Ryuka

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“	Don't you understand? Without justice, you have nothing.	”
	— Ryuka

Ryuka
Japanese Name	リュウカ
Romaji Name	Ryūka
Profile
Title	General
Gender	Female
Race	Human
Weapon	Bottle
Personification	Yakuza/Like a Dragon
Personal Status
Base	Planeptune
Appearances
Video Game	Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart
Voice Actors
Japanese	Yoshino Nanjō

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Appearance

Ryuka has blue eyes and long brown hair, worn in the side in a big spiraling, loose ponytail with a pink-red flower on the side. She wears a red top with a dark red-black spiraling dragon and a few buttons, with only one being together to reveal her breasts and belly button. At the collar is a gold badge with a red rose decal. Over this, she wears a white jacket with red cuffs and black lace lining a white skirt with a dark red slit on the side and a black belt, sheer pantyhose with white, black, and red leg warmers, and a pair of white and black platform heels with rubies on the toe.

Personality

A caring elder sister type good at taking care of people, with a coherent personality. She has no mercy for those who endanger her friends. Since she speaks in a mocking tone, she makes enemies without realizing it.

Equipment

Weapons

• Weapon/Hyperdevotion Noire#Ryuka

Skills

Abilities

• Physical Resist Lv2
• Null Anxious

Leader Effect

Like A Rock.

• Null Knockback
• Enemy Blunt Resist Down Lv5

Normal Skills

LV	Name	SP	Attribute	Type	Target	Power	Firing Range	Vertical Range	Special Effect
Initial	Way of the Yakuza	30	None	Physical	Single	250	1	± 1	50% Dizzy
A powerful physical attack.
Initial	Drunken Fervor	50	None	Support	Self	100	0	± 99	STR 100% ↑ VIT, MEN -25% ↓
She's serious and she's scary!
Initial	Women of the Yakuza	70	None	Magical	Cross 1	185	0-3	± 99	50 % Anxious
Sake bottles rain from the heavens.
27	Path of Honor	100	None	Support	Perimeter	100	0	± 99	STR, INT, critical rate 25% ↑
Instill valor and strength.
40	The Dragon's Name	125	None	Magical	Cross 1	285	0-4	± 99	50% Dizzy
Critical damage to enemies in range

Special Moves

LV	Name	Attribute	Type	Target	Power	Firing Range	Vertical Range	Special Effect
Initial	Yakuza's Zenith	None	Physical	Cross 1	175 + 3.5 * Level	0-5	± 1	30% Freeze Bug
Damage enemies in range.

Etymology

Her name is derived either from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series' Japanese title (龍が如く Ryu ga Gotoku), or the name of the main character, Kiryu Kazuma.

• The name Ryuka is written in katakana (リュウカ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (柳香, 流架, 琉夏, 竜佳, 龍嘉, 竜香 or 瑠華), it could possibly mean:
  • 柳香 - "willow incense".
  • 流架 - "flow, style, manner, method" (流) (ryu) and "" (架) (ka).
  • 琉夏 - "precious stone, gem, lapis lazuli" (琉) (ryu) and "summer" (夏) (ka).
  • 竜佳 - "dragon" (竜) (ryu) and "good, beautiful" (佳) (ka).
  • 龍嘉 - "dragon" (龍) (ryu) and "applaud, praise, esteem, happy, auspicious" (嘉) (ka).
  • 竜香 - "dragon" (竜) (ryu) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka).
  • 瑠華 - "lapis lazuli" (瑠) (ryu) and "flower, petal" (華) (ka).

Trivia

• Ryuka's weapons are all references to Kazuma Kiryu, the main protagonist of most of the Like a Dragon games.
  • Sake is a common type of alcoholic beverage in the Like a Dragon series, found in practically every bar in the games, and one of her attacks references how it serves as a powerup item to Kiryu in combat.
• Ryuka's personality is largely based on Kiryu's.
• Ryuka's outfit is a feminized version of Kiryu's classic white suit and red shirt, and the dragon motif on the front references Kiryu's dragon tattoo on his back.
• Ryuka's CG scene with Noire in a hostess club is a reference to the hostess/cabaret club minigames in the Like a Dragon games, where Kiryu or other characters from the series can interact with the hostesses or even work as the manager of said clubs (as depicted in Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2).