Reiji Sakamaki

## Voices

**Reiji Sakamaki** (逆巻 レイジ, *Sakamaki Reiji*) is the second eldest son of the Sakamaki household. Reiji and his older brother, Shu Sakamaki, are the sons of Beatrix Sakamaki, second wife of Karlheinz Sakamaki, the Vampire King.

## Appearance

Reiji is a tall, handsome, slender young man. His hair appears differently in different depictions, but in the original *Haunted Dark Bridal depiction*, it is a dark plum purple which fades lighter towards the ends where the tips around his face and neck are a light blond. It is almost an inch away from being shoulder length at the back, and it is neatly combed. Reiji's eyes are pale magenta. He wears rectangular glasses with silver frames.

Reiji usually dresses smartly even when in casual clothes, which change across the series.

In **Haunted Dark Bridal**, he wears a lavender vest over a white dress shirt with black trousers and a black belt.

In **MORE,BLOOD**, he wears a black long leather jacket with a white dress shirt and black trousers.

At the end of **DARK FATE**, Reiji grows his hair out to emulate his father.

In **CHAOS LINEAGE**, Reiji wears the clothes of the Scarlet Family which consists of a dark red almost black jacket with large gold buttons, a popped collar red shirt and a string neck tie held together with a black fastener baring an emblem which looks somewhat like a fleur de lis.

His **Haunted Dark Bridal** school uniform consists of the black school jacket with a buttoned dark red vest over a black dress shirt and red tie. He wears it with along with the black tartan trousers and dress shoes.

In **LOST EDEN**, his school uniform consists of a military-esque burgundy blazer with a white undershirt and a white cravat. He also has a black belt with black tartan trousers.

According to Cordelia, if he weren't so stiff, Reiji would look just like Karlheinz when she first met him. She says that even his eyes are just like Karl's. This was said in an effort to tease Reiji, since he admires his father and dreams to be "him".

## Personality

Reiji has refined manners. Although he might have a polite, sophisticated way of speaking (which the creators describe to be "butler-like"), his words tend to come with a biting edge. He values rules and demands that they are followed by others, no matter how strange they may be. Despite how rigid he may seem, he has a sense of humor. Reiji is portrayed as a no-nonsense character in the anime, yet Reiji's sprites in the games are often grinning. He is viewed as intelligent, yet pessimistic.

Although Reiji is the second son, he takes it upon himself to manage the Sakamaki family as if he were the eldest son. He cleans the house, manages household affairs and funds, and keeps his brothers in line. His role in the family combined with his gentlemanly behavior often causes him to appear more like the eldest instead of his older brother Shu.

Reiji is strict towards himself and others. He is an arrogant man who demands perfection and dislikes submitting to weakness. His personality takes after his mother Beatrix, as he admired her throughout his life as the ideal lady, despite being ignored by her. Reiji orchestrated his mother's assassination in response to years of neglect and bitterness towards his older brother. He wanted her to finally recognize his abilities, and thus killed her so that she would acknowledge him.

In Haunted Dark Bridal, when Reiji realizes that his mother suffered because of Cordelia's behavior, he loses respect for her, and realizes that she was never a perfect woman.

Though Reiji's words are harsh, they shouldn't be taken at face value. Sometimes he says things in order to invoke a reaction that amuses him. He is a sadist like the rest of his brothers, but also has a masochistic side shown in HDB Ending 2. His particular phrase is schadenfreude ("happiness in the misfortune of others").

Along with his passion for experimenting and making drugs and poisons, Reiji loves to collect tea sets and kitchenware. His brothers sometimes use Reiji's interests to coerce him into cooking for them by saying that they'll use the kitchen themselves - his brothers have a penchant for destroying it. Ayato teases Reiji the most and usually blames his pranks on one of the other brothers. Kanato treats Reiji like a butler, and blackmails him with tantrums. Although he could be rough with outsiders, he is often kind (still strict) with most of his brothers.

## Etymology

* Reiji's surname **Sakamaki** means "reverse winding" (逆巻).
	+ It can also mean "inverted, reverse, opposite, wicked" (逆) (**saka**) and "volume, roll, reel, book" (巻) (**maki**) separately.

## Trivia

* The name Reiji means a few things depending on how it is written but due to it being written in katakana (レイジ) it may imply a more westernised reading, making it more of a play on the English word 'rage' referring to how Reiji is holding in a lot of anger.
* Some ways that Reiji can be written however can be ( 零児 ) which means 'zero child', which in this case could mean 'forgotten child' as he is neglected through his childhood. It can also be written as ( 零二 ) which means 'zero two', or in this case 'the second born who was forgotten'.
* Reiji can also be written as ( 怜児 ) which means 'wise child' reffering to how intelligent Reiji is.
* In *More Blood*, Reiji is the only brother who tries to kill Ayato in his route.
* In the games, Shu kills Reiji in multiple endings, while Reiji doesn't kill any of his brothers in any ending.
* In the Drama CD "Vampire Juice Year End Gift, Reiji is shown to become highly emotional when drunk.
* In *Chaos Lineage*, he is the leader of the Scarlet Family.
* In *Lunatic Parade*, it's shown Reiji has a fear of ghosts (though doesn't openly admit to it).
* In the CD Drama "Vampire's School Trip ~Princess Land's Flames~" Reiji states he enjoys rollercoasters, finding them interesting and fun.
* In a *Dark Fate* short story, he admitted to not completely hating living with his brothers. In fact he enjoys it a little bit since like he said, if he truly hated it, he would have left the mansion long ago.
* In the CD Drama "Delicious Pasta and Macaron" Reiji once combined Vongole Bianco and Macaron to make a new dish to appease both Kou and Laito's interests.
* He's the tallest Sakamaki brother.
* He is good at chess.
* He is right-handed.
* His foot size is 27cm.
* He can play the piano.
* He can cook very well.
* Reiji glasses lens size is 0.5.
* He is fluent in German.
* In his song “Toaru Yogensha no, SCHICKSAL” he sings some German words.