Ryo Asuka

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Asuka Ryo is the best friend of Akira Fudo, the main character of Nagai Go's classical horror manga Devilman. As Akira is the strength, Ryo is the brain. His father discovered the existence of demons in our world and decided to fight them. He asked his friend Akira's help. Ryo knew that to be able to beat a demon, one had to become a demon. He and Akira went through a ritual to fuse with demons, but in the end, only Akira was able to do so and became Devilman, leaving Ryo remain as a normal human.

Or so they thought.

Ryo's true identity was much more horrible, much more terrifying than he or Akira could've ever imagined. Ryo turned out to be Satan himself, who ought to destroy the world. Satan is depicited as a beautiful hermaphroditic Seraphim angel with twelve wings. However, it is later revealed by Zenon that Satan is in fact in love with Akira. The Devil's love for Akira was developed through the human relationship between Akira and Ryo.

[edit] Trivia

• Go Nagai created the character after he finished working on the 1972 Devilman anime TV series, therefore Ryo is absent from the less horror themed anime series (although he is a major character in the Devilman OAVs made in the late 1980s and in 2000).
• In the Devilman OAV, Ryo is voiced by Yuu Mizushima (original Japanese) and Adam Matalon (English dub). Tomokazu Seki voiced Ryo/Satan in 2000's Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman.