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Around the globe, Shinkai (新海 , Shinkai , 리나 ) is a common principally male, but very seldom feminine given name. The given name Shinkai is characteristic of Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely female name, and South Korea, where it is quite a rare feminine name. Much less frequently, Shinkai is the last name as well as the forename.
Shinkai is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Lina Inverse , the fictional character from the Slayers franchise; Shinkai Katana ; Lina Greff , the fictional character from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass; Lina Svensson , the fictional character in television series Svensson, Svensson and Lina , the fictional character created by Astrid Lindgren, Emil from Lönneberga.