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* [[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.

{{quote| ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|The unknown person who shows up in the middle of a crisis is always suspicious...IN VIDEO GAMES!]]''}}

** 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.}}

** 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!

* [[Consummate Liar]]: He's very good at pretending to be something else. Usually during a capture he has a completely different personality.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[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.

{{quote| There is always a chance of success! And if there isn't any... I'll just have to make one. }}

* [[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.}}

** He has to battle a different type of publicity issue when {{spoiler|Kanon, a famous idol, confessed to him in the middle of the class}}

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

* [[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.

* [[It's All About Me]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Keima:''' Don't worry about it. I was deep in thought at the time, so I have no memory of your naked body.}}

* [[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]]

* [[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.}}

* [[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.]]

* [[Literal Minded]]

* [[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.]]

* [[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.

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

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

* [[Mock Millionaire]]

* [[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''' ===

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

 

* [[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]]

* [[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.}}

 

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]]

* [[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.

 

=== '''Sumire Uemoto''' ===

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

 

* [[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?}}

*** {{spoiler|To be fair, it is surmised that she didn't have any experience with betrayal and backstabbing, and she's quite [[Genre Blind]], to boot.}}

* [[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]].

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

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

* [[Self -Harm]]: Because she, like all New Devils, is forbidden from killing humans, she instead harms herself to divert her frustration of not killing.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Powers Via Possession]]

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

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

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

* [[Red Headed Heroine]]

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

 

=== '''Mars''' ===

* [[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]]

* [[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]]

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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.

* [[Delinquents]]

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

 

== '''Other Buddies''' ==

* [[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 Asama''' ===

 

== Novel Only Characters ==

 

== '''Volume 1: The World God Only Knows ― God and the Devil and an Angel''' ==

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]]