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It's a [[Kaori Yuki]] manga. This is all you need to know.
A tale of a boy named Setsuna Mudo, a [[Troubled but Cute]] high school student who also happens to be the reincarnated fallen angel Alexiel. Now he's gotten himself in the middle of a war between heaven and hell; only this time, it's the soldiers of ''heaven'' who are evil unholy bastards.
But this of course, is only the [[Backstory]]. The real plot is that Setsuna [[Brother-Sister Incest|wants to get in his (biological) sister's pants]].
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At least, that's the case for the anime and the first arc of the manga. Things go on much longer in the manga, and ultimately [[Mind Screw|become quite complicated and aggressively bizarre]]. Mutated fetuses try to destroy the universe towards the end.
Has a series of drama [[Compact Disc|CDs]], which is based on several manga arcs.
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▲* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: {{spoiler|God itself is a computer. It doesn't seem to have a [[Personality Chip]], but it's pretty [[God Is Evil|evil]] nonetheless.}}
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: [[Love Hurts|Or ends badly]].
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Played straight at first, then subverted: The first time Setsuna reaches Sara, she refuses to go with him, since it would trigger widespread consequences.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Belial made a decision when she was an angel to be genderless. Since it was decreed by God that angels ''must'' have a sex, the result didn't quite work out as intended.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Astaroth threatens to rape Kurai, but he gets stopped by Astarte taking over his body. Early on in the manga, Sara has a flashback of Setsuna protecting her from this as a child.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Rosiel, oh Rosiel...
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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Deconstructed. ''Viciously''.
* [[Bishonen]]: Too many to count.
* [[Bishoujo Genre|Bishoujo]]: Not as many as bishounen, but there are several. Most notably Alexiel and Jibril.
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Sets up and subverts [[God Is Evil]] and [[Satan Is Good]]; nobody is really that wonderful but almost everyone has an understandable, if [[Wangst
** ''Except'' God himself. Every single conflict in the series arises because God is a complete and total bastard.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Another recurring theme. Most characters with unusual power or beauty end up paying pretty damn hard for it, directly or indirectly. [[Crapsack World|And some of them don't even deserve it]].
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[Death by Sex]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Alexiel's process of re-humanization. Lucifer's too, to an extent.
* [[Demonic Possession]]
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The final episode of the OVA.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Rosiel, Arachne, Astaroth... Kaori Yuki seems to love this trope.
** To give a specific instance, when some mooks wanted to kidnap him in the middle of the night, Rosiel was able to convince them that he was woman ''just by talking in falsetto''. The mook's reasoning is paraphrased as thus: she was way too pretty to be a man and so hence, is not Rosiel.
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Despite a setup which borders on a [[Cosmic Horror Story]] (coming inches away from a [[Downer Ending]]), most of the cast lives to see the world saved.}}
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Kato is really fond of this trope. He has THREE, the last one being permanent.}}
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* [[Healing Factor]]: Kira, although his recovery rate gets increasingly slower as the series progresses. Also Alexiel and Rosiel.
* [[Healing Hands]]: Raphael
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: More than enough, but most notably {{spoiler|Kato's and Zaphikel's sacrifices for the main cast}}.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Raphael and Michael, Setsuna and Kira.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Lucifer}}
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* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Subverted even before the series got going. One of the first scenes in the OVA is Setsuna resigning himself to the fact that he and Sara are related.
* [[No Woman's Land]]: Heaven is this. While most men there do not have it easy, women have it worse.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: The Archangels, Alexiel, Rosiel, Lucifer...
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* [[Playing Against Type]]: A drama CD example - [[Show Hayami]] voicing the heroic and somewhat emo Uriel.
* [[Reincarnation]]: Obviously.
* [[Respawn Point]] / [[Body Surf]]: Lucifer, willingly ''and'' unwillingly.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: {{spoiler|Fate itself ends up being destroyed by Lucifer.}}
* [[Sharing a Body]]: Alexiel/Setsuna, Lucifer/Kira, Jibril/Sara - though this also ties in with [[Reincarnation]].
** {{spoiler|Alexiel and Setsuna ''may'' have been split in the end. Notably, Alexiel's spirit is seen with Lucifer after Setsuna loses his divine powers.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Tokyo is destroyed on July X, 1999.
** Setsuna speaks of the [[Ladyhawke]] movie, unknowingly speaking about {{spoiler|Alexiel and Lucifer}}.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Most notably Kira and Kato.
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* [[Tsundere]]: Kurai and Anael.
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Where do we even begin?
* [[Transsexualism]]: Arachne. In his case, he doesn't have reassignment surgery because it'd mean he would lose some of his strength.
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Rosiel
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Almost everyone, which is not surprising. Some characters have unusual numbers. Adam Kadamon has 6 wings, Rosiel and Alexiel have 3, and Lucifer has four. This is supposed to be a sign of their power.
** In angelology, some of the higher castes of angels are supposed to have more wings than the lower castes. The idea is overall sound, but it isn't actually accurate. Assuming you believe the really straight angelology stance on this, Lucifer should have 6 wings because he was a Seraphim.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Setsuna and {{spoiler|Rosiel}}.
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