AquaPazza/Chizuru
Introduction
Having been one of the winners of the character vote poll, Chizuru was introduced in the 2.0 patch on 4/4/2012. Hailing from Kizuato, one of Leaf's first visual novels from 1996, if Kizuato is Tsukihime before Tsukihime, Chizuru is Arcueid before Arcueid. The undisputed best character in the game, Chizuru has some of the scariest pressure and mixups in the game, but where she really excels is in neutral. Her huge fast normals and her ability to travel nearly fullscreen in less than a second to whiff punish is really what sets her apart. In short, she easily destroys an opponent's spacing in a spacing heavy game. To get an idea of how truly overwhelming this character is, consider that out of 31 teams in Super Battle Opera, 17 had Chizuru on them, and no repeat characters were allowed.
Partners
Llyr
4/6D absorbs mid and high hits, preventing all sorts of reversal mashing and forcing an opponent to attempt to use lows to beat it, however when used in conjunction with 66C the opponent has very little choice besides blocking. 5D can be used to extend combos or to make DP safe. This is probably the best assist in the mirror match (no more wake up DP spam because it will be absorbed)
Satsuki
4/6D triple shot, normally an easily duckable assist, becomes extremely deadly with 66C in play. The opponent is all but forced to stand block triple shot if you do 66C, and it has so much blockstun that no timing is required on 66C to make its landing recovery safe. If the opponent jumps into the triple shot very often the 66C will hit them and wall slam them anyway. 5D combo extensions are slightly trickier and more situational than other assists, and again it can be cancelled off of DP to make it safe. This combination is absolutely a nightmare for a lot of the slower portion of the cast as it more or less completely locks down all movement options and trajectories that can counter Chizuru's momentum and approach.
Ma-ryan
Combo city. Chizuru doesn't really need to cancel into 5D fireworks like a lot of characters, though they are still an amazing tool, and of course it makes her DP safe. Rather, this combination focuses on tons of situational rejuggles with 4/6D from midscreen to corner. The higher level combos can contain up to 4 ground bounces.
Rina
Hit move activate mash B+C/5C/66C. No utility but who needs utility with this character?
Strategy
It depends on the assist, but in general Chizuru is supposed to be played as a spacing character until she lands any random hit. Then she just runs her extremely fast oki train and destroys the opponent. Because she has the best whiff punishes in the game, Chizuru is perfectly content to walk back and forth midscreen and let the opponent hang himself by pressing a bad button or assist. This means mashing 66C out of neutral, while extremely hard to beat online, isn't really the best way to go about things (unless you have Satsuki). 66C done ASAP actually is quite negative on block because of the landing recovery, you can attempt to time it late but then it becomes easy to react to. That being said if you got a knockdown or actually hit with 66C but flew too far to combo into 5A/2A or have them in blockstsun with assist backup mash more 66C to your heart's content. BC is an amazing -1 overhead that catches jump outs, ground bounces, is perfectly safe, goes into a ton of combo starters, etc. There's almost no reason not to abuse the crap out of this move online AND offline. The 214 series will completely ruin certain characters (try 214ing a Riannon 2C) if they whiff or have their normals blocked, it can be comboed off of and it gives so much frame advantage you can basically do what you want on oki. 41236 wave is hilariously persistent okizeme and has enough hits to stop even shield bash's super armor from moving forward, you can actually anti air with this projectile because it lasts so long. 5B is an amazing one button anti air that you can mash. 5C naturally frame traps after 2B/5B and wall slams. DP has the nerve to be an overhead that can crossup!?!? and is cancelable with good timing into assist to make it safe. 236236AB has no invul but it has extremely fast startup to punish gaps in strings, 214214AB is not that great a reversal as it is air-blockable, 222AB raises both your tension but it can't kill, I don't really recommend that super. In summary, Chizuru can basically threaten you by walking at you, or she can fly across the screen and actually rush you down at a moment's notice.
Combos
Target Combos
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Assist Combos
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Move List
Normal Moves
| 5A
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| 5B
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| 5C
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| 2A
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| 2B
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| 2C
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| B+C
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| JA
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| JB
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| JC
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| 4 or 6+C
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Special Actions
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Name 「JP Name」 - 66 [Description]
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Special Moves
- 「神楽」 - 214+[Attack]
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- 「跳ね薙ぎ」 - 623+[Attack]
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- 「鬼爪撃(きそうげき)」 - 41236+[Attack]
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Super Moves
- 「千鶴コンビネーション」 - 214214+AB
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- 「雨月山の鬼」 - 236236+AB
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- 「鬼心共鳴(きしんきょうめい)」 - 222+AB
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Splash Arts
- 「あなたを、殺します」 - 222+BC
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- 「ごめんなさい･･････」 - 1632143+BC [During「あなたを、殺します」]
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