Reiji Amamiya

## Amamiya, Reiji

**Reiji Amamiya** (雨宮零士 (あまみや れいじ), *Amamiya Rēji*?) is one of the main characters of Tokyo Aliens manga series, written and illustrated by NAOE. He is the AMO Kanto Branch Special Riot Police Supervisor.

## Appearance

Amamiya is pale-skinned and has short, white hair with an undercut on the bottom third of the back of his head, though his bangs hang low over his face to partially cover his missing eye and eyepatch. His white hair is implied to be dyed due to the presence of black growth in his undercut. He is noted by others to be as beautiful as a model. Regardless of attire, he wears a dog tag on a chain, suggesting personal attachment.

Amamiya has a prosthetic right arm which reaches up to his shoulder, and is shaped and articulated similarly to an arm's bone structure in a combination of silver, black, and purple.

His usual casual outfit consists of a black turtleneck shirt, black pants, white belt, black shoes, and a large purple duster overcoat. He also wears a single black leather glove on his right hand to cover his prosthetic hand, and a white medical eyepatch over his right eye to cover his missing eye. His left hand sports two slim, purple rings on the index and ring finger respectively, along with his Mulch. Both of his ears are pierced and bear earrings which appear to be small hoops from which two isosceles triangles dangle on a short chain.

His combat-wear consists of a black turtleneck missing its right sleeve, a white, high-collared tech-wear style jacket worn over his shoulders with a black belt around the collar and secured with a white belt across his chest, a purple underarm protective padding fastened with straps similar in shape to an underarm holster, a black glove over his left hand, white pants with the sides secured shut with black buttons (open until just under the knee) and a black belt around the waist over black underarmour, and a pair of white heeled boots with purple soles. His eyepatch changes to a black model, and his earrings to small hoops with slightly larger wire-frame isosceles triangles dangling from them. Though his prosthetic is left uncovered by a sleeve in his combat-wear, a dark grey ribbon is wrapped around it from shoulder to wrist. As part of Division 1 of the Special Riot Police, his right sleeve has a pocket with the words "零参 Special Riot Police 01". All AMO combat-wear is noted to be made of alien polyfiber and is bulletproof.

His weapon is an odachi sword with no guard, geometric patterns along the hilt, and half-hexagonal patterns along the edge of the blade reminiscent of homon patterns.

## Personality

Amamiya tends to act cheerful and amiable, managing to quickly charm Gunji Akira despite the often serious or solemn natures of their interactions, and bantering easily with aliens in battle. Despite this, he's shown to be a cold, calculating and often manipulative underneath the act, lying easily and with a smile. He feels little to no guilt in recruiting and throwing two teenagers into life-threatening danger for the sake of "universal peace". Hyougo Natsuki's reaction suggests that Amamiya frequently engages in similarly ruthless and manipulative schemes.

It is implied that he once had a daughter (and possibly a wife) who died as a result of an illegal or criminal alien lashing out, something which causes him immense pain and to lash out at any aliens who harm children.

Amamiya has a hidden streak of self-hatred, likely due to a level of hatred and disgust with the fragility of the human body resulting from his own injuries at the hands of Silver (his missing right arm, right eye, and "many other things as well") and expresses jealousy towards Tenkubashi Sho for his ability to heal from almost any injury.

## Relationships

### Tenkubashi Sho

Amamiya acts as both a superior officer and a teacher to Tenkubashi Sho; however, their interactions are often noted as being tense by Gunji Akira, as Amamiya often uses Tenkubashi's past negative experiences and self-hatred as a way to manipulate him into doing what Amamiya wants him to. Further, Amamiya largely sees Tenkubashi as a human weapon, a view which Tenkubashi - having been in Amamiya's training and care since he was around seven years old - agrees with until Gunji Akira persuades him otherwise. Others within the AMO also note that Amamiya treats Tenkubashi unusally well, being "Amamiya's favourite high-schooler".

### Gunji Akira

Gunji Akira and Amamiya have a friendly relationship where Amamiya acts as a personable superior officer and friendly acquaintance. Gunji sees Amamiya as an admirable figure and an aspirational goal as the single strongest member of the AMO Kanto Branch and one of the strongest AMO members globally, as well as a friend of his late father who worked directly alongside him. Amamiya, however, sees Gunji as a pawn to manipulate and a potential key weapon against Silver, leveraging his relationship with Gunji's father and his friendly persona to manipulate him.

### Hyougo Natsuki

Hyougo Natsuki is Amamiya's aide. They have some history together, with Hyougo being quite familiar with Amamiya's true personality and both of them addressing each other by their first names with no honorifics when they're alone, and Amamiya in turn acting flirtatious to tease Hyougo. Amamiya further treats Hyougo shoving him against a wall with a blasé playfulness, indicating that it happens often enough to be unconcerning, and trusts him with secrets that no others are made aware of.

### Christina

Christina and Amamiya have a largely amicable relationship both as friends and as colleagues. Amamiya seems to often ask for difficult but mostly possible tasks from her, and she rarely seems to mind, even enjoying rising to the occasion. Christina is distantly aware of Amamiya's true personality, but does not seem to regard it as important.

### Gunji Akio

Gunji Akio is a former superior officer and friend of Amamiya, having died in action against Silver. They have had a friendly relationship, though Gunji appears to have not been aware of Amamiya's true personality. Amamiya states that he regarded Gunji as strong and that he liked him, though it may have been a lie.

## Background

### Nine Years Ago

Nine years ago, Silver attacked and killed a large number of people, Division 1 of the AMO Kanto Branch Special Riot Police was deployed, resulting in the death of Gunji Akio, and the permanent maiming and disabling of Amamiya, who lost an arm and an eye. Tenkubashi Shou was also a victim of the attack, he and his sister having survived as orphans. Amamiya took Tenkubashi under his wing as a recruit at that time.

## Trivia

* The kanji used for Amamiya's first name uses the characters for "zero"/"nothing" and "samurai"/"member". The former character is also used in the kanji for the Special Riot Police, suggesting that his name means something akin to "member of the Special Riot Police".

## References

1. ↑ Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 3
3. ↑ Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 18
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 16
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Toyko Aliens - Chapter 11
6. ↑ Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 10
7. ↑ Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 23
8. ↑ Tokyo Aliens - Chapter 19