Shina Ninomiya

Shina Ninomiya (二ノ宮 しいな Ninomiya Shīna) is the female protagonist of Death end re;Quest and a supporting and playable character in Death end re;Quest 2. She was the project director of World's Odyssey, but her sudden disappearance contributed to the closure of the project. After a mysterious e-mail is sent to colleague Arata Mizunashi a year later, the duo sets out to clear the game and return Shina to her body.

Developing World's Odyssey
Shina lost her mother at a young age, and it is implied that she has been without her parents or any other family for quite some time. At approximately 19 years old, she found herself as the head of Enigma's World's Odyssey project, an ambitious Virtual Reality MMO using Aggle Inc's revolutionary "Alice Engine." For two years, she worked closely with lead programmer Arata Mizunashi and also struck a friendship with Lydia Nolan. Arata notes that while she never outwardly showed any signs of stress during the project's many pitfalls, there were almost certainly times where she closed herself into the restroom and cried alone.

Suddenly, she disappeared right when irreparable bugs plagued W.O.D. The combination of events led to Aggle pulling their funding, which led to the formal cancellation of World's Odyssey.

Shina's ending
In Shina's ending, time has reversed to before Shina began working for Enigma. Rin introduces Shina as the new director, and upon seeing each other, Arata and Shina's memories return of the previous timeline, and the two smile happily at each other. Iris also becomes Shina's little sister, and it is specified that Shina had been reborn as a Luden. World's Odyssey also merges with the real world.

Death end re;Quest 2 events
In the game event, Shina Ninomiya is working in the Wordsworth as a maid, her job is to investigate Midra and the town of Le Choara and to find Arata Mizunashi after he goes missing. She finds Mai, Rottie and Liliana to be cute and is seen overly obsessing over them in private.

Other Notes

 * Mary Skelter 2 gives Little Mermaid and Alice (not to be confused with Death end re;Quest's Alice) costumes based on Shina as part of its "Death End Attire" cross-promotion. Little Mermaid's costume is based on Shina's World's Odyssey avatar, while Alice's costume is based on Shina's attire outside of World's Odyssey. Alice and Little Mermaid are the secondary protagonists of Mary Skelter: Nightmares and Mary Skelter 2 respectively, and Shina bears a physical resemblance to Alice in particular.
 * Shina appears in the game Mega Miracle Force as two characters. The first reuses her Death end re;Quest render, whilst the second is a special Christmas version of Shina.

Etymology

 * Shina's surname Ninomiya means "two" (二) (ni) and "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (miya).