Anzu Izumi

1= "You're in for a big surprise!"

- G7 Type-S's catchphrase before a battle.

2= "You guys are going to be dead anyway."

- G7 Type-S catchphrase after using a finisher, but before the damage takes effect.

Anzu Izumi (泉 杏子) is Goro Izumi's older sister who mysteriously disappeared several months before his birth and 27 years before the events of the story. After she was found by an elder of a ninja clan, she was gifted with the power of lightning-elemental ninja arts. About 10 years later, she was abducted by and became one of the first victims of their experiments, but managed to escape and she subsequently encounters the Space Demon Clan Kamui Tribe leader Shingetsu.

After joining the Kamui Tribe, she took on the name Rakurai (落雷) and became Shingetsu's right-hand woman, and is feared by many with her moniker of the Goddess of Thunder (雷の女神). She becomes the interim leader of the Kamui Tribe when Shingetsu sets out on a journey into to capture. Her true agenda is revealed that she has a strong hatred towards Faust and seeks eliminate everyone connected to the evil organization and uses the Kamui Tribe as a front for her revenge schemes.

She later transforms with a G7 battle armor in the form of Kamen Rider G7 Type-S (仮面ライダーG 7タイプS(エス)) through the and Spider Sclashjelly.

Appearance
Rakurai is a human woman donning a black, skintight body suit, futuristic-style ninja armor. Her most distinguishing feature is her clothed mouth covering has a skull pattern. She carries a long ninja sword around her back in a similar way Shingetsu carries his large sword.

Without her mask, Anzu has a long, apricot-brown colored hair at the length reaching her shoulders. The color of her hair is likely a reference to her given name.

By the time of the war between Touto and Hokuto, Anzu cuts her hair into a bob, and dyed black. She later discards her skimpy shorts and jacket in favor of wearing a pink Cheongsam (Chinese dress).

Past
Anzu was born in 1980, as such she is the first-born daughter of Toshihiro and Honoka Izumi. At the age of 10, she stumbled into an accident during a trip to the beach and disappeared from the sight of her parents. Her disappearance caused her parents to sink into depression while her mother was still pregnant at that time. From the day Goro was born, her disappearance was kept secret from Goro until his coming of age when he finds out his father's video diary, apologizing to him that they bear the guilt of lying to him about being the only son by keeping Anzu's mysterious disappearance a secret.

Anzu was found washed ashore by a ninja clan elder, but still remembers the accident and is lost from her family. She was taught the ways of the ninja by the elder, who eventually raised her as his own. During her time being trained as a ninja, Anzu saves the young Goro from death after witnessing their car accident from a distance. 7 years later, her master was killed and is subsequently abducted by. Months after the, Anzu became one of the first victims Faust's experiments. However, she manages to escape from Faust's hideout when the government raided the hideout under the orders of.

Sometime later, she encounters the Space Demon Clan Kamui Tribe leader Shingetsu, who was visiting the Earth in search of. Impressed by her ninja skills and superhuman abilities granted to her after she was experimented by Faust, Shingetsu offers her to join his faction. She accepts, with the intent to seek revenge against Faust. While Shingetsu focuses on his goal to get Pandora Box, Anzu, now taking up the name of Rakurai, uses the Kamui Tribe as a front to kill the people connected to Faust as an act of revenge.

Personality
1="And that's why kindness was just a facade! You are not aware that Faust is sending those kinds of people taking advantage of you, as they are taking advantage of 's research to exploit that Rider System as a tool for warfare! This is why you should be careful of trusting someone just because they are kind enough to help you find the missing pieces of your lost memories, in the end you'll end up being a pawn to their plans and won't hesitate to kill you once they have no use for you!"

- Anzu to about Sawa Takigawa after she reveals about her part of the latter's apparent death.

2="Seriously, I can't believe my brother and that knucklehead of a scientist are Best Match maniacs! This is kinda nostalgic when I was once a to  who's also called a "Gattai" maniac. Anyways, don't answer when you do know who that is!"

- Anzu's demonstration of medium awareness

3="This is all my fault. If only I did not trusted Shingetsu in the first place. I did not realize that Shingetsu was an egomaniacal sociopath only after Pandora's Box, and would go in lengths to kill people. Now, he's really willing to betray anyone so he can get what he wanted. And, my thirst for revenge almost turned me into the same ruthless sociopath as Shingetsu."

- Anzu realizing the pointlessness of her actions.



Anzu is viewed in flashbacks as a child before Goro's birth as a sweet little girl, and is sometimes spoiled, which contrasts to her brother who is responsible and a prodigal genius. Anzu's sudden disappearance lead to her parents suffering depression and keeping her disappearance a secret from Goro; that is until that their father admitted that he lied to Goro in his video message through a video diary.

At first glance, Anzu, as Rakurai is incredibly arrogant, unpredictable, and a ruthless assassin, and prefers to use sneak attacks to confound her enemies; as most ninjas are supposed to do. She is a stark contrast to Taki and is the total opposite of her in every way, right down to her cockiness and lack of empathy. She barely shows any emotion due to her mouth concealed by her skull mask.

At first, she was initially shown to be loyal towards Shingetsu. However, it turns out that her motivations of joining the Kamui Tribe contradicts all this, even Shingetsu knows her reasons she joined the group with a goal in mind: Anzu is driven with desire for revenge against for experimenting her; and she will do whatever it takes by eliminating the people connected to the evil organization as revenge by proxy like orchestrating the deaths of  (although she faked Sawa's death by switching her with a body double to fool Sento) and  at Shingetsu's hands and is willing to lie and manipulate anyone to achieve her plans (including Shingetsu himself, in which he is aware of) with little to no concern for the consequences of her actions.

Despite her brunt, brutally honest, manipulative, and cold behavior, she also appears to be playful, bubbly, as well as immature and childish, as shown with her affection towards her brother. Depending on situations, she also has a flair of leaning on the 4th wall; in a similar vein with and. Anzu has an unlady-like speech pattern, even using masculine pronouns like 僕 when referring to herself. Similarly with Goro, Anzu is one of the few characters to swear and showcased offensive and crude behavior to others. Much like Goro, she was frequently shown to be foul-mouthed, repeatedly swearing in almost every chapter. Like her brother, she is very cunning and intelligent, she is also able to forge her own weapons and equipment.

Similarly with Goro, Anzu is prone to do morally-questionable actions; but to unscrupulous extremes like using anyone as a means to an end, and putting innocent lives in grave danger for the sake of her revenge, much to her brother's disapproval. Even after defecting from the Kamui Tribe, Anzu still maintains the same sociopathic behavior under her Rakurai alias, especially in regards towards anyone connected to Faust. As quoted above, she even gloated to Sento's face that she felt no guilt in manipulating Shingetsu into "killing" Sawa. It is likely that Faust's experimentation done to her is the cause of her vengeful, manipulative, and sociopathic personality.

However, the only person she wouldn't use as a tool for her plans is her brother, Goro; whom she genuinely cared. Anzu is revealed to be protecting him from the shadows after being trained as a kunoichi, even Goro himself is unaware of her masquerading as a Kamui Tribe ninja. It also shows that Anzu has a good reason to join the Kamui Tribe not out of revenge against Faust, but also to protect Goro. Eventually, she decided to cast aside her thoughts of revenge, choosing to redeem herself after she earns the disapproval from Sento and his friends because of her actions, and lastly her actions turned her into the same ruthless and sadistic person as Shingetsu.

By the time the war for the Pandora Box broke out, Anzu also shares her brother's determination to stop the war by any means necessary. For that matter, she even decided to continue her quest to hunt down the people who are connected to Faust and Nanba Heavy Industries.

Powers and Abilities

 *  ∞ (Infinity): Anzu has a very immeasurable Hazard Level that surpasses, , , and . This is due to the fact that Anzu is one of the first victims of Faust's experiments in which it was overseen by at that time before the Touto government raided Faust's hideout under Gentoku Himuro's orders. Even in this Hazard Level, Anzu is also able to use either ,  or.
 * Original Progenitor: According to Goro and Sento, Anzu is the closest thing to a patient zero due to having a high amount of Nebula Gas administered to her. She can infect anyone with Nebula Gas with a Hazard Level ranging from 1 to 50 and higher. However, Anzu is able to fully control the Nebula Gas within her body.
 *  Compatibility: Anzu is one of the few people to be unaffected by the Sclash Driver's side-effects after each transformation such as the obsession of fighting. Granted, this is due to the fact that she has indefinite amounts of Nebula Gas injected into her body at the same time her Hazard Level being immeasurable. At the same time that the G7 system negates the effects of the Driver, since the G7 suits serves as the antithesis  created.
 * Ninja Skills: After she was taken by a ninja clan elder, Anzu was gifted with the skills of a shinobi.
 * Delayed Reaction Attacks: Anzu was somehow trained with a fighting style that emphasizes a time-delayed effect.
 * Toxigenesis: Keeping with her Rider form's spider motif, Anzu can generate neurotoxins made from her internal Nebula Gases. She can inject these venom by striking her opponent's pressure points that can instantly kill her victims. It is stated that her poison is even more powerful than . Some of her finishers usually accompany this paired with the aforementioned time-delayed attacks.
 * Neurotoxin Manipulation: Anzu can also control the poison she injects on her victims aside from killing them. She can use to spread the venom into her enemy's body to paralyze them. Making it more similar having a tumor being implanted into the human body.
 * Hazard Level Ability Restriction: Being the creator of the Arc-Winger, and by extension, G7 Icarus XYZ's Archangel Armor. Anzu can seal certain abilities of a Smash, Build Driver, and/or Transteam Gun user when transformed as G7 Icarus XYZ Archangel Armor.
 * Hazard Level Reduction: When using G7 Icarus XYZ's Archangel Armor, Anzu gains the ability to permanently de-power anyone with a high Hazard Level upon contact by neutralizing the effects of Nebula Gas of the target's body, reducing their Hazard Levels to 0. It also applies when G7 Icarus XYZ inflicts melee damage against a Smash or anyone using a Build Driver, Sclash Driver, or Transteam Gun, etc., the target's Hazard Level is permanently reduced.
 *  Nullification: According to Anzu herself, the Archangel Armor is designed to disable the Transteam System. This is paired with the armor's ability to decrease the opponent's Hazard Level upon contact, rendering the usage of the Transteam Gun useless.

Weakness

 * Aging decline: It is revealed that the experiments done to Anzu by Faust caused her body to cease aging, making her look like she is physically 27 years old but she is actually 37 years old.

Devices

 * - Transformation belt
 * - Transformation trinket
 * - Auxiliary trinkets
 * - G7 Type-S's personal smartphone that can transform into the Machine Builder. Created by reverse-engineering Build's original one.

Arsenal

 * XGN-009 Super Denjinmaru - G7 Type-S's primary weapon upgraded from her original Denjinmaru ninja sword.
 * - Default sidearm as with fellow  and.

Vehicles

 * - Rider Machine shared with Build and Cross-Z.

Family

 * Toshihiro Izumi - Father
 * Honoka Izumi - Mother
 * Goro Izumi - Brother, Kamen Rider G7 Icarus (XYZ)
 * Takagi Izumi - Grandfather

Relationships

 * Family
 * Goro Izumi: Her little brother. Goro is the only person that Anzu deeply cares about, and protects him from the shadows until his coming of age. At first, Goro sees her as an enemy due to her hiding her identity as a ninja of the Kamui Tribe. That is, she reveals herself to him during the siege of the Touto Institute by Faust. Both brother and sister are at odds with each other due to the fact that Goro disapproves her desire for revenge against Faust. Because of her familial love towards Goro, she could not bring herself to use him as a pawn for her goals.
 * Space Demon Clan Kamui Tribe
 * Shingetsu: Anzu first met Shingetsu during his first visit to Earth in search of Pandora Box. She accepts his offer to become his right-hand. While Shingetsu journeys in Touto to find Pandora Box, Anzu uses the Kamui Tribe as a front to eliminate the people who are linked to Faust. Shingetsu is even aware that Anzu uses him as a means to an end to bring Faust down to its knees, yet he doesn't harbor any ill will for her actions and gleefully grants her wish.
 * Space Explorers
 * Samus Aran
 * Mitsuzane Kureshima
 * Mayu Inamori
 * Makoto Fukami
 * Alain
 * CR
 * Enemies
 * Although she hasn't met him in person. Due to him being the leader of Faust and his identity of Night Rogue, Gentoku is one of Anzu's potential targets that she intends to eliminate. She even revealed to her brother, Sento, and Banjou that she orchestrated Gentoku's inevitable death.
 * Anzu is somewhat hostile towards Sento, this is due to the fact that she engineered Sawa's apparent death. Even though she reveals that Sawa is still alive, Anzu continues to look down on Sento with disdain. This has become apparent after she and her brother find out his identity being . When she begins to notice Goro attempting to kill Sento after the revelation of his true identity in revenge for experimenting on her sister, Anzu decided to intervene and reminded Goro that if he kills Sento, he would end up in the same path Anzu was.
 * Others
 * Taki
 * Natsu
 * Both Anzu Izumi and Miu Sutou are identical by appearance, but their personalities contradict towards one another.
 * Anzu is somewhat hostile towards Sento, this is due to the fact that she engineered Sawa's apparent death. Even though she reveals that Sawa is still alive, Anzu continues to look down on Sento with disdain. This has become apparent after she and her brother find out his identity being . When she begins to notice Goro attempting to kill Sento after the revelation of his true identity in revenge for experimenting on her sister, Anzu decided to intervene and reminded Goro that if he kills Sento, he would end up in the same path Anzu was.
 * Others
 * Taki
 * Natsu
 * Both Anzu Izumi and Miu Sutou are identical by appearance, but their personalities contradict towards one another.
 * Both Anzu Izumi and Miu Sutou are identical by appearance, but their personalities contradict towards one another.
 * Both Anzu Izumi and Miu Sutou are identical by appearance, but their personalities contradict towards one another.
 * Both Anzu Izumi and Miu Sutou are identical by appearance, but their personalities contradict towards one another.

Portrayal
Anzu Izumi is portrayed by Yumi Sugimoto (杉本 有美), best known for her role as  in , which she reprises in the crossover series in a team-up episode alongside as, who happens to voice Tanu-chan in the series. As Kamen Rider G7 Type-S, her suit actor is Gomi Ryōko (五味 涼子).

Exclusively to this story, this is second time where Yumi Sugimoto plays a sibling in tokusatsu, with the first being Miu Sutou. Ironically, she is portrayed as the older sister of the protagonist who is not aware of her familial relationship towards him. To emphasize this even further, Yumi Sugimoto is currently 28 years old (while her character in this story is 37 years old, though she is physically 27 due to Anzu being experimented by Faust halted her body from aging), whereas Taishi Nakagawa (the actor for Goro Izumi) is 19, despite his character being 27 years old.

Much like her brother Goro having earned comparisons to from , the closest thing for Anzu would be none other than.

Etymology
Her given name translates as "apricot", referencing her former hair color. While her alias of Rakurai the same as Japanese name of the Pokémon Electrike. Coincidentally, both are associated with lightning. Electrike is an Electric-type Pokémon, while Rakurai is efficient with lightning-elemental ninja arts.

Her alias of Shirahane translates to "white wings", sharing the main Hokuto Three Crows' color theme with Akaba (赤羽 lit., "red wings"), Kiba (黄羽 lit. "yellow wings") and Aoba (青羽 lit., "blue wings"), as well her brother's alias of Kuroba (黒羽 lit., black wings), hence his rider form being white. Incidentally, her alias also translates to "white rain" (白羽根).

Of note, Anzu is the only "member" of the whose pseudonym doesn't end with "-ba".