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Heavenly Creative Agency

    General 
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The designers all are very quirky in their own ways, including Saturn's horse obsession, Jupiter's fixation on making animals edible, the quarrel over design extremes between Mercury's practicality and Venus' focus on aesthetics, Pluto's Nightmare Fetishist tendencies, Mars' blase attitude towards her prototypes often dying due to biological complications alongside sharing Jupiter's interest in eating them, the Insect Department having an obsession with insects that creeps everybody else out, and Yo & Ko flirting with anyone they come across. Even the relatively normal Neptune tends to be rather timid for such a big guy. However, they're still highly intelligent designers who can create some very pleasing designs for their clients (even if it's occasionally unintentional).
  • Oddly Small Organization: For the team that is entrusted with the creation of the various forms of life on Earth, they merely consist of six designers (thirteen if you want to include the Insect and Plant Departments), one prototype engineer, and two angels (one of whom is Out of Focus).
  • The Ghost: The Rock Department has only ever been mentioned as of yet, with the number of designers in it is unknown.
  • Theme Naming: The first kanji of the Animal Design Department's names consist of the first kanji of a planet's Japanese name (or dwarf planet in Pluto's case). The English translation goes literal with the Stellar Names, giving the whole team the unmodified versions of the planet's name. Also counts as Religious and Mythological Theme Naming since all of the planet names are also the names of Roman gods.
  • True Companions: The design department as a whole is effectively one big happy family, as even if they frequently butt heads over who is a better designer, along with other arguments cause by personality differences, every one of them, from The Leader Saturn to The Baby of the Bunch Shimoda, can trust each other to be there for all of them when it truly counts, and no matter how bad an argument gets, they always reaffirm how close they truly are. The fact Shimoda is technically their collective child given to them by God also means they're practically a literal family.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Being True Companions doesn't stop the designers from getting into fierce rivalry and battles, especially when their creations are at odds with each other's. This is particularly true for Mercury and Jupiter, who gets into the most fights (as Mercury is the least tolerant towards Jupiter's habit of eating all their tea snacks, and has even exploited his Big Eater tendencies to feed him a poisonous plant), although they otherwise work together quite well.

Angels

    Shimoda 

Shimoda

Voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki

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The newest member of the firm, Shimoda is one of the two angels assisting with the design team. He acts as the main middle man between God and the team, being the one that delivers many of God's confusing requests.


  • The Baby of the Bunch: It's all but outright stated that Shimoda Really Was Born Yesterday, and thus is treated as a complete newcomer as a result.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's often asked to be the prey for the designers' predators.
  • Catchphrase: "God has spoken!" note 
  • Cuteness Proximity: He loves and regularly fawns over cute animals just as much as Neptune does.
  • Extra Parent Conception: Thanks to the way angels are "born", chapter 18 revealed that he technically has seven parents, with the six Animal Design Team members coming up with the concept of his being for God to base off of, meaning he in a way is the child of all of them.
  • Hidden Depths: Chapter 24/Episode 8 reveals that he knows about rapping despite being recently born. In that same chapter, he shows some impressive beatboxing.
  • Idiot Hair: Has a single lock on the top of his head that sticks up whenever he's shocked, scared, or getting divine approval. He's not particularly dumb, but his main function is to act as the Naïve Newcomer who's constantly asking questions about why animals work the way that they do.
  • The Illegible: As a heavily implied case of being effectively a newborn, despite being decently intelligent and eloquent verbally, along with having good reading comprehension, he has no ability to actually write anything. The few times he's tried, it came out as completely unreadable scribbles.
  • Legacy Character: Chapter 33 reveals that he was not the first angel to assist with the design team, with that character being the Chuunibyou Yokota.
  • Meaningful Name: Has the kanji for "under/down" (下) in his name. He is currently Ueda's subordinate, "under" her currently as a rookie.
  • Mouth of Sauron: Besides being The Watson, his other main function is to serve as God's messenger, delivering his many, many confusing and outright infuriating messages to the design team. They often have to reassure him that they are not angry at him, but at God.
  • Naïve Newcomer: Being the newest member of the team as well as the youngest, Shimoda is treated as a rookie within the team. His lack of knowledge about animals leads to him asking questions about why animals have to work the way that they do, which the team is more than happy to divulge.
  • Nice Guy: A sensible, friendly young man who will always try to support the design team the best he possibly can.
  • Only Sane Man: Zigzagged. He often lampshades how ridiculous the members of the design team are, but he can get just as wrapped up in their antics from time to time.
  • The Watson: He constantly asks questions on why animals work the way that they do. Justified as he's the youngest of the team so far.
  • Younger Than He Looks: He's Born as an Adult, but it's all but outright stated that he's the youngest of the design team.

    Ueda 

Ueda

Voiced by: Yumi Hara

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Shimoda’s senior and the other angel assisting with the design team. She too acts as the middle man between God and the design team, but she often religates that position to her subordinate.


  • Angelic Beauty: Ueda has a curvy, attractive body, with the beautiful face to match; she occasionally acts as a lowkey Ms. Fanservice thanks to her large chest and long legs.
  • Experienced Protagonist: Having been with the design team for a while now, she’s seen her fair share of weird antics with the firm.
  • Eyes Always Shut: Many of her appearances have her with her eyes closed, though she periodically opens them in particularly shocking moments.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has flowing back-length bright yellow hair, and she's a very kind and considerate person, doing her best as Shimoda's superior to make him feel at home among the design team and getting along with everybody regardless of their personality or interests.
  • Meaningful Appearance: She has a mole on the left side of her mouth, befitting her Angelic Beauty image.
  • Meaningful Name: Has the kanji for “above/up” (上) in her name. She's currently Shimoda's - formerly Yokota's - senior, thus she is "above" their rank.
  • Mouth of Sauron: One of her jobs is to deliver messages to the team from their client, though she delegates this job to Shimoda most of the time.
  • Nerves of Steel: One of Ueda's most prominent traits is her ability to keep a cool head no matter what weird shenanigans are going down at the design agency, such as when she catches an escaped giant dragonfly with her bare hands. When the team gets a request to come up with a creature that can surprise an angel, they try using her as a "metric" to no avail. The one thing that manages to startle her ends up being an unexpected call from her boss.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Surprisingly, some of her comments in the koala chapter suggest that she shares a lot of the same tastes as Pluto in regards to what is "cute."
    Ueda: Cute creatures are Pluto's specialty. ♡
    Shimoda: (staring at the poison dart frog) Cute creatures?!
  • Out of Focus: While she's featured prominently early on in the series as a senior and mentor to Shimoda, eventually her appearances become rather sporadic, usually just for a couple of scenes.

Animal Design Department

    Tsuchiya/Saturn 

Tsuchiya/Saturn

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue

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The oldest member and leader of the design department. While a brilliant designer with much wisdom, he’s obsessed with his magnum opus (the horse) and will try to find some way to incorporate a horse into his design. He’s the grandfather of Kenta.


  • Ditzy Genius: Mr. Saturn is an incredibly intelligent designer with a vast bank of ideas and suggestions, but his projects are often hindered by his obsession with horses. When he does manage to break away from his obsession, his ideas are often seen as brilliant and revolutionary.
  • Dub Name Change: Called “Mr. Saturn” in the manga translation.
  • Flanderization: Inverted. While he starts out the series obsessed with horses to a fault, this gradually gets downplayed as he creates animals outside of horse-related designs.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: As shown through both flashbacks and when the crew gets de-aged, Saturn used to be quite handsome as a younger man (think a more chiseled Shimoda with glasses).
  • Kimono Is Traditional: He's the oldest member of the team and is pretty much never seen out of his standard kimono-haori combo, even when the team gets invited to a party in Hell.
  • The Leader: The chief of the design department, and while the team's rather lax hierarchy means that he rarely gets to command the other members, he does demonstrate his leadership capabilities when negotiating with clients, or coming up with strategies to help out the team when they get in trouble.
  • Meaningful Name: Has the kanji for “earth” (土) in his name, which is the first kanji for “Saturn” in Japanese. Said name is shared with the Roman version of Kronos, the king of the Titans that ruled before the Olympians came in. So fitting with that, he's the oldest member and The Leader of the design team who has also held the job since long before the other members joined.
  • The Mentor: Towards Mercury, in particular. In chapter 31, when Mercury is suffering from a creative block to create "a tree-like animal", Saturn brings out several past-approved projects that has a similar theme to help inspire him, and sticks around to give the younger designer encouragement. Mercury finally finds his breakthrough after Saturn modifies a starfish to look like a sapling to demonstrate to Shimoda why the camouflaged animals tend to disguise themselves as dead leaves rather than fresh ones.
  • One-Track-Minded Artist: Though he’s made animals such as the goat and the owl, they have generally a lot less care towards them because of his horse obsession. Shimoda lampshades this when Saturn suggests that they shave the monstrosity the team created in episode 3 to alleviate the creation’s heat stroke.

    Kimura/Jupiter 

Kimura/Jupiter

Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara

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A friendly designer whose work mostly revolves around game and cattle animals. He’s always wanting something to eat and often designs animals for the purpose of taste-testing them.


  • Big Eater: Aside from already being Obsessed with Food, it's often indicated that he can eat a lot. His packed lunches are noticeably bigger than everyone else's.
  • Creepy Good: He's ultimately a nice guy, but his single-minded commitment to trying to eat animals is often off-putting to the others. He also has a somewhat weird sense of aesthetic taste (see: the "hotpot animal") similar to Pluto, with whom he collaborates several times, as well as a morbid sense of humor.
    Mars: Fast-twitch muscles tend to be pretty dry.
  • Dissonant Serenity: No matter what shenanigans are going on, Jupiter almost always maintains a carefree smile, even— and sometimes especially— when he's specifically the one in danger, like when he has to be saved after being squashed by a glyptodont or chomped by a shark.
    Jupiter: Wow, I really died last night!
  • Dub Name Change: Called "Jupiter" in the manga translation.
  • Extreme Omnivore: His defining trait. It doesn’t matter if the animal looks edible or not, he can and will try to find some way to eat it. He’s the team's resident taste-taster as a result (much to Neptune’s horror). It doesn't stop at just animals either, as he has at different points eaten various plants and minerals that had caught his interest. That said, his stomach is still like that of a normal human, so anything poisonous or otherwise dangerous for consumption will result in him falling ill or collapsing from pain, which does nothing to deter him from continuing to try new "food" for the taste even when he's straight-up told that it's a bad idea to eat it.
  • Meaningful Name: His name contains the kanji for “wood” (木), which is the first kanji for “Jupiter” in Japanese.
  • Nice Guy: He’s fairly approachable and easy to talk to, if he isn’t going on a hunt for food at least.
  • Obsessed with Food: Jupiter absolutely loves food and will always find some way to eat the animals the designers are creating. Most of his appearances have some sort of food-related comment from him.
  • Perpetual Smiler: His default expression is a carefree smile, even in situations when no one else is smiling.
  • Shirtless Scene: Gets one in the Beach Episode, showing off his very defined abs. He gets another one when he decides to test out having his ribs and spine on the outside of his body, to less than desirable results.

    Mizushima/Mercury 

Mizushima/Mercury

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe

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A designer whose work emphasizes function over form. He’s a practical person by nature and hates excessive flashiness, which is reflected in the animals he creates.


  • Boring, but Practical: Most of his animals are designed around this trope, sacrificing aesthetics for practicality. This, unsurprisingly, puts him at odds with Venus, who absolutely loves emphasizing the appearance of her works.
  • Character Development: A pre-plot backstory example, but Mercury heavily implies that he used to be obsessed with being cool and creating cool things during his early days. Nowadays, he's far more focused on making his creations as practical as possible, putting visual appearance at the bottom of his list of concerns.
  • Chuunibyou: During the Old Shameinvoked incident with the dragon, he strongly implies that he went through a phase where he was obsessed with being cool and creating "cool" things, regardless of the practicality.
  • Dub Name Change: Called "Mercury" in the manga translation.
  • Fanboy: He’s a big fan of Mr. Saturn, whom he regards as a genius, and will shower Mr. Saturn's creations with heaps of praises whenever he can. He even drops his practical mindset when helping Saturn create his unicorn, and is later seen admiring their majestic appearances despite his usual disdain towards such extravagance.
  • Foil: To Venus. While he prefers practical designs that would allow his creations to run fully freely in the wild, Venus prefers designs that are aesthetically-pleasing, but no less functional. This puts them at odds at times.
  • Meaningful Name: “Mizushima” contains the kanji for “water” (水), which is the first kanji of “Mercury” in Japanese.
  • Old Shame: invoked Mercury was not a fan of his previous work, the dragon, considering it an embarrassing failure back in his earlier days.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: A highly intelligent designer who wears a pair of glasses in his appearances.
  • The Stoic: Downplayed. He’s quite lowkey compared to his fellow designers, but he can be just as expressive when the time calls for it.

    Kanamori/Venus 

Kanamori/Venus

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio

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A beauty-obsessed designer whose work revolves around avian-type creatures. She’s always trying to make her animals look the best they possibly can while still being practical. She’s the most fashionable and romantic out of the lot.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Often called “Ven-channote  by the others.
  • Agent Peacock: She’s incredibly flamboyant, being the most beauty-obsessed out of the team, but she still manages to create animals that combine both form and functionality beautifully.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: Almost everything about both her appearance and Agent Peacock persona heavily hints towards her being a trans woman, but nothing in the story ever provides any sort of proper confirmation that this is the actual case (not even offhand comments from Venus herself), nor have the creators ever confirmed what her gender identity is. As a result, there's still a possibility that she could instead be either a ridiculously masculine example of a Bifauxnen or a Drag Queen. invoked
  • Dub Name Change: Called "Venus" in the manga translation.
  • The Fashionista: Along with her good looks, she also has quite a large range of fashionable clothing for the occasion.
  • Foil: To Mercury. She loves to make her creations as beautiful as possible while still being functional, while Mercury values practicality above all else. This puts them at odds sometimes.
  • Graceful Ladies Like Purple: As a woman with a strong inclination to having herself appear beautiful and feminine, she frequently wears outfits, from her regular uniform to her various ensembles, that incorporate purple into them. Even her hair color is a lighter variant of purple.
  • Meaningful Name: Her name contains the kanji for “gold” (金), which is the first kanji for “Venus” in Japanese. Her nickname "Kin-chan" (with "kin" meaning "gold") also reflects this. Said name is also shared with the Roman Love Goddess, so fittingly enough she is obsessed with herself and everything she makes being beautiful while also having a love for the idea of romance.
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: Her main outfit splits down the middle, revealing a good portion of her flat, muscular chest, going all the way down her abdomen.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe: Fittingly for somebody that acts as The Fashionista, she has one. While everybody besides Mars has a decent number of outfits outside their regular uniform, she has an utterly massive assortment of clothing she has worn throughout the series, using different styles and article combinations as a method for animal design inspiration.
  • Youthful Freckles: She had a splotch of freckles on her nose as a child (as shown by when she was de-aged into one), which combined with her still boyish looks and sporty overalls, implies she used to be a major tomboy in the past (though there's also the possibility as a heavily implied trans woman that she came out as a woman when she got older). The loss of said freckles as an adult coincides with her decision to dress and act like a beautiful and feminine woman.

    Meido/Pluto 

Meido/Pluto

Voiced by: Naomi Ozora

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The smallest member of the team whose work utilizes some strange—if not horrifying—ideas. While a cute person, she’s got quite the nightmarish mind to her and her idea of "cute" things is often terrifying or disgusting to everyone else.


  • Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Takes this approach when asked for a creature that "is cute but not cute." She says eating poop, screaming at strangers, poisonous spit, and birthing sacks are cute, while fluffy fur and big ears are not cute. The result is a Koala.
  • Creepy Good: She's in charge of coming up with some of the most disturbing and terrifying aspects in the animal kingdom, and she frequently acts as a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant due to her quite frightening Nightmare Fetishist mentality. All the same, she genuinely does her job for the sake of nature, and outside saying freaky things is a rather friendly and approachable woman.
  • Cute and Psycho: Downplayed. She’s cute as a button, but she’s also got quite the nightmarish mind to her that works on overdrive when she’s really fired up. Otherwise, she's relatively sane when she's not designing something.
  • Cuteness Proximity: She's a rather bizarre case. Pluto’s attracted to adorable things... things that are usually rather creepy to others.
  • Dub Name Change: Called "Pluto" in the manga translation.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: To compliment both her younger-looking appearance and Nightmare Fetishist tendencies, her personal uniform includes a puffy-skirted turquoise-and-black dress with bones near the bottom and a top-hatted skull on her chest, a pink ribbon around her waist and turquoise ribbons holding her hair in twintails, arm-length fingerless black gloves, black thigh-high stockings, and combat boots.
  • Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She’s often seen holding a plushie of the rather freaky anomalocaris. It does double-duty representing both her childishly girly appearance, and somewhat childish mentality, and her heavy Nightmare Fetishist mentality, since something as freaky as the anomalocaris would qualify to her as "cute" enough to be worth owning a stuffed animal of.
  • Meaningful Name: Has the kanji for “dark” (冥) in her name, which is also the first kanji for “Pluto” in Japanese. It's also shared with the Roman version of Hades, and fittingly enough she's a generally good person who's the main designer that deals with unpleasantly creepy and dark aspects of animals; though contrasting his Consummate Professional mindset towards death, she has a strong Nightmare Fetishist view towards making things terrifying.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Her main character trait is that she often thinks of disgusting and creepy attributes as somehow “cute”. As such, her designs are intentionally disturbing to the others. When this trait is on overdrive, the rest of the team (sans Ueda) are terrified of her.
  • Older Than They Look: Despite looking and sounding like a girl in her early teens, it’s heavily implied that she’s much older than that. At the very least, she's old enough to drink alcohol.
  • One Head Taller: Most of the team are this to her, as she’s the shortest out of the lot (sans Kenta).
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has bright pink hair, and while her Nightmare Fetishist interests are pretty off-putting, for the most part she's a sweet and agreeable woman, and occasionally tries to be considerate and helpful towards others, even if her mindset means that her methods for trying to be nice to them are often utterly terrifying.

    Unabara/Neptune 

Unabara/Neptune

Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi

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The biggest member of the team whose work revolves around mammals. He absolutely adores cute things and designs animals with a very adorable appearance. He’s often seen with a stuffed bunny in hand.


  • Cuteness Proximity: He adores cute things and often designs his animals with a tame, but adorable appearance.
  • Dub Name Change: Called "Neptune" in the manga translation.
  • Gentle Giant: Despite being the largest and most muscular out of the team, and possibly the physically strongest as well, he's also the gentlest member of the group. His creations reflect this, being tame, conventional, and absolutely adorable.
  • Hunk: He's the biggest and most muscular of the team while also being quite good-looking, and the Beach Episode has him walk around shirtless while showing his abs. In chapter 24, Jupiter and Mercury experience a case of Stupid Sexy Flanders after he saves them from falling rocks.
  • Meaningful Name: “Unabara” contains the kanji for “sea” (海), which is the first kanji for “Neptune” in his name.
  • Nice Guy: He is incredibly tame and friendly, making him one of the easiest members to talk to.
  • Only Sane Man: He's a fairly sensible person and is one of the only members of the team that gets regularly weirded out by their antics.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: He's the biggest and most masculine-looking of the team. He also wears a pink sweater vest, carries around a stuffed bunny, and tends to design conventionally cute animals.
  • Shirtless Scene: Gets one in the Beach Episode during his battle with Pluto, showing off his well-defined abs. He gets another one when he's showering in one chapter, only to get freaked out by some type of unknown creature.

    Higuchi/Mars 

Higuchi/Mars

Voiced by: Asuna Tomari

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The prototype engineer for the team. The team often has to clear their designs with her first before they can send it off to God for approval. She often adds her own insight as to why animals fail and gives helpful suggestions to the designers.


  • Dub Name Change: Called "Mars" in the manga translation.
  • The Lad-ette: A tough-talking woman that enjoys beer and eating animal flesh almost as much as Jupiter does. She’s also the sole prototype engineer for the agency.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Out of the team, she emphasizes this the most, only wearing a red jumpsuit with a black bra, green shoes, and yellow gloves. Whenever she needs to go out, she often just wears a modification of her jumpsuit. This is probably because she would need to be prepared just in case the team needs to modify their designs at a moment’s notice, thus it would be useful just to wear it all of the time instead of switching out her outfit.
  • Meaningful Name: Her name contains the kanji for “fire” (火), which is the first kanji of “Mars” in Japanese.
  • Mr. Exposition: Since she's in charge of the technical aspects of the animal production, she is usually the one to explain how an animal's physiology and biology works, and why additional modifications to the creature doesn't.
  • Only Sane Man: Shares this role with Neptune often, and it's very justified: as the prototype engineer, she frequently illustrates to the designers the practical limitations of some of their more fanciful ideas, forcing them to rethink their work. In other words, being the Only Sane Man is essentially her job.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: Wears her hair in a ponytail, which signifies her as a tomboyish Wrench Wench.
  • Tomboyish Voice: In the anime adaptation, her voice is much deeper than the other women in the cast, emphasizing her tomboyish traits.
  • Wrench Wench: She’s the engineer who creates the team’s designs, helping to point out flaws in their design that need to be reworked. She also carries a lot of tools around with her, which includes a wrench.

Insect Department

    Mushi-bu 

Mushi-bu (Insect Department)

Voiced by: Daichū Mizushima

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The sole designer of the Insect Department. The Insect Department has five people, all of whom are the same person. Their main purpose is to create insects. They live in a dingy office in a secluded corner of the firm.


  • All of the Other Reindeer: It’s not so much that the Design Department absolutely abhors the Insect Department - it’s just that what they do is so disgusting for their liking that they prefer not to associate with them unless absolutely necessary.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The anime gives them the name “Mushi-bu”, which literally translates to “insect department”.
  • Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The Insect Department is made up of five men that all look the same, sans their shirt color. In Chapter 33, it’s revealed that it’s really just one guy, but he’s using Self-Duplication to create a whole team.
  • No Name Given: "Mushi-bu", their name given in the anime, is just “Insect Department” in romanized Japanese. Otherwise, they are never given an actual name within the manga.
  • Self-Duplication: As revealed in Chapter 33, the department is made up of one person - it’s just that said person possesses the ability to "copy and paste" himself to produce duplicates, which he used to create an entire five-man team composed only of himself.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Wears glasses and has an encyclopedic knowledge on insects.
  • Stepford Smiler: They put on a pleasant smile most of the time, but as Shimoda witnesses during his first encounter with the department; it's clear that it's a show.

Plant Department

    Yo and Ko 

Yo and Ko

The twin designers of the Plant Department. Their main purpose is to create plants. They live in a floating flower garden.
  • The Dividual: The pair are always together and have the same basic personality. The series doesn't even bother clarifying which twin is which.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Yo & Ko behave seductively to anyone they come across, regardless of age, gender and even species. When they visit the Animal Department, they flirt with almost every single member of the team (and Shimoda), in order to convince one of them to join the Plant Department. They later remark that they consider "anything that moves on its own" to be an animal and are unable to distinguish between the various types, and they end up taking the degenerate teddy bear that Mercury and Jupiter made in the previous chapter to create a "worthless animal" from.
  • Identical Twin ID Tag: The twins are completely identical, save for one having a darker skin tone and hair color.
  • Pretty Boy: They are a pair of identical twins who look and dress like typical Prince Charmings, with their curly locks, long eyelashes, and fancy, frilly clothes.
  • Prince Charming: They are known as the "Twin Princes of the Plant Department" and will use their charms to try and flirt with almost every one they come across. The dark-haired one is particularly prone of spouting sappy nonsense when he's sweet talking (his twin is a little more straightforward).

God

    God 

God

Voiced by: Naoki Tatsuta

Earth’s creator and the agency’s client. Despite his vast power, he got lazy creating the world and decided to relegate most of the animal creation duties to the team. He often creates vague requests that drive the team crazy.


  • The Dreaded: The Designers will trash-talk him when he's not around but otherwise they're terrified off his possible displeasure since he's God.
  • Fiction 500: The Designers are paid for their work, unfortunately God essentially has unlimited wealth so he can simply dump an unending amount of job orders on them.
  • The Gods Must Be Lazy: The whole reason that he doesn’t create the animals himself is that he got lazy during the creation of the world. This is the main reason why he outsources the work to the Heavenly Creative Agency.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: He often communicates with requests, messages through the angels, or commands, but he’s never shown on-screen. Even when he's personally invited to Yokota's party in chapter 21-22, he decides to cancel in the last minute and sends a recorded message through his mount instead.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He's a nice person and means well but he doesn't always take his employee's feelings into account. Such as at Yokota's party he offered Yokota a gift animal...by giving a request to the Designers on the spot. This just added to their stress.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Unsatisfiable Customer tendencies aside, he’s actually rather understanding of his angels’ situations and tries to help them out a bit. To the design team on the other hand, this is incredibly infuriating as it only leads to even more vague messages until he’s somehow satisfied. That said he is forgiving of his employee, he caught Neptune faking an illness to go to Yokota's party but he was merely glad that Neptune was actually healthy. And when Ueda previously used a curse, he just had her explain herself.
  • Unsatisfiable Customer: Downplayed. He often makes incredibly vague requests to the design team, only to reject their work after it's done. On the other hand, he might approve random designs the wacky designers (and in one case, Kenta) can come up with.
  • The Voice: Whenever he accepts or rejects a design, his voice will somehow come out of nowhere to tell the design team.

Hell

    Yokota 

Yokota

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka

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A former angel that transferred to Hell. He’s currently constructing a theme park of flames and darkness. He was previously Ueda’s subordinate and the last person to hold Shimoda’s job.


  • Character Tic: To fit with his chuunibyou persona, he frequently strikes poses where he places his right hand over the left eye, extending the thumb and spreading the middle fingers to let it peek through, bringing to mind the stereotypical "evil eye suppression" chuuni pose.
  • Chuunibyou: As a demon in Hell, by default he is expected to embrace the idea of being "edgy and cool", and boy does he go all the way. His appearance is so aggressively freaky it's somewhat hilarious, and his personality and interests are incredibly hammy and exaggerated, to the point that the stereotypical "place hand over face while peeking through to draw attention to a non-existent Magical Eye" gesture is pretty much his Character Tic.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has purple dark circles under his left eye and is currently a part of Hell.
  • Eyepatch of Power: As part of his "edgy and cool" look, he wears an eyepatch on his right eye.
  • Fallen Angel: For reasons unknown, he got banished to Hell and was replaced by Shimoda. He seems to be taking it in stride however.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: His outfit in Hell features this, wearing a straight-jacket on his left arm while his right arm is covered in bandages.
  • Foil: To God. Whereas the designers often complain about God's vague requests and lack of proper feedback, Yokota is a dream client: he's very clear about what he wants, as well as the conditions needed for his desired animal while giving the designers plenty of freedom, and he enthusiastically participates in the process, giving immediate feedback.
  • Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: Despite his edgy Chuunibyou look and mannerisms, Yokota is exceedingly polite and good-natured.
  • Large Ham: He's even more dramatic than the flamboyant Venus, having almost everything he does achieved with exaggerated acting and grandiose speeches filled with edgy and/or "cool" terms.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Has long hair that goes down his back and is quite pretty-looking.
  • Meaningful Name: His name contains the kanji for “horizontal” (横), and not only did he originally possess Shimoda's job, his current position as a lower-ranking demon in charge of carrying out God's ideas for Hell, frequently going to the Heavenly Creative Agency when he needs new hell-beasts, effectively makes him the equal and opposite of said angel.
  • Nice Guy: Chuunibyou persona aside, Yokota is an absolute sweetheart who cares deeply about the people around him and is very gracious with his requests. This quickly puts him in favor with the design department, glad that unlike their main client, he makes requests that give some room for interpretation, but aren't so vague that they don't have a plan for it.

General Omnipotence Development company, Inc.

    General 
The company where the angels work.
  • Fun with Acronyms: The company's acronym spells out "G.O.D." the name of their boss.
  • Theme Naming: All named angels so far have names where the first kanji is a direction or level (upper, lower, horizontal, etc.).

    Nakata 

Nakata

An angel working as a research manager in the recently created management department. She is in charge of maintaining their projects' environment.
  • Ambiguously Brown: She has a darker skin tone than most of the other characters.
  • Meaningful Name: Her name contains the kanji for "between/center" (中), fitting for someone whose job is to balance the environment' systems.

Others

    Kenta 

Kenta

Voiced by: Hina Kino

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The grandson of Mr. Saturn. A well-meaning boy, he takes after his grandfather’s love of horses.


  • Dub Name Change: Downplayed. His name gets extended to "Kenta Saturn" in the manga translation to reflect his relation to Saturn.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Or "Like Grandfather, Like Son" in this case. Kenta takes after Mr. Saturn's love of horses, even creating a mecha out of them. His parents proper are quite exasperated over how much he takes after his grandfather in this obsession.
  • Odd Name Out: His Japanese name is written in all katakana (ケンタ), while all of the other characters use kanji for their names. Same goes for his English name, as the minor Dub Name Change has resulted in him being the only character with a given name and surname.
  • Token Mini-Moe: The physically and mentally youngest member of the cast and quite adorable at that. It shows quite well through both his interests and attitude, as he has a much more whimsical and childish perspective about everything, and has a habit of getting mesmerized by the cool things the designers make or throwing tantrums when he's denied what he wants.

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