Ryūhō Ryu

Ryuho is a member of HOLY and a main character in S-CRY-ed

Personality
Ryuho cares most about insuring order, which leads him to sound cold and often being alone. His biggest rival is Kazuma, who has changed his personality drastically.

History
Born and raised in the Lost Ground, Ryuho lived the first years of his life in a cautious but generally good-natured manner. Born into high society, he was to become the heir to the vast Ryu fortune his family had built after the Uprising. However, fate would deal him a series of cruel curve balls.

First, Ryuho discovers that he is an Alter User. When pressed about the matter by a young Mimori Kiryu, he inadvertently Alters and creates a small piece of stone (Mimori eventually keeps the stone and makes it into a pendant). He becomes reluctant to be around other people because he realizes he's different.

Then, six years before the story begins, tragedy strikes. A mysterious Alter, possessing a white left arm and a black right arm, rampages through the city. In the process, his mother and his dog are killed. In rage and frustration, Ryuho summons his Alter power and creates the Alter that will follow him for the rest of his life: Zetsuei.

He soon joins the recently-formed Alter User unit known as HOLY and gains a reputation as the strongest and most ruthless of the Native Hunters.

Love interest
Mimori Kiryu

Voiced in the US release by Dorothy Elias-Fahn.

Age 17- Daughter of the family that funds HOLD and HOLY in Scryed. She was born in the Lost Ground and moved away, but comes back at the start of the anime to be with Ryuho. She works at HOLY as a scientist. An old flame of Ryuho's, she hopes to reunite with him. She's also extremely idealistic and gentle, helping virtually all of the other cast members at some point or other. In addition, Mimori is opposed to violence in any way shape or form. She first appears in Episode 1.

Later on Mimori does reunite with Ryuho and thinks he has changed drastically since their last meeting. Later, they talk and she finds out that he really never changed. Mimori asks Ryuho if she is important to him. Ryuho holds her hand and says she is, that he had only behaved coldly towards her and tried to send her away because he wanted to keep her safe. Mimori began to cry tears of joy and holds the pendant he gave her.

Synopsis
When Kanami is kidnapped by Kyoji Mujo, Ryuho eventually goes with Kazuma back to the city to take Mujo down. In the process, he runs into his old commander, Martin Jigmar, and is forced to fight him. In the course of the fight, Ryuho discovers the final evolution of Zetsuei: the merging of Zetsuei and himself into an "Alter Ego" form, a form Jigmar had sought but never could achieve. Then he once more comes face to face with the Alter who changed his life that fateful night. Once more achieving his ultimate form, he forces this Alter back to its home realm on the "other side".

Alter

 * Zetsuei: Ryuho's alter and is named after his deceased childhood doberman, which he had used as material to first form it. At stage one, Zetsuei assumes a humanoid form with permanently crossed-arms and two long, purple ribbons that can stretch to any length desired and cut like blades. Zetsuei also has a mind of its own, and can react at super speed. Zetsuei is very powerful, and at first is much stronger than Kazuma's Shell Bullet.


 * Zetsuei Stage 2: His form changes to resemble a lamia, with greatly increased speed and power. This stage also has two rocket arms, and two regular arms.


 * The "rocket arms" are called "Vigorous Right Fist Fukuryuu" and "Vigorous Left Fist Garyuu".


 * The third attack is a more powerful version of stage one's ribbons, and it's name is only mentioned once in the last episode. It is known as "My Tender Fist, Raitsujin." A fourth attack, possibly the same as Raitsujin, is used in Episode 13. It is known as "The Tender Fist, Resshin."


 * Zetsuei Stage 3:In the third and final stage, Zetsuei becomes a harmonic, or s-CRY-ed, Alter, just like Kazuma's Shell Bullet, meaning it forms on Ryuho's body. In this form, Ryuhou and Zetsuei are nearly as fast as the speed of light. The weapons for this stage are Ryuho's fists, which are given incredible cutting power,strong enough that a swing of one of Ryuho's swords can easily cut multiple air jets and even battleships at longer distances.


 * Ryuho's "shoulder spikes", which can be removed to form a purple, diamond-shaped sword powerful enough to cut the fabric of space and contend with Kazuma's Proud Fist attack.They resemble the necklace that Mimori can be seen wearing. After using Zetsuei at stage three, Ryuho has two scars on both sides of his face that continue to grow each time he uses this alter ability