Reimi Sugimoto
Reimi Sugimoto (杉本 鈴美, Sugimoto Reimi) is a key character featured in Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable. She is Yoshikage Kira's first victim, and as a ghost, chose to stay on earth in hope of finding someone to help her bring Kira to justice.
Synopsis
History
Reimi Sugimoto was the neighborhood of Rohan Kishibe when he was 4 years old. One day she attended as his babysitter while his parents had a important thing to attent to, and that day the murderer Yoshikage Kira entered the house. She found Arnold´s corpse and realized her parents were killed, so Reimi saved Rohan by letting him escape by the window while she received a deep cut in the back and died. Living as a ghost bounded with an alley, Reimi and Arnold wait the day they can find someone who could hear their story and report Kira to the police before more teenage girls are killed
Diamond is Unbreakable
Reimi finally finds someone with a supernatural ability who can see her: Koichi Hirose and Rohan. Even though Rohan doesn´t remember her, Reimi tells her story and asks them to report Kira to the police. Refusing at first, Rohan agrees to help after knowing the killer is still alive and warms the stand user´s of Morioh about him. Reimi then remains in the valley, seeing Shigekiyo Yangu´s soul go to heaven after his dead by Kira.
After Kira's death his soul is transported to the ghost alley, where Reimi tries to trick him to look back and be dragged to the afterlife. When he discovers her plan, Arnold is the one who forces him to look back and be dragged by hundreds of hands. Finally in peace, the ghost alley she used to live in disappears and she presumably ascends to Heaven along with Arnold.
Trivia
- The story she tells about the night she died is possibly a direct lift of the old "Humans can lick too" horror story.
- From being read by Heaven's Door; Her three sizes are 82-57-84, there's a mole on the side of her left nipple, her first period came when she was 11 years and 9 months old and the first time she kissed a boy she got the tongue put inside.
- She is named after Emily, a ghost girl that inspired Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd to write a song called "See Emily Play". Reimi is a Japanese anagram of "Emily" (Reimi= Emiri= Emily). Her name was also changed to begin with "Rei", which is also Japanese for "spirit" or "ghost".
- Arnold is named after an early era Pink Floyd single, "Arnold Layne".
