Magical Girls Explained By Silver~Chan

#56: Chika Aoba

Hello everyone, today we go into the full nature magical girl who loves the natural world; Chika Aoba so let's begin.

(General Info)

Chika Aoba is a Balance type magical girl, her eyes are Blue and her hair is white, Chika's soul gem is a two green leaves tiara located on her head in her magical girl form, she uses Dual Hatchets as her weapon and currently as of writing this, she does not have a doppel/witch form.

Her wish to become a magical girl was for family to live peacefully and surrounded by nature.

Her known relatives are her unnamed parents, and she comes from Hokuyo Ward in Kamihama City and she attends Saint Liliana Academy, and she is with the group; Tokime Tribe.

Her magical girl element is the Forest Element (Definitely matching her nature theme) and her ability is to talk with animals.

(Summary)

A Magical Girl belonging to the Tokime Tribe who loves nature. She was invited by Shizuka and her friends from Tokime's branch village to return to Kamihama, where she used to live a year ago. Due to her deep knowledge of plants and animals, she works as a nature guide while living in the Hokuyo Mountains, surrounded by nature.

(Side Story)

Chika gained a strong distrust for people after her dad became a guarantor for his childhood friend in the village who then disappeared immediately after.

This crushed her happy life so far (loving father and mother with a good job, her essay on nature is good enough to enroll her in St Lilliana Academy which is for the rich and smart) and Kyubey took this opportunity to ask for a contract. She wished for her family to be able to live peacefully surrounded by nature.

Her dad dejectedly decides to move back to the village, something he had not done despite being chased after to repay loans since he did not want to sacrifice his daughter, but realized everything was for naught when he saw her ring. Things went back to normal until Shizuka invited her to Kamihama again.

Chika helps Shizuka elude con-men as they head to the phone stall to buy one for Shizuka. Shizuka respects Chika's careful nature and thanks her for it.

However, Chika is still suspicious of others, even Shizuka, which is why she decides to stay in the woods instead of living together in the temple. A storm destroyed her soon-to-be finished tree house, and she dejectedly decides to seek shelter in the temple.

It is then that Shizuka brings along the whole Tokime Tribe in Kamihama to help Chika finish her house. It seems she never intended to force Chika to do anything, and Chika realized her taking Shizuka's offer is her attempt to give her trust to people she actually can depend on in the city which she used to love. Things end on an upbeat note as the tribe finish the house together.

(Abilities)

Chika's Powers is the Ability to talk to Animals and understand them, she can even talk to birds and fish.

(Etymology)

Her first name "Chika" means "thousand", "wisdom, intellect", "scatter", "Good, fine" and "flower". While her last name "Aoba" means ""blue/green" and "leaves" Considering the shape of her soul gem when transformed, they may be a reference to the meaning of her last name.

(3 Facts about Chika Aoba)

Fact#1: In the game; her last name is spelled with this Kanji; "ちか" but the data records show her first name as being spelled with this Kanji;

"知花"

Fact#2: Her designer is U35, who is also illustrator of the Magia Record Another Story manga adaptation.

Fact #3: Her VA is Marina Yamada who you may know for roles such as Pino in Jashin-chan Dropkick series, Maaya in Bem, Makoto Miysaka in Sayonara Watashi no Cramer and Suiu Fujiwara in Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It.

(Ending)

And that's Chika Aoba. Next time we will get to another friend of Yachiyo who passed away before the start of Magia Record; Kanae Yukino, so see you next time.