#ryo expies

[rivalcobalt]

Woe, MS paint diagram of the retroactive Komaedification of N be upon ye

[rivalcobalt]

Adding onto this because I have so much goddamn useless info on this topic but my friends & I have a theory that victuuri are derivative of the BL/shojou line of ryoakira progeny:

Ryoakira → gilserge (kazeki) → debatably asheiji (banana fish) → victuuri

This isn't solid proof of any of this but Kubo-sensei has posted kazeki fanart before, so it's not a huge stretch to think that they're part of what led to the similar tropes we see in victuuri. Ryoakira (great?) grandchildren, possibly

(To clarify, asheiji are definitely gilserge expies, but the debatable part is whether they had any impact on yoi. I wanna say yes but ?? This is not my branch of expertise in this)

I personally don't think Komaeda is the most obvious beat-for-beat Kaworu (there are a variety of really blatant ones, but afaik Akise Aru (mirai nikki) is winning that race) because he has pretty clear personality and character tone differences. Imo this is because Komaeda also pulls from Joshua Kiryuu (twewy) and possibly Ryou Bakura (ygo). The Kaworu is very strong in him (even to the point of even having "I thought I was born to meet you" in one character song lmao), but I think he's more similar to Joshua after the ch1 trial reveal. A bunch of their sprite poses even match (source):

I wrote a bunch on it here if you're interested, but this is the gist of it:

I swear to god every anime ship that has hit me hard since 15 is just like assorted flavours of ryoakira

ok so hear me out

[2stregafangirl]

Even more pressing question is death the wolf a Ryo Devilman expy?

[m00nj3w3l]

Actually like the funniest thing I've said about this series as my friend showed it to me was to call Luka a Ryo Devilman expy to then watch the video and go "OH MY GOD HE'S A WHORE!!!!!"

[bthump]

Hi. If you ever watched madoka magika/are familiar with madoka magika, what is your opinion in the mirrored connections between homura and griffith?

Ah, sorry I've never seen it and I know very little about it. I know that Homura has been called a Ryo expy lol, so they probably both got that gay betrayal thing going on, but other than that I'm afraid I got nothing.

Thanks for asking anyway, sorry to disappoint!

[rivalcobalt]

(Disclaimer that I haven't dug into Togashi's interviews for this or anything)

I personally think of him as not a Ryo expy in the sense of direct lines of parentage, but he's definitely derived of the trope in shounen that spawned from the friend side of Ryo if that makes sense? Like, the undeniable expies are usually a lot more clearly inspired by Ryo himself or another expy, but while I don't know of any ones that I can feel certain specifically inspired Killua, he gets the checkmarks for white haired anime boy, deuteragonist, pretty gay for the protagonist who is also his best friend, fucked up family trauma, more reserved personality than protagonist, cool/skilled/mostly confident/etc and whatnot. Togashi really likes to play with shounen tropes in hxh, so I always saw him and Gon as more constructed out of the wider tropes, I guess. Yu Yu Hakusho is also on the hand poster so he definitely has been impacted by the series directly too though, take that as you will. He doesn't switch between friendly and antagonistic or have clear angel motifs (some of the most signature traits for these guys), but he's not the only one who doesn't

Tl;dr I would lean towards yes but I wouldn't know where to put him on an influence map

hello friends. is killua considered a so-called ryou expy

[runthepockets]

It's gonna be so awesome when I become one of those writers whose love of martial arts and anime shine through everything I make. College kids are going to have drinking games devoted to every time I make a trans guy that's just a Ryo Suzuki expy, lol.

[souj]

tagged by @solcarow for 10 fandoms/10 characters! no tags tho. unfortunately im a protagluvr so this list isnt anything exciting lol

1) persona: souji but not yu. soujis love of cats, bowlcut, and domestic charms got me

2) orv: HAN SOOYOUNG!! PROTAG IN MY HEART

3) ace attorney: apollo. normalest guy ever

4) natsuyuu: natsume. he deserves everything his heart desires and then more

5) tales: yuri lowell. he not only kills people, he murders them. got stabbed and tossed off the side of a tower into the ocean by the woman who fancied herself his rival in love and he just let her have that victory.

6) kingdom hearts: aqua. the best strongest most beautiful and talented keyblade master

7) twewy: joshy. babys first ryo asuka expy

im running out of fandoms uhhh

8) persona again: akihiko. reverse white-haired anime boy

9) akagami no shirayukihime: obi. who else gets to confess his undying love and loyalty for the prince and the fantasy pharmacist at the same

10) doctor who. donna noble. im in love with her

[protect-namine]

I actually do not have the desire to watch NGE at all, but at some point I feel like I should just to see where all the kaworu expies came from (kaworu himself is a ryo asuka expy iirc). like reading a history lesson, or looking up the character archetype family tree

[rivalcobalt]

Oh just realized replies are turned off so editing my RB instead. Have you seen this

[firstproqenitor]

Interests

Please feel free to send me stuff you think I'd like

Media:

FFXIV

Owari no Seraph

Yu-Gi-Oh

Promare

The Magnus Archives

FFXII

Legend of Zelda (Especially OOT and BOTW)

Death Note

Castlevania

Persona 5

TWEWY

Homestuck

Code Vein

Pokemon

Hamlet

Basically anything with Ryo (devilman) expies in it

Other:

Vampires

Music, with a heavy focus on MCR

Chemistry

Cats

Art (I do digital art)

Card games, TTRPGs

[rivalcobalt]

Wow both ibuprofen and ryoakira in one page

[wyverncult]

OHHH ryo expyism is my field of study. ok. yes. what i believe is that a vital part of the history of ryo expies is understanding that, while there are many direct descendants, a pretty important branch is being one thru kaworu nagisa, who is a direct expy of ryo but arguably inspired as many expies of himself as ryo did.

i then suspect killua to be an offshoot of kaworu, so a 2nd gen expy. they follow the dark haired protag/light haired (gay) bestie formula. it is maybe also important to mention though that the likelihood of togashi having read devilman is supremely high since the manga was incredibly big in japan, and because devilman's influences on shounen in general but esp on yu yu hakusho and the CAA cannot be overstated.

YEAHHH YES OK THIS IS EXACTLY THE RESPONSE I WAS LOOKING FOR!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[feminariden]

Here how darkshipping can still win

[suaveassassinart]

a couple ballpoint doodles i did while traveling of tiefling!akira from a fun little 5e mini-campaign i’m in! a friend and i made thinly-vieled ryokira expies and tried to see how long it would take our dm to notice lmao

[faremis]

Coming to the grim realization that my all-star ryo asuka spawned the apocalyptic heel-turning gay anime villain trope