Dragon Crisis

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 Dragon Crisis! ( Doragon Kuraishisu!) is a Japanese light novel series by Kaya Kizaki, with illustrations by Itsuki Akata. As of April 2011, thirteen volumes have been published by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko imprint. An anime adaptation by Studio Deen aired in 2011.



 Plot
 The protagonist, a 15 year old male named Kisaragi Ryuuji, is in his first year of High School as a normal student. His parents are treasure hunters (for artifacts known as “Lost Precious”) and as such are never home, leaving Ryuuji alone. One day, his 19 year old cousin, Nanao Eriko, comes back from studying abroad. She abducts him from class, and brings him with her to steal a crate from a mafia-like trade deal. Ryuuji’s life is being turned upside down, and he isn’t even given time to breath. When the open the crate, they are amazed to discover a girl, who looks to be around 14 years of age, in the crate. She has golden-yellow hair, and eyes as blue as a clear sky. She seems entranced with Ryuuji, and won’t leave him be, whether it be making food in the kitchen, watching TV, or even taking a shower or going to sleep! After some searching in her Organization’s database, Eriko finds out that this girl is a “Dragon,” a creature from fairy tales. The give away is the scale-like red mark on her hand, shaped like a flower. Thus they name the girl “Rose.” Soon, Eriko’s Organization, “Society,” and the group they stole the girl from, “Fang,” begin aiming for Rose. Ryuuji will have to overcome his pain and bring himself to fight

Characters

Ryuji Kisaragi
 The 15 year old protagonist. Ryūji's parents are "Lost Precious" hunters like the rest of his family and they never take care of him, as such he lives mostly on his own. He does not know why Rose knows him. It is indicated that they have met each other years ago, when Rose saved Ryuji from an untimely death. Ryuji has a vague memory of when he was younger and saw Rose hatch from her egg in front of his eyes. Ryūji is a level 10 breaker, said to be the highest level of breakers who go to find/use lost precious. Besides Ryūji, there are seven other level 10 breakers in the world, all older than he is. Later, he is recognized by some of the other dragons as Rose's fiancée, but this is due to a misunderstanding. He truly has feelings for Rose and does care about her, but has yet to be confirmed. This is evident when he first "Engaged" with Rose, which allows him to borrow Rose's power and achieve unbelievable power. He desperately hates frogs to be scared at them from the mere sight of one (episode 8 near the end). He also begins to feel embarrassed around Rose once he performed the dragon's coming of age ceremony with Rose (which was simply kissing the dragon scale birthmark on her hand).

Rose
Little is known about Rose beyond that she is a young dragon, and thus still unable to change her form. When she is first released from the case the crime syndicate "Fang" were transporting her in she knows nothing but Ryūji's name, but soon picks up a few words. Since she could not communicate, or didn't know her name, Ryūji gives her the name Rose because the dragon scales on the back of her left hand look like a rose. Rose is aggressive towards nearly everyone, except Ryūji to whom she clings so much to that she will sleep beside him in his bed. She does love Ryūji deeply, but still wonders if Ryūji does care about her feelings. 


Eriko Nanao
Ryūji's busty 19 year old second cousin. She has been studying abroad for some time but returns to Japan to intercept a "Lost Precious" that "Fang" will be transporting through the city docks. Despite the danger of taking anything that "Fang" believes is theirs she does not back down because she believes the contents, which she suspects to be an S rank "Lost Precious", will prove her worth to the other "Lost Precious" hunters. Initially unable to identify what or whom Rose is, she is shocked when she discovers that Rose is a Red Dragon.



Misaki Ito
Ryūji's classmate. She has feelings for Ryūji, but is shy whenever she is around Ryūji, making it hard for her to approach him casually and express her feelings. She is in shock after misunderstanding Ryūji and Rose being engaged. She seems a bit strange after taking a photo of Ryūji's x-ray during the interview on her cellphone, she may be the stalker type.



 

Maruga
Another dragon Ryuji' met during his trip to the beach. She is the princess of the ice dragons. Initially she has a haughty attitude towards Ryuji, but she warms up towards him eventually. It is implied she likes Ryuji, as she blushes when Ryuji is around. She asks Ryuji for a favor, taking back a cursed precious, from another level 10 Breaker, George Evans. After the incident, she shows up in the last 2 episodes of the anime, where she convinced Ryuji to go save Rose. The black dragon, Onyx, used to live in her land, they have known each other since childhood.

Ai
Another Dragon Ruji met. nitially she has a haughty attitude towards Ryuji, but she warms up towards him eventually. It is implied she likes Ryuji, as she blushes when Ryuji is around.