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Phantom Thieves

Maron Kusakabe/Phantom Thief Jeanne

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Carmen Podio (SP)

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An Ordinary High-School Student whose parents are separated and working overseas, leaving her guarded and lonely. When Finn approaches her and tells her that she's the reincarnation of Jeanne d'Arc, giving her the power to capture demons that possess pieces of art, Maron jumps at the call and begins a double life of being a normal student by day and phantom thief by night.

Tropes in both versions

Abusive Parents: Her parents are so emotionally distant that they won't contact her for years on end, and when they do it's a sort of bare-minimum message that basically amounts to "we remember you exist, we'll come back eventually." A bonus comic in the manga has Miyako outright call them terrible parents. The manga version of Maron agrees and is perfectly happy to badmouth them, whereas the anime's version is a little more forgiving of them. It turns out they probably wouldn't have been like this had the Devil not subjected them to Demonic Possession to ruin Maron's life, and in the manga, once they're back to normal, they immediately return to see her on the spot and turn out to be ridiculously doting parents.
Advance Notice Crime: She always sends out an advance notice to her intended victims, little note cards that say "To , tonight I shall help myself to the beauty in your painting"; she's actually on a mission from God to seal away demons which have possessed the paintings but doing so obliterates the art making her look like a thief. When Phantom Thief Sinbad appears on the scene, he starts sending out note cards just after hers saying he intends to beat her to the punch and steal the art first.
All for Nothing: Both versions have Finn's betrayal get her to start wondering if everything she did was for nothing, given that she'd been playing into the Devil's hands the entire time. It takes a while for her to come to terms with the fact that she did actually get something out of all of it, and that she can still do something to fix the problem.
All-Loving Hero: This theme shows up in her character in different ways between both versions:
- In the manga, Maron starts off not being this because she has so much difficulty trusting others, but after she takes Chiaki's advice about loving others to heart, she chooses to continue believing in his kindness and that there's a reason for what he does, which pays off massively when Chiaki turns out to be Good All Along. As the story goes on, she starts opening up to other characters as well and making an active effort to believe in them even when there's doubt, and this ultimately results in how Maron manages to successfully reach out to a possessed Miyako, Finn, and later herself.
- In the anime, while she's still guarded, she does deeply care about the people in the neighborhood and the victims she helps, especially when it involves keeping a family together. This pits her against Chiaki/Sinbad, who's much more cynical and less concerned about civilians who get involved in heists to the point of potential Shoot the Dog.
Broken Ace: Maron presents herself as a confident young woman, has no trouble making friends at school, is a good student, and a very talented rhythmic gymnast. Only a very small handful of people knows she actually stepford smiles her way through it.
Broken Bird: She's dealing with the loneliness of Parental Abandonment and an inability to truly open up to or trust anyone, and in the manga, she acknowledges very early in the story that part of the reason she Jumped at the Call to become Jeanne was because it'd make her feel like she was strong and capable. She's so broken that even the slightest sign of betrayal shatters her, yet she's so desperate to be able to trust someone that she wants to believe in him even when she knows it may not be a good idea. It turns out that breaking her as thoroughly as possible was the Devil's plan from the beginning, since it'd result in her weakening the seal on her own powers, so everything down to the Parental Abandonment was planned to make her as miserable and emotionally fragile as possible. A big theme of the story is about Maron overcoming her self-loathing and lack of self-worth and learning to open up to others.
Bully Hunter: She doesn't do it as much now, but she did this for Miyako when they were kids. This is what made Miyako staunchly loyal to her and determined to protect her from anything.
Brought Down to Normal: Both the manga and the anime have her go through a brief period of time without the ability to become Jeanne until she gets her Mid-Season Upgrade, and in the manga, after Finn pulls a Heroic Sacrifice for her, Maron gives up her holy power to allow her to reincarnate, which by proxy takes away her ability to become Jeanne.
The Chosen One: Having received God's power, Maron is the only one who can fight demons without getting possessed by them. In fact, this is not actually a good thing for her, because it means her life was ruined by demons targeting her as a source of God's power.
Clark Kenting: Averted. Maron and Jeanne have completely different hair and eye colors and hairstyles, instead of just wearing different clothes, and even then multiple people accuse Maron of being Jeanne because of how much they look alike.
Clothing Combat: She uses her gymnastics ribbon like a whip that can also cut through solid objects and trap people.
Despair Event Horizon: The Devil's plan is to get Maron to cross this so that it'll leave her and her holy powers vulnerable, with Finn's betrayal meant to be the final step. In the manga, Maron doesn't end up crossing it thanks to Chiaki and later Miyako's support, but in the anime it does actually shatter her holy barrier, and while she does manage to regain her emotional composure thanks to a pep talk from her past reincarnation, she's forced to fight without the barrier's protection for the rest of the series.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She's initially hostile to Chiaki trying to help her because the idea of relying on anyone interferes with her attempt to consider herself "strong", and it takes a while for him to finally convince her to come around.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Happens a lot in the manga, because she's so close to being an Empty Shell under her cheerful exterior, and they only start going down in frequency as she gains more confidence. This doesn't happen as much in the anime, but it starts showing up more when she hits a Heroic BSoD near the end of the series.
First Kiss: Sinbad steals it at the beginning of the series, right before he tells her to stop being a phantom thief. She's understandably not very sure how to feel about that one.
Hair Intakes: Her signature hairstyle as both Maron and Jeanne. Maron sports a handful of hairstyles across both the manga and anime, but most of them have the intakes.
Hates Being Alone: Being functionally abandoned by her parents has made her terrified of being left alone, and although she has a circle of friends, it still weighs deeply on her. Chiaki catches onto this being her main problem and becomes concerned about the idea of leaving her alone thereafter.
Heal the Cutie: Effectively her character arc in a nutshell for both versions. Maron starts off the story isolated, lonely, and distrustful of others, but thanks to the support of others around her, she manages to gain confidence in herself and the will to keep living.
I Just Want to Be Loved: She's aware she has people like Finn, Miyako, and Yamato who care about her, and after a while she understands well enough that Chiaki's feelings for her are genuine, but she struggles to open her heart to others so she can actually feel it, and she's afraid to reach out to people like her parents because she's afraid of being hurt by them rejecting her. While Miyako and Chiaki reaching out to her certainly helps, it's ultimately up to her to let others into her heart. The manga and anime approach it in different ways, but both end in the conclusion that she herself has to love others if she wants to be loved.
Jeanne d'Archétype: Technically, the woman herself, in a sense, although both the anime and manga eventually come to have Maron find her own role and standing that doesn't rely on being Jeanne d'Arc's reincarnation.
Jumped at the Call: She was happy to take the job when Finn recruited her to fight demons as Jeanne. In the manga, she readily admits that it's because it makes her feel strong and better about herself, but in the anime, she's more altruistic and Finn is able to motivate her by getting her to think about the victims.
Meaningful Name: "Maron" is Japanese for "chestnut", and originates from the French "marron". Chestnuts themselves don't play a role in the story other than some manga panel gags, but it ties into Chiaki's name (see below), and the manga has an Ironic Echo when Zen mocks her name during their first meeting but says that it's "a good name" as he dies.
Mid-Season Upgrade: Gets one in both versions, in the manga by paying a visit to her past reincarnation as Jeanne, and in the anime via the chess pieces Sinbad and Access had collected.
Minor Living Alone: Her parents went overseas for work and put her in Miyako's parents' care when she was ten, and she lives alone in her own apartment, as her parents live overseas for work and simply wire her money for living expenses. That being said, she'd rather not be living alone, and deeply misses her parents.
Mission from God: Jeanne steals paintings that are possessed by demons who want to weaken God. How seriously she takes it as a duty depends on the version. Either way, she's been working for the Devil this whole time without knowing it, and fixing the damage she'd inadvertently helped cause ends up becoming her actual Mission from God at the end of the story.
Never Be Hurt Again: This is the main reason she's so closed off to others and empty inside; she'd wanted to contact her parents for a while, but was afraid of getting back scornful responses saying they didn't want her, and she's afraid to truly connect with others because she's afraid of getting hurt if things go wrong.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On top of all of the chess pieces she'd collected being sent to the Devil instead of God, the manga also reveals that her "awakening" her power is actually a very bad thing, because it undoes the seal on it and makes it easier for the Devil to take it.
Nuns Are Mikos: While Jeanne d'Arc was a Saint, not a nun, this trope is more or less in effect. Maron's transformation outfit strongly resembles a Shinto shrine maiden, an odd choice of uniform for someone who's working under the name of a French saint and is working for the Christian God.
Oblivious to Love: Despite him having aggressively advanced on her under the influence of Demonic Possession, Maron doesn't notice Yamato actually has a crush on her even outside that. After his Love Confession in the manga, she's a little disapppointed at herself for having never noticed this entire time despite how much they'd been hanging out.
Parental Abandonment: Her parents work overseas, and they never call or write to her. Maron constantly waits for a phone call or letter from them every day, but they haven't talked to her in years, and as much as she wants to reach out to them, she's afraid of getting a hostile response back. Early into the story, her mother calls her and informs her rather coldly that they're going to divorce, which demoralizes her even further. As it turns out, this was engineered by the Devil to break her spirit; once everything is over, Maron gets a letter from them at the end of the anime, and they outright remarry and come back to dote on Maron at the end of the manga.
Power Gives You Wings: She's associated with them in the manga, and the anime prominently includes them as part of her Transformation Sequence.
Reincarnation: She's the reincarnation of Jeanne d'Arc, and in the manga, it turns out she's been reincarnating as multiple women throughout history, including what's implied to be Himiko and The Virgin Mary, with the first one being none other than Eve herself. She has the ability to reincarnate because God had fallen romantically in love with her.
Stepford Smiler: She tries to appear like a confident, lighthearted Ordinary High-School Student, when in reality she's putting on a massive front so she doesn't have to expose her loneliness and vulnerability. She's so good at covering this up that even her childhood friend Miyako took years to figure this out, and by the time the story starts she's able to go to school and go through the day like nothing's wrong even when she's on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. Chiaki getting through to her requires him to ignore her protests and insist on calling her out so that she can admit that she's actually terrified of being hated and left alone.
Unwitting Pawn: The Devil and Finn have been manipulating her to collect power for them, and while her powers genuinely are from God, they've been demoralizing her so they can destroy said power.
Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Miyako spend the first few chapters/episodes screaming at each other whenever they get the chance, and the anime gives them ample opportunities to get some bickering in.
Was It All a Lie?:
- Upon learning that Chiaki is Sinbad and that he'd been getting closer to her in an attempt to stop her from being Jeanne, Maron immediately doubts all of the kindness he'd been treating her with, and he ends up having to prove to her that he does actually care for her and his feelings for her are real.
- Later, she delivers another one to Finn during her betrayal. Finn claims to have hated her the entire time, but in both versions that turns out to have been a lie (in the manga, she simply didn't have it in her to have that kind of hatred towards Maron, and in the anime, she was a Manchurian Agent and really did approach Maron with genuine intentions).
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She believes her Parental Abandonment makes her unable to understand love, and this is the reason she can't accept Chiaki's affections at the beginning (prior to learning he'd been manipulating her). The main core of the series, especially the manga, is about how she comes to open up to others, appreciate the love she receives, and learn to love others.
Maron: Love... I'm not sure I know what that is. No one has really loved me. I admit when we met, I thought you were really good-looking, Chiaki. And I'm sure you're not a bad person. But I'm sorry... I can't trust you. Do people fall in love so easily? Is that why they can break up so easily too?

Tropes specific to the manga

Anguished Declaration of Love: She finally delivers her Love Confession to Chiaki after a whole series' worth of waffling, telling him that, contrary to his concerns about her hating him and only putting up with his aggressive affection, she has in fact been in love with him for a very long time now and wants him to stay with her and hold her more. Relationship Upgrade aside, it serves as proof that she's able to assertively ask for the love she wants instead of shrinking away from it out of fear.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Chiaki's meeting with her at the amusement park is what leads to her Love Epiphany regarding him, because despite the fact he was ostensibly supposed to be her enemy, he'd gone out of his way to figure out what was going on and give her the comfort she needed out of genuine kindness.
Calling the Old Man Out: After some encouragement from Chiaki, she decides to try overcoming her fear of contacting her parents and makes multiple attempts over the course of the story, with her becoming able to dial more and more digits of her father's phone number with each attempt. She finally succeeds in chapter 25, yelling at him to stop ignoring her and come back home, and while it goes to the answering machine, she manages to get a huge amount of catharsis out of it.
Cannot Spit It Out: By the time of the second half, both she and Chiaki are aware that a formal Love Confession from her is the only thing they need left for a Relationship Upgrade, but Maron finds that something's stopping her from saying it. She's puzzled by why she can't bring herself to do so, because she's not feeling any embarrassment about it, and she's well aware he returns her feelings, yet something is stopping her from doing so. It turns out to be because she still knew Miyako had feelings for him and was subconsciously resisting going forward with it for her sake. Once she sorts things out with Miyako and gets her blessing, she finally confesses to Chiaki the moment she's able to.
Cool Sword: After getting her Mid-Season Upgrade, Jeanne finds that her new rosary isn't giving her checkmate pins, and she's almost backed into a corner until briefly connecting with Chiaki gives her courage and turns her rosary into a sword to stab into the painting. She later brings it out to checkmate Miyako's photo, and when the Devil puts her in a Mirror Match against her past self, he gives the other Jeanne a normal sword to make it even.
Desperately Craves Affection: Chiaki is aggressive about his affection, often giving her a Forceful Kiss or hugging her without warning, but Maron, having been starved for affection her whole life, is fine with it and even admits to herself at one point that she likes it that way. That said, it's something she only allows Chiaki to do; while he's under the impression that she actually hates him and is just too affection-starved and kind to say no, he's actually the only one she'll allow to kiss her like that without a hard slap to the face.
Dissonant Serenity: By the end of the series, she's resilient enough to be able to talk about things like killing Chiaki painfully as a way to torture her with a completely casual tone to the point even Finn is shocked. Even attempting to use a hypnotized Chiaki as a Human Shield doesn't work, because she's a little irritated at him for succumbing to hypnosis so easily and sends him flying, planning to go fetch him later. At the end of the series, she accepts the Devil's challenge of a final battle with such a confident and playful tone that Chiaki assumes that she's being a Stepford Smiler again and forcing herself to be confident over her fear, but Maron assures him that she's not.
Driven to Suicide: It's implied that Chiaki is afraid of her pulling this if he doesn't keep an eye on her. After Maron learns about the Awful Truth and gets dangerously close to the Despair Event Horizon, he panics when he wakes up to see she's not in the room (she'd actually been in the kitchen making breakfast), and when he hears that she's fallen off her balcony and taken a seven-floor fall, his absolutely mortified reaction suggests that he's assumed this. Considering that she'd "wanted to disappear" when she was told her parents were divorcing, and the aforementioned fall had come from her recklessly jumping off the balcony to get her rosary back, his concern is reasonable, but she does affirm that she has the will to live by the end of the story.
Dude Magnet: Other than Chiaki, Yamato, Noin, and Zen (and possibly Silk on top of that), she's also shown getting quite a crowd of boys trying to give her chocolate during Valentine's Day. Even God is quite fond of her. She's apparently well-known enough for this that when Chiaki drags her out for Valentine's Day, the other girls don't even bother to protest because they don't think they can compete with her.
Got Over Rape Instantly: Downplayed. Noin doesn't actually succeed in assaulting Maron, and when Chiaki (whom she trusts and is deeply in love with) tries to reach out to her right after rescuing her, she instinctively shrinks away in fear, resulting in him having to leave the room for the time being and reasoning that he probably shouldn't be touching her in that state. The next time we see her, she's already energetic and cheerful again, and not only does she not hold a grudge against Noin for it, she believes he wouldn't have actually gone through with it and is willing to take the gamble of sleeping in his cloak during an Intangible Time Travel trip. It probably helps that she's already a trained master at being a Stepford Smiler, so she's very used to having to keep herself together and bounce back from trauma quickly, and it also happens to be at a time she's making a huge point of going out of her way to trust more people. She later ends up making love with Chiaki the very moment they officially become a couple, this time consensually, and the epilogue and a bonus chapter imply they do go on to have an active sex life thereafter.
The Heart: This is her main strength, and the reason so many people are drawn to her: she's good at uplifting people and encouraging them with kindness. She comes to realize this herself at the end of the story, deciding that she wants to become the "wind" that supports others.
Maron: I want to be the wind, a wind like the breath of God. I will be by your side to support you through hardship. I will dry your tears. I will soothe your fatigue. That is the kind of wind I want to be. And I want to fly high. I'll pick up sorrows and spread happiness in its stead. Cry whenever you feel lonely; I'll be there for you. Call me when you're happy; I'll be there for you.
Heroic Sacrifice: When she ends up on an Intangible Time Travel trip to fifteenth-century France, she decides to Set Right What Once Went Wrong and save Jeanne d'Arc's life despite knowing it'll result in her being Ret-Gone, because she doesn't want to see people die in front of her again, and because she wants Jeanne and Noin to live a happy life together as humans. It doesn't end up happening because Jeanne ends up passing on her power to her, and Noin decides to enforce a Stable Time Loop and stay as a demon so he can live long enough to see Jeanne's reincarnations.
Hysterical Woman: Justified: Maron is not a very easy lover to deal with, since she can suddenly snap angrily without warning, push others away, and say things she doesn't mean when she's close to emotional breaking point, but it's because she's been traumatized from having been left alone and deprived of affection her entire life, and the narrative frames it sympathetically. Chiaki recognizes this, and in fact her being in such a state makes him only want to protect and comfort her more; the fact he's willing to stick by her regardless and is good at figuring out what she actually needs is how they end up forming such a deep relationship.
Insecure Love Interest: She'd figured out that she returned Chiaki's feelings for her after he'd come to get her from the amusement park, but even Dating Catwoman problem aside, she didn't consider herself emotionally ready to love him back, and it takes a while for her to start seriously considering pushing for a Relationship Upgrade.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Miyako and Chiaki seemingly hook up, Maron decides to support them despite being upset about it, reasoning that she and Chiaki weren't technically dating, that he's probably dealing with his own emotional baggage, and that Chiaki is likely to be targeted as a way to get to her anyway, so Miyako and Chiaki should get to be happy together. She even defends Miyako when other girls start insulting her for taking someone else's man, and it's only when she learns that Miyako is possessed by a demon that she intervenes. It also turns out that fear of hurting Miyako was the final reason Maron couldn't bring herself to properly start a relationship with Chiaki, making it a platonic version on Miyako's end as well.
Leave Me Alone!: She's actually deeply lonely, but because she tries to put on a facade of being "strong", she initially refuses anyone's help and tells them to go away when they try to help her. Part of the reason Chiaki is so forceful about his affection is that Maron will often try to push him away and insist she's fine when she's absolutely not fine, to the point he says that if he doesn't go out of his way to look after her, she might do something dangerous.
Living Emotional Crutch: Chiaki eventually tells her that if she were to die, it'd hurt him so much that he'd be just as good as dead. Maron admits to herself that she's now managed to build up enough self-worth that the reverse happening wouldn't traumatize her that much, but she appreciates it.
Please, Don't Leave Me: Once she realizes Chiaki is trying to pull Cruel to Be Kind on her, she understands that he's thinking about her feelings, but doesn't like the fact it's making him more distant from her and leaving her alone again. In fact, she's actually thinking this most of the time, which is why Chiaki doesn't buy it whenever she tries to push him away at first.
Ready for Lovemaking: A post-series bonus chapter has Maron, looking forward to spending more time with Chiaki now that her parents are going back overseas, walk into his apartment unannounced, see him sleeping on the bed, kiss him, and join him in the bed. A very confused Chiaki wakes up in the middle of the night to see Maron sleeping with him in his bed and starts frantically wondering if she's indirectly asking to make love.
Reincarnation Romance: Noin wants to invoke this with her because he was Jeanne's lover, but she rejects him because she's not the same person as Jeanne, and her heart currently belongs to Chiaki. It's later implied that Chiaki might be a reincarnation of Adam, or in other words the lover of Maron's first incarnation as Eve, but the subject is quickly pushed aside as irrelevant.
Virgin Power: Jeanne's power is said to come from her being "pure", so Noin pulls Attempted Rape on her to "free" her from being God's servant and make her his. Later, Maron asserts that virginity doesn't have anything to do with how "pure" one's heart is, and in the end she makes love with Chiaki without any detriment to her powers; according to her, the "purity" of her heart actually came from her ability to love someone at all.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Both versions of Maron start off as a Broken Bird, but the anime's version is more put-together in multiple ways:
- Maron in the original manga started off so obsessed with coming off as a "strong, perfect" person that Chiaki initially found her to be overbearing and unapproachable, but once the outer layer was broken, she could snap at someone, suddenly develop Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, turn cold, or immediately break down crying. The anime's Maron is less forceful by default and more openly sensitive, and while she's still guarded, her emotional reactions aren't usually as extreme; for instance, while in the manga she was blunt and cynical about her Parental Abandonment and had feelings of "wanting to disappear", the anime has her try not to badmouth her parents and outright say she refuses to die until she receives a letter from them.
- The manga's version of Maron had a constant fear of people hating her or abandoning her due to her Parental Abandonment convincing her that she was "unwanted", and her biggest concerns about Chiaki in the initial stages of the story were less about romantic feelings and more that she was so used to being betrayed that she wanted to be able to trust someone at all. The anime still frames her as lonely, but she's more irritated at Chiaki being a skirt-chaser and acts Tsundere towards him regarding romantic feelings.
- In the manga, Maron had a habit of pushing others away at times she was actually most terrified of being left alone, to the point Chiaki usually had to disregard her initial insistence of Leave Me Alone! before she finally admitted her actual feelings of Please, Don't Leave Me. In the anime, she's not as prone to this, or at least certainly not to the extent that would make Chiaki worry something dangerous might happen without an intervention.
- The anime doesn't have Maron hit emotional breaking point and Dull Eyes of Unhappiness at nearly as high of a rate as she does in the manga, where Chiaki had to basically become her Living Emotional Crutch for a while. Moreover, due to the anime being Tamer and Chaster, Maron and Chiaki are only on Belligerent Sexual Tension terms for most of the series, and it doesn't carry over the part where Maron was heavily reliant on Chiaki giving her physical affection (to the point she even tried to claim she might just be exploiting him by leading him on so he can dote on her).
Adaptational Heroism:
- Not that the manga version of Maron wasn't a Nice Girl who genuinely cared about the people she was helping, but Maron in the anime gets much more personally invested in the Monster of the Week victims and going around town to help them than her manga counterpart, who easily admitted that she doing the phantom thief thing to feel better about herself more than anything else. In particular, the anime's Maron has a soft spot for cases that involve families due to her own Parental Abandonment issues and goes out of her way to keep them together, and she's vocal about wanting Chiaki to reconcile with his father against his protests (whereas in the manga, she only at most expressed confusion as to why Chiaki would dislike him).
- She's also much more devout and serious about her job being a Mission from God than she was in the manga, where she actually did get seriously close to dropping the phantom thief job for Chiaki if it weren't for Finn, and later said outright that she cared less about whether Finn worked for God or the Devil as long as she stayed with her.
Green-Eyed Epiphany: The first major sign she's developing actual feelings for Chiaki is that she gets antsy and upset about how close he is to Yashiro.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: She tries to invoke this for a good chunk of the series when she's unsure how to feel about Chiaki, especially when more people start to catch onto a relationship forming between them.
Heroic BSoD: She hits it twice near the end of the series: once when Finn's betrayal is revealed, and once after Finn subjects her to a Psychological Torment Zone. She has to be pulled out of it by an encounter with Jeanne d'Arc in the former case, and Chiaki in the latter.
Inadequate Inheritor: She starts developing a complex about not being able to be more like Jeanne d'Arc, especially after Noin shows up and starts calling her a disgrace to Jeanne's legacy. She eventually comes to realize that it's fine for her to be Maron and follow her own heart instead of trying to be Jeanne.
Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: She does eventually warm up to Chiaki even though she isn't sure if she can trust him, but she's extremely turned off by Sinbad and refuses to hear out his insistence that he's not working for the Devil because she finds him to be too cruel. Needless to say, the revelation that they're actually the same person lands very badly for her.
Power Makes Your Voice Deep: She noticeably has a much more assertive and confident tone as Jeanne than she does as Maron.
The Power of Family: She has extra emotional investment in heists that involve keeping families together due to her own Parental Abandonment, and Finn telling her that a job involves keeping a family together is enough to get her extra motivated. She also dislikes the fact Chiaki is so estranged from his father and actively pushes him to reconcile.
Shipper on Deck: She's fine with pairing Miyako up with Chiaki because it makes it easier for her to not admit the fact she's starting to like him herself, and she hadn't even necessarily stopped shipping them by the time Miyako bows out.
Tsundere: She has this attitude towards Chiaki for the majority of the series, much more strongly than she ever was in the manga (where she was quite honest about finding him attractive but untrustworthy), and she spends a good part of the earlier parts of the series insisting that she would not want to give someone like him the time of day and doesn't know what anyone would see in a skirt-chasing pervert like him anyway. She only starts loosening up on this when she finds herself getting more receptive to his flirting than she'd thought, and when Yashiro's presence starts inducing a Green-Eyed Epiphany.
Unknowingly in Love: Due to the Belligerent Sexual Tension between her and Chiaki, and the fact she genuinely isn't sure what to make of him at first, Miyako had already noticed their mutual feelings, asked Chiaki out, been turned down, and become a Shipper on Deck for them by the time Maron starts to really catch on.
Miyako: How do you feel about Chiaki?
Maron: He's a classmate...
Miyako: And that's it?
Maron: My next door neighbor.
Miyako: That's not the point of my questions!
Maron: He does act recklessly at times, but I'm starting to think that he's not such a bad guy after all.
Miyako: That's it? Is that all you feel about Chiaki?
Maron: What do you mean by "that's it?"
Miyako: (sighs) I see... Maybe people can't see what's right under their nose.
What Does She See in Him?: When she's still in denial about her own growing feelings for Chiaki, she's quick to dismiss him when Miyako raves about his good points, and is openly happy to send them off together with an "I don't get it, but do whatever you want" attitude about it.
You Are Not Alone: While this theme is present in both versions, it's particularly integral to the finale of the anime; having just been emotionally scarred by learning she was an Unwitting Pawn of the Devil, Maron falls into a Heroic BSoD because she believes she's never been able to do anything on her own without the help of others. She's able to overcome it when she realizes that she has the support of her friends and loved ones all around her, who all believe in her.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She comes to this conclusion during the finale, realizing that the most important thing is for her to love herself instead of trying to force herself to be "strong" or to be like Jeanne d'Arc.

Chiaki Nagoya/Phantom Thief Sinbad

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Juan Antonio Soler (SP)

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^{Click to see Sinbad in the anime}

A New Transfer Student who moves into Maron and Miyako's building and immediately starts flirting with Maron. In actuality, he's Phantom Thief Sinbad, who mysteriously appears in front of Jeanne as her rival. His goal is to get Jeanne to stop being a phantom thief, and is trying to seduce her for that purpose, but things get a bit complicated when he starts actually falling for her...

Tropes in both versions

Arranged Marriage: He was betrothed to Yashiro in a match arranged by their parents, but he's not all that interested in pursuing it. In the manga, he'd already requested for it to be called off long ago, and the point becomes moot when Yashiro and Kagura end up hooking up anyway. In the anime, it's implied that Chiaki had been going along with the engagement out of obligation and from Yashiro being his Childhood Friend but didn't have his heart in it, especially now that he'd met Maron and was starting to fall for her.
Becoming the Mask: Chiaki woos and flirts with Maron in an attempt to get close to her and eventually stop Jeanne from hunting demons, but before long it turns out he's actually fallen in love with her for real. After his identity is revealed to Maron, he says that if he hadn't ended up actually falling for her, he probably wouldn't have even gotten that far with the seduction plan in the first place.
Calling the Old Man Out: He hates his father for remarrying three times after his mother died, because he considers it to be disrespect to his late mother. It turns out his father had been doing so because he'd already accepted he'd never be able to love anyone as much as he'd loved Chiaki's mother anyway, but felt Chiaki needed a mother in his life.
The Charmer: He's kind and charming towards every young woman he meets, leading Maron to doubt his feelings when she notices this and believes his treatment of her isn't anything special. Both versions have people pointing out that him being "nice" to others is in a more detached and shallow way than the way he treats Maron in particular.
Chivalrous Pervert: He's of this archetype, although in a somewhat different way between the manga and anime:
- In the manga, Chiaki initially puts on a facade that invokes this trope in order to seduce Maron specifically, with her noticing that it's the complete opposite of the serious and level-headed attitude he'd had in their first encounter. The latter is his actual personality, which begins to show more as he starts feeling guilty about manipulating her. Once he decides to commit to her early in the story, he no longer has eyes for anyone but her, and as he becomes more of an Insecure Love Interest the "flirting" turns into him being openly in love with her to the point of physically intimate clinginess, which is taken to its natural conclusion once they're married. Since he's only seen directly soliciting Maron within the story, it's unclear how he used to treat girls beforehand, but from hearsay and the little we see he seems to have been The Charmer who'd be charismatic but cool-headed and a little detached, and by the time he's fallen for Maron he doesn't actually like being a Chick Magnet anymore.
- In the anime, being a show-off Chivalrous Pervert is implied to be more of his natural personality that developed out of being a Sad Clown, and he directly flirts with not only Maron but also other girls around her, with Maron being the one he's most proactive about asking out. His way of trying to seduce Maron is more roundabout than that of his manga counterpart (who wanted to get her goodwill as efficiently as possible), and he's fond of things like openly perverted jokes, the Wall Pin of Love, or inducing Belligerent Sexual Tension with her. Once he hits his Love Epiphany for Maron, he isn't seen flirting with any other girls after that, but he's still a lighthearted tease with her before he eventually drops a Love Confession. He becomes more serious after that, although mainly because he'd lost Maron's trust from her learning his identity as Sinbad and has to earn it back.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He's normally not all that possessive of Maron, but whenever there's a reasonable chance someone else (usually "Hijiri"/Noin) will take her away from him, he'll suddenly get antsy and even start trying to claim Maron as his own. In the manga, it seems to be more of a sort of reflexive Berserk Button sort of reaction than anything, and how possessive he is scales with how aggressive the other party is (he's hostile towards demon-possessed Yamato and despises Noin, but is actually quite courteous towards Shrinking Violet Yamato other than some minor pranking).
Dating Catwoman: Deliberately invoked by him as an attempt to get closer to Maron and convince her to stop the whole phantom thief business. Unfortunately for him, it ends up backfiring when he actually falls in love with her but has to get around the fact he's technically her enemy.
Devoted to You: Once he decided he was in love with Maron, he decided to drop everything in her favor, aggressively railroading every single one of his motivations into working for her sake despite not even being sure if she returns his feelings. In the manga, he even states this outright when temporarily refusing to work as Sinbad so that he won't have to fight against her.
Empowered Badass Normal:
- Maron can transform into Jeanne because she's the only one with God's blessing as Jeanne d'Arc's reincarnation, but no explanation is given as to how Chiaki can transform into a phantom thief with abilities on par with hers, other than the fact Access is involved somehow. It can be assumed that Access was given some power from the higher-ups to use for the phantom thief job and it simply doesn't come with the other reincarnation or divine protection benefits Jeanne has, but it's never explicitly stated.
- This is taken even further in the anime, where it turns out that transforming into Sinbad isn't even necessary for Chiaki to use his abilities; he doesn't have a Transformation Trinket, and during the finale, he chooses not to transform on the grounds he doesn't need to, implying the transformation was just a disguise formality for the "rival phantom thief" role. He also apparently could see angels even before becoming Sinbad, but while Access points it out as unusual, no explanation is given as to how.
Evil Counterpart: Like Jeanne, he has the ability to checkmate and create black chess piece counterparts to Jeanne's white. He doesn't use the ability very often in the manga because his first priority is to get her to stop being a phantom thief to begin with, but in the anime, the pieces he and Access had collected mysteriously end up giving Jeanne new powers at the beginning of the second season. In both versions, it turns out the "evil" part never applied to begin with.
Foil: Which character he's a foil to depends on the version. In the manga, he's this to Noin as a rival for Maron's affections: Noin projects Jeanne onto her and wants to "claim" her to the point of Attempted Rape, while Chiaki only cares about Maron as she is now and doesn't expect her to return his feelings. In the anime, he serves as this to Maron herself: they're both coping with grief by hiding it under more cheerful exteriors, but Maron is an All-Loving Hero who wants to help others so they don't have to go through what she has, whereas Chiaki is cynical and lacks faith in others.
Forceful Kiss: Sinbad steals Jeanne/Maron's first kiss. In the manga, this is just a habit of Chiaki's in general; Maron eventually tells him that she's okay with it (in fact, he's the only person she won't slap in the face for it), but he does acknowledge that just because she's letting him do it doesn't necessarily mean she actually wants that instead of passively rolling with it.
Inconvenient Attraction: He'd outright resolved to never develop serious feelings for a woman to Never Be Hurt Again, so he spends a few chapters/several episodes in denial that he's actually developing feelings for Maron. In the manga, even when he does finally accept that it's happening, he spends a bit of time making excuses to move out of Maron's building so he can prevent himself from letting it get any further, but he finally gives up and decides to take the plunge.
Hero Antagonist: He's supposedly a servant of the Devil, but that's technically only an assumption on Finn and Maron's part, and whether this is actually the case is brought into question in both versions:
- In the manga, Finn reasons it out from Access's presence, and Chiaki apparently didn't even know he was supposed to be working for the Devil, leading him to realize Access is hiding something from him. Finn had deliberately fed Maron misinformation so she wouldn't realize she was actually The Mole.
- In the anime, she and Maron assume that he is based on his actions, and by the time Sinbad himself starts insisting he's not actually the Devil's servant, Maron is so off-put by his Shoot the Dog actions that she has a hard time believing him. In the end, it's still only an assumption, because Finn was a Manchurian Agent.
Ladykiller in Love: Chiaki can make every girl he meets swoon, is very charming, and attempts to use this charm on Maron, but it eventually turns out she's the one he truly falls in love with.
Meaningful Name: The name "Chiaki" consists of the kanji for "chestnut tree" and "sky/air", both of which connect him to Maron: Maron's own name means "chestnut", and she's said to be the "wind" that uplifts people.
Minor Living Alone: He moves into Maron and Miyako's building without any sign of a family in tow, and it later turns out he'd run away from home. His father invites him to consider moving back in after they reconcile, but he ends up needing more time to sort out his feelings towards both his father and Maron, so he stays in Maron's building for the time being. In the manga, Miyako and Maron outright wonder where he gets the living funds from, but we never find out, although he does eventually take up a part-time job under his father so he can at least visit.
Missing Mom: His mother died when he was five, making him afraid to get emotionally invested in anyone for fear of being hurt again, and part of the reason he has a bad relationship with his father is that he feels that he's disrespecting her memory by constantly remarrying.
Mysterious Protector: The more he falls in love with Maron, the more he starts acting like this instead of The Rival, to the point he'll instantly drop everything to protect Jeanne the moment it seems she might get harmed. In actuality, this was always his job from the get-go, just in a more Anti-Hero way: preventing her from checkmating and getting her to stop being a phantom thief were intended to keep her from being the Devil's Unwitting Pawn, and "protecting Jeanne" was part of the job description even before Chiaki fell in love with her.
Never Be Hurt Again: The pain from losing his mother at the age of five led him to believe that everyone he loves will end up leaving him someday anyway, so he'd decided he'd never have emotional investment in anyone ever again, and it's why he'd refused to commit to truly loving any of the girls around him until he met Maron.
New Transfer Student: He'd moved into Maron's apartment building and transferred to her school specifically to get closer to Jeanne (and partially to get away from his father). In the manga, Miyako and Maron notice something strange when they learn that he'd originally been from the high-class Biwa High (Yashiro's current school), because Biwa is still within commuting distance from their building and there'd be no reason for him to need to transfer schools, leading Maron to realize he'd been planning all of this from the start.
Noble Demon: You would think someone working for the Devil would be more of a Combat Pragmatist, but even before Chiaki starts falling in love with Maron, he plays by the rules of being a phantom thief (the manga even gives him an In the Name of the Moon speech) and picks roundabout methods like talking to her or attempting to seduce her to get her to quit instead of directly attacking her. It's because the one who's actually working for the Devil is significantly more underhanded.
Pet the Dog: Maron aside, he's friendly with Yamato despite both of them technically being rivals for Maron's affections (and, in the manga, Demonic Possession resulting in Yamato giving him a bad first impression). In the manga, he likes pranking Yamato a little but has a very honest conversation with him about their feelings for Maron, and in the anime, he says outright that he prefers the usual Yamato to the demon-possessed one because the former is a very kind person.
Secret Identity: Beyond the fact he has to hide his identity from the general public, he also initially hides it from Maron as well so that he can get closer to her as Chiaki without flagging suspicion. In the manga, this only lasts up until chapter 5, but the anime has him successfully keep it from her until very late in its run.
The Worf Effect: Considering how overpowered a full-on Jeanne and Sinbad Battle Couple would be under normal circumstances, he gets progressively more subject to this the less hostile his relationship with Jeanne becomes. It's particularly glaring in the manga, where Sinbad's last appearance in the main story involves him actually getting caught because he was distracted worrying about Maron, and when Chiaki later gets hypnotized by a demon-possessed Miyako, Jeanne lampshades this and expresses disappointment by punting him into the mountains, saying he really should have been able to easily handle that one.

Tropes specific to the manga

Always Save the Girl: He's unabashedly clear at many points in the series that he's a Nominal Hero at best when it comes to general heroism, and that everything he does prioritizes Maron's well-being over anything else.
Chiaki: I don't care what happens to the Earth. Your life is more important to me than the world! It's more important than my own! Your... Your dear heart... is more important than my life...
Beneath the Mask: Maron notices that the Chivalrous Pervert he presents as in school is jarringly different from the cool-headed and sincere person he was during their first encounter (whom she found to be very attractive at the time). Turns out, the former is a facade, and the latter is closer to the real Chiaki, who's much more serious and passionate, and in fact very kind.
Berserk Button: His Crazy Jealous Guy tendencies tend to manifest this way, since whenever the possibility of anyone else taking Maron from him comes up, he'll momentarily get possessive over her in ways he usually wouldn't be otherwise (in one particularly extreme case, responding to his father joking about taking Maron for himself by immediately yelling that Maron will be his wife, despite otherwise being smack in the middle of a period when he was seriously considering giving up on her for her sake). After the Attempted Rape incident, the mere mention of Noin particularly sets him off, because he's frustrated that Maron's still as receptive towards someone who's possessive of her to the point of being Yandere.
Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Natsuki and Shinji being Finn and Access's reincarnations doesn't seem to stop Chiaki from seeing Natsuki as his beloved daughter and cracking down on Shinji for advancing on her too aggressively. He only relents when his beloved wife Maron butters him up.
Break His Heart to Save Him: After learning a certain Awful Truth from Access, he starts considering that he might be hurting Maron with his presence and that he should leave her. It doesn't end up happening because Maron catches on and calls him out, saying that him shutting her out is actually making it worse, and he's also far too attracted to her to give up that easily.
But I Would Really Enjoy It: A slightly more PG-rated version of this: the more he falls in love with Maron, the more he really would like to embrace or kiss her. Since she seems to be fine with it, he figures it probably should be okay and starts pushing it further, but he's not entirely sure if she really does want that or if she's just going along with it and even admits he's a little scared about whether he's turning her off more. A sketch by Tanemura included in later volume releases quips that he's "always looking for his chance". The reason the word "slightly" is there: once Maron properly gives him a Love Confession and tells him that not only does she want him to do it, she wants him to do it more, they go all the way in a decidedly not-PG way.
Clark Kenting: Unlike the anime, which has him cover his face for most of the series, Sinbad in the manga stops wearing the face veil after the first few times, but although uncovering his face causes Maron to start unconsciously associating him with Chiaki, she doesn't fully make the connection until she actually sees him transform, and nobody else who should know him (such as Miyako or Yamato) does either. Even more egregiously, while the anime has Power Dyes Your Hair in play, Chiaki and Sinbad have the exact same hair in the manga version, with only eye color and outfit being different.
Cruel to Be Kind: Once he learns the Awful Truth from Access, he pulls Sparing Them the Dirty Work on Zen but doesn't tell Maron why he did it or what's going on, figuring it'd be better for her to hate him than for the truth to hurt her. Access warns him that hiding it from her is probably going to make it worse, and Maron manages to change his mind.
Cuddle Bug: The main way his attraction to Maron manifests involves him wanting to hold her really badly, and while he starts off doing it to comfort her whenever she needs it, it eventually escalates to him being so clingy with her he develops "withdrawal symptoms" if he doesn't get to hug her for too long and has to cope with a doll of her his father made. By the time they're married, they're infamously known to people around them for being Sickeningly Sweethearts.
Didn't Think This Through: He'd Jumped at the Call, accepted the job of becoming Sinbad, and formulated his plan to seduce Jeanne out of sheer rashness (and implied pettiness from wanting to leave his father's house), not even asking Access for details about whom he was working for until chapter 16. He hadn't accounted for the fact that he'd effectively signed up to emotionally manipulate and eventually betray a girl who didn't deserve it; he's too kind of a person to be able to bring himself to do that, and he later admits that he probably would have quit the whole thing very quickly if he hadn't fallen in love with Maron.
Dirty Business: He did not enjoy having to Mercy Kill Zen, and while he initially allows Maron to continue seeing him as cold-hearted for it, she eventually catches on that it was actually this for him.
Dogged Nice Guy: Played with: he would definitely like it if Maron returned his feelings, and makes no attempt to hide his advances, but he understands she has a lot of emotional baggage and even believes she has more than enough reason to hate him. He's satisfied as long as she doesn't hate him and is okay with letting him show her affection. In fact, she does actually love him back and had for a long time already, but he's self-conscious enough about it that he can't really be sure.
Green-Eyed Epiphany: When he's unsure about seriously pursuing his feelings for Maron out of fear of rejection, he consults Access for advice by asking about why he's still such a Dogged Nice Guy with Finn when he'll be hurt by her rejections. Access responds that his feelings being hurt is preferable to losing Finn to someone else, leading Chiaki to realize he feels the same way about Maron and convincing him to give it a try.
Insecure Love Interest: By the second half, Chiaki is unsure about the idea of pushing too aggressively for a Relationship Upgrade because he's concerned she might still have a grudge over having initially manipulated her. He admits his extremely aggressive affection would probably be off-limts to anyone but her, and that he's a little scared of how she's taking it, but he's under the impression that she's not turning it down only because she Desperately Craves Affection, unaware that it's actually because she's returned his feelings for a long time now.
Chiaki: (thinking) I've gotten a little worried that she might not like me after all. I shouldn't be surprised. I did deceive her. But she lets me kiss her. (Well, I'm pushy about it.) Do I still have a chance? Maybe I should tell her I love her again...
Living Emotional Crutch: He serves as this to Maron early in the story once he starts reaching out to and comforting Maron whenever she has an emotional breakdown. The story treats this as only a temporary solution, and Maron does eventually manage to get back on her feet on her own terms (to the point she admits to herself that if Chiaki were to die, she'd probably have an easier time moving on than vice versa).
Minion with an F in Evil: He's supposed to be manipulating Maron into quitting being Jeanne, but his morals quickly take over when he can't bring himself to toy with someone who's as emotionally shattered as she is, and every time he does something that might hurt her he ends up agonizing over it deeply. Maron quickly catches on that he's too much of a good person to be someone working for the Devil, and figures there must be more going on. In fact, he'd never been working for the Devil in the first place and was Good All Along, so he'd be better described as an Anti-Hero with an F in being a jerk.
Mr. Vice Guy: He's helping Maron out of genuine kindness and concern for her, but there's still self-interest involved, because he's really physically attracted to her when she drops the Stepford Smiler attitude (which is usually when she's emotionally vulnerable), and he admits to Access that he'd stayed away from her right after Noin's Attempted Rape incident because he didn't trust himself to not also do something to her when she was in that state. His attraction manifests in him wanting to embrace and kiss her to the point he eventually starts getting very clingy if he can't hug her for too long (including in a bonus chapter where he even gets jealous of her parents for taking her time away from him), and while his perverted jokes were mostly part of his Chivalrous Pervert persona from the earlier chapters, he still really likes the feel of her chest when they hug. While he's fine with her not returning his feelings, he also can't stand the idea of anyone else having her to the point it's a Berserk Button for him.
My God, What Have I Done?: He's disgusted with himself when he sees how hurt Maron is after learning he'd been manipulating her, and he spends the rest of the story convinced she has every right to hate him for it, even long after she'd already forgiven him.
Nice Guy: Part of the reason his initial plan to seduce Maron and manipulate her trust without getting attached starts going awry in only three chapters is that he realizes how broken and desperately in need of comfort she is, so continuing to manipulate someone who's so close to the Despair Event Horizon instead of trying to help her out is just too cruel for him to do. Maron recognizing that he's actually a very kind person is how she manages to see through his later Cruel to Be Kind attempts.
Not So Above It All: He starts off the story as a cool-headed person who's good at conjuring up a flirtatious act, but the more he falls in love with Maron, the more he becomes shamelessly devoted and mushy over her even in public. By the time they're well into marriage, he can't even pretend to not melt into an enamored, lovey-dovey mess when she butters him up.
Not So Stoic: After Sinbad plants his Forceful Kiss on Jeanne, she slaps him and tells him that he hates him, leading to him turning around coldly and leaving... until he gets out of her viewing range and pounds his fist on the wall, angry at himself and looking like he's about to cry because she hates him now. Access immediately teases him about it.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The manga doesn't have an explanation as to how Chiaki met Access, where Sinbad's powers came from, and why he even uses that name (it's also possible to apply the anime's version of events with the Line-of-Sight Name incident, although it would then bring up the question of why he could see Access to begin with).
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- This is how Maron realizes that him checkmating Zen was actually a Mercy Kill: shortly after, she witnesses him checkmating a painting without hesitation despite knowing it was painted by his late mother. Since she knows Chiaki respects his mother's memory to the point he'd even tried to cut himself off from his family over it, she realizes that he's the kind of person who's capable of doing what he has to even if it hurts him, and that just because he'd checkmated Zen doesn't mean he liked having to do it.
- Chapter 5 reveals that Chiaki is known for always having a calm and cool-headed attitude in front of girls, so the fact he's able to get openly emotional in front of Maron means that he already sees her differently from how he does other girls.
Reincarnation Romance: It's briefly implied at the end that he might be the reincarnation of Adam and therefore the original lover of Maron's first incarnation Eve, but the subject is pushed aside before anything can be made of it, and Chiaki had already stated earlier that he's only interested in Maron for who she is now.
Shared Family Quirks: His talent of attracting hordes of women is inherited from his father, although Chiaki's distaste towards his father makes him determined to not commit to any of them (at first).
Kagura: Like father, like son... You both entice women with your good looks and toss them away afterward. Admirable.
Chiaki: Are you jealous? Are you damning or praising me? It's his fault, you know. He's the reason I can't have a serious relationship.
Kagura: Blaming other people... Did you get that from your father too?
Single-Target Sexuality: Prior to meeting Maron, he'd been convinced that there wasn't a single woman he'd ever be willing to seriously commit to. By the time he actually starts seriously pursuing Maron, he's now so singlemindedly devoted to her that he doesn't even like being a Chick Magnet anymore.
Sparing Them the Dirty Work: Once he learns that Maron is actually the Devil's Unwitting Pawn, he pulls a Mercy Kill on Zen without telling Jeanne why he did it because he feels she's had too much pain in her life already to have to do something like that. Maron eventually catches on.
Tareme Eyes: It's less noticeable in the main series than it is in later illustrations post-Art Evolution, but he has this more prominently than most Tanemura male protagonists, setting him apart a little in what otherwise tends to be Only Six Faces. Fittingly, he's also one of the most soft-hearted and openly affectionate among them.
That Came Out Wrong: When he says he wants to "hold" or "touch" Maron very badly, he means literally, as in hugging her. He and Maron do pursue the other meaning near the end, though, and a bonus chapter has Chiaki wanting to interpret Maron suddenly showing up in his bed as her being Ready for Lovemaking.
Yamato: Just what immoral thoughts are you having?!
Chiaki: Yeah, right. I bet you have those kinds of thoughts too. Ah, I long for her. It's her body... or maybe it's her hair? She's got a citrusy scent and it's comforting when I hug her.
Yamato: I-Is that so.
Unwanted Harem: Once he starts getting serious about Maron, he realizes he isn't very happy about being a Chick Magnet anymore because it only means they'll inevitably have their hearts broken. When he finds himself in the middle of a petty squabble over him between Miyako and Yashiro, he's annoyed and would rather be left alone.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: His father is flighty and scatterbrained, and even after Chiaki manages to reconcile with him, he's still exasperated by his father's immaturity.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: A big part of the reason Chiaki is so much more of a jerk in the anime is that he starts off far more cynical than his manga counterpart ever was; he despises his father so much he wants to cut all ties from his family, and he doesn't believe in any kind of familial bonds at all to the point he's convinced all families are like that. (In contrast, Chiaki in the manga admitted that his behavior towards his father was a little petty on his part, came around and reconciled with him, and actively encouraged Maron to reconnect with her parents.) Him being a Chivalrous Pervert is implied to be him coping with his cynicism by being a Sad Clown about it. Meeting Maron and falling in love with her is what gets him to reconsider.
Adaptational Heroism: The manga's version of Chiaki Jumped at the Call and asked questions later, meaning he'd been going in with the mindset of "seduce a girl to get her to stop being a phantom thief" like it was a sort of game without caring about what it was supposed to be for; in fact, he even later admitted that it was a hasty decision he'd made out of short-sighted impulsiveness. Even for the rest of the series, he was motivated more by his devotion to Maron than any other sense of duty, to the point that he'd said in the finale that he didn't care about what happened to the Earth compared to her. In the anime, Chiaki was informed about the Devil's plan and Finn being The Mole from the start, and it's presumed that one reason for the Adaptational Jerkass actions mentioned below is that he considered them to be Necessarily Evil for the sake of the job.
Adaptational Jerkass:
- The anime's version of Chiaki/Sinbad is much more willing to take morally questionable actions in pursuit of his goal, doing things like burning down someone's house to get a checkmate and calling Jeanne naive, in contrast to the manga's version where even pulling a Mercy Kill on Zen filled him with severe guilt. This results in Maron having opposite reactions to him in the manga vs. the anime: in the manga, Maron sees through his actions as Cruel to Be Kind despite him having already accepted the idea of her seeing him as a terrible villain, whereas in the anime, Sinbad tries to protest that he's not a servant of the Devil, but Jeanne refuses to believe him because he's so willing to Shoot the Dog.
- In the manga, Chiaki was rather self-conscious about having initially manipulated Maron and constantly felt that she had the right to hate him for his actions, and once he found out the Awful Truth he was so prepared to have to give up on her that he was grateful she was giving him the time of day at all. In the anime, while he does feel guilt about it to the point "jerkass" may be too strong a word, the fact keeps his identity as Sinbad from her for three-quarters of the story changes context enough that it's understandable Maron has a very hard time trusting him again after she figures it out.
- Due to the reordering or changed pacing of certain plot points, even scenes that are carried over directly come off differently due to changed context. One of Chiaki's early Crazy Jealous Guy moments in the manga where he asks Maron out is adapted in a late anime episode, but unlike in the manga, Maron doesn't know that he's Sinbad yet, Chiaki knows full well that she sees him as a hostile agent for the Devil, and he actually forces the issue instead of accepting Maron's rejection, making him come off as more aggressive and deceitful about wanting Maron's affections despite everything at stake. Him saying that he'd have quit the whole seduction plan if he hadn't taken an interest in Maron during their first meeting also comes off very differently when we'd seen him starting to have concerns about the deception in only three chapters rather than after 15 episodes.
Adaptation Dye-Job: In the manga, Chiaki and Sinbad's hair are both the same pale blue color (it's pale enough to be close to white, but official colored manga art consistently gives it a noticeable blue tint within different lighting contexts), but in the anime, Chiaki has darker blue hair, while Sinbad's hair is even closer to white.
Anti-Hero: With the reveal he was Good All Along, it turns out he was this from the get-go: he knew he had a job to stop Jeanne from being the Devil's Unwitting Pawn, it's just that he was so cynical and jaded he went about it in manipulative ways and was too willing to Shoot the Dog.
Battle Boomerang: Rather than his whip from the manga, his main weapon in the anime is a three-winged boomerang he uses for combat.
Combat Pragmatist: He still sends the calling cards, but he doesn't actually care for them and doesn't believe Jeanne should either, since it's basically just asking for the police to make things harder for her. Maron disagrees, believing that she has to be fair or else it'll just make her an ordinary thief.
Cynicism Catalyst: The anime adds an extra reason for him to hate his father: he wasn't at his wife (Chiaki's mother)'s bedside when she passed away, and it led Chiaki to conclude that the whole concept of "love" is a fabrication and that true bonds don't even exist to begin with. He eventually learns that his mother had actually asked her husband not to come see her, because she didn't want him to see her in such a pitiful state, and they'd both agreed that they were still connected even when apart; learning this isn't enough to get Chiaki to completely forgive his father or change his views on the spot, but it does at least get him to start reconsidering.
Demoted to Extra: While maybe not as far as "extra", Chiaki was basically demoted from Deuteragonist to Love Interest. In the manga, he served as her Living Emotional Crutch to support her until she managed to gain her own confidence, and played an integral role in Maron's Character Development in learning to love and trust others; the story was told from his perspective almost as often as Maron's as he became more and more open about his feelings for her. In the anime, an Adaptation Relationship Overhaul results in him being much more emotionally distant from Maron during the story, so while he still has a prominent role as Maron's rival and Love Interest, he ends up having much less of an impact on Maron to the point he fails to snap her out of a Heroic BSoD that he'd helped her get through in the manga, and her relationship with Finn is emphasized more instead.
Hidden Depths: Early in the series, Maron and Miyako have some conversations about what kind of person Chiaki actually is; Miyako insists that he's not like other guys and that his Chivalrous Pervert nature is a front that covers up his "hidden side", while Maron is quick to dismiss him as a shallow skirt-chaser. As the series goes on, Maron starts to realize that Miyako might actually be right, but still has a hard time understanding what he's thinking or what he's trying to do. It turns out that there's definitely a lot going on under there, and while he's actually more cynical than either of them had anticipated, he's not actually as shallow of a person as Maron had pinned him as and has been especially opening up under her influence.
Line-of-Sight Name: Access first met Chiaki in front of a movie theater that was playing a movie titled The Adventures of Sinbad, presumably leading to the choice of name.
Power Makes Your Voice Deep: He uses a deeper and more gruff tone as Sinbad, although it seems to have mainly been to hide his identity since it gradually drops out after Jeanne exposes him.
Razor Floss: Uses this towards the end of the series.
Sad Clown: He dismisses being a Chivalrous Pervert as being in "his nature", but he's actually deeply bitter and cynical about people's ability to form bonds or love each other, pitting him against Maron/Jeanne who's a Stepford Smiler but an All-Loving Hero. Miyako also catches on early that he seems to have "guts" underneath the laid-back exterior, and that while he's generally all-around nice and friendly, it seems to be a very shallow sort of kindness.
Signature Item Clue: Jeanne first catches onto his identity when he drops one of the clover couple rings Hijiri had given them earlier, compelling her to fully expose him via Dramatic Unmask at the end of the episode.
Shoot the Dog: He has a habit of doing this to get his checkmate, and it's a big reason Jeanne has a hard time trusting him or believing his assertions that he's not working for the Devil. Even after he and Maron/Jeanne get closer to being on the same page, he's still much more cynical and pragmatic about things being Necessarily Evil than she is.
Trenchcoat Warfare: He's carrying a whole arsenal in that coat, as some demon-controlled mooks find out the hard way in episode 26.
You're Not My Father: The anime's version of Chiaki despises his father to the point of wanting to cut all ties and disclaim him as his father, declaring him to be "worse than a demon". Maron/Jeanne, who's suffered Parental Abandonment and doesn't like this kind of estrangement, pushes him to reconcile, and once he learns his father's position, he dials down on the grudge afterwards. Even then, however, he's still much more hostile towards his father than his manga counterpart ever was.

Heaven and Hell

Finn Fish (unmarked spoilers)

Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (JP), Miriam Valencia (SP)

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A "minor angel" sent by God to inform Maron about her mission and assist her in hunting down demons by serving as Mission Control. Her dream is to become a full-fledged angel, which she'll be able to achieve if she and Maron can collect enough chess pieces. Due to Maron having been nearly abandoned by her parents, Finn becomes like an honorary family member to her and serves as her closest confidant regarding her work as Jeanne...

...except all of that is a lie. In fact, Finn, not Sinbad nor Access, is the actual agent for the Devil, and Jeanne had been an Unwitting Pawn the entire time. On top of that, Finn befriending Maron and betraying her was also deliberately planned so that Maron would become even more vulnerable to demons from the emotional shock.

The anime ended its run just after The Reveal of the above facts had been released in the manga, so the rest of the details regarding Finn's background, motivations, and eventual fate heavily differ between them. As Finn is a natural Walking Spoiler, note that spoilers for both the anime and manga versions are unmarked in this section.

Tropes in both versions

Evil Costume Switch: When Finn she reveals she's a fallen angel, she gets a black outfit, a corset, and some Femme Fatalons.
Fallen Angel: Her actual nature; the appearance as a minor angel was merely a disguise.
Invisible to Normals: Normal humans can't see or hear her. This ends up especially helpful in the anime, where Finn regularly accompanies Maron on her outings instead of mostly staying at home like she did in the manga.
Mentor Mascot: She serves as Jeanne's Mission Control for the first half of the series, and it's only afterwards it's revealed that she was actually just using Maron as an Unwitting Pawn.
Spell My Name With An S: Her name can be rendered as "Finn", "Fin", or even "Fynn". "Fin" is less like a normal name, but makes more sense with her Punny Name Fin Fish. The official Viz Media translation of the manga renders her name as Finn.
Tsundere: She's not exactly straightforward when it comes to Access. In the manga, she'd rebuffed Access's advances in heaven and later tells Maron that the person she was in love with was someone "much kinder, smarter, and more amazing" than him; after betraying Maron, her claims of being enamored with the Devil create a Red Herring about it referring to him, but it eventually turns out that, no, she really is in love with Access to the point he was her entire motivation for selling herself to the Devil. In the anime, it's less clear what she thinks of Access, but her behavior towards him is a textbook case of Belligerent Sexual Tension.
Walking Spoiler: Considering Finn's biggest role in the plot has to do with her betrayal and the Awful Truth that she was The Mole all along, going any deeper than her being a Mission Control Mentor Mascot inevitably results in massive spoilers.
Was It All a Lie?: Maron has this reaction to her betrayal in both versions, and in both versions the answer is no; in the manga, Finn simply couldn't bring herself to be evil enough to hate her, and in the anime, it's quickly established that she was actually a Manchurian Agent who approached Maron with genuine friendship.

Tropes specific to the manga

All Girls Want Bad Boys:
- Subverted; she's ostensibly drawn to the Devil because he'd given her a place to stay, but in actuality her true love is Access (who's a Nice Guy even if a little loudmouthed and prone to slacking). In the end, she confirms that she still loves Access, but does sympathize with the Devil enough that she chooses to die together with him.
- Her reincarnation Natsuki falls in love with her neighbor and family friend Shinji, a boy four years older than her who wears piercings and regularly slacks off from his basketball team, and is even more forceful and aggressive of a suitor than Chiaki... of course, there's also the fact he's Access's reincarnation, but she was falling in love with him before she knew this.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Maron and Chiaki are Sickeningly Sweethearts to levels that exasperate Natsuki, and while Shinji's definitely on the more forceful side with his affections, Chiaki's overprotective tendencies tend to be extreme.
Becoming the Mask: Contrary to her claims, she did, in fact, care for Maron during her time as her honorary family member.
Dead Guy Junior: Maron, apparently recognizing her daughter as Finn's reincarnation, names her Natsuki after her previous human incarnation.
Death Seeker: Her claim of having hated Maron the entire time is a complete lie; she's still too kind of a person to hate her like that, and once she was given an order to kill Maron, she'd quietly decided to eventually kill herself before she could. She's saved by the intervention of Access, Toki, and Celcia, but her grief over her sins results in her still being all too willing to pull a Heroic Sacrifice.
Energy Absorption: As a fallen angel, she drains the power of any angel she touches. She's driven even closer to the Death Seeker point when she realizes that, despite joining the Devil specifically so she could see Access again, she can't even touch him anymore without hurting him.
Good Costume Switch: She gets a fancy dress with frills and ribbons when she's made into a proper angel, although she goes back to her original minor angel outfit when in Sleep-Mode Size.
Kicked Out of Heaven: She was sentenced to execution for a crime she effectively had little responsibility for (killing a bunch of humans via Power Incontinence), and she chose to flee with the Devil, therefore branding her as a fallen angel and leaving her without a proper place on Earth, heaven, or hell. Eventually, she's saved by Access, Toki, and Celcia's intervention and restored to proper angel status, and God personally forgives her and welcomes her back into heaven.
Love Makes You Evil: Finn sold herself to the Devil so that she could survive execution for long enough to fulfill The Promise she'd made to Access to see him again and hear what he had to say. In fact, even before betraying Maron, she'd told her that her motive to become a full-fledged angel was because there was someone she liked whom she wanted to meet; she'd just happened to lie about certain key details.
Meaningful Name: The name "Natsuki" is written with the kanji for "fish" and "moon".
Past-Life Memories: Since Finn reincarnated into Natsuki with the power Maron gave her instead of the usual way angels reincarnate, she only remembers her past life and lover Access in vague dreams. As a result, she takes a whole fifteen years to recognize Shinji as Access's reincarnation, and has greater concerns about their past lives imposing obligations on them than he does.
Power Incontinence: Her hair contains so much divine energy that even cutting it causes an explosion that killed tons of humans around her.
Redemption Equals Death: She invokes this herself, believing her sins are too great for her to deserve to live, so she pulls a Heroic Sacrifice for Maron and chooses to die with the Devil to keep him company on his way out.
Reincarnation: She's the angelic incarnation of Natsuki, a young girl who was murdered by her demon-possessed older brother so that her pure soul would fuel holy water. At the end of the story, Maron gives up her reincarnation power for her, and she reincarnates as the daughter of Maron, who names her Natsuki in turn.
Reincarnation-Identifying Trait: Access gives her his favorite earring after she dies, and Natsuki being born with the same earring in her hand is what identifies her to Maron and Shinji as Finn's reincarnation. Later, Shinji reveals himself as Access's reincarnation to Natsuki by showing her the other one.
Reincarnation Romance: Natsuki falls in love with her neighbor and family friend Shinji, but is troubled about the fact she feels obligated to someone she promised her love to in a past life... until Shinji reveals he's the reincarnation of said lover himself. Afterwards, Natsuki starts conversely worrying if maybe Shinji's just dating her out of obligation to their past lives, but Shinji doesn't care because he likes Natsuki regardless.
Sympathy for the Devil: One of the reasons she pulls a Heroic Sacrifice is that she wants to be able to die with the Devil, because she understands he's lonely and wants to at least allow him to not die alone.
Tragic Villain: Although she claims she was doing whatever it took to get what she wanted, in truth, she's not actually capable of being the villain she signed up to be; she was manipulated by the Devil, pushed to desperation to live after being sentenced to death for a crime that was hardly her fault, driven out without a place to feel like she belonged, and moreover doesn't actually hate Maron and decides to kill herself before she has to hurt her.
Traumatic Haircut: Ever wonder how Finn got that odd haircut, short in the back with long sidelocks? It actually used to be normally long, but when Sagami cut her hair in order to steal her angelic powers, it worked too well and a bunch of humans died in the explosion, resulting in Finn's banishment from heaven. It goes back to a proper even length when she reveals herself as a fallen angel, and stays that way for the rest of the series even after returning to Sleep-Mode Size.
We Can Rule Together: She shows up on Maron's balcony shortly after her betrayal, offering Maron the opportunity to become Jeanne again by joining her and the Devil. Maron refuses, having found other sources of meaning in her life besides being Jeanne by that point.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptational Heroism: In the manga, she was a willing accomplice of the Devil, and had been lying straight to Maron's face for half the series. In the anime, she's a Manchurian Agent, so everything she says to Maron in the first half of the series has genuine intentions. Her turning evil in the anime is from being Brainwashed and Crazy, so Maron pulling an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight is enough to get her back.
Adaptation Personality Change: She's a little more ditzy and childish than Finn in the manga, who, other than being a little playful, was more of a sentimental type even prior to becoming a Fallen Angel.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Since Finn is a Manchurian Agent in the anime, her memories of Access are wiped, so she doesn't recognize him at all. While she does occasionally show Tsundere tendencies, it's unclear whether she has any strong feelings for him besides him being a Dogged Nice Guy, and she even seems to develop feelings for a pianist in episode 8. In contrast, in the manga, her entire motivations had stemmed from his presence.
A Day in the Limelight: Episode 8 serves as this for her, where she connects with a pianist who falls victim to the Monster of the Week and leads the charge in getting Jeanne to help him.
Ascended Extra: In terms of the first half of the story, the original manga mostly had Finn show up briefly whenever Maron returned home, giving Maron her jobs as Mission Control, providing comic relief via the occasional Funny Background Event, and only accompanying Maron on a few more significant trips. The reveal halfway in that she's actually working for the Devil has a vibe somewhat like The Dog Was the Mastermind, especially since Chiaki was only able to expose her in the first place because he'd managed to earn enough of Maron's trust to get her to meet him without Finn. In the anime, the added Monster of the Week episodes give Finn enough screentime to basically be like Maron's full-time Non-Human Sidekick, and when she eventually becomes the Big Bad, the final battle rests heavily on the fact that she was the one who'd known Maron better than anyone else in the story.
Big Bad: She serves as the demon Myst calls "Queen", and she's ultimately the final boss, with the Devil being more of a Greater-Scope Villain.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Her true nature really is that of an angel on the side of good, so Jeanne manages to bring her back with a Cooldown Hug.
The Confidant: Since Maron doesn't learn about Sinbad's identity for a long time, Finn serves as the only one who can talk to her about being a phantom thief, and she also gives Maron many a pep talk throughout the series.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: This is what the final battle between her and Jeanne boils down to during the last two episodes.
Manchurian Agent: After brainwashing her, the Devil turned her back into a normal minor angel and wiped certain memories (especially those of Access). At the time she'd met Maron, she was also genuinely convinced the whole Mission from God was real.
Non-Human Sidekick: She serves as more of this role to Maron than she did in the original manga, since she often accompanies her outside of the house and even directly helps her during heists.
Only Friend: This is emphasized more in the anime version than it is in the original manga. Finn was still an important honorary family member who helped ease her loneliness in the manga, but Maron discovering Chiaki's identity early, as well as Miyako and Yamato being more deeply involved with them on an emotional level, meant that Maron still had quite a few sources of emotional support rather than just Finn. However, in the anime, Maron doesn't know Sinbad's identity and struggles to trust Chiaki, and the other characters are less attuned to her current emotional state, so Finn, who actually goes outside with her regularly, serves as practically the only one who can serve as The Confidant for her for the first half of the series. The finale even has Finn outright state that she knows Maron better than anyone else, a claim she probably wouldn't be able to make in the manga due to both Chiaki and Miyako being reasonable competitors for that position.
Psychological Torment Zone: Inflicts this on Jeanne in the final episode by giving her a vision of her parents claiming that their divorce would have happened anyway even without the Devil's influence, and that Jeanne isn't necessary. The shock of it is enough to shatter her rosary and leave her with a Heroic BSoD that Chiaki has to snap her out of.
Shipper on Deck: She's not aggressive about it, but she does comment positively on relationship developments between Maron and Chiaki, since here she's as unaware of his identity as Maron is.
Spared by the Adaptation: Since Finn's death in the manga was long after the anime had finished production and airing, the ending of the anime has her go home normally with Jeanne during the finale, none the worse for wear.
Unwitting Pawn: Here, she's just as much of one as Maron.

Access Time (unmarked spoilers)

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

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A black angel who serves as Sinbad's Mission Control the way Finn does for Jeanne. Despite technically being on the opposing side, he's easygoing and friendly, and seems to have a crush on Finn to Dogged Nice Guy levels.

In actuality, Access, not Finn, is the one who was sent from heaven to stop the Devil's Evil Plan, and his past with Finn goes back much further than she'd framed it as. Although he knows she's an agent of the Devil, he really does love her, so for him, helping Sinbad is not only a matter of stopping the plan, but also saving Finn and bringing her home.

While not to the same degree as Finn, Access is also somewhat of a Walking Spoiler, so the below section contains unmarked spoilers for both the anime and manga.

Tropes in both versions

The Confidant: Access is the only person Chiaki can discuss the details of them actually being Good All Along with, so Chiaki regularly has discussions with him on what to do next. In the manga, Chiaki also confides in him his stress over having to be Cruel to Be Kind towards Maron, while in the anime, since Maron isn't aware of his identity as Sinbad for most of the series, Access is the only one he can talk to about being a phantom thief in general.
Cute Little Fangs: Visible when he opens his mouth; initially, they serve as a Red Herring to make him come off as demonic, but in actuality they're just because he's got a mischievous personality.
Dark Is Not Evil: He's got dark purple hair and black wings, but it's all just because he's not very experienced or strong as an angel, especially since he's somewhat of a slacker. There isn't actually a single ounce of malice in him at all. That said, in the manga, Finn exploits the Dark Is Evil association to trick Maron into thinking he's a Fallen Angel on the side of the Devil.
Dogged Nice Guy:
- Towards Finn. The manga reveals that she does, in fact, return his feelings, so much that she fell to the dark side specifically to see him again, but her thoughts on him in return are more ambiguous in the anime.
Chiaki: What will you do if Finn tells you she doesn't like you?
Access: She's already told me that a hundred times.
Chiaki: Sorry.
- In the manga, even after reincarnating, Shinji and Natsuki still have this dynamic, and it takes a while for Natsuki to admit that she does actually like him and has only been struggling to commit due to a fixation with her Past-Life Memories.
Invisible to Normals: Like with Finn, normal humans can't see or hear him. The anime has Chiaki somehow able to see him when they first meet, but no explanation is given to why.
Non-Human Sidekick: He's the equivalent of Finn to Chiaki.
Walking Spoiler: His role in the plot is heavily tied to Finn's and The Reveal that he and Sinbad were Good All Along, and much of his characterization is heavily dependent on that.

Tropes specific to the manga

Above the Influence: A family-friendly version: in a bonus chapter, Finn accidentally takes what's effectively a Love Potion and starts acting mushy and lovey-dovey with Access, even to the point where she'll give up on being The Mole for him. Access rejects it because he likes Finn for her strength of will to do whatever it takes for what she believes in, and doesn't want Finn's love without that.
Calling Parents by Their Name: Shinji refers to his mom, as well as Chiaki and Maron, by their given names, either because of his more rebellious personality or because he knew them in his past life (or both).
The Cassandra: He may be a slacker, but he's very emotionally insightful; he catches onto Chiaki developing actual feelings for Maron before anyone else does, predicts that it'll actually be a good thing to keep him motivated on the job, and later warns Chiaki that attempting to pull Cruel to Be Kind on Maron will actually just make it worse. Unfortunately, Chiaki is often too stubborn to listen to him the first time.
Childhood Marriage Promise: Four-year-old Shinji proposes marriage to the newly-born Natsuki on the spot, mystifying his parents (of course, the actual reason is that he'd recognized her as Finn's reincarnation). It's Played for Laughs at the time, and once both of them are older, they end up having to go through a few more bumps before they can start a proper relationship.
Forceful Kiss: Shinji is even worse about this kind of thing than Chiaki, who at least had the excuse that Maron needed him to be that aggressive about his affection for various reasons; Natsuki will actually yell and flail at Shinji for it, but he plants a kiss on her when she's sleeping and had apparently even done it to her before when she was three. This is noticeably a difference between him and Access, who was fond of The Glomp but never went that far (aside from the one time a kiss was necessary to defuse a Love Potion).
Interrupted Intimacy: He interrupts a moment Chiaki and Maron are having when Chiaki falls victim to another fit of Crazy Jealous Guy over Noin, because he's trying to kiss up to God for a promotion. He tries to enforce a ban to the level of No Hugging, No Kissing on them, which is very inconvenient for them because both of them are just on the verge of the Love Confession they need to formally hook up.
Meaningful Name: "Shinji" is written with the kanji for "heart" and "time".
Red Herring: It's revealed part of the way in that Chiaki actually had no idea he was supposedly working for the Devil, and when he starts pestering Access for answers, Access refuses to say anything for a while. Because Finn had specifically identified Access as the Devil's agent, the natural conclusion is that Access is hiding something and is manipulating Chiaki into being an Unwitting Pawn. As it turns out, Access had only been hiding the Awful Truth from Chiaki because he was afraid Chiaki would refuse to help him as Sinbad if he knew (fortunately, Chiaki takes this as even more reason to continue stepping in), and Finn was the one who was lying about him working for the Devil.
Past-Life Memories: While the story usually takes the stance that reincarnations should be treated as different people, Shinji has all of his memories of having been Access and has no qualms about treating himself as the same person, in contrast to Natsuki who worries about their past lives imposing obligations on them.
The Promise: When Finn went on her trip to visit the human world, he'd told Finn he had something to tell her when she returned, which she agreed to hear out. It turns out this promise is the entire reason Finn chose to become a Fallen Angel, because she wanted to live long enough to hear what he had to say. Of course, it was a simple Love Confession, which he finally makes do on delivering after learning Finn's motives.
Reincarnation-Identifying Trait: Shinji owns the earring he had as Access, and he uses it to reveal his identity as Access's reincarnation to Natsuki, who was born with the other one after Access had given it to Finn on her deathbed.
Reincarnation Romance: After Finn dies, Access resolves to work his way up to gather enough divine energy and reincarnate specifically so he can see her again. Shinji has all of his memories of being Access, so he starts trying for Natsuki's affections as they grow up, but Natsuki, who only has Past-Life Memories via vague dreams, struggles between her feelings for her past lover and for Shinji until it turns out they're the same person anyway. Natsuki has concerns afterwards that Shinji might be dating her out of obligation towards their past lives, but he doesn't particularly care about that and likes her anyway.
Shipper on Deck: He catches onto Chiaki developing feelings for Maron before he's even able to admit it to himself. His stance is that it's not a bad thing, because it'd motivate him to do his job more; it's early foreshadowing that, contrary to Finn's claims, Sinbad and Access's job is actually meant to be in Jeanne's best interest, and he eventually turns out to be exactly right.
Spanner in the Works: Access recruiting Sinbad results in Chiaki becoming one of the most important supportive figures in Maron's life, allowing her to get past the shock of Finn's betrayal, regain her powers, and become assertive enough to handle everything the Devil throws at her thereafter. He also forms enough of a bond with Maron to help her figure things out when Miyako gets possessed, and top of that, Finn turns out to be willing to betray the Devil for him, with his rescue of Toki and Celcia integral to saving her. Even if he hadn't initially been able to stop Finn, Access's intervention was ultimately a key factor in saving the day and getting everyone to a happy ending.
The Slacker: His friends Finn, Toki, and Celcia all became minor angels while he was still stuck as a black angel because he was constantly slacking off. He manages to get himself together enough to go up the ranks so he can reincarnate as Shinji, but even as Shinji, he still has a habit of ditching basketball practice despite being the ace of the team.
Trademark Favorite Food: He loves his pancakes (he doesn't actually have to eat to survive since he's an angel, but he likes eating them for enjoyment), and Miyako and Yamato's son Shinji mentioning a promise Chiaki had made to him to eat pancakes together is what first identifies him to the audience as actually being Access's reincarnation.
Tsundere: He's capable of being this for maybe about a sentence before he starts gushing about Finn.
Chiaki: You have a crush on that Finn, don't you?
Access: Me?! I'll never fall for an uncute angel like her!!
Chiaki: What about Finn do you like?
Access: Well... she's innocent and dependable. And I love how she's a bit of a crybaby too...
Two-Person Love Triangle: Shinji's been in love with Natsuki since she was born, but Natsuki initially doesn't act on her feelings for him because she has dreams of Past-Life Memories, believing that she can't commit to anyone in the present if her former lover comes for her someday. Shinji is incredibly amused when he finds out that the person he was supposed to be jealous of was actually himself the whole time.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptation Personality Change: While his characterization changes aren't to the same degree of some other characters, he's a little more childish and more mushy towards Finn in the anime, and his first-person pronoun is the more laid-back "oira" variant to the manga version's more forceful "ore". The anime version also exclusively refers to Chiaki only as "Sinbad", implying that he sees him more as a professional partner than his manga counterpart does.
Demoted to Extra: Due to the anime not adapting anything related to Finn's backstory from the manga, Access's role is thus downplayed into a friend of Finn's with a crush on her, and in the end the most he does is take over the role of Mr. Exposition while the other characters do the heavy lifting. In comparison, he was a heavily integral character to the second half of the manga, and in fact a massive Spanner in the Works (see above).
You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: His justification for not explaining anything to Finn about what his or Sinbad's motives are. Given that it entails her being a Manchurian Agent, he's probably right.

Noin Claude ("Hijiri Shikaido")

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP), Miguel Ángel Garzón (SP)

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A mysterious history teacher who suddenly appears at Maron's school and takes an interest in her. In fact, he's actually Noin Claude, a knight from fifteenth-century France who was in a relationship with Jeanne d'Arc and became a demon knight after she was executed, cursing the world that let her die. He still hasn't forgotten Jeanne, and is intent on chasing down her reincarnation...

Tropes in both versions

Affably Evil: He acts classy in front of Maron, to the point she momentarily takes an interest in him being so kind to her.
The Ageless: He hasn't aged for centuries since he became a demon, and in the manga, he became one specifically to see Jeanne's reincarnations.
Demonic Possession: The anime never questions exactly how a human Noin Claude received demonic powers from the Devil. The manga reveals that he was possessed by a demon, that possessed humans evolve into even stronger demons, and eventually that the demon who had him possessed was his own future self.
Evil Stole My Faith: Seeing Jeanne being burnt at the stake by the people she fought for, and God doing nothing to help her, was Noin's Start of Darkness. This is emphasized more in the anime, due to Tamer and Chaster changes resulting in less of a focus on his romantic relationship with Jeanne.
Fantastic Racism: The manga has him express distaste at Finn for originally being an angel, whereas the anime has Myst express distaste at him for being a human who made a Deal with the Devil instead of a pure demon.
Hot Teacher: His Secret Identity to get close to Maron is history teacher Hijiri Shikaido, whom the girls in class swoon over.
Jerkass Has a Point: Chiaki's saying it out of self-interest (and he even says so without shame), but he's not wrong about the fact that it's pretty disturbing for an adult male teacher to be soliciting a young female student the way he does, regardless of whether he's actually Noin or not. In the manga, Chiaki also has fairly good reason to be alarmed at Maron being as receptive as she is towards someone who nearly raped her and clearly still hasn't learned his lesson.
Romantic False Lead: He appears at a time Maron's still having complex feelings about committing to Chiaki and charms her, and he even engineers a rift between her and Chiaki for this very purpose. This is emphasized more in the manga, where he more directly tries to seduce Maron; on her end, she can't get herself to dislike him more than "not knowing how to feel about him" despite everything he'd done, and she later gets very close to accepting his love in a moment of weakness when she's convinced Chiaki has left her. Despite being probably a little more receptive towards Noin than she really should be, however, Maron has always put Chiaki first.
Secret Identity: He takes on the identity of history teacher Hijiri Shikaido to blend in and gain Maron's trust.
Secret-Keeper: When he first appears as a history teacher, he sees Maron transform into Jeanne and promises to keep her secret for her, making him come off as this until it turns out he's actually an antagonist.
Yandere: He's one for Jeanne d'Arc in both versions, but in different ways.
- In the manga, he's upset that he couldn't have the relationship he wanted with Jeanne d'Arc both romantically (because she was devoted to God) and physically (because both of them thought Virgin Power was necessary for her to be able to seal demons). As a result, not only is he obsessed with Maron despite the fact she's technically a different person from Jeanne, he also decides to force himself on her to make her permanently his. Then, after he's convinced that Maron isn't Jeanne, he falls in love with her too, and while he doesn't attempt to rape her again he still forces a kiss on her against her protests.
- In the anime, he's convinced that God giving Jeanne d'Arc the ability to reincarnate was an "experiment" and that Maron inheriting her soul means that it's not being put to rest, so after seeing that Maron can't get back any of Jeanne's Past-Life Memories, he considers her to be an Inadequate Inheritor and tries to murder her so he can "free" Jeanne's soul.

Tropes specific to the manga

Attempted Rape: He blames Jeanne's duty of sealing demons and God for her death and reasons that, since Jeanne/Maron's holy powers can only be used by someone "pure", he'll rape her so she'll be Defiled Forever and won't be able to be a servant of God anymore. Chiaki manages to stop him in time, but Maron later believes that Noin wouldn't have actually gone through with it anyway, since if he'd really wanted to assault her that much, he would have done it at an earlier opportunity.
Armor-Piercing Question: Chiaki manages to get him to start seriously reconsidering whether he should be treating Maron as identical to Jeanne d'Arc by pointing out that them having the same soul doesn't necessarily mean they're the same people in practice:
Chiaki: Who are you in love with? Maron or Jeanne?
Noin: That is a stupid question. They are one and the same.
Chiaki: Then was Jeanne d'Arc the type of girl you had to keep an eye on because you couldn't trust her?
Dub Name Change: The Viz Media translation rearranges his full name to "Claude Noin", presumably to make it more passable as an actual French name, although everyone still calls him just "Noin" in practice.
Easily Forgiven: Maron sympathizes with his feelings for Jeanne enough that she doesn't begrudge him in the long run for the Attempted Rape incident or indirectly causing Zen's death, and during their brief time travel trip, she tries to help him get closure with Jeanne d'Arc and expresses gratitude for him saving her. Even when he later deliberately hides the fact Chiaki "leaving" her was a Demonic Possession issue in order to get a chance at her, she lets him off because she understands how that kind of jealousy feels. On the other hand, Chiaki is absolutely livid at him, to the point he gets overwhelmed by a Crazy Jealous Guy episode twice over it.
Entitled to Have You: He believes being Jeanne d'Arc's lover automatically entitles him to having any of her future reincarnations, considering Chiaki to be an unrelated random intruder whom Maron only fell in love with because of a "mistake" from her deluding herself. In his opinion, Maron just needs to "remember" to fall right back in love with him again.
Foil: He's one to Chiaki in regards to how they treat Maron: Noin is possessive of Maron to the point of potential Attempted Rape, and sees her as the same thing as Jeanne regardless of her personality being different enough to be a different person; Chiaki (occasional Crazy Jealous Guy outburst aside) doesn't want to force Maron's affections for him if she's not ready or interested, and says that he's only interested in Maron and Maron alone.
Forceful Kiss: He forces two hickeys on Maron during the Attempted Rape incident. Later, when Maron's sulking over Chiaki (seemingly) leaving her for Miyako, Noin, having decided that he's in love with Maron now, forces a kiss on her against her protests that she doesn't want to forget Chiaki's.
Here We Go Again!: Noin manages to be convinced that Maron isn't the same person as Jeanne, but since he's been a Stalker with a Crush her entire life, he decides he's in love with Maron anyway and still tries to claim her for himself. A newly confident Maron is able to get him somewhat under control, but he vows to get her next reincarnation.
Hypocrite: He starts stalking Chiaki during his amusement park date with Maron because he's concerned Chiaki will do something suspicious to her, which Chiaki finds rich coming from someone who'd just tried to rape her not too long ago.
Reincarnation Romance: He deliberately tries to invoke this, despite Maron being a sufficiently different person from Jeanne that she can't love him back. Once he finally sees enough of Maron's actions to confirm how different they are, he decides he likes her anyway and tries to forcibly snatch her away from Chiaki one more time, then decides to go for her next reincarnation.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Subverted: he gets the chance to protect his former human self from becoming possessed by a demon when he's in medieval France with Maron. He changes plans halfway because he realizes he's in love with Maron now and wants to live long enough to meet her, so he goes ahead and implants a demon in himself.
Stalker with a Crush: He's been stalking (in his words, "watching over") Maron since she was an infant. It's because of this he realizes that Maron's personality isn't actually much like Jeanne's at all, but it's also how he decides that he's in love with her too. He then proceeds to follow her around, to her annoyance.
Uplifted Animal: Demon knights apparently have the ability to create these, and his pet dragon Silk is one.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptation Dye-Job: The official colored manga colors his hair brown as Hijiri, although it's unclear whether that was the intended coloration at the time the anime, which makes him an Evil Redhead, was in production.
Adaptational Heroism: For a certain definition of "heroism", at least; the anime's Noin is convinced that his actions are in the best interest of Jeanne d'Arc's soul, rather than merely being selfish and possessive like his manga counterpart. He even eventually comes to see Maron and Chiaki's relationship in a positive light, since it reminds him of himself and Jeanne. He later has a full-on Heel–Face Turn, helps Jeanne save Miyako from Demonic Possession, then takes a Heroic Sacrifice to save Jeanne the way he couldn't in the past, accepting Jeanne d'Arc's death and renouncing his own demonic nature. All of this is a far cry from the manga, where he had a Hazy-Feel Turn at best; he's eventually convinced that Maron is sufficiently different from Jeanne, but he has no regrets about being a demon, still tries to exploit a rift between Maron and Chiaki to get a chance at her, and even decides he'll wait around for her next reincarnation.
Death by Adaptation: He dies via Heroic Sacrifice, but he lives to the end of the manga and resolves to romance Jeanne's next reincarnation when it comes around.

Myst

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

An anime-original character. A Cute Monster Girl childlike demon who accompanies Noin in the human world and uses candies from her favorite candy box to manipulate her victims.

Canon Foreigner: She's completely original to the anime, appearing as a Filler Villain for its second season.
Enfant Terrible: It's hard to tell whether she's an actual child, but she looks and acts the part with her childish demeanor and love of candy.
For the Evulz: Unlike Noin, she doesn't seem to have any particular motive for doing what she does besides toying with humans for the hell of it.
My Death Is Just the Beginning: Her last words are telling Jeanne that her kindness makes her weak, and that her Queen will come and kill her.
One-Winged Angel: She eventually attempts to attack in a last-ditch effort by downing her entire candy box, making her into a giant monster that Jeanne defeats by checkmating the box.

Toki Higher and Celcia Form (unmarked spoilers)

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Two characters important to Finn and Access's backstory in the manga. They'd accompanied Finn on her trip to the human world and had become casualties in the explosion she'd caused, with their fates tying deeply into Finn's guilt over her crimes.

Adapted Out: Due to the major backstory change applied to Finn and Access in the anime, they only appear in the manga.
Childhood Friends: They were close friends with Finn and Access back in the angel world.
De-power: They give up a large part of their divine powers to help Fallen Angel Finn become a proper angel again, and end up back as black angels.
Reincarnation: Yashiro and Kagura's twins are implied to be their reincarnations. A bonus chapter also features Natsuki's friend Sara, implied to be Celcia's reincarnation (and by proxy Yashiro and Kagura's daughter); like Shinji, she seems to have retained memories of her life as an angel.
Romantic False Lead: Toki had a crush on Finn in their backstory, and since he was put-together and flirtatious, Access was jealous of him for being able to get Finn's interest better than he could. In actuality, Finn has only ever loved Access since the very beginning.
Satellite Character: Their role in the plot is always together as part of Finn and Access's backstory, and effectively nothing else; in fact, they're never even focused on separately as characters.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Toki's crush on Finn is never reciprocated; alas, she's only ever been in love with Access.

Humans

Miyako Todaiji

Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (JP), Inés Blázquez (SP)

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Maron's childhood friend and neighbor. She also happens to be the daughter of a police detective assigned to the phantom thief cases, and is determined to catch Jeanne in order to protect Maron from accusations of being her... which, of course, poses a problem because Maron is Jeanne. She also has feelings for Chiaki, creating a Love Triangle between her, Chiaki, and Maron, but it turns out, that's not the real thing Miyako's worried about...

Tropes in both versions

Amateur Sleuth: She's involved on the Jeanne cases despite her main connection only being that she's the daughter of someone on it. In the manga, it turns out she actually intends to deliberately exploit this, because nobody would find it unusual for a young teenager to "accidentally" mess up and let Jeanne go.
Because You Were Nice to Me: She became as loyal to Maron as she is now because Maron stood up for her against bullying when they were younger.
Berserk Button: "Being falsely accused" is a very sensitive issue for her due to having dealt with it in the classroom in the past, and part of the reason she's so intent on catching Jeanne to clear Maron's name is that Maron was the one who bailed her out of the false accusations, so she wants to return the favor.
Childhood Friends: She and Maron have known each other since kindergarten, have always lived in the same apartment complex, and are best friends. Miyako has Undying Loyalty to Maron as a result, and is also aware of how much Maron is a Stepford Smiler.
Clear Their Name: Due to Maron's uncanny resemblance to Jeanne, Miyako is determined to clear Maron's name as a way of repaying the favor from Maron defending her from bullies. This has opposite outcomes in the manga and anime: in the manga, Miyako is actually a Secret Secret-Keeper and intends to be The Mole in the police force to release Jeanne if she ever gets caught, and she's only upset that Maron doesn't trust her with her secret, but in the anime, she goes into denial about them being the same person because it'd only drive her insecurities in further, and it takes a Heroic Sacrifice from Noin to snap her out of it.
Follow in My Footsteps: She intends on becoming a detective like her father. This is only mentioned in passing in the manga, but the anime has a much stronger emphasis on her dream to become an accomplished detective.
Hero Antagonist: She wants to help the police capture Jeanne for being a wanted thief. In the manga, in fact, she's not actually this at all, but someone within the force intending to be The Mole in favor of Jeanne if things go wrong.
Horrible Judge of Character: Zigzagged. When Miyako's classmates start believing Maron is Jeanne, Miyako vehemently defends Maron against the accusations, declaring that Maron would never do such a thing. On one hand, Maron actually is Jeanne, but on the other hand Miyako's right in that Maron wouldn't do things like be a petty thief, because Jeanne's actually on a Mission from God. Later, Miyako at least catches on that Jeanne's work has something to do with purifying hearts, and in the manga, it turns out she knew Maron was Jeanne the whole time, and the whole thing was a farce on Miyako's part so she could be The Mole within the police and "accidentally" let Jeanne go if she ever did get caught.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Miyako ends up under demonic control at a late stage in both versions, and both versions involve Maron getting her out with this, the former by acknowledging how bad the rift in their friendship had gotten, and the latter with Noin's help and a bit of You Are Better Than You Think You Are.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In both versions, she eventually observes that Chiaki and Maron are a couple and steps aside for their sake, but the details differ:
- In the manga, she figures out almost right away that the two have a certain relationship, but the real issue to her is that Maron is starting to trust and confide in Chiaki while shutting Miyako more and more out of her life. Once everything is sorted out, she gives them her blessing because she values Maron's happiness, and she'll never allow anyone to hurt Maron, including herself.
- In the anime, while she initially tries to get his attention, she starts catching onto Chiaki and Maron's Belligerent Sexual Tension and realizes they're more interested in each other, even if they won't fully admit it yet. She finally decides to get it over with and confesses to him midway into the series; once she's turned down as she'd expected, she becomes a passive Shipper on Deck thereafter. It later turns out that she'd actually wanted to be turned down, because it'd make her come off as having bravado and confidence in front of Maron, and because she could focus more on hunting down Jeanne to satisfy her inferiority complex.
Love Triangle: She's in love with Chiaki, while he and Maron are mutually interested in each other. Miyako catches on quickly that Chiaki's interested in Maron, so she steps aside in short order; it doesn't stop her from bearing a little grief about it, but she's actually more upset about losing her best friend's trust to Chiaki (in the manga) or being Always Second Best to Maron again (in the anime) than she is about Chiaki not returning her feelings.
More than Mind Control: Happens in both versions, both during a very late stage of the story: in the manga, Demonic Possession feeds off her grief at being third wheeled by Chiaki and Maron and losing her best friend, and in the anime, she starts trying to kill Jeanne while Brainwashed and Crazy because she thinks it'll make her "strong" and on par with Maron.
Muggle Best Friend: She has no supernatural powers or whatnot; she's just a completely ordinary person who happens to be involved with the cases.
Mr. Exposition: Her early conversations with Yamato serve to help flesh out Maron's characterization and what's going on with her relationship with Chiaki when it comes to things that neither of them would say out loud.
Stepford Smiler: She doesn't do it as much as Maron does, but she's still carrying a lot of baggage that she's putting under a cheerful, perky exterior. The manga especially emphasizes this, where we get to see the entire process of her building up grief over being third wheeled by Maron and Chiaki while trying to cover it up in front of others.
Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: She's hoping to capture a wanted phantom thief for the sake of her friend; it's just that said friend happens to be that phantom thief. This aspect of Miyako is played up more in the anime, where a large amount of attention is placed on her and the police force working together to capture Jeanne; in the manga, it's mostly just there to be a Funny Background Event, mainly because Miyako already knows Jeanne is Maron, so she's not actually that invested in the chase at all.
Theme Naming: Her name refers to the word traditionally used to refer to the capital (Kyoto) in older Japan, which gives her a shared theme with Yamato (see below).
Undying Loyalty: Her entire motivation for trying to catch Jeanne comes from wanting to protect Maron because she's grateful for her friendship and concerned about her welfare.

Tropes specific to the manga

A Glitch in the Matrix: Even when a demon-possessed Miyako hypnotizes Chiaki into going out with her, he refuses to kiss her because he finds something "different" about her scent (Chiaki had previously described Maron as having a "citrusy" scent when he hugs her). Miyako has a very sad look on her face that definitely doesn't look demon-induced.
Enemy Mine: She forms a temporary truce with Jeanne after noticing that her heists tend to result in people suddenly having positive changes in personality, and requests that she save her brother Subaru. Once Jeanne successfully performs a checkmate, they go back to their original dynamic.
Go-Karting with Bowser: She discusses her Enemy Mine request with Jeanne by having tea with her like it's a completely normal outing.
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Not with Chiaki, but with Maron; she makes it abundantly clear from the beginning that even if she has feelings for Chiaki, Maron is more important to her than him, and she won't hesitate to punish him if he does anything to hurt her. It's also why she's so willing to step aside for Maron and Chiaki's relationship: when she says she won't forgive anyone who hurts Maron, that "anyone" includes herself.
Locked Out of the Loop: She becomes increasingly aware she has this status and starts to resent it, feeling Maron is shutting her out of her life in favor of confiding everything only in Chiaki.
Nothing Personal: She doesn't actually have anything personal against Jeanne, and when she requests that they form an Enemy Mine to save her brother, she explains that she already can tell she's not just a petty thief and is only chasing her to help her friend. She also has a tendency to get caught up in the mood when Jeanne appears, to the point of even cheering for her before realizing that's not the right reaction, or being outright disappointed when she doesn't show up. It's because she knows full well that Maron is Jeanne, and that she probably has her reasons for what she's doing. She's unnerved when Jeanne doesn't show up because she knows it means something's wrong with Maron as well.
Pair the Spares: She ends up with fellow spare Yamato. She herself is initially incredulous that Yamato had suddenly turned his affections to her after getting dumped by Maron (in fact, he'd actually been getting progressively more attracted to her over the course of the story), but the epilogue reveals that they did actually get serious enough to get married and have a kid.
Poor Communication Kills: This turns out to be the culmination of her and Maron's character story: Miyako had known Jeanne was Maron the whole time, but was upset at the idea of Maron not trusting her with her secret, and she considers the fact Maron will go to Chiaki for her problems while leaving her out of the loop to feel even worse than losing the Love Triangle. Meanwhile, Maron is hesitant to pursue a relationship with Chiaki specifically because she's worried about hurting Miyako, unaware that Miyako would much rather let them be happy because of how much she values Maron's happiness, as long as Maron isn't shutting Miyako out of her life. This culminates in Miyako getting possessed by a demon, and the conflict only resolved when they both decide to be more open with each other.
Secret Secret-Keeper: She knew full well Maron was Jeanne from the beginning, and while she didn't blame her, she was upset that Maron didn't trust her enough to share the secret with her.
Tempting Fate: The bonus chapter that explains why she decided to protect Maron by hunting down Jeanne has her say that she wants to protect Maron's smile "until she meets someone who understands her better than I do". This is exactly what starts happening in the rest of the story, and Miyako takes it very, very badly.
Third Wheel: She likes Chiaki, and Maron is her treasured Childhood Friend, so the fact Maron is leaving her Locked Out of the Loop and hiding more and more secrets from her in favor of Chiaki is a massive blow to her in both directions.
Unreliable Narrator: The bonus chapter "Miyako * Catharsis" is told from her perspective and tells the story of how she became Maron's Childhood Friend, how Maron defended her from her class's accusations, and how Miyako decided to start going after Jeanne in order to defend Maron from accusations in turn. At no point does Miyako's internal monologue ever state that she believes the accusations of Maron being Jeanne to be false accusations.

Tropes specific to the anime

Adaptational Jerkass: While she's still ultimately a nice person and supportive friend to Maron, she has a stronger penchant for doing things in her own self-interest and acting prideful.
Adaptation Personality Change: She comes off as much more airheaded and free-spirited than her manga counterpart, who was more forceful and put-together, as well as clearly aware of more than she let on and burying a lot of sadness under it.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- The manga's version of Miyako had a very Nothing Personal attitude towards Jeanne (mainly because she was actually a Secret Secret-Keeper), but the anime's version does have a grudge against her and gets increasingly frustrated the more she can't catch her. While both versions have her seeking out Jeanne's presence to save Subaru, Miyako in the manga openly acknowledged her ability to save people's hearts and even had a light conversation with Jeanne about her not being a petty thief, but the anime's version has her struggling to acknowledge that fact and silently wishing for Jeanne to intervene. It eventually culminates in her trying to even go as far as kill Jeanne while Brainwashed and Crazy, because she's obsessed with the idea of "defeating" Jeanne so she can consider herself to be Maron's protector.
- She's also much more aggressive about pushing for Chiaki's affections than her manga counterpart, who was more of a Fangirl kind of clingy and never ended up getting serious about it because she was far more concerned about Maron.
- While both versions of Miyako are still aware of Maron's Stepford Smiler problem, the manga version knew far more about Maron's mental state than she was letting on and simply didn't want to bring things up in front of her because she knew it was a taboo subject; in comparison, the anime version has some awareness of Maron's feelings but still has to do a lot of guesswork. In fact, while her character arc in the manga culminates in her suffering because she knows exactly how much Maron is hiding from her, the anime has her distant enough from Maron's feelings that she fosters an inferiority complex because she believes Maron is "stronger" than her, a conclusion that the manga version of Miyako would be unlikely to come to by any means.
- The anime also doesn't adapt Miyako and Yamato having multiple conversations about the status of Maron and Chiaki's relationship, where they'd actually gotten quite a bit of bonding in with some Ship Tease on top.
Always Second Best: She has a complex about the fact that Maron is better at her in rhythmic gymnastics, and that her crush Chiaki had fallen in love with Maron. She'd poured so much of herself into the hunt for Jeanne because it'd make her more like an equal to Maron by "protecting" her, because she feels like she doesn't have the right to be her friend as long as she's "inferior" to her.
Love Confession: She delivers one to Chiaki midway into the anime, but is turned down, and it later turns out that she'd been deliberately hoping for that outcome so she could come off to Maron as having more confidence.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Jeanne manages to reach out to her by telling her that she loves her as a friend, and that inferiority or superiority doesn't have anything to do with it.

Yamato Minazuki

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

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The Class Representative of Maron, Miyako, and Chiaki's class, as well as Shrinking Violet extraordinaire with a crush on Maron. He becomes an early target for possession, making him into an arrogant, lecherous snob, but Jeanne restores him to his original kind personality and encourages him to find his own confidence. He thus resolves to impress Maron by capturing Sinbad, despite the fact he's ridiculously poorly equipped to do so, and occasionally joins in on Maron, Miyako, and Chiaki's daily life activities.

Butt-Monkey: In the manga, Chiaki initially toys with him by deliberately tripping him, and his attempts at catching Sinbad are Played for Laughs, but this fades out to some degree as Yamato's Character Development kicks in and he becomes more confident. In the anime, he continues to hold a purely comic relief role until the end.
Class Representative: His position in the class as a grade-A student.
Demonic Possession: He gets possessed by a demon with the promise to make him more confident, assertive and attractive to Maron (in the anime, it even happens more than once). Unfortunately, it only turns him into a Handsome Lech who molests his crush, and Jeanne has to give him some advice on how to become more confident in a way true to himself.
Demoted to Extra:
- He had a semi-prominent role in the manga accompanying Miyako in observing Maron and Chiaki, as well as quite a bit of Ship Tease with Miyako, but the anime decreases his prominence and makes him much more of a comic relief character, with his interactions with Miyako being more of the Those Two Guys type. Miyako also gave him special permission to join in on the police hunts in the manga, but this isn't in the anime, meaning Yamato's interest in catching Sinbad has even less prominence.
Forceful Kiss: When possessed by a demon, he attempts to woo Maron this way, and Chiaki has to intervene.
Grew a Spine: This is his character arc in the manga, where, after being healed from demon possession, he starts having conversations with Miyako about Maron and his own relationship to her, and eventually gathers the courage to deliver a Love Confession (despite knowing he'll inevitably get rejected) and talk to Maron face to face. Maron comments on how far he'd come to be able to do that at all, considering how much of a Shrinking Violet he'd been at first, and the fact she'd acknowledge him like this gives him more than enough fulfillment even if she'd just turned him down. The fact he suddenly decides to assertively ask Miyako right after that is what makes her start realizing he might have become a little more attractive to her.
The Glasses Gotta Go: His demon-induced transformation into a more assertive partner for Maron includes getting a pair of contact lenses. He keeps the glasses off even afterwards as part of his resolution to become more confident.
Hopeless Suitor: He starts trying to catch Sinbad in the hopes of impressing Maron, which naturally pans out nowhere. In the manga, once it becomes increasingly obvious to everyone in the vicinity that Chiaki and Maron are only interested in each other, Yamato decides to at least get some closure about it instead of pressing it further.
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: In the manga, while he doesn't resent Chiaki for winning Maron's affections, he's very quick to get upset at him if he hurts Maron or makes her cry. Seeing Chiaki supposedly leave Maron for Miyako (actually Demonic Possession-induced hypnosis) frustrates him to no end because he'd just gotten dumped by Maron in favor of him, and Yamato had given them his blessing on the condition that Chiaki make her happy.
Inconsistent Coloring: It's hard to tell what his hair and eye colors are meant to be in the manga; early colored art by Tanemura gives him green eyes and hair, but the official colored version of the manga that was released after the anime (pictured above) gives him blue hair and brown eyes. In the anime, it's brown hair and green eyes.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In the manga, after Maron turns him down, he outright tells her that the one thing he wishes for the most is that she can be happy with Chiaki.
Lonely Rich Kid: The anime has him be the heir to a very large company that's known for its corruption, getting him confronted by other students accusing him of also being dishonest from it being In the Blood.
Love Confession:
- In the manga, he eventually manages to make one to Maron, fully aware at this point that she'll turn him down in favor of Chiaki and already having made peace with it, but does it anyway to at least get some closure about it. As expected, she turns him down, and he takes it gracefully; in fact, her acknowledging him at all is already immensely fulfilling to him.
- He then drops one on Miyako right after getting dumped, which she naturally has a hard time taking seriously at first considering he'd been pining for Maron the entire series. Depsite that, they eventually do take it seriously enough to make it to marriage.
Opaque Nerd Glasses: He's first seen wearing them as part of his design as a shy, soft-spoken bookworm. Part of the reason he looks somewhat more confident to the audience after taking them off is that it's actually possible to see his eyes.
Pair the Spares: In the manga, he seems to get increasingly attracted to Miyako during their conversations about being spares, even when he's still pining over Maron. The epilogue reveals that he and Miyako do actually end up hooking up, even going as far as marriage.
Ship Tease: He's in love with Maron, but in the manga, as he starts bonding with Miyako over them being left out of Maron and Chiaki's relationship, he starts getting flustered at how cute she is when she smiles. As a result, shortly after Maron turns him down, he immediately confesses to Miyako.
Shrinking Violet: He's a very soft-spoken young man who can barely approach Maron, his crush. His Demonic Possession works More than Mind Control to feed on his insecurities behind this, but Jeanne encourages him to become more confident through his own hard work.
Theme Naming: His name is the word used to refer to older/traditional Japan, tying into Miyako's name (see above).

Kaiki Nagoya

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka

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Chiaki's father, a doctor who'd remarried and divorced four times after Chiaki's mother passed away. Chiaki starts off the story on bad terms with him, having run away from home because he's disgusted at him for disrespecting his late mother by casually marrying and divorcing women after her death.

Adaptation Origin Connection: In the manga, he only happened to have heard of Maron's father via a feature on his work in a magazine, but in the anime, both of them had gone to the same university, and Kaiki had been tending to an architecture professor who'd considered Maron's father to be one of his favorite students.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Chiaki still started off on bad terms with his father in the manga, but he didn't despise him to the point of You're Not My Father or consider him subhuman; when he learned his father's reasons for remarrying, he was a little embarrassed at the whole thing, and although he was still irritated at his Handsome Lech ways, he reconciled enough with him to pick up a part-time job at the clinic and even talk about his relationship troubles with him. Chiaki in the anime starts off hating him so much he has a jaded opinion of families and bonds as a whole because of him, and although he lightens up a little on this stance after learning his reasons, he's still absolutely livid when he learns his father intends on remarrying.
Adaptational Seriousness: While the part about remarrying four times is still there, the anime makes the Handsome Lech and Gadfly parts of his personality much more subtle, making him serious and contemplative to the point he gives Maron advice about Zen. He also is willing to consider that being a Serial Spouse isn't the right way to love, and he uses formal marriage interview meetings to meet his prospective wives, but decides to give up on the interviews when Chiaki gets mad. In comparison, in the manga, he flirted openly with all of the women and girls around him, and unrepentantly intended on marrying again even after Chiaki protested that he didn't need the mother figure (and is commented on in the epilogue to be still the same as ever even after years).
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He has a cavalier attitude towards marriage and dating, and the anime even has him recruit mainly good-looking people to work in his hospital, but he's still a competent professional on the job as a doctor.
The Casanova: In the manga, he's always looking for another woman to marry, and the ladies all swarm around him in turn.
Follow in My Footsteps: Downplayed. He does want Chiaki to become a doctor like him and carry on his hospital, and is happy to hear that Chiaki does have some interest in it, but is willing to concede if that's not what he really wants. In fact, the whole doctor thing isn't remotely related to why Chiaki has a grudge against him.
Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Discussed and averted. When he shows up to inquire about Chiaki, Maron, who has a very bad relationship with her own parents, immediately accuses him of plotting to drag Chiaki back home and force him to become a doctor, but he quickly assures her that he just wants to know why Chiaki left home. He only attempts to physically drag Chiaki back under the influence of Demonic Possession; as soon as he's back to normal, he tells Chiaki that he can do whatever he wants, he just doesn't want Chiaki to cut him off entirely.
Handsome Lech: In the manga, he likes flirting with women and girls around him to the point he even jokes about the idea of being in a love triangle between himself, Maron, and Chiaki. (Chiaki obviously disapproves, but steals the Maron doll he made.)
Mum Looks Like a Sister: He looks young enough to pass as Chiaki's brother, and he poses as such when introducing himself to Maron and Miyako until Chiaki calls him out on it. Even after he's exposed, he still jokes about being his brother.
Parents as People: He really does care about Chiaki and takes his feelings into consideration; while he'd like Chiaki to become a doctor, he doesn't mind if Chiaki ultimately does whatever he wants (and in the manga, he doesn't even mind calling off the Arranged Marriage thing with Yashiro since he supports Chiaki's love for Maron instead). He doesn't even intend on forcing Chiaki back home; he just wants to know why he left and hopefully reconcile with him. On top of that, his constant remarrying was also done in the hopes of making sure Chiaki had a mother figure in his life. Once Maron gets over her initial suspicion of him, she has a hard time understanding why Chiaki would hate him when he clearly cares about his child in ways her own parents don't; after learning about his father's reasons, Chiaki still disapproves of his antics, but sympathizes with his feelings enough to reconcile with him.
Shared Family Quirks:
- Like his son Chiaki, he's of the Ladykiller in Love archetype, but in a different sense: while Chiaki stops being a flirt once he commits to Maron (to the point of being Single-Target Sexuality for her in the manga), Kaiki actually flirts with the women around him and even marries and remarries, with his reasoning being that he believes he'll never love anyone as much as he loved Chiaki's mother no matter what he does anyway.
- In the manga, Maron notices that Chiaki had been casually reading a medical book that Kaiki identifies as one he'd liked to read when he was young, meaning that Chiaki really does happen to have a similar interest in becoming a doctor regardless of any pressure from his father.
Shipper on Deck: In the manga, he's one of the first people to catch on that Chiaki treats Maron in a way he'd never treated any other girl before, and that Maron seems to have feelings for him despite her own denial. When Chiaki confides in him his worries about having broken Maron's trust, he advises him not to give up if she's the one he's serious about. Later, despite the fact he was complicit in setting up the Arranged Marriage between Chiaki and Yashiro, once he learns Kagura actually has feelings for her, he doesn't even waste a second in engineering an opportunity to get them together, then later lets Yashiro know about Kagura's feelings for her and assures her that he's not the violent person she'd assumed him to be.
Serial Spouse: The main reason Chiaki begrudges him so much, as he feels marrying and divorcing no less than four times after his mother's death is proof that he doesn't respect her, especially since he casually talks about getting married again like it's the weather. In actuality, Kaiki loved Chiaki's mother so much that he's certain he'll never meet anyone he'll love as much as her, but he kept marrying women he wasn't as committed to because he wanted Chiaki to have a mother figure in his life.
Strong Family Resemblance: He's pointed out to look strongly like Chiaki the moment Maron and Miyako meet him. This is taken even further in the anime, where they have almost the exact same hair color.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: In the manga, he's a constant tease and easygoing in ways Chiaki is not, and even after Chiaki reconciles with him, he continues to be exasperated by his father's overly carefree behavior.

Yashiro Sazanka

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

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A rival gymnast and Chiaki's fiancée via Arranged Marriage. Chiaki isn't actually interested in her, and would rather have the engagement called off. Unfortunately, Yashiro is still interested in Chiaki, and isn't very happy to see he has other girls competing for his attention.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair is dark turquoise and her eyes grey in the anime, but according to colored manga pages, both are a fairly normal brown.
Adaptation Personality Change: Yashiro in the manga was an outspoken girl described by Chiaki as "proud but levelheaded", to the point she was the one who revealed Chiaki's current location to his father as revenge for dumping her and later gave Kagura a whole mouthful of things she expected out of him if he wanted to date her. The anime's version of Yashiro is much more soft-spoken, polite, and elegant.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Although he still was willing to defend her honor, the manga made it clear Chiaki was very much not interested in Yashiro whatsoever regardless of whether Maron was involved or not; he'd tried to have the engagement called off long before the story had started, reacted to seeing her by attempting to run away before she noticed, bluntly turned down her Love Confession on the spot with a smile, continued to dodge future advances, and was all too happy to pair her off with Kagura. While the anime's Chiaki doesn't seem to have feelings for her, he at least is receptive enough to her to the point she becomes a Romantic False Lead.
- In the manga, Jeanne found Yashiro's genuine feelings for Chiaki to be admirable and encouraged her to confess to him (and at a time when Maron/Jeanne herself was having very complicated feelings about him due to learning about him being Sinbad, at that), but in the anime, Maron, still in the middle of a Belligerent Sexual Tension phase with Chiaki, starts getting close to a Green-Eyed Epiphany due to her presence. Meanwhile, Yashiro in the manga caught onto there being something between Chiaki and Maron but didn't really think all that hard about Maron in particular, whereas Yashiro in the anime considers Maron to be her rival in both gymnastics and love.
Alpha Bitch: Subverted. She shows shades of this when she's introduced in the manga, but it turns out she was actually possessed by a demon, and she's actually a perfectly decent person (if a bit prideful).
Arranged Marriage: She was promised to Chiaki, and she's genuinely interested in him, but he's uninterested in pursuing the relationship and wants it called off. The manga throws the engagement out the window entirely when it turns out Kagura has feelings for her and she decides to give things at try with him, with them eventually marrying and having twin children.
Childhood Friends: She has this relationship with Chiaki in the anime (while it's unclear if she's also this in the manga, the fact she mentions the engagement being a familial obligation and is unfamiliar with Kagura implies she's not). She's pushing for a Childhood Friend Romance, but she's actually an Unlucky Childhood Friend.
Demoted to Extra: She's a rather minor character in both versions, but the manga later brings her back for a short romance subplot with Kagura, which isn't involved in the anime.
Love Confession: In the manga, Jeanne realizes that Yashiro's feelings for Chiaki are real and encourages her to confess to at least get some closure about it. Unfortunately, she misinterprets what Jeanne had said and accuses her of lying when Chiaki naturally turns her down, gets revenge by informing Kaiki about Chiaki's location, and still continues to be clingy with him until she finds out Kagura is interested in her.
Romantic False Lead: The anime has an extra episode dedicated to her developing a full-on rivalry with Maron over Chiaki's love, and portrays him as much more receptive to Yashiro than he was in the manga (where he'd been very clear about being uninterested in her and dumped her on the spot), making her come off as this. It also doesn't adapt the subplot where she ends up hooking up with Kagura, making this effectively her only role in the anime.
Tsundere: In the manga, she's straightforward about her love for Chiaki, but when she decides to give Kagura a chance, she starts off by listing a whole list of things she wants out of him before softly saying that she'd like him to be kind to her. Kagura is still lovestruck.

Kagura Kanataki

Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (JP), Rais David Báscones (SP)

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The Nagoya family's personal assistant. Often seen accompanying Chiaki's father, he's had a close relationship with the family since Chiaki was a young child.

Adaptation Personality Change: A minor one in that the anime has him smiling openly when talking to others, whereas in the manga he was portrayed as much more reserved.
Battle Butler: He's technically a personal assistant and not a butler, but while he's normally a pacifist, he's theoretically capable of putting up a fight if need be.
Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes in the anime. The official colored version of the manga stylizes his hair as closer to black, but brighter lighting reveals it to still be brown.
Deadpan Snarker: Even despite being an Extreme Doormat, he's not above throwing in a quip here and there, including at Chiaki (whom he otherwise adores like a family member) and Yashiro (whom he has a crush on).
Demoted to Extra: His romance subplot with Yashiro, which basically served as A Day in the Limelight for him and fleshed out his characterization, isn't in the anime, so he simply appears as a minor character in scenes with the Nagoya family. Almost all of the tropes in this section are manga-specific.
Extreme Doormat: Being polite comes with the job, but he sits through Yashiro hurling criticism at him and negatively comparing him to Chiaki, and when a bunch of thugs attempt to defraud him by hitting his car and forcing him to pay for the damages, he's about to go along with it until Yashiro defends him. He'd even been under Demonic Possession at the time, but it takes Yashiro getting attacked for him to actually do something. Then, when everything's over, Yashiro agrees to date him with a laundry list of demands that he bashfully agrees to.
Hired Help as Family: He's close enough with the Nagoya family that Chiaki's father has known him since he was ten years old, and Kagura has been working for them since Chiaki was young. He seems to hold Chiaki's late mother in high esteem, and he adores Chiaki to the point he hugs him and cries dramatically while declaring he'll be waiting for him to come home. It's said to be rare for him to ever get mad at Chiaki for anything, and he'd tried to suppress his feelings for Yashiro for Chiaki's sake; even after Chiaki had broken off the engagement, it takes a Demonic Possession-induced slip-up for him to spill his complex over it.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He'd kept his love for Yashiro under tight lock and key because she was engaged to Chiaki, and he wanted both of them to be happy. Chiaki has to clarify that he is definitely not interested in her before he's willing to try.
Not a Morning Person: At least, according to a sketch drawn for later editions of manga volumes.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He dislikes violence, but he ends up protecting Yashiro by beating up a bunch of thugs who were threatening her (it's also likely he wouldn't have even done that had he not been under Demonic Possession at the time). Yashiro initially mistakes him for being a violent, rough person, but Chiaki's father clarifies that he's normally not like this at all, and went as far as he did because he was passionate about protecting her. Yashiro hooks up with him on the condition he won't use violence again.
Saying Too Much: This is how Chiaki and his father figure out that he's carrying a torch for Yashiro.
Chiaki: ...But if I'm a burden to [Maron], I should let her go like a man.
Kagura: Unforgivable!
Chiaki: K...Kagura?
Kagura: You're going to get back together with Miss Yashiro just because Miss Kusakabe is no longer interested in you?! I have served you since you were small, but I am shocked that you have degraded yourself and become such a selfish, unfaithful man!!
Chiaki: I never said anything about getting back together with Yashiro.
Kagura: ...Oh.

Zen Takazuchiya

Voiced by: Masako Katsuki

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A patient in Chiaki's father's hospital. He has a heart disease that prevents him from leaving, leaving him lonely with the desire to "fly". Unfortunately, he also happens to have a demon possessing his heart, and Jeanne is forced into a Sadistic Choice: kill the demon and Zen with it, or spare him and leave him to his fate of being corrupted by it.

Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the manga, it turns out his soul was pure enough for him to become an angel after his death.
Deal with the Devil: The anime has Zen end up with a demon in his heart because of this; he was on the verge of death, and Noin made a deal with him to extend his life as long as he gave up on love. At the time, Zen was jaded by what he perceived to be Parental Abandonment and took the deal, but he later decides that he doesn't want to live a lie.
Demonic Possession: The demon who possesses him gives him enough strength to survive despite his heart condition, and it's also the reason Zen can see Finn. Eventually, both versions end in him needing a Mercy Kill because he'll become too inhuman otherwise.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: The manga has him die in Maron's arms and give her a Love Confession. In the anime, he lasts long enough for Maron to escort him back to his parents, where he dies in their arms.
Fate Worse than Death: The demon inside him is making him progressively more and more inhuman, and a Mercy Kill ends up being the only option because the alternative is him being consumed and turned into a monster. In the anime, the demon also has a contract in that Zen's heart will stop if his heart is ever filled with love, meaning that continuing to live will require him to live a barren and loveless life.
Foreshadowing: In the manga, he admits to Maron that he thinks her name is actually pretty good, contrary to his earlier consideration that it was "stupid". Maron had told him earlier that his parents giving him a cool-sounding name is proof that they must have loved him, and it later turns out that Maron's own parents really do love her dearly when Demonic Possession isn't involved.
Go Out with a Smile: The anime has his parents want to see him with a "true smile", which is why they're not going to visit him in the hospital because they know he's suffering there. After Jeanne ends up with no choice but to Mercy Kill him, she's at least able to make sure Zen can die peacefully with his parents.
Heart Trauma: The demon is keeping Zen alive by possessing him, and if Jeanne checkmates, he'll succumb to his failing heart. The anime takes it up a notch and has the demon outright enter his heart itself.
I Die Free: He requests that Jeanne checkmate him in the anime because he wants to be in control of his own heart and ability to love instead of handing it over to a demon.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rude to Maron and the nurses, but it's because of his frustration with being tied to a hospital bed.
Meaningful Name: His name "Zen" is written with the kanji for "all". In the manga, Maron finds the name to be cool, and thinks his parents must really love him if they gave him such a cool name. Archangel Lil also finds the name to be so cool that she lets him keep it as an angel instead of giving him a new one.
Mercy Kill: This is how he dies in both versions, although the circumstances are different. In the manga, Jeanne absolutely refuses to do it under any circumstances and even tries to Take a Third Option, while Sinbad recognizes that Zen is beyond saving and decides to put him out of his misery so he can at least still die as a human. In the anime, Zen himself requests Jeanne to do it so he can die with his heart still free.
Parental Abandonment: Zen has spent many years in a hospital because of his heart condition, and his parents have never visited him. Maron takes him outside to see his parents while incognito, and he learns that his parents didn't actually abandon him, but are working hard to earn money for his treatment and want to see him come home (manga)/are afraid that visiting him will put more pressure on him and want to see him with a "true smile" (anime). It ends up being All for Nothing in the manga, but the anime has Maron escort him home in his dying moments so he can Go Out with a Smile in his parents' arms.
Sadistic Choice: Either Jeanne checkmates the demon, killing him, or she leaves it be and watches him get taken over by it entirely.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Neither version has Zen able to be saved, despite Maron's best efforts. It's even more cruel in the manga, where Zen himself has no say in the situation, and his mother gets a sudden call about his death after all of the work she'd done to bring him home.
Small Role, Big Impact: In both versions, Zen happens to be another Monster of the Week victim, but it's the only one of Jeanne and Sinbad's heists that ends in an outright Downer Ending, with a huge impact on the plot thereafter. In the manga, it plays a role in Maron's relationship with Noin (who masterminded the incident in the hopes of getting Maron to distrust Chiaki) and Chiaki (whose actions initially put off Maron, but eventually lead to her understanding why he's being Cruel to Be Kind). In the anime, it has a major impact on Maron as the first person she was truly unable to save, and gives her doubts about checkmating demons after that.
Touched by Vorlons: He starts gaining demonic traits after the demon possessing him has taken control for long enough. This is why he can see Finn, and in the manga, Sinbad takes this fact to mean he's already past the point of no return and will inevitably become a demon himself if he doesn't Mercy Kill him.

Characters / Phantom Thief Jeanne

Phantom Thieves

Maron Kusakabe/Phantom Thief Jeanne

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Carmen Podio (SP)

Chiaki Nagoya/Phantom Thief Sinbad

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Juan Antonio Soler (SP)

Heaven and Hell

Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (JP), Miriam Valencia (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP), Miguel Ángel Garzón (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

Humans

Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (JP), Inés Blázquez (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (JP), Rais David Báscones (SP)

Voiced by: Masako Katsuki

Alternative Title(s): Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

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Phantom Thieves

Maron Kusakabe/Phantom Thief Jeanne

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Carmen Podio (SP)

Chiaki Nagoya/Phantom Thief Sinbad

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Juan Antonio Soler (SP)

Heaven and Hell

Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (JP), Miriam Valencia (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP), Miguel Ángel Garzón (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

Humans

Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (JP), Inés Blázquez (SP)

Tropes in both versions

Tropes specific to the manga

Tropes specific to the anime

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi (JP), Blanca Rada (SP)

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki

Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (JP), Rais David Báscones (SP)

Voiced by: Masako Katsuki

Alternative Title(s): Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

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