Akira Date

is a former combat medic who initially transformed into , before passing on his powers to Shintaro Goto and later becoming instead. 
==History==
Akira Date first appeared as Birth while using the Breast Cannon on Mezool as the Mega Greeed Out of Control to damage her and release two of Uva's Core Medals. For the rest of his time as Birth he would fight the Yummy to collect their Cell Medals while also helping some of their hosts and assisting OOO when needed. He also trains Goto to take his position after finishing his task as Birth. But over time, the bullet in his head gave him greater pain, causing him to collapse during battles. Maki bribed Date to betray Kougami and join his side, which Date accepted as he starts supporting the Greeed. However, in reality, Date faked the betrayal under orders from Kougami to stop Maki from becoming a Greeed.
When the Greeed injures Date in retaliation, knocking him unconscious, it gave Goto the motivation to use the Birth Driver and avenge Date's "death". Though it turned out that he was in no mortal danger from the Greeeds' attack, Date decides to let Goto become the new Kamen Rider Birth. He uses the danger policy he signed with the Kougami Foundation to collect ¥50 million so he can travel abroad to have surgery done to remove the bullet from his brain. Along with the ¥50 million that Maki paid him, he now has the ¥100 million yen he wanted for his surgery and to set up a medical school in the country where he and Eiji were involved in a civil war. Later, he returned to Japan once again and became the user of Kamen Rider Birth·Proto Type Version to fight against Greeed.
==Other Events==
===OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders===
As all of the primary Kamen Riders face the Great Leader of Shocker, Date led all of the secondary riders (including the dark riders) to support the primary riders.
===Movie War Mega Max===
Date returns to Japan for aiding Satonaka after receiving a call about the berserk Kamen Rider Poseidon. He fights it by transform into Birth·Proto Type but lost easily and even the aid from Goto won't help. As the result, the Proto-Birth Driver was damaged and Date was later hospitalized alongside Goto. At the next day, he returns alongside with Goto to help Eiji for some minutes without transforming. Of course he is defeated as a result. In the end, he helps Chiyoko clean up Cruise Crousier after the battle is finished.
===Super Hero Taisen===
Date and Goto arrive to assist Eiji in fighting Bujira and his offshoots. Once Gokai Red and Kamen Rider Diend finish their battle, Gokai Red wipes Birth and Proto-Birth out. When Gokai Red and Kamen Rider Decade were revealed to acted like a villain, Birth and Proto-Birth, along with any Riders and Sentai warriors are actually in another strange dimensions where they are held, as both Decade and Gokai Red set them free and the time for counterattack against Dai-Shocker and Dai-Zagyack.
===Kamen Rider Zi-O NEXT TIME: Geiz, Majesty===
In the new timeline created by Sougo Tokiwa sacrificing the powers of Ohma Zi-O, Geiz is reincarnated as Keito Myokoin, living in 2018 as a high school student at Hikarigamori High School alongside Sougo. After twisting his ankle in a judo tournament, Ora uses her father's connections to get him high quality medical treatment. Geiz is taken to Kujirakawa Nonprofit Hospital, where Date treats his injuries. He reports to Sougo and Tsukuyomi that Geiz is unlikely to be able to compete again.
During his hospialization, Geiz is attacked by a Kasshine. Date arrives with the Birth Buster to defend his patient and transforms into Kamen Rider Birth to fight. After defeating the Kasshine, Date returns to see White Woz talking to Geiz. Date recounts to Geiz how he used to travel the world as a doctor until his own injury and met amazing people after returning to Japan.
The power of Kamen Rider Birth contained in one of Daiki Kaito's Rider Cards is later combined with that of other Secondary Riders to create the GeizMajesty Ridewatch.
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===Nobunaga===
 is the lord of the , that greatly resembles Akira Date. He was killed by Kamen Rider Bujin Gaim after HON-NOHJI castle that he lodged in was set on fire. 
===Kamen Rider OOO 10th Anniversary: The Core of Resurrection===
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==Video Game Appearances==
===All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation===
Akira Date appears as Birth in the first installment of All Rider: Rider Generation. In the second installment, he appears as Proto-Birth. His special move in the first is used by Goto in the second installment while he has his own more close combat movement.
===Kamen Rider Climax Heroes===
Akira Date appears as both Birth and Proto-Birth in Climax Heroes Fourze and Super Climax Heroes. He will use Proto-Birth if tagged with Goto as Birth.
===Kamen Rider: Battride War===
Akira Date appears as Kamen Rider Birth in Kamen Rider: Battride War, with Hiroaki Iwanaga reprising his role. He appears as Birth in OOO's memory of the final battle with Dr. Maki, with no reference made to either Goto or Proto Birth. When the assembled Rider enemies (lead by the Sagittarius Zodiarts) attack the heroes' base in Mnemosyne, Birth appears alongside Accel and Meteor to help thwart the attack, where he remarks on Ryusei's enthusiasm and then Ryu's brusque attitude by saying "Man, it's sure nice to be young". After the battle he joins the heroes, becoming one of four playable Secondary Riders in the game (alongside Accel, Meteor, and Beast).
Birth is a heavy-type character, his moveset consisting of the Birth Buster and several wrestling-inspired moves. Lacking an alternate form, Birth instead has a cache of extra points representing Cell Medals which can be spent to use the Birth CLAWs weapons and are replenished by defeating enemies, much like Blade's ability to use Rouse Cards. Birth's ultimate form is Birth·Day.
*Attacks (as Birth): Birth Buster, Triple Spin Kick, Dash (can cancel into Sliding Kick, Dropkick, or German Suplex)
**Birth CLAWs: Drill Arm, Shovel Arm, Crane Arm, Catepillar Leg, Breast Cannon
*Attacks (as Birth·Day): Breast Cannon + Drill Arm (used upon transformation), Shovel Arm, Breast Cannon, Breast Cannon (Full Power)
===Kamen Rider Travelers Record===
Date/Birth appears in the video game Kamen Rider Travelers Record.
===Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis===
Kamen Rider Birth reappeared in Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis
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== Novel Appearances ==
===Kamen Rider OOO (novel)===
While out of boredom, Date writes a short story about the Birth Drivers. Despite being sentient, the belt isn’t capable of speaking human language. At one point the belt says “Sometimes I just want to scream, but then I realize I can’t.” But it is still able to communicate with other items, such as the Proto Birth Driver and other Candroids. The belt recollects his memories with Date and Goto, he goes on to praise Date by saying how strong he is, how masculine he is and how much fun they had together. Goto on the other was too unreliable and weak in the beginning, Birth Driver eventually came to accept Goto.
The Prototype Birth Drive that was destroyed in Mega Max makes a brief appearance and says “A transformation belt that can’t transform is just a regular belt. Actually, it’s even worse. A regular belt is at least used as to keep someone’s pants up! I can’t even do that. I’m just a heavy object around the waist!” Doctor Maki also makes a minor appearance by creating a Yummy from the Birth Driver. The Yummy is called Kamen Rider Death and looks similar to Kamen Rider Birth, but he’s not really a Kamen Rider. The Candroids, Mr. Gori (a Gorillacandroid) and Mr. Tiger (a Tiger Candroid) as the Birth Driver refers them as, destroy the Yummy.
==Personality==
Date is a happy-go-lucky man who hates reading manuals and has a tendency in mixing up names (he often calls Ankh as "Anko"). Despite this, he enjoys getting his job done perfectly and believes risking big in order to win big, thus proclaiming that he'll be taking all the cell medals from here on out. Date is a people person, admitting his own desire, yet he makes it a personal rule of his to not use others to reach his goal, as well as not doing anything that will make him cry. He is also somewhat reckless, getting Ankh in a line of fire while fighting the Kabuto and Kuwagata Yummy. Date is also known to love eating oden, even making oden in Kiyoto Maki's research lab, while at the same time taking up residence and making a big mess out of it, much to Maki's ire. He has taken a liking to Shintaro Goto, training him in order to take up the mantle of Birth once his job is over. He has a big brother-little brother/father-son dynamic with Goto and he is always happy to see the latter grow. When he comes back to Japan after his surgery and sees how his "son" has now becomes his own man and doing better than he was before, he exclaimed that "father is happy". Before battle, Date tends to say . In the battle with the Unicorn yummy he was having difficulty fighting in battle that may be be the result of the bullet that is lodged in his brain.
His fighting style as Birth is a combination of mixed martial arts and pro wrestling techniques, as shown in particular against the Omu and Unicorn Yummy. Due to his dislike for reading manuals, his use of the Birth system tends towards the "learn as you go" approach and as such, he is not as effective as Goto when it comes to using the exosuit and its armaments.
==Abilities==
* Skilled Combatant: Date is a skilled fighter besides his occupation as a doctor in war field. This is due the fact that for joining military even as a doctor, one must practiced military combat art.
* Expert Physician: Date is a skilled combat medic with years of experience under his belt. He is able to treat people's wounds with whatever he has on him and figure out the best way possible to treat them.
==Forms==
Kamen Rider Birth's theme song is entitled "Reverse/Re:birth".
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*Birth Driver -Transformation device.
*Cell Medals - Transformation trinkets.
*Candroid - Birth's support robots.
===Weapons===
*Birth Buster - Birth's personal weapon.
*Birth CLAWs - Birth's armor system.
===Vehicles===
*Ridevendor - Birth's Rider Machine
==Legend Rider Devices==
==Relationships==
===Friends===
*Eiji Hino/Kamen Rider OOO: Date first met Eiji after taking down Gamel & Mezool's rampant form. It turned out, both he and Eiji seemed to have crossed paths before during the incident Eiji suffered in.
*Ankh: Date first meets Ankh, mispronouncing his name. Witnessing his power as Birth, Ankh attempted to steal how many Cell Medals he gathered from defeated Yummies in his milk can. When Ankh's body appeared being sentient with another personality, Date and the others get information out of him and the story of his time with the original OOO began.
*Hina Izumi:to be added
*Shintaro Goto/Kamen Rider Birth(-X): Both he and Date share a brotherly relationship. Goto first meets Date finding him a more suitable candidate for Birth than him. But Date decides to train him under his wing to prepare him to take his place and having him be his partner in the battlefield. Goto worries for Date's health, learning of the bullet in his brain which is the reason why he's gathering Cell Medals. Date later returns taking the Porto-Birth Driver to help his friend in the final battle against the Greeed. With Date taking the original Birth belt again, Goto also becomes Birth-X against Goda after he betrays Ankh.
===Allies===
*Chiyoko Shiraishi: to be added
*Kousei Kougami: The foundation boss was the reason he chose Date to become Birth.
*Erika Satonaka: to be added.
*Geiz Myokoin/Kamen Rider Geiz: In the new timeline, Date is Geiz's doctor.
===Enemies===
*Greeed:to be added
*Kiyoto Maki: Once the foundation's scientist, he never trusts him at all. Especially when he betrays them to join the Greeed.
*Ancient OOO: The original OOO returns to the world to conquer it.
*Goda: Date is surprised that a Greeed like Goda has taken over Eiji's dead corpse. Both he and Goto don't trust him for what he might do after the king is defeated.
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Akira Date is portrayed by . Iwanaga previously portrayed Chief Eiji Ishiguro in Tomica Hero: Rescue Force and later portrayed in .
As Kamen Rider Birth, his suit actor was . As Kamen Rider Birth·Proto Type, his suit actor was , Jiro Okamoto (岡元 次郎 Okamoto Jirō)
===Concept Art===
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==Notes==
*While most of Riders in series of Heisei Phase 2 (besides the lead protagonist) usually start as anti-heroes or villains, Akira Date is one of the few secondary Riders to not antagonize the primary Rider and instead act on friendly terms during their first appearance (the others being Iori Izumi, Kosuke Nitoh and Rintaro Shindo).
*Both versions of Birth used the same base costume, swapping the armor as needed. In order to film scenes in which both versions appear side-by-side, the production staff created a dedicated Birth Prototype costume by modifying the suit used for live stage shows.Detail of Heroes: OOO
==Appearances==
==External Links==
*Akira Date on Kamen Rider Official
*Kamen Rider Birth on Kamen Rider Official
*Kamen Rider Birth Prototype on Kamen Rider Official
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