Di Gi Charat

*This article is about the character Di Gi Charat. For other uses, see Di Gi Charat (disambiguation).*

## Di Gi Charat

* Original
* 1998 Commercial
* Fantasy
* Panyo Panyo
* Nyo
* Winter Garden
* Second Generation
* 15th Anniversary
* 20th Anniversary

### Japanese

デ・ジ・キャラット
でじこ
ショコラ

### Also Known As

Dejiko
Digiko
Chocola (real name)
Chocolat

## Character Information

### Age

10
8 (Panyo Panyo)
20 (Winter Garden)

### Relationships

Dejiko's Mother
Dejiko's Father
Petit Charat (younger sister)

## Real Life Information

### Japanese Voice

Asami Sanada
Satomi Akesaka (Second Generation)

### English Voice

Jessica Gee-George (Wonderful Edition. Leave it to Piyoko!)
Luci Christian (Panyo Panyo, Cromartie High School)
Chris Simms (Nyo)
Anna Cummer (Galaxy Angel)
Karrie Shirou (D.U.P. USA)

### Voices in Other Languages

Mercedes Prato (Spanish) (Nyo)Fernanda Bullara (Portuguese) (Nyo)
Kate Cheng (Cantonese) (Wonderful Edition, Nyo)

**Di Gi Charat** (デ・ジ・キャラット), more commonly known as **Dejiko**, is the mascot of Gamers and the titular character of the Di Gi Charat franchise. She typically ends her sentences with "nyo".

## Appearance

Dejiko is a short girl with short green hair that parts to either side of her face and big dark green eyes. She wears a blue maid outfit, a white hat with cat ears, two large bells as hair ornaments (these signify her status as royalty), a collar bell, and a white cat tail adorned with a ribbon.

In 2007, Dejiko was given a new design, though the change was reverted in 2013. Her 2007 design most prominently featured red eyes and a different hair style, along with various adjustments to her maid outfit.

## Personality

Contrary to her cute exterior, Dejiko is cheeky, cunning, and quite careless. Despite her bad nature, she still has good traits, is typically helpful to anyone, and especially cares fofr her friends.

In Di Gi Charat Nyo, she loves candies and sweets and is typically persuaded when offered them.

## Abilities

### Laser Eye Beam

Dejiko's signature ability is her **Laser Eye Beam** (目からビーム), a bright yellow (occassionally red) beam that fires out of her eyes. Its power is enough to destroy an entire building. According to Murataku, it is produced from anger and fierce emotion.

## History

### Real Life

In 1998, Koge-Donbo was asked by BROCCOLI to create a character to promote their chain of stores Gamers. A girl with cat ears appeared as a small illustration on the pages of the July 1998 issue of From GAMERS, a monthly magazine published by Gamers. Alongside her appeared a floating yellow ball character with a face. In August, the girl would appear in the 4-koma manga Gemagema published in From GAMERS and introduce herself as a Di Gi Charat, a cat girl with cat ears. She was officially designated the mascot of Gamers in December.

Presumably around early to mid 1999, Dejiko, alongside Gema, first appeared on television in an animated commercial for Gamers set to the store's theme song *Welcome!*. Open auditions were held in March 1999 to select the voice actress of Di Gi Charat. In May, the audition finals were held at Velfarre, Roppongi and Asami Sanada was declared the winner. Sanada recorded several songs for Di Gi Charat in the voice of Dejiko and made her anime voice acting debut in the Di Gi Charat anime. Sanada continued to voice the character in drama CDs, radio shows, anime, and games until 2008.

Around 2007, Dejiko was given a new design for Di Gi Charat's 10th Anniversary in 2008. In the following year, auditions were held once again to select a new voice actress. Satomi Akesaka was selected as the new voice actress of Dejiko. Akesaka took over Sanada's position as the voice of Dejiko and recorded new songs in similar fashion. Akesaka provided the voice of Dejiko in Dejiko Radio and Terrestrial Di Gi Radio.

In 2013, Dejiko's original design and voice actress Asami Sanada were brought back for Di Gi Charat's 15th anniversary. The true identity of the "second generation" Dejiko was revealed to be Broccodess, the goddess of BROCCOLI, who filled in for Dejiko up until she returned to Earth.

### In-universe

She came to Earth to escape Planet Analogue's attack on Planet Di Gi Charat with Gema and Puchiko. After finding out that housing on Earth is too expensive, a manager of a Gamers store passed by and took pity on the three, allowing them to stay in a vacated room on the second floor of his store if they helped him with his store.

Dejiko's real name is Chocola. According to the drama CD, she was given the name Di Gi Charat by her father to signify her status as the heir to the throne. When she arrived on Earth, she was nicknamed "Dejiko" by Mr. Manager.

## Trivia

* Dejiko is familiar with drawing doujinshi and regularly attends Comiket. She was originally depicted as being a fan of the Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami ship, characters from The King of Fighters series. However, it now seems that Iori in particular is her favorite.

* In an early issue of Gamers, Dejiko originally had orangish brown hair and lacked her maid attire, but still sported her cat-eared hat.

## References

1. ↑ Di Gi Charat 15th Anniversary manga.
2. ↑ Gemagema 4.