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** Lampshaded by Haqua:

{{quote|"At any rate, your plan sure is clever! {{spoiler|The Goddesses want to quickly release their hosts.}} And in order to do that, they need {{spoiler|the [[Power of Love]].}} But with the [[Finagle's Law|current state of affairs]], only you can realize their dreams. There's no time to find {{spoiler|new love.}} In the end, {{spoiler|[[Batman Gambit|the Goddesses]]}} have no choice but to {{spoiler|accept you}}. Even if you are [[Handsome Lech|the worst of all men]]. Not even [[Emotion Eater|the Weiss]] can compare to you. You definitely are the worst sort of '''Big Bad Guy'''!!"}}

** His first name is also a homonym for Knight, a minor point for the Nanaka arc, referring to the "keima" shogi piece whose chess equivalent is the "knight".

*** Another minor point, to go with the [[Tarot Motifs|card motif]] of his capture targets, there is a [[wikipedia:Knight (playing card)|Knight card]] of a [[wikipedia:Standard 56-card deck|standard 56-card deck]].

* [[Loving a Shadow]]: It becomes clear over time that the girls aren't exactly falling in love with Keima. They're falling in love with whatever persona he projects for them to love. It's quite rare for Keima to not act at all during a capture and is only really done for two captures, one of which was a breather arc. {{spoiler|It's shown to be actually somewhat disturbing during the goddess capture arc when Haqua watches him suddenly change personalities after a tense romantic scene he planned with Diana in chapter 139. That said, he has become somewhat less of an ass, since he actually cares about what happens to other people now.}}

** Averted with {{spoiler|Chihiro, who was in love with him even before the conquest}}, and the other girls in love with him regardless of the capture target antics such as Tenri, Diana, Haqua, Asami from the light novels, Nanaka and, [[Omake|apparently]], Airi. However, he doesn't seem to really understand this himself in the case of Chihiro, Asami or Tenri, who all admire his drive and nonconformity.

** A bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] with Tenri as the joker (also known as the wild card in some card games). She did not have a Runaway Spirit possessing her in the first place but instead Diana had a restrained weakened Weiss with her when she entered Tenri. She is also not one of Keima's official registered captures, Tenri was registered as Nora's target. Tenri could be place chronologically as: the 1st girl Keima met; the 1st girl who is a goddess host; the 10th girl Keima kissed since he became a Buddy in the Runaway Spirit Squad.

*** More [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Yui as the king.

=== Mio Aoyama ===

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A haughty girl whose father was the head of a major company. Unbeknownst to her classmates, her father had actually passed away recently, and Mio is actually poor now, but she's too proud to admit it. She makes a brief appearance during Yui's capture.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: The way Mio interpreted her father's words made her turn out like this, even when she was broke. She got better.

* [[Shana Clone]]: A deliberate homage to the trend.

* [[Tsundere]]: Lampshaded.

* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: [[Rule of Three|One of the characteristics by which Keima identifies her as a tsundere.]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: In the one-shot prototype, she was Keima's first capture, had a more normal physique and no twintails, and was still living in luxury. The prototype also did not give captured girls [[Easy Amnesia]], so she remained infatuated with Keima, much to his chagrin.

 

=== Kanon Nakagawa ===

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{{quote|''"I am a star. The mirror that reflects the era. [[Foreshadowing|But where is the mirror that reflects myself?]]"''<br />

 

Keima's classmate and a popular idol singer. She is a very dependent girl who desperately wants people to acknowledge her, so naturally she becomes immensely interested in Keima when she discovers he has no idea who she is. The Runaway Spirit that possessed her turned her invisible whenever she felt neglected. {{spoiler|She is the host of the goddess Apollo.}}

=== Shiori Shiomiya ===

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A very shy girl who loves to read books, and the secretary of the school's Book Committee. She spends most of her time practically living in the school library, where she has developed an emotional attachment to the books. Her arc focuses around her difficulty in speaking to others.

* [[Stellar Name]]: ''Tsukiyo''=A moonlit night

** Also the doll's, ''Luna''=Moon

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Unnamed Parent]]: Only her mother is named.

* [[Red Herring]]: The 'ghost' that is seen early on looks like Airi and she has some social issues, so the natural assumption is that she's the capture target. However, Keima realizes quickly enough that Airi has no problems with her lifestyle and therefore no gap.

* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: {{spoiler|Rather than capture the Runaway Spirit by filling the gap in Rieko's heart (a return to her youth), Keima has Elsie explain to the Spirit that Rieko is far too old to bear children, the mechanism by which it would have been reincarnated. Realizing that [[Failure Is the Only Option]], the Spirit surrenders.}}

 

=== Sumire Uemoto ===

* [[Second Place Is for Losers]]: Despite being an excellent shogi player, she still can't get over her one loss.

* [[Serious Business]]: Shogi.

 

=== Yui Goido ===

 

=== Hinoki Kasuga ===

 

The elder sister of Kusunoki Kasuga. An eccentric fashion designer, actress, and artist who always carries around a megaphone. Came back to Maijima City after 5 years.

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Awarded to her for being the number one student in her class.

* [[Skilled but Naive]]: Her biggest character flaw. She is very book smart and was rivaled only by Fiore at the devil magic school. But when she started working in the field, she stumbled quite a bit at first. Later, when treachery became an issue, [[It Got Worse]]. {{spoiler|When Keima has Fiore imprisoned as a suspected member of Vintage, Haqua feels that this sort of interrogation is wrong and ends up releasing her. Fiore immediately takes the opportunity to start causing trouble. Later, Haqua feels the need to inform the proper authorities about Vintage's criminal activity, little realizing that Vintage has come dangerously close to BECOMING the proper authorities. The best Haqua's boss can do is [[Big Bad Friend|not turn her in]]. And for all her trouble, Haqua ends up being sold out anyways by [[The Mole|one of her own friends]]}}.

* [[Tsundere]]: She's more the tsuntsun type so far. And considering the scythe she's waving around it's better to steer way clear of her outbursts.

* [[The Watson]]: She takes over for Elsie in the goddess capture arc.

* [[Power Source]]: [[The Power of Love]]

* [[Sacred Language]]: The language of Heaven the Goddesses speak. In the manga it is rendered in a [[Wingdinglish]] which is somewhat readable.

* [[Sharing a Body]]: {{spoiler|Though some of them are partial exceptions}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Sibling Triangle|Sibling Hexagon]]: ...Yeah. Because the goddesses' power comes from love, all of them have a vested interest in making sure Keima remains true to ''their'' host. And that's not counting the feelings of the goddesses themselves.}}

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

* [[Visible Silence]]

 

== The Katusragi Family ==

=== Mari Katsuragi ===

 

Keima's mother, an ordinary Japanese housewife... who used to run with [[Delinquents|biker gangs]]. She runs a little cafe from the Katsuragi home, "Cafe Grandpa". She loves Keima, but worries about his future. She adores Elsie, whom she thinks is her husband's illegitimate daughter, and treats her like her own.

* [[The Stoic]]