Ryūga-verse

The Ryūga-verse is an unofficial term to differentiate the original series and the alternative spin-off, featuring Ryūga Dōgai instead of Kouga Saejima or Raiga Saejima.

Alternative Universe Description

After the end of Makai Flash Knight, The One Who Shines in the Darkness series was created. Originally explained as story in the future, where Kouga no longer wields the Garo armor, it was later clarified in Makai Tales that events featuring Ryūga Dōgai was actually in an alternate universe parallel to that of Saejima family's home universe. It is a world where Kouga never existed and the previous golden knight had died, using his life and the armor's power to stop a great evil. After the Golden Knight died, the armor lost its golden shine and there was no knight to succeed him as the next Garo. This is where the story begins, Ryūga succeeding as the new Garo and then going rouge. Although much about the realm is similar to the original universe, the Horrors had evolved differently and Watch Dogs don't exist--or at least did not in the setting until the events of Gold Storm Flight. The knights are governed by priests, have a different hierarchy of power in their order, and the priests utilize advanced magical technology to help them combat horrors on par with knights.

Chronology

• The One Who Shines in the Darkness
• Gold Storm Flight
• Makai Tales
• Fang of God

Notes & Trivia

• The status of whether the Ryūga-verse is set in the future or in an alternative timeline is still a debated issue; with the alternative timeline being a popular fan-theory; the only thing that has been confirmed from official sources is that The One Who Shines in the Darkness takes place in the 2200's. Gold Storm Flight also confirmed that the Abnormal Horrors previously seen were not the standard Horrors seen of the Ryūga-verse, as they went back to utilizing the Standard Inga-Horrors previously seen in the original series, showing there was also no true evolution within them. Mistranslations of the Makai Tales episode featuring a teamup between Rekka and Rian into English have not helped this matter, as depending on the preferred translator either 'time' or 'world' were used simultaneously to refer to dialogue about the place and period by which both of the respective characters belonged to. This is not helped by the episode in question because the teamup was facilitated through the actions of the Horror Eyrith, whose ability to affect time is confirmed in The Makai Flower to not be able to affect alternative universes at all, but only the timeline she exists within. To date there has been no official confirmation concerning the relation between the Ryuga-content and the Saejima timeline.
  • Taking into the account of Garo's powers, Makai Order's capacity in secrecy, portrayal of Watch Dogs, and Lost Soul Beast however, it's obvious that Ryuga-verse series and Original Series unlikely set in same universe in spite of sharing same lore and settings: In addition of Makai Order being more competent when it comes to secrecy and approachable Watch Dogs, it was shown that Garo's power is quite different between continuities and Makai Knights in Ryuga-verse shown able to maintain their armored form for longer than 99.9 seconds depend on the situation as long as their armor not overloaded by malevolence, something their Original Universe counterparts incapable to do due to risk of Lost Soul Beast transformation.