Introduction

Rika Minami (Minami Rika) is Shizuka Marikawa’s best friend and roommate who works as a sharpshooter for the prefectural police.

About

Rika is the prefecture police chief of the first squadron and a skilled shooter in the Special Assault Team tasked with clearing the Tokonosu Offshore International Airport of any zombie stragglers. Shizuka is a close friend of hers, and she desires to go help her during the epidemic.

Appearance

Rika has purple hair and is tanned. She appears to be dressed in a black battle suit with a bulletproof vest. She also has a white choke collar on and is wearing shooting glasses. She wears a white sports bra underneath her military suit.

History

Rika’s past is unknown at this point, save for the fact that she has known Shizuka for a long time and that the two are housemates.

Personality

Rika’s demeanor might be described as direct and laid-back. She shows that she is quite open about the issue of sex with Tajima several times in both the anime and manga, but she always refuses his advances. She is also a calm and cool individual with incredible shooting abilities, as evidenced by her standing among the top five shooters in the country. She is shown as a devout Christian with high regard for her companions.

Plot

Street of the DEAD

When the epidemic occurs, Rika and Tajima (Rika’s companion) is dispatched to the Tokonosu Offshore International Airport to protect the region and allow planes to depart. The airport is mostly occupied by local VIPs or airport maintenance staff. Despite the fact that the airport is on an island, there is a partial infection of Them on the island. It’s thought that one of the families had been infected before they arrived. She spends most of the day on her stomach, snipping Them off the runway to allow aircraft to take off. Her breasts get numb as she spends so much time on her stomach. She informs Tajima that she is returning to the city for her friend, not for a lover.

Guns n’ Dead

The days pass, and all of the planes have vanished. She’s baffled as to why they’re shooting them rather than blasting them. Their squad commander summons her and Tajima, and they reconvene to devise a strategy. They have a large arsenal of weaponry, but there aren’t enough trained personnel to utilize them. A plan is devised to take one of the fuel tankers, drive it through the zombies, spray fuel on it, and then set it on fire. This mission is taken on by Rika and Tajima. Tajima sprays the fuel while she drives the tanker, utilizing her expertise in hot wiring a car that she learned while working in the traffic division. She grows skeptical as she gets further away as to why she hasn’t heard from Tajima. Tajima has been bitten on the leg, which surprises her. She asks if he has any last requests, remarking that they don’t have enough space for sex, but he says he doesn’t have the energy to feel up her breasts. He hands her his MP5 and remains to light the gasoline, taking the tanker with him. She gives him a salute and tells him he was an excellent partner before departing. She fights to go back to the terminal on her own.

She explains what has transpired back at the airport and asks that Tajima be promoted posthumously if they survive the pandemic. Rika receives a phone call shortly after from Shizuka, who is on the run with several of her pupils and has seized some of her firearms. Rika’s telephone unexpectedly fries in her grasp before she can find out where Shizuka is. She soon recognizes the cause when she looks up at the unexpected brilliant light in the sky. An EMP burst was caused by a nuclear weapon that was launched by a foreign country and detonated in the atmosphere. All of the electronics in the neighborhood have stopped working. A distressed civilian approaches her for assistance, but all she can say is that the nights are only going to grow worse from here.

Deadlock

Rika maintains her position until the JSDF arrives, and she is credited as being one of the few humans that survived. After completing her assignment, the only thing left for her to do was go into town and find Shizuka.

Weapons

Rika has access to a number of weaponry as an SAT police officer. The Heckler & Koch PSG-1, an accurized semi-automatic variant of the German G3 military rifle developed for competition, military, and police usage is the weapon she uses professionally. It has a length of 1230mm, a weight of 7.2kg, and shoots the 7.62x51mm NATO Cartridge. The Hensoldt ZF6X42PSG1 is the sighting system. A 9mm SIG Sauer P226 handgun serves as her sidearm. A red-dot sight and a tactical flashlight are included.

Rika possesses a number of guns, some of which are very illegal in Japan even when fully manufactured. Each weapon has been individually customized by her. She has a Springfield M1A Super Match rifle, an Armalite AR-10  rifle that has been converted to look like a Knights Armament SR-25, an Ithaca M-37 shotgun, and a Barnett Wildcat C5 crossbow. All of these weapons were kept locked up at her house and stolen by Shizuka and the survivors. She’s also the proud owner of a Humvee M1025.

Conclusion:

Rika Minami is a talented young artist who has a bright future ahead of her. Her unique style and approach to art are sure to make her one of the most sought-after artists in the industry. I look forward to seeing more of her work in the future.