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She is Hino Rei,or Spirit of Fire,a girl who lives at the Hikawa
Jinja, where she first meets Usagi. When charms are
being sold at the shrine, Usagi, her best friend Naru and
another girl just have to have one and on their visit to the
shrine, they find a beautiful and graceful fourteen year old
girl who has quite a temper(actually it's in the manga that
she's graceful. When she tried to dance once in the anime, she
looked kinda klutzy). When Usagi is attacked by Rei, who thinks
she is evil, Usagi finds out that Rei actually is psychic. When
Rei stumbles on a Dark Kingdom plot, she is thrown into another
dimension and attacked by a youma. However, a glowing Mars sign
appears on her forehead, and Usagi learns that Rei is really
Sailor Mars, although Luna felt it first and left the Mars
transformation pen to her before she was taken
(confusing huh?).
As Hino Rei, she is confident and always scolds Usagi
for being lazy. She was born in the 17th of April and her
Astrological sign is Aries. Her bloodtype is AB and her favorite
colors are red and black(probably since red is her senshi color).
Her hobbies include fortunetelling, reading, and singing and
she hopes to be a Shinto priestess, a wife and a singer. Her
favorite foods are Fugu(puffer fish), and vegetarian pizza,
although she hates canned asparagus. Unlike most of the other
senshi, Rei goes to a private school known as T*A Private school
(strangely enough, a catholic school). Her
favorite subject is Ancient Writing, and she hates modern social
studies. The reason for her living with only her grandfather
and Yuuchirou(a worker at the temple), was because her mother
died when she was very young and her father is a politician who
Rei rarely ever sees, although she is rich enough to go to a
private school. Her relationship with Usagi, would sometimes
be classified as mean, but actually, Rei really
cares about Usagi. This isn't shown a lot through the first
series, except around the time they find out that she is the princess and around the end of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars(the fifth and last season) when she suffers the longest and saddest death out of all the senshi.
Another thing about Rei is that she is considered by
many to be the prettiest inner senshi. Whenever Ms.
Takeuchi draws Rei, she looks as if she was worked harder on
than the others. Her clothes are usually the coolest and
most daring. Most of all, she looks great in both the anime
and the manga. Rei-chan has to be my most favorite character in
Sailor Moon. In fact, I think she is Ms. Takeuchi's
favorite senshi next to maybe Sailor Moon. Of course,
a lot of people may disagree, but see, only few
people can actually see why she's even what they believe
she is to be. Even though I've only seen the DIC
Episodes, I still think of her as being the coolest.
First of all, Rei has a lot of self confidence, in
opposition to Ami who is rather weak inside, considering
she can't really stand up for herself. Plus, since Rei
was left alone by her parents, you can't blame her for
trying to succeed in everything that she does.
Another thing I like about Rei is that she is very
independent. She basically runs the temple already, she
doesn't care if she has a boyfriend to support her, unlike
Mako and Mina. She also has a lot of self-discipline
which is a very good leadership characteristic. In fact,
around the time she met Usagi, I'd say that she would have
been a really good leader for the senshi. She has the
markings of an outer senshi, considering when Ms. Takeuchi
draws her in the manga, she looks darker than she
does in the anime. Also, if anyone has seen the manga, has
anyone besides me notice the gem on the skirt of Mars, the
first time she appears? She's the only one who has that (not
even Sailor Moon had it!!). Also, she has her own two, count
'em TWO, crow guardians who can turn into humans named Phobos
and Deimos. She's basically the senshi closest to
being perfect. Usagi is too whiny in DIC, Ami is too quiet
(don't get me wrong, she's my second favorite senshi), Mako is
just way too under rated, Mina is like another Usagi, minus the
whiny part, execpt they look like twins and that totally ruins
her uniqueness, Michiru and Haruka are, shall we say going off
the wrong path, Hotaru is too depressing and Pluto is just so mysterious, quiet and somewhat also deppressing. Of course, they
each have their good points, but they are so very emphasized,
that I suppose everyone can see them. Rei is just a little
sophisticated and can dress well, so that only those who
actually even try to understand people can see the good in her.
Oh, and one more thing, Rei even is more beautiful than
Michiru, considering her dark hair and light skin.
That's the best combination since the two really contrast.
Plus, she's the coolest since she's the only one that looks trully
Japanese, and who else has a power they can
conjure up without having to be a senshi? In fact she has
two powers she can conjure up, her ESP and ofuda.
As Sailor Mars, her powers are associated with fire and her color is red, in relation to her planet which is called both the planet of fire and the red planet. Although some might think she is the strongest, it isn't so(although I think it ought to be) the reason it may seem like it is because she has enough confidence to make her powers seem bigger than they are. In the manga, her powers are stronger and she is even paired with Venus who is the leader.
*DIC (English) Version
