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Eiji Hino (火野 映司, Hino Eiji) is a 21-year-old traveler who fights the Greeed as Kamen Rider OOO (仮面ライダーオーズ, Kamen Raidā Ōzu).
Biography[]
Early Life
Eiji Hino is the son of a politician who travels the world with his grandfather. During one his expeditions, he travels in Africa. During his time in Africa, Eiji attempted to use his fortune to help out a village. In turn, Eiji befriends a girl named Ruu. Following her to her village and learning the residents as well as their culture, he is dragged into a civil war between villages. During the tragic moments of the civil war, Ruu is eventually killed in the war and Eiji is held captive for ransom. His family paid for his ransom, allowing him to escape Africa; but his family then used his tragedy to gain public support for his father's political platform. Though Eiji ultimately refers to this moment as his greatest regret, the ordeal caused Eiji to lose any selfish desire and become willing to help those in need, going so far to even risking his life for complete strangers.
Becoming Kamen Rider OOO
"I've been here and there but... having to save people's lives... is practically difficult everywhere!"
―Eiji's claim when he is chosen to become Kamen Rider OOO.[src]
He returned to Japan to fund for more of his travels. His latest part-time job, a security guard at the Kougami Art Museum, ends due to the destruction of the museum around him due to him being drugged to sleep by some would-be robbers. Eiji takes a strange red coin he found while off duty which he thinks is his pay. This causes a disembodied arm to begin to follow him around, until the arm announces that it is called Ankh and is one of the ancient beings known as the Greeed, and he needs Eiji's help to become King. When they are attacked by a monster called a Yummy, Eiji risks his life to rescue Ankh, who in return saves him and gives Eiji two more strange coins, calling them "Medals", and a belt, enabling Eiji to transform into Kamen Rider OOO.
Eiji appears to aid Kamen Rider Double on a rooftop as OOO, providing him cover during the Futo Invasion by NEVER, allowing Double to reach the Futo Tower as OOO defeats Luna Dopant.
After destroying the Yummy and further encounters with the Greeed, people from the Kougami Foundation begin to approach Eiji, offering their assistance in the fight against the Greeed and Yummy, but their true motives are not clear. He also gets a job and housing at the Cous Coussier, after the owner Chiyoko Shiraishi finds out that he is a world traveler. In the process, joined by Akira Date, Eiji learns more of the Greeed's desire to become whole and the reason why Ankh is unable to assume his complete form. However, things changed when Eiji ended up becoming a host to half of a set of Purple Core Medals that react to his lack of selfish desires, the same presumed reason why he is able to use OOO's powers without any sign of going berserk so far like the First OOO, with dangerous consequences. Soon after, Eiji learns from Kousei Kougami, the Foundation's owner, that the only way to counteract the purple Core Medals is to acquire a desire of his own, something he is yet capable of.
Later on, he turns into the dinosaur-like Eiji Greeed after absorbing two more purple Core Medals from the other Purple Greeed, Kiyoto Maki, in a bid to make him go beserk. However, it was by then Eiji remembers his desire is to have the power to help others and later agrees to Kougami's suggestion to absorb all the Cell Medals in the Kougami Foundation's possession to achieve that desire. However, it does not halt Eiji's Greeedification during his his final battle when he uses all the Cell Medals in his body in a risky attack that fails to destroy Maki. But before Eiji undergoes his Greeed transformation, Ankh gives Eiji his last three Core Medals, disappearing from Shingo and allowing Eiji to transform into OOO Tajadol Combo to defeat Maki, resulting in the disappearance of the Core Medals, with the Core Medal that houses Ankh's consciousness splitting in half.
As a now-normal Eiji falls back to the Earth, Ankh appears to him as his disembodied arm, bidding his farewells, before disappearing into half of the broken Taka Medal that once held his consciousness. Saved by Kamen Rider Birth, receiving the other half of Ankh's Core Medal that Hina found, Eiji leaves Japan and resumes his journey around the world, using Shingo's smartphone to keep in touch with his friends while trying to find a way to fix the broken Taka Medal with a spectral Ankh arm following him.
Personality[]
Despite often coming off as happy-go-lucky in his personality, Eiji is actually quite strong-willed and more clever than he lets on, and was easily able to pick up on the fact he could use Ankh's need for him and the OOO Driver to keep the Greeed in line. Another defining trait is Eiji will fight to protect anyone in need, even complete strangers and at the risk of his own life. This stemmed after his regret from not saving the little African girl he befriended during a civil war which his family fortune started. He keeps a collection of coins and almost always has pairs of underwear of different designs and colors which he at times even gives to others. This is revealed to stem from an optimistic outlook taught to him by his grandfather, who said that all a man needs is a pair of underpants for tomorrow.
Eiji possesses no selfish desires, which made him ideal for being OOO but also became a weakness once the Purple Core Medals sought out a host, as they immediately found him and took root. However, taking the advice of Akira Date, after becoming a Greeed, Eiji remembers the desire he had so long ago: Eiji wanted the power to protect people no matter where they are, which Ankh gave to him in the form of the OOO Driver.
On Sora's Team[]
Sora invites Eiji and his friends in order to destroy Xehanort and his cronies.