In the character name, his name is typically written in Katakana due to shared heritage, living and being prominent abroad, despite being born in Japan.
Ryo Sakazaki in The King of Fighters XIV render
Ryo Sakazaki is the main protagonist in Art of Fighting, forming the first half of the Japanese series's namesake as the The Invincible Dragon. His name is frequently written in katakana; earlier games used to write his name in kanji.
In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Ryo was voted as the staff's twenty-fourth favorite character. He shared the spot with Sie Kensou and Toru Kurosawa, a character from Sega's Last Bronx. In the Neo Geo Freak's 1997 Volume 8 character poll, he was voted as the seventeenth favorite character with a total of 602 votes. And in a 2005 poll made by SNK-Playmore USA, he was voted as the fifth fan favorite character with a total of 193 votes. Both Nobuyuki Kuroki and Youichiro Soeda have Ryo as their favorite character from the Art of Fighting series.
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