Ryoto Hikawa
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Ryoto Hikawa is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series. He first appeared in Super Hero Sakusen, and was a playable character in Super Robot Wars Alpha, and the Super Robot Wars Original Generation series. In Alpha, he is one of the eight characters a player could choose. In canon, he pilots the Huckebein MK III L, but will pilot the Armorlion, as of the Original Generation remake on the Playstation 2.
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[edit] Personal Data
Name: Ryoto Hikawa
AKA: Ryoto
Voice Actor: Yumiko Kobayashi
Status: Psychodriver
Rank: Sergeant Major (During Original Generation), Second Lieutenant (After Original Generation)
Affiliation: Divine Crusaders (OG 1), Earth Federation Army (OG 1/2)
Relatives and Personal Affiliations: Rio Mei Long (Love interest)
Mecha: Lion F (OG 1), Huckebein MK III L (OG 2), Huckebein MK III Gunner (OG 2), Huckebein MK III Boxer (OG 2), Armorlion (OGs)
[edit] Personality And Traits
18 year-old Ryoto Hikawa is a bashful, kind-hearted boy, though he tends to think pessimistically. His family owns a karate dojo, and being the youngest child in his family of many older sisters, Ryoto is an obedient person, and prefers not to engage in combat with others. As a pilot, he is not unskillful, but usually not on par with some of the elite pilots in his unit. As well, he develops difficulty in being able to convey his feelings. Because of this, Ryoto comes to hate himself for being who he is, mirroring that of Shinji Ikari of Neon Genesis Evangelion. However, he likes working with machines, and an expert engineer and developer, reflecting that on the creations of the Mao Industries' Huckebein MK III.
Ryoto has Psychodriver abilities, and has reaction times comparable to SRX Team's Ryusei Date, and both of them are shown to be above average Burning PT players in the animated Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars. A major stumbling block in his abilities to become a powerhouse is that he, in Adler Koch's terms, "does not possess a killer instinct."
[edit] History
Ryoto Hikawa was one of the few players of the Burning PT game to catch the eye of the Divine Crusaders, and was drafted into their force. However, due to his lack of aggression, he was demoted to the grunt units. His unit was assigned to intercept the Hagane, but was too reluctant to attack the Hagane's PT units. After defeating the rest of his unit, Ryoto was captured by the crew of the Hagane, where it was discovered that his commander had hidden a bomb on his Lion, intending for the Hagane to capture him, where the bomb would detonate and severely damage the ship(killing Ryoto in the process). Ryoto eventually decides to join them in their fight against the Divine Crusaders and later, the Aerogaters.
After the events of Original Generation, he decides to work for Mao Industries, developing new mecha for them. He was the pilot of the Huckebein MK III, which was first displayed against the Inspectors' Mekibos, and recklessly ordered the docking sequence between the Huckebein MK III and the AM Gunner unit, piloted by Rio Mei Long. Later on, he was also the test pilot for the Boxer module-equipped MK III.
[edit] Notes
In Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars, Ryoto, upon joining the Earth Federation Army, pilots a Gespenst MK II TT, and ends up piloting the Wildschwein after Ingram Prisken's defection.
