Tadashi Miyamoto

Tadashi Miyamoto (宮本 正, Miyamoto Tadashi) is a police officer working for the public safety department, the husband of Kiriko Miyamoto and the father of Rei Miyamoto who first appears in Chapter 30.

Appearance
Nothing is known about Tadashi's appearance as he has not been physically present in either the manga or anime yet.

History
Tadashi is a police detective who conducted an investigation on a corrupt politician named Ichirou Shido. In order to humiliate and get Tadashi to back off, Ichirou phoned Koichi Shido (Ichirou's son) to have Rei Miyamoto repeat the grade. Tadashi was devastated and pinned the blame solely on himself, telling his daughter that it was his fault that she had to repeat the grade (though Rei revealed to Shido that she knew the truth all along). He told her that he would be able to arrest the Shido’s if his investigation went smoothly. However, before the police could find evidence to convict Ichirou, the Outbreak occurred.

Personality
Rei Miyamoto describes Tadashi as a proud man who "never once knew failure" before Koichi Shido flunked his daughter, causing him to blame himself and telling his daughter that it was his fault that she had to be held back a year. It can be interpreted from Rei's annecdote that Tadashi is a genuine man who admitted his indirect part in causing Rei being held back a grade, and his subsequent apology further supports the evidence that he is a genuine individual.

Plot
When the outbreak happened, Rei Miyamoto decided to call her father using Takashi Komuro's cellphone, but the signal was too weak for Rei 's voice to go through; Tadashi's voice was loud and clear on Takashi's cellphone. His last words to his daughter via cellphone were to escape Tokonosu and find a place to hide. In Chapter 28, his handwriting is found on a whiteboard warning anyone in the station to head to the school for a evacuation and at the end of said chapter, a man in the background is asking for a "Assistant Inspector Miyamoto", indicating he is still alive and one of the men running the survivors at the school.

Etymology

 * The name Tadashi means "right, proper" (正).
 * Tadashi's surname Miyamoto means "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (miya) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (moto).