Rei Hino

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## Rei Hino

* Normal
* Sailor Mars

### Title

Princess Rei of Mars
Sailor Mars (セーラーマーズ, *Seera Maazu*)
Super Sailor Mars

## Profile

### Likes

Being a shrine priestess, Hikawa Shrine, singing, song writing, the colors black and red, literature class, Zazen, divination, white Casablancas, fugu, meditating, rubies, dogs, reading, pandas, vegetarian pizza, skiing

### Dislikes

Evil spirits, being viewed as a strange, Usagi's silliness, her grandfather's lecherous ways, canned asparagus

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Shrine Priestess at Hikawa Shrine
Student
Sailor Guardian
Princess

### Affiliation

Solar System Sailor Guardians
T.A. Girls' Academy

## Relationships

### Parents

Takashi Hino (Father, estranged)
Risa Hino (Mother) †

### Other relatives

Unnamed Grandfather
Kengo Ibuki (Cousin)

### Partner(s)

Makoto Niijima (Girlfriend)
Mamoru Chiba (Ex-Boyfriend)

## Voice Actors

### English

Cristina Vee

**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*).

## Description

### Appearance

Rei is an average-height, beautiful young woman with straight long black hair with a purple shine and purple eyes.

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.

#### Sailor Mars

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-crazy, 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 about the most 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.

## Powers and Abilities

### Precognition

Rei is shown to have strong precognition, where she can make full use of this ability to predict events from the near future, but it can fail sometimes.

### Pyromancy

Rei is also shown to have a great affinity with fire, to the point where she is capable to manifest her future sights by forming images on the flames. The images are very enigmatic and unreliable.

### Purification

Even when she is in her civilian form, she can use her "ofuda" (a Shinto talisman used to protect homes from evil spirits) to "exorcize" people, while yelling "Evil Spirit, Disperse!" (although it can cause normal people to faint, as shown in episode 10 when she tried to "purify" Usagi).

### Sixth Sense

Rei is sometimes shown to have a "sixth sense", using it to detect "evil presences" and approaching danger, as shown in Chapter 6 of Codename: Sailor V manga, but it can fail sometimes when she mistook Usagi for an evil spirit.

### Expert Archer

As a Shrine Priestess, she is an expert archer, and this potential is shown in her "Mars Flame Sniper" attack.

## Etymology

Rei: Her given name is in katakana, rei (レイ) and therefore offers no translation or meaning.

In the Chinese versions of the series (anime and manga), Rei's name is written with the character "麗", which carries the same phonetic as "Rei", but means "beauty" and/or "lovely".

Hino: The kanji of Rei's surname translates hi (火) "fire" and no (野) meaning "field" or "civilian".

## Trivia

* Rei's membership number in the Three Lights Fan Club was 2906.
* 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.