Read more about Chisato Nishikigi at: Wikipedia Official Site: Spider Lily is a character from the Japanese anime television series Lycoris Recoil, created by Spider Lily and Asaura. Chisato is seen as the most powerful agent among the Lycoris, a group of trained young female agents of the Direct Attack organization assigned to maintain the peace and stability of Japan, being able to dodge bullets and possessing abnormal reflexes. Despite her expertise and membership, Chisato is a pacifist and wants to live a fulfilling, peaceful life, putting her at odds with the Direct Attack's secretive and lethal ways. At the beginning of the series, she becomes the partner of Takina Inoue after the latter was transferred to Café LycoReco for disrespecting orders, teaching the latter the approaches of pacifism and getting her to enjoy living a life outside of being an agent. Chisato was originally meant to be more serious, however this was changed to her being a cheerful and optimistic character to make her likable to the audience and her ability to dodge bullets was created as Shingo Adachi felt that only making her be able to use a gun would be too difficult. She is voiced by Chika Anzai in Japanese and Lizzie Freeman in English. Critical reception for Chisato has been positive, with praise owing to her characterization and chemistry with Takina. Chisato's characterization was the staff's first priority and series director Shingo Adachi notes it feels as if she is writing herself on her own. Adachi also felt that Chisato should be more humanizing to make her likable to the audience and express more due to her status as a main character. Adachi describes Chisato as an intelligent, yet normal kid, not having answers to anything but following what is right in her heart, believing that her words is what drives the story forward. He also wanted her to speak after a moment of thinking, finding unnecessary dialogue and
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Chisato Nishikigi
