Rei Sagami (相模 玲, Sagami Rei) is one of the main characters of Kodocha series. He is Sana Kurata's manager who is currently in a relationship with Asako Kurumi, a popular actress.
Appearance[]
Rei is a handsome young man with neat and tidy brown hair that is jelled on the right side, golden-brown eyes (as fully shown in Episode 8) that are usually covered by thick black sunglasses (which he is usually never seen without) and he has a bland look on his face.
He is always wearing a brown suit with a green tie.
Personality[]
Rei is a kind-hearted and gentle man who can be cold-hearted at times, but he cares about Sana Kurata more than anyone. In the first episode, he takes her to school so safely that when mentioning he cared about her, she hugged him and they nearly hit people on the street.
Rei is polite, loyal and seem to be a hard working man who never speaks out of line, unless he absolutely has to. He is also quite an attached lover as he just sat on the streets when his girlfriend left him.
Biography[]
Rei and Asako
In high school, Rei began dating Asako Kurumi and they maintained a very happy relationship. When they began to attend college, Asako told Rei that she needed some space; she had a newfound interest in acting and wanted to focus on her career, believing that juggling both a relationship and a career would be too much to handle. Rei never heard of Asako mentioning an interest in acting before, so when they broke up, he especially was heart-broken.
Shortly after splitting apart from Asako, numerous unfortunate events occurred and had a negative effect on Rei: he flunked out of college due to never studying once; both of his parents died in a car accident; after his parents' deaths, the bills and taxes started piling up and Rei was evicted from his house. After all of these bad outcomes, for years he kept telling himself that all of this was caused by Asako's breaking up with him because it was easier to blame someone, and his hatred of Asako increased.
Homeless, Rei began to live on the streets. While sitting on the streets, Misako Kurata and a young Sana Kurata passed by Rei after coming home from dance classes, and Sana was perplexed by the fact that a person like him could have no home. Misako explained that bad things happened to people and they went home. After another dance class, Misako was busy and couldn't pick Sana up, so Sana walked home herself. On her walk, she passed by Rei yet again, deciding he was cute, and brought him home with her. Misako was surprised to see Rei in their house, but decided to let him stay, and Rei remained grateful to Sana.
Over the years, Rei, knowing Sana often called him her boyfriend, decided to let her believe that until she was old enough to know he wasn't and he also became her manager.
Relationships[]
Kurata family[]
They saved Rei from starving in the streets when he was dumped by Asako Kurumi. Since then, Rei has sworn his loyalty to the Kurata family.
Asako Kurumi[]
Asako was Rei's girlfriend who dumped him to focused on her acting career. After that, Rei was living on streets until Sana Kurata found him and wanted him to be her manager. Since then, when Asako and Sana come by, Rei tries to avoid the set as much as possible as he knows she'd want him to go back with her, but the two of them have made up and they are now in a relationship once again.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Rei Sagami/Gallery
Etymology[]
- The name Rei means "the tinkling of jade" (玲).
- Rei's surname Sagami means "phase, aspect, countenance, mutually, fellow" (相) (saga) and "imitation, copy, mock" (模) (mi).
Trivia[]
- As revealed in the author's notes for Chapter 4, Rei was inspired by a character on the television drama Abunai Deka.
- Suji (Sana Kurata's hairstylist) has a crush on Rei.
- Rei seems to be Sana Kurata's best interest in the first four episodes in the series School Girl SuperStar.
| Kodocha Characters | |
|---|---|
| Main | Sana Kurata • Akito Hayama |
| Kurata Residence | Misako Kurata • Rei Sagami • Shimura • Maro |
| Hayama Residence | Fuyuki Hayama • Natsumi Hayama |
| School Friends | Tsuyoshi Ohki • Fuka Matsui • Aya Sugita • Aono Ohki • Hisae Kamayai • Mami Suzuki • Mitsuya • Morio Tanaka • Principal Narunaru • Sengoku • Shinichi Gomi • Sumirei Ando |
| Showbiz Friends | Naozumi Kamura • Asako Kurumi • Zenjiro |
| Other | Isao Ohki • Keiko Sakai • Koharu Hayama • Mariko Sakai • Mrs. Sasaki • Principal Kamura • Ryousuke Motodana • Yuta Takaishi |