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* AdaptationNameChange: His name is changed to Zannin in the Anime/{{Devilman}} anime from the 70s.
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* BigBadBigBad: The Main and most omnipresent villain of Demon Lord Dante.
* DecompositeCharacter: In New Demon Lord Dante, God is depicted as an entire race of aliens who have colonized the planet.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The anime series presents him as one to the Saiyans of Franchise/DragonBall fame. While the Saiyans enjoy combat, God is described in terms that imply that he is addicted to fighting, while the Saiyans have turned to a semi-constructive outlet for their bloodlust as freelance planet conquerors, God goes from planet to planet plunging them into millions of years conflict and leaving behind a dead husk in his wake, and while the Saiyans enjoy combat they don't actively seek it out at every turn, meanwhile God literally creates new enemies to fight.
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!!Demon Lord Dante
[[folder:Dante Luther]]
Once a scientist living in Sodom when God attacked, Dante tried to fight god off using a combat plane of his own design only for God’s hellfire to transform him into a horrific demon.
* AntiChrist: He’s the king of the devils and is the one who lead the demons in their first war against God.
* DarkMessiah
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ryo Utsugi]]
The main character, after being eaten by Dante, Ryo finds that his consciousness has taken over the Demon Lord and his followers now revere Ryo as their Messiah.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He appears in Manga/DevilmanLady as an antagonist. He also appears in Devilman Grimoire as the main villain of the last arc
* AntiAntiChrist: Tries to be this at first.
* HappilyAdopted: In the anime.
* HulkingOut: In the anime he would be at risk of transforming uncontrollably when angered, a downplayed example in Neo, he’d form a pattern of bruises on his face when he became [[InSeriesNickname Lightning Ryo]].
* SuicideByCop: Attempts this during his first rampage as Dante, egging the national guard to kill him once he realized he’d become a monster.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Masaki Shinjou]]
The main character of Shin Mao Dante. Unlike Ryo, Masaki is contacted by Medusa directly to resurrect Dante.
[[/folder]]
!!Dante’s Friends and Followers
[[folder:Medusa Gorgon/Saiko Kodai/Saori Medou]]
Dante’s girlfriend from before they became demons, shortly after Dante’s resurrection she tracks him down with the intention of restoring his memories.
* ActionGirl
* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* AttemptedRape: Every version of the series introduces her by having her kill a group of men who try to ravish her.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In Neo, she wears a mini skirt when working as a teacher.
* GorgeousGorgon: Her snake features are more pronounced in Neo and Devilman Grimoire.
* HotTeacher: In the remake, she works as a teacher at Utsugi’s college.
* LouisCypher: In Neo Mao Dante her human alias is Saori Medou (Medou Saori, Medusa).
* MsFanservice
* PrehensileHair
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted with Shin Mao Dante due to that manga being a boys love series.
* ReincarnationRomance: She was in a relationship with Dante before they became demons and she tends to try and get Ryo Utsugi to fall in love with her.
* ShesGotLegs
* TakenForGranite: Her primary method of attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satanist High Priest/Beelzebub]]
The leader of the Satanists in the manga and the anime, in the anime he’s established as being the demon Beelzebub.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: As his name implies his demon form is a giant fly.
* JediMindTrick: Used one on the head of the mountaineers club in the anime.
* NewEraSpeech: Gives a brief one in every series he appears in.
* LouisCypher: in the anime he uses both Veil and Zebub as aliases while infiltrating Christian organizations.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satanist Cultist/Pico]]
An unnamed cultist in the original manga in the anime he was shown to be a demon, his demon form is a centaur with compound eyes and an elongated face.
* MauveShirt: he has the most characterization of all the minor demons in the anime.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: in the original manga he dies when his helicopter is shot down during Dante’s rampage, in the anime he survived until the twelfth episode.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gusion]]
One of the Demons working to resurrect Demon Lord Dante, his demon form is a large head with a catlike body.
* EyeScream: Gets shot through his third eye by Shea.
* LudicrousGibs: What follows shortly after.
* MyBrainIsBig: His most notable feature.
* RedShirt: Doesn’t do much on his own besides being killed.
* ThirdEye: It fires EyeBeams.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Carne]]
Another demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form resembles a large horned goblin with a second face in his chest.
* BellyMouth
* MutualKill: With Kuninpa.
* SinisterScythe: His weapon of choice.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ura]]
Yet another Demon working to resurrect Dante, her demon form resembles a harpy.
* TheChick
* FeatherFlechettes: Her primary attack.
* MauveShirt: The only anime original demon in the cult with any characterization.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Only Demon in the cult to be female.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Samael]]
Still another Demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form is a spiky slug like shell with three nested heads and two claws.
* EatenAlive: How he describes his death.
* RammingAlwaysWorks:[[spoiler: Except when it doesn’t.]]
* SpikeShooter: His primary method of attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:{{Satan}}]]
Only mentioned in the manga, Satan played a much bigger role in the anime and Neo Mao Dante.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In {{Manga/Devilman}} they were the BigBad and only ALighterShadeOfBlack compared to God, in the Anime and Neo Mao Dante Satan is inarguably a heroic character.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In Devilman Satan is an angel who sided with the demons against God in Mao Dante he is a human who was transformed into a demon while fighting God.
* ConjoinedTwins: A retroactive example.
* TheGhost: In the original manga.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: With his sister Lucifer.
* SatanIsGood
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[[folder:Lucifer]]
* MythologyGag: How she fused with her brother is similar to Satan’s origin in Demon Knight when the (male) angel Lucifer becomes fused with the human woman Yuria to create Satan.
[[/folder]]
!!God’s Forces
[[folder:{{God}}]]
A malevolent entity that came from space, after the people of earth refused to allow God to store his essence in their bodies and worship him, he destroyed their civilization, accidentally transforming the survivors into demons, and recreated the human race from anthropoid apes. Now the demons seek to reclaim their world from God, but he’s not going down without a fight.
* AGodAmI: he literally named himself “God”
* AnAxToGrind: In both the original manga and the anime one of his avatars is shown wielding a giant ax.
* BigBad
* DisproportionateRetribution: The people of Sodom refused his unreasonable demands, so he destroyed their civilization, turned them into hideous monsters and erased them from the fossil record.
** [[subscript: '''Camel Head Avatar''': You’ll come back to life and then be burned to death, over and over! That’s the price you pay for resisting God!]]
* EldritchAbomination: Not to the same extent as in {{Manga/Devilman}} but Ryo could still feel God’s evil from a mental image.
* EnergyBeings: He’s not entirely pleased with this and came to Earth in the first place to use the inhabitants as his new vessels.
* GodIsEvil: In case it wasn’t obvious.
* MesACrowd: When he destroyed Sodom he split himself into several avatars with animal heads.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Occasionally says “God” instead of “I” or “Me”.
* VillainOverride: [[spoiler: Uses this on Eve after Saori breaks free of his control]].
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[[folder:Kosuke Utsugi]]
Ryo Utsugi’s father and the leader of the organization that serves God.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the original manga and anime he is a normal human, oblivious to the full nature of humanity to God, in Neo Mao Dante he is Archangel Uriel.
* TheDragon: to God.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the anime he basically loses it after [[spoiler:God reveals to him that his son is really the Demon Lord and that his daughter has been chosen as God’s ultimate weapon.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zennon]]
One of Dante’s closest friends from Sodom, Zennon betrayed his friend and joined God with the intention of ultimately using the powers God would grant him to save the demon race, but first Zennon has to kill Dante.
* AdaptationNameChange: His name is changed to Zannin in the Anime/{{Devilman}} anime from the 70s.
* AscendedDemon: In exchange for killing Dante, God promised that he would turn Zennon into a god himself.
* CanonImmigrant: He appears as a villain in the 70s anime adaptation of Anime/{{Devilman}}.
* DirtyCoward: In the anime, Zennon first agreed to serve God because he was afraid of being sent to hell, Beelzebub condemns him for it and Zennon himself deeply regrets it.
* OpportunisticBastard: Subverted he wants the powers of a god because he thinks it’s the only way he can save the demon race.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sosuke Oshiba]]
A friend of Ryo’s since childhood, Sosuke Oshiba joined the a secret organization of religious demon slayers lead by Ryo’s father and has been very persistent in convincing Ryo to join him in their campaign against the demons, unaware that he is the king of the demons himself.
* DoesntLikeGuns: The first thing we see him do in the manga is slice a gun handed to him by a fellow demon slayer.
* {{Expy}}: Possibly one of Hyakkimaru from Manga/{{Dororo}}
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Gleefully beats up any demon or suspected demon his friends in the kendo club drag before him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Completely vanishes after the first half of Neo Mao Dante.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Adam and Eve]]
God’s ultimate weapon, in the original manga they were only mentioned by Zennon as a danger for Dante to watch out for. In the anime the appeared as a Quetzalcoatl like monster with a man and woman placed in the forehead. In Neo Mao Dante they took the form of two giants formed from multiple human bodies fused together with a pilot logdged in the forehead.
* FinalBattle: God always breaks them out for that.
* PowerArmor: They both sport this in Neo Mao Dante.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Archangel Metatron]]
One of the Thirteen Archangels, he acts as a major antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
* TheHeavy: He is the most active antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
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!!The Four Demon Kings
[[folder:General Tropes]]
A quartet of demons, feared as reapers, who made a deal with God.
* CanonForeigner: They were created for the anime.
* TheDreaded: It just took a '''rumor''' of their coming to make one king abandon his country.
* FaceHeelTurn: Much like Zennon, they are demons who joined forces with God.
* FalseFlagOperation: They’re primary mission was to increase public fear of demons.
* FlatCharacter: With the exception of Lamia they don’t have much characterization beyond being evil.
* TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse: They are definitely modeled after them, they even spend most of their screen time on horseback.
* SealedEvilInACan: God placed them behind the Door of Seals to await Dante’s return.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They do not get along with the members of the God’s Association.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sakushi]]
Ostensibly the leader of the Demon Kings.
* EvilOverlord: Has the definite trappings of one.
* HatePlague: Emits a fog from his mouth that can make people attack each other.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shea]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He has eight arms in total.
* WalkingArmory: He has a different weapon in each hand.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kuninpa]]
* EpicFlail: His weapon of choice.
* FatBastard
* SnakeOilSalesman: He says the sunglasses he’s giving away [[SeeThruSpecs reveal the demons living among us]] but that’s just an illusion he cast on the glasses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lamia]]
* AttackReflector: An interesting variation, she generates mirrors that kill the person reflected in them when shattered.
* ConceiveAndKill: Planned to have a child with Dante before she killed him.
* DarwinistDesire: Her apparent motivation behind having a kid with Dante.
* HornyDevils
* KissOfDeath: Her preferred method of killing people, particularly men she finds attractive.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: She breeds entire armies to help her invade countries.
* SheIsTheKing
[[/folder]]
!!Ryo’s Family
[[folder:Saori Utsugi/Aya Utsugi]]
Ryo’s little sister, she is often more willing to heed Ryo’s dreams after his disappearance than their parents, [[spoiler: in the final battle God uses her as the main piece for Eve]].
* NotBloodSiblings: In the anime.
* TheNotLoveInterest: In Neo Mao Dante.
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[[folder:Dante Luther]]
Once a scientist living in Sodom when God attacked, Dante tried to fight god off using a combat plane of his own design only for God’s hellfire to transform him into a horrific demon.
* AntiChrist: He’s the king of the devils and is the one who lead the demons in their first war against God.
* DarkMessiah
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ryo Utsugi]]
The main character, after being eaten by Dante, Ryo finds that his consciousness has taken over the Demon Lord and his followers now revere Ryo as their Messiah.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He appears in Manga/DevilmanLady as an antagonist. He also appears in Devilman Grimoire as the main villain of the last arc
* AntiAntiChrist: Tries to be this at first.
* HappilyAdopted: In the anime.
* HulkingOut: In the anime he would be at risk of transforming uncontrollably when angered, a downplayed example in Neo, he’d form a pattern of bruises on his face when he became [[InSeriesNickname Lightning Ryo]].
* SuicideByCop: Attempts this during his first rampage as Dante, egging the national guard to kill him once he realized he’d become a monster.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Masaki Shinjou]]
The main character of Shin Mao Dante. Unlike Ryo, Masaki is contacted by Medusa directly to resurrect Dante.
[[/folder]]
!!Dante’s Friends and Followers
[[folder:Medusa Gorgon/Saiko Kodai/Saori Medou]]
Dante’s girlfriend from before they became demons, shortly after Dante’s resurrection she tracks him down with the intention of restoring his memories.
* ActionGirl
* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* AttemptedRape: Every version of the series introduces her by having her kill a group of men who try to ravish her.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In Neo, she wears a mini skirt when working as a teacher.
* GorgeousGorgon: Her snake features are more pronounced in Neo and Devilman Grimoire.
* HotTeacher: In the remake, she works as a teacher at Utsugi’s college.
* LouisCypher: In Neo Mao Dante her human alias is Saori Medou (Medou Saori, Medusa).
* MsFanservice
* PrehensileHair
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted with Shin Mao Dante due to that manga being a boys love series.
* ReincarnationRomance: She was in a relationship with Dante before they became demons and she tends to try and get Ryo Utsugi to fall in love with her.
* ShesGotLegs
* TakenForGranite: Her primary method of attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satanist High Priest/Beelzebub]]
The leader of the Satanists in the manga and the anime, in the anime he’s established as being the demon Beelzebub.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: As his name implies his demon form is a giant fly.
* JediMindTrick: Used one on the head of the mountaineers club in the anime.
* NewEraSpeech: Gives a brief one in every series he appears in.
* LouisCypher: in the anime he uses both Veil and Zebub as aliases while infiltrating Christian organizations.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satanist Cultist/Pico]]
An unnamed cultist in the original manga in the anime he was shown to be a demon, his demon form is a centaur with compound eyes and an elongated face.
* MauveShirt: he has the most characterization of all the minor demons in the anime.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: in the original manga he dies when his helicopter is shot down during Dante’s rampage, in the anime he survived until the twelfth episode.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gusion]]
One of the Demons working to resurrect Demon Lord Dante, his demon form is a large head with a catlike body.
* EyeScream: Gets shot through his third eye by Shea.
* LudicrousGibs: What follows shortly after.
* MyBrainIsBig: His most notable feature.
* RedShirt: Doesn’t do much on his own besides being killed.
* ThirdEye: It fires EyeBeams.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Carne]]
Another demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form resembles a large horned goblin with a second face in his chest.
* BellyMouth
* MutualKill: With Kuninpa.
* SinisterScythe: His weapon of choice.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ura]]
Yet another Demon working to resurrect Dante, her demon form resembles a harpy.
* TheChick
* FeatherFlechettes: Her primary attack.
* MauveShirt: The only anime original demon in the cult with any characterization.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Only Demon in the cult to be female.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Samael]]
Still another Demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form is a spiky slug like shell with three nested heads and two claws.
* EatenAlive: How he describes his death.
* RammingAlwaysWorks:[[spoiler: Except when it doesn’t.]]
* SpikeShooter: His primary method of attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:{{Satan}}]]
Only mentioned in the manga, Satan played a much bigger role in the anime and Neo Mao Dante.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In {{Manga/Devilman}} they were the BigBad and only ALighterShadeOfBlack compared to God, in the Anime and Neo Mao Dante Satan is inarguably a heroic character.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In Devilman Satan is an angel who sided with the demons against God in Mao Dante he is a human who was transformed into a demon while fighting God.
* ConjoinedTwins: A retroactive example.
* TheGhost: In the original manga.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: With his sister Lucifer.
* SatanIsGood
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lucifer]]
* MythologyGag: How she fused with her brother is similar to Satan’s origin in Demon Knight when the (male) angel Lucifer becomes fused with the human woman Yuria to create Satan.
[[/folder]]
!!God’s Forces
[[folder:{{God}}]]
A malevolent entity that came from space, after the people of earth refused to allow God to store his essence in their bodies and worship him, he destroyed their civilization, accidentally transforming the survivors into demons, and recreated the human race from anthropoid apes. Now the demons seek to reclaim their world from God, but he’s not going down without a fight.
* AGodAmI: he literally named himself “God”
* AnAxToGrind: In both the original manga and the anime one of his avatars is shown wielding a giant ax.
* BigBad
* DisproportionateRetribution: The people of Sodom refused his unreasonable demands, so he destroyed their civilization, turned them into hideous monsters and erased them from the fossil record.
** [[subscript: '''Camel Head Avatar''': You’ll come back to life and then be burned to death, over and over! That’s the price you pay for resisting God!]]
* EldritchAbomination: Not to the same extent as in {{Manga/Devilman}} but Ryo could still feel God’s evil from a mental image.
* EnergyBeings: He’s not entirely pleased with this and came to Earth in the first place to use the inhabitants as his new vessels.
* GodIsEvil: In case it wasn’t obvious.
* MesACrowd: When he destroyed Sodom he split himself into several avatars with animal heads.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Occasionally says “God” instead of “I” or “Me”.
* VillainOverride: [[spoiler: Uses this on Eve after Saori breaks free of his control]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kosuke Utsugi]]
Ryo Utsugi’s father and the leader of the organization that serves God.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the original manga and anime he is a normal human, oblivious to the full nature of humanity to God, in Neo Mao Dante he is Archangel Uriel.
* TheDragon: to God.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the anime he basically loses it after [[spoiler:God reveals to him that his son is really the Demon Lord and that his daughter has been chosen as God’s ultimate weapon.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zennon]]
One of Dante’s closest friends from Sodom, Zennon betrayed his friend and joined God with the intention of ultimately using the powers God would grant him to save the demon race, but first Zennon has to kill Dante.
* AdaptationNameChange: His name is changed to Zannin in the Anime/{{Devilman}} anime from the 70s.
* AscendedDemon: In exchange for killing Dante, God promised that he would turn Zennon into a god himself.
* CanonImmigrant: He appears as a villain in the 70s anime adaptation of Anime/{{Devilman}}.
* DirtyCoward: In the anime, Zennon first agreed to serve God because he was afraid of being sent to hell, Beelzebub condemns him for it and Zennon himself deeply regrets it.
* OpportunisticBastard: Subverted he wants the powers of a god because he thinks it’s the only way he can save the demon race.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sosuke Oshiba]]
A friend of Ryo’s since childhood, Sosuke Oshiba joined the a secret organization of religious demon slayers lead by Ryo’s father and has been very persistent in convincing Ryo to join him in their campaign against the demons, unaware that he is the king of the demons himself.
* DoesntLikeGuns: The first thing we see him do in the manga is slice a gun handed to him by a fellow demon slayer.
* {{Expy}}: Possibly one of Hyakkimaru from Manga/{{Dororo}}
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Gleefully beats up any demon or suspected demon his friends in the kendo club drag before him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Completely vanishes after the first half of Neo Mao Dante.
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[[folder:Adam and Eve]]
God’s ultimate weapon, in the original manga they were only mentioned by Zennon as a danger for Dante to watch out for. In the anime the appeared as a Quetzalcoatl like monster with a man and woman placed in the forehead. In Neo Mao Dante they took the form of two giants formed from multiple human bodies fused together with a pilot logdged in the forehead.
* FinalBattle: God always breaks them out for that.
* PowerArmor: They both sport this in Neo Mao Dante.
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[[folder:Archangel Metatron]]
One of the Thirteen Archangels, he acts as a major antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
* TheHeavy: He is the most active antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
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!!The Four Demon Kings
[[folder:General Tropes]]
A quartet of demons, feared as reapers, who made a deal with God.
* CanonForeigner: They were created for the anime.
* TheDreaded: It just took a '''rumor''' of their coming to make one king abandon his country.
* FaceHeelTurn: Much like Zennon, they are demons who joined forces with God.
* FalseFlagOperation: They’re primary mission was to increase public fear of demons.
* FlatCharacter: With the exception of Lamia they don’t have much characterization beyond being evil.
* TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse: They are definitely modeled after them, they even spend most of their screen time on horseback.
* SealedEvilInACan: God placed them behind the Door of Seals to await Dante’s return.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They do not get along with the members of the God’s Association.
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[[folder:Sakushi]]
Ostensibly the leader of the Demon Kings.
* EvilOverlord: Has the definite trappings of one.
* HatePlague: Emits a fog from his mouth that can make people attack each other.
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[[folder:Shea]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He has eight arms in total.
* WalkingArmory: He has a different weapon in each hand.
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[[folder:Kuninpa]]
* EpicFlail: His weapon of choice.
* FatBastard
* SnakeOilSalesman: He says the sunglasses he’s giving away [[SeeThruSpecs reveal the demons living among us]] but that’s just an illusion he cast on the glasses.
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[[folder:Lamia]]
* AttackReflector: An interesting variation, she generates mirrors that kill the person reflected in them when shattered.
* ConceiveAndKill: Planned to have a child with Dante before she killed him.
* DarwinistDesire: Her apparent motivation behind having a kid with Dante.
* HornyDevils
* KissOfDeath: Her preferred method of killing people, particularly men she finds attractive.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: She breeds entire armies to help her invade countries.
* SheIsTheKing
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!!Ryo’s Family
[[folder:Saori Utsugi/Aya Utsugi]]
Ryo’s little sister, she is often more willing to heed Ryo’s dreams after his disappearance than their parents, [[spoiler: in the final battle God uses her as the main piece for Eve]].
* NotBloodSiblings: In the anime.
* TheNotLoveInterest: In Neo Mao Dante.
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