Kamen Rider Ryuki

Publication Information

Ryuki : Kamen Rider Ryuki
Japanese : 仮面ライダー龍騎
Version : Kamen Rider Ryuki Series
Label :
- Kamen Riders : #18
- Heisei Riders : #3
Gender : Male
Origin : Earth (Mirror World)
Season : Kamen Rider Ryuki

Main Article : Kamen Rider Ryuki Character

Kamen Rider Ryuki is a balanced fighter, able to utilize both a close-range and ranged fighting style. His special element is fire, given his dragon's augmentation to his armor. His Advent Cards further show the emphasis on versatility, with a decently powerful close range weapon as well as a capable long-range weapon. His Contract Monster Dragredder often aids him in his battles. Ryuki however has no special or trick cards like Gai's Confine Vent or Raia's Copy Vent, nor does he have a weapon based Rider Visor like Knight's rapier Dark Visor or Zolda's gun Giga Visor. His Final Vent is a flying side kick called "Dragon Rider Kick", which is a playoff from the usual "Rider Kick" the original Kamen Riders used.

Contract Monster

Main Article : Contract Monster

Once a Mirror Monster is confined through an empty Contract Card, it forms a Contract with the Rider who captured it and becomes labeled a Contract Monster. However, the Contract Beasts can turn on their human partners and devour them if their Vent Deck is destroyed or should they decide to quit being Riders and thus starve the monster of the energy it would receive from absorbing the energies of other Monsters.

Mirror Monster

Main Article : Mirror Monster

Mirror Monsters were created by Yui as drawings made by her and her brother, Shiro Kanzaki, when they were young and gave them to her mirror-self to gain a new life. As these creatures have no true life of their own, they had to prey on humans to survive on their lifeforce. The only human they can not attack is Yui herself, whom they obey absolutely like Kanzaki. However, Rogue Mirror Monsters who attack Yui are attacked either by Kamen Rider Odin or a loyal Mirror Monster who serves Kanzaki.

Ryuki Riders:

Shinji Kido / Kamen Rider Ryuki : Is a good-hearted, friendly, naive idealist who works at the ORE Journal as a journalist trainee. He investigates a man named Koichi Sakakibara, whom disappeared, and finds a card deck in Koichi's apartment and eventually encounters a dragon, Dragreder, which attacked him but was then mysteriously repelled. Later that day, he falls into a car window and ends up being dragged to the Mirror World.
Ren Akiyama / Kamen Rider Knight : Is a cold loner who fights constantly and is frequently unemployed. He received his Card Deck before the start of the series. He accepted Kanzaki's offer to join the Rider war to give his fiancé, Eri Ogawa, a full recovery as she was in a mysterious coma ever since an encounter with Darkwing. Ren later contracted with Darkwing and became Kamen Rider Knight.
Masashi Sudo / Kamen Rider Scissors : Is a detective using his job to cover up his illegal activities disposing of any witnesses to his acts. He had a partner, the older Tomoyuki Kaga who owned the Antique and Collection shop, until the older man's demand for a bigger cut in the profit made Masashi kill him, plastering him into the wall of his own shop seconds before Kanzaki appeared and offered him a Card Deck explaining the terms of accepting it.
Shuichi Kitaoka / Kamen Rider Zolda : Is a self-proclaimed "super-lawyer" who tends to only help someone if he has something to gain. Because he has a terminal case of cancer and has been given only a few months to live, he accepted Kanzaki's offer to join the Rider War. His prize is to be immortal so that he could continue his extravagant lifestyle.
Miyuki Tezuka / Kamen Rider Raia : Is a mysterious and enigmatic fortune-teller who believes in predestination, another Kamen Rider that Kanzaki did not personally pick to have a Card Deck. The real chosen one was his friend Yuichi Saito, an excellent pianist who lost ability to play when a mugger (later revealed to be Takeshi Asakura) broke his hands. After his friend was devoured by a GuldThunder after refusing Kanzaki's offer to fight in the Rider War.
Jun Shibaura / Kamen Rider Gai : Is a 2nd year college student at Meirin University, extremely well versed in computers and programming to be in the Matrix Netgame Club. Being the son of a company president, Shibaura is arrogant in personality and toys with other people's lives for nothing more than a good laugh. He joined the Rider War simply to be the winner as it was all a game to him, transforming into Kamen Rider Gai.
Takeshi Asakura / Kamen Rider Ouja : Is a sadistic criminal who murdered his entire family during childhood, gaining a reputation for having a love to fight and kill in his random fits of rage. As a result of his sadistic nature, prior to becoming a Rider, Asakura was personally responsible for both ending the piano career of Tezuka's friend Yuichi Saito and the murder of Miho Kirishima's older sister. His arrogant personality resulted with his defense attorney, Shuichi Kitaoka, refusing to represent him and leaving him to rot in jail.
Kamen Rider Odin : Is a mindless puppet controlled by Shiro Kanzaki, who is able to interact with the real world where Kanzaki cannot and is contracted with Goldphoenix. Odin serves to protect Yui from harm and also acts as Kanzaki's personal representative in the Rider War. Odin possesses incredible strength, the ability to teleport short distances, and the ability to shoot a gust of golden feathers. Odin can also use the Time Vent card to reverse time to the beginning of the Rider War. Throughout the Rider War, Odin makes brief appearances and fights the other Kamen Riders, until he and Knight Survive are left
Miho Kirishima / Kamen Rider Femme : Appearing in Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final, is a con-artist who seduces wealthy men in order to steal their money and/or valuables. Miho accepted Kanzaki's proposal to join the Rider war for two reasons: she wanted to resurrect her sister and take revenge on her killer, Takeshi Asakura. She fights as Kamen Rider Femme to reach this goal.
Dark Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuga : Yui Kanzaki had already met and befriended Shinji Kido when they were still both very young. As a result, the young and lonely Yui subconsciously created a duplicate of Shinji in the imaginary Mirror World. The Mirror World version of Shinji Kido, referred as "Mirror Image Shinji Kido", could survive indefinitely in his own universe without any extra protection, but could only stay in the real world for a short time before starting to disintegrate, just like how a normal human would in the Mirror World.
Itsuro Takamizawa / Kamen Rider Verde : Is a rich and charismatic businessman of the Takamizawa Group, who is able to transform into the chameleon-themed Kamen Rider Verde with the aid of his Contract Monster Biogreeza. He joined the Rider War to add to his already massive wealth so he could take control of the world. Takamizawa and Verde only appear in Kamen Rider Ryuki Special: 13 Riders.
Satoru Tojo / Kamen Rider Tiger : Is a disturbed man with a twisted moral background; a social outcast determined to do whatever it takes to be accepted. However, Tojo also seemed to have a great amount of respect for his teacher, Hideyuki Kagawa, adopting his theories on the concept of heroism, although Tojo develops a hero syndrome due to his bloodthirsty nature. Due to Tojo's history of mental instability, he came to believe that he needed to kill those he loved or cared about to become a hero, as his grief would make him fight harder
Mitsuru Sano / Kamen Rider Imperer : Is the son of a wealthy businessman who worked in a parking garage, occasionally cleaning rich people's cars, although he came from an affluent family. His father sent him out into the world so that he could learn the hardships of life and not be spoiled by a rich upbringing. Because of his poor lifestyle, he believed friendship, respect, and love could be bought, and thus accepted Kanzaki's proposal to become Kamen Rider Imperer in order to become rich and lead a happy life.
Kamen Rider Alternatives : Are Pseudo-Riders created by Hideyuki Kagawa and based from Shiro Kanzaki's blueprints of the 13 Kamen Riders; their purpose is to close the Mirror World. Satoru Tojo, Kamen Rider Tiger, then joined the duo only to betray them and kill them.

Kanzaki Family

Yui Kanzaki : Is a 19-year-old woman who had been aiding Ren prior to the series. Yui's purpose for joining Ren is to find clues about her long lost brother Shiro. But unbeknownst to her, she has a mysterious connection with Mirror World and its monsters.
Sanako Kanzaki : Is Shiro's and Yui's aunt who is the owner of coffee shop Atori. She took an immediate dislike for the hard as nails Ren, but welcomed the clumsy Shinji with open arms. Sanako considers herself to be a wise woman and says that her intuition is never wrong.
Shiro Kanzaki : Is the mysterious man and scientific genius who created the Kamen Riders for the purpose of creating the Rider War, with Kamen Rider Odin as his right-hand man. He is Yui's older brother, who was taken to live with his relatives in America thirteen years prior to the start of the series. While researching the Mirror World.

ORE Journal

ORE Journal (Open Resource Evolution Journal) is a news publication which tackles areas in which some other consider as dead cases, such as the unsolved and mysterious mass-dissappearances, and the supposedly strange mutations of different animals near a factory.

Daisuke Okubo : Is the chief editor and Shinji's senior. He can be a bit silly at times. Daisuke is a caring boss who just doesn't see his employees as just his workers, but rather part of his family or sees them collectively as a group of friends.
Reiko Momoi : Is a no-nonsense reporter whose goal is to uncover the truth behind the disappearances that are inextricably linked to the Rider War. She also became Kitaoka's target for unwanted affections.
Shinji Kido : Is a journalist trainee working for ORE Journal who finds himself drafted into the Rider War after finding a mysterious deck. Among the Riders in the Rider War.
Nanako Shimada : Is a computer programmer who works for the ORE Journal.
Megumi Asano : Used to be Kitaoka's secretary. She returned into his life claiming that the two of them were to be married. Megumi is a strong individual and quite capable in a fight, which is why Kitaoka hired her as his bodyguard. However she is quite ditzy, which was why Kitaoka had fired her.

Form

Kamen Rider Ryuki

Main Article : Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Origin : Earth (Mirror World)
- Version : Kamen Rider Ryuki Series
- Type : Mirror World Riders
- Form : Default Form
- Height : 190 cm
- Weight : 90kg
- Punching Power : 10t (AP: 200)
- Kicking Power : 20t (AP: 400)
- Maximum Jump Height : 35m
- Maximum Running Speed : 72km/h
- Sight and Hearing : 15km radius
- Finisher Power :
- Season : Kamen Rider Ryuki
Ryuki's standard form that he had throughout most of the series, obtained once he forms his contract with Dragreder. A "balanced" Rider with equally powerful melee and far-range fighting capabilities, he uses the Drag Visor gauntlet on his left forearm to use Advent Cards.