Characters / Date A Live - Spirits

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Itsuka Siblings | Spirits (1st to 5th Spirits, 6th to 10th Spirits) | Ratatoskr | Deus Ex Machina Industries (Isaac Ray Peram Westcott) | Others | Extracanonical Spirits | Quasi-Spirits

Spoilers for all works prior to the end of Volume 11 are left unmarked.

Spirits (精霊 Seirei) are extraordinary beings from a different dimension. Through their own will or not, it is unknown, but each time they come through to this world, they create a spacequake that is similar to a bomb explosion which destroys everything that it engulfs. Each individual Spirit is unique in personality, power, and their knowledge of the world.

This is where Shido Itsuka, the main protagonist, comes in. He possesses a strange power that allows him to seal the powers of a Spirit in his body with a kiss.

The Spirits

General

• Action Girl: They're all girls, and every single one of them can kick copious amounts of ass. At least, until Shido reveals he can borrow their powers.
• The Ageless: Spirits' bodies don't age, though the process resumes if they're sealed.
• Badass Adorable: They're all cute girls with superpowers, and the weakest of them is more than a match for any number of superhumans (not counting Ellen).
• Badass Crew: Volume 9 has Shido's harem work together to destroy two satellites falling on the city. They do it again to save him in Volume 12 when the Reiryoku within him drives him berserk, and this is while their spirit powers have a time limit.
• Balanced Harem: Shido repeatedly makes clear he values and cares for all the Spirits equally. As for the girls, some compete over his romantic attention, but they all get along as True Companions and accept their shared wish to be with Shido forever.
• Battle Harem: All the Spirits have affection for Shido, most of it romantic, and get superpowers from their Angels. Eventually, Shido can join them in battle after he seals and copies their powers.
• Calling Your Attacks: When they use their Angels or their Finishing Move, they yell out the names of their attacks.
• Code Name: The spirits are assigned code names by the AST and DEM.
• Color-Coded Characters: Their primary colors correspond to the colors of the area on the Sephirot they represent. Tohka and Miku being the exception because Tohka's spot is multiple colors, while Miku's should be purple, but gets closer to violet due to Tohka taking purple instead.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily able to dish this out to just about anyone who isn't one, sealed or not. Except the stronger Wizards like Ellen, who can easily curb-stomp them, sealed or not. These become rare after Volume 7 due to new technology revealed and used by DEM.
• Cursed with Awesome: Their powers come at an expense of being persecuted just for existing.
• De-power: With Mio's death, their spirit powers disappear, reverting them back into regular humans.
• Elemental Hair Colors: White-haired Origami uses light, black-haired Kurumi uses shadow (along with time), blue-haired Yoshino uses water, and redhead Kotori uses fire.
• Exotic Eye Designs: All of them have whitened pupils, presumably as a side effect of gaining Spirit powers.
• Fire-Forged Friends: They all become friends despite causing a lot of trouble for the setting. When a new Spirit appears, the girls are usually happy to meet them, as both Natsumi and Nia find out despite their misgivings.
• Fish out of Water: Some Spirits struggle to adjust to human society to various degrees, but especially Tohka.
• Friendless Background: Comes with being hunted just for existing. They deal with it in various ways. The Yamai twins are relatively well adjusted in this regard, as they had each other.
• Instant Armor: Their Astral Dresses can be summoned at any time and protect them from conventional weaponry (though Tohka's is the only one that could even begin to pass as “armor”). After Shido seals them, they can still summon limited versions of their Astral Dresses which mesh with their current outfit.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Save for Yoshino and the Yamai twins, the Spirits' Astral Dresses are elegant and stylish robes and they wear it whenever they fight. After their power is sealed, they can invoke a lesser form of their original outfit that meshes with their current outfit.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Spirits remember nothing of their home dimension. Because with the exception of Tohka, they were all formerly human who had their memories wiped.
• Leitmotif: The One-Woman Wail of "Seirei" tends to play in the anime whenever a Spirit's ordeal is properly presented. A faster rendition called "Pride" is present when Kotori gives way to Efreet's violent personality; while a Dark Reprise in "Hanten - Tohka" is played when Tohka crosses the Despair Event Horizon and taps into her Inverse Form.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: All the Spirits were isolated and had no one they could trust until Shido wins their hearts. As they gradually become Shido's Battle Harem, the Spirits also become True Companions as they often work together and form bonds of friendship.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: All of Spirits are personifications of the Sephirots in Tree of Life
• Most Common Superpower: With the exception of the Token Mini Moes, the Spirits tend to be rather stacked, and their Astral Dresses make sure to show it.
• My Suit Is Also Super: Astral Dresses afford considerable protection and have powers of their own. Miku demonstrates hers can give off light which is useful both in night battles and during her concerts.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Due to their powers, they are impervious to nearly everything attackers throw at them.
• Numerical Theme Naming: Each Spirit has the kanji for their Sephira number in either her first or last name. So do Shido, Reine and Mio Takamiya.
• Older Than They Look: Some Spirits have been around for nearly 30 years, but still look like young girls. After their powers are sealed, they can age normally.
• Our Angels Are Different: Each Spirit has a weapon named after a major angel. Further, their Astral Dress armors have religiously significant names as well.
• Our Spirits Are Different: They're all cute girls from another dimension. Or that was what was believed at first. Turns out the only Spirits who always existed as such are Tohka and Mio, but the rest are all human girls who were turned into Spirits after Mio gave them the Sephira Crystals.
• Power Crystal: The source of a Spirit's powers are gems called Sephira Crystals, most of which were given to them by Phantom, and one of which was given by Mio. Unfortunately the crystals' powers were originally toxic and required multiple hosts to refine them, and the removal of a Sephira Crystal kills the host. Kotori is the only known character who's Sephira Crystal has a known past host.
• Power Incontinence: By virtue of involuntarily causing spacequakes whenever they come to this world. They can also voluntarily cause them. Some of the ones with elemental powers effect the weather without meaning to. Sealed Spirits can sometimes reactivate their powers without meaning to when upset or emotionally unstable. And worse, a Spirit that crosses the Despair Event Horizon achieves Inverse Form and immediately starts rampaging indiscriminately.
• Power Levels: Ratatoskr actually has a databook that records the Spirits by several parameters: threat level (using an alphabetical scale, though some ranks can get wonky), spacequake power, strength, consistency/defence, Spirit level, agility and intelligence.
• Red Baron: Each Angel in the Light Novels are written with a title that usually describes their powers. For example, Tohka's Sandalphon is written alongside a Kanji that is read as "Massacre Ruler"
• Re-Power: By each grabbing one of Beast's swords, the Spirits are able to temporarily regain their powers.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: Several of them held distrust or even contempt for humans before warming up to Shido.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Their Angels are named after the Archangels of their respective Sephirot of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, based on the numerical kanji in their names^note Raphael and Michael represent the 6th and 8th Sephirot together, so it's technically not wrong for Yamai's (8) Angel to be Raphael. Their Astral Dresses are named after the Divine Names of said Sephirot.
• Significant Birth Date: Only Kotori's and Yamai's are revealed within the story, with the rest revealed in side content.
  • Kurumi's birthday is June 10th, the "Anniversary of Time" from when Japan's first water clock was set.
  • Miku's birthday is January 19th, known as Karaoke Day.
  • Natsumi's birthday is July 23rd, which comes from the syllables in her name "Na-tsu-mi" (7-2-3).
  • Origami's birthday, November 11th, is Origami Day, dedicated to her namesake paper craft.
  • Mukuro's birthday, September 12th, is Space Day, the date that Japan first got an astronaut into space.
  • Mio's birthday is Christmas, marking the birth of the Son of God in Christianity.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: All of them fell in love with Shido because he stood up for them when no one else did.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Latter volumes show that Spirits can tap into an alternate form when their emotional levels reach an extremely low level, called Inverse Form. Their Astral Dress and appearance change in the process to match their state, and their Angels become Demon Kings (named after the Qliphoth of their respective Sephirot). Depending on the severity of their despair, they can suffer anywhere from Laser-Guided Amnesia in regards to the events that drove them to despair, to complete mental breakdown. But in any case, they will attack anyone and everyone in their sights indiscriminately. According to Isaac Westcott, this is their actual form in the bordering dimension. Tohka and Origami each tap into their Inverse forms in volume 7 and 10 respectively, followed by Nia in volume 13, and almost followed by Mukuro in Volume 15.
  • Subverted in Volume 15 when Tohka inverses again, where her Inverse self doesn't show any of the traits mentioned above and actually remembers Shido. She also implies that in her case at least, she may be Tohka's true self before she lost her memories, having since becoming a separate personality like the old and new timeline versions of Origami.
  • Volume 16 reveals that all Sephira Crystals were originally Qlipha Crystals. It's only when Mio saw the effect these crystals had on their hosts that she turned them into Sephira crystals to make their powers easier to control.
• Trapped in Another World: In Memoria Freese's crossover campaign, Ais Catastrophe, several of the Spirits, alongside Shido, find themselves transported into the world of Orario as the result of an unknown cause. It's later revealed that it was the work of a false Kaguya Yamai.
• Transformation Sequence: Both played straight and inverted. Spirits can turn their Astral Dress into normal clothing and back via this. It's mentioned that there is less protective value in that mode, and all the Spirits seem to revert to their normal Astral Dress for combat. Or as much of their clothing as they can, anyway. The length of each Transformation Sequence varies. The first time we see this is Tohka changing her Astral Dress into a school uniform for her date with Shido.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Most of the Spirits don't bother with tactics or forethought since they're so powerful there's no reason for them to. This causes problems when they fight enemies who can counter their most straightforward attacks. Volume 12 proves just how skilled they are with their powers, since Berserk!Shido has much more raw power than their sealed selves, they're all depowered, and yet they're perfectly capable of using what little they have to overwhelm him.
• Was Once a Man: The Spirits are former humans that obtained Sephira Crystals from Phantom, as proven by Origami, Kotori, Miku, Nia and Mukuro. However the idea wasn't brought up until Volume 13 by Nia as a theory, and then said theory was confirmed by Inverse Tohka in Volume 15. Before that, Kotori believed some of the Spirits had always been Spirits, or Pure Spirits as she says. The First Spirit is the exception as Inverse Tohka explains the Sephira Crystals all came from her. Volume 18 revealed that Tohka is also a pure Spirit, as the Sephira Crystal of Malkuth had developed its own ego and gave birth to her.

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• 1st to 5th Spirits: Tohka Yatogami, Yoshino, Kurumi Tokisaki, Kotori Itsuka, Yamai

• 6th to 10th Spirits: Miku Izayoi, Natsumi, Origami Tobiichi, Nia Honjo, Mukuro Hoshimiya

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Phantom

Phantom

Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese, Date A Live: Rinne Utopia), Kana Hanazawa (Japanese, disguised as Rinne Sonogami in season 3), Emily Neves (English, disguised as Rinne Sonogami in season 3)

The mysterious entity who works behind the scenes, its very existence is only known to the Ratatoskr members (and possibly Westcott).

It was the one who gave Kotori her Sephira Crystal, tranforming her into a Spirit 5 years ago, causing the Great Fire in the process. In present time, she was also the person who informed Kurumi about Shido's existence and strange powers.

Its true appearance and motives are unknown, but it displays great knowledge about the Spirits, and even Shido himself. As the novels go on, it's revealed that Phantom gave Miku a Sephira Crystal two years prior, hinting at the possibility of her carrying more Crystals at her disposal.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Its appearance is completely shrouded in mosaic and even its voice is too garbled to determine its gender. When Origami goes back in time to kill it, she notices that at one point its voice not only sounds female, but it's one that she's heard before.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: While fighting the Spirit-turned Origami five years ago in volume 10, Phantom remains calm and correctly guesses that Kurumi helped Origami Time Travel from the future with her Twelfth Bullet since Phantom has yet to give away Metatron at that point in time. Similarly, in the very next volume, Phantom is able to guess that Shido came from five or six years in the future with Kurumi's help, just by looking at his appearance.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: In volume 11, Phantom shows that it can impersonate other people for the sake of direct interaction. In that volume, Phantom appears to Shido as Rinne (the Original Generation character from Date A Live: Rinne Utopia).
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Phantom evaluates a person based on their potential as Spirits, as it outright states to the now Spirit Origami that it would never pass up an opportunity to find such a powerful vessel for the Sephira Crystal. And yet, when Shido is about to be killed by the Dainsleif Satellite Cannon, Phantom intervenes and stops it, before giving the other Spirits a chance to save him by weakening his power. Also, as she is revealed to be Reine Murasame, she has helped Ratatoskr, Shido and the Spirits on multiple occasions, implying her morality is at least on the whiter side of the spectrum.
• Code Name: "Phantom" is the code name that Ratatoskr has given it. She doesn't like it.
• Cryptic Conversation: When Shido is knocked unconscious after his first encounter with Tohka, he gets transferred aboard the Fraxinus, but not before hearing a garbled voice from the entity. Its words before leaving in Volume 11 are so similar that Shido realizes it was the one who spoke to him that day.
  Phantom: Finally, we meet again. I'm so glad, but just wait. Just a little while longer. I won't ever let you go again. I won't ever be wrong again. Soon.
• For Science!: Implied to be its reason for creating Rinne and Mayuri. This is not so obvious in the former's case, but its unusual behavior as Reine when observing the latter suggests that she actually created them for experiment, studying the phenomenons of the two Spirits' birth.
• The Heavy: While its intentions are (probably) nowhere as malicious as Westcott's, Phantom is still indirectly responsible for every single major event in all arcs, mostly through the use of Sephira Crystals.
• Literal Genie: Phantom has appeared before a human to grant them Spirit powers at least twice before the story began, and each time was in response to their anguished wish, for better or worse: for Kotori, it was her desire to stop being a crybaby; in Miku's case, she came to hate humanity (especially men) and despaired over the loss of her voice. A third time happens when Origami wishes for greater power in order to defeat the Spirits, in volume 10. And then, it's revealed that Phantom first did this to Nia (as the Second Spirit) and to Mukuro some time later. Nia speculates that Phantom probably did the same with all the other Spirits.
• Memory-Wiping Crew: This is the same being who erased part of Shido and Kotori's memories during the Great Fire, explaining the holes in their memories. It may or may not also be responsible for the other Spirits' amnesia.
• Mysterious Parent:
  • When Phantom encounters all the Spirits in Volume 12 (minus Kurumi) after saving Shido, it calls them "my children." When you remember it turns regular humans into Spirits, this implies that all of them used to be human, which is confirmed in Volume 15 by Inverse Tohka.
  • The Stinger of Rinne Utopia implies Phantom has a hand in Rinne's creation and birth, as it is the only one who doesn't forget her after the Ret-Gone. While Rinne may have been an Unwitting Pawn that may have played her role, it's also possible Phantom gave her a Mercy Kill or actually saved her from floating endlessly in Eden's remains, possibly explaining how Phantom used Rinne's form as a disguise in Volume 11 if the game is canon to the main story.
  • As Reine is revealed to be Phantom in Volume 16, plus Reine's suspicious behavior and knowledge about Mayuri in the movie Mayuri Judgment, this implies that she was also involved in Mayuri's birth.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: Phantom is consistently described as an unknown noise that's nearly invisible. When commander Kannazuki shows Shido a recording of the incident with Kotori five years ago, Phantom was present and right next to Kotori, but only because Shido noticed a blurry image that didn't fit with the rest of the recording. In Volume 10, an attack from Origami temporarily dispels Phantom's noise, where Origami could faintly discern that she was a woman with a familiar voice. Kurumi later manages to force her out of her noise entirely during their battle in Volume 16, exposing her true identity as Reine.
• Red Baron: Both Kurumi and the Ratatoskr calls it "the Spirit that can turn humans into Spirits" even though up until volume 16 it's unknown what Phantom actually is.
• Samus Is a Girl: In volume 10, Origami's attacks strip away the noise concealing Phantom's appearance, allowing the former to hear the latter's voice, which apparently reminds Origami of someone familiar. Although she was blinded by her own light-based attack, Origami could faintly discern Phantom as a girl with long hair. It's revealed in Volume 16 she's none other than Reine Murasame.
• Significant Double Casting: In the three Date a Live Visual Novels Rinne Utopia, Ars Install, and Rio Reincarnation, this being shares a voice with.....well just look at the person doing the voice work and you'll figure it out. Why is this significant? Volume 16 of the light novel reveals that the First Spirit, Phantom, and Reine Murasame are all the same person.
• Walking Spoiler: This mysterious entity's underlying actions are actually vital to the story, given the basic premise of sealing the Spirits wouldn't actually be feasible without key characters getting powers in the first place. She also has some unknown connection with Shido, and also apparently did something to him she regrets that's become the reasoning for her current actions.

Mio (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Mio Takamiya

Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese)

Code name: "Deus"

Angel: Ain Soph Aur (Flower), Ain Soph (Tree), Ain (Seed)

Astral Dress: Yah

A girl who seems to be connected to the Takamiyas, her name was mentioned by Shido when he's overcharged with Spirit powers in Volume 12, causing him to remember bits of his childhood with Mana. Shido claimed that Mio was supposed to be protecting Mana from DEM, but went missing at the same time Mana was abducted by them.

She is actually the Spirit of Origin who came into existence 30 years ago, setting off the catastrophic first Spacequake that wiped out a large chunk of Eurasia and 150 million lives. She was created by DEM's founders Westcott, Ellen and Woodman as a tool for their revenge against humanity, but the latter would fall in love with her on sight and defect from DEM to create Ratatoskr in service of Spirits. Mio met a boy named Shinji Takamiya and gradually fell in love with him, but he was fatally shot by Westcott for interfering with his attempts to retrieve her. Unable to save Shinji's life, Mio resorted to reincarnating him as Shido, endowing him with the ability to seal the powers of the Sephira crystals that she would proceed to create, ensuring an undying love this time. She sacrificed several girls to purify the crystals, earning the grudge of Kurumi Tokisaki for killing her best friend, Sawa Yamauchi.

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• Arch-Enemy: Kurumi hates her guts for turning her into an Unwitting Pawn to kill out-of-control Spirits, one of which was her best friend Sawa. Her ultimate goal is to go back 30 years to when Mio first appeared and kill her (later revised to preventing her birth in the first place).
• Blank Slate: When she first appeared in this world, Mio had the mentality of an infant. However, through various exposure to different forms of media, she quickly gains self-awareness and intellect at an astonishing rate.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Refining Sephira Crystals required her to kill countless of lives (which is morally questionable by itself), and Mio enlisted Kurumi's help to get rid of her first failed humans-turned-Spirits, without informing the girl about what they were really doing. This eventually caused Kurumi to kill her best friend Sawa when the latter was given the Camael Crystal by Mio herself.
• Born as an Adult: Mio was "born" thirty years ago during the first Spacequake and first appeared as a naked teenage girl.
• Chest Burster: After Kurumi's shadow apparently "eats" her, she ends up killing her by popping out of her chest. When Kurumi is warned by Shido of her impending demise in the following timeline, she manages to transfer her powers to a clone before biting the dust.
• Complete Immortality: On top of not physically aging, she's basically impervious to damage unless her own power is used against her.
• Creating Life Is Unforeseen: She accidentally created Tohka while trying to purify a Sephira Crystal on her own.
• Death Seeker: Shido claims in volume 19 that Mio gave birth to him in order to create an existence that could kill her so she can truly reunite with Shinji. Mio doesn't refute the claim.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Didn't expect Kurumi to be able to stop her inversion midway by reversing time to an extent before she fell in despair. Likewise, the same thing with Kurumi using the same powers to restore her memories after Mio erased them.
  • She was also caught off-guard when Tohka converts her throne into armor instead of merging it with her sword to create Halvanhelev, as Mio only knows the basic powers of each Sephira Crystal and not all their potential applications. Tohka would then give her the first injury of her entire life.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: She fell in love Shinji Takamiya, but he was shot dead by Westcott. She absorbed his corpse to impregnate herself with a biologically identical boy and give him the ability to seal the Sephira Crystals she would start creating. She eventually planned to give Shido memories of his previous life and erase the memories of his current one. However, Shido eventually makes her accept that even with the same body and memories as Shinji, he'll never truly be Shinji.
• The Dreaded: After learning about her powers, Kurumi claims there's no way she could ever kill the First Spirit. And sure enough, when she finally made her appearance as Mio Takamiya, she killed off Shido's entire harem with ridiculous ease.
• Ethereal White Dress: Her Astral Dress is a beautifully elaborate white dress with the same transparent color as water droplets.
• First Girl After All: With a twist: She was the first Spirit to be rescued by Shidou as his previous incarnation Shinji Takamiya, who was killed by Westcott in his attempt to escape from DEM's clutches with Mio. The current Shidou was reincarnated by Mio as her biological son and was adopted into the Itsuka family, until his history repeats when Tohka Yatogami manifested into the world.
• Flowers of Nature: Her Angels are all plant-themed: Ain Soph Aur is a flower, Ain Soph is a tree, and Ain is a seed. Her Astral Dress also has flower ornaments, designed like cherry blossoms, around her bosom and in her hair.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Shinji won her a bear plushy which she and her clone Reine carry around everywhere, even with their Astral Dresses equipped.
• Heel–Face Turn: She's willing to kill all the Spirits and inflict a Death of Personality on Shido to reunite with Shinji, but Shido eventually gets her to accept that Shinji is gone for good, leading to her fighting alongside everyone against Westcott.
• Hero Killer: Volume 18 consists of her flat-out slaughtering all the Spirits to retrieve their Sephira Crystals. However, this was undone when Shido used Vav to travel back 24 hours before Kurumi's death to prevent it.
• Heroic Sacrifice: To prevent Westcott's Qemetiel from causing unparalleled destruction, she sends Shido and the Spirits out of harms' way so she can counter it with Ain. The resulting collision kills both her and Westcott.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: She implies that she was suicidal after Shinji’s death, but her body was simply too durable for any conventional method to work.
• The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: She can stand perfectly still while nullifying any attack that the Spirits throw at her. When Tohka gets a Heroic Second Wind after absorbing power from all other Spirits (including Mio herself), she realizes that she actually needs to dodge and takes slight damage to her Astral Dress.
• Light Is Not Good: Her Astral Dress gives off a divine appearance, including a large halo behind her with with ten stars. Her introduction in the present story has her systematically killing all the Spirits to retrieve their Sephira Crystals, with all ten stars brightly glowing when the deed is done.
• Long-Lost Relative: The brief memory of Mio saying "I love you" to Shido in Volume 14 implies she may be their cousin or biological mother. Volume 17 reveals that Mio is actually adopted into the Takamiya family after being discovered by Shinji, and that love confession was out of gratitude for her newly discovered love due to her Really Was Born Yesterday mentality.
• Love Makes You Evil: All her villainy is motivated by her love for Shinji and desperate wish to bring him back to life, even if it means killing millions and turning Shido into a vessel for him.
• Magical Barefooter: Her Astral Dress leaves her feet exposed.
• Mayfly–December Romance: She's an immortal Spirit who fell in love with a normal human teenager. When her lover Shinji got killed by Wescott, her awareness of a human's fleeting lifespan compared to hers gave her a disturbing resolve to recreate him into an immortal being so he could be her eternal lover.
• Monster Progenitor: Kurumi claims in Volume 4 that all Spirits exist because of her. Inverse Tohka explains how the First Spirit is the origin of all in Volume 15, and the First herself confirmed it during Kurumi's flashback in Volume 16.
• The Mourning After: Shinji was the only man she ever loved and his death was her Start of Darkness. Bringing him back to life by turning Shido into his vessel has been her goal for the past 30 years.
• Naked First Impression: Shinji first met her nude, as she wasn't summoned with clothing, leading Mana to think they'd been getting it on when she first sees them together.
• Naked on Arrival: During the actual story, she emerges from Kurumi nude, gaining her Astral Dress after combining with her Older Alter Ego Reine.
• Necromantic: To bring back Shinji, she's willing to sacrifice several human hosts to purify the Sephira Crystals, cause a Death of Personality to Shido, and murder all the Spirits.
• Never Given a Name: Like Tohka, she was nameless until Shinji named her.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Only after borrowing the power of all the other Spirits (including Mio herself) can Tohka even put a scratch on her.
• No Ontological Inertia: After her death, the Spirits' powers disappear, reverting them back into humans and causing Tohka, a pure spirit, to disappear.
• One-Hit Kill: Ain Soph Aur releases light particles that instantly cease the functions of anything, biological or mechanical, unfortunate enough to touch them. Just being in the Angel's vicinity will kill anyone without significant protection.
• Parental Incest: Sort of. Her plan to live forever with her lover begins with her giving birth to his reincarnation. She doesn't seem to care much about the implications, but then again, she is clearly not in a healthy state of mind. It's noted in Volume 19 that Mio (as Reine) does feel some level of motherly affection towards Shido since she is his Truly Single Parent, but it's a big deal that she doesn't consider Shinji and Shido to be the same person.
• Physical Goddess: As the Spirit of Origin, Mio is the primordial Spirit responsible for the creation of other Spirits. Her power is immense, with numerous characters noting that her full might is the equivalent to a god.
• Pure Magic Being: The First is composed of pure magical energy and can manifest a physical form.
• Redemption Equals Death: In Volume 19, she counters Westcott's Qemetiel with her Ain for a Mutual Kill, realizing as she does so how much trouble she's caused the world with her spacequakes and Sephira Crystals.
• Remember the New Guy?: A unique case, as Shido mentions her name to Mana in Volume 12 despite the fact that he's never done so before. The moment he does however, Mana recalls a bit about her. Likewise when Mana asks him about Mio later, he briefly remembers her say she loves him.
• Shadow Archetype: Mio is what the other Spirit girls, especially Tohka, would become if they lost Shido forever and fell into despair; obsessive, ruthless and determined to bring back their loved one no matter how many people they have to sacrifice.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Shinji. They were in love, but DEM arrived to take Mio away and Shinji was killed by Westcott when he tried to save Mio.
• Start of Darkness: 30 years ago, Mio saw Shinji being murdered by Wescott while trying to protect her. This had led to her turning several girls into Spirits before killing them in order to purify the Sephira Crystals, and from there, she sown the seeds for Kurumi's Start of Darkness as well.
• Story-Breaker Power: She has THREE Angels: Ain Soph Aur summons a flower that disperses One-Hit Kill petals, Ain Soph summons a tree that puts the surrounding area under her complete control, and Ain simply causes a Cessation of Existence for anything she targets. Nia lampshades that her powers are cheat-level and would be completely inappropriate to write into a story because such a character would be invincible.
• Together in Death: Mio finally reunites with Shinji in the afterlife after her own death.
• Tragic Keepsake: She (and Reine by extension) always carry around the teddy bear Shinji bought her. It’s even attached to her Astral Dress. The only time she parts with it is during her final confrontation with Westcott so it can survive their Mutual Kill.
• Truly Single Parent: She absorbed Shinji's dead body and gave birth to the boy known as Shido. She also regards all the Spirits as her daughters, having created their Sephira Crystals, but special mention goes to Tohka for being born directly from her own Crystal, for which Inverse Tohka refers to Mio as their mother.
• The Unfettered: She would stop at nothing to restore Shinji back as her eternal lover, from reincarnating him in her womb as Shido to spending a good 30 years in order to purify the Sephira Crystals, sacrificing countless girls in the process.
• Walking Spoiler: She is the Spirit of Origin created 30 years ago alongside the first Spacequake, and her desperation to reunite with Shinji after his death drives much of the story.
• Yandere: As she had stated to Kotori right before killing her and everyone else aboard the Fraxinus, even though their friendship were genuine, she is willing to sacrifice even that if it would bring Shinji back to her side. It culminates to her going as far as personally killing Shido's entire harem, which is only averted by one of Kurumi's clones reminding Shido that he's sealed Vav, which allows him to mentally time travel to the past.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Ain is described as "the Angel of Void" and Shido isn't sure what exactly it was because of the blinding light it produced. The cover of Volume 18 calls it a "???-type" Angel. It's later clarified to be a seed.

Beast

Beast

Angel: Metatron, Rasiel, Zafkiel, Zadkiel, Camael, Haniel, Raphael, Gabriel, Sandalphon (Blade-Type)

Astral Dress: Beast-Type

A mysterious Spirit who faces the main cast in the last volumes. She's the final antagonist of the series.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Five claws floating over her right hand can cut through even the fabric of spacetime. They can be merged together to create Sandalphon; her 10th sword is actually Nahemah.
• All Your Powers Combined: Surrounded by ten swords, each of which can channel the power of one of the Ten Angels.
• Alternate Self: She's actually Tohka from a parallel world, who completely lost it when her world's Shido died.
• Beast of the Apocalypse: A sentence describing her uses the same kanji used to described the Beast of Revelation in the Japanese version of the New Testament.
• The Berserker: Most of her "lines" are an anguished scream, and she earned the codename “Beast” for attacking everything in sight.
• Cleavage Window: Her Astral Dress has a huge opening that exposes her cleavage.
• Despair Event Horizon: In the alternate timeline she comes from, Shido's death led to Tohka turning into Beast, killing the other spirits, and eventually destroying the world.
• Empty Eyes: Her eyes are described to have a hollow look as if she has lost all purpose in life.
• Exotic Eye Designs: She has red eyes with white pupils.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: One of her Astral Dress' stockings is slightly longer than the other, with one covering up to her knee and the other being right below it. Also, one of her long gloves doesn't cover her hand while the other does.
• I Choose to Stay: She chooses to stay in her world so as not to leave behind the memories of her Shido.
• Locked into Strangeness: Her hair is a stark white like her skin, but it was originally dark purple (or "night-colored") before hitting the Despair Event Horizon, and the original color can still be seen at the tips.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Upon regaining her sanity, she openly weeps upon seeing the surviving humans of the world she destroyed.
• Mystical White Hair: A supernatural being with pure white hair.
• Name Amnesia: Only line she speaks in volume 21 other than a scream is telling Shido she's long since forgotten her name. She is later revealed to be the Tohka of an alternate world where Shido died.
• Person of Mass Destruction: More so than any other Spirit given all her abilities and barely sentient mind. She almost completely devastated her own world.
• Post-Final Boss: A year after Westcott and Mio's Mutual Kill seemingly rids the world of Spirits, she suddenly shows up and starts wreaking havoc.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes and little thought beyond ravaging the world.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: After parting ways with Shido, she encounters her world's Kurumi, who implies that Tohka only killed one of her clones to obtain Zafkiel's blade and offers to help her fix all the death and destruction she caused to her world.
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Gains the other girls' Angels as swords after murdering them in her timeline.
• Wolverine Claws: Her weapon is a set of five floating, giant nails that hover around her hand as a claw.

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