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Introduction
A Magical Girl who has trouble opening up to others. Rena acts cocky to make up for her lack of self-confidence, which leads people who don't know her well to misunderstanding her. She's a picky eater and loves sweets. She is also a big fan of idols.
Buffs target Attack by 35% . (1 turns)
Buffs target Accele MP Gain by 40% . (1 turns)
60% Chance to Increase Critical Hit chance for target. Critical Hits deal 2x damage. (1 turns)
Buffs target Attack by 40% . (1 turns)
Buffs target Accele MP Gain by 50% . (1 turns)
70% Chance to Increase Critical Hit chance for target. Critical Hits deal 2x damage. (1 turns)
Deals 680% damage (+10% per magia level) to the target.
Restore 30% (+1% per magia level) MP.
Deals 720% damage (+10% per magia level) to the target.
Restore 35% (+1% per magia level) MP.
Buffs Accel MP Gain by 25% (+2.5% per magia level) (3 turns).
Doppel
Doppel: Deals 1760% damage to the target.
Buffs Accel MP Gain by 40% (3 turns).
Draft & Supervision: Idea/Supervision: Gekidan InuCurry (Doroinu)
Doppel Detail (May Contain Spoiler)
The master of this emotion uses its power to their utmost content. This Doppel enhances the transforming ability of its possessor manyfold, allowing her to transform into someone else for a certain amount of time. The result of this transformation is truer to the ideal image of the person than the actual person it is based on. However, because the transformation is so perfect, if it is used too much, the user is likely to lose track of their own identity. It turns the user into the ideal state of its target, so it sometimes appears slightly different from the original.
Personal Memoria
Buffs MP Gain by 25% (1 turn).
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Analysis
Henshin Transformation Video
PvE Stories Pros and Cons
Strong Connect
Rena is an attack type unit, so she has great attack stats and she has the added advantage of three Accele discs. Her connect increases attack as well as increasing critical hit chance so she can really boost the attack power of common magia building teams and works well as an attack unit in non-blast oriented teams.
Her connect also increases the MP gained from Accele discs, making her a powerful ally in a magia-based team.
Powerful Magia
Renas's high attack and the fact that her magia not only increases the amount of MP she gains from Accele discs, but also generates MP for Rena means she can easily spam her magia attack repeatedly in battle for an easy victory. Her magia's only drawback is it hits only a single target.
Glass Cannon
Since she is an attack unit, the trade-off is she has rather low defense and HP stats so she may die easily unless she has multiple slots or some kind of tank unit to take the damage for her. Otherwise teams of five would be best.
PvP Mirrors Pros and Cons
Strong Connect
Rena's connect increases attack and grants a chance to critical hit. It's basically the connect version of "I Made Friends". However Rena is also a glass cannon with lower HP and DEF, and may have difficulty surviving long enough to use her Connect at all.
Triple Accele Discs
Having 3 Accele discs is not very useful in Mirrors, as it is still difficult to have a Magia ready before dying, and Magia damage is nerfed in Mirrors.
Memoria Recommendations
Iroha of the Midsummer Beach
Nagisa's Declaration of Independence
It's Not Like I Was Waiting
Any cards that can boost Rena's ability to gain MP is a must.
"Midsummer Beach" will boost her MP gain as well as increasing her attack stats.
"Prided Haregi" and "Nagisa's Declaration" will both increase her ability to gain MP as well as increasing her magia damage.
"Waiting" will increase the MP that can be gained from accele discs whereas "Dramatic Taste" and "Antithetical Existence" will increase MP gain overall.
In-Game Sprite
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Costumes
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Magical Girl
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School Uniform
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Christmas
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Swimsuit
Lore
Magical Girl Background
Magical Girl Background (May Contain Spoiler)
A tsundere magical girl who hides her lack of confidence behind a boastful attitude.
Rena Minami can come off poorly to others due to her inability to express herself. Her favorite hobby is following female idols, in particular Sayuki Fumino. Due to her father’s job constantly moving them around, Rena was bullied a lot throughout school. Kyubey appeared and she wished to become someone else. Despite her wish granting her the ability to change into others, Rena realized that she herself never changed.
She became good friends and teammates with Momoko Togame after they met at an idol concert. One day, Momoko informed Rena of a magical girl named Kaede Akino who she helped out a few times. Momoko asks Rena if she wouldn’t mind adding Kaede to their team, but Rena gets angry inside, hating the idea and hating herself for thinking like that. The next day Momoko invites Rena to a cafe which cheered up Rena, as she was worried that Momoko was forcing herself to be with Rena, only for her to see Kaede sitting with her. Rena gets upset and tells them they can just be a team together without her and storms off.
She ignores Momoko for a week and decides that Momoko is probably sick of her and she’d be better off dead. She allows a witch to attack her but is saved at the last second by Kaede. Momoko arrives soon after and they defeat the witch. Rena runs off again after calling Kaede an “idiot” and doesn’t answer her phone for another week. When she later sees Momoko, she transforms into Kaede since she couldn’t avoid her. Momoko thanks ‘Kaede’ for helping her look for Rena and wishes they could all get along. She then asks ‘Kaede’ the same thing, except she calls her Rena. Realizing the jig is up, Rena apologizes for having been jealous of Kaede. Kaede arrives, and then Rena to allow Kaede to be her teammate…...provided she becomes her servant. Momoko chides her, but Kaede says she’d be happy to if it means they can all be together.
Read more of Rena's story on the Puella Magi Wiki.
Doppel Background
Doppel Background (May Contain Spoiler)
Cendrillon is the French name for Cinderella. The most famous version of this story is Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre by Charles Perrault in 1697. The glass slipper is unique to Perrault's version and its derivatives; in other cultural versions of the tale it may be made of other materials such as gold.
From constant analogy, the word Cinderella has come to mean someone who is unrecognized or comes to success after a period of neglect or obscurity. Rena was constantly moved from school to school and never felt like she belonged anywhere. She was often teased and ridiculed by her schoolmates much like Cinderella was often bullied by her stepsisters.
A Cinderella complex is based on the idea that a woman is beautiful, polite, hardworking, and independent. This individual is often belittled or outcast by the females in her society, but she is not capable of changing her situation by her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male. Rena was unhappy and often bullied by her female classmates so she made a wish to the male Kyubey in order to change who she was. However, she changed only her outer, physical appearance and remained the same kind of person. Even Rena acknowledges that her personality didn’t change.
A large mirror protrudes from the doppel and during her transformation, Rena stares into the mirror as a ghastly reflection grins back at her. Physically, mirrors reflect light and thus the world around us. In terms of symbolism, mirrors reflect the truth. However, due to the myth of Narcissus and other tales, some cultures from the Renaissance onwards associate mirrors with vanity and deception rather than truth and prudence. Mirrors can be dishonest, carriers of pure illusion. A girl’s beauty can also be an illusion that is as shallow as her reflection in a mirror.
In keeping with the original Faustian theme of the original anime series, Faust looks into a magic mirror and sees a woman who he comes to idolize. He has fallen in love with the ideal of a woman without actually knowing who she is. Cendillon’s description fits in with this in that it transforms Rena into her ideal image of a person which can appear quite different from the original person in question.
On the doppel's head is a wreath of blue flowers. According to Russian and Ukrainian tradition, a flower wreath is meant to signify a woman’s purity and were associated with virginity, marriage, and womanhood.
Cendrillon also possesses green beads, with green being the color of jealousy. Rena’s side story shows her to be very jealous and possessive when she believes that Momoko Togame prefers Kaede Akino as a friend to her without realizing Momoko can be friends with both of them.
The pink bows in Cendrillon’s hair indicate a need to curb excessive emotions, which fits right in with her tsundere attitude and how she often acts rashly.