Reika Aoba

Reika Aoba
Manga
Character Info
Kanji	青葉麗香
Romaji	Reika Aoba
Race	Human
Gender	Female
Status	Alive
Technical Info
Age	15
Professional Status
Affiliation	Honey Girls' Academy
Occupation	Student
Debut(s)
Manga	Chapter 1 (Reigen)

Reika Aoba (青葉 麗香, Aoba Reika) is a first-year high school transfer student at Honey Girls' Academy who is spotted by Tome Kurata as she ran to school on her first day.

Appearance

Reika has light-colored mid-length hair and prominent lower eyelashes, as well as pale eyes.

It is assumed that she wears the Honey Girls' Academy female uniform. She also wears a hooded jumper underneath the blazer, possibly with a plain t-shirt underneath.

Personality

Reika is seen running to school with toast in her mouth, having overslept. Tome Kurata says she seems like your typical ditzy manga protagonist. She is under the pressure of many issues and conflicts within both her school and home life, experiencing the hectic suffering of protagonist syndrome. She is running from a dangerous past, into the complex web of honor, jealousy and pettiness that is high school.

She references one Nanabishi Zaibatsu, and research seems to show that a Zaibatsu refers to a conglomerate that dominated industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so it's a pun.

Plot

REIGEN

She appears as a direct contrast to Tome's character, exemplifying the subversion of the role of a classic female protagonist in the Shoujo genre, appearing at the start and the end of the Reigen manga. Through her appearances, she highlights the growth and change within Tome's perspective that occurs throughout the manga.

Quotes

• "OH NOOO I'M LATE I'M LATE!" (First page of chapter 1)
• "My name is Aoba Reika, I'm 15 years old, and starting from today, I'll be attending Honey Girls Academy." (First page of chapter 1)
• "Even though it's my first day as a transfer student, I went and overslept! I better get a move on!!" (First page of chapter 1)
• "OH NOOO~! I'M LATE AGAIN!! *HUFF HUFF*" (First page of chapter 7)
• "My name is Aoba Reika, age 15! Due to mysterious circumstances, I was asked by Honey Academy's Student Council Executive Board to resign as the Student Council President's assistant, and now things have gone all topsy-turvy!" (First page of chapter 7)
• "Having suffered harassment at the hands of the cruel Student Council President, Tenkuji Reo, I was offered a helping hand by the School Board Chairman's grandson, Izumi-senpai, when suddenly Yumeto-kun, successor to Nanabishi Zaibatsu, who sits next to me in class, did a total 180 and put me in a real pinch...!" (First page of chapter 7)
• "It was then that my neighbor, a high school boy called Shouga Daiichi, became the target of a dangerous delinquent, Doroshima Daisuke, who said he never wanted to see his sorry face again, and I somehow got dragged into that as well... Could it be that he...? Just then, when I was already too busy to worry about such things, my previous life suddenly appeared before my eyes and I saw myself and... Horayama-kun, who confessed that he was in love with me!" (First page of chapter 7)
• "Meanwhile, my grandfather, who was the last in a long line of practitioners of the secret, traditional craft of Old School Martial Phoenix Wicked Star Fist, sought to pass the inner mysteries of the technique down to me..." (First page of chapter 7)
• "Having gone through all the trouble of falsifying my family registry and moving to far-off Seasoning City, it wasn't long before new enemies sniffed out my whereabouts and tracked me down... Will I have to transfer schools again???" (First page of chapter 7)
• "Yaaah~! Just thinking about it makes my head feel like it's gonna explode!" (First page of chapter 7)
• "I just want to fall in love like a normal person, but is that really in the cards for me~?" (First page of chapter 7)

All translation credited to KibiDango Scans

Etymology

• The name Reika means "beautiful, lovely" (麗) (rei) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka).
• Reika's surname Aoba means "blue, green" (青) (ao) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (ha/ba).