Kiriko Shijima

is a policewoman and Shinnosuke Tomari's primary partner. 
Kiriko was also the first tester of the complete version of . However, she was unable to handle the power, opting her to find the right person for the role. She later married Shinnosuke as .
==History==
===Background===
Kiriko Shijima was the daughter of Sumiko Shijima and the elder sister of Go Shijima. At a young age, Kiriko asked her mother where her father was, but unintentionally caused her mother to feel sad. She guessed that her father had done something wrong to her mother, causing them to be seperated. Kiriko thus decided not to tell Go the truth about their father until he's finally grown as an adult. After their mother passed away, Kiriko continued to look after Go as her only family member left.
On April 8, 2014, Kiriko worked as a traffic signal-woman who helped evacuate the workers in the Touto building during a rainy day. She also passed through a policeman that she would meet months later. Ten minutes later, the Global Freeze took effect and Kiriko was ambushed by Roidmude 010. Although she was nearly turned into fibers of light, she was saved by Protodrive and cemented her admiration for the Kamen Rider title. Unfortunately, Protodrive allegedly lost his life battling the Roidmudes, which severely affected Kiriko. She would later on cross paths with Mr. Belt and learn more about the Drive System as well as the Roidmudes.
===Guiding Shinnosuke Tomari===
Six months later, Kiriko transferred into the Special Investigation Unit and assigned as Shinnosuke Tomari's partner. Kiriko kept a serious exterior, doing her best to not smile while working with mechanical precision. As Shinnosuke had became a slack-off detective during his time at the Unit, Kiriko kept him on his toes to keep him focused on his job. She pushes herself to mold him into a worthy successor for the original Drive, explaining the heavy pressure she exerts on him. Kiriko is initially the first member of the force who actually knows that Shinnosuke is Kamen Rider Drive and as such often assists him in battles as a sidekick.
She is shown to be very athletic despite her looks and also has the habit of physically dragging Shinnosuke back to work when she finds that he is slacking off, often handcuffing him in the process. Shinnosuke would learn Kiriko's history with the Kamen Riders since the Global Freeze and how she was saved by Protodrive. Shinnosuke ultimately helps her overcome her trauma of Roidmude 010 when she faces him again after he has become the Paint Roidmude.
It is suggested that Kiriko has a connection to Chase. When Kiriko steps in to shield Shinnosuke from an attack by Chase, he finds himself unable to shoot her. During a later fight with Shinnosuke, Chase experiences hallucinations of Kiriko which render him incapable of attacking Shinnosuke further.
===The Truth About Chase===
Following the beginning of the new year, Kiriko would finally reunite with her brother Go, who had become Kamen Rider Mach. The revelation surprised her and Kiriko was noticeably angered by Krim for letting him into a Kamen Rider without her knowledge. While she initally didn't approve of Go being a Rider, Kiriko would accept her younger brother's path in the fight against the Roidmudes.
As Chase's memories began to resurface more, it would later be revealed that he was previously the warrior who saved her during Global Freeze, Protodrive. Since the revelation, Kiriko tries to restore Chase's memories but fails. Kiriko is saddened after she realized that Mashin Chaser's brainwashing was furthered into killing random civilians and willingly allowed Drive to finish him. That night, Kiriko discovers an injured Chase under a bridge, and secretly harbored him back to health.
Kiriko soon tried hard to convince Chase to return for saving humanity. First, she asked him to give a sample of an Advanced Roidmude for finding a way to defeat the new Fusion Roidmudes, which Mashin Chaser gave a piece of his Violet Guard. She gave Chase the second Mach Driver Honoh and the Signal Bike that Rinna made for him. After these events, Chase finally returned to save humanity as Kamen Rider Chaser.
===The Fusion Roidmudes===
Kiriko continues to assist Drive continues on his pursuit against the Fusion Roidmudes, all while figuring out the mystery regarding the circumstances of Eisuke Tomari's death. With Shinnosuke's secret identity revealed to the public, the Special Investigation Unit sets about to get involved regarding the new cases regarding the Fusion Roidmudes. Furthermore, Go is seemingly brainwashed by the Freeze Roidmude into serving the Roidmudes, which saddened Kiriko.
She continued to work with Shinnosuke to uncover Roidmude 001's identity as Soichi Makage, the secretary of National Bureau of Defense. While Drive attempted to overcome Freeze, things take a tragic turn when the latter accessed his Over Evolved and kills both Shinnosuke and Mr. Belt in one swoop. The death of Shinnosuke further saddened Kiriko to the point of not leaving her apartment. Go, feeling guilty for what happened, revealed that he was pretending to be on the Roidmudes' side and apologized to her. After Kiriko forgave her brother, she learnt from Go a formula that could potentially revive Shinnosuke. Kiriko piloted Tridoron in order to reawaken Shinnosuke and help him gain access to Drive Type Tridoron, allowing him to finally vanquish Freeze and able to see her smile again.
Kiriko stayed by Shinnosuke's side as they uncover Mitsuhide Nira as the true murderer of Eisuke Tomari. Despite Nira and Brain trying to frame the whole Unit in front of the public, but an unexpected help from Tenjuro Banno and Shinnosuke's quick-thinking skills turn the tides and finally puts his father's murderer to the face of justice.
===The Promised Number===
Soon, more Roidmude executives from all over Earth return to Japan in the race to achieve the Over Evolved. Kiriko goes undercover with Shinnosuke by pretending to be a couple to draw out the Tornado Roidmude. She would eventually reunite with her father, Tenjuro Banno, having survived in Brain's tablet. However, Kiriko visably saddened having learnt of the circumstances between him and her mother. During Drive and Mach's battle with Heart, she is soon kidnapped by Tornado. Although the Kamen Riders managed to save Kiriko, it was enough to prove that Banno had been manipulating everyone the entire time as he launched an attack on Drive right after she was captured.
After being injured during a battle against Gold Drive, Kiriko was later brought to the hosptial. Chase visited her and brought Kiriko flowers, telling her to not overwork herself as the final battle is approaching. Chase pops the question whether she had romantic feelings towards Shinnosuke, proceeding on a comically erratic rant denying it. Noting her response mirroring Shinnosuke when he asked him the same question, Chase deduces that she is in love with Shinnosuke. Upon this realization, although Chase feels heartbreak due to his own feelings for her, he is glad as this emotion brings him closer to being human, vowing to fight to protect her.
While the Kamen Riders rush to the SSDC Building to defeat Banno and destroy the Sigma Circular, Kiriko, despite not having fully recovered, decides that she must leave hospital and help them. While getting ready, Kiriko sees a storm starting through her window, sensing that rain is coming just as on the night of the Global Freeze. Once she arrived at the SSDC, she catches up with Go after he had defeated Gold Drive. Seeing Go in anguish, Kiriko learns the painful truth that Chase has died, having sacrificed himself to save Go from Banno and also broke down in tears. Kiriko later informs Shinnosuke of the tragic news while barely holding back her tears.
As the Sigma Circular had awakened, Kiriko was affected by the Heavy Acceleration, which even overwhelmed the Shift Cars. While Banno continued ranting about his victory, Kiriko was present to see Go destroy Banno with the Shingou-Ax, ending their father's reign of terror. Go later gives Kiriko his Shift Deadheat in order to go help Shinnosuke. While heading on, however, Kiriko is horrified to discover she is undergoing the data conversion process again as Sigma starts digitizing humans. 
After Shinnosuke and Heart managed to vanquish the Sigma Circular, Kiriko was present to witness their final battle, ending with Shinnosuke befriending Heart during his final moments. With all 108 Roidmudes were eliminated, Kiriko was present with the Special Investigation Unit to say goodbye to Mr. Belt, who is choosing to lock himself and all Core Driviar equipments beneath Tridoron's parking space. After several parting words, Mr. Belt prepares the lockdown and all of the Unit members saluted for him.
===Post-Drive Activity===
Several days had passed after the Drive Pit's shutdown, Kiriko and Shinnosuke drove their way to the Kuruma Driver's License Center until they were stopped by a police officer, whom inspected their car due to its similarity to the one recently stolen. Said officer, Koichi Kano was recognized by them for being Chase's human template before he confirms their innocence and leaves.
When Shinnosuke caught wind with Neo Shade making their move again after their last activity, Kiriko joined him as the Special Investigation Unit mobilized one last time to track the culprit, Keisuke Okamura, whom stole an Eyecon, the very evidence from the past case. Kiriko is later held hostage by Keisuke, but is saved by the nick of time by Shinnosuke. After Keisuke's capture, she continues her profession as a police detective, eventually marrying Shinnosuke and bears their son named Eiji.
==Other Events==
 
===Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle===
Kiriko accompanied Shinnosuke as they become involved with a case regarding the phantom thief, "Ultimate Lupin" and learns that the thief is actually a Roidmude. Lupin was previously a legendary thief named Zoruku Tojo who assumed the Cyberoid ZZZ to reincarnate himself as a Roidmude and become Kamen Rider Lupin. While Shinnosuke lamented the loss of Mr. Belt after the Drive Driver's destruction, Kiriko conforted Shinnosuke with a smile. This made Shinnosuke realize there is a mole within the Special Investigation Unit and unmasks Kiriko as Zoruku Tojo. With Lupin having left Kiriko hanging from a tall building, Shinnosuke pursues Lupin while sending Tridoron to rescue Kiriko. As Shinnosuke succeeded in reviving Mr. Belt to become Drive again, Kiriko takes Tridoron's steering wheel, giving Drive the momentum to vanquish Lupin. Kiriko was later present to see Megahex absorbing Cyberoid ZZZ. After Drive neutralizes the threat in Zawame, Lupin manifests as a holographic Roidmude in the Drive Pit, vowing that he will return oneday as he has taken what Shinnosuke cherishes most, Kiriko's smile.
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Kiriko assists Shinnosuke concerning an incident involving the and mistook them for the cause of the Heavy Acceleration, having arrived late while the true creator, had already fled. However, Shinnosuke would be able to see through the Ninningers' true innocence and Kiriko would continue to accompany him as they unconver the true culprit, Shocker, for causing the temporal disturbances. Once the Ninningers and Kamen Riders defeated the Shocker armies and finally eliminated them, they part ways with the Ninningers as the the group vanish via a green aura.
===Secret Mission Type TOKUJO===
During the months of working with Krim in the Drive Pit, it had been revealed that Kiriko was among one of the first testers of the completed Drive System. During her first attempt to transform with the Drive Driver, her body couldn't handle the power as the Shift Tire canceled her transformation and Mr. Belt flew across the room. This led them to the conclusion that they needed to find another suitable candidate.
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Due to a timeline alteration by Shocker in 1973, Kiriko and the Special Investigation Unit became intergrated into Shocker's new reality. She was the only person who retains the memories of the previous timeline due to the influence of the Signal Bike Faiz. Kiriko learns she is in a world where Shocker had taken over the world Kamen Riders are declared demons that threaten the peace and safety of the people. Following an encounter with Kamen Rider Black, Kohtaro Minami, Kiriko is later captured by Cheetahkatatsumuri and is thrown off a building. 
However, it turns out Kiriko did in fact survive from her fall and was brought over to Rider Town as a hostage in the Rider Grand Prix. Drive participated in the race with Rider 3 and the rest of the brainwashed Shocker Riders. While Shocker had rigged the race to ensure Rider 3 would be the strongest, Drive emerged victorious and through a series of events, helped restore the previous Kamen Riders' memories back to normal and overwhelm Shocker's forces. While the timeline was restored back to normal, her brother Go Shijima was previously killed prior and his death remained to be the same in the current timeline as well.
===D-Video Special: Kamen Rider 4===
The timeline is altered once again after the events of Super Hero Taisen GP, where time itself is stuck in a strange loop on April 4, 2015. Kiriko would recalling previous events and joins the Kamen Riders in an attempt to fix the disruption in time. Believing that her mourning the deaths of Shinnosuke and Go would trigger the History Modification Machine to activate, she sacrificed herself in one of the time loops to ensure the safety of their lives at the cost of her own.
Upon learning the time loop was revealed to be caused by Takumi's wishes from Naoya Kaido, she, Shinnosuke, Go and Yuto helps Takumi find peace before he moves on before they proceed to destroy the Great Leader and his Kamen Rider army. After Takumi sacrificed his life on destroying the time loop and the Great Leader, Kiriko and others, except Kaido, has no recollection of Takumi.
===Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future===
When Kamen Rider Drive was engaging in a battle against a Giant Roidmude, he apparently fled the scene after the Trailer-Hou malfunctioned. This forced the Metropolitan Police Department to issue a nationwide manhunt for Shinnosuke, while the rest of the Special Investigation Unit were more hesitant by this decision. Kiriko and Lt. Otta would later arrive to the battlefield where the Kamen Riders fought Dark Drive and the Future Roidmudes. They would witness Shinnosuke destroying Mr. Belt and Roidmude 108 revealing his true colors.
Despite reporting this news to the Metropolitan Police deputy officer, Shinji Koba, it still couldn't convince him to lift the search for Shinnosuke. Kiriko would later track down Shinnosuke at the original Drive Pit, as Krim expected he would open his letter early. Relaying information with him, Kiriko and Shinnosuke managed to discover Roidmude 108's true intentions. Kiriko manages to convince Koba to rally the police forces to work with Shinnosuke as the 108 planned to enact his Eternal Global Freeze. After Shinnosuke reawakened Mr. Belt and became Kamen Rider Drive once more, Kiriko takes Roidmude 108's discarded Shift Next and has Mad Doctor modify it, later giving it to Shinnosuke to assume Drive Type Special and defeat the Paradox Roidmude once and for all. In the aftermath, Shinnosuke is cleared of all charges that was put into him by the Metro Police. Later, Shinnosuke recalls from "Eiji" claimed that his mother rarely smiled, making him speculate that the mother of his child was actually Kiriko.
===Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser===
Sometime after the defeat of the Paradox Roidmude, Kiriko is shocked to discover Chase's expressing happiness and laughter, with her reacting by accidentally spitting her drink in Go's face. While Chase left on a private day off, Kiriko showed concern over his friend's sudden change in emotions. Kiriko continued to acommpany Shinnosuke and Go as they dealt with their Roidmude case suspect lying in the border between Tokyo and Futo. After Chase was restored back to normal after defeating the Angel Roidmude, Kiriko was saddened how his comrade lost his emotions but continues to greet him as a dear friend.
===Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie Wars Genesis===
Three months after Krim sealed the Drive technology in the Drive Pit, Kiriko is trying to move on with her life as a police detective and continues her relationship with Shinnosuke, as he is considering on proposing to her. While investigating the link between a series of strange crimes to a temple, they come across Takeru Tenkuji, also known as Kamen Rider Ghost. While Shinnosuke and Takeru ends up being stranded in 2005, Kiriko remains in the present relaying the butterfly effect that is affecting their timeline.
While he was in the past, Kiriko found a ring box buried by Shinnosuke as his proposal to her in case if he cannot return. When Shinnosuke and Takeru returned to the present to battle the army, Kiriko accompanied everyone else to battle against the army of Gamma Assaults. After the battle ended, Kiriko revealed to Shinnosuke she was wearing the ring, thus accepting his proposal and would marry soon after.
===Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders===
During the threat of the Pac-Man Virus unleashed by the Next Genome Institute, Kiriko is absent throughout the events and likely on maternity leave as she is noted to be pregnant. Shinnosuke remains in contact with her and assuring Kiriko. After the fall of the Institute, Shinnosuke returned to his station where his colleagues congratulated him on the news that his wife, Kiriko, was expecting their first child.
===Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Mach===
Two years after defeating the Roidmudes, Kiriko had finally given birth to her child, Eiji Tomari, and continues to stay at home raising her and Shinnosuke's son. Go came to her residence while sulking after being rejected by Reiko Nishihori. While breastfeeding her son, Kiriko said that he couldn't always wear a happy face every time and ever since she married Shinnosuke, she feels that she became more caring in nature and her new family is the one making her stronger. Hearing this, Go feels that he didn't need it anymore, although he quickly hid it before he left.
==Appearances in other media==
===Commercial===
Rio Uchida and Ryoma Takeuchi appear in-character to advertise Bandai's Kamen Rider Chocolate Biscuit Ball.
==Personality ==
She is a beautiful, but scary and almost robot-like stoic young woman. She is defined by Shinnosuke Tomari as being like a stalker or a manager, as she is constantly taking notes of his habits and meticulously counting them, including the number of times his brain enters "top gear". This is probably due to being saved by the original Drive, trying to make Shinnosuke live up to the Kamen Rider name. During her encounter with Roidmude 010 and one of his Roidmude minions, she demonstrates that she is terrified of her existence fading away while being turned into data (due to her first encounter with that Roidmude) causing her to be traumatized. Thanks to Shinnosuke, she fights back and fully recovers after finding the courage to stand up to the Roidmude.
Although Shinnosuke sees her as being more capable of using Drive's powers, Kiriko admits to him that "she would if she could". Though she was not able to handle the power of the Drive System, she does show a hidden desire to being a Kamen Rider, as shown when she used special boots to match the power of a Rider Kick's power, she imitated Shinnosuke's wrist flip and imagined herself in Drive Type Speed, but when asked about this by Shinnosuke and Go, she denies this. Asides from that, some of Shinnosuke's traits might be rubbing off on her as shown when she eats some of his milk balls and slowly abandoning her cold outlook.
Kiriko's opinion on Shinnosuke appears to be improving as well, as her genuine concern for his death at Freeze's hands, being one of the few times she has been seen crying, and when he came back to life, she was quite clearly happy about this, not denying the fact she's smiling. Chase manage to deduce that Kiriko is actually in love with Shinnosuke, much to her confusion and embarrassment, but later she would indeed get married with Shinnosuke and gives birth to Eiji.
==Abilities==
*Peak Human Condition: She has a very athletic physique - a trait she shares with her brother. 
*Skilled Combatant:
*Expert Marksman:
*Master Acrobat: She easily demonstrates acrobatics way above that of average human's as seen while chasing Shinnosuke when she jumps over a car and an impossibly tall fence.
==Family ==
*Go Shijima - younger brother
**Tenjuro Banno - father (deceased)
**Sumiko Shijima - mother (deceased)
*Shinnosuke Tomari - husband
**Eiji Tomari - son
Go Shijima.png|Go ShijimaYounger Brother
Tenjuro Banno.jpg|Tenjuro BannoFather (estranged, deceased)
Sukimo Shijima grave.jpg|Sumiko ShijimaMother (deceased)
Shinnosuke Tomari.png|Shinnosuke TomariHusband
Infant Tomari Eiji.png|Eiji Tomari (infant)Son 
==Kamen Rider Drive==
Type Speed
To initiate the test transformation of the completed Drive, Kiriko, wearing the Drive Driver, used the Shift Speed Car in the Shift Brace in an attempt to transform into , Drive's default sports car-based form. Through this, Kiriko was able to momentarily achieve a transformation into the tire-less Kamen Rider Drive. However, when the attempted to combine with the Type Speed body, the transformation was immediately rejected, prompting Kiriko and Mr. Belt to find a candidate who could successfully handle Drive's power and maintain the transformation.
This form is exclusive to Secret Mission Type TOKUJO, Episode 1.
==Equipment==
*Heavy Acceleration Particle Measuring Device - Used by Kiriko to detect presence of Heavy Acceleration particles in an area.
*Shift Car Holder - A three-slot gadget placed on her belt to store Shift Cars for her to move in Heavy Accelerations. Usually holsters Justice Hunter, Fire Braver, and Mad Doctor.
*Anti-Roidmude Bullets - Bullets specialized to penetrate through a Roidmude's skin.
*Rear Cowl Boots - Kamen Rider Drive Type Speed's boots created by Rinna Sawagami. She replicated them for Kiriko's use to defend herself against the Roidmudes. The boots maximize Kiriko's kicking power to match that of the Rider.
=== Drive ===
*Drive Driver - Belt-based transformation device
*Shift Brace - Bracelet-based transformation device
*Shift Cars - Gives access to Drive's forms and powers, depending on which car is used. They also allow Kiriko/Drive to move normally during a Slowdown.
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
Kiriko Shijima is portrayed by . As a teenager, she is portrayed by .
===Etymology===
*Kiriko's surname is derived from the word Shijima (静寂), which means "stillness" or "quiet". This was meant to imply a sense of mysteriousness with her character.『『仮面ライダードライブ』キャラクターブック VOL.ZERO 〜AcceleratioN〜』東京ニュース通信社〈TOKYO NEWS MOOK〉、2014年10月11日。ISBN 978-4-86336-428-8。キャラクターブックZERO 2014, p. 51, 「Solo Interview02 内田理央」.キャラクターブックZERO 2014, p. 63, 「Staff Interview 02 脚本 三条陸」
==Notes==
*According to Riku Sanjo, he states that Kiriko is Shinnosuke's main partner, where as Mr. Belt serves as his partner in battle.『『仮面ライダードライブ』キャラクターブック VOL.TWO 〜TOMODACHI〜』東京ニュース通信社〈TOKYO NEWS MOOK〉、2015年10月28日。ISBN 978-4-86336-504-9。
*Kiriko was one of the suspects for the identity of Kamen Rider Dark Drive, which was the subject of mystery in the run-up to the premiere of Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future, with a trailer following the Drive episode airing on the Sunday before the film's release offering a list of six suspects which also included Go Shijima, Krim Steinbelt, Chase, Eiji Tomari, and Shinji Koba. Ultimately, it turned out to be Paradox Roidmude disguised as Eiji.
*Kiriko marries Shinnosuke during Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie Wars Genesis. As such, she changes her name to Kiriko Tomari.
*A Kiriko Shijima's uniform color scheme Tridoron named was displayed at Tamashi Nation 2017.
== Appearances==
==External links==
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Kiriko Shijima.
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