Rei Miyamoto

**Rei Miyamoto** (宮本麗, *Miyamoto Rei*) is a classmate and childhood friend of Takashi Komuro, and they've known each other since kindergarten. She is also a protagonist of the story, next to Takashi Komuro and Saeko Busujima. Rei is a member of the Sojutsu club, and her combat skills have proven to be a strong asset to the group. She fights with a spear made from a broomstick, but, later in the story, she uses a M1A1 Rifle with a bayonet attached.

## Appearance

Rei has long, orangy-brown hair with bangs and two strands sticking out above the rest of her hair. She has reddish-brown eyes, a slender figure, and ample breasts. She also usually has a small, single ponytail on the back of her head, leaving the rest of her hair long. Throughout the series, she has been constantly dressed in her school uniform and has seldom changed her attire.

After they leave Rika Minami's house, she stops wearing the black, thigh-high leggings she had on and replaces them with knee and elbow pads. She wears a different green skirt and removes the bow from her shirt. She also adds white fingerless gloves and combat webbing to hang her M1A1 rifle on.

While at Shizuka's friend's house, Rei changed into her pajamas which consisted of a tight, pink tank top and white panties.

At the Takagi estate, Rei is shown wearing a white robe.

In an Omake chapter in the manga, Rei is seen wearing a maid outfit, an Elegant dress with earrings, a bondage dress with a whip and even a puppy costume, as suggested by other female characters.

## Personality

As a member of the Sojutsu Club, Rei is a headstrong and reliable member of the group. She is very caring towards everyone, especially Takashi, and is easily one of the most kind-hearted members of the group, if not *the* most kind-hearted. Despite her combat abilities, Rei has a generally pacifistic personality, and seems to be the only member of the group who recognizes "them" as people- during the group's fight in Taiei Shopping Town, she states that, in spite of all they've been through, she still hasn't gotten used to killing in order to survive, and she hopes she never will.[1]

Despite her kindness, Rei isn't above tearing into her friends when she thinks they're in the wrong. An example of this is when she calls out Takashi for killing Hisashi in cold blood, even saying that he did it out of resentment rather than to save her, though she wasn't thinking straight when she said it and takes it back immediately afterwards. Although constantly reprimanding Takashi for his selflessness, she admits that this was one of the reasons she originally fell in love with him, and is in fact deeply touched by his attempts to rescue Alice, as it was a reminder that they were still human beings. She is also very protective of Takashi, as shown when she stabbed Tsunoda in response to him attempting to attack Takashi.

Rei also seems to have a perverted side, as when the girls took a bath together, she groped Shizuka's breasts to see if they were real, and later did the same thing to Saeko. She gets extremely jealous whenever Saeko gets near Takashi and is shown to compete with Saeko for Takashi's affection, something that annoys Saeko as it sharply contrasts her calm maturity.

The only person Rei seems to genuinely hate is Shido; in retribution for Rei's father Tadashi investigating the shady Shido business led by Ichirou Shido, Shido forced Rei to repeat a grade in spite of being a straight-A student. Rei's father blamed himself for the incident, and Rei has despised Shido ever since. When Shido is around, Rei displays a very dark and cold side to her completely unlike her usual kind self, to the point that she tries to convince Takashi to abandon him to be eaten by "them" and states that he would regret saving him, an instinct that ultimately turns out to be correct. However, even when Saya's father Souichiro gives Rei clearance to kill Shido in retribution, Rei ultimately can't bring herself to do it, having decided he isn't even worth it, a decision that earns her Souichiro's respect.

Rei has held deep affection for Takashi since they were in kindergarten and has always liked him, even promising to marry him when they were kids. However, him ignoring her after she was held back in school caused Rei to believe that he had abandoned her, hence why she left him for Hisashi. Despite getting back together with him so soon after Hisashi's death, Rei doesn't consider Takashi to be a replacement for him, and even gets angry at Takashi for suspecting as much. At the Takagi Estate, Rei admits that she never should have broken up with Takashi, that she still loves him and if he were to fall in love with another girl, she wouldn't be able to live on.

## Weapons

Rei is a member of the Sojutso club, and thus her weapons are mainly spears. At the start of the series, Rei fights with a broomstick with a broken nail at the end forming sharp edge. She then used a nightstick after losing her broomstick at the gas station. After visiting Rika's House, she upgrades to a Springfield M1A1 Super Match rifle with a Bayonet attached (she has only been seen using the bayonet and has never fired the gun) .

## Quotes

* "Yeah I get it now! Takashi, you hated Hisashi because he and I were going out!" (To Takashi after he killed the zombified Hisashi).

* "Ahhh, Takashi makes three people." (Rei when she was drunk).

* "You shooting the gun like that really hurt my boobs!" (To Takashi after she had the ointment put on).

* "If you ever fell in love with another girl... I wouldn't be able to live on!" (To Takashi).

* "Girls are complex, aren't they?"
* "The man who had never been fazed by a thing came to me in tears, saying that I had to repeat the grade because of him! But I held back, because he said that he would be able to arrest you and your father if his investigation went smoothly." (To Shido).
* "He's not even worth killing..." (To Souichiro about Shido).
* "I hope I never get used to killing like this!" (Rei in regards to killing "them").

## TMNT X Pokemon

Rei works well with Mine, Remy, and Bisca. She gets along with Bisca the most and are often seen with her,

## Trivia

* Rei worked part-time in a maid cafe one summer, but her dad found out, and she had to quit after a week.
* Many fans jokingly refer to the two long strands of hair sticking out on the front of her head as "antennae."
* Rei doesn't seem to mind being seen almost naked in front of Takashi.
* Rei was held back one year in school due to her father's investigation of Shido's father in a political scandal.
* In Act 10 of the Anime (in the English Dubbed only), most likely due to a translation error, Rei refers to the M1A1 Takashi used at the wire blockade as an Kalashnikov AK-47. Although it could be just lack of firearm knowledge.
* Random Trivia: The kanji for "Miya" is "castle" and "moto" is "base" (as in base of a tree). Rei occurs in words related to beauty.
* In the Lolipop Chainsaw videogame, Rei is a unlockable costume as well as Saeko Busujima.
* Rei's name could be a reference to Japanese Horror manga artist, Rei Mikamoto, due to their names being nearly identical.
* In the game Skullgirls, The tenth color pallete of the character Filia is based off of Rei.
* Rei is often the damsel in distress in the series, having to be saved by the thug at the gas station and numerous times when attacked by "them".