#apologies if im missing ryos i cant remember rn

[akisata-moved]

I want to know your list of Ryo versions from most favorite to least favorite.

ah... let me think for like two seconds

1. manga canon (original, shin, neo story 5, lady technically) - the original ... my favorite guy.... my favorite thingy..... picking him up and shaking him around

2. cyborg 009 vs devilman - despite him looking 35, i think he has some REALLY good characterization in the brief moments we see him

3. ova (the birth and demon bird) + darkside ryo tie here - i loooove ova ryo but i just dont feel like his characterization is quite There for me. and from what ive seen i really like darkside ryo too BUT i havent read enough of darkside to make a concrete judgement (sorry guys...)

4. mahjong ryo - tbh? i have NO idea what his actual character is like because the game is untranslated BUT HES TOO CUTE FOR ME TO RANK LOWER

5. cb chara ryo - this might seem like a low rank but i actually do love him a lot, tbh he just gets placed relatively low because of how exaggerated/satirical he is. despite that, though, he somehow is STILL more in character than crybaby ryo. thats crazy!

6. amon ova ryo - he's pretty but i dont think he really does much

7. violence jack ryo - let's put all the human dog/straight with miki stuff aside for a minute-- i love the way ryos guilt is handled in violence jack (although they screw it up by making him like, "evil" at the end or something) and the end fight with devilman where for one panel theyre just akira and ryo... that makes me so sad.... i have complex feelings on violence jack ryo

8. ryo in other misc neo stories - i dont like ryo from the first neo story very much #sad nor do i like him in the one where he drives around and has a biker jacket? i dont remember what that one is called. i sound like such a fake fan right now

9. psx ryo - he randomly shoots at akira with his gun. need i say more?

10. iron virgin jun ryo - i dont really need to explain this one do i. the dracula outfit is fun though

we are now coming to a list of Guys i like to call 'Not Ryos'. they, despite being labeled as ryo or looking like him, aren't actually ryo.

11. iwao himura - not ryo, but ryo inspired. i do love him though.

12. saga ryo - whats HIS deal am i right

13. asuka himura + satan from grimoire - both are not ryo in any capacity, and the former is weirdly dosu roku-adjacent, and heterosexual. overall, not a very good ryo stand-in. grimoire gets ultimate points off for going out of its way to exclude ryo in general.

14. my ultimate hated, crybaby ryo. (and to go along with him, because he clearly inspired dmcb ryo, live action ryo). i put him under "not ryos" because there is 0 part of his character, aside from name and like, the vague outline of a story, that resembles the ryo we all know and love. i mean it when i say literally the complete opposite of everything ryo represents. make it make sense.

i feel like im missing ryos, but i dont know who else i could be missing besides maybe cb chara wars ryo (who i dont feel like ranking because hes like. hardly even a character) and maybe pachinko game ryo (and like, its hard to even say anything about pachinko ryo besides that his model is ugly).... welp! i guess im also forgetting demon knight, but i havent read demon knight because I Dont Want To. So.