Hidaka Reina

**Hidaka Reina** (日高零奈) is the center of Sotokanda Literature High School's Denonbu in the Akiba area.

## Quote

**Season 1**

"Being on a DJ stage is kinda like driving a robot, isn't it!?"

**Season 2**

"Even so, I believe."

## Background

Reina is the center of Sotokanda Literature High School's Denonbu. Because her father runs a plastic model shop, known as the Hidaka Model Shop, Reina enjoys robot anime, and has a hobby of making plastic robot models. Although she gets teased by the other girls at her school for it, she doesn't really mind.

Reina is clumsy, naive, and makes mistakes often, however, she is a friendly and kind-hearted girl with good intentions. When she concentrates on one thing, such as making plastic models or DJing, she excels at what she is doing.

She grew up in a musical family: her father is the legendary DJ Hidaka Reia, and her mother Seto Tsukiha is a pianist. However, unlike her mother and twin sister Seto Mitsuki, she cannot play any instruments. This caused them to act coldly towards to her. The only “music” left to her was DJing, but during her elementary school's music recital, the twins' relationship broke down due to Mitsuki disapproving of her DJing. After her parents divorced, she moved to Hokkaido with her father and was separated from her mother and sister.

She moved from Tokyo to Hokkaido seven years ago in her childhood, only to move to Akiba and transfer to Sotokanda Literature High School as a second year. She initially shows interest in Sotokanda's Denonbu, however upon finding out it shut down a while ago, she insists on reviving it, together with Kazune and Futaba.

## Appearance

She has brown hair, with a side ponytail and green eyes. Reina, like the other girls in the club, wears her school uniform and a jacket with her image color, orange. In terms of accessories, she wears a smiley button pin and a robot pin on her jacket, as well as hair pins and a hair tie with a bolt on it. Her shoes are brown and she wears white knee-high socks.

## Relationships

* Shinonome Kazune: the leader of Akiba's Denonbu. Though she initially refused to let her join the club to make the club room private, she was moved by the STACK BATTLE with Reina and allowed her to join. She is often disturbed in many ways by Reina's innocent words and actions.
* Kayano Futaba: a member of Akiba's Denonbu. Kazune's idea was to have a STACK BATTLE for the chance to join the club, but she was too shy to DJ due to her lack of confidence. Reina's enthusiasm persuaded her to start a battle, but she was defeated and joined the Denonbu club.
* Sakurano Mimito: the leader and center of Harajuku's Denonbu. Her confidence is shaken after she hurts other club members (Minakami Hina and Inubousaki Shian) by her own attitude, and her challenge to Shibuya's Denonbu is rejected at the door. However, thanks to Reina, she regained her identity and mended her relationship with her fellow Denonbu members.
* Inubousaki Shian: a member of Harajuku's Denonbu. The three Akiba girls meet Shian at her family's shrine in the Harajuku Novel and whilst she is initially unfriendly to them, when Reina mentions her parents are divorced Shian relaxes a little and says she can understand how Reina feels, as her father passed away.
* Houou Karin: the center of Shibuya's Denonbu. For Karin, Reina is a "good competitor," but for Reina, she thinks Karin is still a step above her. On the other hand, she is not afraid to say to Karin, "I think you need a friend!" "You must be lonely," and "I feel sorry for Karin if she doesn't do something about it!!"
* Seto Mitsuki: a member of Shibuya's Denonbu and Reina's older twin sister. She saw Reina enjoying her time in Hokkaido online and assumed that she was the only one who remembered fondly the happy days with her family, and Reina must have forgotten. However, Reina opened her mind during the New Legend STACK BATTLE the two of them had when she recreated the sounds of their once warm childhood home from memory.

## Etymology

* Hidaka can be split into Hi (日), which means "sun", and Daka (高), which means "tall" or "high".
* Rei (零) in Reina (零奈) means "zero".

## Trivia

* Reina and Seto Mitsuki are twins. Reina's last name includes the character for "sun", while Mitsuki's first name includes the character for "moon".
* Reina lived in Hokkaido with her father for a while, and there is a region in Hokkaido called Hidaka.

## References

1. ↑ Denonbu Character Profile
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Denonbu Novel Part 1, Akiba Edition
3. ↑ Denonbu Novel Part 1, Azabu Edition
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Denonbu Novel Part 1, Shibuya Edition
5. ↑ Denonbu Official Manga "Future Crossing Vol.0 - Akiba Part" Chapter 1
6. ↑ Denonbu Novel Part 1, Harajuku Edition

## Hidaka Reina

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### Image Color

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