History Manga / ADevilAndHerLoveSong

* CatSmile: Kanda tends to do this sometimes.

** [[spoiler: While they still pay for their apartment, Maria's grandfather hates her and considers her to be a bearer of disgraces, her grandmother seems to care for her but doesn't do anything. Considering their left their ''pregnant, single teen daughter'' to handle herself with a kid while coping with depression symptoms after being raped, it's amazing no one has reported them already.]]

* BeYourself
* {{Bishonen}}

* BrokenBird: Maria.
* BrutalHonesty: Ladies and gentlemen, here is ''the'' queen of this trope.

* LuminescentBlush: [[OffModel There's one panel where it gets so bad Maria's nose inexplicably disappears.]]

''A Devil and Her Love Song'', known as ''Akuma to Love Song'' in Japanese, is a shojo manga series created by Miyoshi Tomori and serialized in the biweekly magazine Margaret.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: The necklace worn around Maria's neck.
** [[spoiler: Anna has another one, and she leaves it as a memento when she leaves.]]

** How's Maria's father named? [[spoiler: John Cross, and he's a priest.]]

* [[spoiler: TheMourningAfter: John Cross eventually fell in love with Maria's mother, and became a priest to ensure he'd never fall in love again.]]

* PedophilePriest: [[spoiler: John Cross is a subverted one: he raped Maria's mother when she was a teenager, but in that time he wasn't still a priest. He joined the faith as a way of redemption after discovering his mistake.]]

The series was published from 2006 to 2011 in Japan in the bimonthly Margaret magazine, compiled in a total of 13 volumes. In the US, it is being licensed and translated by Creator/VizMedia. It's also available in Spain and France.

* LuminescentBlush: [[{{Quality}} There's one panel where it gets so bad Maria's nose inexplicably disappears.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Maria names "Augustine" the pair of shoes Meguro bought for her. [[spoiler: When she starts dreaming with a teddy bear from her childhood, it's revealed she calls "Augustine" any object precious to her.]]

* AfterSchoolCleaningDuty - used for bullying.

** In fact, it's as if all the secondary female characters are out to screw Maria over in the cruelest way possible. [[HeelFaceTurn At first]].

* [[spoiler:ChildOfRape: Maria]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Everyone finds their own dream to accomplish after graduating and decide to stay together as friends even after leaving school. Meguro is in America, but he's still very much in love with Maria and both will wait until they're older to settle their relationship. However, [[BittersweetEnding Ayu and Kanda's feelings aren't reciprocated, and they feel quite bitter about it.]]]]

* ForcefulKiss: A (failed) attempt by [[spoiler:Kuros to Maria.]] Later, [[spoiler:Meguro]] succeeds.
** And then [[spoiler:Maria to Meguro.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: Maria is appreciated as beautiful by everyone who surronds her, although everyone considers her a beautiful demon after knowing her better.
* InSeriesNickname: Tomoyo is called Nippachi as a reference to her low grades (Nipacchi = 21) Later, Maria gets Akumaria (a pun on akuma, "demon", and her name) and Kurosu gets Erosu (a pun on his surname and Eros, the Greek god of love)

* JerkAss: The story has its set of them, but none stands out more than the teacher. He is an inconsiderate jerk and deliberately overlooks the bullying to Maria. He then passes a MoralEventHorizon when he deliberately pours ink on Maria while she is wearing her performance dress, accuses her of ditching the performances when she does not show up, when she does show up he accuses everyone of his students that they could have done it because of their history with Maria, and then after the resulting chaos he quietly admits to Maria he did do it, [[BlatantLies claiming it was an accident]], but would only admit if she apologized to him. What a great teacher, huh?

* PedophilePriest: [[spoiler: John Cross is a subverted: he raped Maria's mother when she was a teenager, but in that time he wasn't still a priest. He joined the faith as a way of redemption after discovering his mistake.]]

* [[spoiler: RapeLeadsToInsanity: Maria's mother eventually fell into depression and commited suicide for being unable to cope with the pressure of raising her child as a raped teenager.]]

* {{Tareme Eyes}}: May apply to Hana and Anna. Looks ''can'' be deceiving though.
* [[spoiler: TeenPregnancy: Maria's mother was raped and got pregnant when she was ''fourteen'']].

* MeaningfulName: Lampshaded: Maria's surname, Kawai, can mean "cute" if another i is added, but everyone complains about how it doesn't fit her. Played straight with her first name (her character was inspired by Mary Margaret from TheBible) and with Kurosu (his surname means "cross", and he's [[spoiler: a priest's son]])