Chika Kirishima

**Chika Kirishima** ( Japanese: 桐島 千花, *Kirishima Chika*) is a secondary character in *Sayonara Cramer*. She is a second-year student attending Urawa Hosei High School.

## Appearance

Chika is a young soccer player with black tied up hair and grey eyes.

* Her kit is red and black and light blue cleats. She wears goggles when she plays.

## Personality

Chika is a confident young girl as she declares her soccer team to be the best in Japan. She can be kind as when she showed concern for Onda who she knocked onto the floor.

## Background

As teammates in Todakita Middle School, Chika was disappointed when Soshizaki didn't go to Urawa with her. She went on to face Kunogi in the Kanto Preliminaries but wasn't able to beat them. To make things worse, it was the last game for the third-year teammates of Urawa. Chika was devastated and took responsibiity for the loss.

## Plot

Chika played against Warabi Seinan High School one year ago in a practice match. After the match, she sees that Midori Soshizaki and Sumire Suou came to watch her. She hears that Midori was offered a spot at Urawa Hosei High School and suggests that she joins them.

In the anime, she hears that Warabi is playing against Kunogi Academy in a practice match and comes with Kei Hanabusa to watch. After the first half of the match ends she asks Midori why she joined Warabi and leaves. She participated in the Saitama Prefectural Preliminaries.

After Urawa Hosei won against Warabis, she asks Soshizaki why she went to the Warabis, because she had great potential. Later on, after hearing Soshizaki's reason, Chika finally accepts her decision to stay with the Warabis.

## Skills

Chika is an intimidating player as she can pass, shoot, and has the mobility to cover the whole field as seen in episode 10.

## Relationships

### **Midori Soshizaki**

Chika was in the same middle school as Soshizaki. She was disappointed when she saw that Soshizaki went to Warabi instead of Urawa Hosei. Chika is Soshizaki's senpai. She believed that if Soshizaki joined Urawa, then they would have won the match against Kunogi in the Kanto Preliminaries. When she saw Soshizaki at the entrance of the stadium, she was happy at first but then changed her expression to calm once she remembered the reason why she was here: to play against Warabi.

Chika accepts Soshizaki's decision to stay with the Warabis after hearing her reason.

### **Urawa Hosei Girls Soccer Team**

* Kei Hanabusa: Chika relies on Kei for strategy for the team.
* Alice Adatara: Chika doesn't understand her obsession with Heartthrob Country but tolerates it anyway.

### **Mizuki Kaji**

Chika harbors a grudge for Kaji because Kaji took the ball away from her, resulting in a win for Kunogi in the Kanto preliminaries.

## Trivia

* According to Naoshi Arakawa, Chika's inspirations are Edgar Davids (her appearance) and N'golo Kante ( her playstyle).

* The name **Chika** means "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "flower, blossom" (花) (**ka**).
* Chika's surname **Kirishima** means "paulownia" (桐) (**kiri**) and "island" (島) (**shima**).

## Gallery

### Anime

Soshizaki and Kirishima in middle schoolChika on the Anime Blu-ray volume 4