History Manga / KamikazeKaitouJeanne

* MgicalGirlGenreDeconstruction: A prototype of the example. Look at AwfulTruth, above

* WhiteAndBlackMorality: It's a story of God versus the Devil, Good versus Evil. [[spoiler:Somewhat {{deconstructed}}, presenting several cases of WhiteAndGreyMorality.]]

* AwfulTruth: Maron is on a MissionFromGod. About halfway through the manga and towards the end oft he anime, she finds out that [[spoiler:she's been working for Satan all along, her MentorMascot is a FallenAngel who was in on the whole thing, and the two have been conspiring to [[BreakTheCutie break her]]. In the former's case, this has all been happening since she was an infant]].

* AwfulTruth: Maron is on a MissionFromGod. About halfway through the manga and towards the end oft he anime, she finds out that [[spoiler:she's been working for Satan all along, her MentorMascot is a FallenAngel who was in on the whole thing, and the two have been conspiring to [[BreakTheCutie break her]]. In the former's case, this has all been happening since [[spoiler: she was an infant]].

* {{God}}: The Christian God is real in this story. He gave Jeanne d'Arc her mission and her powers.

''Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne'' is a MagicalGirl manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura, published in the [[ShoujoDemographic Shoujo]] magazine ''Ribon'' from 1998 to 2000. It was adapted into a 44 episode anime by ToeiAnimation in 1999. It sets itself apart from most MagicalGirl series by having a BrokenBird heroine, and being quite a TearJerker at times.

* FeministFantasy: Maron is the reincarnation of JoanOfArc, and on a MissionFromGod to use her holy powers to track down and seal various demons. Because the items these demons hide in vanish after being sealed, she's mistaken as a PhantomThief and constantly on the run from the police. A skilled gymnast and acrobat, the majority of her attacks use feminine tools such as ribbons and flowers to fight the demons.

Maron Kusakabe may seem to be an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, but secretly she's the {{reincarnation}} of JoanOfArc, {{Kaitou}} Jeanne! Maron is on a MissionFromGod to seal demons hiding in works of art, which [[DemonicPossession possess and corrupt]] pure-hearted people who admire their beauty. Unfortunately, sealing the demon also causes the artwork it inhabits to disappear, making Jeanne seem to be nothing more than a petty thief to most. The police and Maron's best friend Miyako, who dreams of becoming a detective, are dedicated to catching her, but Jeanne has {{God}}'s blessing and a number of divine tools at her disposal.

* FillerVillain: CuteMonsterGirl Myst who appears in the anime at the same time Noin does, and sends [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters oft he Week]] after Jeanne.

'''''Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne''''' is a MagicalGirl manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura, published in the [[ShoujoDemographic Shoujo]] magazine ''Ribon'' from 1998 to 2000. It was adapted into a 44 episode anime by ToeiAnimation in 1999. It sets itself apart from most MagicalGirl series by having a BrokenBird heroine, and being quite a TearJerker at times.

* AwfulTruth: Maron is on a MissionFromGod. About halfway through the manga and towards the end oft he anime, she finds out that [[spoiler:she's been working for Satan all along, her MentorMascot is a FallenAngel who was in on the whole thing, and the two have been conspiring to [[BreakTheCutie break her]]. In the former's case, this has been happening since [[spoiler:she was an infant]].

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The trope is present, and the reason why God doesn't have a lot of power in the human world.
--> '''Noin''' (anime), [[spoiler:'''Finn''']] (manga): "God can only do three things for humans. Firstly... He brings forth their souls. Secondly... He watches over those souls. And then... He can move the earth's air... "

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Plenty. Chiaki to Maron, Maron to Chiaki, Minazuki to Maron, [[spoiler:Minazuki to Miyako, and Finn to Access.]]
* AscendedExtra: The police.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Noin tries to rape Maron in order to get rid of her VirginPower.]]
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:Who Jeanne has ''really'' been working for this whole time.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Both Maron/Chiaki and Miyako/Minazuki.]]
* CanonImmigrant: The police appear on manga splash panels.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:Maron and Noin ended up in fifteenth-century Europe.]] Subverted with [[spoiler: Noin]] who originally ''came'' from that time.
* GeckoEnding: The anime moreso than the manga.
* {{God}}: Yes, ''the'' Christian plays a role here.
* HeroicBSOD: Maron, Miyako, and Chiaki all fall into despair at different points in the series.
* LovePotion: In a side story, Access grows a magic flower that causes anyone who eats its petals to fall in love with the one who grew it. He plans to use it on Finn, but Finn prematurely eats the flower by accident and starts acting all gushingly in love with Access, who quickly realizes that he likes her better when she has free will.
* MeetCute: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in the case of Maron's parents. They met twice in front of the same carousel, years apart and by various coincidences, and fell in love. By the time of the story, they're working in different countries from each other and their daughter, and they unknowingly cause a HeroicBSOD in Maron by [[spoiler:telling her they're planning a divorce]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:the Devil appears to have intervened to destroy their feelings of love for each other as part of an EvilPlan to end Jeanne's cycle of reincarnation by breaking Maron's spirit]]. Only, that's not really the case: [[spoiler:it's revealed that they would have broken up anyways, and no intervention was required]]. At the end of the series, [[spoiler:her parents are shown meeting each other again in a third iteration of the same MeetCute, implying that it really was the Devil's intervention that caused it]].

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: In the manga, angels are [[spoiler: amnesiac reincarnations of pure humans on Earth]] that carry and collect God's power, and are separated into ranks based on how much divine power they have built up over the years. These ranks can be easily distinguished by their size and their wings - Finn, as a low-ranking angel, is [[SleepModeSize small]] with [[GoodWingsEvilWings white wings]]. [[spoiler:Fallen angels contain no power, and literally drain the power from angels they come into contact with, whether they wish to or not.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: Noin has a twisted idea that this is what he'll have with Marron, who is Jeanne's reincarnation.
* SadisticChoice: Noin sets up one of these as part of the process of [[BreakTheCutie breaking Maron]]. Seal the demon, kill the child. Leave the demon, and it will eventually consume the child's soul. [[spoiler:She decides that she’ll watch over the boy until he gets his upcoming heart surgery, and she’ll do her best to keep the demon at bay without fully exorcising it. And then Sinbad shows up and kills the demon himself, causing the boy to die, but he later becomes a kuro-tenshi.]]
* SproutingEars: Maron/Jeanne does this sometimes in the manga.

** "Your parents were being manipulated. For all seventeen years!" [[spoiler: Fynn in volume 5 to Marron, explaining Satan's plan to raise Marron as a BrokenBird to destroy the power in her that {{God}} gave her]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Used at the final chapter. The tankoubon edition added a new special with a story featuring [[spoiler: Maron and Chiaki's daughter and Miyako and Minazuki's son.]]
* WhiteAndBlackMorality: [[spoiler:Somewhat {{deconstructed}}, this in some ways is also WhiteAndGreyMorality.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: The school uniforms are A grade.

[[BrokenBird Maron Kusakabe]] may seem to be an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, but secretly she is the {{reincarnation}} of Joan of Arc, {{Kaitou}} [[MagicalGirl Jeanne]]! Maron is on a MissionFromGod to seal demons hiding in works of art, which [[DemonicPossession possess and corrupt]] pure-hearted people that admire their beauty. Unfortunately, sealing the demon also causes the artwork it inhabits to disappear, making Jeanne seem to be nothing more than a petty ([[PhantomThief if stylish]]) thief to most, meaning that the police and Maron's best friend Miyako, who dreams of becoming a detective, are dedicated to catching her. Fortunately, Jeanne has {{God}}'s blessing and a number of divine tools at her disposal, giving her an edge over them.

[[ParentalAbandonment Because her divorced parents live and work overseas]], Maron lives alone in her apartment with tiny angel Finn Fish. Across the hall live Miyako and her family, unaware of Maron's identity. Then, HandsomeLech Chiaki Nagoya moves in next door. He gets on Maron's nerves, but Miyako instantly falls head-over-heels in love with him. Soon after, [[TheRival Kaitou Sinbad]], another kaitou wielding the same powers as Jeanne, appears on the scene and starts competing with Jeanne to see who can seal the demons first. Finn and Maron wonder who he could be, as Maron was supposed to be the only kaitou. Finn and Maron both conclude that Sinbad must be Jeanne's opposite - a kaitou working for the devil. All may not be as it seems, however....

Published in the shoujo magazine ''Ribon'' from 1998 to 2000, KamikazeKaitouJeanne is the first major work by Creator/ArinaTanemura. It was adapted into a 44 episode {{Anime}} by Toei in 1999. It stands apart from most MagicalGirl series by having a BrokenBird heroine, and can be quite a TearJerker at times.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[spoiler: Finn has a crush on [[{{Satan}} the baddest of them all]].]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Plenty. Chiaki to Maron, Maron to Chiaki, Minazuki to Maron, [[spoiler: Minazuki to Miyako, and Finn to Access.]]
* ArabianNightsDays: Sinbad and Access's wardrobe looks like this.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Noin tries to rape Maron in order to get rid of her VirginPower.]]
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: Who Jeanne has ''really'' been working for this whole time.]]
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: Both Maron/Chiaki and Miyako/Minazuki.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Sinbad's thieving ensemble.
* BreakTheCutie: Maron has been the victim of one of these, [[spoiler: planned and executed since her birth]], due to being the reincarnation of Jeanne d'Arc.
* BrokenBird
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: At the end of the manga, Maron gives up her kaitou powers in order to grant a dying Finn the ability to reincarnate.]]

* ChivalrousPervert: Chiaki, despite [[spoiler: being opposed to Jeanne in his role as Kaitou Sinbad]], tends to act this way towards girls, but Maron in particular. [[spoiler: He did originally approach her with an ulterior motive, but developed feelings for her instead]]. Apparently, it also runs in the family.
* ClassRepresentative: Minazuki Yamato
* ClearTheirName: Miyako's secret motivation for catching Kaitou Jeanne is to pre-emptively protect her childhood friend Maron by revealing Jeanne's secret identity, since the two bear an uncanny resemblance. Unfortunately, Maron really is Kaitou Jeanne...
** In the manga, [[spoiler: it's subverted; turns out that Miyako knew Maron and Jeanne were the same person all along, and was keeping up the act so no one else got suspicious.]]
* CooldownHug: [[spoiler: This is how Maron defeats her evil twin in the final battle.]]

* CrazyJealousGuy: Chiaki acts like this toward Maron at times, like when he yells at her for simply talking to another guy when he and Maron aren't even dating yet. (The other guy turns out to be evil, but Chiaki and Maron didn't know that at the time.)
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the second transformation.
* CuteLittleFangs: Access Time
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: Access Time]]
* DemonicPossession
* DoggedNiceGuy: Access towards Finn.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: When Finn reveals that she's a fallen angel, she gets a [[DarkIsEvil black]] outfit, a [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]], and some FemmeFatalons.]]
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Finn [[TragicVillain and not by choice]].]]
* {{Filler}}

* ForcefulKiss: Maron is on the receiving end of a lot of these from Chiaki and Noin.
* GeckoEnding
* {{God}}
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Male variant from Maron, about Chiaki.
* HeroAntagonist: Miyako and [[spoiler:Chiaki/Sinbad]].

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Miyako in the second to the last episode of the anime.]]
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: In the final volume, Access cuts his hair in order to save Finn.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Jeanne's main weapon is a gymnastics ribbon.
* JeanneDArchetype
* {{Kaitou}}
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: Finn Fish and Jeanne herself.]]

* MagicSkirt: Jeanne. Maron usually has one, but apparently it turns off when Chiaki's around.
* MeetCute: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in the case of Maron's parents. They met twice in front of the same carousel, years apart and by various coincidences, and fell in love. By the time of the story, they're working in different countries from each other and their daughter, and they unknowingly cause a HeroicBSOD in Maron by [[spoiler: telling her they're planning a divorce]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the Devil appears to have intervened to destroy their feelings of love for each other as part of an EvilPlan to end Jeanne's cycle of reincarnation by breaking Maron's spirit]]. Only, that's not really the case: [[spoiler: it's revealed that they would have broken up anyways, and no intervention was required]]. At the end of the series, [[spoiler: her parents are shown meeting each other again in a third iteration of the same MeetCute, implying that it really was the Devil's intervention that caused it]].
* MentorMascot: Finn Fish serves as Jeanne's. [[spoiler: Too bad she's not entirely trustworthy.]]
* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: The final battle in the manga has Maron fighting an evil twin version of herself.]]
* MissingMom: Chiaki's died when he was five.
* MissionFromGod: Jeanne. [[spoiler: Subverted when Jeanne finds out she's been working for the Devil this whole time without knowing it.]]
* ModestyShorts
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Finn Fish]]
* MustNotDieAVirgin: In the manga before the final battle between [[spoiler: [[MirrorMatch Maron and herself]], Maron finally [[LoveConfession breaks down in front of Chiaki]], who [[CoitusEnsues responds in kind]]. ]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In the manga, [[spoiler:Miyako always knew that Maron was Kaito Jeanne, and was intentionally failing to catch her]].
* OnlySixFaces
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: In the manga, angels are [[spoiler: amnesiac reincarnations of pure humans on Earth]] that carry and collect God's power, and are separated into ranks based on how much divine power they have built up over the years. These ranks can be easily distinguished by their size and their wings - Finn, as a low-ranking angel, is [[SleepModeSize small]] with [[GoodWingsEvilWings white wings]]. [[spoiler: Fallen angels contain no power, and literally drain the power from angels they come into contact with, whether they wish to or not.]]
* PairTheSpares: Yamato and Miyako
* PaperThinDisguise: Averted: Maron and Jeanne have completely different hair and eye colors and hairstyles, instead of just wearing different clothes. And even then, some people notice that they look similar.
* ParentalAbandonment: Maron's parents both moved overseas when she was small and never call or write her.
* PowerGivesYouWings
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Finn dies shortly after getting redeemed. However, redemption also [[RedemptionEarnsLife earns reincarnation]].]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Not only is Maron the reincarnation of Jean D'arc,[[spoiler: but she (and Jean) are also the reincarnation of Eve (Yeah, [[Literature/TheBible that Eve]]) in the manga and Chiaki is heavily implied to be Adam's reincarnation. Also Finn Fish is the angel-incarnation of Natsuki, a young {{Miko}}, who was murdered by her own possessed brother for profit (almost twice). Also, she and Access Time are both reborn in the end of the manga as Maron's and Chiaki's daughter Natsuki (yeah, creative) and Yamato's and Miyako's son Shinji.]]
** ReincarnationRomance: Noin has a twisted idea that this is what he'll have with Marron, who is Jeanne's reincarnation. At the end of the manga, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Marron, and Jeanne and the reincarnations before Jeanne, are all reincarnations of Eve and Chiaki is implied to be Adam's reincarnation]]. Slapped on one final time with [[spoiler: Natsuki (reincarnated Fynn) and Shinji (reincarnated Access)]], though Arina's notes on them reveals that the romance might not work immediately, due to only one of the reincarnated party having memories of their previous life and love.
*** A side story included in the rerelease does indeed deconstruct this. [[spoiler: Natsuki sees Access in her dreams and believes him to be her lover from a previous life, but she doesn't know that this is actually Shinji and thus sees his persistent advances as annoying.]] They manage to work it out, though.
* SadisticChoice: Noin sets up one of these as part of the process of [[BreakTheCutie breaking Maron]]. Seal the demon, kill the child. Leave the demon, and it will eventually consume the child's soul. [[spoiler: She decides that she’ll watch over the boy until he gets his upcoming heart surgery, and she’ll do her best to keep the demon at bay without fully exorcising it. And then Sinbad shows up and kills the demon himself, causing the boy to die, but he later becomes a kuro-tenshi.]]
* ShootTheDog: Sinbad burning the photographer's house. This generally seems to be Sinbad's raison d'etre.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Finn versus Fin. The latter is less like a normal name, but makes more sense with her name. (It's supposed to be a pun, ''Fin'' Fish.)
** She's called Fynn in Norway and Germany for some reason...

* StepfordSmiler: Maron.
* TakeAThirdOption: Maron tries this with the possessed boy. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Access loves pancakes. [[spoiler: So does his human reincarnation.]]
* TransformationSequence: The second is really long.
* TransformationTrinket: The rosaries.
** Subverted at the end. Chiaki no longer needs to transform to use his power (since Maron knows it's him), and Maron no longer needs it ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome period]]'' since she is no longer using the power of her trinket, but the power of her self-belief.
* TraumaticHaircut: Ever wonder how Finn got that odd haircut, short in the back with long sidelocks? [[spoiler: In the backstory, a demon-possessed human cut her hair in order to steal her angelic powers. It [[SuperpowerMeltdown worked too well]] and a bunch of humans died in the explosion, resulting in Finn's banishment from heaven.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Maron towards Chiaki, Miyako towards Maron and Minazuki, Fin towards Access
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Jeanne herself and later [[FallenAngel Finn]]. Although in the manga, Finn wasn't unwitting and argued that she was using Satan just as much as he was using her.]]
* VirginPower: Maron can only turn into Jeanne if she is "pure" (leading to Noin [[DefiledForever attempting to rape her so that she can no longer become Jeanne]]). [[spoiler:As it turns out, though, that's not the definition of "pure"; being "pure" means having a pure soul and believing in your own purity, and Maron realizes this about halfway through the series, also inspiring hope in her past reincarnation.]]
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler: Maron asks Finn this after the latter reveals that she's been evil all along. Finn initially says that yes, it was all a lie, although she later admits that she did really love Maron.]]

* WhamLine: "Maron is... Kaitou Jeanne?" [[spoiler:Miyako in episode 42]]

* CreatorBreakdown: The manga sidebars make it look like this.

* DuelingShows: It's basically a DarkerAndEdgier version of ''KaitouSaintTail''.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:Maron and Noin ended up in fifteenth-century Europe.]]

** [[spoiler: ReincarnationRomance]]

* SadisticChoice: Noin sets up one of these as part of the process of [[BreakTheCutie breaking Maron]]. Seal the demon, kill the child. Leave the demon, and it will eventually consume the child's soul. [[spoiler:The child eventually dies but later becomes a kuro-tenshi.]]

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* HotShoujoDad: Chiaki's father, who can pass for his brother.