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Rina Tōin (洞院 リナ Tōin Rina) sometimes romanized as Rina Touin is the tritagonist of Mermaid Melody. One of the episodes that centers around her is Episode 62.

History[]

Pichi Pichi Pitch[]

Rina is the Mermaid Princess of the North Atlantic Ocean. She couldn't let go of her past when her kingdom was attacked and destroyed by Gaito. While swimming away, she ran into her best friend, Noel, whose kingdom had also been destroyed. For a while, they traveled together, until Gaito and Yuri caught up with them. They were both about to be captured by Gaito and Yuri until Noel pushed Rina out of the way and told her to get away and find help, allowing her to escape. Because of this, Rina felt guilty for leaving Noel to be captured. Upon learning that Noel had been captured, the mermaids of the Antarctic Ocean, including their princess Caren, incorrectly believed that Rina had abandoned Noel to get to safety. This narrative is proven false when Caren is rescued from the clutches of the Black Beauty Sisters, and so the animosity between them comes to an end.

In Episode 28, Rina is almost tricked by the Black Beauty sisters, who were disguised as Caren and Noel, to join Gaito and be captured; however, with the help of Aqua Regina, she soon breaks out of it. After rescuing the real Princesses, her and Noel reunite.

Pure[]

When Kaito returns to Japan, Rina is appalled when she learns he's forgotten her as well and starts suspecting something might've happened to Kaito. She grows a dislike for Michal just like the other mermaids, because of her jealousy and constant need to be around Kaito. In addition, she couldn't stand Lucia's depressed state for Kaito forgetting about Luchia and the other mermaids.

Rina later receives a letter form her kingdom and is told to return back home soon. A boy her age finds her on the beach reading the letter and crying and seems to take a liking to her. They start meeting more frequently by chance and slowly get to know each other better. The other girls soon realize she's slowly returning the feelings Masahiro has for her and try to get information out of her about it.

One day, when the rest of the princesses Caren, Coco and Noel visit, they notice Rina and Masahiro's behavior and try to learn more about the both of them. They misunderstand Masahiro's actions and think he likes to play around with girls' hearts, however they soon learn that isn't the case and he's only interested in Rina. By the end of the season, Rina and Masahiro have admitted their feelings for each other.

Personality[]

Rina has a very serious and fearless personality. At the beginning of the series, she is seen somewhat of a loner and acts a little bit like a tomboy at first, but later warms up to Lucia, Hanon and Kaito. Because of her "cool attitude" and beauty, Rina is admired by all her classmates, which brings out her honest, intelligent, and loyal nature. Many people believe she has the best voice out of all the mermaids.

Since becoming friends with Lucia and Hanon, Rina has been shown to be the most mature, analytical, and clear-headed out of the trio, allowing her to often act like an older sister to the other two. Her logic has often helped get her and her friends out of tight situations by quickly understanding dangerous situations and thinking about the safest solution possible. Her mindset often aims towards reaching the goal to "get the job done" while focusing on other things afterwards. Throughout the first season, she made it clear that she had no interest in love. Despite this, being single throughout the first season was beneficial for Rina. Her two mermaid friends have had clouded judgement due to their relationships with their lovers, sometimes forcing Rina to step in and act as a guide towards her friends' priorities with friendship, safety, love, and duty. Rina actually outright refused to even have any sort of relationship until after Gaito was defeated, showing her determination and fixed mindset towards her own goals.

After Gaito's defeat at the end of the first season, Rina maintained her cool, calm, and collective demeanor, but she changed herself somewhat as she now allowed herself to open up to others around her. Despite this, all the time she had spent sealing away her thoughts about having a relationship ended up being an obstacle for her. What used to be one of Rina's strongest traits now became one of her most difficult challenges. However, upon meeting Masahiro, she saw that he was also mature, patient, and understanding like her. Overtime, Rina would slowly develop her feelings towards him, and they would eventually establish a strong relationship.

In her spare time, Rina seems to enjoy watching comedy shows. She often tends to watch skits and other shows of that type on television, as well as going out to local comedy performances. Despite this, hidden beneath her lies a traumatic past. A long time ago, Rina had the misfortune of watching her palace being destroyed and, later, seeing her best friend, Noel, sacrifice herself to save her own life. Caren, Noel's twin sister, had a hatred for Rina as a result of mishearing that Rina had abandoned Noel. Because of this incident, Rina has trouble telling people about her personal problems. Even when she tries to explain, she tends to have trouble expressing her problems the way she wanted others to see and understand. Because of this, Rina tends to push others away and spend time alone to think, as shown in episode 27. This caused a temporary strained relationship with Lucia and Hanon, but with the help of Aqua Regina, she finally revealed the truth about her past. This helped Rina to discover forgiveness in herself, giving her the strength to rescue Caren from the clutches of the Black Beauty Sisters and end the animosity with Caren about Noel.

Appearance[]

In her human form, she has grey eyes. But in her mermaid and idol, form she has green eyes. In her human, mermaid, and idol form, she has seaweed green hair, but in her idol and mermaid form it is much longer, she wears her pearl tear around her neck containing her green pearl.

In the Manga, like all other mermaid princesses, her hair gets lighter in her mermaid form, going from seaweed green to a bright lime green. This was very likely changed to give her a more mature look.

Forms and Aspects[]

As a mermaid, Rina has to transform into a human in order to stay on land. When she is facing a sea monster, she transforms into her idol form, Green Pearl Voice, and uses her voice as an offense. Her two songs are Star Jewel and Piece of Love. In the Italian dub she sings Stella Preziosa. In the manga, she uses "Cool Shine Pitch" instead of the "Love Shower Pitch" she uses in the anime, along with the rest of the mermaids.

Human Form[]

Rinas casual outfit213

Rina's human form only differs slightly from her mermaid form. Her hair remains long, reaching to just below her hips and doesn't change color, while her eyes become grey instead of green. Her choice of clothing lean towards the sophisticated and masculine; she's usually in dark slacks or blue jeans, long sleeved or sleeveless dress shirts, and dress shoes. During school, she wears the boys uniform instead of the girls. She is one of the tallest of the mermaid princesses behind Caren and Noel.

Mermaid Form[]

Mermaid Rina

Rina's Mermaid Form

Rina was born on a Saturday, thus making her a green mermaid, with green hair and green eyes. Her outfit is the same as the rest of the mermaid princesses. She wears the similar shell bra, shell locket, a bracelet around one of her upper arms, and double pearl bracelets around one of her wrists and her tail. Rina’s princess outfit was first seen in chapter 14 of the manga. Her outfit is very similar to her regular mermaid outfit. However, some changes are a headband of small, yellow roses, two strings of pearls looped around the base of her tail, and a dress with a cleft and three bows on the side of her tail. Rina appeared in her princess form a second time in chapter 19; this time her dress is identical to everyone else- with both bows and the cleft in her skirts aligned in the center of her front side. In the anime season Pure, during the Summer Green Festival, Rina's princess outfit is the same in chapter 14 but she replaces the rose headband on her head with a crown instead.

Idol Form[]

Rina Idol form stock art

Rina's First Idol Form

When facing enemies, Rina transforms into her idol form, Green Pearl Voice.

Rina suppa idol form

Rina's Second Idol Form

Her first outfit consists of a long light green halter neck dress with a slit on the side ending at the knee, long light green gloves with dark green slightly ruffled cuffs to her upper arm, and high heeled light green sandals. Rina, along with Hanon and Lucia, gained her second outfit in episode 28 when the trio was upgraded by the goddess Aqua Regina. Her second outfit is noticeably different from her first one. Her long dress now is complete with double layers. The first layer is light green and the second is slightly lighter, and she has a seaweed green bow on her right side. Her gloves now have a second layer which are a shade lighter, and the sandals are now have pearls on the straps. She also gains accessories such as a yellow-green pearl bead headband, a watch, and slightly darker green cuffs on the top of her dress. Her hair also lengthens massively. Rina’s second form is more powerful than the first one; it enables her to defeat the Black Beauty Sisters with her new songs.

Transformations[]

Lina Toin gets ready

Rina's transformation is like all the other mermaid princesses. Her pearl becomes her E-Pitch microphone and her body glows and she starts her transformation. Her dress, heeled shoes and afterwards, her gloves transforms. She ends her transformation with a pose. After Aqua Regina gives the trio the upgrade in outfits Rina's transformation is slightly different. First her gloves appear then her dress, which now has a second layer, then her shoes. The long bow that the trio wears is in a slightly different place on Rina. The long, dark green bow is tied on her right hip instead at the back of her waist. A new accessory that is in her new transformation is her golden circlet just above her bangs.

Powers[]

Rinas cool shine pitch phrase in manga

Rina using Cool Shine Pitch in the manga

Like the rest of the mermaid princesses, Rina needs her pearl in order to transform into her idol form. Her pearl is also needed in order to summon Aqua Regina. When in her idol form, her voice was transmitted by a microphone like object called the e-pitch, in order to defeat the enemies. She has two image songs from both seasons of the anime: 'Star Jewel' and 'Piece of Love'. In the Italian dub, her song is 'Stella Preziosa'. Rina use the phrase Cool Shine Pitch to attack enemies in the manga but in the anime she uses Lucia's Love Shower Pitch!

List of songs sung by Rina[]

Etymology[]

  • The name Rina (4) is written in katakana (リナ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (莉奈, 里菜, 莉菜 or 里奈), it could possibly mean:
    • 莉奈 - "white jasmine" (莉) (ri) and "apple tree" (奈) (na).
    • 里菜 - "village" (里) (ri) and "vegetables, greens" (菜) (na).
    • 莉菜 - "white jasmine" (莉) (ri) and "vegetables, greens" (菜) (na).
    • 里奈 - "village" (里) (ri) and "apple tree" (奈) (na).
  • Rina's surname Tōin means "cave, den, grotto" (洞) () and "hospital" (院) (in).

Trivia[]

  • A lot of people - especially translators - confuse Rina's name with "Lina."
  • In Greek Dub, Rina's VA is also Sara, Seira, Nikora, Fuku and Aqua Regina's VA.
  • Like all North Atlantic mermaids, Rina was born on a Saturday.
  • Rina is the second youngest mermaid princess after Seira.
  • Just like Noel, Coco and Seira, Rina never sang a full solo version of Legend of Mermaid in the anime. However, the CD releases of the anime has shown Rina singing a full solo of Legend of Mermaid like Lucia and Hanon.
    • In addition, Rina is the only one of the main trio to have never sung a slow version of Legend of Mermaid in the anime.
  • Rina's Blood Type is A.
  • Rina's second image song, Piece of Love, is unique in two ways:
    • It is one of two image songs that was never sung to defeat a villain, the other being Lucia's Splash Dream.
    • Among the main trio, this is the only image song that was never sung as a duet or trio.
Anime Characters
Mermaid Princesses Lucia NanamiHanon HōshōRina TōinCarenNoelCocoSeiraSara
Supporting Characters Aqua ReginaKaito DōmotoHippoNikora NanamiMadame Taki
Tarō MitsukiRihito AmagiMichal AmagiNagisa ShiraiMasahiro Hamasaki
Season 1 Villains GaitoIzuruEriruYuriMariaShesheMimi
Season 2 Villains MichelShesheMimiLady BatLanhuaAlalaFukuThe Great One
Minor Villains Beyrich's Slit ShellBubble CrabGaleosGiant JellyfishIce Fairy
LionfishMehikariNapoleon FishSardines
Sea CucumberSea SnakeTachi BrothersTropical FishWater Dragons
Minor Characters AuriAyakaCoral SpiritJennifer Houston
KashiwagiKōsuke SakiyaMakotoMamiMeruMeru's MotherMaki
MinkeMomoPipiKura-chanRichardRyoSaoriSomegorōSubaru
YukieYuya Ishibashi
  1. The anime episode air dates roughly match their in series date, so we can assume that her 14th Birthday happens around Episode 22, and her 15th Birthday happens around Episode 75. This means Rina would be 14 by the end of the first arc and 15 by the end of the second.
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