Rei Hino

> "*I am the Pretty Guardian who fights for Love and for Passion. I am Sailor Mars! In the Name of Mars, I'll chastise you!*"
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*- Sailor Mars/Rei*

Rei Hino is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## Character Information

### Personality

fiery
feisty
boy-crazy
ambitious
determined
caring
kind-hearted
resourceful
short-tempered
tough
hot-headed
odd
serious
romantic

## **BIOGRAPHY**

**Rei Hino** (火野 レイ, Hino Rei) is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of **Sailor Mars** (セーラーマーズ, Seera Maazu).

Outside of Tokyo, she is also a member of The New Action Squad.

## **APPEARANCE**

She has straight long black hair with a purple shine and black/purple eyes. She stands at about 160  cm or 5 feet 3 inches. She is often seen wearing her red and white traditional priestess uniform or her winter school uniform. Her summer uniform has her wearing a light gray formal vest with a white short-sleeved sailor uniform with a dark red ribbon tied in the center, gray skirt, white knee-high socks, and black shoes. Her uniform between both winter and summer school uniforms is dark gray with red linings.

Her primary casual appearance has her wearing a teal leather jacket with an orange turtleneck, purple skirt, orange stockings, and pale yellow knee-length heeled boots.

Her uniform in Sailor Stars is the same as her winter school uniform from her middle school but has a minor color change.

As a Sailor Senshi, she retains her civilian appearance with a gold tiara on her forehead along with a red tiara stone on front. She wears a white sailor leotard and the color of her sailor uniform is red with a single white linings to match up with her red skirt, back bow and her matching red high heels. Her front bow is purple with a red round gem at the center and was accessorized with a dangling red star earrings in each side of her earlobe and white gloves with red linings.

## **PERSONALITY**

Rei is a fiery, boy-crazed priestess with ambitions to become a singer, songwriter, model, voice actress and eventually settling down into marriage.

Her relationship with Usagi was turbulent, and the two often argued with each other. Rei even admitted at one point, she felt like Usagi was not a fit leader. Regardless, she is extremely loyal to her.

She seemed to show her affection to the people she cares the most about in odd ways, such as her teasing Usagi, which often hurt her feelings, especially in the early parts of the series, or joking with Yuuichirou.

Though Rei sometimes bickered with Usagi, she clearly cares deeply about her and valued her friendship very much, and often seemed closer to her than the other Senshi. (In the Stars season, she was the first person whom Usagi told that Mamoru had not contacted her, and Rei was so distraught that she wondered out loud why Usagi had to suffer so much). Rei attends a separate school from the other girls, a private Catholic school run by nuns. She works at Hikawa Shrine with her grandfather who was the head priest.

Rei's personality reflects her Sailor Mars power. She is a hothead, who gets into an angry rage quite easily. She is shown to be tough on others from time.

## **TRIVIA**

* Rei's membership number in the Three Lights Fan Club was 2906.
* In the anime, Rei had four image songs: Eternal Melody, Flame Sniper, My Boyfriend, Arranged by the Stars, and Holy Flame Love ~Fire Soul Love~. She also shared an image song with Ami Mizuno called I Can't Leave Her Alone.
* Hitoshi Doi states that Kunihiko Ikuhara was responsible for much of Rei's changed personality in the anime.
* Both of Rei's relatives who appeared in the anime (her grandfather and her cousin who appeared in *Sailor Stars*) ended up being turned into a monster-of-the-day.
* At the beginning of the Sailor Stars arc, Rei/Sailor Mars and Michiru/Sailor Neptune are paired up in Nehellenia's world of nightmares. After Sailor Neptune manages to easily see through Nehellenia's illusion (a flame consuming both their uniforms), Rei begins to question her intuition.
	+ Despite this, Sailor Neptune says that she *does* believe the fact that she has more experience than Sailor Mars plays a part in that. Moreover, after Sailor Mars manages to save Sailor Neptune, the aforementioned acknowledges her sense of intuition.
* Rei seemed to behave like her original manga incarnation in her debut episode.
* In volume 10 of the tankouban release of the manga, Naoko noted that even though she (somewhat) regretted the decision for Rei's personality in the anime to be different from her personality in the manga, she's happy that people like both versions of the character.
* Despite being a shrine priestess, she attends a Catholic school.
* In the DiC English dub, Rei's name was only very slightly changed, Romanized as "Raye" (same pronunciation).
	+ In early promotional videos for the English dub of the anime presented by DiC, Rei was called "Dana".
* In the DiC's version of the dub, she was introduced 3 episodes earlier than the original Japanese version, as DiC cut of some episodes, thus making her the fastest sailor scout to be introduced, introduced just 2 episodes after Ami Mizuno.
* The difference between the Mars planetary symbol used in the original anime and the manga is that the transforming sign has a heart instead of a circle.
* All of her villain counterparts (In Jadeite's case, he is the Shitennou associated with her) in every arc, are the first of their groups to attack or take the job to fight against the Sailor Senshi.
* Mars was the only one of the Inner Sailor Senshi who never had an attack that was only used once.