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For the Mai-Otome counterpart, see Rad.

Reito Kanzaki (神崎黎人 Kanzaki Reito) is a character in the anime and manga series My-HiME.

My-HiME anime[]

Reito Kanzaki is the Vice President of Fuuka Academy's Student Council alongside President Shizuru Fujino. A quiet and calm individual who is popular with the female students, but shows romantic interest in Mai Tokiha. Reito's calm and reserved personality often clashes with that of the Executive Committee head Haruka Suzushiro, whose annoyance with him is made evident several times. Reito shows kindness by taking Mai's brother Takumi Tokiha and his roommate Akira Okuzaki with him on official business to a fancy restaurant free of charge.

The first sign that he is more than he seems appears when he somehow saves Mikoto Minagi from a pile of debris despite having been nowhere in the vicinity mere seconds ago. Another is that he has a pendant suspiciously similar to the one Mikoto wears, but denies being her brother and initially claims not to have a sister despite his extreme resemblance to the boy in Mikoto's memory.

After Alyssa leads Searrs's takeover of the school in search of the HiMEs, Reito is confined in the Student Council Room, before an anonymous tip off by Akira advises the Council on a possible escape route. Reito follows the tip and subsequently leads the students to the Sports Hall.

He consoles Mai after Gennai's defeat by the mysterious Yatagarasu (which Mai blames on Mikoto Minagi, who has entered the combat initiated by Nao Yuuki and also aided from afar by Sister Yukariko's Child St. Vrus) causes Takumi's disappearance, taking her to his private residence. In this capacity, he resides toward the end of the series in Kokuyouguu along with his aide Nagi Homura (through whom he can communicate) and Mikoto, as well as Fumi Himeno after she and Mashiro Kazahana are defeated by Mikoto. The siblings' reunion allows Mikoto to summon the Obsidian Lord's Child Miroku (prior to this, she was reliant only on her Element, also called Miroku, albeit with an ability to cause blocks of obsidian to rise from the ground).

After Mai goes through a period of extreme psychological stress, in which she sees her brother vanish because of Mikoto's attack and then seemingly the death of Mikoto herself, Reito finds her wandering the streets aimlessly and brings her to his home for shelter.

It is eventually revealed that he is the host of the Obsidian Lord, the main villain of the series. Nagi also divulges that he is actually Reito Minagi, the missing elder brother of Mikoto. Using this as leverage, the Obsidian Lord controls Reito into making Mikoto fight the other HiMEs, but he is eventually defeated and Reito is freed from its control.

Relationships[]

  • Mai Tokiha: After an accident at the library, caused by Mai's arachnophobia and Yuuichi's teasing of her, the pair find themselves in Kokuyouguu during an underground encounter with an Orphan, which Mai defeats. Reito later asks her to accompany him to the Founder's Day commemoration, an invitation she accepts, which results in the pair almost kissing before being stymied by Yuuichi (much to the chagrin of Yuuichi's date for the day, Shiho Munakata, as well as Reito).

Name Orgins[]

  • The kanji of Reito's given name literally are read as "black" and "person" likely referencing his possession by the Obsidian Lord and his uniform color.
  • Along with several other nuclear chemistry references within the Aswad, Rad's name could be a reference to the unit for absorption of energy per kilogram of tissue, the RAD (radiation absorbed dose).

Trivia[]

  • Reito's seiyu, Toshihiko Seki, worked with Tomokazu Seki, Yuuichi Tate's seiyu in Gundam SEED. In both shows Toshihiko's character was directly superior to Tomokazu's; Reito is the vice president with Tate as his subordinate and Rau Le Creuset the commander of Yzak Joule in SEED.
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