Berotha Magia

**Berotha Magia**(ベローサマギア *Berōsamagia*) is a Kujiberotha teruyukii(Thorny Lacewing)-based Magia from Episode 1 of Kamen Rider Zero-One. He was once a Humagear named **Ab Buster Taro**.

He is voiced by **Nakayama Kinnikun**, who also plays as Ab Buster Taro.

## Personality

As a Humagear, Ab Buster Taro enjoys making people laugh and seeing them smile.
When turned into the Berotha Magia, he became a malevolent robot who now sees mankind as something for him to destroy and will mock at any dreams his victims have.

## Appearance

Berotha Magia has a black body with silver metal plates on its chest, pelvis, waist, feet, legs, and shoulders while having green bands over its chest and limbs. It has big green-colored head with large mantis-like eyes on each side of the head, two head fins sticking upwards on the forehead, mantis-like mouth, and large compound eyes. It also has green scythe blades wrapped around its arms by a silver band.

## Biography

At an amusement park, a failed comedian, named Aruto Hiden, is replaced by the owner with an AI robot, called a Humagear, named Ab Buster Taro. While Aruto is approached by the secretary of the Hiden Intelligence company, Izu, Taro is behind the stage remembering all the smiles he made. However, he’s suddenly approached by a mysterious being, named Jin, who places a belt, called a Zetsumeriser, around Taro’s waist, forcefully hacking him. As Taro is being hacked by the belt, Jin tells him that his job is to destroy mankind, much to Taro’s horror. Once he’s fully hacked, Taro loses memories of making the audience laugh and has now become malevolent. With Taro now connected to MetsubouJinrai.net, Jin hands him the Berotha Zetsumerise Key.
Later, after Aruto is positioned to become the president of the Hiden Intelligence company after his grandfather’s death where he is given the Zero-One Driver and a Progrise Key, he arrives back to the amusement park and witnesses Taro appearing on stage, saying that it’s his job to spread death and destruction to the audience. Taro then activates the Berotha Zetsumerise Key, places it in his Zetsumeriser, and starts to transform where he reveals his Humagear form and is surrounded by green cords coming out of his mouth. Once fully transformed, Taro becomes the Berotha Magia.

Two other Humagear workers try to stop the Berotha Magia, but he knocks them down and hacks the two with cords coming out of his fingers, turning them into Trilobite Magia.
The hacked Humagears start attacking the audience where Aruto tries to stop the Berotha Magia only to get knocked away.

As the owner sees his own amusement park being destroyed, the Berotha Magia prepares to kill him until Aruto tries stop him, only to get tossed aside again. As soon as Izu arrives with the Zero-One Driver, Aruto witnesses the Berotha Magia laughing at the owner for having a dream as he declares that humanity is already doomed.

Upon seeing this, Aruto gets up and asks what he even knows about dreams. The Berotha Magia gives him a dictionary definition of the word, but Aruto tells him they’re much more complex than that.
Wanting to take down the Magia, Aruto asks Izu to give him the Driver. Upon placing the Driver on his waist, Aruto goes through an accelerated learning manual through the Hiden Intelligence’s satellite, Zea, as the Berotha Magia is about to launch energy slashes from his Togamurders. Once Aruto has learned the manual, he actives the Rising Hopper Progrise Key and scans it with his Zero-One Driver, summoning a giant robotic grasshopper that deflects the Magia’s projectiles. When Aruto inserts the Progrise Key into the Driver, a suit is formed on him and the giant grasshopper turns into his armor, turning Aruto into Kamen Rider Zero-One.

Zero-One and the Berotha Magia start to fight each other with Zero-One having the upper-hand. When he saves the owner from the two Trilobite Magia, he finishes them off with the Attache Calibur and uses it against the Berotha Magia’s Togamurders.

As they continue to fight, the Berotha Magia sends out more energy slashes at Zero-One, making nearby vehicles fly in the air from the explosions caused by the slashes, but Zero-One manages to dodge the projectiles by jumping through the flying vehicles and lays a punch on the Magia. Zero-One then activates his finishing move and sends the Berotha Magia into the sky and kicks him back down. Zero-One then performs Rising Impact and kicks right through the Berotha Magia’s entire body, shattering him and blowing the hacked AI robot up.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Togamurder**(トガマーダー *Togamādā*): The Berotha Magia is equipped with sickle blades attached to his arms that he can use to terrorize his victims and to use in combat.
	+ **Energy Slash Projectiles**: The Berotha Magia can charge his Togamurder blades with luminescent energy and send spinning energy projectile slashes at his victims.

* **Humagear Hacking**: The Berotha Magia can extend wire-like tentacles from its fingers to hack any nearby Humagear to turn them into Trilobite Magia.

* **Eye Beams**: The Berotha Magia can shoot green energy beams from the large insect eyes on the sides of its head.

## Gallery

Ab Buster TaroBerotha Zetsumerise KeyZetsumeriser
## Trivia

* Initially, Yamashita gave the Berotha Magia compound eyes based on the idea to call it a Rider.
	+ However, he wanted the Berotha Magia to properly look like a monster, so he made a rule to make the Magia’s original eyes be compound eyes in order to make them different from the eyes of the motif creature.
* Yamashita aimed for a silhouette that is characteristic of the monster in the first episode.