Rina Minagawa

Rina Minagawa (, Minagawa Rina) is a character featured in Lost Judgment. She is a member of the motorcycle gang Made in Heaven and the leader of the Raging Angels, its all-women faction.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Minagawa is a goth woman who wears white foundation on her face to make her skin paler, has her hair dyed white and wears both thick black eyeliner and dark crimson lipstick. She dresses in a black leather corset paired with a sleeveless black leather jacket. On her legs, she wears black leather shorts and combat boots.
=== Personality ===
Minagawa is a very intense woman with an irreverent punk attitude. She also has a morose, quasi-religious love of the idea of dying in a motorcycle race, considering it romantic to die young in a display of fearlessness. In her worldview, bikers who die during races are like norse vikings dying in battle, thus granting them entry to "Valhalla", the heaven of all warriors. However, this philosophy regarding death is largely a coping mechanism to deal with the grief she feels because of the death of Reiji Murasaki, a man who was both one of her only close friends and a person for whom she harbored unrequited romantic feelings. Since Reiji died young in a motorcycle accident, Minagawa has crafted her philosophy on death as a way to rationalize that Reiji's death wasn't senseless.
== Background ==
Minagawa did not get along with her peers when she was a young child, causing her to stop attending school, and her parents only saw her as an annoyance. Having no friends, dreams, or hope for the future led to her not having any real will to live. She later became a heavy metal guitarist who led the Raging Angels, an independent, Yokohama-based, all-women's motorcycle racing gang. However, she eventually met Reiji Murasaki, the leader of the rival Made in Heaven gang, who challenged her and her lieutenants to a "death race"; a motorcycle race where no rules applied. Much to their surprise, Reiji defeated all of them. Impressed by the young daredevil's skills, the Raging Angels agreed to become a faction within Made in Heaven.
Minagawa became very close friends with Reiji and developed feelings for him. When she admitted this to him, he told her that he only saw her as a friend. Though saddened by the rejection, Minagawa still remained close to him, since she still admired him greatly. The two frequently discussed death and a potential after life, and he one day told her of the Norse belief that warriors who die in battle go to Valhalla.
However, in 2020, Minagawa and the rest of Made in Heaven were devastated when Reiji died in a crash during a death race. The biker woman took his death particularly badly and, after a period of deep depression, she came up with her particular philosophy on death as a coping mechanism. This philosophy resonated with the rest of the Raging Angels, who either also needed to cope with Reiji's death or were genuinely taken in by its message to not fear death.
== Involvement ==
=== Lost Judgment: 2021 ===
Takayuki Yagami infiltrates Made in Heaven on behalf of Kyoko Amasawa to try to talk its new leader, Yuma Suou, to leave the gang. After joining, he learns that the only way he could get Suou to abandon the biker lifestyle would be to defeat him in a death race and then disband the group. However, to challenge the group's leader to a death race, he would first have to defeat the leaders of all the other factions.
The Raging Angels are the second faction which Yagami took on as part of his mission. After he defeats three of her top racers in competition, Minagawa agrees to take on Yagami herself. The Raging Angels' leader proves a challenging adversary, but Yagami nonetheless bests her. Once she is beaten, Yagami tells Minagawa that she must leave the gang, since her reckless philosophy will inevitably get her killed. Distraught, Minagawa refuses, saying that she has to die in a motorcycle race like Reiji did, to join him in Valhalla. 
After Yagami insists, Minagawa tries to kill herself by walking onto oncoming traffic, only to be pulled aside by Yagami. Still insisting that she has to die, Yagami tells her that, prior to his death, Reiji had decided to disband Made in Heaven, since he had realized that risking the lives of his friends in death-defying races was too reckless and he wanted them all to make better lives for themselves outside the gang life. Though Minagawa is initially doubtful, she eventually realizes that Yagami is telling her the truth and she decides to leave the gang and to try to rebuild her life, just like Reiji would have wanted.
Later on, when Yagami and Kotaro Seyama try to help Yuma Suou convince his mother to let him do motocross again, Minagawa and the rest of Made in Heaven go to Suou's house to give their leader moral support. Suou gathers Made in Heaven once more to rescue Kotoko Itokura, and Minagawa and the Raging Angels use their music to prevent Matsuhisa Koga from calling reinforcements. They then gather at Hamakita Park to prevent him from escaping.
== Gallery ==
LJ - Headshot - Rina Minagawa.png|Minagawa's headshot in Lost Judgment
==See also==
*Biker Gang
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Made in Heaven
Category:Lost Judgment Characters