Chisato Nishikigi is the main protagonist of the anime series Lycoris Recoil. She is a worker at Café LycoReco with her partner and best friend Takina Inoue, the deuteragonist, and they go together on missions working as Lycoris.
She was voiced by Chika Anzai in Japanese and Lizzie Freeman in English.
What Makes Her Pure Good?[]
- Unlike other Lycoris, Chisato is heavily committed to using exclusively non-lethal means to neutralize her opponents, and even heals them from their wounds after shooting them.
- She's very kind and selfless and wants to help people, refuses to kill anyone, and runs an establishment to help the poor and downtrodden in society. She just wants to make everyone happier, even those who have done her wrong.
- Helps Takina a lot in her character development; thanks to Chisato's kindness, indeed, Takina becomes a much better, empathetic and selfless person outside and inside their job as government-sponsored counter-terrorism agents.
- Goes on missions along with Takina to protect the lives of the civilians from dangers and crimes, especially terroristic attacks.
- Along with Takina she saves Saori from a group of stalkers, and prevents Takina from killing said group of criminals, by shooting them with non-lethal bullets and healing them from injuries.
- Saves Takina's life when she's going to be killed by assassin Silent Jin.
- Keeps rushing in to help others and fighting against evil criminals until her final fight with terrorist Majima.
- Chisato has an artificial heart since childhood, transplanted into her due to a congenital heart disease. When it's revealed Chisato needs a new artificial heart to keep living, given her first artificial heart's limited life span, and it's also revealed that the artificial heart that exists has been transplanted into Shinji (the man who gave her the artificial heart at the time) Takina attacks Shinji willing to kill him to get the heart for Chisato; then, though, Takina is about to die as Shinji is going to shoot her while she hangs from a ledge, and Chisato saves Takina by shooting Shinji (and since she doesn't have her non-lethal weapon, she makes sure she hits him in a non-vital spot).
- She's willing to sacrifice herself as it's revealed that her artificial heart has a limited life span, and it's revealed Shinji has it; as Chisato considers Shinji as her savior - though the man, wanting her to be a killing machine, really gave her the artificial heart as he wanted her to live longer due to her potential assassin skills, and is very disappointed with Chisato not killing anyone - she just finds it terrible that Shinji should die to let herself keep living, so she is willing to die to let Shinji keep living. Though, in the end, Mika arrives and kills Shinji to finally allow the surgery to get the artificial heart transplanted into Chisato.
External Links[]
- Chisato Nishikigi on Wikipedia
- Chisato Nishikigi on the Heroes Wiki
- Chisato Nishikigi on the Lycoris Recoil Wiki
- Chisato Nishikigi on the Love Exalted Wiki