Who is this strange bespectacled woman who works at the journalist place? She's utterly nuts.

Also, I really like Zolda. He's just such a smuggy mugger mugget. His boytoy that can't whistle, a bit less. Mostly because he just sort of hangs around, and all we really see of him is how he whistles badly and slurps when he eats.

Ryuki 10: Okay, I'm done watching Ryuki until I get the Zolda Figuart.

He may be my favourite character. That arc was really, really damn good. I did not see the end coming. I thought maybe they'd use the ransom money to pay the girl's mother's hospital bills. I did not see Zolda stepping up to do that.

I mean, I really, really liked that arc. Everything about Zolda from his own illness to his comfortable lifestyle to his motivations for being a rider. He's simultainiously living life to the fullest while he can and not letting anyone stop him, yet still holds on to the fleeting hope of survival and fights for it. All while being a fairly intricate character. It would have been so easy to just keep him a dispicable rat, but instead he did something completely out of the blue but totally in-line with the character.

To a lesser extent I'm totally into Gorou. He's subdued, almost creepy, with an appearence that suggests some kind of street thug. Instead he's polite, kind, loyal, but not blindly so. He's rreally intriguing. I like Ryuki, Knight's okay, Scissors was a nobody, but if Zolda and his sidekick are a sign of things to come, I'm really gonna like this show.

BTW, every scene with Ryuki was pure comedy. Especially Knight getting on his case and increasing the debt owed more and more. I like those two togther more than individually.

Glad you're digging it, dude. And yeah, Gorou-Chan is pretty rad. And, like every other character in the show, he has a sad end. :(

Ryuki was the second Rider show I watched after W and I really loved it. Its a very good look at how being a Rider would affect a person who ISN'T the JUSTICE loving type we usually see in other shows and how they would interact with other people.

Just wait until the really fucked up people like Ouja show up. :D

I'm glad you're enjoying Ryuki. It's a really rather fun series, despite introducing so many "Nobody" characters who receive little to no development.

I guess you're refering to dudes like Scissors? Eh, he was a glorified monster of the week. So far they seem pretty clear about which riders are main dudes.

Eh, they only really did that with Scissors and the second Alternative Rider.

All the other Riders either got development or their characterization was so good that they didn't need any.

There are characters that stick around longer, but their presence doesn't really amount to much more than "He lasted longer than Scissors."

Scissors wasn't meant to last. He was just there to demonstrate some of the show's rules in action - Riders can be evil, Riders can be enemies, and Riders can die.

Scissors sounds like the Radditz of Ryuki.

Ah, that revealation that Zolda/Kitaoka is a great character. I remember that very well. After Scissors I was expecting him to be another dick of the week and was hoping he'd die off quickly. Then it turned out he was really great character and I started to love him. And to top it off he showed off how badass he is in a fight. I love when a character uses heavy artillery.

Pretty much :lolol. The best he ever did was in Decade's Ryuki world where he actually won a fight(only to turn around and get his ass kicked by Tsukasa IIRC). And then Odin showed up so that win didn't matter anymore :lol.