Shinji Kido

Kamen Rider Ryuki (仮面ライダー龍騎, Kamen Raidā Ryūki?) is a fictional character in the tokusatsu production Kamen Rider Ryuki. He is the second of the 13 Kamen Riders the story revolves around. He is the eponymous character, and the main protagonist. His true identity is Shinji Kido and is portrayed by Takamasa Suga. His name, given by Kamen Rider Knight after their first team up, Ryuki (龍騎?), literally means "Dragon Knight" in Japanese. He is one of the few main Kamen Riders in the franchise not to resemble an insect in his transformed state, though he still has the ever-recognizable bug eyes as part of his helmet design.[1][2][3]

Kamen Rider Ryuki is a "balanced" Rider with equally powerful melee and far-range fighting capabilities. His special element seems to be fire, given his dragon's augmentation to his armor. His most used weapon is his Sword Vent, modeled after a Chinese Dao sword, and his Final Vent is a flying side kick called "Dragon Rider Kick", which is a playoff from the usual "Rider Kick" the original Kamen Riders used.

Shinji is good-hearted, friendly, naive idealist who works at the ORE Journal as a journalist trainee aiding in the New Group's investigation behind the "missing persons" crisis that had with the latest victim being Megumi Ida. While checking on the list of missing persons, Shinji investigates the apartment of Kōichi Sakakibara, a man who disappeared two months prior, finding a deck of cards lying on the ground before being attacked by a monster that emerged from the Mirror World, Dragredder. However, the card deck not only protected him but allowed him to sense things when he feels that Reiko is in danger, ending up in the Mirror World where he encounters another monster, Dispider. He tries to escape the monster as it overwhelms him until he is saved by Kamen Rider Knight who defeats the monster before he and Shinji are ambushed by Dragreder, with the two barely able to get back to the real world in time. Once coming to, Shinji finds himself in the Atori cafe where he formally meets Yui Kanzaki and Knight's human identity, Ren Akiyama, who tries to take the Ryuki deck from him with Yui explaining to him of the Mirror Monsters and that he's targeted by Dragreder. Shinji understands Reiko's reasons for investigating the missing persons case, only to run into Ren who is following him to get Drageder before Yui contacts Ren about the reformed Dispider. Following Ren, and seeing the daughter of a woman who was devoured by the monster, Shinji learns that he can fight once he forms a contract with a Mirror Monster. Though warned that he'll be beyond the point of return if he commits it, Shinji uses the Contact card Yui gives him to form his pact with Dragredder, becoming Kamen Rider Ryuki to save Knight and destroy Dispider with Dragredder feeding on the monster's essence. But once the fight ends, Ryuki is suddenly attacked by Knight, who beats Ryuki until Yui indirectly interferes and threatens to leave him.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia