Midorikawa Ryuuji

Midorikawa Ryuuji (緑川リュウジ) (alien name: Reize), is one of the supporting characters in the Inazuma Eleven game and anime. He was a midfielder and the captain of Gemini Storm, now he's a midfielder of Inazuma Japan.

Appearance
In season 2, Midorikawa's hair is tied up a little higher, and his four thick strands of hair falling over his forehead are not seen or are tied up. In season 3, he has green hair tied into a ponytail, with four thick strands of hair falling over his forehead, tan skin and sharp black eyes. His casual clothes are a red long-sleeved shirt topped with a purple shirt, and he wears green shorts. Also, Midorikawa can be seen in some training outfit from Sun Garden, which is an orange, collared t-shirt, with brown shorts.

In GO, he is seen wearing a red turtle-neck top, under a white coat. His hair is tied up much like a bun and has some little ones flicking up.

Personality
Midorikawa's 'alien' personality is proud and prefers to refer to others as a lower standard, usually disregarding the others. His natural personality on the other hand, is bright, cheery also hard-working as shown when he really desired to become strong. He later claims that it took him a while to develop his 'alien' character which appears to be the complete opposite of his natural personality.

Despite this, he is shown to enjoy referencing famous quotes in both personalities such as "Some things never change" and "All's well that end's well." He usually uses dictates or proverbs or famous "sayings".

Season 2
He's the captain of Gemini Storm and introduces himself as 'Reize' when Aliea Gakuen attacked. He first appeared when he destroyed Raimon Junior High after winning against the original Inazuma Eleven, who were fighting in place of Raimon as they were still returning from their match in the finals against Zeus. In the next day Reize and Gemini Storm attacked the park and abducted the Japan's prime minister, Zaizen Sosuke.

At the end of the Episode 029 he made a speech explaining the Aliea Gakuen objectives. Later, when Gemini Storm was almost leaving, he is seen smiling after Endou challenged him.

In Episode 030 he asks to Raimon why they are there since they can't beat his team, but Endou says that they are there to have another match and challenges them. Reize then say that they can't do this because Raimon have only ten players. He later acepts a match when Touko joins to Raimon. At the begining ot the second half he gives the order to his teammates destroys Raimon. When the score was 31-0 to Gemini Storm Reize decides to end the match and uses Astro Break to score the 32th goal, destroying the ball in the process.

He is seen again at the end of the Episode 032, where, after destroying another school he announces that Gemini Storm is going to Hakuren's school. His team was powerful that they won the first two matches against Raimon without making Raimon get a point on them and pinning down Endou to the ground by not even giving him a chance to block their shoots but they lost the third match when Fubuki joined the team. They were then "exiled" by Desarm from Epsilon and did not appear again for the entire season, though it was said after the defeat of Aliea Academy that both the children from Epsilon and Gemini Storm were fine.

Season 3
He reappeared again as one of Japan's representative. During his debut appearance in this season, he comes from the edge of the gym room surrounded by a black aura. Shadow comments that he has a sinister aura. No one recognizes him until he speaks in his usual Japanese proverbs. Everyone states that his appearance and attitude is really the opposite from when he was a student of Aliea Academy before. He replied that he was 'evil' because he really wants to bring out the 'evil character' appearance, suiting their theme of 'alien'.

He is shown to be training the hardest compared to the other members of Inazuma Japan. He is usually seen training at night when the other players are sleeping. However, he thinks that he isn't able to get any better with practice and tells Hiroto that it was a mistake to put someone from the second rank team of Aliea Academy in the nationals. Hiroto however, encourages him and tells him he is stronger than he thinks and telling him the he will be fine, bringing Midorikawa's confidence back.

He was very serious and tensed in the match against Neo Japan, but after Hiroto let him know that he is stronger, he revived and exhibited a new hissatsu, Lightning Accel.



Midorikawa is seen taking a walk with Kazemaru in Episode 78 and also the fifth/sixth person to be spying on Endou and Fuyuka while Rika, Touko , Kabeyama and Kurimatsu being the first four. He is also the only one not blushing implying that he is somewhat comfortable with girls. Note that this is the second time he is seen with his casual clothing, the first one is during episode 68.

When the team was in Liocott Island for the finals, he sent Hiroto a postcard in Episode 101, telling them that he has been keeping well and was training to return to Inazuma Japan and have other matches along with rest of the team. In Episode 122, he's seen practicing with Saginuma, being supervised by Coach Hitomiko while watching the FFI finals.

Plot (GO)
He is set to appear in GO, as revealed in the CoroCoro magazine that he will exclusively appear in Inazuma Eleven GO (game), Shine version. It is shown in the Game trailer that he was watching Raimon's final match in Amano Mikado Stadium with Kiyama Hiroto, it is shown that he was actually Hiroto's secretary in his company. He is also seen to be talking to Kariya Masaki in the Shine version of the Inazuma Eleven GO game.

Hissatsu

 *  [SH] Astro Break
 *  [SH] Astro Gate (Game - IE3)
 *  [SH] Ganymede Proton (Game - IE3)
 *  [SH] Universe Blast (Reize form)
 *  [SH] Gaia Break (Reize form - IE2)
 *  [OF] Lightning Accel
 *  [OF] Warp Drive (Game - IE2/IE3)
 *  [DF] Hunter´s Net (3DS Game)

Quotes

 * "We're not only friends in this team, but rivals. I will never hand over my position as regular!" (To Himself)
 * "There's a saying that where there's a will, there's a way! Hard work will always reward you!" (To Desert Lion)
 * "It looks like I'm paying the price for training without rest for so long...The last straw that broke the camel's back! I'm sorry for dragging everyone down". (To Inazuma Japan)
 * "Earth has a saying that goes like this: Pay close attention to the man you've not seen in three days." (To Everyone)
 * "Oh, that...I'm really, really sorry about all that...Just between us, I had to work pretty hard to develop my alien character." (To Mukata Masaru)
 * "So with that, I say to you...All's well that ends well! Call me Midorikawa from now on!" (To Everyone)
 * "If you don't succeed at first, as long as you don't give up, a path will always open."
 * "A thousand mile journey begins with a single step" (To Hiroto and Fubuki)

Trivia

 * Midorikawa was probably the one who started calling Aliea Academy "Aliens" (when he was in Aliea Academy) just to amuse himself, as seen from episode 27.
 * Midori, in Midorikawa means green, probably referring to the color of his hair whilst his dub name was probably referring to this since his dub name was made later during the dubbing.
 * Arguably Midorikawa's best friend is either Hiroto or Miura Hiromu and he has a mutual respect for Saginuma but not for Nagumo again mutual.
 * Midorikawa has a nice personality that suits his age, stating that he acted really evil during the Aliea Academy Arc just to get the mood of being an 'alien'. He even said that it was hard playing evil.
 * He will appear in Shine Version of Inazuma Eleven GO Game and he works as Hiroto's secretary.
 * In Shine version of the GO game, he is recruitable in two forms. His Gemini Storm form and his Inazuma Japan / normal form.