Ryuji Sakamoto vs. Uzu Sanageyama is a What-If Death Battle created by Mrsalt05. This fan-made Death Battle features Ryuji Sakamoto from Persona against Uzu Sanageyama from Kill la Kill.
Description[]
Past the hardened exterior of these club-wielding delinquents is a heart of gold, and a single-minded devotion to the cause of justice. But who is man enough to come out swinging... or go down swinging?
Introduction[]
Wiz: Some of the world's favorite heroes are motivated by selfishness. They may proclaim justice with a smile, but they're really just in it for power and status.
Boomstick: And on the opposite end of the spectrum, you have the teenage jerks you'd hate to see outside your local convenience store, who might just be the real heroes striving to reform society.
Wiz: Like Ryuji Sakamoto, the Phantom Thieves' delinquent bruiser from Persona.
Boomstick: And Uzu Sanageyama, Honnouji's Athletic Committee chair from Kill la Kill. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a DEATH BATTLE!
RYUJI SAKAMOTO[]
Wiz: We may live in different nations, belong to different cultures, and be born into entirely different circumstances, but one thing remains true around the world. You had... that one gym teacher.
Boomstick: For Ryuji Sakamoto, that teacher was Suguru Kamoshida, former Olympic volleyball player and current dickweed-in-residence at Shujin Academy. Once he got hired, his megalomania compelled him to ensure that his volleyball team was the only competitive team at Shujin. For Ryuji, the track captain, that meant spreading rumors about his abusive, walkout dad.
Wiz: Ryuji confronted Kamoshida, attacking him in a fit of anger.
Boomstick: Pro tip: Don't do that to professional athletes.
Wiz: With Ryuji's leg broken, the track team demoralized to the point of splitting up, and his reputation ruined, it looked like Kamoshida had won until a mysterious stranger arrived in town, and mistakenly dragged Ryuji into a nightmare world ruled by Kamoshida's cognition of himself. In his twisted mind, he was the king of the castle that was Shujin, and the awakening of a strange cognitive realm, called the Metaverse, allowed him to project it onto reality. However, just as Kamoshida's cognitive guards were about to attack and kill Ryuji and the new arrival, he discovered a way to fight back.
(Ryuji rips his Skull mask off, and Captain Kidd looms over him. He looks into the camera with a wolfish smile.)
Ryuji: Right on... Wassup, Persona?
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BACKGROUND
- Name: Ryuji Sakamoto
- Age: 18
- Alias: Skull
- Second-in-command of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts
- Likes: Swearing, ramen, graphic tees
- Dislikes: Shitty adults, Morgana
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Boomstick: Alongside his mute new friend of uncertain origin, Ryuji awakened to his Persona: a manifestation of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and convictions. Guess Ryuji had a pirate phase... as a Kidd.
Wiz: This is Captain Kidd, or William, as he's known in his most powerful form. He was born from Ryuji's desire to strike back against the untouchable adults like Kamoshida that had ruined his life, not unlike his friend's, which named itself after the fictional gentleman thief Arsene Lupin.
Popup: The actual Captain William Kidd was a Scottish privateer, executed after English popular opinion turned against the institution in the 1690s. A legend states that his gold is buried somewhere in Connecticut, in the United States.
Boomstick: Persona users can treat Palaces like playgrounds, because they're afforded awesome power in the mental world. William specializes in electric magic and explosive physical power - sometimes literally, like with God's Hand, a skill that launches a fist-shaped missile! Also, he's got a freakin' sweet ride. I wonder if Ryuji ever gets to ride around in there.
Wiz: If he could do that, I don't think he'd be slumming it in a van made out of a cat.
Boomstick: Brrr. I never liked that part of Totoro.
Wiz: William's most powerful skills do consume Ryuji's stamina to use, but he's got an economic solution too. He wouldn't be an anime delinquent if he couldn't beat you up with a pipe -
Boomstick: - and if that doesn't work, he's packing some serious heat! Oh my God, we're finally covering a character that carries a boomstick around! I think I'm tearin' up...
Popup: Thanks to Japan's strict gun laws, Ryuji uses toy guns. The Metaverse's cognition-altering properties make them functional.