Rei Asaka

Rei Asaka (朝香玲 Asaka Rei), also known as "Saint-Juste of the Flowers" ("Hana no Saint-Juste"), is one of the "Magnificent Three" who is known for her social indifference and her many artistic talents, especially musical (She plays guitar and sings in the manga, plays the piano, the flute and violin and acts in the anime. In the anime, she is also shown playing basketball and replacing Kaoru Orihara in at least one game. Episode 16 "Comeback"). Incredibly loyal and devoted to the ones she loves, Rei's destructive relationship with Fukiko Ichinomiya leads her to be troubled, obsessed with death and drug-addicted. Rei is Kaoru's best friend and interacts frequently with Nanako Misonoo, but her relationship with Fukiko prevents her from comfortably maintaining other friendships. The secrets between the two, and Nanako's involvement in them, is one of the major driving plots of the series. She dies late in the series; in the manga she dies by suicide via pill overdose, but in the anime her death is an accident as she falls off of a commuter bridge, into the path of a train (Episode 33). She does this while trying to catch a bouquet of flowers that she purchased for Nanako, which she accidentally drops. Ironically, Rei is the only one allowed, and who has ever seen Fukiko cry (Episode 25 "The Scarlet Lipstick").

Rei is voiced by Sumi Shimamoto.

Trivia

 * Rei's nickname Saint-Juste comes from Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, a Jacobin leader during the French Revolution.