Horse Fangire

**Horse Fangire**(ホースファンガイア *Hōsufangaia*) is a horse-based Fangire from Episode 1 of Kamen Rider Kiva.

He is voiced by **Katsumi Shiono**, while his human disguise is played by **Nobuo Kyo**.

## Personality

The Horse Fangire comes off as a charming businessman when disguised as a human before revealing his true sinister nature where he seeks to drain the life energy of beautiful women.

## Appearance

The Horse Fangire has a black body with blue stained glass on his legs, arms, torso, and head. He has enlarged stained glass shoulder pads and stained glass gauntlets on his arms. He also has a black horse-shaped head with a stained glass mane on the back, a stained glass muzzle, blank turquoise-colored eyes, and a jaw extending out of the mouth with short mandibles.

## Biography

In the year 1986, a woman, named Yuki, working at cafe is approached by a man named Shima. Telling her about Japan’s unusually booming economy, he gives her a target of a real estate president, named Kaoru Tsugami, who is riding high on the booming economy. When Shima mentions that five of the president’s secretaries have gone missing, Yuri realizes that the real estate president is a vampiric creature called a Fangire.
Late at night, Kaoru has his new secretary take him to a vacant area in his limo where his face suddenly turns into stained glass and he grabs her, preparing to drain her of her life energy.
Fortunately, Yuri arrives on her motorcycle and gets Kaoru’s attention by smashing his limo with her motorcycle. After calling his bodyguards on the phone, Kaoru gets out and knocks Yuri down off her motorcycle. He then reveals his true form as the Horse Fangire.
Yuri tries to fight back but the Horse Fangire overpowers her until the secretary makes her escape. Changing back to his human form, Kaoru starts to chase after her where his bodyguards arrive and he has them chase after Yuri.
The secretary runs into a nearby building and tries to get some help, but Kaoru catches up to her, grabs her, and four glass shard-like fangs appear in mid-air and stick themselves in the back of her neck, draining her of her life energy and leaving her as a transparent husk.
After Yuri loses the body guards by pretending to be a guy’s girlfriend, she finds Kaoru in the building but also finds that she’s too late to save the secretary. She tries to fight him again but the guy from before stops her to claim his love for her, letting Kaoru get away.

Years later, in 2008, Kaoru has become the president of a modeling agency where he’s one of the models. He scouts a woman, named Megumi, and brings her along to a photo shoot of his. After the shoot, Kaoru approaches Megumi and reveals himself as a Fangire to her. He chases after her to a parking garage where he turns into his Fangire form and prepares to drain her. However, Megumi shoots him in the stomach with a special gun and reveals herself a Fangire hunter like Yuri.
The Horse Fangire fights with her and throws her off the parking garage. Lowering herself to safety with the grappler on her gun, Megumi tries to head back inside but the Horse Fangire ambushes her and knocks her away.
As the Horse Fangire is about to kill her, a young man named Wataru appears along with his Kibat. Once summoning a belt around his waist, Wataru places Kibat on the belt and he transforms into Kamen Rider Kiva.
Kiva gets the Horse Fangire away from the woman and the two start to fight each other. The Horse Fangire summons a sword and slashes Kiva with it and tries to stab him, only for Kibat to catch the sword in his mouth.
Once the Horse Fangire is down, Kiva places a Fuestle in Kibat’s mouth and he plays it, darkening the sky with the moon shown, and then Kibat unwraps the chains around Kiva’s leg, opening up a pair of wings. Kiva then jumps to the sky and kicks the Horse Fangire in the chest against a parking garage.
Once the Horse Fangire is kicked, a dragon head suddenly appears out of a building and reveals a castle body, called Castle Doran. The Castle Doran makes it way to Kiva where the Horse Fangire suddenly shatters to pieces, leaving behind its soul as an energy orb which Castle Doran swallows up.

## Powers/Abilities

**Super Strength**: The Horse Fangire has enough strength to push back a moving motorcycle and a car with just one hand.

**Human Disguise**: The Horse Fangire can disguise him as a man wearing a grey suit.

**Life Energy Sucking**: With two glass shard-like fangs that appear in mid-air out of nowhere, the Horse Fangire can suck the life energy out of his victims, leaving them as transparent husks.

**Hurricane Breath**: The Horse Fangire can blow his enemies away by breathing a Hurricane wind at them.

**Sword**: The Horse Fangire can summon a sword by hitting his right arm, sending out blue stained glass shards that form together into a sword with a black handle and a blue stained glass blade with a grey edge.