Rena Ryuuguu: Difference between revisions

* [[Keiichi Maebara]] (friend, clubmate)

* [[Rika Furude]] (friend, clubmate)

* [[Shion Sonozaki]] (friend)

* [[Nao Houtani]] (younger half-sister)

{{nihongo|'''Rena Ryūgū'''|竜宮 礼奈|Ryūgū Rena|born '''Reina Ryūgū'''}} is a major character in {{higurashi}} and a member of [[the club]]. She is the protagonist of {{tsumihoroboshi}} as well as the villain of {{onikakushi}} and {{tsukiotoshi}}. She appears in much of ''Higurashi's'' official art and often serves as a type of mascot for [[07th Expansion]].

 

Rena was born in Hinamizawa as Reina Ryuuguu. She lived in Hinamizawa with her family for several years. However, [[Rena's mother]] was offered a promotion that required the family to relocate to [[Wikipedia:Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki]]. As a result of the move, [[Rena's father]] was forced to give up his job and largely became a homemaker. Rena often helped her father around the house with cooking and cleaning. As Rena's mother advanced in her career, she began to spend less and less time at home. Rena's mother eventually became romantically involved with a man named [[Akihito]] and began bringing Rena to office parties and similar events in an attempt to deepen their relationship while diminishing Rena's relationship with her father.

 

Eventually, Rena's mother became pregnant with Akihito's child and she revealed the affair to Rena and Rena's father. Rena's mother was intent on marrying Akihito and asked Rena to join their new family. Rena, seeing this as a grave betrayal, angrily rebuked her mother and repeatedly blamed herself for not seeing Akihito as a "bad person" earlier. She destroyed all of her mother's possessions and [[Hinamizawa Syndrome|began to cut herself in an attempt to rid herself of the "maggots" she imagined were writhing around in her blood]]. Rena became increasingly violent, culminating in an attack at her school wherein she destroyed the school's windows and beat three male students with a baseball bat. As a result of the incident, Rena was hospitalized and diagnosed with [[w:dysautonomia|dysautonomia]]. While in the hospital, Rena claimed that she was visited by [[Oyashiro]], who told her to return to Hinamizawa if she wanted to be safe. After her release, Rena and her father moved back to Hinamizawa. Upon their return, Rena decided to change her name. In the English translation, she decides to change her name from "Reina" to "Rena" by removing the "icky" parts of her life. "Icky" starts with "i", thus Rena removed the "i" from her name.

 

Rena appears as a young girl with auburn hair and blue eyes. Her hair is styled with an angled cut with longs sides and a part on the left side of her forehead. She typically wears her school outfit, a white and blue seifuku with a yellow ribbon. Otherwise she wears a white dress with a deep slit up the middle decorated with a purple bow and sash along with a white hat. She also wears black thigh-high socks with brown knee-high boots.

 

In {{matsuri}}, Rena's seifuku tie has a blue knot that has a small white cross in the center of it, similar to the pin Takano Miyo wears on her left side when she is wearing her black military uniform.

 

Rena has an obsession with cute things, and often attempts to "take them home with her", whether they're hers to take or not. These things can include people such as [[Rika Furude]], [[Hanyuu]], and [[Satoko Houjou]]. She spends a lot of time at the [[garbage dump]] searching for cute things that have been thrown away. Though she comes off as an airhead, she is often very intuitive.

 

During [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Episode 1|the first episode]] of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (anime)|Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai]]'', an adult Rena appears to have been permanently affected from being one of the few people who survived the events that occurred in Hinamizawa in {{tsumihoroboshi}}.

 

 

 

 

 

*Rena directly kills more people than any other character in {{higurashi}}. Rena successfully kills all 15 children attending the [[Hinamizawa school]] (including herself){{cite arc/Yoigoshi}} as well as [[Teppei Houjou]] and [[Rina Mamiya]]{{cite arc/Tsumihoroboshi}}.

*The name "Rena" comes from Lenna from [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy V|''Final Fantasy V'']], known as "Reina" in Japan. This is also where the pen name "Ryukishi07" comes from.

*Rena's name is stylized as '''Rena Ryugu''' in the [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (2020)|2020 anime adaptation of ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'']].