Rika Ayano

Rika Ayano
Japanese Name	綾野 梨花 (Ayano Rika)
Voiced by	Japanese: Kanae Ito
ID No:	3031

Rika Ayano is one of the original characters of the 2017 mobile game Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record

General Info

Physical features

• Age: 14
• Height: 153cm
• Eye colour: Red
• Hair colour: Blonde
• Origins: Chuo Ward

Other

• Soul Gem: Red fleur-de-ils (beneath neck)
• Weapon: Compact mirror
• Wish: For the person she likes to fall in love with her (exact wording unknown).
• Ability: Change of Mind (Change what the subject is interested in)
• Witch form:
• Japanese pronoun: atashi (あたし)
• School: Chuo Academy, Ninth Grade

Game Info

Stats, Connect, Magia Data

Rarity Final Lv Type Attribute ★3 → ★4 80 Magia STATS HP ATK DEF Initial 3645 1565 1197 Max at ★3 12305 5396 4098 Max at ★4 15997 7015 5330 Max SE 20254 8354 7422 Disks Connect: Together We'll Be Okay! ★3: Accele MP Gain UP [VI] & Probability Critical [VI] ★4: Accele MP Gain UP [VIII] & Probability Critical [VIII] Magia: Brilliant Beam ★3: Attribute Strengthened Damage All Enemies [III] ★4: Attribute Strengthened Damage All Enemies [V] & Chance to Charm (All / 1 T)

Spirit Enhancement Data

Max Stat Bonuses HP ATK DEF Accele Blast Charge 3★ +% +% +% +% +% +% 4★ +% +% +% +% +% +% SE +% +% +% +% +% +% Spirit Enhancement Doppel Damage UP [I] & Magia Damage UP [I] MP Gain UP When Over 100 MP [I] Doppel Damage UP [I] & Magia Damage UP [I] Doppel Damage UP [I] & Magia Damage UP [I] MP Gain UP When Over 100 MP [II] Chance to Anti-Magia Seal [VII] Chance to Evade [II] MP Gain UP When Over 100 MP [II] Doppel Damage UP [II] & Magia Damage UP [I] Magia Damage UP [II] Chance to Charm on Attack [II] (1T) Magia Damage UP [II] Magia Damage UP [II] Active Ability: Chance to Charm [IV] (All / 1T) [CD: 7 turns]

Summary

A Magical Girl who is into the latest fashion and make-up. Rika appears to be a typical girly girl, but she is actually very seriously in love. She has been secretly admiring the same person for years. A genuine person, she gets along with everyone.

Side Story

Rika is invited to a blind date by Emiri Kisaki. Emiri brings along Hinano Miyako, who just had her heart broken. During the blind date, the boys makes fun of Hinano's youthful appearance and odd speech patterns. Rika sticks up for Hinano, much to the latter's surprise. (It's also revealed Hinano is actually a third year high school student). After the blind date Rika leaves with Emiri and Hinano. Rika admits that like Hinano she also has a broken heart. Hinano realizes she didn't say anything about that and that Emiri told Rika. Hinano then yells at Emiri for telling people embarrassing things about herself. Emiri and Rika reassure Hinano, and Rika adds that Hinano is cool for being able to confess to her crush. In Rika's case, she never confessed and her crush already has someone.

Emiri then suggests that Rika should make a wish. Emiri reveals that herself and Hinano are magical girls, and that they get one wish. She also tells Rika that magical girls have to fight monsters, but brushes it off as a walk in a park. Rika wonders if this is some sort of game, while Hinano chastises Emiri for speaking about magical girls. Rika wonders if she could wish to change a person's feelings, to which Emiri agrees. Hinano warns Rika against becoming a magical girl, but after some prompting from Emiri, suggests that Rika should wish for something that seems impossible and also to think about the price. After Rika leaves Emiri and Hinano, Kyubey appears before her and offers her a contract. Rika thinks about what Hinano and Emiri said to her. She then flashes back to how her crush is dating someone. She elects to become a magical girl, mentally apologizing to Hinano.

Rika muses that her wish was granted and is going out with her crush. Yet she still feels unhappy. Kyubey appears and asks Rika if she can explain what's wrong. Rika admits that even though she's happy, every time the person she loves smiles at her, her chest tightens. Later, Rika fights a witch and meets two other magical girls Ria Ami and Manaka Kurumi. Ria initially thinks Rika has gone berserk, and tells Rika that her fighting style is both dangerous and inelegant. Manaka then points out that Ria didn't have an elegant fighting style either, to Ria's protests. Rika then compares them to a comedy duo and explains she fights witches as a form of stress relief.

Later, Kyubey contacts Rika as she fights another witch and tells her that she's fighting dangerously. Rika is annoyed by this, but then sees Hinano is in the barrier. After the battle Rika praises Hinano, who is shocked to find Rika is a magical girl. Hinano also tells Rika her fighting style is too dangerous, and Rika explains again that it's stress relief. Hinano tells Rika to try something else, but Rika says she can't. Hinano then asks Rika why she's unhappy. Rika explains that while she wished for her love to be fulfilled, she thinks it's all fake. She says that if her crush only likes her because of a magical compulsion, then it might as well be a lie. Hinano then asks why Rika became a magical girl in the first place. Rika explains that if she didn't make a wish she would never have a chance in the first place. When Hinano asks for an explanation, Rika reveals that the person she likes is a girl. Rika asks Hinano if what she said is gross and weird, but Hinano says it's not. Rika wonders how it was so easy to reveal this truth to Hinano.

Rika and Hinano fight together against a witch. Hinano says that Rika is still fighting dangerously, but Rika says she's planning to stop after this. Rika then explains she broke up with her crush. Hinano asks if it was because it was fake love. Rika says that was part of it. She said that for four years she loved her childhood friend, but she remained friends with her. When Kyubey came, Rika admits she should have rejected his contract. She explains that she accepted the contract because when she saw her childhood friend with her new boyfriend, Rika realized that she could never give her friend that same feelings that her boyfriend did. Rika then says that if she breaks up with her friend, then the boyfriend would have a chance.

Rika tells Hinano that her wish caused the girl she liked and her boyfriend to completely forget about each other, as if they never met in the first place. Rika then explains how the boyfriend helped find Rika's lost ticket at a train station. When this happened, Rika realized the girl she likes and her boyfriend were perfect for each other. Rika explains that she's the one who broke them up, so breaking up with her girlfriend is a way of setting things right. Hinano is impressed that Rika had enough willpower to make that decision. Rika says there's one more thing she needs to do. She brings Hinano to her school, and together plants the notebook of Rika's ex-girlfriend in the bag of her ex-boyfriend. They do the same with the boy's notebook and the girl's bag. Seeing the boy and girl meet each other again, Rika says everything is great.

Afterward, Rika tells Hinano that the girl and the boy were like the prince and princess of fairy tale, and therefore destined to be together. Rika isn't sure what that makes her, but then decides she's like her friend's love Cupid. Rika is surprised to see that Hinano is crying - unaware she's crying herself. Rika asks Hinano to laugh again, but Hinano says that no-one could laugh at what happened. Finally, Rika tells Hinano she loves her....but then says it's not that way, as Hinano isn't really her type. Rika then starts laughing, Hinano stops crying, and the two affirm their friendship.

(Rika's story is continued in Ren Isuzu's Side Story.)

Costume Stories

Winter Oufit

Rika and Emiri arrive at the most popular buffet in town. Already there’s a large gathering of people waiting to be let inside. Seeing the huge crowds only gets the girls more fired up to get in and try all the delicious foods. Rika is a bit cold having to wait outside but Emiri assures her the weather will warm up soon enough and then they’ll be inside before they know it. Rika’s not worried and just thinking about it gets her all fired up again. Hinano and Ren watch as they’re friends keep chattering excitedly. Hinano asks Ren if they aren’t talking about the super-limited winter buffet but with words like “cray-cray” and “explode” mixed into their dialogue she’s not sure what they’re talking about. Ren isn’t so sure either.

Once inside Emiri and Rika flit from table to table drooling at all the delicious foods such as cheese fondue, chocolate fondue and all-you-can-eat crab legs. They continue their dialogue in nothing but heavy slang, with Hinano eventually telling them they should learn to speak with real words and not just made up ones. Rika asks if their language is that crazy while Emiri asks Ren (in heavy slang once more) if she can’t understand them just fine. Ren is momentarily taken aback and has to decipher her words for a minute before she can finally respond and tell them they’re a little hard to follow. Rika is surprised to hear this and agrees to try to tone it down a little. Emiri is also surprised and asks Hinano if she isn’t cray also (implying that the terminology that Hinano uses daily is equally hard to follow). Hinano defends herself saying it’s not “crazy” since they’re normal chemistry books. Rika and Emiri unwittingly slip back into their heavy slang as they talk about the books Hinano is always reading and how smart she must be to be able to understand them. Eventually Hinano gets so frustrated she tells them to stop calling everything crazy since it’s making her crazy trying to follow along. Rika explains that they use the word crazy in a good sense, not to be mean or anything. Hinano finally gets what they were trying to say and sighs. Ren is just glad everything been cleared up somewhat. As Emiri asks HInano to explain what was so frustrating to her, she catches a glimpse of the buffet’s specialty roast beef and immediately says the crazy is here. She and Rika gush over the food once more in heavy slang before rushing off to try some. Ren asks Hinano if she could understand what they were saying that time. Hinano tries to decipher it all but it only makes her feel dizzy and her head hurt. It gets so bad that, after a minute, the two start using the same heavy slang to describe how “crazy” her headache was and how “crazy” those conversations were earlier.

Event Appearances

• |My Diary With You
• A la Carte Valentine
• April Fool's 2018
• Mitama's Special Training - Mitama Episode
• Beachside Bonds
• Kamihama Cheese Panic!
• A La Carte Valentine 2nd ~What If That Girl Took the Lead Role On This Day?~
• The Last Magia
• Kamihama in a Circle
• Kamihama Kawaii Collection

Other Appearances

• See Rika・Ren (Christmas ver.)

Etymology

• The characters of her last name mean "design" (綾) and "plain" (野) respectively.
• The characters of her first name mean "pear" (梨) and "flower" (花) respectively.

Trivia

• Her illustrator is Mashimasaki
• The Japanese text on the back of the memoria "You Are The Only Truth" is written backwards, hence the backwards English translation.
• Rika is the first confirmed Magical Girl to have a crush on someone of the same gender.

Gallery

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  Artwork from in-game illustrator

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  Magia Record Three Star card

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  Magia Record Four Star card

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  In-battle Sprite

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  Valentine's outfit

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  Magical Girl Seal 2019

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  Rika as part of the Kamiha☆Magica Idol group.

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  Rika cameo in the Magia Record manga.

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  Rika in the back of the third volume of the manga.

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Memoria Cards

Card	Effect	Cooldown	Eng Text	Jap Text
Fashion at Full Speed!	Normal: Draw Owner's Disks Max Limit Break: Draw Owner's Disks	Normal: 15 turns Max Limit Break: 13 turns	**Unique to Rika Ayano** She's in love with all the most popular fashions, all the latest cosmetics. She loves girly fashion, but she is often treated with prejudice for her appearance.	流行りの派手な洋服、最新で大人気のコスメ。 可愛くギャルっぽいファッションが好きな彼女だが、 見た目だけで偏見を持たれてしまうことも、しばしば…。
Awake, but the Dream Continues	Normal: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 Turn) Max Limit Break: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 Turn) + Regenerate HP [IX]	Normal: 7 turns Max Limit Break: 6 turns	What did I dream about while I was waiting for you? Did I dream about my secret memories of that day, the ones I wrote about in my diary? It's not a sad thing to wake from a happy dream. I'll just continue the dream awake, here with you.	君を待っている間に見た夢は、どんな夢だっただろう？ 君にはまだ秘密にしておきたい、日記に書いたあの日の思い出？ 幸せな夢から覚めたって、悲しむことなんて何もない 夢の続きはこれから、目の前にいる君とまた始めればいい
Nori is always important!	Normal: Accele MPUP [IV] (Slef / 3 T) Max Limit Break: Accele MPUP [VI] (Slef / 3 T)	Normal: 10 turns Max Limit Break: 8 turns	"After all, I think the tension and force are crucial, but...." "Right. Yeah, yeah, I get it-" "That is...chow down on the decoration of that chocolate-!" "Let's see-! I'm going to do it! Nooo!"	「やっぱ、何でもテンションと勢いが大事だと思うんだ、あーしは…」「だよね。うんうん、分かるわー」「つーことで…このチョコ、モリモリにデコっちゃおー！」「さんせー！いっちゃえいっちゃえー！いえーい！」
Love Smells Like This	Normal: Anti-Bind & Defense UP [I] Max Limit Break: Anti-Bind & Defense UP [II]	Passive	It's okay if I'm only dreaming, or even if it's all an illusion. Put aside any thoughts of guilt or deception. Just for now, I want to take in this sweet smell for a little longer, and let it cloud my senses.	夢でも幻でも、何だっていい。 嘘とか罪悪感とか、そういうのも置いといて。 今はただ、もう少しだけ、この甘い匂いに酔っていたい。
You Are The Only Truth	Normal: Status Ailment Resistance [II] (All / 1 T)Max Limit Break: Status Ailment Resistance [IV] (All / 1 T)	Passive	sdrow ruoy ni sklat dna ,eciov ruoy setanosrepmi ekaf eht fi nevE .ti tsurt ron delsim eb reven lliw I .snaem yna yb kcab uoy gnirb dna tuo uoy laer eht dnif lliw I ...dlrow lufecaep eht oT .kcab og s'teL	もとうよべ並を葉言の君、り嘱を音声の君が者偽 。いなしりたじ信、りたれさわ惑は僕 。よす戻れ連ず必、てし出けつ見を君の物本 …へ界世なかや穏。うろ帰、ぁさo

External links

• Official Magia Record Website - Japanese
• Official Magia Record Website - English

Gameplay Videos

• Recording of Rika's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)
• Recording of Rika's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)

Side Story and Costume Story Videos

• Recording of Rika's MSS on Youtube (JP): Episode 1/3, Episode 2/3, Episode 3/3
  • Recording of Rika's MSS on Youtube (NA)
• Recording of Rika's Winter Outfit Story on Youtube (JP) (Subtitled)

Dialogue Lines

• Recording of Rika's Dialogue lines on Youtube (NA)