Kamen Rider TheBee "Kabuto"

Sou Yaguruma , a 27-year old agent of ZECT, was the first TheBee user. Yaguruma, while TheBee, had his own personal army of ZECT Troopers called Shadow, which had yellow stripes on their uniform, indicating that they are an elite unit of ZECT Troopers. He is a perfectionist, believing in a philosophy known as "Kanzen Chowa" aka "Perfect Harmony". When he's calm, he's a caring person who possesses a strict code of teamwork and demands perfection. He cares deeply for his team members, and in battle he is a brilliant tactician. However, he's also impulsive, brash and quick to anger. It is interesting to note that during battle he primarily uses kicks, foreshadowing his later role as Kamen Rider Kick Hopper.

When Tendou managed to infiltrate his flawless security team and upstage him by revealing how a Worm had done the same, he was so angry that he immediately challenged Kabuto to a fight. While he managed to defeat Tendou and destroy his belt, he was shocked to learn that he had been unsuccessful in his mission to eliminate Kabuto forever when Tendou transformed with a repaired belt.

His resulting hatred caused him to disregard the safety of his team in favor of getting revenge against Tendou, which led to the TheBee Zecter rejecting him. After this he was reassigned to another part of the city, but returned when members of his former team were being eliminated from within by a traitor. Despite his renewed vow to protect his team, the TheBee Zecter had chosen Kageyama, making him the new leader of Shadow. Afterwards, he asked Kageyama to let him rejoin Shadow, but Kageyama turned him down. He returns in episode 33 as Kamen Rider Kick Hopper.

In the movie adaptation God Speed Love set in an alternate timeline, however, he appeared as a high-ranking ZECT official in league with Kamen Rider Ketaros and is still the wielder of the TheBee Zecter. He commanded the counterattack against Neo-ZECT and was able to annihilate a majority of the Neotroopers with his ZECT Trooper team (Shadow did not appear for some unknown reasons), calling it a "perfect mission". Despite this, he was killed on combat with Kamen Rider Hercus. His last words lamented having received a "perfect death."


Shun Kageyama gained the TheBee Zecter during episode 13 and became TheBee. Under Yaguruma's command, he was injured by Tendou in an early battle and has had hostility burnt in towards Kabuto ever since. He was once a good friend of Yaguruma, believing deeply in his philosophy of teamwork and "Kanzen Chouwa". He considers Kagami a kid. Even while injured, he continued to fight the Worms and would protect his commander at all costs. After TheBee Zecter rejected Yaguruma and chose Kagami, he attempted to make Kagami understand his new responsibilities. He was baffled when Kagami rejected TheBee Zecter in favour of his friendship with Tendou. It was then that he was chosen by TheBee and became the next captain of Shadow. Kageyama mainly uses punches as TheBee, foreshadowing his future role as Kamen Rider Punch Hopper.

One of his first actions as the new leader was a plan to fake the disbanding of Shadow in order to expose a traitor eliminating Shadow members one by one. After eliminating Yaguruma from the suspect list, his former commander attempted to rejoin Shadow, but Kageyama turned him down, coldly telling him that he would bring disharmony to the group. His next move was to frame Kagami as the traitor in the hopes that the traitor would attempt to shut Kagami up, but this plan failed when Tendou exposed the real traitor. He does not mind sacrificing the life of an "unimportant" ZECT member in order to further the greater cause; his actions contradict his mentor's beliefs of "Kanzen Chouwa", which is why Tendou sees Kageyama as unfit to be a leader.

He was unpleasant when Soujiro Tendouji (Tendou) became the leader of Shadow. He attacked Kamen Rider Drake and tried to frame Tendouji (Tendou) but Tendou found this out and punished him by making do wash the dishes at Bistro la Salle. In Episode 20, Mishima makes him pick up Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Sasword), which results in Kageyama being made to sing Happy Birthday to Kamishiro, whose butler Jiiya had to get Kageyama to sing it right. Mishima also sees him as weak because despite being TheBee, he feels that he cannot handle the missions. TheBee, along with Drake, was also under Shun Kageyama when the full body Put On system was first utilized. He is defeated by Yaguruma as Kick Hopper, and then loses his Zecter, which is obtained by Tendou. He then proceeds to do everything Tendou says in order to get his TheBee Zecter back, but ends up failing. Yaguruma returns to save Kageyama from Shadow and some Worms, and Kageyama agrees to fight alongside him and becomes Kamen Rider Punch Hopper.

Kageyama faces a change of heart as he returns to the TheBee Zecter and uses it one more time during episode 44. However, he was defeated by Cassisworm Gradius, and was afterwards abandoned by the TheBee Zecter. He then returned to being Punch Hopper. 20 years old.