his position as G3's user. He was the mastermind behind the Agito Capture Plan, though the one caught in the crossfire during the operation would be Ryo Ashihara/Kamen Rider Gills instead. The operation also got him almost killed by Aki Sakaki, whose psychic powers had awakened due to her accelerated evolution. When Ryo met Hojo again much later, he would punch the latter as a form of retribution.
Eventually, he creates the Victory One System to combat the G3/G3-X, however during a competition to demonstrate which system was better, G3-X's AI went haywire and destroyed the V-1 beyond repair and also demonstrated that the system was able to destroy the Unknowns with ease.
Hojo would later attempt to become the G3-X's user, but instead shifts his focus onto discovering why the Unknowns are targeting people. Hojo was the first person to learn of Shoichi's identity as the masked vigilante known as Agito. Eventually with the help of Mana Kazaya, he discovers that Yukina Sawaki, Shoichi's sister, was the first Agito and could not control its power, causing her to accidentally kill Mana's father, Nobuyuki Kazaya.
When Hojo learns that Makoto's eyesight started to deteriorate, Hojo aids Makoto through microphone to fight against the Unknowns as the latter is unable to see.
After the defeat of the El of the Water, a month passes without any Unknown attacks. With the assumption that the Unknown have finally been defeated, Hojo sees the increasing number of humans developing the power of Agito as a threat and believes that without the Unknown, Agito would eventually grow to take over humanity as its ruler. When the Unknown re-emerge again with the appearance of the other El Lords, Hojo is once again reassigned to the G3 Unit, which was repurposed to protect the remaining Unknown and target the Agitos instead. Becoming the user of G3-X, he along with Takahiro Omuro as G3, sets his sights on Shoichi. However, the G3 Unit is forcefully reclaimed by Ozawa and Hikawa, as Hikawa becomes G3-X once more to face the remaining El Lords alongside Agito and Gills.
A year after the Overlord's defeat, Hojo would reunite with Ozawa again whilst working on a case in London.
==Video Game appearances==
===Kamen Rider Break Joker===
V-1 appears as a playable character with other Riders and monsters in Kamen Rider Break Joker.
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Weapon===
*V1 Shot: V1 personal weapon
==Behind the scenes==
===Portrayal===
Toru Hojo was portrayed by , who later played as Itsuro Takuma/Centipede Orphnoch in Kamen Rider 555. As Kamen Rider G3, his suit actor was . As V-1, his suit actor was Super Complete Works Volume 1 2001, p. 69.
===V-1 Rider status===
The V-1 System's Kamen Rider status is debatable since the system was never referenced or designated as a Kamen Rider. Design-wise, V-1 has no resemblance to previous Kamen Riders and is much more reminiscent of a .
===V-1 Design===
As noted, the V-1 System looks very similar to the protagonists of the . This is due to the fact that V-1's costume is made up of various props from various Metal Heroes. The V-1 System's composed of 's helmet, 's body (with Kamen Rider G3-X's chestplates), a 's legs, and the for the sidearm. With the completed costume painted metallic silver, V-1 resembles , the original Metal Hero and the first of the .
== Notes ==
* In the Latin Spanish dub of Kamen Rider Agito for the streaming service FreeTV by Mexican dubbing studio Olympusat, Toru Hojo's name is changed to "Toru Hokujo" for unknown reasons.Kamen Rider Agito on Doblaje Wiki (in spanish) It can be a translation mistake, since the first kanji on Hojo's surname can also be read as "Hoku".
==Appearances==
===Footnotes===
==See also==
Category:Kamen Rider Agito
Category:Allies
Category:Heroes
Category:Rival
Category:Police
Category:Heisei Era Riders
Category:Antiheroes
Category:Temporary Riders
Category:Agito Riders
Category:Debatable Riders
Category:Agito Characters
ru:Тору Ходжо