Richie works for the NCCA (Nova City Crime Agency) and is attached to the A.C.D. task force. Press coverage describes her as an overachiever and a "tough cookie," and she was one of the three playable characters hands-on in the January 2026 CBT alongside Captain and Taffy. NetEase confirmed her as part of the four-character launch roster during the September 2025 official website update, alongside the Captain, Taffy, and Seymour.
Overview
Richie is Ananta's answer to the "by-the-book cop who also has a night life" archetype. Official blurbs describe her as someone who fights crime by day and grinds at night to achieve her dreams, and note that it is hard to tell whether she is a pro or simply not all there mentally. She shows no mercy to criminals or even suspects, which is a running characterization across summaries and community descriptions. That steel combined with her overachieving reputation makes her a major boon to the A.C.D. team.
Like every other main Ananta charactershe is an Esper with supernatural abilities, and her monster-coded physical features (horns, small tail) reflect that. NetEase's own channels have called her the "burger girl," a nickname pointing at the fact that she always cleans her plate when food is served on the job, a small humanizing beat inside an otherwise no-nonsense personality.
Combat
Richie fights with relentless combo attacks and finishing moves. Her style is aggressive and direct. In the helicopter sequences shown during the TGS 2025 gameplay trailer, she can also snipe targets from the air, with press coverage noting that she can be positioned as a squadmate in a sniper position aboard a nearby helicopter, ready to support whoever is running the ground fight.
that she uses different classes of guns: handguns for close-quarter work and sniper rifles for ranged support. That makes her unusually versatile inside Ananta's 4-character party, where most revealed members commit to a single range band. A Richie slot can flip between melee combos, mid-range pistol pressure, and long-range sniping depending on what the party setup needs.
Squad Perspective and Switching
Ananta's TGS 2025 trailer coverage specifically highlighted Richie as the demonstration of the game's perspective-switching feature: with the Captain pinned indoors at gunpoint, control swapped to Richie on a hovering helicopter, who took the shot through the window to clear the threat. This is one of the clearest show moments the game has given for its 4-character party system and dynamic character swapping, and it is built around Richie's sniping specifically rather than Taffy's melee or the Captain's swinging.
Job: Police Officer
Through the Identity Systemplaying as Richie lets you patrol Nova Cityrespond to calls, search suspects, administer breathalyzer tests, and make arrests. Her XP comes from law-enforcement activities rather than combat progression alone, and she can also investigate through the NCCA's resources. This turns a routine patrol loop into a light immersive-sim mode sitting on top of the main story.
Activity | Effect |
|---|---|
Discover crimes in progress, trigger dispatch events, earn job XP. | |
Responding to calls | Drive to incident location, resolve the situation, log the outcome. |
Searching suspects | Pat down or interrogate NPCs to uncover contraband and leads. |
Administering breathalyzer tests | Mini-interaction used during traffic stops; passes or fails can trigger arrests. |
Making arrests | Detain suspects and process them through the NCCA back-end. |
Use agency resources and databases to follow up on cases. |
Story and Relationships
Richie shares the core A.C.D. party with the Captain, Taffy, and Seymour, with each of them representing a different institution Nova City relies on: Richie is the NCCA badge, the Captain is the Directorate's on-the-ground lead, Taffy is an informal courier network, and Seymour is the outside hacker contact. Inside that group Richie sits as the hard-edged enforcer, a productive counterbalance to Taffy's slacker-hero energy and to Seymour's low-visibility hacker persona.
Her after-hours "grinding toward her dreams" subplot hints at a personal arc that sits outside her NCCA day job. What those dreams actually are has not been spelled out in any verified material, and is one of the notable story threads left open going into later betas.
Appearance
Per the Ananta entry, Richie has short pink hair tied into a ponytail with two longer strands near her ears, a large black hair clip in the left side of her bangs, two small light blue horns on her forehead, and a medium-small dragon tail at her rear. That monster-girl silhouette reinforces her Esper status while staying compatible with a contemporary police outfit. Promotional art has consistently shown her in urban clothing with a clear law-enforcement coding.
Media Appearances
Event | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Gameplay trailer | September 2025 | Featured as one of the four named launch characters with dedicated combat footage. |
September 2025 | 10-minute Tokyo Game Show demo highlighted Richie in a helicopter sniping sequence and as the perspective-switch example. | |
Official name reveal | September 23, 2025 | Official website update confirmed Richie as one of four launch heroes, nicknamed "burger girl." |
January 16-20, 2026 | Playable in the first Closed Beta Test alongside Captain and Taffy. |
Trivia
NetEase's own community channels have used the "burger girl" nickname for Richie, a nod to her in-game reputation for always finishing her plate when food is served during A.C.D. operations.
She is currently the only confirmed launch character whose Identity System job explicitly involves law enforcement, which positions her as the anchor for Ananta's cop-procedural activities.
Richie's TGS 2025 sniping scene was the centerpiece hook used by multiple outlets to explain how Ananta's character-switching and perspective changes work in practice.
Her two small horns and dragon tail make her one of the more visually monstrous main characters, in contrast with Taffy's rabbit ears and the more humanlike Captain.
Related
Characters
NCCA (Nova City Crime Agency)
A.C.D. (Anti-Chaos Directorate)
Nova City
Captain
Taffy
Seymour
Identity System
Combat System