Rena Ryuuguu

Rena Ryuuguu, also known as Reina, Cleaver Girl, Cute Mode, Take Home Mode and Girl A, is one of the main characters from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series.
==Charactah Account==
A girl who returned from Ibaraki to Hinamizawa one year ago, and she is in same grade level as Keiichi. She has an obsession with things she perceives as cute, whether they're actually adorable or butt-ugly. Every now and then, she goes treasure hunting in the town's trash heap, searching for "cute" things to collect, and upon finding something "cute", it's difficult to stop her from taking it home. Despite this disarming trait, Rena is shown to be amazingly observant and perceptive about the things around her. According to Mion, while Rena might seem cute herself, people should be careful not to anger her as she becomes quite scary. She is especially sensitive about the topic of Oyashiro-sama, who she fears will curse her for leaving Hinamizawa.
Rena initially is sweet and friendly by nature, but she can be quite scary when threatened or angry. Certain situations in the story cause her personality to change dramatically. In Onikakushi-hen, she reacts strongly to one of Keiichi's remarks with the infamously deafeningly loud "Uso da!. Though part of her extreme reaction may be imagined by Keiichi who is suffering from the Hinamizawa Syndrome in this arc, Rena's reaction strongly suggests that she does hate lies, especially from friends.
Along with her intuition, Rena proves capable of becoming quite cunning and viciously cruel when she is determined, especially in Minagoroshi-hen and Tsumihoroboshi-hen. She was able to intimidate both the village council and the Child Welfare staff with her eyes and words easily, rarely losing emotional control like Keiichi and Sonozaki Shion both frequently did. During the last Watanagashi meeting of the village council, Rena gets into a violent fistfight with one of the elders. Keiichi often calls her the "quiet, blue flame that burns silently," referring to her capability of becoming incredibly powerful when push comes to shove, despite her seemingly girly and airheaded personality; in such situations, Rena will always be the instigator of and the most bluntly offensive in the fight, as observed in many instances; by Shion in Meakashi-hen and Minagoroshi-hen ("I wonder how you were in Ibaraki. You don't even hesitate to attack people!"), Keiichi in Watanagashi-hen, and Furude Rika in Minagoroshi-hen. Rena can also fiercely and successfully retort in a very sharp and biting way when involved in a heated debate. 
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Specials
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Special: Nekogoroshi-hen
===Light Novels===
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Dai 1-wa: Onikakushi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Dai 2-wa: Watanagashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Dai 3-wa: Tatarigoroshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gaiden: Nekogoroshi-hen
===Manga===
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Matsuribayashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Meakashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Minagoroshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Tsumihoroboshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Hoshiwatashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Oniokoshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Hirukowashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kataribanashi-hen Comic Anthology EX
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kokoroiyashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen
*Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi Crying
===Video Games===
*Higurashi Daybreak
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jong
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daiichikan Tatari
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Dainikan Sou
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daisankan Rasen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daiyonkan Kizuna
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Matsuribayashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Meakashi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tsumihoroboshi-hen
*Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
*Higurashi When They Cry Hou
*SINoALICE
*Super Heroine Chronicle
==Trivia==
*Even though she is usually depicted using her iconic pointy nata/hatchet in all adaptations of Onikaku-hen, in the Sound Novels she is described to be using a normal axe.
*Just behind Rika, Rena has the second most expanded-upon backstory.
*She has a half-sibling, born from her mother's affair with Akihito, though Rena has never shown any interest in her, after severing all ties with her mother
**In Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei, it was revealed that this half-sister is Hōtani Nao
*Prior to the release of Gou and Sotsu, Rena has the highest number of murders because in the alternate version of Tsumihorobo-hen, Yoigoshi-hen, she successfully blows up the whole school which killed 15 to 25 children (depending on the adaptation), including herself, Mion, Satoko, Rika and Keiichi. She also murders Hōjō Teppei and Mamiya Rina in Tsumihorobo-hen and Mion and Keiichi in Tsukioto-hen. Multiple murders of the same person do not count towards the total.
*Rena survives in more arcs than any other main character: Watanagashi-hen, Meakashi-hen, Matsuribayashi-hen, and, at least in the anime version, Tsumihorobo-hen.
*Reina: "Rei" can mean 0 and "Na," from "nana" can mean 7 which possibly references the author's pseudonym: Ryukishi07. This may also explain why Rena appears the signature character of the series. 4chan's anime boards and Japanese image threads celebrated "Rena Day" on July 7, 2007 (07/07/07), by flooding Rena pictures.
*Rena's real name "Reina" is also the Spanish word for "queen".
*Cleaver?: fans debate whether the item she finds in the town's trash heap (anime) or a tool shed (manga and visual novels) is a cleaver, billhook, cane knife, or a hatchet. The popular term is "cleaver"; however, the more accurate term would be nata: a gardening tool used for clearing brush, though it generally does not have the spike on the end that Rena's tool does.
*Rena's catchphrase "I wonder, I wonder?" (Kana, kana?) is homophonous with "kanakana", an alternative name for the Higurashi cicada based on the sound it makes.
*In addition to the 07 implication of Rena's name, it has been pointed out that both her real name and her nickname are the same as the Final Fantasy V character Lenna Charlotte Tycoon's Japanese names. In the game, Lenna's name is "Rena,". In the FFV anthology, Lenna's name is "Reina."
*Mamiya Rina and Rena's first names, identical with the exception of the vowel, could be considered the two halves of the name "Reina," in which "Rena" is the proper, untainted half of the name and "Rina" is the epitome and physical existence of all the "icky things" and the bad experiences in Ibaraki.
*In the English version, Rena is the only character who acknowledges Oyashiro-sama as female. This may be because she remembers hearing Oyashiro-sama (Hanyuu) speak to her. In Japanese, in which talking about someone without mentioning their gender is easy, Oyashiro-sama is not referred to as either male or female. It is worth noting that this only happens in Matsuribayashi-hen, after the reader is aware of Hanyū's existence, and that this is not the case in Rena's flashbacks in Tsumihorobo-hen.
*Rena often speaks and writes in third-person, but mentally, she speaks normally in first-person. Where this habit came from is unknown, but she has had it ever since she was very young.
*In Tsumihorobo-hen TIP "The Demon's Script" and Reunion, Rena is referred to as "Girl A" by the police, as Japanese law prohibits disclosure of the names of minors involved in criminal cases. The identities of both the culprit and the victim of the Sasebo slashing are still officially unknown, albeit popular topics of Internet speculation. The law is not without its critics: Weekly Bunshun magazine declared that "monsters have no human rights" and published the alleged new names of the murderers of Junko Furuta.
*It is revealed in the Tsumihorobo-hen manga that Rena goes grocery shopping with Keiichi's mother. It can be deduced that this is how she knew the type of instant noodles Keiichi eats in Onikaku-hen.
*In Onikaku-hen, Detective Ōishi mentions to Keiichi that during her hospitalization, Rena was diagnosed with dysautonomia by a neurologist. Dysautonomias, systemic dysfunctions of the autonomic nervous system that manifest primarily in symptoms like lightheadedness/dizziness; heart palpitations; and changes in body temperature, do not explain Rena's violence or mental state during the incident at her school in Ibaraki. Moreover, though dysautonomia starts in the nervous system, the diverse bodily symptoms make a neurologist somewhat less likely to diagnose a dysautonomia than a physiologist or a cardiologist.
*Despite being her signature weapon, in the Sound Novels and the manga Rena never uses her nata to lethal effect in the "core" arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni and Kai. She commits all of her murders with other weapons. However, in the anime adaptation of Tsumihorobo-hen she uses the nata to kill Hōjō Teppei, while in the Sound Novel and the manga she uses a broad ax for that purpose.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Ryūgū Rena at Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Wiki
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