Ryuga is a major antagonist turned major protagonist in the Beyblade series. He is a member of the Dark Nebula Organization, the partner of Doji, and the possessor of Lightning L-Drago. After losing to Ginkga he redeems himself and breaks free from the Dark power.
He was voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda in Japanese and Carman Melville in English.
Personality
At first, Ryuga just fought to gain power and crush anyone in his way. He was power hungry, wanting L-Drago to be the strongest. However, after losing to Gingka, he becomes a more humble person.
Appearance
In the series Ryuga has been shown to be a tanned young man of average height. He usually wears a yellow-striped black shirt and pants, He also has spiky white and red hair, a gold gauntlet around his arm, and a gold crown.
Biography
Past
Not much of Ryuga's past is known, except he once joined the Dark Nebula Organization and became Doji's right-hand man.
Ryuga and Doji once heard of a forbidden Beyblade called L-Drago, hidden in a temple at Koma Village and flew to Mount Hagane. There, after getting past the booby traps, Ryuga acquires L-Drago and uses it to defeat Gingka's father and his Beyblade, Pegasus, with ease. However, as Ryuga fled the temple with Doji, L-Drago drained Ryuga of his power. Ever since then, Ryuga had to rest inside of a capsule until he regained his power.
Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Ryuga is woken up by Gingka's presence at Dark Nebula's Castle after he defeated Doji. Breaking dree of his pod, he appeared before Gingka, challenging him and his Beyblade, Pegasus, to battle. They fought on the stadium often used by the Dark Nebula, and through using L-Drago, Ryuga won the duel.
After his win against Gingka, Ryuga battled Dark Neubla Bladers, beating them without breaking a sweat. Doji later takes him to a desert to meet Yu Tendo. He beats the kid easily, to which Yu joins the Dark Nebula. When Yu wins the survival battle in the Battle Bladers, be tells of his desire to see Ryuga win against the best fighters in the country, to which Ryuga is summoned. Gingka and Ryuga fight for a while, but the Dragon Emperor ends it, knowing he will win and tells the hero that if he wants to face him again, he will need to enter Battle Bladers. Doji says that when Ryuga wins Battle Bladers, he will be the king of all Bladers. Ryuga later wins against a one-hundred man battle and bets another unnamed Blader before battling Tobio Oike and Ryutaro Fukami at the same time, beating them both. Ryuga invites them to join the Dark Nebula which they both accept.
When Tsubasa is discovered as a traitor, Ryuga revives himself to him and battles him. Ldrago almost beats Eagle, but Tsubasa gets saved by Phoenix, and the two escape much to Ryuga's anger.
Battle Bladers begins with Ryuga as one of the sixteen bladers in the tournament. He also watches Gingka beat Yu and then goes on to face Hikcaru to end the first round scaring her for life. He later beats Dan Sodo Reiki Sodo and the Kumade Brothers easly winning. He then battled Tobo and Tetsuya Watarigani for losing in battle bladers. Tobio gets mad which Ryuga taunts him to get more angry.
Beyblade: Metal Masters
After training in a volcano, Ryuga fought back the dark power and succeed in controlling L-Drago, resulting in Meto L-Drago, since it is also closely related to a mentor.
Beyblade: Metal Fury
As the Star Fragment fell, a piece of it struck Meteor L-Drago, transforming it into L-Drago Destructor. The villagers were scared of L-Drago's power and thus banned Beyblades from their village.
Gallery
Trivia
- Like Ryuga, many members of the Dark Nebula Organization have a streak of hair a different color than the rest of their hair.
- It is possible that Ryuga owned a generic Beyblade before he obtained Lightning L-Drago.
- Ryuga is known to have a brother that goes by the name of Ryuto. However, this has only been confirmed in the manga.
- Ryuga is one of the two Bladers that has a Dark Move instead of a Special Move. The other one is Reiji.
- Ryuga and Doji are the only characters from Beyblade: Metal Fusion who didn't show up in the final picture of Blader's Spirit.
External Links
- Ryuga on the Heroes Wiki.