♡ 高海千歌 ♡
Chika Takami is my favourite character! I literally never shut up about her I’m sorry;;; But she really means the world to me! This is a lovemail page dedicated to her.
Ever since Chika became my best girl two years ago, my life changed for the better. Chika’s positivity rubbed off on me, which is why she became my best girl, and I definitely feel like she’s had a huge impact on me.
Chika wasn’t originally my best Aqours girl; it was firstly Dia, and then it kept changing throughout the anime, and after the first season of the anime had finished airing, I didn’t actually know who my best Aqours girl was, but it was probably a tie between the girls in AZALEA, but it was still probably Dia.
I wasn’t all that into SIF anymore at that point, but when Haregi Dia came out on the JP server in SIF, I scouted for her, but (unsurprisingly) I didn’t get her. But I remember very clearly that Haregi Chika did, and I was able to idolise her. I set her as my partner because she was a really pretty card, and at that point, I started to play the game a bit more actively again to try and save gems for Kotori’s birthday.
I think the more I listened to Chika’s voice and her words, the more her positivity rubbed off on me, and before I knew it, sometime in early 2017, she became my best Aqours girl. But that wasn’t the point where I truly realised how much I loved her.
My interest in LL was kinda fading, but I was still playing SIF. I had some pretty bad luck when I was scouting in Kotori’s birthday box that year, and I still lowkey feel frustrated about it because I spent quite a lot of gems. But I remembered when in this midst of that, Chika came home from a blue ticket scout. I think at that point, I felt like she’d been encouraging me, supporting me, as dumb as it might sound. It wasn’t too long after that that I read more into character, and I really fell in love with her character, and here we are now!
I had always felt that Chika was very different from me and that I wouldn’t be able to see anything in her in myself. And while that was still true after she became my best girl, things slowly started to change after that happened.
One thing that I DID relate to in Chika was the fact that she wasn’t able to confide in others about her negative feelings very well. It made her feel more human and complex as a character to me, because it's not something you would expect from her character at first glance.
I think the thing that inspired me the most, the thing that changed me, was the fact that she was able to get up time and time again after failing. Yes, she would be frustrated, but she would keep on moving, despite being close to tears. Chika’s determination has made me become brave enough to overcome some of my own fears, something I can never thank her enough for.
Chika, and the rest of Aqours, taught me that sometimes things don’t work out and we fail, sometimes we get frustrated, and we cry, but that’s okay. We just have to move on and continue doing what we can.
I think about Chika’s search for her ‘radiance’ a lot. She was looking for something, something that would let her escape from being ‘normal’. But it really moved me when she realised that she was fine the way she was. That her radiance was with her all along. She realised that she didn’t need to be like Honoka, that Aqours didn’t need to be like Muse; that they could just be themselves and take their own path.
Speaking of Muse, I felt like a lot of people were very quick to compare Chika to Honoka at the beginning; they are very different, but I can see why Chika adopted some of Honoka’s mannerisms at the beginning. Chika looks up to Honoka, and before she realised that Aqours doesn’t need to try to take the same path as Aqours, she wanted to try to be a great leader like Honoka, which would, naturally, include trying to acting similar to Honoka.
I think Chika’s strengths as the leader of Aqours lie in her perceptiveness; she’s a leader that prefers to push other from behind and watch over them. I found that really interesting, and I think it’s the reason she’s able to understand when something’s wrong with her the other members of Aqours. I think despite that though, she’s not very self-aware and isn’t able to tell just how amazing she is, and only focuses on the rest of the members.
Chika genuinely changed my life for the better. I don’t wanna sound like I’m being too overdramatic here, but I genuinely feel like if Chika wasn’t in my life, I probably wouldn't be who I am today. Chika has always been my shining light, someone who has always guided me, someone who has always made me even the slightest bit happier in my darkest hours. And for that, I’ll never be grateful enough.
I love you Chika ♡