Ryo has a bunch of cool fun duos in the show, Fubuki, Judai, Edo, etc u know But my favourite one was with Asuka and I'm so pissed off they never spoke to each other after season 1, I needed them to talk again, we didn't even get Asuka's opinion on Hell Kaiser, like she said she sees him as an older brother, and they were close in season 1, I JUST WANTED THEM TO HANG OUT AGAIN RAHHHHH.

they were so cool together. lowkey headcanon them as aroace, my favourite moments of them is when they are dueling someone who likes them (romantically) and they both say they're in love with dueling 🙏 I was rewatching episode 47 cuz thats one of my favourite episodes and look how happy Ryo is when Asuka says she’s only in love with dueling ahhhhh

I SHAVED OFF FOUR SECONDS OF MY 100 FREESTYLE TIME

1:17!!!!