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15	[[WMG:[[center: [-''Literature/DateALive'' '''[[Characters/DateALive Main Character Index]]'''\
16	'''Itsuka Siblings ''' \| [[Characters/DateALiveSpirits Spirits]] \| [[Characters/DateALiveRatatoskr Ratatoskr]] \| [[Characters/DateALiveDEM Deus Ex Machina Industries]] \| [[Characters/DateALiveOthers Others]] \| [[Characters/DateALiveExtracanonicalSpirits Extracanonical Spirits]] \| [[Characters/DateALiveQuasiSpirits Quasi-Spirits]]-] ]]]]
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18	!!{{Spoiler}}s for all works prior to the end of Volume 11 are left unmarked.
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20	The Itsuka household is a seemingly ordinary family in which Shido was adopted after being abandoned by his birth mother at a young age. He takes care of the house and his foster sister Kotori while their parents are busy. Secretly, his sister is an airship commander of the organization Ratatoskr, which seeks to peacefully resolve the Spacequakes by using Shido's mysterious ability to seal the powers of the Spirits who cause them with a kiss.
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25	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Shido is gentle and a good cook, while Kotori is aggressive and leaves all the domestic tasks to Shido.
26	* NotBloodSiblings: They're actually siblings through adoption, but Shido only sees Kotori as a sister, which ticks her off. He is willing to kiss her, but only because it is the way to seal her out of control powers.
27	* RedOniBlueOni: Shido is the mild-mannered Blue Oni and Kotori is the hotheaded Red Oni. Their roles are reflected by their hair colors.
28	* SiblingYinYang: The older brother Shido has a nice and meek personality, in contrast to his little sister Kotori's short-tempered and abrasive attitude.
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31	[[folder:Shido Itsuka]]
32	!! Shido Itsuka
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34	!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Saeko Zougou (Japanese, as "Shiori"), Yukiko Aruga (Japanese, young), Creator/JessieJamesGrelle (English), Ryan Reynolds (English, as "Shiori"), Creator/MikaelaKrantz (English, young), Isaid Pelayo (Latin-American Spanish), Lupita Leal (Latin-American Spanish, as "Shiori")
35	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shido_itsuka.png]]
36	->''"If people refuse to accept you, I'll just accept you even more."''
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38	The protagonist whose actions form the basis of ''Date A Live''. An OrdinaryHighschoolStudent who sees the [[PersonOfMassDestruction true face of the supernatural disasters]] called spacequakes when he ignores an evacuation alarm to look for his little sister. He finds said little sister... leading an organization saving the world by seducing the Spirits rather than destroying them. Shido is the key to their plan, thanks to his ability to seal the power of these Spirits with a kiss. [[{{Blackmail}} Shido agrees]] to represent humanity and date the girls without knowing [[MysteriousPast just how tightly his personal history is tied to the Spirits]].
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41	* AccidentalMisnaming: Reine claims she can't remember his name, calling him "Shin" instead. She does start calling him by his proper name later on, but never to his face. The reason why she kept calling him Shin is revealed in Volume 17: [[spoiler:"Shin" was the name Reine (who was the First Spirit back then, now known as Mio Takamiya) first uttered when he introduced himself to her 30 years ago four months after her arrival into their world. "Shin" turns out to be short for "Shinji".]]
42	* AccidentalPervert: In Volume 2, he repeatedly walks in on Tohka when she's using the bathroom. This was [[InvokedTrope planned intentionally by Kotori]] as part of his "training".
43	* ActionSurvivor: Shido is just a normal guy living in extraordinary times and only becomes badass because circumstances force him to.
44	* AllLovingHero: Shido just wants everyone to get along and goes to great lengths to ensure his friends and loved ones are happy, even if it means putting his own life in danger. In fact, all the Spirits stood by him simply because he cared that much.
45	* AllYourPowersCombined: Later volumes have him using various Angels, and using multiple powers at the same time.
46	* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: When there's a Spirit girl in trouble, Shido will go to hell and back to save her.
47	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Early in the series, a few characters have considered the notion that Shido might not be entirely human, given that he can seal and use Spirit powers. [[spoiler:Further mudding the issue was the revelation that Spirits themselves used to be normal humans. Volume 17 reveals Shido ''used'' to be a regular human, until he was killed by Wescott and Mio recreated him as her surrogate child. When it was time for her to give birth to him, he had acquired the ability to wield Spirit powers, as Mio intended him to become a PhysicalGod, just like her, thus now making him a human/Spirit hybrid.]]
48	* AmnesiacHero: Other than faint memories of his biological mother abandoning him, Shido doesn't remember anything about his life before he was adopted by the Itsuka family.
49	* AttractiveBentGender: In Volume 6/second half of the anime's 2nd season, he dresses up as "Shiori" to get close to [[DoesNotLikeMen Miku]]. He pulls it off very well, though Tohka, Origami and Kurumi see through it at a glance.
50	* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: After sealing Kotori's Spirit power with a kiss, Shido affirms he did mean it when he said he loves her very much... As a sister, of course. Kotori kicks him for that.
51	* BigBrotherInstinct:
52	** Kotori, [[NotBloodSiblings is his little sister]], to the point where Shido ignores an imminent disaster warning to look for her. While her bossy commander mode put him off, he still cares for her deeply.
53	** Yoshino has trouble communicating with others without Yoshinon until Shido agrees to become her new "hero".
54	* BigDamnHeroes: Towards the end of Volume 7, he pulls an epic one by jumping in Inverse Tohka's way and rescuing Miku, and this along with several other factors prompts her HeelFaceTurn.
55	* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Mio's death removes all the powers he's sealed throughout the story, but in-universe, it's left ambiguous if he kept his ability to seal spirit powers.]]
56	* ButtMonkey: The Fraxinus crew punishes him whenever he messes up his training. Punishments involve broadcasting embarrassing moments from his past, penalty games, and the like. They even make him do outlandish things just to please the spirit of the week.
57	* TheCasanova: The series is entirely about making a FakeUltimateHero version of this. [[spoiler:Volume 12 plays it straighter, what with him hitting on every single female character in reach.]]
58	* CastFromHitPoints: Using Angels strains his body, since he technically isn't a Spirit. His HealingFactor can heal the damage, but it still hurts pretty badly.
59	* TheChewToy: He doesn't get paid even remotely '''enough''' for all the stuff that regularly gets thrown at him in the run of a week.
60	* ChickMagnet: {{Invoked\|Trope}}. Ratatoskr sends Shido to make Spirit girls fall in love with him so he can seal their powers with a kiss.
61	* ChildrenDoTheHousework: Because his adoptive parents are working overseas, Shido cooks and does the household chores for himself and his younger sister Kotori.
62	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shido always insists on helping anyone in danger and doing the right thing, even if there is nothing for him to gain. It's a FatalFlaw, as it can push him into borderline martyrdom sometimes.
63	* {{Chuunibyou}}: He had several embarrassing fantasies that Kotori periodically threatens to expose to the public if he doesn't follow orders.
64	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Origami points out that Shido calls her by her [[LastNameBasis last name]], but Tokha by her [[FirstNameBasis first name]]. She wants that to change.
65	-->'''Shido''': So this means…? Should I call Tohka "Yatogami" from now on? Somehow I can't get used to that…
66	* CovertPervert: Despite his self-control with the girls, it's clear their advances are resonating with him.
67	* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly for a Harem MC, Shido can be quite sarcastic and often making snide remarks especially at the start of the story but this habits of him slowly decreasing in the later volumes.
68	* DeathIsCheap: He's actually died and come back several times, courtesy of Kotori's Angel. Unfortunately, it doesn't work if he {{One Hit Kill}}ed.
69	* DeathSeeker: He was this in his younger days, Kotori mentioned to Reine that the feeling of being abandoned was so bad that even after being adopted, for a long while she felt he seemed suicidal. Ironically it was this time of his life that made him sensitive to feelings of sadness, and therefore made him want to save all of the Spirits.
70	* {{Determinator}}: He takes saving the Spirits very seriously. To reach Yoshino when her Angel goes out of control he pushes his way through a passive barrier of ice shards (which according to Kotori is equivalent to dodging machine gun fire) that is guaranteed to kill a person without Spirit power, and he can't let his HealingFactor heal the damage because the barrier's active component would freeze him solid. His body is charitably described as "raw meat" in the novel.
71	* DisguisedInDrag: Ratatoskr forces him into dressing up as a woman named "Shiori" to get close to (and try to seal) Miku, who DoesNotLikeMen and while she, and everyone not named Tohka or Origami, is fooled for a while, he's eventually discovered, forcing him to come up with an alternate plan to seal Miku.
72	* DramaPreservingHandicap: [[spoiler:Rasiel and Michael are considered {{Story Breaker Power}}s within the narrative itself, so the former gets mostly stolen by Westcott, while Shido lacks the experience to properly use the latter by the time the WarArc begins.]]
73	* TheDulcineaEffect: Almost every arc, Shido goes to great lengths to protect and save a Spirit girl he has known for a few days at most.
74	* ExoticEyeDesigns: Develops the telltale whitened pupils of a Spirit around Volume 5 while using Angels, his eyes becoming gold in color when this happens.
75	* FirstFriend: To Tohka. As the first to accept Tohka as a person rather than a threat, he would become her LivingEmotionalCrutch.
76	* FirstKiss: He shares one with Tohka at the end of the first volume. Except that he kissed Kotori five years earlier.
77	* GenderBender: In certain sidestories and later in Volume 12, he can use Natsumi's powers to become Shiori beyond mere crossdressing.
78	* GenderConcealingVoice: When disguised as Shiori, Shido uses a special device to make his voice sound like a girl's.
79	* GenderVocabularySlip: He can't quite remember to change his speech patterns as "Shiori". Miku notices the use of the very masculine ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns ore]]'', but doesn't dwell on it, simply passing "her" off as a tomboy OreOnna.
80	* GotVolunteered: Initially against Kotori's plan to date the Spirits to seal them. Turns out to not have a choice, for a [[{{Blackmail}} variety]] of [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl reasons]].
81	* HappilyAdopted: The Itsukas adopted Shido when he was young. While he started out in a near-suicidal depression over his birth mother abandoning him, he recovered in about a year. Although he doesn't see his adoptive parents much, Shido does love Kotori as a sister and is very happy to be her family.
82	* HaremPowered: Each Spirit who falls in loves with him provides him another Angel. [[spoiler:The Angels were always meant to be used by him, and were simply given to human girls who became Spirits so he wouldn't be burdened with all the power at once.]]
83	* HaremSeeker: A rare case of the HaremSeeker ''[[UnwantedHarem not]]'' wanting his harem. He's only dating the Spirits to save the world, as Kotori puts it. When he tries to come up with an alternative, Kotori shoots down his arguments.
84	* HeroesPreferSwords: Even after he gets accustomed to other Angels, he defaults to Tohka's [[{{BFS}} Sandalphon]] in direct combat.
85	* HeroicBSOD:
86	** In Volume 3, after witnessing how AxCrazy Kurumi is (particularly having a FreakOut at the sight of her killing people), he begins to question whether dating and sealing her is really the right thing, as he'd believed up until then that Spirits only caused harm through involuntary spacequakes or self-defense. Kotori [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan smacks him]] and tells him that he has to if only to stop Kurumi from claiming more lives, and Tohka convinces him that him reaching out to her was likely the only thing that stopped her from ending up like Kurumi, restoring his drive.
87	** He suffers another in Volume 14 after Mukuro makes him question whether his Spirit sealing is actually beneficial to the Spirits in the long run, as it hasn't stopped DEM from antagonizing them and in fact makes them more vulnerable. His doubts are further reinforced when [[spoiler:Westcott traps him and the Spirits in Beelzebub's LotusEaterMachine and the Spirits are overwhelmed by various fairy tale villains because they can't use their powers at all, but they're saved by the Shido from the Spirits' doujinshi who restores Shido's resolve.]]
88	** In Volume 18, he loses the will to fight [[spoiler:Mio after learning that she has already killed all the Spirits, but Tohka (who was revealed to be a PureMagicBeing like Mio) revives herself and snaps him out of it. He continues fighting even after Tohka gets [[CessationOfExistence completely annihilated by Ain]], and Kurumi’s final clone covertly reminds him that he still has her [[MentalTimeTravel Sixth Bullet Vav]] so he can fix the mess.]]
89	* HeroProtagonist: The main character, the center of the BattleHarem and the one with the most serious dedication at keeping the Spirits safe.
90	* HouseHusband: Because Kotori is busy at Ratatoskr, Shido is usually the one doing all the housework.
91	* IGaveMyWord:
92	** To Miku after his BigDamnHeroes moment in Volume 7. Him actually keeping [[ThePromise his promises]] is what makes her fall in love with him and do a HeelFaceTurn. Of course, TheDulcineaEffect may have something to do with it...
93	** His promise to Tohka not to kiss any other girl, on the other hand ''can't'' be kept, because it's the last step in sealing a Spirit's power. Tohka being [[TheDitz Tohka]] means she doesn't equate sealing with kissing until Volume 12.
94	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:The reason he didn't kill Westcott in Volume 18, despite all the atrocities he committed throughout the series (including the death of his previous incarnation Shinji)]].
95	* IgnoreTheFanservice: When Nia tries to get him turned on, or at least flustered, he ignores her every attempt, from pressing her boobs into his back to wearing a skimpy maid outfit to trying to put his pay envelope for helping her with drawing her manga in her ([[ACupAngst nonexistent]]) cleavage. He's more focused on helping her throughout all this than her attempts to seduce him, and it takes her revealing that she's a spirit for him to even consider romance with her. A drastic change from when he was being trained not to ogle girls in bikinis before sealing Kotori.
96	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Ellen when he attempts to save Tohka. Even though he survives, Tohka gets Inversed.
97	* IndirectKiss: In the Drama CD, Shido gives Kurumi some of the drink he's already had. She [[LampshadeHanging points out]] it counts as an indirect kiss.
98	* InsistentTerminology: He's a human who can use Spirit powers, not a Spirit. He has good reason to say this since his eyes don't always have the trademark whitened pupils, and his sister Mana has never shown any signs of being able to use spirit powers herself.
99	* KamehameHadoken: During his galge training early in Volume 1, Kotori threatened to reveal a video of him posing to fire "Secret Art: Roaring Flash Wave" half-naked. [[spoiler:Come Volume 12, the NotHimself Shidou fired a powerful blast from his palms using the Spirit powers trapped inside him. He would later use it in Volume 18 to defeat Westcott, who [[DidntSeeThatComing was caught off guard]] because he didn't expect Shido to use an attack unrelated to Angels.]]
100	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He has more holes in his memory than anyone else, with Tohka as the sole exception.
101	* LeeroyJenkins: His plan to rescue Tohka is rushing into the building where Tohka was being held captive and search it from bottom to top. Without Miku's assistance and his regenerative powers, he would've been screwed.
102	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Becomes one for several Spirits. [[spoiler:Deconstructed in the sense that DEM is counting on this for their evil plan. By making him a crutch for the Spirits, killing him in front of them would make them inverse all at once.]]
103	** [[InsecureLoveInterest Tohka]] is at her happiest when together with Shido. When they're separated, she gets upset easily. This is why she's put in the same class at Raizen, while the Yamai sisters could be put in another because they have each other. She believes that meeting him may have been the only thing that prevented her from eventually snapping and becoming as AxCrazy as Kurumi. In Volume 15, it's been shown Shido has been such a major influence on Tohka to the point that [[spoiler:losing her memory of Shido was enough to make her Inverse naturally. This is taken to the extreme in Volume 22 where, in an alternate universe, Shido died, which caused Tohka to transform into Beast and destroyed the other spirits and the world.]]
104	** Origami too. Early interactions make it very clear the two met after shortly after her parents' death, and that she imprinted on him for some reason. He doesn't remember at all. Turns out she met his time traveling future self, who was trying to stop her from [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Inversing]]. Unfortunately, his first attempt wound up [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast creating the circumstances that led to her doing so]]. At the end of Volume 11, she admits that she was treating him as this in the old timeline, but she's going to start loving him for real from now on.
105	* ManOfKryptonite: He ends up as this to [[spoiler:the Nibelcoles, as Nia still likes him enough to be sealed and they are fundamentally connected to Nia. As such, all it takes is one kiss - [[WeaksauceWeakness even a blown one]], which is useful if they try to run - to instantly seal them, which makes them immediately fade away due to not being real Spirits.]]
106	* MeaningfulName:
107	** His first name means "Samurai's Code", a reference to his loyal personality and dedicated nature.
108	** The character for five is right there. [[spoiler:The number ''11'' can be derived from the first character in his given name (士 = 十 + 一 = 10 + 1 = 11)]].
109	* MessyHair: For most of the series, he carries a mild case of bed hair.
110	* MistakenForGay: Twice, thanks to Natsumi taking his appearance and screwing around with his classmates.
111	* ModestyShorts: Even when forced to crossdress as "Shiori", he refuses to simply wear panties under his skirt.
112	* MySisterIsOffLimits: He angrily brushes off Hiroto's attempts to learn more about Kotori when it becomes apparent that the latter is desperate for a girlfriend.
113	* MysteriousPast: We know nothing about his birth parents, his biological sister was a member of DEM when they reunited, [[spoiler:and both Phantom and Westcott seems to know something about his real identity.]]
114	* NiceGuy: His nice and trustworthy character is what [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan draws several of the Spirits towards him]].
115	* NoSell: The spirit power he's sealed makes him resistant, if not outright immune, to some Spirits' abilities, like Kurumi's [[LifeDrinker City of Devouring Time]], Miku's CompellingVoice, and [[spoiler:Inverse Nia's [[RealityWarper future describing]]]] (though he had to actively exert spirit power to resist it).
116	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Considering that sealing a Spirit's powers [[TheNudifier causes their Astral Dresses to disappear]], and their dresses are manifestations of their power, it means that Shido risks one of these situations every time he does this.
117	** He actually suffers this from Tohka when he seals Yamai's and Miku's powers, with Yuzuru hilariously declaring [[DefiledForever she can't be a bride anymore]]. While in Miku's case it's the staff member (Tohka again in the anime) walking into them right after the sealing that's the issue.
118	** Also, this happens to him twice with Yoshino, courtesy of [[ClingyJealousGirl Tohka]]. (The first was an accidental kiss, the second was [[DiggingYourselfDeeper him demonstrating to Yoshino what happened the first time]]).
119	* OhCrap: When [[ClingyJealousGirl Tohka]] sees him about to kiss Yoshino for the second time, just as he was trying to demonstrate what he accidentally did to her the first time! Of course, this is just asking for trouble…
120	* OldShame: He feels terribly embarrassed when Nia uses [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Rasiel]] to reveal the manga sketches he used to draw.
121	* OnlySaneMan: Considering the company he keeps, it's not really that hard being the most normal guy around.
122	* OutOfCharacterMoment: Dealing with these is the entire plot of Volume 12, [[spoiler:as he's somehow become a womanizer]].
123	* ParentalAbandonment: His [[spoiler:surrogate]] mother abandoned him, his father isn't mentioned, and his foster parents are both working overseas.
124	* PastLifeMemories: [[spoiler:When he sees Mana in the middle of his Reiryoku high in Volume 12, he implies that she was kidnapped by [=DEM=] and that "Mio" saved her, which slightly triggers buried memories in Mana's head. He later tries to "unlock" his memories with Michael, which fails for him but allows the audience to see it. Mio would then properly give him his memories as Shinji before intending to erase the memories of his current life, but it doesn't work because Shido can't identify himself with Shinji's memories and still thinks of himself as his own person.]]
125	* PhysicalGod: Volume 17 reveals that, thanks to [[spoiler:his recreation, he has the potential to become this. His inability to wield multiple Spirit powers at once is only temporary. When he reaches maturity, his power will be comparable to Mio's.]]
126	* PowerParasite: He seals Spirits' powers within himself by kissing them. Unlike most cases of this trope, the original owners still have their powers, but much weaker than before.
127	* PromotedToPlayable: During the first run of ''Ais Catastrophe'' in ''VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'', he was neither obtainable as an adventurer nor even an assist, however, the second run addressed this by making him obtainable as an adventurer.
128	* RealMenWearPink: Has great make-up skills due to his training as Shiori. He also is a great cook and finds the task enjoyable.
129	* {{Reincarnation}}: Volume 17 reveals that [[spoiler:he is the recreated/reincarnation of Shinji Takamiya, who died 30 years ago protecting Mio, the First Spirit, from Wescott. To save him, Mio absorbed him into her body and carried him in her womb as his surrogate mother.]]
130	* SayMyName: [[OnceAnEpisode At least once per volume]], usually the name of the arc's focus character. Special mention to volume 1 when he screams Tohka's name after the ''Fraxinus'' drops him out the airlock. Recreating the scene is key to undoing Tohka's DespairEventHorizon in Volume 7.
131	* SecondYearProtagonist: The story begins with Shido in his second year at Raizen High School, albeit a few months from summer break. Tohka and the Yamais are also labelled second-year high schoolers for convenience, with Tohka in the same class as him.
132	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Volume 11 is all about this; unfortunately his initial attempt [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast helped make things go wrong]]. He got it right the second time... mostly.
133	* SkywardScream: Courtesy of LoveHurts at the end of ''Rinne Utopia''.
134	* SobriquetSexSwitch: When crossdressing as a woman, Shido uses the alias "Shiori".
135	* StockLightNovelHero: Shido starts off as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent whose life completely changes when he discovers he's the only human with the power to seal Spirits and use their powers for himself. The necessity to build a harem, though, is baked right into the plot--the danger threatening the world are {{Apocalypse Maiden}}s called "spirits" who can only be saved by falling in love with him and then kissing Shido.
136	* StraightMan: He usually plays the levelheaded everyman to the quirky Spirits' antics, especially those of [[TheDitz Tohka]] and [[LovableSexManiac Origami]].
137	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His normally brown eyes turn gold with glowing white pupils like a Spirit while he's using Angels.
138	* SupremeChef: Side material lists cooking as his favorite thing; he frequently cooks meals for the Spirits, including the [[BigEater gluttonous]] Tohka. He even manages to beat [[spoiler:his past life Shinji in a cook-off where the two judges Reine and Mio should have been biased in the latter's favor.]]
139	* TakeAThirdOption: Shidou states he cannot ''stand'' only having two options; he always works with three in his dating sim training. When limited to two, he ''forces'' the third. Just ask the Yamai twins.
140	* TakingTheBullet: For Tohka in Volume 1. He would have done this for Kurumi in Volume 4 (while he couldn't heal or cheat death if it hit no less), but Kotori shifted her aim in time. [[spoiler:And does it again in volume 11 when he pushes Origami's parents out of the way from one of Origami's laser beams.]]
141	* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Westcott's plan hinges on Shido becoming a LivingEmotionalCrutch to all the Spirits, [[spoiler:killing him so they all Inverse simultaneously from despair, and then having Artemisia use her territory ability to plunder the Qlipha Crystal from each of the Inversed Spirits so he can put them into himself. The plan would have been a success if Kurumi haven't turned back time over 200 times to save Shido.]]
142	* TookALevelInBadass: Given that he can use the powers of the Spirits he kisses, his level of badassery increases as his harem does. Taken even further when he gains the ability to wield [[{{BFS}} Sandalphon]].
143	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In ''Memoria Freese's'' crossover campaign, ''Ais Catastrophe'', he, alongside several members of his harem, find themselves transported into the world of Orario as the result of an unknown cause. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that it was the work of a false Kaguya Yamai]].
144	* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Volume 5/episode 4 season 2, Tohka suffers a defeat in battle leaving Shido to watch helplessly as the enemy prepares to carry her away. Wishing he had the power to protect her, he raises his hand helplessly... and a copy of ''Sandalphon'' appears.
145	* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Tohka, it's fairly clear that the two have strong feelings for each other, even if neither one has said anything. Considering Shido's experience with girls before meeting her, he may have a case of CannotSpitItOut.
146	* UnskilledButStrong: When he wields Sandalphon. On one hand, he doesn't have much experience using Spirit powers and he's not even a trained swordsman, so all he can do is swing the sword around like a baseball bat and hope his enemies will run into it. On the other hand, Sandalphon is a magic sword with enormous cutting power, so he can afford to attack his enemies with reckless abandon. In general, he can't use Angels as freely as the original owner because of the strain put on his human body [[spoiler:until he's sealed them all in Volume 19]].
147	* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: In Volume 11, his first attempt at changing the future contributes to the exact outcome he wanted to avoid. Surprisingly, the second attempt works and creates a new (better) timeline.
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150	[[folder:Kotori Itsuka]]
151	!! Commander Kotori Itsuka
152	!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English), Melissa Hernández (Latin-American Spanish)
153	!!! '''Code name:''' "Efreet"
154	!!! '''Angel:''' Camael ([[BarbaricBattleaxe Halberd]])
155	!!! '''Astral Dress:''' Elohim Gibor
156	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kotori_1_1.png]]
157	[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see "Efreet" ]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kotori_itsuka_spirit.png[[/labelnote]]]]
158	->''"Now, let our date (battle) begin."''
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160	Shido's [[NotBloodSiblings foster younger sister]] who is also the Commander of the ''[[CoolShip Fraxinus]]''. Her personality depends on the ribbons she's wearing: she acts like a perfectly normal girl her age when she's wearing white ribbons, but switches to a TinyTyrannicalGirl when she's wearing black ribbons. Nevertheless, [[{{Tsundere}} she still cares deeply for Shido.]]
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162	Volume 3 reveals that she is the Spirit codenamed Efreet, having been turned into one by the Phantom, who then told her to kiss Shido to seal her powers. This was how she learned about Shido's ability to seal Spirits' powers. She takes them back to save him from Kurumi in Volume 3, then has them sealed again in Volume 4.
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165	* ACupAngst: She gets pissed off when Natsumi (in adult form) mocks her inferior figure. She's also rendered speechless when her clothes don’t fit over Mukuro’s chest. The ''Ais Catastrophe'' crossover campaign in ''VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'' also displayed this trait in an outfit story when Hestia tries out a replica of Kotori's commander outfit.
166	* AdaptationalNiceGirl: The anime considerably tones down Kotori's verbal and physical abuse toward Shido.
167	* AngerBornOfWorry: Whenever Shido throws himself into a situation where she doesn't believe that his HealingFactor will save him.
168	** After Shido braves Yoshino's blizzard (which would pelt him like a machine gun and freeze him if it detected Spirit power from his HealingFactor) to return her puppet, Kotori punches him and [[CryIntoChest tearfully]] berates him for not listening to her orders.
169	** She later punched him again with much sterner criticism after her Spirit form narrowly avoids killing him when he jumped in between her and Kurumi (Kotori's unsealed powers meant that he didn't even have the HealingFactor at that point).
170	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:
171	** At the end of her first date, a berserk Origami is determined to kill the spirit Efreet that's inside Kotomi, Shido has no idea what her Love levels are, and Kotori is weakened and frightened. Shido tells her that she's his beloved, cherished sister and that he loves her no matter what. Kotori is at first too flustered to respond, but at Shido's urging, she yells out that she loves him and always has.
172	** [[spoiler:When Shido tries to convince her to allow him to confront Beast, knowing that he may be killed without Camael's HealingFactor, she expresses how she can't bare to see him die because she loves him.]]
173	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She acts very childish towards her older brother at home, especially when she's wearing her white ribbons, such as waking him up by kicking him.
174	* AuthoritySoundsDeep: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. Her commander mode has a deeper voice than her childish white ribbon personality, though it's still fairly high-pitched given her age.
175	* AxCrazy: When she taps into Efreet for too long, she starts giving in to bloodlust, nearly killing Kurumi with a maniacal grin before Shido's pleas bring her back to her senses.
176	* BarbaricBattleaxe: Kotori's Angel takes the form of a huge, flaming battle-axe, prolonged use of which will make her succumb to destructive impulses and start gleefully trying to kill others.
177	* BigBrotherAttraction: As a FreudianSlip, she mentions to Mana that being a blood-related sibling means Mana can't marry Shido. That said, put into account that Kotori and Shido are NotBloodSiblings.
178	* BigDamnHeroes: She first reveals her Spirit powers to stop Kurumi from destroying Raizen High School by creating a spacequake to cancel out Kurumi's.
179	* BloodKnight: As Efreet, she slowly starts losing control of herself and practically begs for a good fight, taunting a defeated Kurumi about how disappointing of a performance the latter put up.
180	* CallingParentsByTheirName: Sibling variation. When she's in her "black" mode, Kotori calls her adoptive older brother Shido by his first name instead of [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology "Onii-chan" or any other term the Japanese use to refer their brothers]]. This is so that he could view her as a woman rather than his little sister.
181	* TheCaptain: As [[ImprobableAge improbable]] as it is, she's the commander of the ''Fraxinus'' ship, and directs Ratatoskr's operations when it comes to Shido dating Spirits.
182	* CharacterCatchphrase: She habitually says ''"Now, let's get this date started."'' to kick off each "mission".
183	* ClingyJealousGirl: When Shido's biological sister [[LongLostRelative Mana]] shows up, Kotori attempts to assert herself as Shido's only true sister and gets into an argument over whether a biological or adoptive sister is better.
184	* CoatCape: She has the habit of wearing her red commander jacket over her shoulders like a cape. She only wears it properly in front of Woodman.
185	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Red eyes and hair bordering on coral.
186	* ElementalEyeColors: Her red eyes ([[CurtainsMatchTheWindow as well as]] [[ElementalHairColors hair]]) go in line with her Spirit form's fire powers.
187	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we're first introduced to Kotori, she wakes Shido up by getting on top of his bed and kicking him in the stomach. Then, Shido scares her but they quickly reconcile shortly afterwards.
188	* EvilRedhead: The bloodlust-stricken Efreet is easily as much of a threat as the AxCrazy Kurumi, although Shido manages to seal Kotori again.
189	* TheFakeCutie: She acts as Shido's cutesy little sister until she turns ''very'' aggressive and physically abusive the moment she switches her white hair ribbons for black ones.
190	* FieryRedhead: She's a very hotheaded redhead, especially when she wears black ribbons.
191	* FirstNameBasis: One of the things that alarmed Shido when he first saw her in her black ribbon "commander mode" was her addressing him by his name instead of [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology "Onii-chan"]] like her white ribbon personality that he grew up with. She will occasionally slip back in her more vulnerable moments.
192	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
193	** Anyone who pays attention to her eyes in the anime and light novels can easily tell that it has whitened pupils, and once Tohka finally appears, it's clear those are a Spirit's eyes.
194	** Her Spirit form's berserk state and the way she acts towards friend or foe is just a taste of what a Spirit will do and act like in their Inverse Form.
195	* FreudianSlip: While having an argument with [[LongLostRelative Mana]] regarding who is the better younger sister to Shido, [[NotBloodSiblings Kotori]] lets out that blood siblings can't marry... with Shido in earshot.
196	* GenkiGirl: Kotori with white ribbons is a ball of energy who is introduced dancing on top of Shido to wake him up.
197	* GirlishPigtails: She sports long twintails, and is among the youngest characters in the story.
198	* GlacierWaif: She's small and delicate-looking, yet her Angel Camael comes in the form of a large halberd that's twice her size and she has no problem wielding it with one hand.
199	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her eyes start giving off a red glow when she loses control of herself.
200	* HealingFactor: Shido's HealingFactor comes from her Camael. Kotori in turn got the Angel from Phantom. Kotori demonstrates just how ridiculous this ability is by shrugging off nearly everything Kurumi threw at her (including being shot in the head!) before writing the latter off with her Angel.
201	* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:The reason why she wears her black ribbons and her "Commander" personality in general isn't just for her to be strong, its so that Shido could view her as a woman rather than a little sister.]]
202	* HornedHumanoid: She gains a pair of {{Oni}}-like horns in her Spirit form.
203	* IdiotHair: Has a noticeable forelock of hair in all appearances.
204	* ImportantHairAccessory: Her ribbons, more to show her ''switching'' personalities rather than CharacterDevelopment, though. She'll be the nice little sister with her white ribbons, or the sadistic commander with her black ribbons. This is because when Shido bought her the black ribbons for her 9th birthday, he made her promise to be a strong girl as long as she wears them. Guess it worked too well. [[spoiler:They eventually show her character development as, after realizing that Shido's feelings for her as a sister doesn't have to be inferior to that of a lover, she starts wearing one of each.]]
205	* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Her Astral Dress is a kimono worn loosely around the shoulders.
206	* ImprobableAge: She's the commander of a CoolShip in Ratatoskr at the age of 14. And according to the light novel, she started training for the position when she was ''8''. Volume 4 states that it's because she was given Spirit powers when she was eight before they were sealed by Shido.
207	* InsaneTrollLogic: Her reasoning for making Shido [[ExcusePlot date a Spirit]] falls on this: to make them harmless, they must come to love this world. Ergo, make them fall in love with you, and they will view the whole world as beautiful. However, she has some basis for this, as he sealed her powers when she awakened as a Spirit years earlier, though she was unsure of how he did it back then.
208	* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''VisualNovel/DateALiveRinneUtopia'' assumes you've read up to volume 4 (i.e. finished watching the anime's first season), as it makes no secret about Kotori's identity as a Spirit.
209	* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Kotori isn't actually the first wielder of Camael. That was actually Saya Yamada, Kurumi's friend.]]
210	* LettingHerHairDown:
211	** Her ribbons are tied to her horns in her Spirit form, leaving her hair to fall down freely.
212	** [[ShesAllGrownUp In her adult form]] in Volume 16, she wears her ribbon on her wrist.
213	* LittleSisterHeroine: Kotori is a [[ParodiedTrope parody]] of this when first introduced. Her [[NotBloodSiblings foster brother]] Shido (and others) even call her his "cute little sister". It then gets subverted when we meet her other personality. The romantic subtext is unclear; she is implied to have some not-quite-sisterly feelings for her brother, but doesn't have a problem setting him up with the GirlOfTheWeek. The only time she goes into ClingyJealousGirl mode is when she meets his biological sister Mana, at which point she reveals the level of her interest in him by arguing about who's better and finally declaring that not having any real relation is better because a real sister couldn't ever marry him.
214	* MagicalFloatingShawl: Her Astral Dress includes a floating, transparent blue ''hagoromo'' that adds to her Spirit form's mythical Japanese motif.
215	* MaleGaze: Shots of her rear are often shown, mainly during the OpeningNarration. Even the first shots of her are her panty covered butt.
216	* MeaningfulName: Her Angel's name means "the severity of God", and her Astral Dress is Hebrew for "Almighty God". Considering just how [[CurbStompBattle brutal her victory]] over Kurumi's SuperpowerLottery was, [[spoiler:even if Kurumi was [[WorfHadTheFlu handicapped]],]] there's no contesting its rightfulness.
217	* MorphWeapon: Her Angel can transform from a battleaxe to a {{BFG}}.
218	* NeverMyFault: Berated Shido for asking Kurumi to show him her panties when [[IsThisThingStillOn she was the one who (unknowingly) suggested it to him]].
219	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She acts like a typical younger sister when we're first introduced to Kotori and Shido, with her freaking out when he claims he'll be infected with a virus that causes him to [[FriendlyTickleTorture uncontrollably tickle]] her if she doesn't let him sleep ten more minutes. When he finds her later in the episode, she speaks with a much different tone and manner than at the house. This is when he finds out she's the commander of Ratatoskr's ''Fraxinus'' airship.
220	* OralFixation: She often has a lollipop in her mouth.
221	* OvernightAgeUp: In Volume 11, she's turned into a highschooler's age briefly by Natsumi. Happens again in Volume 16, this time as an adult.
222	* ParentalAbandonment: Both her parents are working overseas, and there is no mention of them coming back anytime soon. Her parents finally make their appearance in volume 11.5.
223	* PhraseCatcher: To Shido, she's his "cute little sister". Regardless of the ribbons she wears.
224	* PlayingWithFire: Her Spirit powers give her control over fire, and nearly all of her attacks are punctuated with violent flame bursts.
225	* PromotedToPlayable: In the first run of ''Memoria Freese's'' ''Ais Catastrophe'' campaign, she was merely an assist. The second run made her playable as an adventurer in her Spirit form.
226	* {{Pyromaniac}}: If Kotori's Spirit powers are active for too long, she succumbs to destructive impulses and begins eagerly trying to incinerate everyone and everything around her.
227	* RedBaron: Her Angel Camael is aptly described as "Blazing Annihilating Demon"
228	* RedEyesTakeWarning: As soon as Kotori's personality gives way to the bloodthirsty Efreet, she violently flashes glowing red eyes.
229	* RedIsViolent: The already {{Tsundere}} Kotori becomes dangerously unstable in her Efreet persona and has the ability to control fire.
230	* ShowgirlSkirt: Her Astral Dress is a kimono that leaves the skirt open at the front to reveal her legs.
231	* SignatureHairDecs: Her ribbons. They determine her personality depending on the colour. Horns also stick out next to her ribbons when in Spirit form.
232	* SpitTake: Does this on Reine when she spots Shido and Tohka on their date.
233	* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: Her character changes according to the color of the ribbons she's wearing. While wearing white ribbons or not wearing any, she is that of her "weak self"; a delicate little sister who is very dependent upon her big brother. When wearing black ribbons, she becomes her "strong self"; a charismatic and sometimes domineering leader able to successfully command the airship, Fraxinus. The personalities are considered "little sister mode" and "commander mode" respectively. This switch in character is due to Shido giving Kotori black ribbons as a present for her ninth birthday after sealing her powers, and telling her to be strong as long as she wears them.
234	* SuperpowerLottery: Unquestionably, what with her ridiculous power, her HealingFactor allowing her to shrug off just about everything that doesn't annihilate her, with offensive powers lethal enough to deal lasting damage even on other Angels.
235	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Her Efreet persona nearly consumes her with bloodlust, and it's implied later on that her Efreet Spirit form may have its own SuperpoweredEvilSide.
236	* SweetTooth: She loves Chupa Chups lollipops.
237	* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Kotori is 4'9 feet tall and when she's in her "black mode", she turns into a domineering and short-tempered commander who is prone to comedic violence towards her adopted older brother [[ButtMonkey Shido]] and her masochistic subordinate [[TooKinkyToTorture Kannazuki]].
238	* TokenMiniMoe: Kotori is the youngest official member of Ratatoskr, being only 13 years old at the start of the series. Meanwhile, all the members of her crew are adults.
239	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's rarely seen without [[SweetTooth lollipops]], which according to the light novel carry the Chupa Chups brand.
240	* {{Tsundere}}: When wearing her black ribbons, Kotori acts as a strong Harsh (Tsun) type. She takes on an arrogant and bossy attitude to everyone including Shido, but nevertheless still cares deeply for her brother as shown on many occasions.
241	* UndyingLoyalty: She is the only girl whose Love levels for Shido ''never'' change. Regardless of any actions he takes, her levels are always maxed out because her affection for him has been cemented for years.
242	* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:She punches Shido after he agreed to Kurumi's game in Volume 16, risking the Spirit powers within him if he loses. Though she admits that he had no choice and feels partially responsible for losing contact with him at the time, thus she offers him to hit her back (he instead responds with FriendlyTickleTorture.]]
243	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: A classic example; she nearly loses control of herself shortly after defeating Kurumi, and only Shido's pleas to stop snapped her out of it. This got so out of hand that she had to be confined like a Spirit, shortly before starting her own date with Shido.
244	* WreathedInFlames: When her powers are active, Kotori is accompanied by a blazing inferno.
245	* YoungAndInCharge: She's a middle school student and the commanding officer of the Fraxinus airship's crew.
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