| “ | You let your pride get the better of you, Ichiji. Go cool off a bit, Niji. Your problem is that you always rush into things, Yonji. | „ |
| ~ Reiju to her brothers. |
| “ | We can't just abandon our allies... | „ |
| ~ Reiju |
Vinsmoke Reiju is a supporting character in the One Piece franchise. She was one of the tritagonists of the Whole Cake Island Arc.
She is the eldest child and only daughter of the Vinsmoke Family. She is Sanji's beloved sister and the princess of Germa Kingdom. She is also mercenary and one of the four commanders of Germa 66.
Due to her father's failed attempt alliance with Big Mom, Reiju and her family lost all ties within the World Government and considered the Vinsmoke Famly as traitors and wanted criminals. With these results of Judge's foolishness, they are now enemies to the World government and Marines.
During the getaway from Whole Cake Island, Reiju (along her father and brother, Ichiji) managed to escape (except for Niji and Yonji who were captured by the Big Mom Pirates). She and Ichiji later go back to Whole Cake Island to rescue Niji and Yonji.
She is voiced by Michiko Neya (who also voiced Otohime in the same series) in Japanese and Alexis Tipton in English, who also voiced Kid Trunks in Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Super, Sun Seto in My Bride is a Mermaid, and Kurumi in Date a Live,
Appearance[]
Reiju is a slim young woman with shoulder-length light pink hair (darker pink in the anime), covering her right eye and curling upwards at the tips. She also has purple eyes (blue in the anime), and occasionally wears light pink lipstick. Like all the Vinsmoke siblings, she has distinctive curly eyebrows that form a spiral resembling the number "6". However, unlike her brothers Sanji and Yonji, her eyebrows appear to swirl symmetrically in opposing directions. Both of her thighs are tattooed with a number "6", referring to the name of the organization "Germa 66".
When commanding the forces of Germa 66, Reiju wears a raid suit, comprising a light pink dress with a split in the center going down to her stomach and her navel, and covered by gold target-shaped symbols - references to the number "0" (Rei) in her name. She also wears dark pink gauntlets, a pair of black headphones with the number "66" on them, and a patterned purple and black cloak shaped like the wings of a moth. Outside of her raid suit, Reiju has been shown wearing a skinny purple headband in her hair, a short white satiny dress with a frilled neckline and a pink cravat, and dark high heels. For formal functions, she also wears a red, thigh-length royal cape that is clasped in front of her neck.
In the Whole Cake Chateau infirmary, Reiju wore a white frilled dress shirt, a dark thong and a bandage wrapped around her left leg.
During the Tea Party, Reiju changed into a short, sleeveless dress with a frilled V-neckline, as well as dark tights that reach halfway up her thighs. She wore a light-colored royal cape draped over a single shoulder. In the anime, her outfit colors are inverted, with her dark shirt being light pink, her thighs are white and her cape is pink. When chaos broke out, she changed back into her raid suit.
As a child, Reiju had shorter hair, but wore a similar dark headband. She has been shown wearing a light pink dress with the letter "Z" on the right side, as well as other dresses featuring the number "0" in various forms. She also usually wore a dark ascot. As the oldest child of her family, she was formerly taller than her brothers before being outgrown by all of them by the time they reached adulthood.
Personality[]
Unlike her foolish father and idiot brothers excluded Sanji. Reiju is a kind and sweet woman as she saved Luffy from death by sucking out poison with mouth-to-mouth and hide him inside with her from Big Mom Pirates. She enacted no brutal actions towards her brother, Sanji, because he is the kindest person she knew. She cares so deeply for her mother, Sora and Sanji. She doesn't considered him as a "failure". She helped Sanji and Luffy to escape from the enraged Big Mom Pirates led by Oven after Luffy defeated Katakuri.
Upon first meeting the Straw Hats, she acts with confidence and elegance; perhaps playing up the intimate nature of her poison removal, she acts flirtatious and playful. While these are true elements of her persona, it is also largely another part of the emotional mask she wears to disguise her thoughts, such as guilt for being involved in Germa 66, as well as disdain for Judge and his delusions of grandeur.
She is far more perceptive than Judge when she felt that something wasn't right with the so-called alliance between her family and Big Mom as she realized that she and her family were actually deceived by Big Mom and her crew as their plan is to kill the entire Vinsmoke Family during the rigged wedding ceremony.
Due to her modifications, she obtained enhanced abilities, but unlike four of her brothers, she retained all emotions; her conscience and emotions were normal, which was either a fact she kept secret from her father, or a "flaw" Judge knew about and aimed to *correct* with his next children. Regardless if her father knew, she hid it from her heartless brothers, and while didn't directly participate in their bullying of Sanji, she echoed their laughter to avoid similar persecution, which was something she felt was horribly selfish of her and she deeply regretted it ever since. Despite her retainment of a soul, she was still forced to kill anyone by her father's orders. She was revealed to be suicidal and she believed her father, herself, and her brothers (excluding Sanji) deserved to die for their family's crimes of conquest, unethical human experimentation, and their actions as mercenaries.
Like Pudding, she acted respectful towards her father and brothers, and pretended to be cruel to Sanji to ensure she won't be abused by father and brothers. But in reality, she secretly bears hatred toward them for what her father has done, even though she cannot disobey his direct orders. After Judge angrily responds to Big Mom when she revealed her betrayal toward him, which drove him to tears at the thought of his dreams of empire collapsing, Reiju acknowledged that it was her father's own fault for his selfishness and immorality for removing her brothers' emotions that turned them into something no longer human - she is felt it poetic that her psychotic brothers' laughter over their predicament was karma taunting Judge. She called Ichiji "not cute" after he rudely called her weak. Despite her hatred toward them, she showed some concern for her father when Big Mom struck him down, and would eventually be willing to risk her life trying to save her captured family members, regardless of her negative feelings about them.
After arrival at Cacao Island, her family desired to get revenge on the Big Mom Pirates for the deception and attempted execution; Reiju was content to aid them in their revenge because it served to help Sanji and his friends escape. She will never forgive those who harm Sanji. She fought bravely and selflessly to aid Sanji and the Straw Hats' escape from Big Mom's forces; unlike before, Reiju felt pride to fight as for once it was on behalf of her only human brother, thereby a cause of compassion, instead of cruelty and greed. Despite her disgust for her genetically enhanced brothers, she was always able to fight cooperatively with them, but was finally able to battle without remorse as the Straw Hats get away.
Abilities and Powers[]
As a Princess of Germa Kingdom, She has the authority over her subjects. Even with her memories rewriting by Pudding, she still retain her memories due to Sanji revealing the truth. She and her family has the right to attend the Levely until due to her father's allegiance with Big Mom only to be betrayed, they were lost connections and power over the Government and Marines.
Physical Strength[]
Due to Modifications, Reiju has superhuman strength. During her childhood, she bends the bars to Sanji's cell. She, along with her three brothers, defeated the Big Mom Pirates squad who invade and attempt to steal their cloning machine.
Reiju has extraordinary healing factor which recovers faster after got shot by Pudding with candy jacketed bullet which penetrate armor such as the Vinsmoke children's exo-skeleton.
Medical Experience[]
Reiju has great medical treatment as she tended Sanji countless time during his childhood and his fight with Judge.
Poison Pink[]
While with her Raid Suit, Reiju's abilities is poison, and as such she is also immune to any poison. She considered poison as her treat when doing mouth to mouth sucking out poison from food poisoning after Luffy ate a poison armored fish. Her poison is deadly that could kill anyone who came into contact such as Big Mom Pirates' cannon soldiers who trying to kill Sanji and Luffy with Bazookas. Smoothie is the only one who could dehydrate poison with her Shibo Shibo no Mi as a cure.
Weaknesses[]
- Candy Restrainment: Without her raid suit, Reiju can be defenseless by Candy detainment such as Nitro's sweet body and Perospero's candy.
- Candy Jacketed Bullets: Though Reiju is immune to normal bullets, she is vulnerable to armor-piercing rounds and candy jacketed bullets after Pudding shot her in the leg cause to bleed.
- Deception and Betrayal: Due to her father's arrogance of attempting conquer the entire North Blue, he was easily deceived and didn't expect a betrayal from a much more powerful organization such as the Big Mom Pirates and the World Government for their attempted alliance with Big Mom only to be betrayed by them. Even though Luffy's infiltration squad helped the Vinsmokes avoid death at the Tea Party, they had still chosen to enter the deepest territory of the Big Mom Pirates, and lacked the forces to either defeat or flee from them.
- Depression: Similar to Sanji, she feels ashamed for being a child of Vinsmoke Judge. She also suffers guilt and self-hatred for both allowing her other brothers to endlessly bully Sanji, and then her fighting as a member of Germa 66.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- She is the only of Sanji's siblings that actually cares for Sanji.
- Even though it was to remove poison to save his life - akin to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - Reiju is the first and only female character in One Piece to kiss Luffy.
- Among the rest of Germa 66, she was captured by the Big Mom Pirates, though her future is more unclear due to Charlotte Linlin's fall. Presumably she will aid her father in rescuing her captured brothers, although it may be unlikely she will remain obedient after it, considering Judge joined Caesar Clown in restarting their old research team as NEO MADS; as morally corrupt as Judge is, Caesar is arguably worse - they both are immoral enough to experiment on children, yet Judge used his own offspring, whereas Caesar had many more kidnapped.
External Links[]
- Vinsmoke Reiju on the One Piece Wiki
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