History Manga / KamisamaKiss

** However it looks like it's actually a [[spoiler: [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle bit more complicated than that.]]

** However it looks like it's actually a [[spoiler: TwoPersonLoveTriangle bit more complicated than that.]]

** Nanami forces Tomoe and Mizuki to do this until they get along in chapter 25.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Jirou and Nanami

* JerkassWoobie: Tomoe practically ''glows'' as an example when [[spoiler: he is miniaturized by the god's lucky mallet. Kid-size, powerless, sick, and at the mercy of tengu-with-a-grudge Kurama, Tomoe's *ahem* authentic charm still manages to boil through.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Tomoe practically ''glows'' as an example when [[spoilers: he is miniaturized by the god's lucky mallet. Kid-size, powerless, sick, and at the mercy of tengu-with-a-grudge Kurama, Tomoe's *ahem* authentic charm still manages to boil through.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Tomoe ''glows'' as an example when [[spoilers:he is miniaturized by the god's lucky mallet. Kid-size, powerless, sick, and at the mercy of tengu-with-a-grudge Kurama, Tomoe's *ahem* authentic charm still manages to boil through.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Nanami is trying to explain to Tomoe why Mizuki is now one of her familiars, if you look in the background Sukuna is being beat up by his wife.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Nearly the entire male cast is portrayed as attractive, if not full-on {{Bishounen}}.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Nearly the entire male cast is portrayed as attractive, if not full-on {{Bishounen bishies}}.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Nearly the entire male cast is portrayed as attractive, if not full-on [[Bishounen bishies]].

* TheBigDamnKiss: After Nanami restores him to his adult-sized form, [[spoiler: Tomoe surprises her with a big smooch, ostensibly to re-up the familiar contract. Of course it is, Tomoe. We understand.]]

** CluelessChickMagnet: Tomoe is almost completely oblivious to the fact that most teenage girls find him attractive. He also fails to notice the signs that Nanami is starting to fall in love with him and refuses to believe it when Kurama points it out to him.

* BattleButler: Tomoe's duties as a familiar include shopping for, preparing and serving Nanami's meals (in which he passively-aggressively inserts shitaki mushrooms, the food she hates most in the world, at every opportunity), dressing her, doing the laundry and keeping the shrine and grounds meticulously clean. Oh, and performing a supernatural smackdown on anyone who looks at her the wrong way.

* CoolSword: The wild fox Tomoe carries a pretty sweet katana, and Ikusagami borrows has to borrow a special sword when [[spoiler: he goes to serve the god-warrant on Tomoe.]]

* MoralityPet: Nanami, to virtually everyone who initially meant her harm. Examples include: [[spoiler: Jirou, Kurama, the Dragon King, Mizuki and Tomoe qualify. Even Akura-ou's present incarnation appears to be softening towards her.]]

* NonActionGuy: Mizuki seems to be stronger than a human, but so far he hasn't shown any real fighting skill and is so naive he generally acts like a goofy, lovable baby most of the time. And since a tengu's powers are derived from the mountain he was born on and Kurama as spent the last 17 years living among humans, he is very close to this, too.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Tomoe, Mizuki.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: How Tomoe sees the carp princesses--and his gaggle of female admirers at Nanami's school.

* NoSell: [[spoiler: Kayako Hiragi]] tries to force Tomoe to become her familiar by forcibly kissing him, but since he is already bound to Nanami, he just wipes his mouth and proceeds to mock her. His later, uncharacteristically open-hearted explanation to Nanami induced a near-audible Squee of delight from fangirls and a FacePalm moment for him.

** Also both Tomoe and Nanami are looked down upon for their rank. Nanami is looked down upon for being a human who has the "Land God" title. Tomoe is looked down upon for being a yokai, but having a "Familiar" title. They are both disliked in their own worlds and in the divine world.

* OneHeadTaller: Tomoe and Nanami, Mizuki and Nanami, Kurama and Nanami...are we seeing a pattern here?

* OutDamnedSpot: When Tomoe first met Mikage he was desperately trying to wash blood off of himself. Tomoe later has a repeat of this situation with Nanami.

* ParentalAbandonment: Nanami, her father skips town only a few minutes ahead of the debt collectors and he doesn't seem to care what happens to her as a result. Also, her mother died when she was young.

* PiggybackCute: Tomoe does this for Nanami in chapter 60 after she gets drunk.

* RagsToRiches: Yukiji used to be an ordinary farm girl until she was adopted into a well off family following a traumatic incident. Nanami counts too, though it is more of a case of Rags to Godhood. In fact, RagsToRiches is used as a cover story by Nanami to explain the fact that she actually has money now and why Tomoe follows her everywhere.
* Really700YearsOld: Tomoe looks to be in his late teens, early twenties, despite the fact he is at least over five centuries old. Mizuki also counts, so does Mikage (looks like a middle-aged man despite haven been around for a few centuries).

* RedOniBlueOni: Nanami is red; passionate, energetic, frequently acts on impulse, very extroverted. Tomoe is blue; is very proud along with being much more calm, intellectual, tends to ''think'' before acting and is more introverted.

*** Oddly enough, while disguising himself as Nanami, Tomoe has a habit of increasing her bust size. When confronted about this by Kurama, Tomoe claims that his form is accurate and that Nanami is "fleshier than she looks". Make of that what you will.

* StealthMentor: [[spoiler: Otohiko to Nanami, during to the contest against Kayako]].

* WingedHumanoid: Kurama, Jirou, pretty much every other Tengu. Kurama even uses it as part of his IdolSinger gig, were he pretends to be a fallen angel from Heaven.

* NoSell: [[spoiler: Kayako Hiragi]] tries to force Tomoe to become her familiar by forcibly kissing him, but since he is already bound to Nanami, he just wipes his mouth and proceeds to mock her. His later, uncharacteristically open-hearted explanation to Nanami induced a near-audible [[Squee]] of delight from fangirls and a [[FacePalm]] moment for him.

* KidWithTheLeash: Tomoe is a pretty powerful and ruthless demon, however thanks to the familiar contract when Nanami gives him an order he has to obey it no matter what. To say he is unhappy about this situation would be an understatement.

* LapPillow: The old Tanuki-woman Mizutame does this at one point for [[spoiler: Tomoe because he let her escape from Akura-Ou in the past]].

* LeanAndMean: Ikusagami, [[spoiler: Kirihito]].

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: While Nanami is off to the God Summit with Mizuki, Tomoe seizes the opportunity to visit the yokai version of a Red Light District. Despite his extreme popularity with the Tanuki-girls, once there he finds his heart isn't in it and simply drinks until he falls asleep.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Tomoe in his Wild Fox persona.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Tomoe, though later on he once [[spoiler: accuses Nanami of this]].

* MoralityPet: Nanami, to virtually everyone she meets who initially meant her harm. Examples include: [[spoiler: Jirou, Kurama, the Dragon King, Mizuki and Tomoe qualify. Even Akura-ou's present incarnation appears to be softening towards her.]]

** Tomoe can also be seen smoking from a pipe on occasion, including on school grounds. He's pretty loose with the booze, too, at one time going through eight bottles of sake on his own. In one instance, he takes a cup of sake from Nanami because she's underage and drinks it himself. He's utterly clueless as to why everyone is so shocked, [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace not realizing how intimate the gesture is.]]

* NonActionGuy: Mizuki seems to be stronger than any human, but so far he hasn't shown any fighting skill, despite being a familiar. Kurama's powers are so weakened by being away from his place of birth that he is very close to this, too.
* NoSell: [[spoiler: Kayako Hiragi]] tries to force Tomoe to become her familiar and steal him away from Nanami by forcibly kissing him, but since he is already bound to Nanami, he just wipes his mouth and proceeds to mock her.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: How Tomoe sees the carp princesses. And his gaggle of female admirers at Nanami's school.

* CaretakerReversal: When Nurakami [[spoiler: turns Tomoe into a child with the Luck Mallet]] Nanami ends up caring for him. Usually it's the other way around.

* CheerfulChild: Mamoru in his human form, the Tengu children and [[spoiler: Tomoe]] after [[spoiler: Nurakami hits him with the Luck Mallet]].
* CherryBlossoms: The setting of the first meeting between [[spoiler: Jirou and Nanami]] and also their [[spoiler: goodbye]].

** CluelessChickMagnet: Tomoe is almost completely oblivious to the fact that most teenage girls find him attractive. He fails to notice the signs that Nanami is starting to fall in love with him and refuses to believe it when Kurama points it out to him.

* CoolSword: Wild fox Tomoe has a pretty sweet Katana, and Ikusagami borrows a special sword when [[spoiler: he goes to serve the god-warrant on Tomoe.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: When he's not posing as a human, Tomoe always goes barefoot.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Kirihito doesn't hesitate to smash to mirror to Yomi-no-kuni, which is spewing poison, when he hears his mother's voice.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Tomoe tells Akura-Ou that he dislikes senseless massacres when he witness Akura-Ou kill the women in the brothel for the sheer hell of it.]]

** This gets even more apparent when dealing with Nanami's time travel escapades and not just from a plot perspective either since Tomoe resembles Inuyasha even more so in the past because [[LongHairedPrettyBoy he wears his hair long]] as opposed to his modern page-boy style haircut and he uses swords.

* FallingIntoHisArms: What usual happens between [[spoiler: Nanami]] and[[spoiler: Tomoe]] once [[spoiler: he]] makes a BigDamnHeroes entrance.

* FishOutOfWater: Mizuki in the human world, along with a few other youkai. Nanami twice; first when being introduced to godhood and than with her time travel escapades.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Nanami is trying to explain to Tomoe why Mizuki is now one of her familiars after getting Sukuna to call off his feud if you look in the background Sukuna is being beat up by his wife.

* GilliganCut: A classmate asks Isobe if he bullies Nanami because he loves her. Isobe denies this, but then Tomoe enters in Nanami's form and he is floored be her sudden attractiveness.
* GreenEyedEpiphany[=/=]GreenEyedMonster: Tomoe tends to be very condescending and rude to Nanami. But should any other man so much as even talk to her he flips his lid. A prime example happens in an ice cream parlor where Isobe is mocking her poverty and constantly belittling her. Cue a little panel labeled 'Tomoe Vision' full of hearts and Nanami and Isobe flirting with each other followed by a picture of Tomoe practically seething with anger.

-->"Hey Asshole! Just being a man and a warrior isn't enough for Nanami to be loved....It's like looking at a reflection of myself, seriously irritating."

* BattleButler: Tomoe's duties as a familiar include shopping for, preparing and serving Nanami's meals, doing her laundry and keeping the shrine and grounds tidy. Oh, and performing a supernatural smackdown on anyone who looks at her the wrong way.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Tomoe visits a demonic marketplace to get supplies for the shrine. Nanami, of course, follows him despite him telling her not to.

* BeastAndBeauty: Tomoe's a demon with a terrifying amount of power and Nanami is a teenage girl that keeps him in check.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Tomoe is like this whenever Nanami's plans go wrong.

* BlatantLies: Nanami thinks Tomoe is doing this while they're on a date at the amusement park. Subverted because, thanks to Mikage, [[spoiler: Tomoe really doesn't remember his old girlfriend, Yukiji.]]

''Kamisama Kiss'' (''Kamisama Hajimemashita'') is a {{Shoujo}} manga series created by Julietta Suzuki. It begins when teenage Nanami Momozono's [[ParentalAbandonment father skips town]] [[TheGamblingAddict to escape his gambling debts]] and leaves her holding the bag. Nanami is evicted from her home and ends up on a nearby park bench with no money and no family to turn to. She saves a strange man (Mikage) from a dog, and after hearing her story, the man offers Nanami his house as a thank you for saving him. Since she has nowhere else to go, she decides to check it out.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: How Tomoe sees the carp princesses.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Tomoe has made it blisteringly clear on several occasions that his only priority is Nanami. In the beginning this is simply because of the familiar contract between them, but later his protective instincts begin to blossom along with his affection.

** Tomoe can also be seen smoking from an opium pipe on occasion, including on school grounds. He's pretty loose with the booze, too, at one time going through eight bottles of sake on his own. In one instance, he takes a cup of sake from Nanami because she's underage and drinks it himself. He's utterly clueless as to why everyone is so shocked, [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace not realizing how intimate the gesture is.]]