Marika Tachibana

Marika Tachibana, also known as Ojou-sama, Marie and Mari, is one of the main characters from the Nisekoi series.
== Charactah Account ==
Raku's self-proclaimed fiancée and the daughter of the police commissioner.
Marika is predominantly attracted to Raku Ichijou and is bold enough to claim herself to be the most suitable girlfriend he can ever have. In fact, among the girls who are attracted to Raku, Marika is the most vocal and upfront as she does not hold second thoughts in her attempts to claim Raku for herself. She does her best to do anything that might appeal to Raku, noting her sheer dedication for him, even as a child, into shaping herself to what she conceives an ideal girl for Raku, putting aside the time that would have been spent for her treatment. All this, coupled with the frail physique she inherited and was born with, Marika always tries to keep her composure in front of her friends and only shows her frailty to her aide - Honda - or whenever nobody is around. Yet this would not yield her in doing something as bodacious such as sculpting Raku a huge chocolate statue in his likeness. However, in the face of her mother, Marika is shown to feel desperate and hopeless, obeying her mother's words to the letter even if it meant hurting the ones she holds dear.
Despite this, however, Marika is usually shown in high-spirits, optimistic yet somewhat prideful. She is not afraid of making bold statements to herself and towards others and is rarely shown to lose composure. If so, Marika turns violent, reverts to her vulgar speaking habits and capable enough to throw off Yakuza, Bee Hive and police force members. Back when she was a middle-schooler, Marika is also revealed to be quite manipulative and cunning that she single-handedly was able to beat the ring-leader of the ones who had bullied her and eventually controlling an entire school from the shadows.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Nisekoi OVA
* Nisekoi: False Love
* Nisekoi: False Love 2nd Season
* Nisekoi: False Love 2nd Season OVA
=== Manga ===
* Magical Patissiere Kosaki-chan!
* Nisekoi: False Love
* Ore Monogatari x Nisekoi Crossover
=== Video Games ===
* Nisekoi: Majikore
* Nisekoi: Yomeiri!?
== Trivia ==
* Marika speaks with a Hakata dialect when she's flustered, embarrassed or angry. She has tried to stop this type of speaking because it wasn't 'girl-like'.
* Marika had once claimed to have a distaste towards girls who have long hair in general as this reflects to Raku Ichijou's childhood interest in women despite having long hair herself.
* Both Marika and Yui Kanakura were forced to get married by their kin and both protested against it (and succeeded) because of Raku Ichijou.
* Marika has a pet parrot named "Raku-sama" despite her extreme fear of animals which was triggered due to a childhood incident where her pet hamster ate its own babies.
* Marika has kissed Raku thrice. Twice in airports - After saying goodbye to Mikage Shinohara (on cheek)and before Marika left for the USA (on forehead) - and once in the end of their first date (on cheek).
* Marika later admits to Raku that she isn't the "promised girl", but she says she won't give up if he ends his relationship with the girl he chooses.
* Marika only appears once fully in the first opening of Nisekoi, since the first 13 episodes she just appeared as a silhouette and after the 14th episode the opening changes.
* Marika doesn't seem to care about her grades unless it has something to do with Raku.
* In early promotional trailers for the Nisekoi Anime, Marika had brown hair instead of her now orange hair.
* Just like Yui Kanakura, Marika always knew about the promise made by Raku ten years ago, but just like Yui she chose to act like she does not remember because both Yui and Marika felt like Raku will not be able to choose anyone other than the promised girl if he remembers the events.
* There seems to be an unspoken confusion regarding the flower in Marika's hair pin. In the manga, Raku Ichijō states that the flower is called a "Marigold". However in reality, the flower has two names, it can either be called a "Marigold" or a "Calendula".
* Marika broke the fourth wall in Nisekoi Chapter 112, as she explained to the readers that Migisuke is her "dog".
* Marika is the only person other than Shuu Maiko who is aware of Raku's feeling towards Chitoge and confronted him about it. Chitoge also suggested that she might know about Raku and Onodera's interest in each other.
* Despite being the girl Raku showed the least romantic interest to among the main characters, Marika was the key character allowing story advance for Yui and Chitoge (encouraged both to confess) and to Raku himself (one of two people who made him aware of his feeling to Chitoge).
* Marika has inherited disease that makes her body frail, as are all female ancestors of her lineage. The name of the disease was never mentioned and was toned down as "anemia" by Honda. It was also mentioned to be life-threatening if untreated, but with treatment it is either manageable or curable. The only hospital able to treat the disease is located in Pittsburgh, America, and is owned by the Tachibana family.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Marika Tachibana at Nisekoipedia
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:Nisekoi: False Love