Kamen Rider Ryuga

is a fictional character in the tokusatsu production Kamen Rider Ryuki. He is one of the 13 Kamen Riders the story revolves around. His Rider appearance resembles Kamen Rider Ryuki, but with a black look ripped all over and is similar to Ryuki's Blank Form. Aside from a brief cameo in the TV Special 13 Riders, his only screen appearance was in the movie Episode: Final. He is portrayed by Takamasa Suga.
Fictional character biography
In the alternative continuity of Episode Final, Yui Kanzaki had already met and befriended Shinji Kido, Kamen Rider Ryuki, 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. Several years later, this Shinji clone would adopt the identity of Kamen Rider Ryuga and join the Rider battle in order to pursue his goal of becoming a real person in the real world.
The Mirror World version of 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.
Ryuga was occasionally mistaken for Ryuki. Ren had seen Ryuga attack Kamen Rider Femme while out fighting a Hydragoon, and thought Shinji had come to understand the meaning of the Rider War. He then demanded that Shinji fight him. Miho also mistook Ryuga as Shinji when Ryuga saved her before Kamen Rider Ouja could kill her. Ryuga himself had destroyed Genocider and turned Ouja into blank form. Femme then finished Blank Ouja off.
In terms of character, Ryuga was the exact opposite of his real world parallel. While the real Shinji was kind and innocent, the Mirror World version was cruel and scheming. He was responsible for the death of Kamen Rider Femme, mortally wounding her during their fight.
Near the end of movie, he met his own fate at the hands of his real world counterpart in a epic battle. The two finally launched their Final Vents at the same time but after the collision between the attacks, only Shinji survived.
In the 13 Riders special, Ryuga was among the Riders in the ending fight, only seen there. He and the remaining Riders activated their Final Vents on Shinji, then as Kamen Rider Survive Knight.
Kamen Rider Ryuga
Being a dark copy of Ryuki, Ryuga is a "balanced" Rider with equally powerful melee and far-range fighting capabilities, he uses his gauntlet on his left forearm to use Advent Cards from summoning his . His Final Vent is the Rider Kick called the , jumping into the air to emit dark energy that paralyzes the opponent's legs and then deliver a flying side kick with Dragblacker flying behind to boost the attack's power with its dark flame. This attack is apparently not as strong as Ryuki's version, as when the two attacks collided, Ryuki's won out and killed Ryuga.
Contract Monster
Modeled after a Japanese dragon and Ryuga's Contact Monster, is referred as the Darkness dragon and is stronger than Dragreder.
Advent Deck
* Advent (AP: 6000): Summons Dragblacker.
* Sword Vent (AP: 3000): Conjures the Drag Saber, Dragblacker's broadsword-like tail.
* Strike Vent (AP: 3000): Conjures the Drag Claw, a dragon-headed gauntlet that emits dark fire when assisted by Dragblacker.
* Guard Vent (AP: 3000): Conjures the Drag Shield, dragon-like guards that attach to the arms. It wasn't used in the movie.
* Final Vent (AP: 7000): Executes Dragon Rider Kick. It consists of Kamen Rider Ryuga jumping into the air to emit dark energy that paralyzes the opponent's legs and then deliver a flying side kick with Dragblacker flying behind to boost the attack's power with its dark flame.

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