Ryuga

For the Back to the Basics Blader Style profile for Ryuga, see Ryuga Kishatu (Back to the Basics). Kishatu is a fictional character in the Metal Fight Beyblade metaseries created by Adachi Takafumi. Ryūga is one of the villain characters from the Metal Fight Beyblade anime, and manga series.

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Appearance
Ryuga has tanish-peach skin with a golden dragon headwear. He has white hair with a red streak on it and he wears his coat as a cape. He wears a golden bey holder that is placed on his wrist for easy bey access to Lighting L-Drago. His eyes are normally ruthless and merciless and usually has an evil sneer on his face.

Personality
He is portrayed to be pure evil and shows no mercy to his allies or enemies, he loves to attack the beys of his enemies until the bey is crushed. He also enjoys terrorizing other beybladers and has a power-hungry personality. Although in episode 51 it is revealed that Ryuga's behaviour was caused by L-Drago's possession over him.(Ryuga turns into a dragon) Although when he has Meteo L-Drago he has much more control over himself; this may be because he has full control over Meteo or that he is hiding its true power. Even so, Ryuga still had plenty of rage on the inside, as he was not very fond of Hades Inc., or Julian Konzern's left-rotating Beyblade. In the end, Ryuga stood with Gingka against Hades Inc. However, he wasn't doing what was right; instead, he just did what he wanted to get back at them. During Metal Fury, Ryuga still follows the same ideals he had in Metal Masters, initially not joining Gingka and the other Legendary Bladers' fight against Nemesis in favor of his own personal gains, all while displaying the standoffish personality he has had ever since the start of the series. He even wants to take Nemisis power for himself to become the strongest. With L-Drago Destroy, he won all the time, until when he encountered Rago. Ryuga was knocked unconscious as he groaned. He had scratches all over his body, and L-Drago Destroy was destroyed. Eventually, Ryuga passed on his star fragment to Kenta, which helped Flame Sagittario evolve into Flash Sagittario.

History
He owns the mystical Lightning L-Drago 100HF, referred to as the. He is Gingka's ultimate rival. Coincidentally, he keeps his beyblade on his arm with a gauntlet shaped like a dragon from the Asian legends. He is part of the Dark Nebula organization.

The Beginning (Metal Fusion)
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.

When Ryūga first appeared in the anime, he is seen inside a capsule in a coma in order to regain his power.

In episode 12, Gingka and Pegasus' presence in the area allowed him to wake up. In episode 13, Gingka challenged him to a bey battle when he confronted him. They fought on the stadium often used by the Dark Nebula, and with his insulting and taunting comments to the protagonist, Gingka was easily distracted and furious. This caused the event in where he was able to restore Ryūga's power. With his energy back to 100%, he won the battle effortlessly with his final attack from L-Drago, leaving Gingka in shock that he lost to him and Pegasus in scratches. Following his win Ryuga told Doji to get the plans ready for battle Bladers. In episode 15, he was shown training against Dark Nebula bladers, who owned all the different types of Beyblades, Attack, Defense, Stamina, and Balance. Ryuga says that it isnt enough and uses L-Drago power to blow away all the Dark Nebula Bladers.

One day Doji takes Ryuga to meet a powerful, young blader named Yu Tendo in the desert. After he beats Yu Yu gets invited to join the Dark Nebula which the kid accepts. Yu wins the survival battle and creates a tournament called Battle Bladders'. Ryuga and the Dark Nebula arrive to the island where he confronts Gingka to let him know that the WBBA's battlebladers tournament is where Gingka will be able to receive his rematch if he makes it far enough to the finals. Doji also says that when Ryuga wins the tournament he will be the King of all Bladers. Gingka loads Pegasus and challenges Ryuga to a rematch for his first defeat at the hands of L-Drago. Ryuga denies the challenge knowing he will win so he tells Gingka that during Battle Bladers they will end their rivalry once and for all. Gingka accepts and vows to defeat Ryuga at Battle Bladers.

Ryuga starts to prepare L-Drago for it by smashing some rocks using all of L-Drago's power. Following this he laughs at the power L-Drago has. and winning a one-hundred-way battle (Benkei was included in those hundred). After beating bladers in a challenge matches he ambushes Tobio Oike and Ryutaro Fukami right before their battle. He challenges both of them at the same time and easily wins due to L-drago's left rotation. He then he invites them to join the Dark Nebula and they accept. When the Dark Nebula finds out that Tsubasa Otori is a traitor, he battles him after Tsubassa beats all the lower class bladers. During the fight he taunts Tsubassa about not having enough power to beat him. He is about to defeat Tsubasa with Dragon Emperor Soaring Bite Strike, but Phoenix interferes and saves Tsubasa. This angers Ryuga.

The tournament arrives in no time, Ryuga accompanying Doji in most cases. His first match was with Hikaru, whom he easily dominated, infuriating the WBBA Spy, Tsubasa Otori. Later he is seen defeating the Dark Nebula bladers who failed in the first round and leaves Yu to suffer by Reiji. In the second round Ryuga battles Tsubasa next and ends with the same outcome after transferring Ryuga's own Negative energy onto Tsubasa, cursing him with the Dark Power.

With such a close match with Tsubasa, Doji feels concerned that Ryuga may not be able to defeat Gingka and as a compromise, Ryuga drains the negative energy from Doji's body, supposedly killing him.

In the semi-finals, he battles Kyoya and wins after an intense fight despite Kyoya's determination to beat Ryuga and win against Gingka

With his energy replenished he continues to his final match with Gingka Hagane. Ryuga's negative energy overflows as L-Drago is able to possess Ryuga's body during the battle. Gingka's Pegasus sacrificed itself to destroy its Dark counterpart, defeating Ryuga and destroying the evil Bey.

After his final match up with Gingka, Ryuga went into rigorous training with Lightning L-Drago to to rid himself of the dark Bey's control. He eventually figured out that L-Drago's evil was really created by its past owners. These owners were people filled with greed, and hungry for power. Through time, these negative traits formed into the dark power of L-Drago. Ryuga reasoned out that because the dark power was created by humans such as himself, he should be able to overcome it. Through his training he eventually became one with the dark power and both he and L-Drago were reborn.

Flaming Spirit (Metal Masters)
Ryuga is convinced to return to the scene when he is visited by Hyoma and notified of Gingka's struggle to control the strength of Galaxy Pegasus. Ryuga finds out on his journey that the dark power has infected Tsubasa, and interrupts Tsubasa's match with Sophie and Wales to reveal his new, stronger powers.

Ryuga also finds out about the second Left Rotating Beyblade, Julian Konzern's Gravity Destroyer. Ryuga proclaims that he has the strongest and then proceeds to explain his rebirth to Tsubasa. Having enough of the European Team, he drags Tsubasa back to his teammates and confronts Gingka.

Ryuga challenges Gingka to a rematch since their last battle and they battle on the outskirts of town, forcing him to leave his Team as they continue their world championship journey. Ryuga easily overwhelms Gingka while discussing that Meteo L-Drago is the strongest left-rotation Bey in the world, disappointed that Gingka hasn't mastered Galaxy Pegasus' power. As Gingka's match with Julian draws near Ryuga calls back his L-Drago and commands Gingka to leave, but not without telling him first that he needs to master Pegasus' power if he wants to defeat a left rotating Beyblade.

Ryuga followed Team Gan Gan Galaxy into the United States to further study Tsubasa and Gingka but during his travels he was threatened by several hooded Beybladers. Ryuga used his hand to spin his Bey and easily defeated the Bladers who claimed to be from HD Academy. Impressed by Ryuga's skills, a mysterious hooded man then confronts him.

This man is revealed to be Jack of Team Starbreaker (the US team) who leads Ryuga to HD Academy for "testing" to view L-Drago's left spin capabilities. Even though he participated, Ryuga only desired to face Jack, interested through all his talk but Jack tells him that his Bey is not completed yet. As a compromise Jack offers Ryuga a match with Zeo Abyss as the next best thing.

Ryuga decides to battle Zeo but becomes unimpressed by his skills. Even though Zeo tries his hardest, Ryuga easily defeats him and prepares to leave. He is stoped by Dr. Ziggurat, who tells Ryuga to cooperate with the academy so they could learn about L-Drago and help to complete the Arrangement System.

In order to win Ryuga's trust, Dr. Ziggurat reveals that he was working with the Dark Nebula and originally used Ryuga as a test subject. But in that one final offer to join the Academy as a test subject, Ryuga is infuriated by Ziggurat's comment about his past and responds by fiercely blowing a hole in the building with his L-Drago and leaves in the wake of his destruction.

Ryuga is later tracked down by Zeo and several HD Beybladers who want to apprehend him and force him to be tested by the arrangement. Ryuga prepares to fend him off until they are interrupted by the arrival of Gingka and his teammate Masamune. Masamune tries to help Zeo but is stopped by Gingka who realizes that Ryuga is actually in the right, and helps to stop Zeo. Ryuga decides to leave the scene after warning Gingka to watch out for the US Team, already knowing they're up to something.

During the Big Bang Bladers Championship, Gan Gan Galaxy was short two members due to Yu and Tsubasa's injuries sustained from the mysterious Damian Hart. Gingka was prepared to step up in the second match to face Jack, hoping to win two battles in a row by himself.

But Ryuga was ready to gain payback against Hades Inc, and interrupts the tournament to step up as Gan Gan Galaxy's replacement member. Masamune worries about trusting Ryuga but Gingka reassures him by telling him that Ryuga is doing this for his own goals.

Because Ryuga is not of age and had not participated in the tournament, he is eligible to step up and he is given the green light to face Jack. Their match begins as Jack seems to already know part of what Ryuga is a capable of. Ryuga is not moved by this as he knows he has much in store for the artistic Blader.

Jack expresses his uncanny taste for the arts as he appears to unleash his abilities apon Ryuga. Jack also claims that Ryuga is too much of a brute to understand his beauty, but Ryuga remains calm as he waits out Jack's attacks one after another. Everyone begins to fear Ryuga's self destruction, but after Jack releases all of his powers, Ryuga reveals that he was trying to measure his strength and kicks his L-Drago into gear. Ryuga releases his counter attack against Jack who he feels is no match for himself. Though Jack becomes furious and fights back, Ryuga is confident that he cannot lose to someone who uses "pet food" to get stronger rather then true training.

Using his Beyblader spirit, Ryuga overcomes the odds and makes Jack into his own work of art, defeating him with L-Drago's new special move; Dragon Emperor Supreme Flight. After obtaining Gan Gan Galaxy's first victory for them and showing Hades Inc not to mess with him, Ryuga leaves without a word.

Ryuga remains in America long enough to hear Ziggurat's announcement on the Spiral Force; interested, Ryuga moves in to stop him. Ryuga does not move quickly enough as he discovers the hard way that Hades City has already taken flight above the ocean, but this does not stop Ryuga who uses his L-Drago to infiltrate it. Once inside he meets with Gingka at the very core of the weapon, he uses his L-Drago to damage it while Gingka uses his Pegasus to transfer the energy lost into space, stopping the core and saving the world together.

Ryuga is seen approaching two guards in Zarkan Island. The guards would not let him in but Ryuga had other reasons. He used the power of Meteo L-Drago to attack the guards ferociously. However, a light beam from the Star Fragment hit Meteo L-Drago. This caused it to evolve into L-Drago Destroy F:S. The villagers were frightened of L-Drago's amazing power and thus banished Beyblades from their entire village.

During Kyoya and Benkei's travel to the Zarkan Island volcano they were confronted by none other than Ryuga himself. Ryuga challenged Kyoya and pinned Legend Bey vs Legend Bey. Kyoya tries his best to push L-Drago into the volcano with Fang Leone 130W2D but fails and Ryuga easily overwhelms Kyoya.

After Kyoya's loss to Ryuga, Gingka battles him and then Yuki. Ryuga defeats them both even after Yuki shows off his true power as a Legendary Blader. After he claims three wins Ryuga leaves in order to search for the Legendary Bladers and become the strongest Blader in the world.

Afterwards Ryuga was confronted by Kenta Yumiya Kenta told Ryuga that he is a Legendary Blader, and challenged him to a battle. Ryuga easily defeated him, and seeing that Kenta was faking it, he left. Kenta asked him to help Gingka and the others, but Ryuga refused. But Kenta followed him, and said that until he helps Gingka, he will keep following Ryuga. When Kenta tried to catch a fish, but failed, Ryuga still gave him some food, to Kenta's surprise. Ryuga then then told him to leave after eating. Kenta begins to cry loudly, and begs him to help Gingka and the others. When Ryuga asked why he is doing this, Kenta said that it is the only way he can help them: by convincing Ryuga to help them. Ryuga then told Kenta to keep challenging him, and see if Kenta can make him serious.

Ryuga later participated in a "The Tower of Babel" Beyblade Tournament near the Mohenjo-Daro ruins. He randomly appeared in order to test his strength against several Beybladers at once. He was first confronted by Kenta, who he ignored.

Ryuga defeated several Bladers with ease until he reached the top of the tower when he was soon followed by the other Finalist, Tsubasa Otori. The two battled it out as Tsubasa tried his hardest to make Ryuga fight with all his power but failed. After Tsubasa uses his special move, Ryuga uses his Special Move, "Dragon Emperor Life Destructor", and surprisingly easily overwhelms Tsubasa's strongest special move, "Shining Tornado Buster". Thus wining the tornment. After this, Ryuga was given the winning prize, but he crushes it with his foot and leaves unsatified.

Ryuga and Kenta arrive at the Beystar Island tournament where they are met by several other Beybladers including Gingka. Ryuga and Kenta separate and Ryuga runs into his first "challenge" known as the Blader, King. Ryuga and King battle too ferociously, revealing that King is able to combat Ryuga on equal ground after revealing his Legend powers. Ryuga only takes the win after using a glimpse of his full power in his special move.

He later interrupts the battle at the end of the tournament by trying to steal Chris,s Star Fragments power which he fails to do.

When Nemesis awakened, Ryuga's L-Drago began glowing. Ryuga claims to feel the power of Nemesis calling to him, and departs. When Kenta realized what he was doing, he tried to stop Ryuga, and reminded him that he might fail like the time with Lightning L-Drago. Ryuga throws him away, so Kenta challenges Ryuga, Ryuga easily defeats Kenta without breaking a sweat but Kenta's newfound durability allows him to stand up and challenge Ryuga once more.

Ryuga accepts and battles Kenta to the point where he is surprised by Kenta's Diving Claw but counters with his own special move. Ryuga wins but finds that his L-Drago's facebolt was cracked revealing that Kenta was strong enough to damage L-Drago. Ryuga leaves Kenta but is surely followed by him soon after.

Confronting the Nemesis (Metal Fury)
Ryuga appears again, interrupting a battle between Johannes, Bao and the Beylin Fist versus Zeo, Toby and Benkei by using his L-Drago to clear a straight path into the ruins. He enters the ruins, and barges into the middle of Gingka's confrontation with Rago, Pluto, and Doji. While Gingka, Chris and Kyoya battle Rago, Ryuga enters the match and unwillingly creates Zeus' Barrier, which stops Rago in his tracks. Doji, an old enemy of Ryuga's, baits him into attacking Rago, destroying the barrier. The ruins collapsed seemingly trapping Ryuga inside.

Once free he vows to get revenge on Doji and defeat Nemesis.

Ryuga reappeared at Nemesis' hideout and challenged Rago to a battle, At first Ryuga puts Rago on the defensive in their battle, but then Nemesis started to retaliate. Despite Doji's taunts, Ryuga continued to battle Rago but soon enough, L-Drago was pushed to its limit, forcing Ryuga to use all of his energy, as well as his unwavering Blader's Spirit.

Ryuga summoned a Special Move that he put his heart and soul into. However, Ryuga's attempt was in vain as Rago overpowers him with his own Special Move that obliterated Ryuga's hopes of winning, dealing Ryuga a crushing defeat, and leaving Gingka and the others stunned.

Ryuga wakes during Kenta's against battle Rago and Nemesis. When Ryuga woke up, he told Kenta that there was a time when he had faced his challenge seriously.

Ryuga then gives his Legend Blader power to Kenta by launching L-Drago and circling Sagittario. This helped Flame Sagittario evolve into Flash Sagittario, thus making him one of the Legendary Bladers. After Ryuga gave up his powers, he and L-Drago disintegrate due to the fact that the star fragment was the only thing preventing this from happening earlier. After Nemesis and Rago are defeated, Gingka thanks Ryuga for all of his help and pays him respects. Ryuga watches over them all from above.

Beyblade Shogun Steel
While Ryuga did not make any physical appearances in Shogun Steel, he did make a few cameo appearances; he was either a silhouette or mentioned in a conversation. Ryuga is also thought to be the one who gave his successor, Sakyo Kurayami, the Bey Ronin Dragoon LW160BSF. He also appeared in a flashback where he was battling against Rago in Metal Fury as Doji explained how he surved. Doji also tells Gingka following his capture that he gave up his body to get revenge on Ryuga.

In the ending of Shogun Steel's Japanese version, at the last moment during a battle with Zyro Kurogane and Kira Hayama, a cloud that takes the shape of L-Drago can be seen, possibly hinting that Ryuga may return in any sequel to the series.

Beybattles
Due to only losing two official battles and having seven battles without an outcome, Ryuga is considered the strongest Blader throughout the entire Metal Saga, beating even Gingka Hagane twice, who is mainly called "the world's number-one Blader". His first loss came in the final round of the Battle Bladers tournament against Gingka and his second loss was due to Rago gaining some of L-Drago's power.

Beyblades

 * L-Drago 105F: Ryuga's first beyblade in the manga and in the anime.
 * Lightning L-Drago 100HF: Ryuga's second beyblade after L Drago 105F "evolves" during the battle with Benkei near the end of Chapter 9 in the manga, and Ryuga's current blade in the anime. Lightning L Drago is an Attack type beyblade with a left spin. L-Drago is a forbidden beyblade whose seal was broken by the the Dark Nebula organization it was defeated when Storm Pegasus sacrificed itself to defeat it (anime).
 * Meteo L-Drago LW105LF: Ryuga's second beyblade in the anime and third in the manga. He got this beyblade when he went into a cave and launched "L-Drago" into a lava blast and when it came out, it was "Meteo L-Drago" Sometimes, when he launches Meteo L-drago, he doesn't use his launcher due to the ability of Meteo L-Drago to steal power from the opponent's bey.
 * L-Drago Destroy F:S: Ryuga's fourth/third bey in the anime. After the fragment of the star came to earth and searched for the legandary bladers, Ryuga was one of the bladers whose beys got struck by the star and changed into "L-Drago Destroy" just like Gingka's "Big Bang Pegasus".It has two modes, one of which is attack and the other is absorb. He used this bey to defeat Kyoya, Gingka and Yuki in episode 107. It was destroyed in Ryuga's battle with Rago.

Finishing Moves
Lightning L-Drago 100HF 
 * Dragon Emperor - Soaring Bite Strike: Ryuga's first finishing move, it is referred to as a "Dark Move".
 * Dragon Emperor - Soaring Destruction : Ryuga's second move in the anime. It is referred to as a "Dark Move". (Ryuga only used it when he was under the control of L-Drago).

Meteo L-Drago LW105LF

 * Dragon Emperor - Supreme Flight: Ryuga's third special move in the anime. Ryuga first used this move in Beyblade: Metal Masters.

L-Drago Destroy F:S

 * Dragon Emperor - Supreme Flight: Ryuga's third special move in the anime. Ryuga first used this move in Beyblade: Metal Masters.
 * Dragon Emperor Life Destructor : Ryuga's fourth special move: 'Ultimate Move'. Ryuga first used this move in Showdown! The Tower of Babel to defeat Tsubasa

Quotes

 * "Playtime's Over!!"
 * "The more angrier you get the more power L-Drago will gain!"
 * "Destruction! Destruction!" 
 * (To Gingka) "If you lose to that fake one(refering to Damian), I will never forgive you."
 * "I am the strongest blader in the world!"(to Gingka)
 * " I will... not lose! Even if my opponent is a God, I will defeat anyone who stands in my way! Do you hear? My name is Ryuga. I reign over the world as the strongest, the Dragon Emperor himself!"
 * "There's only place for one left rotating Bey, and that's L-Drago."
 * "It was slight, but for a brief shining moment, I was serious. Kenta, take it..."

Trivia

 * His name might be based off of Kamen Rider Ryuga from Kamen Rider Ryuki.
 * Ryūga literally means "dragon's fang".
 * L-Drago gives Ryuga forbidden powers and controls him.
 * Ryuga in the Metal Fight Beyblade DS Game actually happens to fight other bladers and not Gingka. In the story mode he even accidentally saves some bladers.
 * In the Beyblade Metal Fusion DS game, all other characters have no one following them, but Doji constantly follows Ryuga and gives him secret info on Van and other threats.
 * He looks very similar to Ren's Gundalian form in Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders.
 * He has the same seiyu to Lambo (Future) form in Reborn!
 * Ryuga and Ryuto both have spiky white hair with a red streak going down one side. However, while Ryuga's red streak is on the left side of his hair, Ryuto's is on the right. Both of their beyblades are a dragon species.
 * It is also shown in the show that Ryuga has exceptional eyesight as he was able to watch the final battle of the World Championships on top of a building far away from the stadium.
 * The reason Ryuto refers to Ryuga as "Brother" is because they are from the same dragon clan.
 * He is one of the few characters to have his Bey's Spirit change appearance, others being Reiji Mizuchi and Chao Xin, after customizing his Beyblade into Poison Virgo.
 * His Shogun Steel counterpart is Sakyo Kurayami, who can also be considered his spiritual successor.
 * Ryuga is one of the only few characters whose outfit didn't change throughout the series.
 * Similar to Ryuga, many members of the Dark Nebula Organization have a streak of hair a different color than the rest of their hair which is a common trait in the Dark Nebula.
 * He and Doji are the only characters from Metal Fusion who didn't show up in the final picture of Blader's Spirit.
 * Meteo L-Drago LW105 LF is one of the only Beys in the anime and the only L-Drago Bey that has not lost any battles as Lightning L-Drago 100 HF lost to Storm Pegasus 105 RF and L-Drago Destructor F:S lost to Diablo Nemesis X:D. In fact, Ryuga was undefeated during Metal Masters.
 * It is possible that Ryuga has the ability of teleportation. This is shown when he somehow managed to get to the Spiral Core and the lost kingdom of Hades, seemingly without any means of transport. Also, in Metal Fury, he seems to appear and disappear by using bolts of red lightning.
 * Ryuga is one of only two Bladers to have a Dark Move instead of a Special Move. The other one is Reiji thought Ryuga stopped using Dark moves after Metal Fusion.
 * Ryuga shares many similarities with Lui Shirosagi from the Burst Series:
 * Both of their Beys are Attack Type, Left-Spin, and based on dragons.
 * Both have a bad temper and have fierce rivalries with the main protagonist: Lui with Valt and Ryuga with Gingka, respectively.
 * Ryuga and Lui both gain character development as the season progresses.

Gallery
See Ryuga Kishatu / Gallery