However, the way she introduced herself to him was terribly frightening to Tenchi, so he distanced himself from her for a long time. She watched Tenchi grow up over the years, and she wished more than anything to be with him. While she was trapped in the cave, she was able to create an astral body (sort of like a ghostly consciousness) and venture to the entrance of the cave.
But she's deeply in love with Tenchi, though not fully admitting how deeply until Episodes 5 & 6, when she tells Ayeka how she first met Tenchi, and later when she offers up her own life in place of his. She easily gets upset, and is short tempered, especially around Ayeka. It is possible that she gained shapeshifting abilities from merging with Zero (Episode 12), in combination with her amorphous masu heritage.Īs a character, Ryoko is very emotional. Some of these abilities are known to have been inherited from Washu, while others are likely the result of her Masu genes, or intended design. In addition she can access an advanced internal database, as a group-mind shared with Ryo-Ohki (Episode 14) to constantly overview her exact universal coordinates (and presumably additional functions/information). Other powers Ryoko possesses include flight, superhuman strength, teleporting, intangibility, creating energy swords and energy blasts (All regularly used), instantly regenerating missing limbs (Episode 1), creating doppelgängers (Episode 7), telekinesis, creating forcefields, matter formation (manipulating matter and merging with it, as with a stone pillar in Episode 6), complex molecular restructuring (repairing Mihoshi's GXP scanner in Episode 4), hair needles she can fire from her head (Episode 11), and telepathy with Washu and Ryo-Ohki.
It is debatable just how much of her mother's power she is borrowing and how much she is capable of using on her own, but her relatively young age (she appears about nineteen years old) prevents her from drawing upon their full power. In OVA 3, it was revealed that the true gems contain the powers and godhead of Washu-kami-sama (who is one of the three "Chōshin" goddesses). False gems also last for only a limited time, while the originals have an inexhaustible supply of energy. This false gem is not as powerful as the originals, but allow her to balance her power and abilities. She also has the ability to create false gems, one that she keeps hidden in plain sight on her left ear as an earring. True to the meaning of her nomenclature, the gem on the inside of Ryoko's left wrist allows her to summon powerful, ferocious "demon" spirits, which let physical attacks pass right through them, while the gem on the inside of her right wrist allows her to control the summoned spirits, and the last gem, which goes on her throat, gives her full power. She has three red gems that are the source of her full energy, which also came from Washu. Washu's DNA was combined with that of amorphous creatures called the Masu to create Ryoko. She was created by Washu, using one of her egg cells as a base, so she is indirectly Washu's daughter. Her age is at least 5,000 - although she claims to be "only" 2,000 (Galactic Standard years, which are 2.5 Earth years). In this series, Ryoko is known as Ryoko Hakubi, a space pirate who was defeated by Yosho nearly seven hundred years before her release by Tenchi. Ryoko's name can be translated as "bringer of demons" and is stated as meaning "The Devil Caller" in the OVA series. While the name Ryoko is a common feminine given name in Japan, in this instance it is written with very uncommon " kanji". The level of the rivalry can vary between being equitable to a pair of bickering siblings to an all-out feud. Often the conflict between the two comes out of their decidedly different personalities, with Ryoko being the tomboyish troublemaker and Ayeka being the well-mannered, but often snooty aristocrat. In the anime, Ryoko universally holds an intense rivalry with the character Ayeka, who also fights for Tenchi's affections. In the various series, Ryoko is portrayed as being impulsive, hedonistic (with a penchant for sake), poor-mannered, often immodest, recklessly violent, and hot-tempered although she sometimes reveals her more emotional and vulnerable side.
While details of her character differ between the various series, Ryoko is typically shown as an attractive, semi-reformed powerful space pirate who is madly in love with the series main character, Tenchi Masaki. Nihongo| Ryoko|魎呼|Ryōko is a key fictional character in the various " Tenchi Muyo!" anime series by AIC. Two unnamed clone sisters "(Masaki Kajishima doujinshi only)" Sasami Masaki Jurai "(aunt by assimilation to Tsunami, OAV)" Petrea Burchard "(OVA 1 and 2, movies, English)"