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Raizen High School
The high school attended by Shido, as well as several Spirits after he sealed them. Tamae Okamine
Tamae Okamine
Voiced by: Kaori Sadohara (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English), Ivette Ortiz (Latin-American Spanish)
Shido's homeroom teacher who's quite dedicated to her job. She's very anxious to get married.
- Affectionate Nickname: A number of her students address her as "Tama-chan".
- Berserk Button: She's very sensitive to words like "proposal" and "marriage."
- Bespectacled Cutie: The bespectacled Tamae is a well-liked and popular teacher.
- Comically Missing the Point: In the Reine Marriage Hunt side story, she sets several specific high standards for her potential husband, then gets told by Reine to be more lenient... she slightly adjusts her standards from 35+ years old to 36+ years old, 180+ cm tall to 179+ cm tall, and an 8 million+ yen annual income to 7.9 million+ annual outcome.
- Manchild: Being cutesy and childish at times often obfuscates the fact that she's approaching her thirties.
- Old Maid: She's 29 and still single. Approaching her 30th birthday in Volume 14 causes her to have a nervous breakdown in front of her class. Volume 21 reveals that she has since become engaged which Kannazuki.
- Older Than She Looks: Despite being in her late 20's, Tamae has a childish face and a small body build.
- Sensei-chan: Her students usually called her by her nickname, Tama-chan, due to her youthful looks. She also spends most of her time worrying about her single status.
Hiroto Tonomachi
Hiroto Tonomachi
Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese), Nick Haley (English), Axel Láscari [Seasons 2-3], Juan Carlos González [Season 4] (Latin-American Spanish)
Shido's classmate. He has a 2D girlfriend who looks a lot like Kotori, and he apparently likes the real thing as well. Shido has had to brush him off quite a few times.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the anime adaptation, his jealousy of Shido for having so many hot girls falling for him disappears in favour of his relationship with a 2D girlfriend.
- Ambiguously Bi: Ai, Mai and Mii have heard rumours about him "swinging both ways." Between his unnervingly chummy attitude with Shido and his obsession with dating sim girls, the cloud thickens. This is subverted during Volume 8 however, as when Natsumi shapeshifted into Shido and made a move on him, Hiroto was very disturbed.
- Bromantic Foil: He gets very chummy with Shido, although most of the time he's boasting about how his relationship with his 2D girlfriend is going. Somehow, this was what made Ai, Mai and Mii think he and Shido were dating long before they supported Shido/Tohka.
- Curtains Match the Window: Black hair and eyes.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He (and many other male students) hold a grudge against Shido for having so many girls around him and all clearly wanting a piece of him.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Shido, to the extent that others thought they were an actual couple. Then the Spirits came...
- Otaku: In the anime, he has a 2D girlfriend.
Student Trio
Ai Yamabuki, Mai Hazakura, Mii Fujibakama
Ai voiced by: Risako Murai (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English), Tania Becerra (Latin-American Spanish)
Mai voiced by: Kayoko Tsumita (Japanese), Leah Clark (English), Cynthia Chong (Latin-American Spanish)
Mii voiced by: Midori Tsukimiya (Japanese), Monica Rial (English), Sofía Huerta (Latin-American Spanish)
From left to right: Ai, Mai, Mii
Three girls who appear occasionally. Shido's classmates. They become Tohka's friends some time after she transfers into Shido's school.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Ai is the blonde, Mii's dark blue hair makes her the "brunette", and Mai has auburn hair.
- Catchphrase Insult: In the anime, when they're commenting on the goings on Mii will end it by saying "Majihiku waa" (meaning "Gross" or "Lame.")
- Curtains Match the Window: All three of them have matching eye and hair colours.
- Cuteness Proximity: The three absolutely Squee when they meet Yoshino.
- The Generic Girl: Mai is sometimes noted for being the most plain of the trio.
- Gyaru Girl: Ai is often seen wearing her school uniform in a leisurely fashion, leaving the blazer and shirt collar unbuttoned and forgoing the ribbon normally worn around the latter by female students. During her spare time, she wears a white t-shirt with purple shorts. She often is seen tying a yellow cardigan around her waist. At her wrist, she wears two bracelets.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: They frequently threaten Shido with torture or outright death should he make Tohka upset.
- The Leader: Ai leads the gang wherever they go and is almost always the first to start her lines.
- One-Word Vocabulary: Mii is only ever heard saying "gross" or "lame".
- Punny Names: Their names are a pun on I, My, Me.
- Satellite Character: All of them really only exist for making comments, and indirectly causing Ellen trouble if they're in the same general area as her.
- Shipper on Deck: They support Shido/Tohka. Not even Miku's mind control could force them to convincingly lie that Shido doesn't love Tohka.
- Spanner in the Works: Their antics end up derailing Ellen's attempts to trail Tohka on the school trip. It seems like they can ruin Ellen's plans with their antics regardless of the situation.
- Those Two Girls: The three are minor supporting characters who are rarely seen apart.
- Your Answer to Everything: Mii describes every single goings on as "gross" or "lame".
Anti-Spirit Team
The Anti-Spirit Team, or AST, is a special secret unit within the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, the main branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces responsible for the land-based military operations. The AST is designed to suppress and eliminate the Spirits by means of killing them, though, they have yet to do anything more than drive them off. The public have no knowledge of this Special Forces Unit. Currently, it is shown that the AST is made purely out of females and for the most part, teenage girls.
In General
- Amazon Brigade: They're a group of very attractive young women trained to fight Spirits.
- Anti-Villain: Unlike DEM, they're genuinely dedicated to protecting the public from Spirits, even if many of these Spirits aren't really a threat beyond involuntary Spacequakes. Ryouko sets up Origami to sabotage Jessica's squad when they were about to barge into public space guns ablaze just to capture Tohka and Shido.
- Demoted to Extra: After the departure of their two most important members, Origami and Mana, they get pushed into the background, with DEM becoming the main threat against the Spirits.
- Faux Action Girl: For the most part, they're completely ineffective at killing the Spirits that they've been trained to fight. Mana stands out for doing so, but she’s really just been killing Kurumi’s weaker clones, barely surviving her first encounter with the real deal.
- Heel–Face Turn: In Volume 17, they end up fighting alongside the Spirits once they realize how little DEM cares about them.
- Hero Antagonist: It's not hard to imagine they would be the heroes if the story didn't take place from the Spirits' point of view.
- Navel Outline: Their combat suits have a transparent mid-section and a visible navel outline.
- Powered Armor: The Combat Realizer unit, a magically-powered armor that gives it user enhanced strength and special weapons to fight Spirits.
- Stripperiffic: In combat, they're dressed in suits of armor that don't leave much to imagination.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: True, they want to destroy Spirits, but only to prevent them from causing human casualties, given their spacequakes are very real dangers to people. They might not even be aware of Shido and Ratatoskr's more lenient methods of dealing with them.
Origami Tobiichi
The Ace of the AST, but technically a reserve member. See the 6th to 10th Spirits page.
Ryouko Kusakabe
Captain Ryouko Kusakabe
Voiced by: Ao Takahashi (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English), Ximena Fragoso (Latin-American Spanish)
Current captain of the AST squad. Kyouhei Kannazuki was the captain when she was new to the team.
- Blood Knight: Shows shades of this when ordering her troops to continue firing non-stop.
- The Captain: She's the leader of the regular AST squad sent to fight the Spirits, as well as Origami's direct superior.
- Chewing the Scenery: She's prone to violent outbursts when her stress gets the better of her.Ryouko: Screw you, spirits!
- The Comically Serious: She orders her AST squad to prepare for a mission... while packing on luggage for said mission, which is a trip to the hot springs.
- Cool Big Sis: Towards Origami and the members of her AST squad.
- Could Say It, But...: After getting ridiculous orders by the DEM squad that is placed with her team, she goes to the room that Origami (who she has been ordered not to include in or even let know that there is a mission) is changing in and proceeds to rant about the mission to attack Tengu square during the festival while people are still there and kidnap Tohka and Shidou, as well as lamenting the fact that she's so angry that she might just leave the room with the special weapon White Licorice unlocked.
- Curtains Match the Window: Dark grey eyes and hair.
- Establishing Character Moment: The Hot Springs Episode alone shows what's she's capable of.
- When DEM starts giving orders that focus more on accomplishing a goal than protecting the citizens, she doesn't hesitate to explain just how much of a problem immoral orders are to her. When she's ignored? She decides to indirectly sabotage their efforts.
- Large Ham: Very much so in the Hot Springs Episode, and it's quite jarring as she's typically very serious.
- Older Than They Look: She's 27, and yet looks only a bit older than Origami.
- Rage Breaking Point: Normally she keeps a professional attitude about everything, but when she gets fed up with the obstacles in the way of her squad's trip to the hot springs, in addition of the previous stress built up due to her superiors' rantings, she snaps and comically goes on a rampage to destroy Ratatoskr's traps.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Cares deeply for her team and the citizens that she's protecting. When the DEM starts giving questionable orders, she does everything she can to do her duty to her squad and the people of Tengu city. She also shows worry and confusion when suddenly not ordered to deploy in Volume 10.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Played for Laughs; when she snaps in episode 6, she orders her squad around like a raving lunatic and her eyes glow red.
- Wingding Eyes: Her pupils turn into hearts when her subordinate tells her the AST team has organized a replacement trip to Tenguu Paradise Hot Springs, enough she tells said subordinate she's earned a higher position... only it's the kind she'd need to be KIA for.
Mikie Okamine
Private Mikie Okamine
Voiced by: Kanami Satou (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English), Fernanda Robles (Latin-American Spanish)
"I don't care if I'm the weaker Wizard from AST or if I am called trash or weak. Since I have the necessary strength to save and help my friends, I will be happy."
A girl new to the AST who idolises Origami. She holds the rank of Private in the AST. She's also in Shido's school and in the second year, but having skipped one grade is one year younger than her peers. She's Tamae's cousin. She's the main heroine of the spinoff manga Date AST Like.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her dad kicked her out of her own house and she became suicidal. This led her to ignoring a spacequake alarm where she encountered a then untamed Tohka. If it wasn't for Origami, she would be dead. After this, it's easy to see why she had a nightmare about Tohka being a mass murderer.
- Fantastic Racism: Spirits are all evil monsters in her eyes. The first few scenes of Date A Strike has her visioning Tohka as a ruthless killer killing thousands. This is how she views all spirits.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's a naive and clumsy girl with her hair usually fashioned in pigtails.
- New Meat: One of the most recent arrivals in the AST.
- Those Two Girls: She's rarely seen without Mildred.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: She becomes friends with Tohka later on, although she has no idea she is the same spirit that defined her view of them, or that she's even a spirit at all. In Volume 13, she asks Origami to rejoin the AST... unaware that she's also a Spirit now, or rather had been for a while depending on when Phantom made her one in the new timeline.
Mildred F. Fujimura
Sergeant First Class Mildred F. Fujimura
Voiced by: Saki Ogasawara (Japanese), Kristin Sutton (English), Alondra Hidalgo (Latin-American Spanish)
- But Not Too Foreign: If her first name is of any indication.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She often has weird delusions about other people for her own imagination.
- In-Series Nickname: She has the nickname "Mily".
- Satellite Character: Unlike Mikie, she doesn't get much characterization or attention. Not even anything about her former work while part of the DEM.
- Tank-Top Tomboy: She's a female mechanic wearing a black tank top.
- Those Two Girls: Rarely seen without Mikie.
- Wrench Wench: She's an attractive girl who works as a mechanic.
Mana Takamiya
DEM's Adeptus Number 2 who briefly transfers into AST before defecting to Ratatoskr. See her folder in the Ratatoskr page.
Special Sorcery Service
Britain's equivalent to the AST, also known as SSS. While they are only occasionally mentioned in the main story, they are given more focus in the spin-off manga Date a Strike. In General
- Anti-Villain: The trio featured in Date a Strike just want to save Artemisia after she helped them all. Minerva later becomes a more direct villain.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Ashley has platinum blonde hair, Leonora has black hair, and Cecil has ginger hair.
Artemisa Bell Ashcroft
- The former Ace of SSS. See her folder in the Deus Ex Machina Industries page.
Leonora Sears
Leonora Sears
- Face of a Thug: She has a mean look and a somewhat androgynous appearance, yet quickly breaks down crying when threatened for info, much to the shock of the AST members interrogating her.
Ashley Sinclair
Ashley Sinclair
- The Lad-ette: She's ill-tempered, eager to fight, and has very masculine speech patterns in Japanese.
Cecil O'Brien
Cecil O'Brien
- Handicapped Badass: Normally, she's blind and bound to a wheelchair, but she's a very competent fighter once she's in her CR-Unit.
- The Leader: The SSS trio featured in Date AST Like generally take orders from her.
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes: Her eyes don't sparkle like the other characters because she is blind.
Other Characters
Haruko & Tatsuo Itsuka
Haruko & Tatsuo Itsuka
Haruko (right) & Tatsuo (left)
Kotori's parents by birth, and Shido's parents by adoption. They're rarely around, so Shido takes care of the house in their stead.
- Accidental Pervert: In their introductory short story, Tatsuo trips into Haruko's chest. This apparently happened a lot in the past, though Haruko has stopped getting violent over it.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: The Mana Again short story has Haruko constantly throwing a fit whenever she's given the slightest inkling that Tatsuo might be cheating on her.
- Fiery Redhead: Haruko îs the source of Kotori's red hair and temperament.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Tatsuo was Shido's (or rather, Shinji's) classmate 30 years ago, while Haruko was Mana's.
- Generation Xerox: As a child, Haruko wore her hair in Girlish Pigtails and sucked a lollipop like her daughter Kotori.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Their job, which is actually engineering at Asgard Electronics, has them living in the United States, while their teenage children mostly live alone.
Shinji Takamiya (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Shinji Takamiya
Shido's previous incarnation, Mio's lover, and Mana's real brother.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He flies into a rage when his reincarnation Shido boasts that he can steal Mio's affection, but then admits that since he's dead outside of Ain Soph, he can't do much more than entrust Shido with his lover.
- Death by Origin Story: He died in Shido's origin story. Mio hoped she could make Shido become Shinji, but even after Shido obtains Shinji's memories, but his personality and attitude don't change as Mio wanted.
- Death of Personality: Shinji really died 30 years ago. Even with Shinji's memories, Shido's identity and personality are unaffected and he is unable to return Mio's affections.
- The Lost Lenore: To Mio. Shinji was her one and only love. The death of Shinji 30 years ago is the impetus for much of the First Spirit Mio's actions, including reincarnating him as Shido.
- Mayfly–December Romance: He was a human teenager who became the lover of an immortal godlike Spirit. His tragic death motivated her to try and recreate him as her immortal lover.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death directly lead to his rebirth as Shido and Mio's quest to create the Spirits in order to give her godlike power to Shido.
- Posthumous Character: He has been dead for 30 years when the story starts and only appears as a part Mio's backstory.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Mio. They were in love, but DEM arrived to take Mio away and Shinji was killed by Westcott when he tried to save Mio.
- Together in Death: When Mio dies and goes to the afterlife, she finds Shinji waiting for her.
- Walking Spoiler: Knowing anything about Shinji gives away some of the biggest revelations of the series, mainly Shido's origin and how he's connected to the First Spirit.
