Ryan's World, formerly Ryan ToysReview, is a YouTube channel, launched in March 2015, which stars a then-preschooler cheery little child, Ryan Kaji, unboxing and reviewing toys.
Seems boring to you? Guess again. He was considered the youngest YouTube celebrity
and his channel is tenth most viewed (46 billion!) in the world, thanks to children being the Target Audience and getting their hands on technology more frequently than ever. The channel has set the Guinness World Record for the most viewed YouTube channel starring someone born post-2000. No, seriously. In other words, the Trope Codifier of children's toy review channels on YouTube.
Besides toy unboxing videos, he also stars in videos showing him in playtime, visiting fun points of interests, doing harmless challenges, making DIY things, and performing Edutainment. There are animations and children's songs to watch too. Pretty entertaining for a child to watch and love.
Ryan's World has spawned a Franchise of the same name, owned by pocket.watch and complete with its own toy line and currently 8 Spin-Off channels:
- Kaji Family, formely Ryan's Family Review, is a vlog channel, launched in November 2016, showcasing the daily life of and fun moments in Ryan and his family. The channel also used to be a host for Ryan's Lets Plays, with Roblox being played usually, until VTubers (see below) was launched.
- Gus the Gummy Gator is a Puppet Show and Vlog Series, launched in February 2017, featuring a gummy-loving alligator, Gus, who does entertaining activities, participates in songs and stories, and does Lets Plays occassionally. In short words, it's Ryan ToysReview but with an alligator puppet starring.
- Combo Panda is a Let's Play and Video Game review channel, launched in August 2017, starring an animated self-proclaimed "hardcore" gamer panda.
- The Studio Space is a channel, launched in February 2018, showcasing behind the scenes,
Bloopers, and Ryan having fun in the office. - VTubersnote is a duel Let's Play channel, launched in March 2018, branching off Combo Panda with Combo Panda himself, Ryan, Ryan's parents, Gus the Gummy Gator, Big Gil and Peck the Penguin from Gus the Gummy Gator, and a new Virtual Celebrity, Alpha Lexa.
- EK Doodles is a Web Stick Figure Animation series, launched in August 2018, following the adventures of Ryan's twin sisters, Emma and Kate.
View the channel here, as well as Ryan's Family Review, Gus the Gummy Gator, Combo Panda, Princess Squad, Life Sisters, The Studio Space, VTubers, and EK Doodles. The official website is here.
In December 2018, Ryan's World and pocket.watch collaborated with WildWorks of Animal Jam fame to create an Endless Running Mobile Phone Game, Tag with Ryan, which is pretty much Animal Jam's Dash Tag but with Ryan's World characters.
In 2019, he started production on his own TV show called Ryan's Mystery Playdate, created and produced by pocket.watch. The show follows Ryan and his parents completing challenges and solving puzzles to gather hints in order to unbox their Mystery Playdate, a "Sesame Street" Cred. The trailer is here and you can (legally) watch the first episode here.
A licensed Mascot Racer title, Race with Ryan, debuted on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in November 2019.
In 2020, another television show based on Ryan's World was announced, a live-action/anime show called Super Spy Ryan, for Amazon Kids Plus+. His Superpowered Alter Ego, Red Titan, was also represented as a balloon in the 2020 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. From 2022-2023, Graphinica would collaborate with the channel for three mini anime arcs; Arctic Adventures, Island Adventures and Ninja Adventures.
Please note that this page will never be complete, thanks to a load of videos being uploaded daily. Feel free to put some tropes in.
Welcome to Ryan's Trope Review!:
Tropes for the other channels
- A Day in the Limelight: Extreme Spicy Noodle Challenge is only done by Ryan's parents. Justified, since too much spicy food can be harmful to a young child's health.
- Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation: "Daddy the Bunny" is simply a retelling of how Ryan's parents met, set in a World Of Funny Animal rabbits.
- Be Yourself: The lesson of "Daddy the Bunny", in which Daddy and Mommy are made fun of, because the former is a video game and anime Geek and the latter has two tails that glows in the sun.
- Bumbling Dad: When it comes to trivia challenges, Daddy gets a lot of the answers wrong.
- Captain Ersatz: Ryan does not meet Pac-Man in "Pac-Man in Real Life meets Ryan!!!!". He meets Gus the Gummy Gator's head who resembles Pac-Man.
- Cheerful Child: Ryan is often this. Just look at a random video and you'll see.
- Defanged Horrors: DO NOT MAKE FLUFFY SLIME AT 3am or 3pm! and Do not spin a fidget spinner at 3am or 3pm!note , with an obviously fake Bedsheet Ghost in former and Tyrannosaurus Rex in the latter.
- Distressed Dude: Dad in Ryan saves daddy with magical wand
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Just compare the first video, along with some other early videos, to the recent videos. You'll see that the production and effort put into the videos have improved A LOT.
- Edutainment: Some of the videos are meant to educate children about various things. An example involving learning Spanish and Japanese with animals.
- The Game Plays You: In "Pac-Man In Real Life meets Ryan", Ryan is playing Pac-Man on his iPad. The iPad starts to electrocute and a Gus the Gummy Gator version of Pac-Man comes to life. Daddy does this again and oh no...
- Finger Muzzle: Dr. Ion does this to Peck after the latter asks a question in "Learn About Constellations".
- Kid Hero: Ryan is this in some of the playtime videos and all of the animations.
- Large Ham: Mommy uses her loud yet sugary voice a lot, particularly when it comes to hosting the challenges and games.
- Mall Santa: Ryan meets one at Disney World in Ryan and Babies first time meeting the real Santa Claus at Disney.note
- Mr. Imagination: This is natural to any child, including Ryan. He expresses this in some videos, which makes them come to real life with special effects.
- Now, Buy the Merchandise: Ever since Ryan ToysReview got his own toyline, the franchise, Ryan's World, has been doing this.
- {{Phonýmon}}: The beginning of "Ryan open RARE POKEMON CARDS with Family!!" has Combo Panda open a pack of Pokemon cards, with the one card he picks being "Ryanchu", a fusion of Ryan and Pikachu.
- Pixellation: The videos apply blurs to people who did not oblige to appear in the video, such as Ryan in New York Times Square.
- Please Subscribe to Our Channel: At the end of every video, Ryan will ask the viewer to subscribe to his channel "for more videos".
- Product Placement: Since this is a successful toy review channel, expect some videos to be toy commercials paid by the toy manufacturers.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: All of the videos, including the Spin-Off channels, use royalty free music. They even cover up the game audio during Let's Play videos.
- Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: The video "How to Tie-Dye with Marker on Clothes with Ryan's World!" focuses on how red clothes make white clothes pink when washed, and how to tie-die clothing.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: These three Halloween songs show Ryan and his parents among animated characters and puppets.
- Shaped Like Itself: Ryan ToysReview now has a toy line.
- Sick Episode: Sick Kid with fever!
- Spoiled Brat: Defied. His mother states that most of the toys reviewed are given away to friends, family, and, of course, charity.
- Time Travel Episode: The video "Dinosaurs Took Ryan's GAME ON Combo Panda PRiZE!" is this.
- Trapped in TV Land: In the episode "Ryan Challenged Dr. Ion for a Game ON adventure!", Combo Panda rage quits at a video game, causing him to throw his controller at the TV, and then getting trapped in the video game.
- Unnamed Parent: Ryan's parents are only referred to "Mommy" and "Daddy". However, VTubers reveal their names as Loann (Mom) and Shion (Dad).
Let's PlayNOTE: Since the launch of VTubers, Kaji Family no longer uploads Lets Plays. Please only include tropes that have appeared in Let's Plays posted on Kaji Family, not tropes that only appeared in Ryan's videos on VTubers.
- Age-Inappropriate Art: Ryan plays Zombie Attack on Roblox, with realistic guns and Family-Unfriendly Violence.
- Cutaway Gag: These videos are CHOCK-FULL of them, that we would need a separate page to list all of them.
Animations
- Alternate-History Dinosaur Survival: In "Arctic Adventures: Episode 2", dinosaurs are revealed to have survived until the Ice Age, when they froze into ice. They can be brought back to life when the ice is thawed.
- Alternate Tooniverse: Ryan can jump through the Television Portal and into an animated universe, where Gus the Gummy Gator and Combo Panda live.
- Angry Guard Dog: In "Ryan Helps Santa Delivering Presents", when the gang lands in China, an angry Shih Tzu, Ella, barks at Moe. He takes care of it by stuffing the present in her mouth. Subverted, as she only barks and doesn't attack.
- Animals Not to Scale: The VTubers aren't exactly realistically sized in comparison to one another. The most exaggerated example is Packrat being about one-foot tall, which is very large for a hamster in real life.
- Christmas Episode: "Ryan Helps Santa Delivering Presents"
- Crossdresser: Played for Laughs in "Ryan Kids Halloween Trick or Treat to the Haunted House", with Moe dressed up as a fairy
- Eggshell Clothing: In "Ryan ToysReview Rescue Baby T-Rex", the baby Tyrannosaur Rex wears an eggshell as a diaper.
- Flight: Emma and Kate are able to fly in their superhero alter egos.
- Halloween Episode: "Ryan Kids Halloween Trick or Treat to the Haunted House"
- Kid Hero: Ryan, of course. Twin sisters, Emma and Kate, become one in "Ryan Emma and Kate Save Valentine".
- Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: The animations, except for the intro, where Gus calls Ryan on a mission, and occasional voices Gus makes.
- Pirate: Ryan and company becomes this in "Ryan Pirate Adventure Cartoon", with a goal to find treasure with a Treasure Map.
- Stick Figure Animation: "Emma & Kate" animations are presented in this format.
- Super-Strength: As shown with Ryan's superhero alter ego in SUPERHERO KIDDad: Woah, Ryan, what are you doing?Ryan: Ryan Titan, and his superpower is strong.
- The Taming of the Grue: In "Ryan Kids Halloween Trick or Treat to the Haunted House", a Frankestein's Monster, vampire, and werewolf show up at the Haunted House, but choose to compete with the gang in carnival-style games. They end up losing.
- Television Portal: How Ryan enters the Alternate Tooniverse
- Thick-Line Animation: In fact, all Ryan's World animations (read: Gus the Gummy Gator, Combo Panda, VTubers) are in this style.
- Threatening Shark: In "Ryan Pirate Adventure Cartoon", when Gus attempts to retrieve the treasure chest, a shark comes out of the water and tries to eat him. Gus uses a banana as a bait and successfully rides the shark back to the bank.
- Unstoppable Rage: The Heart Monsters in "Ryan Emma and Kate Save Valentine". Unless pleased, they can wreck havoc through their tantrums.
- Valentine's Day Episode: "Ryan Emma and Kate Save Valentine".
