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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]]).

* [[Badass Boast]]: Keima is quite fond of these, from "I can already see the ending" to "I will end this capture in X days". They are [[Spanner in the Works|not always true, however]].

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: He's basically what [[Code Geass|Lelouch]] or [[Death Note|Light]] would have been if they were into scoring chicks, real or virtual.

* [[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.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Starts off the series, though really [[In Name Only]]: Keima didn't know he was dealing with devils and they didn't really get what they wanted either, but the contract is still as binding and lethal towards violators as the very worst examples of the trope.

* [[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.

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

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Minami's friends noted that Keima is famous in high school as "the weirdest weirdo"

* [[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.

* [[Jerkass]] [[Character Development|->]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[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.

* [[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]].

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

* [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]]: Keima barely seems to notice all the fanservice around him, and when he does, he's usually annoyed by it. Best summed up by Keima's words after walking into Haqua taking a bath the night before.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Kanae Ito]], who's also [[Ookami-san|Little Red Riding Hood]] and [[Asobi ni Iku yo!|the first Catian on Earth]].

* [[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.

 

== 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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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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* [[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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* [[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.}}

 

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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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* {{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?}}

* {{spoiler|[[Lie to the Beholder]]: While Elsie fills in for Kanon, Haqua fills in for Elsie, using an optical illusion that makes everyone but Keima see her as Elsie.}}

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

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Is it "Lune" or is it "Rune?"

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Scrub]]: [[In-Universe]]: "Don't fight with weapons<ref>Mars showing off Yui's breast</ref> {{spoiler|Tsukiyo}} doesn't have!"

 

 

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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Production Throwback]]: They first appeared in an earlier work called [[Seikesshou Albatross]] as 3rd year middle-school delinquents harassing the main heroine Asakura.

 

 

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.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Although not outright stated, she seems to try to manipulate Haqua and Keima getting together. Such as telling Keima that Haqua must be in a good mood because of him and how she supposedly talks about how good-looking he is. She also insists on him taking a bath and then tells Haqua that he already went home when she herself wants to take one. Keima is able to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|see through it though]], unlike Haqua.

 

 

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.

There are two novels for ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', however, neither are referenced directly in the manga or anime continuity, though Asami does appear in group shots of the class.

 

 

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.

* [[Dojikko]]

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

* [[Miko]]

 

 

A girl who has no interests.

* [[The Stoic]]