Magical Girls Explained By Silver~Chan

#54: Ranaka Chizu

Hello Everyone, today we are going to talk about the Magical Girl in love with Video Game; Ranaka Chizu so let's begin.

(General Info)

Ranaka Chizu is an Attack Type Magical Girl, her eyes are a Fuchsia color and her hair is black with Indigo shadows, her soul gem is a Fuchsia irregularly shaped gem which is located on her torso, her weapon is a remote controlled bot.

Her witch and Doppel form are not released at the time of this video so it is unknown, her powers are also Unknown. Her wish to become a magical girl was to help an arcade she must have liked from running out of Business; "Make this arcade a holy land so it doesn't go out of business".

Her known relative is her unnamed mother, she comes from Futatsugi City and she attends Sakae General School which she transferred into, she is also part of the Promised Blood's Ryuugasaki Group. Her Element is the Fire Element.

(Summary)

A magical girl who absolutely loves games and arcades, and belongs to Promised Blood. She came to Kamihama to investigate the automatic purification system and the magical girls there, but trouble often occurs because she's a sore loser and bad-mouthed, often causing her to pick fights with others.

(Side Story)

Ranka infiltrated Kamihama to learn about the leaders of Magia Union so she can remove them, and if possible to dissolve the team and make it easy for Promised Blood to smash Kamihama, or at least gather intel.

She gets to meet Rena, then Momoko and Kaede by proxy, but she really hits it off with Rena, becoming friends really quick. Though there are gaps that cannot be mended, like how Ranka thinks the generosity and kindness Momoko trio displayed as they hunt witches (including giving and sharing grief seeds) is built upon her city's suffering.

Despite this, she got really close to Rena and even forgot all about Promised Blood until Juri called her directly since Ranka had not made her regular report. After much struggle, Ranka decides to stay loyal to Promised Blood.

She managed to learn that Yachiyo and Iroha are part of the Union's leadership as the two are confronted by disgruntled black feathers who think they lack the spunk and will to further the system and want Touka and Nemu back as the bosses.

Ranka recklessly tried sniping Iroha and Yachiyo from afar, but the attempt failed since Momoko trio managed to warn them in time. Ranka is actually upset that the Momoko trio, especially Rena, is close to the leadership.

Rena's presence and Ranka slowly calming down made her decide to retreat, though after a long pause assured herself that she will not go soft next time. She looks sadly at the message Rena sent her earlier which she ignored: Rena asking her out to play as she realized the friendship is not meant to be.

(Etymology)

Her first name can be read as "Rank A", implying she's a very good gamer and further emphasizing the gaming theme.

Lanka, or Ranka in Japanese, is a Chinese legend about a woodcutter who encounters two immortals playing a board game (interpreted as Go in later times) in the mountains.

The woodcutter stayed to watch them play, and was given a date fruit to eat so that he would feel neither hungry nor thirsty. As he watched, he fell into a trance, and when he awoke and left the mountains, he discovered that much time had passed, to the point that his axe had crumbled to dust, his family disappeared, and no one remembered his name; the story has thus been compared to that of Rip Van Winkle. Ranka has since become a literary term for Go in Japan. This may relate to Chiharu Hiroe's possible connection to Go, and the game's possible parallels to the territorial battle of Arc 2. (And for some reason it makes me think of a character in a book I recently read - Heart of the Sunwarrior check it but make sure you read the first book because that's a sequel).

Her last name means "wisdom" and "pearl" respectively, "Pearl of wisdom" is a Western idiom referring to a wise saying or piece of advice.

(3 Facts about Ranaka Chizu)

Fact#1: Her illustrator is 'Gaou'.

Fact#2: Her design and weapon have a gaming theme. This may be related to her wish to save an arcade and the fact that she's a gamer.

Fact#3: Ranaka Chizu's VA is Eri Yukimura who you may know from other roles such as Kotoko Imai in Mewkledreamy, Raine in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Anri Teieri in Blue Lock.

(Ending)

And that's Ranaka Chizu. Next time we will talk about the Photographer and School Newspaper editor, Ryo Midori, so see you next time.