The Ride-on King

The Ride-On King (ライドンキング) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasushi Baba. It serves as a spin-off to Baba's previous series Golosseum [ja]. It began serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine in May 2018. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into ten volumes.

A different world based on Yasushi Baba's previous work "Goloseum", which was published in "Nemesis" up to the 37th issue released in December 2017, and its extra editions "Riding Games 1-3" and "Different World Games". fantasy comics. The catchphrase is "The president, ride in another world!!"

Synopsis
The story focuses on Aleksandr Bruchinov, the president for life of the country of Brugia, a country ruled by violence and the influence of its government. Aleksandr always desires to be dominant, and "ride" things, whether literally or figuratively. Now that he has already ridden his country, his next target is a fantasy world that has orcs, wyverns, and centaurs.

Bibliographic Information
Written and illustrated by Yasushi Baba, the series began serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine on May 26, 2018. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into ten tankōbon volumes.

At Anime Expo 2019, Sol Press announced that they licensed the series for English publication. They released one volume before going defunct.

Character
"A mere truck-kun could never kill me."

- Alexander Purchinov, Ride-On King, Chapter 1. Main character. He is the leader for life who made the Republic of Pursia, a small country in Central Asia, independent from a large country by force of arms. Later he also served as the mayor of Purchinov village.

He is well versed in many martial arts, including the old- fashioned karate of Okinawa, and all of the martial arts he has mastered are Black belts, masters of CQC (close quarters combat), and martial arts bear the name of the president style. Its military strength is at the level of popping up stone pavements and rocks buried in the ground with its quake legs, throwing large trucks on its back, and piercing people's necks with its penetrating hands. He also boasts extraordinary physical ability, such as emitting an enormous amount of magical power in the manner of training his mind, and possessing a body that is impervious to the fangs of the Queen of Demon Wolf. He mainly fights in combat, but his secretary makes him possess a pistol for self-defense, which he uses as necessary. He is called "Shining Wizard" because he can use powerful flash magic. He increases his own weight with the blessing of the Earth God, and also masters the technique of not being overwhelmed by an opponent with an overwhelming physical difference. He is also described as possessing psychic eyes that only mages who live hundreds of years should. In the battle against Edu, who turned into a Dragon Demon, he used his fighting spirit to create a giant arm in order to overturn the difference in reach.

A president who is a little loyal to that desire, feeling blissful in riding on various moving objects, even nations, regardless of whether they are tangible or intangible biomechanism. He has a habit of being shirtless when riding a horse because he feels the wind on his skin. He is considered by Saki and Bell to be a pervert who just wants to ride a monster.

When he repels the attacking terrorists, he is summoned to another world at the moment when the head of his own stone statue breaks and hits directly. The reason why he was sent to another world is unknown at this time, and he decided to enjoy it as his first long vacation since his inauguration as president, riding vacation (Rydon Time). After saving children who had been captured by the Jinba and bandits, he would throw himself into conflicts with the kingdom and the demons. He is called the "Apostle of the Sun God" by the chaos forces and the Beast King.

After crossing over to another world, for some reason, almost everyone he meets criticizes his appearance as a "priest of an evil god (or a fighting monk)," a "slave trader," a "devil statue," and a "Demon king Contrary" to his ferocious appearance, his behavior is gentlemanly, and he always remembers his heart as a fair ruler, helping the weak and crushing the strong. Due to his past war experience, he avoids needless killing, but he also has a ruthless side that is merciless to his villainous people.

When the Beast king was turned into a dungeon by the Demon king (Lich), he received the blessing of Tanash, the god of time and wisdom, from the Beast King Yamdua, and lost the shape of the thunder god's hidden sword and zodiac. He is also entrusted with the title of Eight Crowns and Beast King. With this divine protection, he is able to vividly remember the classes he took as a student and the factories and research facilities he visited, which is useful for domestic affairs.

With Purchinov's own enormous magical power, the friendship power of Tiencozy, the god of friendship, and the power of the Twelve Eight Crowns, it was possible to perform a two-platon combination with Marcellus, but as a person himself, he thought, "Something is wrong." there is

Although the mechanism is unknown, it is the seventh Dragon hole connected to a huge dragon vein, and it is possible to release a large amount of magic essence at once, enough to kill even an ancient dragon. It seems that they came to this planet through a dragon vein, and it is possible to return to Earth in the same way. By damming up the upper reaches of the dragon's vein, the Dragon Cave of Death Valley was housed in its own chakra and succeeded in sealing the miasma. The miasma overflowed when I used my powers, and the stress of not being able to ride for a while caused me to suffer the adverse effects of being temporarily unable to use fighting spirit techniques.

Personality


 * Purchinov possess incredible leadership qualities, qualities that managed to lead his own country independent against all other nations; however, beneath it all, he has an extremely child-like mentality and seeking only to ride on anything he can get his hands upon. Purchinov also does not condone unnecessary killing on criminals, an example can be seen as when every tamers wore an enslavement collar and Saki just wanted to kill them, he answered to go beyond self-defense and causing a massacre as one pleases is unbefitting of someone like him.
 * Another example being after he knocked a Knight Order, the centaur Marcello wanted to deal the killing blow but Purchinov refused and explained to the centaur how he would avoid to kill as much possible due to his life as a president was "a world of daily killing and deception", if he was to die in this new world then it would be a natural outcome.

Abilities
Alexander Purchinov is well versed in many martial arts, including the old-fashioned karate of Okinawa, and all of the martial arts he has mastered are Black belts, masters of CQC (close quarters combat), and martial arts bear the name of the president style. Alexander Purchinov has strength and enormous magical power that is beyond normal humans can do even in the new world, Purchinov is able to defeat any magical beast with only a bare hand. Even though he doesn't use any Physical Enhancement on himself Purchinov is very strong and durable in his own way. Because of this abnormal strength and his hobby to ride with animals or Magical beasts, he can easily tame them and obey his command.

TV commercials

 * On January 9, 2019, a 15-second commercial was released on YouTube in which Joji Nakata acted as narrator and Purchinov. This commercial was also broadcast within the TV anime version of "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" with the same magazine.
 * When the 3rd volume of the book was released in October of the same year, Joji Nakata read out the lines from the narration of each character in the U-NEXT commercial on YouTube.
 * In May 2021, a TV commercial was produced to commemorate the cumulative total of 1 million comics. Sho Hayami is in charge of the narration.

Overseas expansion

 * In September 2019, Kodansha's editor introduced the work to a Russian business partner and asked if it could be published.

Evaluation by others
According to Junko Kuroda, a broadcast writer, this work is the very experience that even if you have doubts about the combination of ingredients, when you actually eat it, it tastes different than you imagined, and a mysterious world spreads out from unexpected combinations. , there was good surprise and laughter. This work, which created a new world by mixing various materials with outstanding drawing skills, has a rich content and is convinced that it is a manga that can be enjoyed over and over again.

Sales
Volume 2 of the book was ranked 8th from May 6th to May 12th, 2019  and 9th from May 13th to May 19th in the weekly sales ranking by COMIC ZIN. When Volume 3 was released, it was ranked 2nd in the same ranking from October 7th to October 13th, and when Volume 4 was released, it was ranked 5th in the same ranking from April 20th to April 26th. When Volume 5 was released, it ranked 6th in the same ranking from December 7th to December 13th, and when Volume 6 was released, it was in the same ranking from May 3rd to May 9th, and fifth from May 3 to May 9.

Reception
In the 2019 Next Manga Award, the series ranked ninth in the print manga category. In the 2020 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook, the series ranked twelfth on the list of the top manga targeted at a male audience. Employees of the Japanese bookstore Honya Club ranked the series as the tenth best manga of 2020.

The series has sold 1.3 million copies.

Koiwai from Manga News praised the illustrations and story, especially for its use of the main character quirkiness. Faustine Lillaz from Planete BD liked the fight scenes and humor, though she worried that the series would have little overarching plot. The columnist for Manga Sanctuary liked the characters and their designs, the action sequences, and the setting, calling it unique among fantasy works.

Collaboration
In December 2019, a collaboration between "Shuumatsu no Valkyrie" and "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" was held, and three collaboration POPs and posters were developed.

In April 2020, in commemoration of the release of Volume 4 of the book, a collaboration illustration with "Isekai Ojisan", which was almost dead and was released on the same day, was released. Both works have in common the theme of "Ojisan x Different World" and the fact that they won the U-NEXT Special Award at the "Next Coming Manga Awards 2019".

External Link

 * The Ride-on King ─ Shounen Sirius Official Website (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Nico Nico Seiga (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Comic Days (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Mangaka Official (@88yasushi) - Twitter
 * The Ride-on King ─ Wikipedia  JP 
 * The Ride-on King ─ Wikipedia EN

Trivia
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