Chitoge Kirisaki

**Age** | 15 - 16 (Season 1)
16 (Season 2)
 **Height** | 160 cm(1st Year Arc)
 **Occupation** | Student (formerly)
 **Manga** | "Promise"

**Chitoge Kirisaki** (桐崎 千棘 *Kirisaki Chitoge)* is one of the *tsundere* characters in the *Nisekoi: False Love* series.

## Appearance

Chitoge is an attractive and slim fair-skinned young woman of average height. She has waist-length blond hair with pink tips, aqua-blue eyes, and stunning features. Because of her beauty and her natural figure, many people associate her with a supermodel. Her most notable feature is the red ribbon that she always uses to tie her hair, which was given by her mother when she was quite young.

Chitoge is mostly seen wearing her school uniform which is a half-sleeved white shirt with a blue sailor-style collar attached at the lower part of her neck and it connects a thin orange tie that is laced through a loop at the end of the shirt, making a little part of the tie to reach the skirt. The skirt is of fingertip length made out of blue fabric, that is accompanied by thigh-length black socks and brown slip-on shoes. The same uniform style is applied in winter but instead of wearing half-sleeves, she would wear long sleeves.

Apart from her school uniform, all her civilian clothes are fancy and luxuirous, befitting her great wealth.

When swimming or going to the beach, Chitoge has her hair in pigtails or a ponytail and she would usually wear one of her bikinis. For a swim meet, Chitoge wore the school's navy blue swimsuit.

Outside of school, Chitoge usually wears blouses, skirts, dresses, small heels, and occasionally, pants. During special events like her birthday party, Chitoge will generally wear an elegant dress with jewelry and her hair done.

## Personality

Chitoge is somewhat a forgetful, stern and bold girl. However, once someone gets to know her better, she becomes very talkative and nice. Similar to Raku Ichijō, Chitoge is the type to go out of her way to help someone. For example, when Raku lost his pendant once again from the chain being broken, Chitoge had secretly gotten the Beehive gang to help fix it for him and gave it back later that night. However, this helpful side of Chitoge may not be obvious at first due to her extreme violence.

Chitoge is somewhat oblivious when it comes to love and others' love interests, for example, how she didn't know what Seishirō Tsugumi’s "symptoms" were, which were actually love. She is also very athletic as she can easily jump over the school's walls and swim the length of the school pool in a couple of seconds. Aside from that, she is very bad-tempered. She has a tsundere nature and tends to deny her feelings for Raku by hiding them with harshness and violence. She tends to berate Raku and punch or kick him at the slightest provocation, but no one calls her out on her behavior (like most tsunderes) and she always gets away with it. Chitoge is also prone to rapid mood swings.

Ever since she was a child, Chitoge had a hard time making friends as they disliked her and feared her gangster family. As a result, her relationship with her family caused her to have a cold demeanor toward people at the start of the series. Even though Chitoge is always complimented for her beauty and praised for her abilities at school, she still had difficulty making friends. This is because people admired her, but they distanced themselves from her because of her aloofness. This led her to create notebooks filled with information on classmates in an attempt to make friends and get to know her classmates.

In Chapter 106, when Chitoge had lost her ribbon, she becomes very emotional and sad, wanting to find the ribbon very badly. Unlike her usual self, when Marika Tachibana insulted her for caring so much about a ribbon, she cried innocently, scaring the girl into speaking in her accent and helping in finding the ribbon. Raku also noted that she felt more womanly as Chitoge was meek and quite happy when he tried to buy a replacement ribbon for her and when she hugged him for finding her actual ribbon, but prefers her usual self better. It should be noted that she treasured the ribbon for two key reasons: because her mother gave it to her, and secondly because Raku told her when they were young that it would look good on her.

Raku is the false lover assigned to her by her father and Raku's father at the beginning of series to prevent a gang war between their families. Chitoge had already met Raku earlier when she kneed him in the face, angering him and causing friction during the beginning of their "relationship". After making friends with him and getting saved from drowning, her outlook on Raku begins to brighten. As the series progresses, she develops feelings for him, although he is not sure how to react as his own feelings are muddled, and Raku ends up upsetting Chitoge who cuts herself off from him for the remainder of summer vacation. The two make up after Raku asks Chitoge to take the co-leading role of Juliet in the school play. It is stated by Chitoge's mother that Raku was Chitoge's first love and hinted that he may be the boy she made the promise with. Towards the end of the anime, Chitoge finally realizes her feelings for Raku, and admits she's in love with him through her lines. (Nisekoi chapter 49) Ever since she realized her crush on him. Raku and Chitoge's relationship has become part of the plot of some chapters in the manga. Such as her wondering if she would even want to take her relationship with him further (Nisekoi chapter 51), or her trying to get Raku to notice her. (Nisekoi Chapter 57).

## Trivia

* The name **Chitoge** means "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "thorn" (棘) (**toge**). This can refer to Chitoge’s prickly, temperamental and difficult nature.
* Chitoge's surname **Kirisaki**means "paulownia" (桐) (**kiri**) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (**saki**).