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Return of the Killer Deach
Yeah, it's that original sonofabitch Ryuji Takayama. The ultimate villian of the Ring story, who conspired to and succesfully brought about the destruction of the human race. His reasons for doing so are logical, though evil to the core. The second and 'good' Ryuji Takayama, AKA Karou, is the hero of the Ring story.
Have you read Spiral & Loop yet, Gare?
I hope Koji writes a fifth installment to the story, Loop didn't explain how Sadako came to exist in the Loop word, or even what happened to her after the second Ryuji Takayama was reborn to save both the real world and the Loop Project world. Sure, the hero Ryuji stopped the destruction of the human race, as far as I can tell, but it doesn't say what happened to Masako, the reborn Sadako.
There is a manga called Happy Birthday which I saw while I was in Tokyo, which tells of what happened aftr the events in Loop (Ring 3), but still, even though the original and evil Ryuji's and Sadako's scheme had been revealed, it still feels like there's a few loose ends. I still get the feeling, because of the mysterious existance of Sadako and evil Ryuji, that some other force is at work, possibly in the real world (since it's theorized that Sadako is a computer virus that infected the virtual world Loop where the events of the first two stories took place), that still has a card up their sleave. And, like I said, even though the Sadako race was killed off as I can tell, nothing is said about what happened to Masako.