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| “ | In my whole life, nobody ever made me feel welcomed. But... that's exactly what he did. Maybe I'm just a plaything. Maybe he'll get bored and toss me out. But even so, for one day, he made me part of his family. | „ |
| ~ Chise on her initial impression of Elias. |
| “ | I'm stuck. That's why I want to go. I want to find solutions other than self-sacrifice. If I can do that, then maybe I stop hurting others. And it's not just me, what I learned might help someone else. Someone like me who didn't know there was another way to live. | „ |
| ~ Chise to Elias on why she wants to go to the College. |
| “ | You are free to do what you want. Being free is not an easy thing, but even if you make mistakes or fail, you will always have another chance. | „ |
| ~ Chise Hatori to Philomela. |
Chise Hatori (羽鳥 智世), is the titular main protagonist of the manga and anime series of The Ancient Magus' Bride.
She is a Sleigh Beggy who can passively absorb and generate almost unlimited magical energy. However, she has a frail body and would often collapse if she use too much magic, though this happen less often in the College arc. Her past started off as part of a happy, albeit poor, family with her parents and younger brother living a fairly normal life until her father decided to leave the family along her younger brother for unexplained reasons, which led her mother to commit suicide, leaving Chise all alone. An auctioneer named Seth Noel convinced her to sell herself, which lead her to meet her teacher and later husband, Elias Ainsworth.
She is voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki in Japanese and Dani Chambers in English.
What Makes Her Pure Good?[]
General[]
- While she started off as a depressed and pessimistic girl, she was never aggressive and she quickly developed into a much more optimistic and compassionate person.
- She goes out of her way to help both other people and creatures alike, even if it means risking her life to do so.
- She is often sympathetic towards people who had suffered from their tragedy, such as Alice who had to live in the streets because of her abusive father, Philomela, who had suffered from the constant abuse of her grandmother, and even Joseph, who had physical agony from his immortality curse.
- While there were times where she had fights with Elias (the worst one being over Elias' attempt to sacrifice Stella as part of a ritual in order to remove Chise's Dragon Curse), she often forgives him shortly after.
Those Awaiting a Star OVA[]
- As an orphaned child, she fulfilled Riichi Miura's promise to return the book back to Mayumi Niikura.
Season 1[]
- She refused to go to the Fairy Dimension with Jade Ariel, to the point that she even gripped her arm so much that she bled, because she sees Elias as her new family.
- She apologizes to Angelica for creating so many crystal flowers in her workshop.
- Despite only meeting with Nevin for about an hour or so, she felt sympathetic towards him when he passed away and turned into a tree, so sympathetic to the point Chise collapsed and passed out.
- She saved Ariel when the latter had been held hostage by Renfred.
- Even though it was to no avail, she tried to stop Mina from entering the wooden house as she sensed the horror inside which revealed her husband Matthew butchering hundreds of cats.
- Instead of erasing Mina and Matthew's souls, she cleansed their souls and finally gave them peace.
- She protected Ruth from Alice while knocking Alice out without harming her.
- She healed Ruth's wounds with her medicines.
- She pushed Alice out of the way from Joseph's incoming impalement, taking the blow instead.
- Stopped Elias from going berserk against Joseph, despite in his more beastly form.
- In addition, she was unfazed with his beastly form, rather more worried about Silky getting angry over Elias potentially breaking the front door in his beastly form.
- She lets Ruth become her familiar and makes him a new family member.
- She teaches Elias about human emotions.
- Despite Alice antagonizing her a while ago, she quickly understands Alice's upbringing, showed no ill-will towards her and quickly became friends.
- She creates a fairy salve and give it to the elder Joel before he passed away so he can see Redcurrant, a Leánnan sídhe. She has to stay awake for a week in order for it to work. Because of Chise, Joel is able to happily die in peace knowing he is not alone after all.
- She helps Stella find her younger brother, Ethan, after the latter was kidnapped by Ashen Eye.
- Saves the giant dragon chimera by draining its magic in order to stabilize it, which causes her to gain the Dragon's Curse.
- Despite obtaining it, she does not regret saving that dragon.
- Upon meeting with Phyllis at the witch's covern, she informed Chise that she needed take the chimera dragon's life in order remove the curse. Chise, on the contrary, refused to do it.
- After learning Elias is going to ritual sacrifice Stella in order to remove the curse, she tells the latter to run away from the former as far away as she could (although Chise is unaware that Joseph is possessing Stella at that time).
- She accepted Joseph's deal in order to keep Stella safe.
- After seeing her past because of Joseph, she no longer sees her late mother as a murderous sociopath, but a struggling parent who endured it all for Chise's sake.
- While she still does not forgive her late mother for leaving her, she is thankful to her for letting her live since she would not have meet all of her friends, like Angelica, Simon, Alice, Renfred, Stella, Ruth, Silver Lady and Elias.
- After seeing Joseph's tragic upbringing, she feels immense sorrow for him and wanted to help him despite all of the atrocities he had committed to others.
- She gave him some sort of peace by putting him into a deep slumber instead of a more violent or lethal approach, although it is likely only temporary.
The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm OVA[]
- She helped the lost horse find the Wild Hunt and its owner.
- Explained to Gabriel about his friend, Evan, and his circumstances.
- She, with the help of Elias and Ruth, saved Gabriel when he was captured by the Wild Hunt.
Season 2 (College Arc)[]
- She decided to go to College because she wanted to find solutions without self-sacrifice as well as how to help someone who does not know what freedom is like.
- When she saw Philomela seemingly ill, she offered her ingredients of tea to help her feel better, despite knowing nothing about her at the time.
- Promised Elias to calm the salamander down that went berserk in the magic class.
- During the training camp, she found Lucy knocked out in the middle of the forest, and when told by Elias that she was running low on magic, she transferred some of her own to her since as a Sleigh Beggy, she had plenty of it and enough to still sustain herself.
- While she brutally killed a Nuckalavee, it was done out of self-defense since it was a very malicious Fae that tried to drown her. Additionally, she didn't even do it of her own will since it was the result of her dragon curse activating, turning her arm into a giant claw and slashing them to pieces without Chise being in control of it, which she reacted to in horror afterwards.
- She cut her hair to feed an Each Usige out of gratitude for giving her and Rian a ride to safety.
- After being ambushed by two werewolf assassins, she opened a portal with Lucy, Ruth and Seth to lure them to the hound dogs.
- After witnessing the werewolves being devoured by the hound dogs, she felt sorry for them and tells the dogs to stop, but she was too late to save the male wolf.
- She tells Silky that she needs to stay in the College for a while longer, because if she does not, Lucy would stay in the comatose if she is not around. She also apologized to Silky for having to leave her alone at the house, knowing that she hates being alone.
- When Lucy needed to stay in the nurse's office to regain her strength, Chise took her place in the waste disposal duty.
- When Philomela had fallen ill again during Fabio Zaccheroni's combat training, she lifted and took her back to her dorm room.
- Even though Philomela had been spying on her, she did not see her as an awful person as she can tell in Philomela's eye, she had been struggling in life.
- When Chise was called by Alexandra Heath to come to the nurse's office when a lot of students are sick due to losing their magic power, she formed some Garner Stones to help Ms. Heath create medicine for the ill students.
- She stood up against Kevin for Lucy when he accused her of attacking students in the College without any legitimate evidence.
- She helped Lucy in finding more truth behind the Webster family by looking into her memory.
- She made small ancient runes as gifts for each of her closest friends in the College, unaware that these runes would be the ones that protects them from Philomela's tentacles attacks.
- She accepted Lucy's request in looking into her past during the Webster incident to refresh her memory. There, Chise discovered a remorseful girl the same age as Lucy's.
- She, along with Elias, Ruth, Lucy, Zoe and Isaac, went to the Sargant mansion to try to reach out to Philomela in each others' thoughts by talking about the latter's past trauma after the she was corrupted by the Testament of Carnamagos.
- Before entering Lizbeth's household though, they eventually clashed with Morrigan, then later Lizbeth's guards. Chise has to make a contract with Morrigan in order to protect herself and her friends, and also have the goddess kill of the guards. Despite knowing it was necessary Chise still felt somewhat guilty for being partially responsible for their death.
- She destroyed the ritual circle spell cast by Lizbeth Sargant, thus saving Philomela Sargant from being sacrificed.
- With the help of Lucy and Isaac, she was able to help free Philomela from Lizbeth's curse, allowing her to finally stand up to her grandmother. She would also confront Lizbeth for how abusive and selfish she was towards her granddaughter.
- She helped Philomela get back the Testament of Carnamagos that was inside of the god entity, so she can undo the ritual cast by her grandmother. She asked Elias for a favor, have him transform into his separate beast forms, and giving them a lift. After Philomela got the book back, she, along with Lucy and Isaac, offered some of their magic so she can have enough magic power to undo it.
- After the Sargant mansion incident was over, she welcomes Philomela, Lucy, Zoe, Isaac, and Rian to Elias' house and allows them to stay for a while during winter break.
Post-College Arc[]
- She accepted Lindsey St. George's request in investigating the red dragon rumor, while accompanying his twin kids: Violet and Jasmine.
Trivia[]
- So far, she is the one of two The Ancient Magus' Bride characters to be Pure Good, with the other being Philomela Sargant.
- Fittingly enough, they both had gone through similar character development as they both lost their parents when they were only toddlers and struggled to socialize with others, but eventually gaining more confident and self-esteem thanks to the supports from other people around them.
- Ironically, her English voice actress, Dani Chambers, also voiced Dahlia Hawthorne from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, who's considered Pure Evil and is the polar opposite of her morality-wise.
External Links[]
- Chise Hatori on the Heroes Wiki
- Chise Hatori on the Ancient Magus' Bride Wiki
- Chise Hatori on the Love Exalted Wiki
- Chise Hatori on the Ultimate Good Wiki
- Chise Hatori on the Moral Ranking Wiki