Riki-Oh

Saiga Riki-Oh (also known as Ricky Ho in the English dub of The Story of Ricky) is the main protagonist of the Riki-Oh series. Born under complicated circumstances, he became student of martial artist Master Zenki and learned the style of Naike Kenpou, allowing him to control Qigong and giving him powers to decimate his opponents in a gory fashion with a single strike.
He was portrayed by Louis Fan Siu-wong in the 1991 live-action movie and was voiced by in the two OVA films.
== Appearance ==
On his left arm, Riki-Oh bears a scars that form a hexagram akin to the . 
He is generally seen either shirtless in trousers or donning a green, camouflage-patterned poncho.
== Personality ==
Riki-Oh is somewhat of a eremitic personality who tries to keep it for himself. He is kind to those who need help, and indignant towards injustice and evil people. The worse the person is, the worse punishments Riki-Oh aims to inflict on them. While he is relatively restrained, he can become extremely fierce in the heat of battle.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Born in the 1970s, Saiga Riki-Oh and his twin brother Nachi were birthed at prison by a woman named Hanna, known by the nickname "Oh Birei". 
At some point during his childhood, he and Nachi were playing hide and seek, only for their adoptive father, Saiga Michiomi, to take Riki-Oh and leave the place in a car, abandoning Nachi to the wilderness. From there on, Riki-Oh was raised at Minato district in Tokyo by Michiomi and his wife Etsuko.
During elementary and junior high, he was a unspectacular student with nothing standing out about him.
Sometime in the 1980s, he graduated from middle-class learning institution and then entered the Keisei Academy, a Private High School. There, he became involved in the music club, becoming a flutist. The classes he excelled were math, science and music.
He suddenly decides to drop out of high school in his senior year, before taking collage entrance exams. This being due to Riki-Oh attempting to commit suicide. Going by his mother's grave, he draws a knife. He is however stopped by Master Zenki, who had a vision of Riki-Oh being there. Master Zenki talks Riki-Oh out of attempting suicide and to join him as his martial arts pupil. 
For the next two years, Riki-Oh learns Zenki's style of Naike Kenpo. During this time, he effectively disappears from the civilization, with nobody knowing nothing of him until he attacks the South Port Gang leader.
===Keiko and arrest===
Sometime before being sent to prison, Riki-Oh meets a young girl named Keiko and helps her survive in life. However, she gets struck by a car and taken to a hospital. Going to hospital, Riki-Oh learns that the doctor there has injected the girl with tainted drugs provided by Kuwabara of the South Port Gang. Enraged, Riki-Oh leaves and goes to track down Kuwabara.
Riki-Oh tracks down Kuwabara, who is riding a limo with hookers. They spot Riki-Oh standing on the middle of the road, but Kuwabara orders the driver to ram Riki-Oh, thinking that he is a random bum. However, Riki-Oh uses his powers to smash through the entire car with a single blow. 
A bodyguard gets out of the derailed car, but Riki-Oh kills him effortlessly. Kuwabara witnesses this and is frozen in place, with Riki-Oh running at him, kicking his leg broken and then striking a hole into Kuwabara's head. Kuwabara survives this encounter, but Riki-Oh is subsequently arrested by local police and is sentenced for three years in prison for assault.
===Arrival to Kokubu Prison, fight against Iwata===
At age 21, Riki-Oh is brought to Kokubu prison, where his twin brother Nachi was a inmate at two years ago. Upon going through prison metal detectors, the security confronts him and perform a body search. They find nothing, with senior security officer telling that Riki-Oh has five bullets inside him. The Kokubu prison is divided in four cardinal wings, with Riki-Oh placed in the Northern Section.
Riki-Oh gets into trouble rather quickly -- as at the North Section's break room, a hood named Iwata (Samuel in the movie) and his toadies are harassing an inmate named Wakamatsu (Omar), who has been granted parole. After receiving abuse from Iwata, Wakamatsu tries to attack with a hand planer, only for Iwata to snatch the plane and carve a chunk of the Wakamatsu's face off. Iwata and toadies boast smugly and attempt to leave the room, only for Riki-Oh to trip Iwata and cause him to face first on piece of wood with nails sticking up, causing him to lose his right eye. The toadies try to threaten Riki-Oh for it, but back off, being intimidated by Riki-Oh's fierce demeanor.
Subsequently, Wakamatsu's parole is denied by prison staff, leading him to hang himself. Prisoners murmur that treatment Wakamatsu got was way too unfair, and that he was merely victim of circumstance. Hearing this, Riki-Oh breaks out of his cell by punching a hole in the wall. At the rainy prison yard, Riki-Oh finds two guards carrying Wakamatsu's body out. Riki-Oh goes to the body and breaks the handcuffs as a symbolic gesture, and leaving a the toy train - that was broken by Iwata - by Wakamatsu's body.
The next day, Riki-Oh and other North Section inmates wash themselves at prison shower room. A massive thug named Bandou (Zorro) - who was let free by a guard bribed by Iwata - approaches Riki-Oh and attacks him. Bandou boasts that he will be rewarded for killing Riki-Oh, with Iwata soon appearing to egg him on. Bandou attacks again, but Riki-Oh punches horizontally through Bandou's stomach, killing him.
With Riki-Oh's back turned on him, Iwata draws a long nail and attempts to stab Riki-Oh with it. Riki-Oh intercepts the nail with his own hand -- while it pierces his hand, this allows him to trap Iwata and crush the arm he stabbed Riki-Oh with. Riki-Oh deems that Iwata doesn't deserve to live and strikes at his rib, exploding Iwata's innards and killing him.
The security guards arrive and detain Riki-Oh. Before he is taken away, a tattooed man who saw the fight from the sidelines - Narumi (Oscar), one of the prison's Four Emperors and leader of the North Cell - warns that Riki-Oh that bad things are coming to his way.
===Sugiyama's office, fight against Narumi===
Riki-Oh is placed in solitary confinement and chained there for 30 days. After the time has passed, guards come to take him to Administrator Sugiyama. One of the guards searches his keys, only for Riki-Oh to tell that it's not necessary, and breaks the chains by himself.
Riki-Oh is taken to Administrator Sugiyama's office. Meeting Sugiyama, the administrator orders the guard to read the file on Riki-Oh. The guard goes over known details of Riki-Oh's life, from his education and the fact that he disappeared for two years, only to reappear when he attacked Kuwabara. Sugiyama gets curious about the two years when Riki-Oh was gone.
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==Alternative continuity==
===Film===
The 1991 live-action film is a mostly faithful adaptation of the Prison arc, with some minute differences. Here, it appears that Ricky is infact son of the Saiga family, with nothing to indicate Nachi or Mukai being involved.
After his girlfriend is hospitalized, Ricky tracks down the mobster. The mobster exits a parlor with two hookers, when Riki-Oh makes his presence known. The mobster draws a gun and shoots the quietly approaching Ricky (which is actually done by a different villain named Mizuguchi in the manga).
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===OVA===
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==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* He is likely inspired by Kenshiro, the main protagonist of the Fist of the North Star series.
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