From what I´ve seen and read on It´s A Wonderful World, Neku does know hand-to-hand combat. You direct his attacks with the stylus. You can also use it to ´draw´ spells on the screen, like the ring of fire that you talked about. Anyways yeah, he´s a random Japanese kid, but I wouldn´t be surprised.
Rosseau/Luso´s game has been announced to come out on October 25 in Japan. Aside from the fact that Roy´s game hadn´t been released when SSBM came out, he will actually be out over there once SSBB hits the shelves. Again, I´m not saying it´s going to happen, and there are certainly better representatives of Square-Enix than him, but I wouldn´t rule it out.
Rosseau/Luso´s game has been announced to come out on October 25 in Japan. Aside from the fact that Roy´s game hadn´t been released when SSBM came out, he will actually be out over there once SSBB hits the shelves. Again, I´m not saying it´s going to happen, and there are certainly better representatives of Square-Enix than him, but I wouldn´t rule it out.