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 usually 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 and 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, proverbs or famous "sayings" and he is famous in science expirements and master of astro shots

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 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 plays in Kidou's team and make the second goal using Astro Break after a pass from Toramaru.

He is shown to be training the hardest compared to the other members of Inazuma Japan. He is sometimes 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 a worried Hiroto that it was a mistake to put someone from the second rank team of Aliea Academy in the nationals. Hiroto however, encourages him by reminding him how he developed his game with the others orphans at Sun Garden, 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. After they are reunited with Hiroto.

Plot (GO)
He appears in Episode 40 along Hiroto. It is stated by Kudou that they both joined the Resistance he is actually Hiroto's secretary in Kira company. He is seen to be talking to Kariya Masaki in Shine version of the Inazuma Eleven GO games. He is also seen to be watching Raimon's final match in Amano Mikado Stadium with Kiyama Hiroto.

Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha
You can recruit Reize after talk with him in Kyoto (Manyuuji's town). Beat Gemini Storm in Furukabu's challenge tree and select him in the machine. After receives a call from Hibiki, he will randomly appears in the Hakuren's school area near to the trees.

Hissatsu

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

Quotes
(Ryuuji's) (Reize's)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "Earth has a saying that goes like this: Pay close attention to the man you've not seen in three days." (To Everyone)
 * "Earth has a saying that goes like this:The weaker the dog,the more he barks."(To Everyone)
 * Earth has a saying that goes like this:Avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster from falling upon one."(To everone)
 * "Earth has a saying that goes like this:A frog in a well does not know the great ocean."(To Everyone)
 * Earth has a saying that goes like this:What happens twice,happens thrice!"(To Everyone)
 * Earth has a saying that goes like this:Don't make a big deal about anything,because it's useless."(To Everyone)

Trivia

 * Aliens-Academy-Gemini-Storm-inazuma-eleven-aliens-academy-26315432-720-419.jpgikawa 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 (Greenway).
 * Arguably, Midorikawa's best friend is Hiroto. Miura Hiromu is a close friend and he has a mutual respect for Saginuma but not for Nagumo again mutual.
 * Midorikawa has a nice personality, 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.
 * Midorikawa will appear in Shine Version of Inazuma Eleven GO Game and he works as Hiroto's secretary in Kira Company.
 * In Shine version of the GO game, he is recruitable in two forms. His Gemini Storm form and his Inazuma Japan / normal form.
 * His Seiyuu Yuki Kodaira is also Seiyuu of Matsuno Kuusuke, Sumeragi Maki, and Sakiyama Shuuji.
 * A common joke among the fandom is that Midorikawa's hair in his Reize persona looks like an ice cream. This joke has been made canon.
 * Midorikawa is the only captain from Aliea Gakuen whose didn't play as a foward.
 * He has the same surname and hairstyle as Midorikawa Nao from Smile Pretty cure.
 * He reappears in Episode 40(GO).