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Kamen Rider Ryuki (仮面ライダー龍騎)  is a fictional character in the tokusatsu production Kamen Rider Ryuki. His alter ego is Shinji Kido and is portrayed by Takamasa Suga. His name RyukiRyuki (龍騎),, obtained from Kamen Rider Knight, literally means "Dragon Knight" in Japanese. In the story, he is cast as the eponymous protaganist throught the series. In the series, he meets up and teams up with Kamen Rider Knight eventually forming a friendship with him and fighting the various mirror monsters and riders that they encounter.

He is one of the few main Kamen Riders in the franchise not to resemble an insect in his transformed state, though he still has the ever-recognizable bug eyes as part of his helmet design.

Kamen Rider Ryuki is a "balanced" Rider with equally powerful melee and far-range fighting capabilities. His special element seems to be fire, given his dragon's augmentation to his armor. His most used weapon is his Sword Vent, modeled after a Chinese Dao sword, and 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.

Ryuki's suit appears in the American adaptation of the show, entitled Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. In this version, the character is called "Kamen Rider Dragon Knight" and is the alter ego of a young man named Kit Taylor. He is portrayed by Stephen Lunsford.

Appearances in other media
The Ryuki Suit has appeared in other series besides the series of the same name. Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, the english adapation of Ryuki has Kit Taylor, played by Stephen Lansford transform into Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

Notes and Refernces
Shinji is good-hearted, friendly, naive idealist who works at the ORE Journal as a journalist trainee aiding in the New Group's investigation behind the "missing persons" crisis that had with the latest victim being Ida Megumi. While checking on the list of missing persons, Shinji finds a clue and investigates the apartment of Kōichi Sakakibara, a man who mysteriously disappeared two months ago. Upon coming across a deck of cards lying on the ground, Shinji was nearly attacked by monster that emerged from Mirror World, Dragreder. However, the card deck not only protected him but allowed him to sense things when he feels that Reiko is in danger, ending up in the Mirror World where he encounters another monster, Dispider. He tries to escape the monster as it overwhelms him until he is saved by Kamen Rider Knight who defeats the monster before he and Shinji are ambushed by Dragreder, with the two barely able to get back to the real world in time. Once coming to, Shinji finds himself in the Atori cafe where he formally meets Yui Kanzaki and Knight's human identity, Ren Akiyama, who tries to take the Ryuki deck from him with Yui explaining to him of the Mirror Monsters and that he's targeted by Dragreder. After understanding Reiko's reasons for investigating the missing persons case, only to run into Ren who is following him to get Drageder before Yui contacts him about the reformed Dispider. Following Ren, and seeing the daughter of a woman who was devoured by the monster, Shinji learns that he can fight once he forms a contact with a Mirror Monster. Though warned that he'll be beyond the point of return if he commits it, Shinji uses the Contact card Yui gives him to form his pact with Dragreder, becoming Kamen Rider Ryuki to save Knight and destroy Dispider with Dragreder feeding on the monster's essence. But once the fight ends, Ryuki is suddenly attacked by Knight, who beats until Yui indirectly interferes and threatens to leave him.

Indebted to Ren for 30,000 yen after he paid for Shinji for the glass window Yui shattered to get their attention, Shinji later runs a errand for his boss, where Shinji encounters Shiro Kanzaki, who tells him to fight the other Riders, before finding Ren while he was hunting for a Megazelle incognito. The next day, Shinji visits Yui and recognizes the picture of her brother, believing that the Vent Decks were made to protect people from the Mirror World monsters, revealing that to be his reason for becoming a Kamen Rider. After destroying a Gigazelle, Shinji starts to question Ren's methods after seeing Darkwing scaring a girl, unaware that she was being attacked by a another Gigazelle. Later, after getting kicked out of his apartment as his rent was overdue, Shinji moves into ORE temporarily, causing much inconvenience both himself and the company. The next day, after a tussle with Ren and seeing that he might have a reason of his own to fight, Shinji is questioned if his resolve is strong enough to take a life, with Ren reminding him of the debt and it would be a shame if he can't pay back in full if dead. After which the two defeat a Megazelle and a Gigazelle.

But the fact that Riders must fight each other worries Shinji, remembering the ring he found on Ren during their tussle. He later learns that Reiko is hospitalized while investigating a antique shop due after finding a link between it and the missing person case, meeting detective Masashi Sudou before Reiko assigns him to continue her investigation on the owner Tomoyuki Kaga. While on his way to the store, he sensed a woman attacked by the Mirror Monster Volcancer, saving the woman and fighting the monster until Scissors arrives, with Ren later showing up to even the odds as Scissors retreats. Believing that Scissors is Kaga, Shinji attempts to reason with the Rider, leaving his calling card to contacted. But Shinji falls for Sudou's trap, tricked into revealing Knight's identity as well as kidnap Yui. After barely enduring Scissors attack on him, Shinji learns that Kaga is not Scissors when his corpse is found by Ren who investigated the shop and finding Kaga plastered behind a wall. He later he meets up with Ren while he's chasing down Yui and her kidnapper, following him to find out that Scissors is Sudou, getting scolded for endangering Ren and Yui in his ideology. Confronting Sudou, Shinji was about to fight him because his evil actions until Ren arrives to settle things with Sudou. Shinji was forced to watch the two fight until Scissors is eaten alive by Volcancer, and he destroys Volcancer with his Final Vent, though he kept his ideal by not having Dragreder absorb the Mirror Monster's essence as Darkwing takes it while Knight explains there are more Riders left to defeat.

Later, while assisting Reiko in the interview a man named Togukawa Katsuhikaku on a golden crayfish, Shinji almost gets run over by a white car as he arrived in the Atori Cafe to meet Yui's grandmother who lets him move into Atori Cafe, encountering the driver Kitaoka Shuichi and grabbing him as before contacting the Sakura Company's thugs, unaware their identity and intent as he saves Kitaoka before escaping with him, disgusted by Kitaoka's methods as a lawyer. Though cornered, Kitaoka and Shinji were saved by the lawyer's apprentice Goro Yura as Shinji senses two Zebraskulls and battles one until it escaped, seeing the other destroyed by Kamen Rider Zolda. Later, when Reiko believes that the river was polluted by Kawazu Pharmacy, resulting in both the crayfish and the haired-frog Toguwawa found, Shinji accompanies her to see the Pharmacy's representing lawyer, ironically which was Kitaoka. Soon after spending time with Kitaoka, Shinji spends the next day with the lawyer to write an article about him until he hit a nerve and was ordered to leave. Sensing the Zebraskull from before as it devours Togukawa, whose animals turned out to be fakes, Ryuki battles it until he finally destroys it. But by that time, Zolda gets the drop on Ryuki who forced to fight him before he is forced is retreat. The next day, Shinji learns that Shimada is kidnapped last night and is sent to give the kidnapper the ransom, only to be attacked by him. However, the kidnapper is devoured by a Wildboarder and Shinji is arrested, forced to stay in jail as he can't explain what happened to the kidnapper without exposing himself and Shimada has no memory of her kidnapper.

However, when Reiko and Ren manage to get Kitaoka as his lawyer, he intended to incriminate him after learning that Shinji's actually a Rider. After his friends fire Kitaka, Shinji is freed thanks to the kidnapper's daughter Yukari, meeting her at the hospital with Kitaoka as she defends him before he drives off. But when Yukari is targeted by the Wildboarder, Ryuki joins Knight in a two-on-one fight on the Mirror Monster before Zolda arrives to take them all out. Though Ryuki and Knight survived, Ren suffered memory loss as a result, not remembering the recent events over the year. Though told to leave him alone, Shinji follows Ren as he attempts to recover his memory, encountering every single person Ren had ever offended before he senses Zenobiter and is forced leave Ren to fight the monster as Ren regain some of his memories. But once he kills the Mirror Monster, Shinji follows Ren to Semiin University before covering for him when they encounter some enemies of Ren's. By the time he find Ren, he's with Yui with his memory completely restored as the two save the dying Professor Ejima from Terrabiter.

While investigating the Non-Stop Elevator rumour for its ties to the missing people, Shinji mistakenly believes that Zolda is Kitaoka's assistant Goro and chides him before sensing Deadlemur. But during the fight, Zolda intervenes and Ryuki was forced to fight back at the cost of seemingly killing Goro. Feeling guilty about it, Shinji quits being a Rider even if it meant that Dragreder would eat him. However, thanks to Ren exposing Kitaoka as the real Zolda, Shinji learns the truth and feels a weight lifted seeing Goro alive and resumes being a Rider with intentions of stopping the Rider War. After constant rejection from Ren, Kitaoka and the other Riders, including the arrogant Jun Shibaura, and the sadistic Takeshi Asakura, eventually found a kindred spirit in Miyuki Tezuka, Kamen Rider Raia. The two tried to stop the Rider war together until Raia was killed by Ohja. Ren would eventually come to return Shinji's offers of friendship, even though they also maintained something of a rivalry afterward.

At the end of the series, he was stabbed in the back by a Raydragoon before he could transform while protecting a little girl and died with a devastated Ren by his side shortly afterwards. When Shiro Kanzaki reverted time back to normal after Yui died, Shinji's life was restored as a normal journalist with no memory of being a Rider.

In the movie: Episode Final, Shinji continued trying to stop the battle despite Shiro's rule to fight. He appears to be deceived by Miho Kirishima while maintaining a relation to her. Later, Shinji also finds out that Yui had already met him and he feels that it was because of him that Yui is dying. Shinji also soon finds his mirror doppelganger Kamen Rider Ryuga, where the latter tricks him into absorbing into one Shinji to save Yui but later he defeats Ryuga. In the end, he promises Ren that he will fight and morphs in Survive Ryuki together with Ren as Kamen Rider Survive Knight where they defeat the horde of Hydragoons.

In the 13 Riders Special, his role in the Rider war was the same, but his origin as Ryuki was much different. It was by fate he was dragged into Mirror World by a monster to be saved by the previous Ryuki, Kōichi Sakakibara. But mortally wounded and wishing to save his life, Sakakibara gave Shinji his deck and faded while Shinji became the Kamen Rider Ryuki. Shinji still tried to prevent the other Riders from fighting as his way to thank Sakakibara. He was lured into the Mirror World by the others under the guise of a truce, but was ambushed. While fighting the other Riders, the Ryuki deck was destroyed by Kamen Rider Odin. After Kamen Rider Knight was killed by Kamen Rider Verde, Ren gave Shinji the Knight deck and he took the mantle of Kamen Rider Knight. Shinji promised Ren that he will fight and in one ending he takes on the rest of the other riders.

Blank Form

 * Punching power: 3t (50AP)
 * Kicking power: 5t (100AP)
 * Maximum jump height: 45m
 * Maximum running speed: 80km/h
 * Sight: ~5 km
 * Hearing: ~5 km radius

This is Ryuki's default form when lacking a Contract Monster, posessing an arm-mounted Ride Visor and weak weapons like the Rider Saber and the Ride Shield. It is much weaker than any of his other forms and any of the other Riders, though it is enough to keep him from disintegrating in the Mirror World. Shinji began the series in this form before he contracted Dragreder, and he also reverted back to this form when his Contract Card was stolen by Kamen Rider Gai.

Ryuki Form

 * Punching power: 10t (200AP)
 * Kicking power: 20t (400AP)
 * Maximum jump height: 35m
 * Maximum running speed: 72km/h
 * Sight: ~15 km
 * Hearing: ~15 km radius

This is 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 (ドラグバイザー) gauntlet on his left forearm to use Advent Cards from summoning his Drag Saber (ドラグセイバー). His Final Vent is Dragon Rider Kick (ドラゴンライダーキック), jumping into the air to deliver a flying side kick with Dragreder flying behind to boost the attack's power with its flame.

Survive Form

 * Punching power: 15t (300AP)
 * Kicking power: 25t (500AP)
 * Maximum jump height: 45m
 * Maximum running speed: 80km/h
 * Sight: ~20 km
 * Hearing: ~20 km radius

This is Ryuki's ultimate form, assumed by using the power of Survive Rekka (烈火). In this form, Ryuki's Rider Visor transforms into a gun-like weapon called the Drag Visor-Zwei (ドラグバイザーツバイ), which can assume Drag Blade mode with the sword opening from the visor like a pocket knife with a blade measuring 1.2m in length. His Final Vent is Dragon Firestorm (ドラゴンファイヤーストーム), riding Dragranzer to plow down his opponent as his monster shoots fireballs across the area.

Contract monster
Modeled after a Japanese dragon and Ryuki's Contact Monster, Dragreder (ドラグレッダー) is referred as the Matchless dragon. When Ryuki obtains Survive Form, Drageder is evolved into Dragranzer (ドラグランザー). In this form, it can transform into motorcycle form which Ryuki can ride on.

Ryuki Form
Ryuki can summon Dragreder with his Advent, dealing 5000AP for damage. Ryuki's Sword Vent (ソードベント) is the Drag Saber which has 2000AP for damage. His Shield Vent Drag Shield and the Strike Vent (ストライクベント) Drag Claw are also worth 2000AP. His Final Vent (ファイナルベント) is the Dragon Rider Kick, an attack that causes 6000AP of damage. Ryuki also possesses the Survive Rekka (Right Wing)

Survive Form
Ryuki can summon Dragranzer with his Advent, dealing 7000AP for damage. While his monster is present, Ryuki can use Shoot Vent to execute Meteor Bullet or with Guard Vent to execute Fire Wall, both causing 4000AP of damage. Ryuki's Sword Vent allows his Drag-Visor Zwei to assume Drag Blade sword mode for 3000AP. The Strange Vent allows Ryuki to copy any opposing Rider's next Advent Card. His Final Vent (ファイナルベント) is the Dragon Firestorm, riding Dragranzer in motorcycle mode where Drgranzer throws fireballs at the target and then rams into it.