Rei Ryugazaki

Rei Ryugazaki is the main character in the anime series Free!, beginning with Free!, and the light novel High☆Speed！ written by Kouji Ohji. He is a butterfly swimmer and a third-year high school student at Iwatobi High School. Rei is a former member of the Track Club before being recruited by Nagisa Hazuki for the Iwatobi High School Swim Club. After Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana graduate, he becomes the new captain of the Swim Club. Following high school graduation, Rei attends Shimogami University where he is a member of their swim team. Rei is a muscular young man with purple eyes and...

He is an intelligent and logical individual with a penchant for beautiful things, the thought of exuding anything but beauty through his actions causing him to dramatically lose his cool. He is also quite comical when he lets his self-doubt get the better of him. He is, however, a hardworking and de...