Ryo

***DANGER! DANGER!*** This page may contain a lot of **spoilers.**
It's recommended you play Team Salvato's *Doki Doki Literature Club (Plus)!* and read/play *Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus* first before you read the article.

## Personal information

### Aliases

リョー
Ryō
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リョウ
Ryou
Ryujutsu Master
Ryo-sensei

### Affiliation(s)

Martial Arts Club: Club President, black belt

## Physical description

### Eye color

Dark Red

**Ryo** (リョー) is the Club President and a black belt of the Martial Arts Club. His club partipated in two club video games including *Doki Doki Punch-Out Fury!!* (a casual 3D fighting game) and *Doki Doki Death Battles!!* (a brutal 2.5D fighting game) where he developed a qi-based fighting style called **Ryujutsu** (竜術 *Ryūjutsu*, meaning "Dragon Technique" or "Dragon Arts"), a fighting style themed around dinosaurs and dragons.

## Appearance

Ryo has short dark red hair and eyes. He is also fairly bulky with some muscles. His normal Martial Arts gi is normally white and he wears a black belt but during *Doki Doki Death Battles!!* and *Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus*, he is shown wearing a dark red gi with a symbol of a dragon and dinosaur on the left side of his gi.

## Personality

Ryo is an honorable, bold fighter. He cares about the well-being of his students/club members but he will not hesitate to take disciplinary measures when his students/club members go out of line.

## History

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Before the *Doki Doki High School Club Hub Worlds* project when Ryo was teaching Aikido, Aika was one of Ryo's club members and students. However, due to Aika's excessive intolerable behaviors including her hotheadedness and disruptive behavior, Ryo had no choice but to ban Aika from the club, where she joined the Drama Club for her talents.

At some point during the Martial Arts Club's second club game, *Doki Doki Death Battles!!*, the game was corrupted when Kai invaded the Martial Arts Club and conquered the Martial Arts Club Hub World, infecting Ryo and his club members with the Doki Doki Virus and quickly sealing and archiving Ryo away in the Belief Club's database.

Ryo and some other imprisoned club presidents including Duran, Kenta, Takeda, and Yumi were freed and disinfected by Kosei when Kosei used a wildly infected Sayori to attack the Belief Club database. Ryo assumed his Ryujutsu Master form and retaliation begin. Ryo helped Kosei to stop and cure Infected Aika, then Ryo and Takeda searched for Kai's prisoned torture slaves and managed to free Akida and Takeru until Kai teleported away while Takeda went missing.

## Powers and Abilities

* Club Administrative Privilege (unknown-level)
	+ Ryujutsu

### Aikido

Aikido (合気道 *Aikidō*) was the Japanese Martial Arts style he taught to his club members prior to the *Club Hub Worlds* project. In our real world, aikido was created by Morihei Ueshiba in the late 1920s to 1930s. This fighting style was derived from daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu.

### Ryujutsu

**Ryujutsu** (竜術 *Ryūjutsu*, meaning "Dragon Technique" or "Dragon Arts"), a qi-based fighting style themed around dinosaurs and dragons. Because of the effects of being in a digital environment, the definition for qi is digital life energy that surrounds and flows inside every living (digital) thing and living (digital) being. Dinosaur-themed techniques usually take place in melee combat while dragon-themed techniques are usually long-distance techniques.

## Battle information

### Level(s)

**ReLC!TDDV**• Starter: Lv. 20
• Maximum: Lv. 20

### Game(s) featured

* *Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus*

**Ryujutsu Master** (竜術の大先生 *Ryūjutsu no Ōsensei*, lit. "O-Sensei of Ryujutsu" or "Great Teacher of the Dragon Technique") is Ryo's class in *Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus* as an auto-battling ally. This is also the form Ryo takes during his *Doki Doki Death Battles!!* video game. Ryo is a master of his original fighting style called Ryujutsu, a qi-based fighting style themed around dinosaurs and dragons. This class is primarily an Energy and Force-elemental class with other usable energy-related elements such as Fire and Lightning.

### Skills

Special Abilities

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## Trivia

* Ryo is based on the characters Ryo of the Heavenly Fire Star from *Gosei Sentai Dairanger* and Ryu from the *Street Fighter* franchise.
	+ Ryo's name was previously going to be Ryu (リュー *Ryū* or リュウ *Ryuu*), which, when written as "竜（りゅう）", translates to "dragon", which is based on his Ryujutsu fighting style and would have been a more direct reference to the *Street Fighter* character. To make Ryo not to be too direct to the *Street Fighter* character, he was renamed to Ryo.
		- An alternate idea for the name of this character would have been Ryuken, which written in Japanese as "竜（りゅう）拳（けん）", would translate to "Dragon Fists" which would associate his Ryujutsu fighting style, but it would be a further reference to the *Street Fighter* characters Ryu and Ken.