KAMEN RIDER RYUKI

Kamen Rider Ryuki and his contract monster Dragreder.

Kamen Rider Ryuki is a character in Tokusatsu Kamen Rider Ryuki. He is the second of the 13 Kamen Rider. He is the main protagonist. His true identity is Kido Shiniji. Ryuki is a Rider with equally powerful melee and far range fighting capabilities. His elements is Fire, given by his monster Dragreder. His weapon is Sword Vent and his final vent is “Ryuki Kick” which is a usual “Rider Kick” from the original Kamen Rider.
He is one of the few main Kamen Rider is existence not to resemble an insect in his transform. Like the other Kamen Rider,he gains his power from a belt and uses his kick for finishing strike.

Character Profile

Shinji is friendly, peace-lover and good-hearted person. He is journalist at one of the news group. He get the Advent Card deck when investigating a series on disappearances. During his investigation, he was attacked by Mirror World monster, dragreder. After rescued by Kamen Rider Knight and Yui Kanzaki, he made contract with dragreder and become Kamen Rider Ryuki. Many things happen to Shinji after he become a Rider, but he keeps maintain his Happy-go-lucky attitude.

The main reason for Shinji to fight is to protect the innocent people from the Mirror World Monster and stopping the war between Rider. During this series, Shinji Ideas often experience rejection from other Rider, including from Ren, whom he consider as his closest friend. Shinji eventually found a kindred spirit in Tezuka Miyuki (Kamen Rider Raia). They tried to stop the Rider war together until Raia was killed by Kamen Rider Ohja. Though Ren and Shinji is eventually a good friend, they also maintained some of a rivalry between them. At the end of the series, he was stabbed in the back by a monster before he could transform while protecting a little girl and died with a devastated Ren by his side shortly afterwards. When Kanzaki Shiro reverted time back to normal after Yui’s death, Shinji’s life was restored as normal journalist with no memory of being a Rider. In 13 Riders Special, his role in as Rider was the same, but his origin as Ryuki was much different. It was by fate he was dragged into Mirror World by a monster and saved by Previous Ryuki, Koichi Sakakibara. But Shinji was wounded and wishing to saving his life, Sakakibara gave Shinji his deck and faded. Shinji became Kamen Rider Ryuki and still prevent other rider from fighting as his way to thank Sakakibara. While fighting with other Riders, the Ryuki deck is destroyed by Kamen Rider Odin. After Kamen Rider Knight was killed by Kamen Rider Verde, Ren gave Shinji the Knight deck and he become Kamen Rider Knight.