The Devil on G-String/Characters

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This page lists the characters of the Visual Novel, G Senjou no Maou, and the tropes associated with them. Major spoilers will be found ahead.

This character sheet uses Eastern naming convention (Surname first).


Azai Kyousuke

Azai Kyousuke / Samejima Kyousuke

The foster son of Azai Gonzou and the protagonist of G Senjou no Maou. He has a reputation in school for being a rich playboy, but in truth, he is sunk deep in debt under Azai Gonzou and is working to repay his family's debt.

  • A God Am I: Played for laughs with his alternate identity as "God".
  • Audio Erotica: Mizuha thinks that Kyousuke's voice is hot, especially when it deepens when using his other persona.
    • He's voiced by Jun Fukuyama in the drama cds just like Maou. Since you've probably read the visual novel if you're listening to the side material it Makes Sense in Context.
  • Berserk Button: Damage any of his CDs. Subverted later on: He admits that he's exaggerating and really just playing around.
  • Cannot Tell a Joke: His attempts at humor are bad. Probably intentional to at least a degree since he seems to enjoy annoying Eiichi. But not entirely.
  • The Casanova: He invokes this trope as part of his image.
  • Chick Magnet
  • Childhood Marriage Promise: With Haru.
  • Dead Little Sister: Two, actually: his younger sister, Kiyomi, and his older brother, Kyouhei. However, for the latter, it's subverted, since it turns out that Kyouhei escaped the bombing.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Played for laughs. Kanon breaks his CD? An elaborate revenge plot involving an accomplice breaking into the faculty office by luring a teacher out with nonsense so that the accomplice can steal the keys to the sports shed and keep Kanon from being able to play in a tournament she was looking forward to. Eventually subverted against Mizuha when he gets bored halfway through.
  • Freudian Excuse: Having come from a very poor family and heavily indebted, his attitude towards others is pretty much due to his childhood.
  • H-Game POV Character - Starts out as a Type IV, becomes a Type V in two bad endings(See Kick the Dog below). Graduates to Type IIB in most good endings as he starts showing a genuinely nice side to him.
  • Hidden Eyes: Even after the reveal. Although it's eventually subverted.
  • Informed Attribute: We're told how smart he is, but most of the clever deductions and plots come from Usami, Maou and Gonzou instead.
  • Jerkass Facade
  • Kick the Dog: Mizuha's and Tsubaki's bad endings.
  • Oblivious to Love: Averted with Tsubaki and mostly averted with Kanon, but he's apparently not good with picking up on tsunderes and tends to dismiss Usami.
  • Only Sane Man: To an extent, though his elaborate petty revenge throws it into question. There's also a more serious application of the trope where he's the only one not obsessed with revenge among the people[1] with grudges.
  • Red Herring: He's not "Maou"; it's his brother, Samejima Kyouhei.
  • Rich Idiot With No Day Job
  • Selective Obliviousness: He does his best to ignore Usami's rather obvious attraction. To be fair, she's kind of weird and thus her behavior is easier to dismiss. He's also trying really hard not to think about the fact that with her last name she's surely the daughter of the man that ruined his father.
  • Serious Business: Classical music.
  • Shaggy Dog Story: The main story line turns his years of working for Gonzou into this. His mother and Azai Gonzou both die, rendering his years of trying to repay his debt useless.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: Confined to his inner monologues, so he can never be called on it at least.

Kyousuke: If we keep the events of this awful night a secret, then even Tokita might have a future. ...Not that Tokita's future is of any importance to me. It'd just be a waste of an able mind.

  • Tsundere: Towards everyone. But a lot of it is just his inner monologue since he pretends to be nice. The outward tsun behavior is mostly reserved for Usami, though. Interestingly, the other girls appear to pick up on this.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Which is why he was so easy to frame as "Maou".
  • Yakuza: Subverted. He may be affiliated with them, but he's not officially a part of them.


Usami Haru

The main heroine of the story. She transfers into Kyousuke's school early on. Haru is a strange young girl intent on catching "Maou". Also friends with Tokita Yuki.

Late in the story, it's revealed that her reason for capturing "Maou" is that "Maou" killed Usami's mother by bombing one of her mother's concerts.


Miwa Tsubaki

The Class Representative of Kyousuke's class. She's the eldest of five children and hails from a rather poor family. She's known for her gentle and kind nature.

Her route deals with the repercussions of Hiroaki's kidnapping on both her and Kyousuke.

  • Break the Cutie: It starts when Hiroaki is kidnapped.
  • Class Representative
  • Corrupt the Cutie: Both Kyousuke and "Maou" attempt this on her. Kyousuke succeeds in the bad ending.
  • Extreme Doormat: Her kind nature allows several people to take advantage of her. Also repeatedly Lampshaded by Kyousuke. Subverted as the game goes on, though.
  • Foil: To Kyousuke. She serves as his most obvious antecedent—both of them grew up in poor families, but she led a contented, happy life while Kyousuke is continually seeking to pay back his family's debt, making him a very miserable person.
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
  • Happy Ending: Her good ending is the most unambiguously happy ending. Kyosuke gets an honest job, his foster father's respect, his mother comes to live with him and he has a happy family again, at the cost of a few teeth.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Subverted. She's easily corrupted as part of her Character Development.
    • Even after coming to her senses she realizes she'll never be exactly as she used to be.
  • The Ingenue
  • The Messiah: Also played with/deconstructed by showing that people with her attitude are also easily walked over by others. See Extreme Doormat above.
  • Nice Girl: Stated outright during the Mizuha chapter that this would be her greatest appeal to the emotionally damaged Kyousuke, though by that point she's already failed to win him.
  • Stalker with a Crush: She's not, but something she says very early in the story causes Kyousuke to make a joke about it.

Tsubaki: This is the first time I've heard you say this. I swear, because I write everything I know about you in this diary.
Kyousuke: Somehow that sounded a bit creepy.


Azai Kanon

Kyousuke's step-sister and a popular figure skater in Japan. A talented and energetic young woman. Her mother also used to be a popular figure skater and used to be Kanon's coach.

Her route reveals that behind her popularity lies a very complicated relationship with her mother.


Shiratori Mizuha

A cold young woman who's the daughter of the man who funds the school. She's said to have a hatred for two-faced people. She's also Tokita Yuki's half sister.


Aizawa Eiichi

A young man who always acts cutesy and innocent, but in reality has a scheming and petty personality. He always hangs out with Kyousuke, and is known to be a skirt-chaser.

  • Bishonen: On the cutesy side of things, meaning it works against him.
  • Bromantic Foil: Even lampshaded in-story
  • Hot for Teacher: To Ms. Noriko.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts showing signs of this during the major events in the novel.
  • Kawaisa: A male example. He doesn't realize that this just means girls think he's cute, but not worth dating.
  • Likes Older Women: Likes mature girls, which usually means the older ones though he has a soft spot for Tsubaki and blatant lust for Yuki. Still, he seems mostly fixated on Ms. Noriko.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Inverted. He's the only supporting character to show up during the city takeover. Kyousuke even complains about how out of place he is.
  • Sweet Tooth: Apparently eats nothing but sweets.
  • You Gotta Have Green Hair

"Maou"

Samejima Kyouhei

The primary antagonist of G Senjou no Maou. He orchestrates all of the events in the novel, including the kidnapping of Tsubaki's brother, the death threats to Kanon's close friends and relatives, and the hostage situation at the school.

He is revealed to be Kyousuke's Not Quite Dead older brother, Kyouhei. He was proclaimed dead by a botched Britain investigation, allowing him to roam freely as a mercenary, building up his record of crimes and working his way through the underworld.

  • Badass Longcoat
  • Best Served Cold
  • Cain and Abel: Though not as much as you might expect from someone who has fallen as far as Maou. At the same time he sets up Kyousuke to take the blame for him, his love for Kyousuke remains perhaps his only redeeming quality.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: You see Samejima Kyouhei in the first chapter in an old photo. Kyousuke took a picture of his mother and talks about her. So since his father isn't in the picture, who is the tall bishonen guy next to her?
  • The Chessmaster: Very much so.
  • Corrupt the Cutie: His modus operandi. He notes that it's easy to use children for criminal activities because they haven't learned that it's wrong yet.
  • Expy: Of Lelouch. Extremist man out for revenge? Check. Manipulative Bastard? Check. Voiced by Jun Fukuyama? Check. The only difference is that "Maou" is downright evil.
  • Faking the Dead: Twice.
  • Freudian Excuse: The same as Kyousuke's, naturally.
  • Hypocrite: Spends his dying speech admonishing Kyosuke for abandoning their family and not caring for their plight, which feels slightly hollow considering he'd left them with the impression he was dead and spent the intervening years traipsing about with foreign mercenaries and planning a revenge plot while Kyosuke was actively trying to repay the family's debts.
  • It Amused Me: "If someone were to ask me why I didn't kill her, I could only answer that it was because it would be more interesting that way."
  • Leitmotif: "The Devil"
  • Love Redeems: Averted. He maintains a soft spot for Kyousuke, but in the end he's too far gone. Amusingly enough, after you realize his true identity you realize that it actually happened for real in Kanon's route when the game was still implying Kyousuke was Maou.
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: His name literally means "The Devil".
  • Never Found the Body: Though they thought they did.
  • Not Quite Dead
  • Older Than They Look: He's in his late twenties or so, but looks about five to ten years younger.
  • Pragmatic Villainy
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning
  • Revenge
  • Teen Genius: Repeatedly called out as such, but his age is ambiguous. He's actually around thirty and simply looks younger, but you're led to believe that he's Kyousuke, making it a subversion.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: To Kyousuke.
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Spared Usami when he killed her mother because he was not yet to the point where he could bring himself to murder a little girl, especially one who was basically blameless. In the current story it's made pretty clear that he's past that now.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: How he keeps beating Haru.


Azai Gonzou

The boss of the Azai Group and head of a large Yakuza group in Japan. He is Kyousuke's foster father and Kanon's biological father.

  • Abusive Parents: Well, foster father.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how he really feels about Kyousuke. Implications lean towards him genuinely caring about Kyousuke about as much as a man like him can... which isn't very much. Still, he took a bullet for him.
  • Animal Motifs: Lion, the king of all beasts.
  • Badass
  • Genius Bruiser: Behind his brutish appearance is a mind as sharp as a razor. He manages to foil Maou in chapter 2, and possibly could have again in the final chapter if Kyosuke hadn't shown up.
  • Fallen Hero: It's implied he used to be a policeman.
  • Large and In Charge
  • Leitmotif: "Azai Gonzou"
  • Loan Shark
  • Pragmatic Villainy: He is unconcerned with "Yakuza honour" and acts purely on a drive for money and power. He nonetheless seems to appreciate strong convictions.
  • Taking the Bullet: He leaps out of his car when he knows Maou is trying to snipe him because Kyousuke was about to move into the open like an idiot. Kyousuke isn't sure whether Gonzou meant to do that or not.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sneers at Maou as he's bleeding to death and calls him a pussy afraid to get his hands dirty.
  • Yakuza
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Shows far more regard to Kyosuke when Kyosuke stands up to him. He is downright amused when Kyosuke manages to one-up him in Tsubaki's route.


Tokita Yuki

A friend of Haru, and known to be an incredibly talented investigator. She is the daughter of a renowned detective. She is also the sister of Mizuha.

It's revealed later on that she has been contracted by "Maou" for two years. She orchestrates a hostage-taking situation in order to get revenge at Mizuha's father.

  • Alternate Character Reading: Her name's written in katakana, but it can be written in kanji as "snow".
  • Cain and Abel: Yuki is actually a villain, though she gets redeemed. She isn't quite sure how much she loves or resents Mizuha.
  • Cool Big Sis: To Mizuha.
  • Corrupt the Cutie
  • Deal with the Devil: Even called as such in-story. We find out in Chapter 4 that she consorted with "Maou" two years before the start of the game and, metaphorically speaking, sold her soul to the devil in order to study the minds of criminals.
  • The Gadfly: Oh yes, especially towards Mizuha.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She has been studying criminology and criminals ever since she was young, and is an expert in reading peoples' habits and deducing their attitudes.
  • New Transfer Student
  • No Campaign for the Wicked: Shows pretty clear interest in Kyousuke but has no route. It is speculated that the reason Mizuha has one and she does not despite probably having a better story to tell is because Yuki, while not really a bad person, is in the villain camp.
  • Revenge/Revenge Before Reason: Her motivation. Specifically, revenge against Mizuha's father.
  • Skinship Grope: To Haru. Haru blames Yuki for her large "sweater puppies".
  • Younger Than They Look: Younger than Haru, apparently.
  1. ↑ Kyousuke, Maou, Usami, Yuki and Kyousuke's father
  2. ↑ Partially. He recognizes her family name but does not realize she was the girl he knew as a kid.
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