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== Protagonists ==

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A 17-year-old master of video games known all over the internet as "[[A God Am I|The Capturing God]]" for his incredible skill at [[Dating Sim]] games. He vehemently claims to have no interest in reality (or 3-D girls), instead preferring the company of his video game characters. While a legend in the gaming world, in real life he's an anti-social [[Otaku]] whom most students avoid. Despite his lack of real world social skills, he demonstrates immense confidence and remarkable intelligence, and is in fact [[The Ace|at the top of his class in every subject]] ([[Squishy Wizard|except PE]]).

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Thanks to his gaming experience, he's able to deduce many key aspects of his targets and instantly become an expert at any board game.

* [[The "B" Grade]]: Once has a minor breakdown because he gets a 99 on one of his tests. Not entirely for the usual reason in this case; he also has a deal with his teachers that he can play games in class as long as he gets perfect scores.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The setup Keima uses {{spoiler|to out Fiore as an agent of Vintage}}. Bonus points for coming up with it [[Xanatos Speed Chess|almost immediately]] after meeting her.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Anything that questions his status as the Capturing God.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: To Elsie, even though they're not blood-related. He'd deny it himself if asked, though.

* [[Bishonen]]: While he's usually a nerd, when pursuing a target and downplaying his interest in games, the fact that he's actually quite handsome comes to light. In the first novel, {{spoiler|Yoshino Ikumi}} is surprised to see that he really is as handsome as {{spoiler|her sister}} described.

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Subverted. Keima puts exactly as little effort as needed in anything that does not interest him… only said effort is just as much as needed to ''excel'' at such tasks. Particularly during capture operations, Keima sometimes withstands days and weeks of tedious menial labour just for the sake of setting up the needed scenario.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Most of the teachers just ignore his playing while in class as he gets the best grades anyway.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Everyone loves to beat on him, especially the girls, often for no other reason than because he's there.

** Appended to any statement about the way the world works: "...In video games."

* [[Celibate Hero]]: Or at least, celibate in [[Real Life]]. Keima does not even raise an eyebrow seeing Haqua while she's taking off her panties. This is getting quite complex as the story develops, because he's at least [[Character Development|becoming more involved with 'the real']] and thus starting at least to react a little more to the feelings of others, including wistfulness {{spoiler|that his capture targets don't remember him}}.

** Kanon's arc appears to have him skip the easy option of just being the person Kanon relies on and instead both making her grow up and allowing her to keep being an idol, which she genuinely enjoys.

** Chihiro's arc has him realize he couldn't just ignore the real world and pretend he's not part of it. Nor can he ignore the people in it and dismiss them as though he actually understands them. {{spoiler|When the plot comes back to Chihiro, he also agrees with Ayumi that he is 'the worst' for how poorly he handled the situation, once again because he falsely believed he understood her.}}

** Tsukiyo's arc has him abandoning his earlier behaviour of not wanting to put himself in danger.

** He shows significant development in Akari's arc, wherein he realizes living in an imperfect world isn't all that bad.

** Keima goes all out to save {{spoiler|Kanon}} after she was stabbed. After meeting with {{spoiler|Minami}} he also directly indicates both being greatly concerned for the girl's wellbeing while also slightly depressed that he has been forgotten.

'''Keima:''' It's good that she's forgotten... This way... She won't get involved in all this. }}

** It's not clear what exactly his feeling but Keima is nonetheless affected by the reaction of the girls who've forgotten his conquest.

** Finally, in general, Keima has gotten more into devoting time and energy to his conquests. In the beginning, he was often very reluctant to capture girls and would also be quite flustered whenever they showed affection to him. But as time goes on, he's more precise whenever a runaway spirit shows up, devoting time and energy into it while holding his composure even during the kissing.

** And later, it got to the point where he was crying for {{spoiler|Chihiro}}, because he had to {{spoiler|reject her confession in order to capture the last goddess}}. We can say that he certainly has a long way behind him, to change from someone who doesn't care to acknowledge other people into someone who would shed tears because he had to hurt another person.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: In the [[Dating Sim]] world, there is no-one mightier than our Capturing God... and it seems this has translated over to real life. Even when he's not trying to capture the girl like with Chihiro and Nanaka, he ''still'' gets them!

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Keima's P.E. teacher tries confiscating his PFP before swimming. Keima then brings out another one. The teacher takes that one too. What does Keima do? He takes out 6 more all at once. Even as a kid, he had 8 portable game consoles and 100 spare batteries. They even came in useful.

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Mock his dating sim based strategies all you like, ''they work.''

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: "Capturing God Mode"/"The God of Conquest Mode". Played for laughs, though, as you might expect.

* [[Determinator]]: More so in later chapters.

* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Played for laughs, then forgotten by the next page, in {{spoiler|the Yui recapture arc. Bifauxnen Yui}} is treating him like a weak girl, telling how she will protect him from bullying, carry him at their wedding, make him wear a dress... He is furious. But in a brilliant display of [[Genre Savvy|Genre Savviness]] she points out that if he married her, he wouldn't have to do any work, and could play video games all the time. All he can say to that is "... really?"

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Partly an [[In-Series Nickname]]; a lot of the fandom like to call Keima simply God.

* [[Flash Step]]: He does this to Ayumi in FLAG 163.

* [[Forgets to Eat]]: Once he played 2 weeks' worth of backlog games for 20 hours straight yet did not eat. In the end he hallucinated and sang, then got woken up by Elsie who then lampshaded the importance of eating. It happens again later, helping spark off the Chihiro capture after she badmouthed him.

* [[Friendless Background]]

* [[Genre Savvy]]: He applies [[Fridge Logic]] from video games, and ''it works''. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Usually.]] However, he also has moments of [[Genre Blind|Genre]] ''[[Genre Blind|blindness]]'', such as failing to properly interpret Haqua and Diana's tsundere behavior, and there's a subtle running subplot that the capture targets are never quite as simple and direct as he thinks.

* [[Hates Being Touched]]

* [[Heroic RROD]]: Caused by exhaustion from trying to get 6 captures in 1 1/2 weeks. {{spoiler|Fortunately, Apollo cured his exhaustion and cold.}}

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Hiro Shimono|Since when did Yoshii]] [[Baka Test|become so smart?]]

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{spoiler|Pushes Chihiro away after her confession to him because she isn't a goddess host and thus being close to him would put her in danger and get in the way of him finding Mercury. Regardless of the fact that she would want to be close to him.}}

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Unfortunately, insane trolls appear to run his universe, so he's usually at least pretty close to being right.

* [[Instant Expert]]: He defeats Haqua at a game she brought from Hell that he has never seen before. Haqua also claims to have not lost [http://www.mangareader.net/120-6006-7/the-world-god-only-knows/chapter-47.html in the last 100 years.] She doesn't stand a chance against God.

* [[Large Ham]]: When talking to anyone who's not a capture target, usually Elsie. Especially if it's about games. Which is about 99.9% of the time.

* [[Logical Weakness]]: Three of them.

* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative]]/[[Magnificent Bastard]]: He ''very narrowly'' avoids both by being [[The Chew Toy]]/[[The Woobie]].

** Lampshaded by Haqua:

** 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]].

* [[Nosebleed]]: We never see him show enough interest in girls to have a ''real'' one, but he can do it ''on command''.

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Either from playing not enough or too many games.

* [[Not Himself]]: {{spoiler|Yui in Keima's body ''creeps people out'' - she's [[Nice Girl|too nice]], which makes them suspicious or simply uneasy.}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Even with Elsie, Haqua, and Diana constantly "bothering" him, he doesn't seem to notice they are head over heels in love with him. Not to mention the arc heroines who are hopelessly smitten by him. For those he does know about, he still ignores them, making it difficult to tell where this starts and stops.

* [[Playing Cyrano]]: Played with when he tried to help Chihiro get together with the guy she liked at the time instead of trying to capture her himself. Unfortunately for Keima, she became interested in him instead.

* [[Reality Ensues]]: {{spoiler|As Keima notes (and takes advantage of) unlike in games, when an idol confesses to you in real life good things do not happen. Instead, your peers now hate you.}}

* [[Real Men Hate Sugar]]: Keima has stated many times that he hates sweets, but if necessary for a capture will still eat them, as shown in Sumire's capture.

* [[Red Baron]]: Known to the game community as "Otoshi-gami"/"The Capturing God"/"The God of Conquest." May or may not be related to "[[Pokémon|Gotta Catch Em All]]!"

* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: During the capture of Amami Tooru {{spoiler|he confesses to having a deal with the demon Elsie where he kisses girls to save them from being eaten by demons. In context, this is something along the lines of him doing live action roleplay.}}

* [[Second Year Protagonist]]

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Invokes this trope often. {{spoiler|More particularly when Chihiro confesses to Keima and he pretends not to hear it. Of course it helps that Ayumi was there.}}

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/120-6010-5/the-world-god-only-knows/chapter-51.html Chapter 51] shows just how muddled his reputation is.

* [[Speed Echoes]]: One of the applications of his [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] is to move his arms so fast it looks like many.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: He's at the top of his class, is '''the''' [[Red Baron|God of Conquest]], but his body is rather frail because he [[Forgets to Eat|forgets to get himself in shape]] due to his obsession with video games. During arcs that require him to be more physically active, he is frequently shown getting exhausted.

* [[The Stoic]]: And proud of it.

** [[Not So Stoic]]: Keima blushes noticeably {{spoiler|when Kanon confesses that she's in love with him. He also loses some of his composure when Kanon/Apollo gets stabbed, though he quickly regains it and points out the best thing he can do is act calm and composed.}}

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Not exactly a chef, but according to the later chapters, he can make coffee that's to die for. Justified because he lives in a coffee shop.

* [[Terrible Artist]]

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Has [[Tsundere|Haqua, Diana]], [[Shrinking Violet|Tenri]], [[The Ditz|Elsea]] and {{spoiler|the recently discovered Goddess hosts}} after him. It's ''really'' unwanted because all he wants to do is play his games.

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: He 'slips' after he is affected by {{spoiler|the female body he occupies. In his 'will,' he even calls himself a Fujoshi, or rotten girl.}}

 

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Also known as Elsie, Elsea is a low-level demon assigned as Keima's partner. Having served as a minor cleaning demon for most of her life, she's very inexperienced and lacking in confidence. She has a childish personality, is fantastic at cleaning but bad at cooking, and has an attention span of about 3 minutes. She masquerades as Keima's little sister, but occasionally shows signs of having a crush on him. She literally idolizes Keima, often referring to him as "Kami-sama." She later becomes the left-handed bassist for Chihiro's band, the 2-B Pencils.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Though this applies to all the New Devil spirit catchers. Doubles as a spirit sensor.

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: She looks up to Keima, Haqua, and her big sister. She knows they're not perfect, but admires them all the same.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: While she's usually just using [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|weird ingredients]], there was that time she blew up a kitchen while trying to make a cake. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Though that was mostly the mandrake's fault: The cake looked good until then.]]

* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]]: In a subtle sense. The development of Keima's "harem" did start because he met her but he actually had to work and take the initiative to get the attention of most of the girls.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Justified. Her job is to make Keima do a PG rated seduction, meaning he has to open up to others.

* [[New Meat]]: Due to the sudden demand for Spirit Capturers, Elsea was newly assigned to her position without having undergone the usual rigorous training process.

* [[Otaku]]: Fangirls fire trucks (to the point where she reads magazines about them) and Kanon (to the point that she's memorised Kanon's songs and choreography).

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Three Hundred Years Old]]: [[Immortal Immaturity|And still acts like she's 12.]]

 

== Capture Targets ==

Females whom Keima has to get the "Runaway Spirit" out of.

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* [[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.

* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: To a greater or less extent depending on Keima's level of involvement during a capture. {{spoiler|To the point where those like Minami or Sumire don't seem to recognize him at all.}}

 

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An athletic girl in Keima's homeroom and a member of the school's track-and-field club. Even after her Runaway Spirit was captured and she lost her memories of Keima, she still kept lingering feelings for him, which confused her immensely. She still shows up from time to time as a friend to Keima and Elsea, and plays guitar in Chihiro's band. {{spoiler|She turns out to be the host of the sixth goddess, Mercury.}}

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* [[Book Dumb]]: She claims to have once been a good student, but now she spends so much time on athletics that she's neglected her studies.

* {{spoiler|[[Call Back]]: On Ayumi re-conquest arc, Ayumi kissed Keima the same way that Keima kissed Ayumi on his first conquest.}}

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: She pretends to hurt her leg because she knew the upperclassmen were jealous that she'd be the school representative at the next track meet. Keima sees right through this.

* [[Produce Pelting]]: To Keima with the gift basket's contents he gave to her near the end of her capture.

* [[Tomboy]]

* [[Too Fast to Stop]]: She keeps on crashing into pillars and walls when running through the hallways. She tried to wear indoor shoes with spikes but was scolded for making holes in the hallways. Her friend Izumi Ishikiri suggests that she not run.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|She witnessed Keima's overly harsh rejection of Chihiro and instantly confronted him and called him the worst. While he actually did have good intentions, he agrees with her and ends up extremely depressed. Ayumi ''also'' ends up depressed.}}

 

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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.

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Bilingual Bonus|Mio means]]: "my" or "mine" in Italian; "beautiful life" in Japanese.

* [[Mock Millionaire]]

* [[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.

 

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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.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Oddly enough, she's actually pretty much the only human character in the series with blatantly unnatural hair.

 

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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.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Books, of course. Keima gets her to react to him by insulting and vandalizing books in the library.

* [[Cute Bookworm]]

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Goes into one (for about five seconds) thanks to the emotional [[Trauma Conga Line]] of {{spoiler|the guy she likes getting a [[Love Confession]] from a famous [[Teen Idol]], then watching him have a tender moment with ([[Bifauxnen|what she thinks is]]) [[Ho Yay|another boy]], and [[It Got Worse|THEN]] catches him laughing like a maniac while wearing a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|girl's uniform]]. All while trying to reconcile it with her vague memories of her initial capture arc.}}

* [[Inner Monologue]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Shiori'' = Bookmark

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Her [[Omake|After Chapter]] reveals that post-conquest she can apparently talk so much and so quickly that she actually falls over due to not pausing for breath. No punctuation, as she puts it.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Write Who You Know|Casiraghi]] died while Simone was in the middle of their kiss. [[Diabolus Ex Machina|They somehow got transported into a battlefield and Casiraghi was the only one to be riddled with bullet holes.]]

* [[Photographic Memory]]: [[Powers Via Possession|Courtesy of the spirit possessing her.]] Though it's actually phrased in a way that may mean she became able to [[Super Speed Reading|read fast enough to cover the whole library.]]

* [[The Quiet One]]: She is the Trope image.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Keima's able to handle her first story okay... not so much the second.

* [[Visible Silence]]

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: {{spoiler|Blushes heavily while watching [[Bifauxnen|Yui]] confess to Keima. It doesn't help her that at the time she is holding an ambiguously Yaoi book.}}

 

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The captain of the school's girls' karate club, who has repressed her feminine side in order to take up her father's dojo. She claims to hate weak things, but deep down she has a soft spot for them, which she tries her best to hide. As her personality continues to polarize, the Runaway Spirit possessing her causes her feminine side to manifest itself as a separate person and challenge her for control of her body. She appears again during her elder sister's, Hinoki's, capture.

* [[Flower in Her Hair]]: Keima puts one on her near the end of her arc.

* [[Girliness Upgrade]]

* [[Martial Arts Uniform]]: Other than her school uniform, she is mostly seen wearing this.

* [[Mirror Match]]

* [[Tsundere]]: The anime adaptation plays up her fondness for cute things and blushing and gives her more of an internal monologue, which ends up landing her right here. In the manga, she's just masculine and, like most of the other girls, somewhat prone to violence. She just hits harder.

 

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Another student in Keima's homeroom and close friend of Ayumi. She's completely average in almost every way imaginable, a fact that she's woefully aware of. Wanting excitement in her life, she has a habit of confessing to popular guys in her school, although she sets her sights too high and is always rejected. She later goes on to start her own band, the 2-B Pencils, for which she does guitar and vocals. {{spoiler|While she was one of the six main goddess candidates, she turned out not to have one. Instead, she played a major role in the formation and resolution of the final capture of Mercury.}}

* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Keima tries inducing one while testing to see if she has a goddess. {{spoiler|While Ayumi is under his bed covers. In FLAG 155 she ends up saying she liked Keima.}}

* [[The Generic Guy|The Generic Girl]]

* [[Genki Girl]]: What she wants to be. [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|Too bad Keima sees right through her.]]

** [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Too bad she takes him down a notch.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Woman Scorned]]: Subverted when the reader is led to believe that Chihiro has revealed the entire goddess capture to Ayumi out of either spite or misplaced concern. However, it's actually a ruse by her to get Ayumi to stop worrying about how Chihiro feels and focus exclusively on Keima.}}

 

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A university student training to become a teacher, who comes to Keima's school to teach for two weeks. She's very passionate about everything she does, and is also a big fan of pro wrestler Jumbo Tsuruma. Believing Keima to be a troubled student, she spends much effort trying to reach out to him.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Noted instory by Nikaido. She extends her Os. She's unaware of doing it herself.

* [[You Were Trying Too Hard]]: {{spoiler|She thinks she is trying too hard to push her passion onto others, which causes people to reject her. It's subverted and inverted at the end of the arc, in which Keima explains to her that she surrenders too quickly.}}

 

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

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

* [[Tsundere]]

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

 

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A middle schooler and member of the school swim team, although only as the third substitute. She is indecisive about her life, and contemplates quitting the swim team until she meets Keima, whom she erroneously believes to be an older member of the swim team. Her story arc is told primarily through her own point of view rather than Keima's, depicting her growth in confidence as she idolizes Keima as her sempai.

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* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: She has an annoying younger brother.

* [[Inner Monologue]]

* [[Location Theme Naming]] / [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Minami''=South; ''nami''=Wave

* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Keima conceptualizes this relationship between him and Minami, and lets Minami's imagination fill in the rest.

* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Averted, unlike the other girls. She doesn't remember Keima at all.}}

 

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* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: She is barely taller than her granddaughter.

* [[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.

 

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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]: All she wants is for her father to acknowledge her as a ramen chef. {{spoiler|He's only denying her because he believes she could have a better life than that.}}

 

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

* [[Serious Business]]: Shogi.

 

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A rich heiress living a suffocating life under pressure from her parents to be the perfect daughter. Her desire to escape her life is finally granted when her Runaway Spirit lets her switch bodies with another person. She later joins as the drummer of Chihiro's band, the 2-B Pencils. {{spoiler|Later, Yui is revealed to be the host of Mars, the fourth Jupiter Sister.}}

* [[Hidden Buxom]]: Her clothing deemphasizes it, but she's actually rather well-endowed.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: She one-shot a hulking bodyguard with a drumming stick.

* [[Kimono]]: Worn a flower-patterned one on her body during her arc. She switches over to suits post-capture, except wearing a yukata when sleeping.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Just like everyone else. However, she was slightly different in that she had a goddess who hadn't woken up yet. Keima decided to test her by simultaneously building love points and mimicking events from Yui's capture. It worked.}}

* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]: {{spoiler|Yui has no idea what Mars is talking about when the goddess wakes up and would much rather focus on her date with Keima.}}

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: She never acts snobby, and uses the family's wealth to buy equipment for the girls' band.

* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]

* {{spoiler|[[Wholesome Crossdresser]]}}: Post-capture.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: She's been raised to be one, but is clearly feeling a little stifled.

 

 

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.

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* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Just like her younger sister and just as proficient in martial arts.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: {{spoiler|In Flag 96, Keima discovered that the real reason for her gap is to maintain the ''[[Cool Big Sis]]'' image for Kusunoki Kasuga.}}

* [[The Gadfly]]: Enjoys teasing Kusonoki as shown in her after chapters.

* [[Glasses Pull]]

* {{spoiler|[[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Her dream is to be "bigger" than a dojo leader, and see the top spoiler.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Dethrones Nora as the hammiest girl. {{spoiler|And the largest.}}

* [[Loud of War]]: Easy with the megaphone, miss.

* [[The Runaway]]: She ran away when Kusunoki graduated from middle school, and now lives independently in the USA (backed up by her [[Omake]]).

* [[Sexy Coat Flashing]]

* {{spoiler|1=[[Smooch of Victory]]/[[Forceful Kiss]]: Before heading off to America after the spirit was removed, she doesn't just kiss, she pretty much makes out with Keima before driving off, much to the horror of everyone, including Keima himself. She would have gone even further if Kusunoki hadn't [[Megaton Punch|megaton-punched]] Keima mid-smooch, to Keima's own relief, being like he is.}}

 

 

 

* [[People Jars]]: What the squad uses to imprison runaway spirits. They can also contain people and shrink to a convenient size.

 

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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Oh how she's so conscious about her size...

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: It takes her a bit to get used to the idea that [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v08/c074/10.html Goddesses can exist.] Never mind that she's a demon.

* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Part of her new outfit in FLAG 175.

* [[Determinator]]: In all the history of New Hell, she is the first devil from a lower class family to achieve 1st place at her school. Even though that honor is normally reserved for devils with connections and not just good grades.

* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: Haqua starts breaking down when she learns that her boss and hero decided to fire her on {{spoiler|Vintage's behalf. One can only imagine how upset she will be if she learns that her dear friend Sharia was the one who sold her out in the first place}}.

* [[Flaming Sword]]: Haqua has a spell that can produce this effect with her scythe.

* [[Ghost Butler]]: Magically shuts a door to freak out Yui {{spoiler|while posing as an agent of Vintage.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Idiot Ball]]: Yes, Haqua, letting the devil who was caught trying to steal a goddess detector out of her jar is [[Sarcasm Mode|a wonderful idea.]]}}

** {{spoiler|And like Nora pointed out, "[[Properly Paranoid|assuming everyone else as the culprit is a right thing to do]]". So why go and ask your boss while it is clear that there are moles in your team? Didn't you consider the possibility that your boss ''might'' be one? Also that you might have caught the moles' attention and found yourself in their trap?}}

* [[Ninja Log]]: {{spoiler|Switches herself with a dummy while preparing to attack Vintage agents from above.}}

* [[No Sense of Direction]]: In the [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v04/c036.5/7.html ''Haqua After 3'' 4-koma], she said she came straight to the Katsuragi household, but we see that she went through multiple houses beforehand.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Three Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Mostly averted. [[Tsundere|Just don't make her angry]].

* [[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.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Purple shading to blue.

* {{spoiler|[[You Shall Not Pass]] At the end of Ch184, she tells Keima and Chihiro to go on ahead while she faces off against Lune.}}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: And she's got the personality to match!

 

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* [[Horned Humanoid]]: Has one horn on the right side of her head.

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: "{{spoiler|It's not like I'm your ally now. I just can't stand Vintage doing as they please in my district!!}}"

* [[Knight Templar]]

* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: As bitchy and superior as she can be, she's also shown herself to be more thoughtful than she lets on, and has occasionally gone out of her way to help others despite her self-serving facade. {{spoiler|And she indirectly saves Keima's life by sending Ryou to activate the goddess sensor's roll-call feature when she figures that Vintage will be looking into the disappearance of one of their agents.}}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Grade A with her shorts.

 

 

A friend of Haqua, she was the former District Chief of Area 30-2 and Elsie's former superior. She was reassigned to be the District Chief of Area 30-4.

* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: {{spoiler|Of the Betrayer Belinda variety. Tells the public safety department that Haqua has been leaving her post a lot lately so that Vintage can have an excuse to replace Haqua with one of their own agents as opposed to herself. The information she was selling appears to have been more valuable than she expected, however, leading Haqua to not only be stripped of her position but also to be arrested for treason}}.

 

 

Nora's henchmen.

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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Camry

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Cresta's name means "crest" in Spanish.

** Camry is the phonetic of "kanmuri" which means "crown" in Japanese.

** Cresta is also a name for a Vauxhall car model.

 

 

She is the Hell Counter measures branch Chief who sent Keima the contract email. She was a hero during the Almagemachina, the war that sealed the Old Devils 300 years before the start of the series.

* {{spoiler|[[Wild Card]]: Appears to feel that ''something'' needs to be done to help New Hell, but doesn't entirely approve of what Vintage is doing. Thus, in the space of just a few short chapters she first strips Haqua of command and brands her a criminal, then lets her escape. If Haqua can find a better solution to the problems New Hell is facing, well, so much the better.}}

 

 

Keima's homeroom teacher and the senpai of Jun Nagase. Not so secretly due to the page's sorting, she may or may not be a demon. {{spoiler|And she is powerful enough that she can effortlessly catch massive escaped runaway spirits using equipment the rest of the devils have never even seen before. Currently, she's more or less just observing.}}

* [[Badass Bystander]]: {{spoiler|Gets called out to capture Level Four Weiss, but is apparently working on a different mission from the rest of the Runaway Spirit Squad.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Appears very early, but doesn't really do anything until Yui's arc.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]/[[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]

* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: To Jun.

 

 

Member/Head of the Biology Club. Older than Keima, but smaller. Has a frail appearance. Wants to create a "Perfect Human" (using a robot). {{spoiler|Secretly an undercover member of the Runaway Spirit Squad and the partner of Nikaido.}}

* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|She never had a spirit in the first place. In fact she was bait for something. Either a goddess or the devils that want old hell back, we can assume.}}

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Near identical to Haqua's Scythe of Testament, though a lot more battle worn. Presumably awarded to her for being the top of her class.

* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Keima tries to invoke this early in the arc. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}} {{spoiler|But it does. Sort of. Not in the way Keima was thinking anyway.}}

 

* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]

* [[Giant Eye of Doom]]: {{spoiler|Agents of Vintage have been seen to conceal their faces with a [[Faceless Eye|mask that looks like a giant eye]].}}

* [[Kill the Gods]]: Part of their plan to resurrect Old Hell is to kill the goddesses who sealed the Weiss.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Vintage means "old" which is usually refers to fine, aged wine. Guess that the group really wants Old Hell back really badly.

* [[The Remnant]]: They have been beaten many times before yet they keep rising back up.

 

 

A traitorous New Devil who resents the changes to Devil society and wishes to bring back Old Hell. Works for an organization called Vintage. A former classmate of Elsea and Haqua's.

* [[Dojikko]]: According to Keima.

* {{spoiler|[[Double Agent]]: Fiore also happens to be assigned to the same squad as Nora.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Engineered Public Confession]]: Keima gets Fiore to blab about Vintage's plans to trap the goddesses... in front of a Vulcan-possessed Luna. Needless to say, Vulcan is ''not'' happy.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Is Petty]]: After overpowering Nora and Haqua, replacing them with hagoromo-made doppelgangers, she immediately starts gloating and re-names the doubles "[[Gag Boobs|Just-Tits]]" and "[[Bookworm|Pencil]]", respectively.}}

* [[Shameful Strip]]: After being defeated {{spoiler|by Vulcan}}.

 

 

An executive of Vintage who oversees all agents in the area.

* [[Hime Cut]]

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: She has two short horns on the sides of her head.

* [[Laughing Mad]]

* [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It]]: Stabbing herself and getting injured in general.

* [[Mood Swinger]]: Switches between a stoic to [[Laughing Mad]] and back again pretty much instantaneously.

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Wears one under her longcoat.

* [[State the Simple Solution]]: {{spoiler|While watching over the captured girls, she muses the easiest way to end the Goddess threat would be to kill all of Keima's captures.}}

* [[Stellar Name]]: As "Lune", her name means "moon" in French.

* [[You Will Be Spared]]: {{spoiler|Comes close to defeating Haqua, but chooses not to finish the battle due to other concerns and the fact that she considers Haqua a [[Worthy Opponent]]}}.

 

 

A member of Vintage.

Collectively, they share the following tropes:

 

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Five of the goddesses are inside Keima's previous capture targets.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]/[[Split Personality Makeover]]: When the goddesses are in control of their hosts' bodies, their hair or other features change to indicate it.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: 4 of the 6 goddesses are named after male gods from the Roman pantheon.

* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: The more affection the hosts have, the more power the goddesses can unleash.

* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: Once they've regained enough strength, the goddesses can appear in their hosts' reflections and shadows.

* [[Our Gods Are Greater]]: What the sisters were - or could be - capable of at full power is unclear, but they weren't omnipotent. As they regain their strength, they become able to switch places with their hosts, manifesting superstrength and superspeed, and have a measure of resistance to spells.

* [[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.}}

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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Officially her capture was put under Nora's accomplishments. This kept her safe when Vintage went goddess hunting and targeted all of Keima's captures.}}

* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Keima denies that they were friends in the first place, though. Still unclear as to which way this is going.

* [[Color Failure]]: Actually worse, since it looks like she got [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v07/c064/8.html petrified.]

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Diana acts like this for Tenri.

* [[Powers Via Possession]]

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Her school uniform.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

* [[Stage Magician]]: Tenri's hobby.

* [[Tsundere]]: Diana, who ''[[Sarcasm Mode|clearly]]'' has no interest in Keima herself and is only trying to help Tenri. Pay no attention to her blushing and fretting over Keima taking her first kiss when he kissed Tenri. Tilted towards the kuudere side of the spectrum.

* [[You Never Did That for Me]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v15/c137/15.html Diana's complaint] to Keima asking if he exchanged some S-P-E-C-I-A-L kind of love with {{spoiler|Vulcan and}} Tsukiyo but didn't do it for Tenri.

 

 

A somewhat ditzy goddess who refers to herself as a muse, she is also the healer of the sisters. {{spoiler|Thus becomes problematic when she and her host, Kanon, are stabbed by a Vintage agent name Fiore.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Medic First]]: Unintentional but problematic.}}

 

 

The first goddess uncovered by Keima, Vulcan is nearly blind, deaf and immobile. However, she possesses the ability to bring objects to life and control them, more than making up for this. {{spoiler|She was discovered by Keima when she blew her cover by trying to attack him using Tsukiyo's doll Luna.}}

She is the eldest Jupiter Sister.

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* [[Call Back]]: Vulcan insists that Keima carry her around, similar to the time he had to carry {{spoiler|Tsukiyo}} around during her capture arc.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Vulcan delivers one to Fiore by destroying her dolls and converting the material for her own use.}}

* [[Red Headed Heroine]]

* [[Screw Destiny]]: {{spoiler|Tsukiyo}} and Vulcan [[Lampshade Hanging|call Keima out]] on his [[Because Destiny Says So]] pickup line.

 

 

The next goddess found after Vulcan, Mars appears to the most physically powerful, as befits her name. Mars seems serious and businesslike to the point where she seems completely inexperienced when it comes to love and romance. {{spoiler|However, she agrees to help her host Yui capture the target of her affections in return for Yui's assistance in finding her sisters.}}

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: What a coincidence, the warrior goddess ends up in the bustiest of the six hosts.

* [[Braids of Action]]: When Mars takes over, her host's hair is braided.

* [[Foil]]: Mars thinks only about fighting while her host thinks only about romance. Both demonstrate masculine characteristics.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Mars hadn't awoken when Keima began testing the goddess candidate girls, thus Yui did not remember the capture. Keima decided to test her by simultaneously building love points and mimicking events from Yui's capture. It worked.}}

* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]: When Mars takes over, her hair turns blond and she gains a circlet.

* [[Royal Rapier]]: Her host {{spoiler|Yui Goidou}} uses a prop one during her date with Keima, but Mars wields it expertly against the "evil agent of Vintage."

* [[Slipknot Ponytail]]: When Mars takes over to fend off the 'Evil Vintage agent' AKA Haqua.

* [[Super Speed]]/[[Super Strength]]

* [[War Goddess]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh]].

 

 

The fifth goddess, she is unique in that during the recapture arc she is in fact seen separate from her host. Her personality appears quite similar to her host {{spoiler|Shiori's}}, as does her appearance, though Minerva looks far younger.

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

* [[Visible Silence]]

 

 

The final goddess and the one Keima has of course been trying to find the whole time, Mercury is considered to be something of an oddball. While the other sisters all have a particular strength, Mercury appears to have more interest in learning weird spells. {{spoiler|Keima discovers that she is inside Ayumi at the worst possible time, making it particularly difficult to capture her due to Ayumi being greatly upset with him.}}

 

== Others ==

 

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.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Her baseline.

 

 

Keima's father, a man who is almost never home due to travel for work.

* [[The Ghost]]: The closest time we get to see him is in Keima's flashback but [[The Faceless|his face is blocked]].

 

 

Keima's grandfather and Keiichi's father. He once lived in Maijima City but gave his house to Keima's family when their house was destroyed in an earthquake 10 years prior to the story. He and his wife now live in Yamaguchi Village.

* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: A mild case with Mari.

 

 

A classmate of Keima who is a member of the track-and-field club with Ayumi then later in Chihiro's band, the 2-B Pencils.

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* [[Boring Yet Practical]]: She goes and studies in a cram school unlike the other members of 2-B Pencils.

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]

* [[Youthful Freckles]]: From running in track-and-field, they disappear sometimes.

 

 

Keima's classmate who appears from time to time.

* [[Recurring Extra]]

 

 

A teacher in Majima who teaches English and is the homeroom teacher of class 3-D.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: He really picks on Keima.

 

 

Head of the library committee.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Sometimes.

 

 

A group of delinquent students.

* [[Delinquents]]

* [[No Name Given]]: At the time of their introduction only one of them is named: Ryou, the tall delinquent.

 

 

Haqua's partner, a middle-aged [[Bland-Name Product|Gokult]] saleslady. Not the fastest of workers, especially now she's getting on, but not to be underestimated either.

* [[Hidden Depths]]

* [[The Load]]: Subverted. She's not useless, she works slowly, steadily and patiently on her targets. Haqua, being rather less patient and feeling the need to prove herself, initially dismisses her, with unfortunate results.

 

 

Ryou is Nora's partner, and apart from standing around being pretty doesn't seem to actually be good at anything. Due to his incompetence, Nora tends to end up doing most of the work, leading to unpredictable results.

* [[Something About a Rose]]: The majority of his appearances has him holding a rose. The rose also holds his notes.

 

 

Kanon's manager.

 

== Novel Only Characters ==

 

 

Amami Tooru is a girl that rescues Keima from a building while wearing an angel cosplay. Her behavior is rather irrational so far as Keima is concerned, making it difficult to get a real grasp on her personality.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

 

 

A quiet, ordinary girl from Keima's class, she interacts little with others.

* {{spoiler|[[Twin Switch]]}}: {{spoiler|Asami’s sister Ikumi grows curious about this Katsuragi guy that her older twin sister keeps talking about, so she pretends to be Asami.}}

 

 

A miko from from Toyoboshi Shrine on Mt. Uryu.

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* [[Dojikko]]

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Likes children. Too bad she sometimes scares them.

* [[Miko]]

 

 

A girl who has no interests.

* [[The Stoic]]