Rika "Lisbeth" Shinozaki

Rika "Lisbeth" Shinozaki is a character from the Sword Art Online anime and light novels.

Rika is one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in Sword Art Online, where she became a blacksmith and opened up her own store in Lindarth. After Sword Art Online was cleared, Rika began playing ALfheim Online with her friends as a Leprechaun blacksmith. During the course of the game, she opened a new blacksmith store in Yggdrasil City.

In the AWA fics, Rika is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Rika has brown hair in the real world and she used to have brown hair in the early days of Sword Art Online, until she later customized it to fluffy pink with a white hairpin (red in a light novel volume 2 colored illustration). In Sword Art Online, Lisbeth's eyes are dark blue (dark pink in the anime. Her blacksmith uniform looks more like the uniform of a waitress: a dark red top with puffed sleeves and a flared skirt of the same color, combined with a pure white apron on top of it, as well as a red ribbon atop her chest. In both the game world and the real world, she has small freckles on her cheeks.

ALfheim Online
Lisbeth's avatar in ALO is similar to her appearance in SAO: she has pink hair, wears a red and white dress and also has brown boots. The only difference is that she has pointy ears, and her wings appear to be mechanical as she chose the Leprechaun race. In battle, she wields a one-handed spike mace and a small round shield.

Personality
Lisbeth is a very friendly person that can get along with just about everyone she meets. She is hardworking and takes great pride in her abilities as a blacksmith. She will become very defensive and aggressive if someone were to challenge her pride as a blacksmith much like Kirito did after accidentally breaking the best sword she had created. She has a bad temper and can get somewhat violent, such as when she grabbed Kirito by the collar after he broke one of her best swords. Lisbeth is very teasing as well.

Abilities
Powers and Abilities: Skilled Warhammer/Blunt Weapon User in AR/real life. In VR she has everything from her SAO key | Same as before, with the addition of Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Skilled Crafter & Blacksmith, Statistics Amplification (Sword skills amplify the user's speed and power, with the downside of leaving some aftercast delay), Regeneration (Low-mid. All VR avatars can regenerate entire lost limbs, however it takes time, thus it is not combat applicable), Resistance to Pain (All virtual reality avatars have a pain absorber, which lessens the amount of pain one feels to negligible amounts, even with injuries such as decapitation) | Same as before (though before New Aincrad, ALO didn't allow the use of sword skills), with the addition of Flight (Can fly with her ALO Avatar's wings for ten minutes before being forced to land pre-New Aincrad. Post-New Aincrad she's able to fly for an unlimited amount of time), Magic (Allows the creation of higher quality items compared to other races).

Attack Potency: Average Human level in AR/real life (Is just a regular human), City Block level in VR (Can harm An Incarnation of the Radius) | Large Building level (Her level in SAO makes her comparable to at least the players that defeated GeoCrawler, a monster with the height of a house and the length of many houses) | Large Building level (Should still be comparable to the players in SAO who defeated GeoCrawler, since New Aincrad's bosses are stronger than their original counterparts).

Speed: Normal Human in AR/real life, Supersonic+ with Hypersonic+ reactions in VR | Supersonic+ with Hypersonic+ reactions (Shown to be able to keep up with the likes of Kirito, Asuna, and other high level SAO players).

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Striking Strength: Human Class in AR/real life, City Block Class in VR | Large Building Class

Durability: Average Human level in AR/real life, City Block level in VR | Large Building level | Large Building level

Stamina: Average Human in AR/real life, Superhuman in VR | Superhuman

Range: Standard melee range unarmed in real life, extended melee range with a blunt weapon in AR. Extended melee range with a blunt weapon, several meters with dash-type sword skills, up to tens of meters with strongest attacks (Covered massive parts of An Incarnation of the Radius' body), several dozens to possibly up to a hundred meters with shockwaves in VR | Extended melee range with a blunt weapon, several meters with dash-type sword skills

Standard Equipment: Intelligence: Lisbeth is an extremely skilled blacksmith, being an expert in that field. She's also capable of keeping up with the likes of Kirito, Asuna, and Klein in battle. Other than those however, she's average academically
 * The Augma: A device that allows the user to use Augmented Reality technology. Real life only.
 * Zorigen Hammer: A metal hammer that's used by blacksmiths

Weaknesses: Sword Skills have a slight aftercast delay at the end of them in exchange for increased power

Outside System Skills
Outside System Skills (OuSS): As its name suggests, are skills that are the users own, unlike sword skills and magic that are provided for by the game engine.
 * Switch: A technique where two Players switch positions in-between an enemy's attack to recover Hit Points, chain attacks together without worrying about an aftercast delay, and/or burden the learning abilities of enemies if they are AIs.


 * Sword Skill Imitation: Imitating the user of Sword Skills without the system's assistance, removing the aftercast delay, but sacrificing the power and speed of the actual skill.

Sword Skills

 * Sword Skills (SS): A series of movements that allows the user to attack much faster than they normally could, but the movements required to perform the Sword Skill are fixed and cannot be canceled by the user after they begin performing it. Contrary to their name, Sword Skills do not have to be used with a sword. Cannot be used in Alfheim Online pre-New Aincrad.

Magic
Key: Real Life (Ordinal Scale/Augmented Reality and Sword Art Online (Ordinal Scale/Virtual Reality)| Sword Art Online (Aincrad) | Alfheim Online (New Aincrad)
 * Magic: Allows the user to use race-unique and Alfheim standard magic. Lisbeth, as a Leprechaun is naturally inclined towards blacksmith-based magic but she can also use standard elemental magic to imbue her weapon with it. Alfheim Online (ALO) Lisbeth only.
 * Blacksmith: Leprechauns are known as the blacksmith race. They are capable of creating high quality weapons and equipment that can be sold to other players.

Trivia

 * Lisbeth's blacksmith uniform was actually chosen by Asuna, who claimed that stiff clothes did not suit her baby face. After Lisbeth started wearing the suggested uniform, her sales jumped twofold, which is why she reluctantly kept wearing it. Asuna also advised Lisbeth to dye her hair pink.
 * Lisbeth's B-W-H measurements in the web version were 86-64-85.
 * In the Blu-ray/DVD package volume 3, the character song CD featured Lisbeth (Takagaki Ayahi) singing "Cheer! Tear? Cheer!!" as the 4th Character Song for this series.
 * Rika's English voice actress also voices Kozuki Yuniko (Scarlet Rain) from Accel World.