Stanford Duganzich

Stanford Vidušin-Duganzich, mostly known by the pseudonym Ryu Aoba, is a Malichkan singer-songwriter, EDM producer and actor residing in Tokyo, Japan, a member of the Malichkan Royal Family, and the son of ex-Prime Minister and film director Marko Duganzich and Duchess of Devetzmajev, Marjetka Vidušin. He is known for his fictional character's perpetually edgy personality and his anime-inspired stage-appearance.

He is often known as the "King of M-Pop".

Early life and rise to fame
Stanford was born on May 14th 1991 to his father Marko and mother Marjetka, Duchess of Devetzmajev. He was an avid fan of his father's movies and even made him a costume of the main protagonist of his then-latest film, Mario, when he went out trick or treating for the first time in 1997.

In 2004 Marjetka and Marko divorced. Marjetka and Stanford then moved to Tokyo in neighboring Japan. There, Marjetka gave him singing lessons for a year until 2005, when he made his first appearance on RTVM Kids as a host of the show The Cat Twins.

Career
In 2008, Stanford returned to Dvoreki with Marjetka. There she started writing songs for Stanford (that would last until 2015 when he started writing his own songs under the pseudonym Ryu Aoba). In 2015, he adopted the pseudonym Ryu Aoba and changed his style of attire, now wearing more "edgy" anime-inspired clothes, almost like the character Kaneki Ken from the Tokyo Ghoul manga. He also dyed his hair white and was never seen without his signature cybernetic eye prop.

An amusement park, Cyberpunk City, based on his fictional character, was built in 12 Decembra, a small town not far from Svetijurij, and opened in 2019. An animated film featuring his fictional character was also made by state broadcaster RTVM's film production division the same year.

After winning Song of the Year at the 2021 Malichka Music Awards with the song "Prebujena", he is set to host the 2020 edition alongside newsreader Marija Kocijančič and rapper-DJ Antun Lam.

Fictional character
Ryu Aoba is an anime character from Tokyo, Japan. He is cybernetically-enhanced and consequently has a cybernetic right eye that glows red. He perpetually wears a black undershirt, black gloves, a black leather jacket, black leggings, black leather boots, and his character wields pistols, a sniper, an AK-47 rifle and a few grenades.