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Tadashi Miyamoto (宮本 正, Miyamoto Tadashi) is a police officer working for the public safety department, the father of Rei Miyamoto, and the husband of Kiriko 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 began, 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; whereas Tadashi's voice was loud and clear on Takashi's cellphone. Before the call ended, his last words were "to escape Tokonosu and find a place to hide". In Chapter 28, his handwriting is found at the East Precinct on a whiteboard warning anyone who find this message to head to the Shintoko Third Elementary School for an organized evacuation and at the end of said chapter, someone off-screen at the school is asking for an "Assistant Inspector Miyamoto", indicating that he is very likely still alive and is one of the people who's managing the survivors at the school.
Etymology[]
- The name Tadashi means "right, proper, just, true, honest, positive, correct, exact" (正).
- Tadashi's surname Miyamoto means "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (miya) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (moto).