Riza Wildman

Riza Wildman (リザ·ワイルドマン, Riza Wairudoman), is both a fictional character and protagonist of the Rosario + Resurrection series created by Akihisa Ikeda and Yasunori Mitsunaga. She is teenage tomboyish half-breed human/werewolf girl.

She is the daughter of the werewolf Volg Wildman and an unnamed human mother, raised by her brother under the ideals of being a honorable werewolf clan. Riza appears to have romantic feelings for Hiro more than Tsukune.

She at first believes that her older brother was murdered by Princess and Moka, but later reconciles with them when she learns what really happened. In order to find who in the Royalty tricked her brother, she stays with and become the servant of the Princess.

She also initially disliked Reiri due to their opposing natures, but gradually got along with the vampire. Though arrogant, she is desensitized towards violence and is not above killing an opponent with various weapons suited for the scenario.

"I am Riza Wildman, daughter of the great warrior, Volg Wildman!"
 * —Riza Wildman, her recurring catchphrase.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Luci Christian (English), Yuuko Kaida (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

Human Form
Riza is a year younger than Princess. She has short, bright red hair and the golden eyes of the pure breed werewolves. She wears cargo pants (green in anime), military boots, and a fitting short black top that gives her a large amplitude of movement and covers her breasts while revealing her midriff belly, and toned abs. She has slightly tanned skin. She has sharp teeth canines, though not as prominent as the fangs of a vampire. Riza also appears to be kind of hot. She is also known as a tomboy.

Monster Form
Being of mixed blood, she can't transform her full body like a pure breed, but can transform her ears (she spouts them in anime while retaining her human ears) and arms up to the elbow (Hiro and several others have noticed that her paws are "squishy", much to her embarrassment). During a full moon, she has slit pupils and receives a huge power-up.


 * Hair Color: Bright Red
 * Skin Color: Slightly Tan
 * Eye Color: Golden
 * Age: 16
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
She is a rash, short-tempered, tomboyish, headstrong, tough, flirtatious, carless, and physical girl. She enjoys fast vehicles (much to Tskune and Hiro's dismay) and is also easily annoyed by Reiri.

Because she is part of a honorable werewolf clan she dislikes using weapons, sneak attacks and insists on facing her enemies in a certain duel-like fashion, when fighting other werewolves she first states her and her father's full name and expects her opponent to do the same. She is very proud of her clan and her status as a werewolf warrior.

Riza is a very tenacious fighter, as she never retreats from a fight no matter how strong her opponent is, for she claim that retreating would be "cowardly and honorless". Although being smarter than pure-blood werewolves due to her mind being more human, she isn't good at using tactics. In battle, she always charges in head-on and tries to power through everything through physical strength.

Riza is not embarrassed easily, as she has no problem being naked in front of everyone after Hiro accidentally removed her panties, leaving her half-naked. She however, gets flustered (and irritated) when people (usually, and especially Reiri) talks to her about Hiro and when Reiri uses him to tease her, suggesting that she is also emotional, compassionate at times, and has a soft spot for him.

Friends/Allies

 * Hiro Hiyorimi
 * Tsukune Aono
 * Princess
 * Moka Akashiya
 * Flandre
 * Kurumu Kurono
 * Yukari Sendou
 * Reiri Kamura
 * Mizore Shirayuki
 * Sawawa Hiyorimi

Family

 * Volg Wildman (father; deceased)
 * unnamed human mother (deceased)
 * Lobo Wildman (older half-brother; deceased)

Neutral

 * Keziah Bold

Rivals

 * Reiri Kamura

Enemies

 * Gyokuro Shuzen
 * Alucard
 * Akua and Kahlua Shuzen
 * Fairy Tale
 * Kuyou
 * Lady Oyakata

Abilities and Powers
Although she is a half-breed, she's still significantly stronger than an average human, being able to lift a truck with ease. Although physically weak compared to pure-blood werewolves, she had defeated many pure-blood opponents throughout the series. The reason behind that is often credited to her having more fighting experience and the fact that her brain is more "human" and can thus learn things quicker.

Like pure-blood werewolves, she has heightened hearing and sense of smell. It appears that for her to activate her hearing, she has to transform (Manga or OVA) or sprout out (Anime) her werewolf ears on top of her head. So far she is shown to be invincible (or at least much more resilient) under a full moon.

Powers

 * Half-Breed Lycanthropy: As a hybrid, possessing superhuman strength and senses while less physically powerful compared to a full-blooded werewolf, Riza can turn her forearms into large wolf paws while practically invincible under the light of a full moon.
 * Immense Speed: When in come in speed Riza is the one of the bests, she using it as an advantage to her enemy.
 * Enhanced Strength: When she was brought into prison it is revealed that she is stronger than the highest ranking werewolf that was imprisoned there and she was able to kill a strong pureblood vampire despite not relying on the moons power, being the result of being an experienced fighter with her human nature allowing her to adapt to any situation for an advantage over stronger enemies.
 * Immense Agility:
 * Immense Reflexes:
 * Enhanced Stamina:
 * Enhanced Durability:
 * Physical Endurance:
 * Claws and Fangs:
 * Regenerative Healing Factor:
 * Lunacy: When the moon is in full form her werewolf abilities will increase.
 * Transformation: By transforming her arms into a big, white wolf paws with five fingers, she fights her enemies in a close combat.

Abilities

 * Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:
 * Teamworker:

Past
The fact that Volg had a daughter with a human is well known among the werewolves, though many don't know Riza's identity until she states her name. Growing up under the great warrior Volg Wildman, Riza took pride in being a werewolf warrior herself. She was very close to her brother and grew to become very proud of her family. However, she lost all her relatives and the only one left is her brother Lobo Wildman but later die in order to protect her.

Translation and Dub Issues

 * Her name was renamed to "Liza Wildman" in the English dub.

Notes & Trivia

 * Riza is the only member of the Wildman family whose first name does not mean wolf, or has anything to do with it.