Ryuki (Earth-616)

Ryuki
Name	Ryuki
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Yellow
Hair	White
Unusual Features	Green & purple skin; one horn on left side of head
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Shinma demon
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	Yomi
Base of Operations	Ashurado, Yomi
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Akira Yoshida, Shin Nagasawa
First	Wolverine Soultaker #1 (March, 2005)
First	Wolverine Soultaker #1 (March, 2005)

History

Ryuki was a Shinma demon native to Ashurado, the fourth level of the Japanese netherworld of Yomi. In the 1800s, he possessed the body of Hana Yanowa, a woman born into the Shosei Order, a lineage of miko (巫女) Shinto shrine maidens, who turned her back on the Order and began studying dark and forbidden mystic arts. Using Hana's body, Ryuki sought to kill and absorb the souls of enough innocent victims to open a gateway from Ashurado and crossover into the Earth realm in his own physical form. However, in 1864, Ryuki and Hana were confronted by Hana's twin sister Mana (High Priestess of Shosei Order), who trapped the souls of Ryuki and Hana (as well as her own soul) within the jewel of her necklace, the Mark of Mana.

Ryuki possessing Hana Yanowa

Decades later, in modern times, the Mark of Mana fell into the possession of Wolverine, who used it to return Mana's soul to her physical body; however, doing so also inadvertently released the souls of Hana and Ryuki. Freed from their prison, Hana and Ryuki reanimated the Shinsengumi (新選組), a force of 11 deadly samurai warriors who were executed as traitors upon the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, so that they could be used to kill enough innocent victims to open a gateway from Ashurado and the Earth realm. Although Wolverine defeated the undead Shinsengumi, Hana and Ryuki still opened a gateway from Ashurado to Earth. Wolverine and Mana defeated the demons, and then Wolverine used his gold-coated claws to defeat Ryuki (exploiting the demon's weakness to gold, which had previously been revealed to Mana by the Amatsu-Kami Inari), while Mana killed Hana with her dagger.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Ryuki (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Ryuki (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Ryuki (Earth-616)
• 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ryuki (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Ryuki (Earth-616)