For love and fire, I am the pretty, sailor-suited fighter, Sailor Mars! In the name of Mars, I will chastise you!
Rei's father is a politician, and her mother died when she was very young. She feels her father doesn't care much about his family, so she went to live at her grandfather's shrine. Rei also goes to a private school, which means she doesn't have to take the tough exams to be accepted into a High School (unlike the rest of the Sailors). However, she studies with the girls anyway, and later claimed she "felt their pain." She also hosted the study sessions at her shrine, and would help Ami with cracking down on Usagi. Even though Rei makes fun of Usagi because she can't cook... Rei can't cook either. She prefers simple over complex, so will usually make microwave dinners. Sometimes Rei has a bad temper and will yell at Usagi a lot (strangely enough, she rarely yells at the other girls). Rei also takes out her temper on Yuuchiro (Chad), the wandering musician who stays at her shrine to train. They both share a mutual liking of each other, although Yuuichiro actually shows that he likes her, while Rei tends to pick on him more then anything. Yuuichiro can be very jealous of Rei, and once saw Rei talking to Haruka and thought they were going out. Rei was angry at him for not "trusting her," but didn't tell him that, and he almost left the shrine (although she stopped him eventually). Basically anyone she's really close to she treats like dirt ^_^ Of course, anyone close to her already knows this and knows that she doesn't hate them... At the beginning of the series, Rei thought Usagi was an obnoxious crybaby, but by the end of the first season it was shown that they had a deep friendship. During a crisis, she acts the most protective of Usagi, and Usagi can do that too. This can be seen at the end of the series (read the Stars summary for more info); when all the Inner Sailors were dying, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus had a short death scene with the Sailor Starlights, while Mars had a long (and sad!!) death scene saying goodbye to Sailor Moon. Rei also has a special friendship with Chibi-usa, maybe because Usagi and Chibi-usa are so similar? Rei acts more protective of Chibi-usa, but that's probably because she's a little kid. Rei went out with Mamoru during the first season, but neither of them considered it anything special. However, the fact that they shared a past led to a very funny episode when, after the girls accidently trashed Mamoru's apartment, he had to stay at the shrine for a while. When Yuuichiro found out they'd had a past, he got really jealous and roasted Mamoru by over-heating the bath (The bath house at the shrine had a fire place underneath it, and to heat up the place you light the fire. Yuuichirou simply put lots and lots of wood in the fire :)) As Sailor
Mars, her fire attacks are considered the strongest of the Inner Sailors
(besides Sailor Moon). During the battle with Queen Beryl, Sailor Mars
destroyed 2 monsters who were about to kill Sailor Moon (again, she was
being protective...), and she also killed herself. However, when fighting
less powerful monsters, Sailor Mars and Sailor Moon can often get into
fights with each other instead of with the monster. Sailor Moon phrases:
Sailor
Moon R phrases:
In Japan, Rei's voice is done by Tomizawa Michie. Michie is known for playing (in other anime titles) Airi in Those Who Hunt Elves, and teaming up with Hisakawa Aya (Sailor Mercury) in Dominion Tank Police, to play Aya's twin Uni Puma. Tomizawa Michie has also played young boys, playing Ran from Green Legend Ran. In North America, Rei's voice is done by Katie Griffin for ep. 1-65. Emilie Barlow did her voice for ep. 66-82. * A translation for Aku Ryo Tai San is "Evil Spirit Begone." Sometimes she uses the full length chant, which is "Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. Akuryou taisan!" Or, when she's meditating in front of the fire, she says "Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen!" to see an image in the flames. Uh, I don't really know the translation for the Rin, pyou, etc. |