Lycoris Recoil

What does it mean to be a Lycoris Recoil? To follow orders regardless of anything or friendship and be happy with what you have? Find out in this mini

The city's peace and tranquility have been achieved thanks to a secret organization called Direct Attack (DA) that recruits young women and trains them to fight crime and become assassins. The general population is unaware of this situation, but these girls call themselves "Lycoris."

The story begins when, on a mission, a Lycoris named Takina Inoue finds herself faced with the dilemma of following her instincts or obeying orders. A member of the team was inadvertently captured and used as a hostage by the criminals. In true SWAT fashion, Takina decides to fire her weapon even though her superiors order not to do it.

Although Takina manages to save the other team member, she suffers the maximum penalty; she was expelled from the DA and sent to "training" with the best Lycoris of all time: Chisato Nishikigi, who is like a legend to everyone in the DA since some time ago she participated in a mission that, although it was successful, destroyed the city's radio tower.

Chisato is nothing like Takina had imagined, as Chisato now works at an undercover in a diner called "LycoReco," goes on occasional missions for the DA, and fires blanks without killing her targets. Meanwhile, Takina, who is very formal and strict, tries to find a way to return and get in the DA's good graces so they'll pardon her punishment.

Chisato, who somewhat hates the DA rules, tries to convince Takina that there is much more to life than following orders and being a Lycoris.

But Takina resists because she's very stubborn. She discovers that on her last mission, there was an illegal arms transaction and a photo with the possible traffickers was leaked, so she decides to go after them and try to capture them so they'll let her return to the DA.

It's here that we see that Chisato has a special ability to dodge bullets fired at her because she apparently has great agility and very good aim.

While this is happening, Chisato continues to carry out alternate missions for the DA, such as saving a hacker girl named Walnut, but her real name turns out to be Kurumi, who later joins the group and later works a little as an assistant in the LycoRico cafe.

But it's not all games and flowers, because as the series progresses we discover that Chisato apparently has a heart problem, she was operated on by the Allan Institute for being a "prodigy" child capable of killing people, and as "payment" she must complete a specific mission.

Now I'm not going to give away the whole story, haha. Lycoris Recoil is an anime I really enjoyed. It only has one season, but it's unknown if they'll release more. The character designs are excellent, and in some ways, it reminds me a bit of anime series like Madoka Magica or an older series like Gunslinger Girl with almost the same theme.

If you haven't seen Lycoris Recoil (or any of the other series I just mentioned), I highly recommend them.