Rei Hino (火野 レイ, Hino Rei) is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of Sailor Mars (セーラーマーズ, Seeraa Maazu). She works as ashrine maiden at Hikawa Shrine and goes to school at T.A. Girls' Academy in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.
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Appearance[]
Civilian[]
Rei has long black hair that has a slight purple tint, purple eyes, and red earrings. Unlike the other Sailor Guardian’s school uniforms, her school uniform is very stylish and classy and reflects the elite status of her private school. She wears a gray blouse that has a black collar with dark red stripes on it, a dark red bow, a black skirt, white socks with a dark red stripe, and black shoes. When she becomes a high school student in Eternal, the dark red bow on her shirt becomes black. Another outfit she is often seen wearing is her red and white shrine priestess robes. She also always wears her pendant.
Sailor Mars[]
Sailor Mars' sailor uniform consists of a white, chest-armored leotard with three white shoulder pads, a dark red sailor collar with three white stripes, a dark red choker, a dark red skirt with a white puffy belt sat above it, and a dark purple bow at the chest and a dark red bow at the back of her skirt with a dark red circular brooch at the center of her chest bow. She wears a pair of dark red high heels, white gloves with three dark red arm fittings at the ends that reach just below her elbows. A golden tiara with a dark red, oval-shaped gem at its center on her forehead and she has six pointed dark red stars dangling from dark red stud earrings.
Super Sailor Mars[]
As Super Sailor Mars, she wears an upgraded version of her Sailor Mars uniform. The number of white stripes on her collar is reduced to one, her choker has a yellow star with a dark red gemstone in the center attached to it, the shape of her brooch at the center of her chest bow is now a dark red heart, the back waist bow is enlarged and lengthened, and the shoulder pads are more wing-like and translucent. The rest of her uniform stays the same.
Eternal Sailor Mars[]
As Eternal Sailor Mars, her sailor uniform changes completely. Her leotard no longer has chest armor, her shoulder pads are replaced with short light red bubble-like sleeves with two dark red fittings at the ends; they have somewhat of a translucent aspect to them, her choker is v-shaped with a yellow star in the center, her skirt now consists of two layers; dark red on the top and light red on the bottom. Her belt is now made up of two ribbons, the top one being dark red and the bottom one being light red, her brooch at the center of her chest bow is dark red and star-shaped, and her back bow is light red and is back to its original size with narrow, long, dark red ribbons extending from it down to her knees. She wears a pair of white knee-length boots that have larger heels and dark red v-shaped borders at the top that have yellow stars in the center, her gloves now have dark red, v-shaped wristbands and are extended to reach her upper arms, the gemstone in the middle of her tiara is now dark red and star-shaped. and she has a dark red star dangling from a single gold stud.
Princess Mars[]
As Princess Mars, she wears a dark red strap dress that goes past her feet and a dark red choker that is tied into a ribbon at the back with the streams running down her back. She has a gold necklace and her straps have three gold ornaments each. Her necklace and ornaments each have dark red gems in them and she wears small dark red stud earrings and dark red high-heeled shoes.
Personality[]
At first, Rei is distant from everyone, as everyone believes she is responsible for the missing people. She gradually warms up to Usagi and Ami after they defend her.
Information[]
Background[]
Rei lives at Hikawa Shrine with her grandfather and works as a Miko. She befriends two crows, Phobos and Deimos, when she was a child.
Rei has psychic powers that she cultivates by diving through the Sacred Fire at the shrine. However, her abilities cause people to view her as strange and avoid her.
Dark Kingdom arc[]
Rei first appears in a cameo at Hikawa Shrine mediating in front of her sacred fire, in Act 2.
In Act 3, she is seen meditating over a fire and predicts that something very strange is about to occur. After her transformation into the Guardian of Fire, Sailor Mars, she attacks Jadeite with Akuryo Taisan and easily overpowers him and his snowy attacks. In the following episode, she and the other two Sailor Guardians encounter the Four Kings of Heaven for the first time at a Masquerade Ball.
She later befriends Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus, who are the last two members of the Sailor Guardians. To learn more about her past life as one of the four protectors of Princess Serenity, she teleports to the Moon, where she and the others come in to contact with the mystical sword and the remnants of their former homeland. When Sailor Venus grabs hold of the sword, a hologram of a silver-haired woman appears, who introduces herself as Queen Serenity and the mother of Sailor Moon in her previous life as Princess of the Moon. Sailor Mars suddenly recalls her time during the Silver Millennium; battling to defend the people of the Moon with all she had.
Black Moon arc[]
After defeating Queen Metalia, Sailor Mars becomes more powerful after receiving her dark red-colored Star Power Stick, which greatly strengthens her pyrokinetic abilities and gives her even greater fire/flame-based attacks. Her latest fire/flame-related attack that comes with her second evolved Sailor form is Burning Mandala. But she is easily overpowered and captured by Crimson Rubeus of the Black Moon Clan and taken to planet Nemesis.
She is later released and uses her pyrokinetic powers to attack Prince Demande and Saphir. She is then aided by the spirit of Neo Queen Serenity (who has taken over Sailor Moon's mind) and returns to where Sailor Venus, Luna, Artemis, and Sailor Pluto are waiting. She later confronts Death Phantom himself and uses Burning Mandala in conjunction with the other Sailor Guardian's elemental attacks. Her fire/flame abilities are amplified greatly; due to Neo Queen Serenity bestowing planet power onto her.
Infinity arc[]
After transforming using "Mars Planet Power, Make Up," Sailor Mars faces off against a new monster that has absorbed a girl from Mugen Academy inside it. Initially, she tries to exorcise it, but the Daimon is unaffected by it. Her attack, along with the other Guardian's attacks, are able to destroy the Daimon and save the girl. While investigating Mugen Academy with Ami, Makoto and Minako, she and the others fight another Daimon attacking Usagi, Chibiusa, and a Mysterious Girl. On her fifteenth birthday, Sailor Mars, alongside Sailor Jupiter, fight the Witches 5 member, Eudial. She uses Mars Snake Fire for the first time, and it seems to hurt Eudial, but Eudial is able to recover quickly from it and use more powerful fire attacks on them. The two Guardians are rescued by Sailor Venus, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Moon, and Eudial is killed.
Sailor Moon Eternal[]
Sailor Moon Cosmos[]
Sailor Guardian Info[]
Rei is one of few Sailor Moon characters who is able to use special powers in her civilian form. This is mainly the result of her role as a shrine maiden, which gives her heightened spirituality as well as certain resources. In addition to some psychic talent, including occasional unprompted premonitions, Rei is able to do fire readings and dispel evil spirits. She does the latter by performing Kuji-Goshin-Ho, a ritual which consists of chanting nine words of power (Rin, Pyo, To, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!) while making relevant hand signs. She then shouts "Evil spirit, be exorcised!" (悪霊退散, Akuryou Taisan!), and throws one or multiple ofuda scrolls. She commonly uses this attack while in her Sailor Mars form as well as when she is in her civilian form.
Rei must transform into a Sailor Guardian before she can access her celestial powers. She makes this change by raising a special device (pen, wand, or crystal) into the air and shouting a special phrase, originally "Mars Power, Make Up!" As she becomes more powerful and obtains new transformation devices, this phrase changes to evoke Mars Star, Planet, and Crystal Power.
Sailor Mars has the power to create and control fire. Her named powers are somewhat inconsistent across the various series—in the first arc of the manga, she says "Evil spirits, begone!" the same phrase she uses as a civilian while using an ofuda, for her fire attacks.
Precognition: Rei is shown to have strong precognition, where she can make full use of this ability to predict events from a near future, as shown in Act 3 where she predicts Jadeite's ambush; in Act 13, she sees a Black Moon mark while meditating, and in Act 27 Infinity 1, she sees a catastrophe. As mentioned above, Rei can make full use of this ability, but it can fail sometimes, as shown in Act 3, where, instead of Usagi being captured and held captive by Jadeite, it is her.
Pyromancy: She is also shown to have a great affinity with fire, to the point where she is capable of manifesting her future sights by forming images on the flames. The images are very enigmatic and unreliable.
Purification: Even when she is in her civilian form, she can use her "ofuda" (a Shinto talisman used to protect homes from evil spirits) to "exorcize" people, while yelling "Evil Spirit, Disperse!" (although it can cause normal people to faint, as shown in Act 3 when she tries to "purify" Usagi).
Sixth Sense: Rei is sometimes shown to have a "sixth sense", using it to detect "evil presences" and approaching danger, as shown in Chapter 6 of the Codename: Sailor V manga, but it can fail sometimes when she mistook Usagi for an evil spirit.
Phrases[]
Attacks[]
- Akuryo Taisan
- Sailor Planet Attack
- Burning Mandala
- Mars Snake Fire
- Mars Flame Sniper
- Sailor Planet Power Meditation
- Galactica Gale
- Galactica Planet Attack
Items[]
Gallery[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
Season 3[]
Eternal[]
Cosmos[]
Misc Images[]
Trivia[]
- In Sailor Moon Crystal, Gerbera flowers appear in the backdrop of Sailor Mars's signature pose as she gives her introductory speech.
