Nishiki Ryouma

Nishiki Ryouma (錦龍馬) is a midfielder and a forward for Raimon.

Appearance
He has black hair that is long and tied with a blue pony tail. He has dark brown eyes. He is taller compared to most of the Raimon members. He has dark skin and large eyebrows.

Personality
It seems that he has a lot of passion for soccer and that he has missed Japan, as shown in Episode 25, when he was happy to be back to his homeland, Japan. He also seems to be very good at soccer as he was Raimon's ace striker and as he played in the Italian league and as he scores three goals for Raimon in the match with Kidokawa Seishuu. He has a carefree additude and a samurai-like accent.

Best attributes
He is an optimist and a very bold person. As Shinsuke noted, he has a way of making his teammates more confident.

Plot (GO)
He made his debut at the end of Episode 25, where he is seen returning to Japan after some time playing in the Italian League. He also sent airmail to Raimon.

In Episode 26, he rides in his bicycle to go towards to the match of Hakuren and Raimon.

He arrives in the match between Raimon and Hakuren and enters. He tries going to complete Double Wing but fails, then he explains that when he was in the Italian League, his position from Forward was change to Midfielder.

He used his hissatsu, Acrobat Keep, to get past a defender of Hakuren. It shows that he has improved his skills as a Midfielder.

Against Kidokawa Seishuu (GO), he became a forward. He used his keshin in the Episode 30 two times and scored two goals.

In Episode 31, he used Bushin Renzan to score the third goal against Kidokawa Seishuu.

In Episode 35Episode 035 (GO), he used his shoot hissatsu, Denrai Houtou, to score Raimon's third goal during the match against Genei Gakuen.

In the Episode 37, he helped Shinsuke being a goalkeeper. He used Denrai Houtou in order to awake Shinsuke's keshin, but failed to do so.

In Episode 40, he and the rest of the team went to the hospital and he was sad about Shindou can't play in finals along with Raimon. Later, he and the rest weren't focused on the training. He was also happy when he saw Coach Endou was back.

In Episode 42, during the final against Seidouzan, he used his keshin. He also used Bushin Renzan and scored the second goal to Raimon. In the 2nd half, when Seidouzan was switched out with Dragonlink, he tried to pass their field but failed due to the forwards's keshins.

In the Episode 43, he used many times his keshin to stop Dragonlink's, and at the end of the episode, he was so tired that he can't use it anymore.

Game
In the 3DS game, he was trying to stop his bike that is going too fast when going down the icy hills and ends up crashing Kidou, Endou, Tsurugi, Tenma, Sangoku and Shindou during his first arrival in Snowland Stadium.

Plot (Chrono Stone)
In Episode 001 (Chrono Stone) he is seen eating rice balls in which Tenma feels like it's obvious that Nishiki also does not remember soccer either.

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He appeared in the GO movie with the rest of the Raimon's team. Like the other members, he was surprised to see they were on the God Eden, an island where the Fifth Sector train SEEDs. After he awoke, a man called Kibayama Dousan appeared and introduced to Raimon his team, Unlimited Shining. The two teams fought in a field near to the place where Tenma awoke and Raimon was badly beaten and lost 12-0.

Later, the team met Shuu, the captain of Ancient Dark, in the forest, and they had a match with them.

During the match against Team Zero, he used Sengoku Bushin Musashi, his keshin, and Bushin Renzan, to create a chain shoot with Hikaru's Extend Zone. It scored the second goal to Raimon.

Hissatsu

 *  [SH] Bushin Renzan
 *  [SH] Denrai Houtou
 *  [OF] Acrobat Keep
 *  [OF] Noboriryu 
 *  [SK] Jamming! (3DS Game)

Keshin

 * [KH] Sengoku Bunshin Musashi

Hissatsu Tactics

 *  [HT] Double Wing 
 *  [HT] Flying Route Pass

Trivia

 * He first appears in the anime in the second version of the second GO opening.
 * In episode 25, Shindou and Kirino explains that Ryouma was playinNishikiKeshinShoot.PNG in the Italian Soccer League.
 * He was Raimon's former ace striker.
 * He used to be a forward when he was with Raimon, though when he joined the Italian Soccer League, he became a midfielder, making his position as a midfielder definite.
 * Hamano thought that Nishiki and Midori are pretty close.
 * It is shown in Episode 30 that he knows Someoka very well and that he was his coach when he was in the Italian Soccer League.
 * He and Midori go into the first year together and Nishiki stated that Midori likes to step on his foot when she's angry.
 * He resembles a Samurai or a Japanese Warrior.
 * Also, his keshin is based on Musashi Miyamoto, a legendary Samurai warrior.
 * Currently only he and Mahoro made a "hat-trick ".
 * Except of Acrobat Keep, all of his Hissatsu are write with Kanji and Hiragana.
 * In the 3 first matches that he has played, he has learned (used for the first time) one Hissatsu in each match: Vs. Hakuren he used Acrobat Keep, vs. Kidokawa Seishuu he used Sengoku Bushin Musashi's Bushin Renzan, vs. Genei he used Denrai Houtou.
 * Both of his shoot hissatsu's have leaves around them.
 * He has the same seiyuu as Hebino Makito.
 * In the manga of season 2, he was joining the tennis club.
 * The "錦" in his surname means brocade and "龍" means dragon.