Reiko (れーコ, Reiko) is a nurse that works at the Kawai Hospital. She was briefly Tatsuya Kimura's love interest.
History[]
Part I[]
Challenge for the Throne Arc[]
Reiko arriving for the group date.
After Ippo Makunouchi won against Alexander Volg Zangief, Reiko was Ippo's nurse when he was sent to the Kawai Hospital from the injuries he received during the fight. During his stay there, Mamoru Takamura, Tatsuya Kimura, and Masaru Aoki arranged a group date with Reiko, who invited Kumi Mashiba, Tomiko, and Megumi to go with her.
Over the course of the date, Kimura, Aoki, Takamura, and Ippo competed against each other in bowling at the Rosa Bowl in order to find out which girl they would be walking home with, with the highest score being the first to pick. When the competition ended, Kimura picked Reiko. The next day in the gym, Kimura was hitting the sandbag motivated by Reiko, who promised to watch his next match. Afterwards, Kimura and Reiko apparently call each other frequently as stated by Aoki.
Road Back Arc[]
Reiko with her boyfriend congratulating Kimura after he won.
Reiko came by the gym to visit and asked Kimura for some tickets to Ippo's match against Ponchai Chuwatana that he was an under card for. After Kimura handed her the tickets, he told her that the posters for the event were ready and wanted to give her one. But when he took a good look at a poster from the group of them, he sees that it, and all of the other posters has been vandalized by Takamura, who had just pranked Ippo and Aoki due to Genji Kamogawa's convalescence, angering Kimura and prompting Reiko to calm him down.
Later on, when Kimura's match was starting after Aoki won his, he is motivated to fight after hearing Reiko cheering for him in the crowd, but is shocked to see that Reiko had brought her boyfriend with her to cheer for Kimura. This crushed Kimura's dreams of a relationship with her, and also affected him negatively during the match. Even though he won, he tearfully went back to the waiting room as Reiko congratulated him from the crowd, still holding her boyfriend's arm.
Trivia[]
- Kimura ends up naming his pet fish Reiko after her.
- It is unknown how long Reiko had been dating her boyfriend, since it was presumed she was single when she had attended the group date, and despite talking with her ever since, Kimura never knew about the boyfriend until his match.
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