Rei Kozuki (香月 レイ, Kozuki Rei) is a heroine in Tomica Hero: Rescue Force who first appears in Episode 01. She is portrayed by Haruno and her suit actor is Masaru Shibue.
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Personality[]
Rei tends to be cool and composed, acting with a sense of superiority, though she has a share of childish tendencies too. She has a more nurturing side, shown by her willingness to raise Cai and her bond with Teppei.
Relationships[]
- Juri Shiraki: She and Rei get along the best. They typically work together. While they did fight with each other briefly over having a crush on the same person, they quickly forgot the reason they were fighting in the first place.
- Hikaru Todoroki and Kyosuke Jinrai: Rei's teammates and friends. She is sempai to Hikaru.
- Eiji Ishiguro: Rei's captain. She briefly had a crush on him but lost interest.
- Teppei and Mitsuhiro: Rei befriended Teppei and took on a motherly role towards him. She grew closer to the two of them and eventually started a relationship with his father, Mitsuhiro.
In the series[]
Rei is the second-generation R3 of Rescue Force. She drives the Core Search but does not have her own large scale vehicle. She is the most competent member of Rescue Force in physical combat, however.
Rei took rescuing very seriously, and was concerned by Hikaru's nature to rush into things. She meets the former R3, Naomi Okamura, who now works in the science department. Naomi disagrees with Rei's assessment of Hikaru, much to her shock. During an extreme disaster which was supposed to dry the world up, a group of boys went right into a dangerous area, in order to make a wish on a rainbow that the mother of Tomo, one of the boys, would return. Rei wants to get the boys out of danger, but the boys don't want to leave and miss their chance to see the rainbow. By the time the rescue is complete, the rainbow is gone and the boys are dismayed. Rei realizes, with Hikaru's help, that rescuing people's smiles is as important as saving their lives. Rescue Force creates an artificial rain in order for a new rainbow to form.
One day, Rei notices that Hikaru seems depressed. Trying to find out why, she learns that he's wishing for someone to get better, and believes he must mean the Rescue Striker, which is under repair. Rei decides to cheer him up, and invites Hikaru on a date. They spend some time together in town when a Terra Resetter emerges and causes an extreme disaster. The two are caught up in it, but not badly hurt. Still, they have to handle the rescue. After this is over with, Rei learns the true cause of Hikaru's depression. His pet water flea died. Rei is furious that he got upset over something that silly, and demands he pay her back for the expensive date.
After Captain Ishiguro invites Rei and Juri to dinner on one occasion without the boys, the both of them develop a crush on him. At first, they're each excited to know that their friend has a crush, until they realize that it's on the same person. The two start to hold competitions against each other in order to prove which is better, with Rei exhibiting more strength and Juri having much more delicacy. Soon, there is a fire caused by another extreme disaster. Hikaru and Kyosuke launch in their vehicles to deal with it, while the girls are put on standby, much to their dismay. Both lament the fact that they don't have their own rescue vehicle. However, it turns out that mines are planted on the ground. This makes it impossible for the two rescue vehicles to move. Therefore, Rei and Juri volunteer to remove the mines, despite how dangerous that is. They are able to achieve this, of course. By the end of the ordeal, both have lost interest in Captain Ishiguro completely.
Rei, along with Hikaru, are lost on the road without any phone reception. To make matters worse, their car is out of gas. Following a maid who appeared in the woods, they find themselves by a spooky mansion. However, this is a trap set up by the three Neo Terror Executives, Maare, San and Sica, as well as their leader, the former R1 Obuchi who now is known as Daen. Although the two are treated with hospitality first, when they discover the truth about the mansion's inhabitants, it turns to a conflict situation. Rei and Hikaru are rescued when the rest of Rescue Force arrives and Core Striker Max flies in through the window. They join in the fight afterwards.
Rei, along with Juri, continue to support in Rescues with their physical capabilities, because they don't have large-scale vehicles of their own. Rei decides to try and get her large-scale vehicle license, in order to control one someday. She is struggling with it somewhat, and thinks that joking with her instructor will help lighten him up and allow her to pass. However, this just annoys him, because he believes she's not taking driving seriously. Because of a disaster occurring, Rei ends up driving a giant decorated truck carrying explosives, with her injured instructor as the passenger. Her goal is to get it to a place where it won't cause harm. With guidance from Captain Ishiguro, she succeeds in this. Some time after the disaster, Rei talks with her instructor again. Although he still isn't ready to pass Rei, he comments that he envies her cheerfulness, because he's been struggling with finding a way to get along with his students and others. He feels inspired to try harder after this.
On one occasion, Rei's cousin Aya comes to visit. Aya hates all vegetables, so the members of Rescue Force try to get her to enjoy them, with no luck. An extreme disaster strikes which causes vegetation to disappear. Aya's pet rabbit, which is a vegetarian, is effected by this. While trying to help the rabbit, Aya discovers Neo Terror in the storehouse and realizes that they were behind the vegetables disappearing. Rescue Force launches to deal with this, and when Rei and Juri try to evacuate Aya, she says that the rabbit is still in the storehouse. Despite the fact that Rei is afraid of small animals, she goes back to rescue it, stating that there are times you can't be picky. This helps Aya realize that she should try eating vegetables.
During the incident when Maen, the next leader of Neo Terror, tries to cause all the world's volcanoes to erupt with the Omega Zukcrane, Rei and Juri end up caught by Neo Terror. Despite the fact that their Rescue Commanders and Rescue Breakers were taken away, Rei declares that they can't just sit around, and they have to find a way to escape. The two successfully break down the door, but are forced to face Maare, San and Sica shortly after. They're able to hold their own just fine, but the fight is put on hold when Hikaru arrives and helps them escape. Back outside, the two defeat the Neo Terror Executives.
Later, Rei is helping to raise an AI named Cai. She reads it a picture book about a fox, who sacrifices itself to save friends, which Cai seems particularly interested in. When Neo Terror tries to corrupt the AIs belonging to the UDFA, Cai succeeds in purging their virus. Unfortunately, Cai was corrupted in the process, and goes berserk, attacking those around him with the defense system in fear of the developers erasing his programming. This was something that was going to happen to Cai even before this incident, however. But the virus prevented Cai from covering up his true feelings. Using the story of the fox, Rei is able to persuade Cai to go through with the rewriting, in order to rescue others. Despite this, Maen is angry about her virus being overcome and corrupts Cai with an even more powerful virus, in order to cause a generator explosion at the lab. Thus, Cai is forced to be destroyed. To satisfy his last request, Rei reads Cai the story one last time.
After numerous votes are revealed in a Rescue Magazine, ranking members of Rescue Force in different categories, Rei, as well as Kyosuke are upset by the results. This is because Kyosuke places second to Rei as the member who would make the number one bro. During this incident, a strange extreme disaster causes men to turn into women, including Kyosuke and Hikaru. Because of how whiny they'd become, Rei and Juri take over driving their vehicles for the day, Rei controlling the Core Striker Max and Rescue Striker. They successfully combine to form the Super Rescue Max.
During a rescue, Rei encounters a boy named Teppei, who had run away. He tells her that even if he goes back home, no one will be this. However, he does have a father, Mitsuhiro, who meets Rei in order to pick up his son. Rei can tell right away that they have a strained relationship, as the father is usually busy with work. Rei meets Teppei again soon after, at a parent-child disaster prevention event. At the event, Rei and Juri are teaching kids how to use the AED. Rei invites Teppei to come up and try. During lunch, because his father didn't come to the event, she sits down to eat with Teppei. Rei learns that Teppei makes his own lunch every day, because his only living parent is never around. Seeing how depressed Teppei is, Rei volunteers to come cook for him one day. She keeps this promise, and on that day, Mitsuhiro walks in and is surprised to see a woman there. He didn't recognize Rei at first. After talking with Mitsuhiro for a little, Rei finds that he feels a lot of guilt for neglecting his son. She tries to think of a way to rescue the bond between the two, and discovers one when she acquires two tickets for the Mach Train from Captain Ishiguro. On the day they plan to take the train, a disaster hits, and Mitsuhiro collapses, no longer breathing. Teppei contacts Rei, who walks him through giving his father first aid with an AED like they'd practiced. When Rei goes to visit Mitsuhiro in the hospital after the incident, Juri and the others are watching, and she suspects Rei might end up marrying into the family.
Eventually, Maen acquires enough energy to return to her true form, Batsu. In order to get through Batsu's shield and destroy him for good, Rei and the other members of Rescue Force combine all the vehicles at once, into the Great God Striker. Eventually, Rei and the rest separate, leaving Hikaru alone to enters Batsu's body and destroy it. In the epilogue, Rei graduates from Rescue Force in order to be an instructor. She is living with Teppei and Mitsuhiro.
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Etymology[]
- Rei's last name is composed of the characters for "fragrant" (香) and "moon" (月).
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Notes[]
- Her suit actor is male.
- She is 24 years old.
- She received a toy (also released as a set with the Power Search).
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