Rei Kiriyama

Rei Kiriyama is the main protagonist from the March Comes in Like a Lion series.
== Charactah Account ==
Rei is a teenage professional shogi player, currently ranked at 5th-dan. He is widely lauded in the shogi community as the fifth shogi player to become a professional in middle school. Using his salary combined with his life savings, he lives in own apartment while juggling between his official matches and high school. By the time the story begins, Rei is also a frequent visitor of the Kawamoto residence, where the family treats him as one of their own despite his initial reluctance to become close with them.
Outside his days with the Kawamoto family, however, Rei has many issues and emotional scars that plague him every day. His social skills leave much to be desired, and he typically spends time in school alone due to his inability to interact with his peers. His biological family's deaths from his early childhood still haunt him, and his strained relationship with his foster family is one of the main reasons of his early independence. Shogi itself is also a primary source of his problems, from problems of the present, such as the stagnation in his climbing of the ranks, to deep-seated issues relating to his past such as the bitterness it has caused between him and his foster siblings. Much of the story involves him coping with these issues and slowly moving past them. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* March Comes in Like a Lion
* March Comes in Like a Lion 2nd Season
* March Comes in Like a Lion: Omnibus Special Episode
=== Manga ===
* March Comes in Like a Lion
== Trivia ==
* Rei was isolated from his peers when he was younger, and he once mentioned that he was usually the target for bullying as a child.
* Rei has never had much in the way of friends, and indeed, even as a young child, his status as a shogi prodigy led him to interact solely with adults and not other people his own age. Of course, Rei's incapability of making friends is informed by the fact that Rei is the point-of-view character and his own outlook on his life.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Rei Kiriyama at March Comes in Like a Lion Wiki
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