History Characters / Kannagi

Here is a list of characters who appear in the ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'' {{Anime}} and Manga.

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!!Main Characters
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* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:Jin and a human Nagi reunite at the end of the manga, but now he's 20 and she's only 13. Thankfully, Nagi knows it would be creepy for them to reassume their romance when she's still so young and makes clear she won't let Jin do anything with her until she's older.]]
* DivineDate: Jin is a human boy and Nagi is an incarnation of the Kannagi deity that protects his town. They fall in love, although Nagi has doubts a goddess can be together with a human. [[spoiler:This is resolved at the end of the series where Nagi has reincarnated as a human.]]
* InnocentCohabitation: They live under the same roof under the pretense of being relatives. After developing feelings for Nagi, Jin would like it to stop being innocent if Nagi becomes his girlfriend.
* ReincarnationRomance: At the end of the manga, [[spoiler:following Ozuma's instructions allows a miracle to happen and Nagi returns to Jin, having reincarnated as a young human girl. Despite the 7-year age gap, Jin and Nagi are happy that they can be together again.]]
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Jin is the Savvy Guy (the more down-to-earth OnlySaneMan) to Nagi's Energetic Girl (eccentric ManicPixieDreamGirl).
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Even after both notice they have feelings for each other, they don't become a couple mainly because of Nagi's circumstances. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, they're technically together, but can't act like a couple yet because Nagi's human reincarnation is only 13.]]
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[[folder:Jin Mikuriya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (as a child)
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Kannagi's [[TheProtagonist main protagonist]]. Jin is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who has been able to see spirits from a young age. At the beginning of the story, he carves a statue of the local shrine's deity made from the wood of its recently cut down tree. As it turns out, the deity of the town of Kannagi, Nagi herself, manifests itself from Jin's sculpture, and soon he has his hands full dealing with his new house guest.
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* AccidentalPervert: He once falls on top of Nagi when she's wearing nothing but a ModestyTowel.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: When he was in junior high. Still shows some traits of it, even though he's trying to get rid of that image and appear "manlier".
* ButtMonkey: Many of the others' jokes are made at his expense, and more often than not he'll usually get the short end of the stick out of any deal or situation.
* CannotSpitItOut: It takes him a while to admit even to himself that he has feelings for Nagi. To his defense, Nagi acts very immaturely most of the time, and Jin only decides to aim for a real RelationshipUpgrade once she started to show signs of reciprocating. [[spoiler:He finally confesses shortly after Nagi recovers the memories she lost after her revival.]]
* ChickMagnet: Has Tsugumi, Hakua and ''maybe'' Zange vying for his attention. But he's only interested in Nagi, who doesn't reciprocate right away.
* CovertPervert: Jin starts having more and more sexual fantasies involving Nagi as the story goes on and he becomes more aware of his feelings towards her. He controls his urges for the most part, but has lots of trouble resisting his dirty thoughts, and occasionally lets them slip out.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Over time, it's shown that Jin joined the art club in order to find something he could be good at. It culminates in a chapter where he looks over his many failed endeavors at sports and art and decides to go on a short trip through the city to find himself. He ends up finding [[spoiler:Ozuma, who tells him that as long as his interest in the subject is high, he might have to face hardships, but his effort wouldn't be in vain.]]
* DidISayThatOutLoud: During a chapter when Jin gets sick, Nagi asks what she could do to help him recover. He muses that maybe she could lie down next to him...but he says it out loud, so Nagi instead hits him. [[spoiler:Though later she ends up lying next to him while he's asleep anyways.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: He steps in to defend Zange from some guys who were harassing her when he first met her, [[DamselOutOfDistress even though she didn't need his help.]]
* EyePop: Jin has a hilarious one when he sees one of the entries on Nagi's fan blog claim that he's gay with Daitetsu.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Daitetsu.
* HairAntennae: Pointed out by some other students who go on to call him "Aho Aho Man".
* HeightAngst: He's very frustrated about being short for his age.
* IGotBigger: He grows a little taller than Nagi in the last arc of the manga. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, he's much taller than Tsugumi at 20 years old.]]
* IJustWantToBeBadass: Back in elementary school, Jin started hanging out with Daitetsu because he wanted to learn to be a strong and intimidating delinquent so others would stop making fun of him for being short.
* ISeeDeadPeople: He's been able to see spirits from a young age and is pretty freaked out by it. It rarely comes up in-story though.
* TheJailBaitWait: [[spoiler:When Nagi returns to him as a human girl, Jin still has to wait at least 5 years to get together with her because she's currently 13 years old.]]
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Tsugumi says this of Jin after Nagi's been around him for a while.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Implied to be the case with Nagi, from the first time he met her in his childhood. When Takako asks Jin about the first time he became interested in the opposite sex, he immediately thinks of the first time he saw Nagi as a goddess in front of her tree when he was younger.
* LoveEpiphany: In Chapter 34, Daitetsu makes Jin notice that he must be in love with Nagi because he's always thinking about her. Jin realizes this is true when he feels happy at hearing Nagi say she needs his help.
* MasterOfNone: Jin might be able to be decent at something, but he constantly compares his skill level to those who skills are above his, and subsequently quits whatever hobby he undertakes, whether it's soccer or art, when he decides that he can't reach the level of those with the most talent and ability.
* MinorLivingAlone: He's a first-year high school student who is living alone while his father is overseas. His father has the intention of making him more independent.
* MistakenForGay: With Daitetsu. Their relationship is on a friendship level with one-sided rivalry from Jin, but circumstances and the things they say in public end up making them look like they've got some HoYay going on. It doesn't help how Jin admires well-built men's bodies (for their muscles).
* MuscleAngst: He's jealous of large and muscular men's bodies.
* NiceGuy: Though he does have some [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] qualities.
* OneHeadTaller: At the end of the manga, he's now a head taller than Nagi [[spoiler:because they're seven years apart]].
* OnlySaneMan: Compared to those like [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Nagi]] and the other art club members, Jin comes off as the most normal of his social group.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: He's a mostly normal high school student who just happens to be able to see spirits and impurities. One day, he makes a statue from the wood of a sacret tree and craves it in the image of a goddess he saw once as a tree. Then, that same goddess materializes through the statue and asks his help to exorcise impurities since she can't touch them herself without becoming corrupted.
* PornStash: Referenced more in the anime, though Nagi still brings it up in the manga.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Comparitively, Jin is actually the ''manly'' to Daitetsu's sensitive.
* SmokingIsCool: Jin thought so in the manga; he was hoping it would get rid of his "innocent boy" image.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:He has outstanding spiritual powers because he's a descendant of Ozamu who has spiritual powers rivaling a god's. In the finale, Jin can summon the same giant foot as Ozamu to purify the giant spider impurity.]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: He gropes Shouhou's breasts when they're both naked at the hot springs because he still didn't know Shouhou is a girl.
* TookALevelInKindness: He was a ''much'' bigger jerk in the past, but he's mellowed out to be a rather ordinary guy, though if he's very irritated, he won't hesitate to snap back.
* UnknownRival: To Daitetsu. Jin makes it his goal to beat out Daitetsu at something artistic, and Daitetsu tries to help with whatever advice he can give, but ultimately Daitetsu is just more artistically inclined than Jin is.
* UnwantedHarem: Jin is only truly attracted to Nagi, but that doesn't stop Tsugumi, Hakua, and Zange from trying to make their own advances.
* WouldHitAGirl: In middle school, he went on a rampage in his class and hit Tsugumi in the face when she tried to stop him.
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[[folder:Nagi]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/HarukaTomatsu
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A deity who manifested from the wood of the sacred tree, Nagi is unintentionally brought to life by Jin and finds the world very different from the way she remembers it. With her sacred tree cut down, impurities that she once held in check were free to roam the town of Kannagi. Using a magical girl wand with some onusa tied to it, Nagi decides to carry out her duty as a goddess and rid the land of impurities. She isn't very focused on this task though, and instead she's usually seen enjoying living in the present day.
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* ACupAngst: She doesn't like being reminded that she's flat-chested, causing her some distress when she can't find a bra as she has nothing to fill them in. It's mentioned in one of her character cards that she hates men who like big breasts.
* AccidentalTruth: Nagi makes up a story about having a SplitPersonality to get out of trouble early on in the series. Jin thought it was weird that Nagi came up with such a lame excuse when she can make her other lies sound more plausible. That's because that ''wasn't'' a lie and Nagi didn't even know it.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Nagi has another self who takes over her body from time to time. Every time the other Nagi shows up, she passes out and Nagi wakes up with no memories of what her other self did.
* AmnesiacGod: She ''believes'' she's a goddess who must exterminate impurities, but she doesn't really know anything about herself because her memories from before taking physical form are fuzzy.
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:After her revival at the school concert, Nagi doesn't remember Jin due to her Kannagi personality blocking her memories of him.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks an archaic dialect of Japanese, including using "warawa" as a first-person pronoun. [[spoiler:She keeps talking this way even after reincarnating as a human.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Tsugumi's Betty. Nagi is the {{Tsundere}} PhysicalGoddess and ManicPixieDreamGirl who makes Jin's life more exciting. [[spoiler:She wins.]]
* BizarreTasteInFood: She makes very weird combinations of food, like eating Japanese rice with French dressing and adding milk to her miso soup.
* BlessedWithSuck: Nagi is a goddess who has the ability to see and remove impurities from the town. However, the slightest touch of any of the impurities weakens her and spreads corruption to her body. It's stated that Nagi's wavering power is the reason why she, unlike Zange, can't bear to touch them, and that as the number of her worshippers grow, so will her power as a goddess. [[spoiler:It doesn't quite work out that way, as by the time she confronts Ozuma, she either doesn't have enough power to resist corruption, or she simply doesn't care what would happen to her body after that point.]]
* CompulsorySchoolAge: Nagi is a goddess who has been around for ages. After she loses her tree vessel and materializes, Nago enrolls at Jin's high school with the help from a teacher who knows her true identity, pretending to be a ScholarshipStudent so she can make the students into her "worshippers".
* ConsummateLiar: She's pretty good at lying. Jin is surprised by how Nagi managed to convince Tsugumi that she's his relative when Nagi made up silly excuses like having a SplitPersonality earlier. And turns out she didn't trick him because that excuse wasn't a lie.
* CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler:Later in the manga, when Nagi speaks with Ozuma at the theme park while on a date with Jin, she ends up deciding that she no longer cares about being corrupted, as neither she nor Ozuma belong in the present anymore.]]
* CryCute: Nagi comes off her high horse and stops fooling around when she's forced to confront the fact that she has no idea who she really is, or even if her divine nature is real. She can't hold back her tears as she confesses her insecurities to Jin.
* CryIntoChest: When Jin promises he will help her find out the truth about her and impurities, Nagi breaks down crying into Jin's chest.
* CuteClumsyGirl: At least when she worked for a short time in the cafe.
* DuplicateDivergence: [[spoiler:She's an embodiment of the Kannagi deity. In her past life, her behavior was identical to Kannagi's until the influence of Ozuma made her change into the more cheerful and quirky Nagi we're familiar with. After learning of Kannagi's past with Ozuma, Nagi and Jin ask Kannagi to grant Nagi an individual existence so Kannagi doesn't continue blocking her memories and Nagi can live as she wishes. After Nagi's body is destroyed while exorcising the impurities plaguing the town, she's reborn as a human girl completely unrelated to Kannagi and Zange.]]
* EndearinglyDorky: She's somewhat clumsy, loves puns more than she should, and has a small but growing understanding of the present era, yet she garners a fanclub within her first few days at school because she is ''just that endearing''.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Along with dangerously loose-fitting, tattered robes, she also gains darker skin and paler hair after absorbing TheCorruption.]]
* GeniusLoci: Originally, she was a sentient sacred tree. After the tree got cut down, she took human form from the statue Jin made in the image of her spirit form that he saw when he was a child.
* GenkiGirl: Not much seems to get her down. [[spoiler:At least, not until the revelation of her true nature, anyways.]]
* GodIsDead: [[spoiler:Zange performs a purification ritual on Nagi after she has absorbed TheCorruption, and Nagi disappears afterwards.]]
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Nagi needs the worship of her followers in order to wield any sort of power as a goddess.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When she's forced to face the fact that she doesn't remember anything about her past, and when she has to question if she is truly a goddess or not.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of the manga, [[spoiler:Nagi sacrifices her physical form by using all of her power to exorcise the large number of impurities that have manifested all over the city. Thankfully, with Ozamu's advice, Nagi comes back after being reincarnated as a human.]]
* HimeCut: PlayedWith. She's a Shinto deity who acts like a {{Miko}} to exorcise impurities. Fitting the image, she has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and classic-length straight hair. However, personality-wise, she is childish and clumsy instead of graceful and dignified.
* HumanityIsInfectious: [[spoiler:In her previous incarnation, Nagi was nearly emotionless and completely focused on her duties as a land goddess. While she thought of the humans of her land as her adorable children, she couldn't empathize with their feelings nor feel sadness over their hardships and deaths. After she started spending time with her bodyguard Ozuma and his wife, Nagi gained a more human-like personality to the point she tried to absorb a corrupted Ozuma in an attempt to help him reincarnate despite knowing the risk of being corrupted herself. It was because Nagi started to care more about humans than her role as a land goddess that the Kannagi entity sealed her memories of Ozuma and then of Jin, but Nagi is ultimately let free by Kannagi to be her own entity and becomes a human at the end of the story.]]
* GodInHumanForm: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Nagi has reincarnated as a human girl with all the memories of her past life as a goddess.]]
* ImmortalImmaturity: Nagi sure acts childish and mischievous for a goddess.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: When [[spoiler:she turns into a corrupted goddess]], she wears a kimono completely off her shoulders.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Nagi does love Jin back, but doesn't believe she can be his girlfriend [[spoiler:he confesses]] because he's a human and she's a goddess. This is why she ends up believing a human girl like Tsugumi could make Jin happier than she ever could.
* {{Keigo}}: When presenting herself as Jin's half-sister to Tsugumi, Nagi changes her old Japanese dialect for an extremely polite manner of speech.
* KindheartedCatLover: When she found a pair of stray kittens, Nagi immediately says she wants to raise them. When the kittens and their mother sadly died, Nagi mourns them.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Nagi is not aware of her past at first, and although she knows she has to cleanse the town of impurities because they'll cause corruption, she still has no idea what the nature of the impurities are, and with her lack of power, she also finds herself questioning if she was ever really a goddess in the first place.
* LimitedWardrobe: For a while, she only wears the same clothes her physical form materialized in until [[LampshadeHanging she points it out]] to Jin. After that she wears a larger variety of clothing, though since she wears her first outfit a lot around the house, she seems the most comfortable in the clothes that she manifested in.
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: While the feelings were already there, Nagi becomes aware of Jin romantically until after he [[spoiler:confesses his love for her at the amusement park]].
* MagicWand: She buys a MagicalGirl toy wand to be her purifying tool for exorcising impurities.
* MagicalGirlfriend: She's a pretty tree goddess who changes Jin's life when she's unintentionally brought to life by him through a statue he craved from sacred wood and she gets him to help her with catching impurities, causing the two to fall in love in the process.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Somewhat {{deconstructed}}. Nagi is full of energy and curiosity towards her new environment, but at the same time she really tends to overdo it, leading her to do more harm than help for Jin. In the end, ''she's'' the one who usually has to be corrected and brought down to earth. Moreover, her happy-go-lucky personality [[spoiler:is put on to both avoid talking about her disconnected memories and to seal off her other, truly divine nature]]. Also {{Reconstruction}}, as Tsugumi states that the time Jin spent with Nagi really has made him more open to try new things.
* MundaneUtility: Her onusa staff gains the power to act as a flashlight.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her original self absorbed a corrupted Ozuma in an attempt to make him reincarnate. She became corrupted by the impurities too and Zange had to exorcise her. As a result, Kannagi's land was plagued by impurities for centuries and Ozuma couldn't even reincarnate since his essence became one with the impurities.]]
* PhysicalGoddess: She's the goddess of a local shrine at Jin's town. She originally resided inside a sacred tree at her temple, but it got relocated and the tree was cut down. Nagi manisfested physical form through a statue that Jin made from the sacred tree's wood.
* PrettyFreeloader: Soon after she took physical form from Jin's statue, Nagi decided to live at his house since the sacred tree that was her vessel got cut down. Jin even admits how ridiculous it is that he must sleep on the couch because his freeloader took his bedroom.
* {{Psychopomp}}: One of her abilities as a land goddess is absorbing people's and animals' corpses into her body and making sure their souls reach the afterlife. [[spoiler:This backfired when she tried it on Ozuma after he became a vessel of impurities and she ended up becoming corrupted herself.]]
* PungeonMaster: She gets off a pun at any opportunity.
* RaisedByGrandparents: [[spoiler:She's reborn as the granddaughter of the Kamimori family and is living under the care of her grandparents in Japan while her parents are overseas.]]
* RapunzelHair: Her hair goes past her butt and she's a PhysicalGoddess.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She is a deity who was protected the town from ancient times. She looks like a teenage girl in her current body because she's based on the image of the statue Jin made.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:When she becomes a corrupted goddess.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: At the end of the manga, [[spoiler:Nagi reincarnates ''backwards in time'' and returns to Jin as a 13-year-old human girl.]]
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: She's a PhysicalGoddess who is living with Jin because she needs his help to exorcise impurities. So no one asks too much questions about why Jin has a young girl crashing at his house, she passes herself off as Jin's half-sister who moved with him to escape her abusive household.
* SchoolIdol: {{Invoked|Trope}}. In order to regain her divine power, Nagi decides to create her own fanbase at Jin's high school and becomes highly popular among the students in a matter of days.
* SecretSecretKeeper: She's able to figure out that Shouhou is a girl when the latter had everyone else fooled into thinking she was a guy.
* SiblingRivalry: She's at odds with her younger sister Zange who wants to take over the position of the town's deity now that Nagi is weakened. Their rivalry takes a more spiteful turn more often than not.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She falls in love with Jin because of him promising to help her find answers about herself and giving her his support in everything.
* SplitPersonality: She has another personality inside of her that Nagi herself is unaware of at first. This other personality acts mysterious and dignified compared to the usual Nagi. She also knows more about what is happening than Nagi, but isn't willing to share information.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:In later chapters, Nagi's goddess persona took over complete control of Nagi and absorbed Ozuma's impurity, resulting in Nagi becoming a goddess of misfortune. There are occasional flashes of her outer personality when Jin tries calling out to her, seemingly to show that she might still be FightingFromTheInside.]]
* SquishyWizard: Nagi can't touch the impurities that roam the town, but she can dispell them with her staff.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: She's a PhysicalGoddess with purple eyes and wearing purple clothes.
* SupremeChef: PlayedWith. She's a really good cook and the food she makes looks delicious, but her [[BizarreTasteInFood strange sense of taste]] doesn't make her food appealing for many.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: [[spoiler:Once Nagi has absorbed the impurities into her, she takes on a darker appearance and acts very maliciously, kidnapping people in the town and letting them sink into a bog, apparently planning to absorb them into herself as a goddess of misfortune.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Sweet (Dere) type. Nagi is cheerful, bubbly, and friendly. She only loses her temper when she gets into arguments with Jin.
* WishfulProjection: She wants Jin to act as her traditional loyal vassal, though obviously Jin isn't going to just go along with that, leading to most of the arguments between the two.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light blue hair.
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!!School
[[folder:Tsugumi Aoba]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MiyukiSawashiro
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Jin's childhood friend who also has a crush on him. She looks out for his well-being and checks up on him from time to time under the guise of keeping a promise to his father, even though she likes visiting him for herself as well.
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* AccidentalPervert: Funnily enough, it's ''Tsugumi'' who ends up walking in on ''Jin'' while the latter is naked after letting herself into his house. [[UnprovokedPervertPayback She hits him because of it as well.]] She apologizes afterwards, saying it was her reaction out of her own shock.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Nagi's Veronica. Tsugumi is the normal childhood friend who has a crush on Jin, but he only thinks of her as an older sister. [[spoiler:She loses.]]
* ButtMonkey: While she doesn't receive this as much as Jin, she takes a lot of embarrassment from the other characters, and remains the UnluckyChildhoodFriend throughout the story.
* ChildhoodFriends: She has been friends with Jin since they were practically babies. She would like a ChildhoodFriendRomance, but knows Jin doesn't like her that way.
* ClingyJealousGirl: This side of her usually comes out when Nagi or Zange seem like they're getting too close to Jin, though she does her best to reel her jealous feelings in.
* CovertPervert: She is at first embarrassed by the rather inappropriate comics that Akiba collects, but her curiosity about the subject leads her to read through them anyways.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has red hair and red eyes.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Tsugumi is kidnapped by Nagi in order to lure Jin to her.]]
* FieryRedhead: Averted. Tsugumi is a wholly mild-mannered redhead.
* GirlNextDoor: She's a classic nice and wholesome childhood friend stereotype.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: For most of her life, she thought she cared about Jin as he was family. When Nagi starts living with Jin and the two grow close, Tsugumi realizes she doesn't want Jin to falls in love with another girl.
* HopelessSuitor: She has an obvious crush on Jin. He cares about her a lot, but as an older sister rather than a potential love interest. Also, Tsugumi is very aware that he has Nagi in his sights.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In the manga finale, [[spoiler:Jin turns Tsugumi down because of his love for Nagi. Tsugumi takes it fairly well as she already expected to be rejected if she confessed.]]
* IdiotHair: She has a small strand of hair standing on top pf her head.
* MuggleBestFriend: To Jin and Nagi. Unlike them, she's a completely normal human and doesn't know her two best friends are exorcising impurities, thinking Nagi is just playing at being a MagicalGirl.
* OneNoteCook: She's a good cook, but she's limited to only simple dishes that involve vegetables and eggs.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Tsugumi ''yells throughout a crowded hallway'' about her plan to ask Jin if there was anything romantic between him and Daitetsu after the latter spent the night in Jin's house. Lead to them both being MistakenForGay.
* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Tsugumi is Jin's childhood friend and has an obvious crush on him, but ignores those feelings in favor of treating Jin as her little brother even though she's growing jealous of his closeness to Nagi. [[spoiler:At the end, Jin turns her down precisely because he's too used to seeing Tsugumi as a mother/older sister figure and she's too late now that he already chose Nagi.]]
* RomanticRunnerUp: Tsugumi could be a good love interest for Jin, but Nagi is the main heroine so her loss was decided from the start.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks just like her mother did at her age.
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[[folder:Zange]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa
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Nagi's "younger sister", Zange is a deity who emerged when a part of the original sacred tree was taken and planted on the other side of the river that divided the town. As the two trees were worshipped separately, eventually the two goddesses became separate entities altogether, resulting in Zange's existence. Currently she has more power than Nagi, as her sacred tree is intact and she uses Christianity as a vehicle for finding new worshippers. She is intent on defeating Nagi and being the only goddess and idol in the town of Kannagi.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She has red eyes in the anime. In the manga, they're purple like her sister's.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Annoying her older sister is like her favorite pastime. She also uses her ability to touch impurities with Hakua's body to get the bugs near Nagi since Nagi can get stained by them.
* BeneathTheMask: She sure breaks character a lot when she's out of the public eye.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In front of humans, she pretends to be a saintly girl who wants to help people with her confessions. Her true personality comes out around Nagi where she's revealed to be arrogant, mean, and manipulative.
* CoolBigSis: She can act somewhat like an older sister to her host Hakua in the moments where she's helping Hakua build up some self-confidence.
* DreadfulMusician: She's incredibly terrible at singing.
* DuplicateDivergence: She and Nagi were originally the same guardian deity of the Kannagi town. Their object of worship, the sacred tree, had part of it extracted and planted at the other side of the town's river. The two trees were worshipped as the separate deities, so Zange gained her own identity as Nagi's younger twin sister.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Like Nagi, except that she has a larger following and also uses Christianity to help keep her powers strong, meaning she doesn't need it ''as'' badly, though she still wants to become the only goddess in the town.
* HimeCut: PlayedWith. Her true goddess form has the same hairstyle as Nagi; blunt bangs, cheek length sidelocks, and long straight hair. Like Nagi, Zange is a Shinto goddess acting as a {{miko}} that can exorcise impurities, but her personality isn't graceful.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Since she and Nagi are twins "born" from the same sacred tree split into two, Zange's true form looks identical to Nagi with black hair.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she is very self-serving, Zange does occasionally show that she cares for Hakua and Nagi.
* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:Zange ends up exorcising Nagi after Nagi is fully corrupted from the impurities. However, she is very cruel and ruthless in her purification, and very thoroughly traps Nagi so that even Jin's interference in the middle of their fight works to her advantage. Afterwards, however, she is genuinely surprised at the fact that she even exorcised Nagi in the first place, indicating that [[NotHimself she may not have fully been herself]] during the process.]]
* LethalChef: When the girls have a cooking contest to have Jin taste their food, Hakua refuses to assist Zange for the competition to be fair. The thing Zange cooks ''barely'' resembles food.
* LovableAlphaBitch: She's popular and well-known in the school, but she is very manipulative and abusive towards Nagi who has been stealing her believers at school since her arrival. Later in the manga, she becomes much nicer and helpful to Hakua and even Nagi.
* ManipulativeBitch: Very calculating in her efforts to become the town's sole goddess.
* MeaningfulName: "Zange" means "confession".
* MistakenForProstitute: She attracts believers by walking around town offering to hear people confess their sins and troubles for 100 yen. A couple of times, Zange gets harassed by thugs who think she's offering an indecent kind of service and offer her even more money if she "plays" with them.
* MuggingTheMonster: When some thugs start harassing her on the street a second time, Zange shows she's perfectly able to defend herself when she beats them up and scares them away. Having witnessed this, Jin realizes Zange didn't need him to save her from the same thugs before.
* NaughtyNun: She cut her skirt in order to broaden her appeal, and she has no problem acting promiscuous when flirting with Jin or manipulating any other person.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By gathering the impurities to form Ozuma and having him meet with Nagi to help her remember the past, she causes Nagi to become a corrupted goddess when Nagi absorbs Ozuma like she did in the past.]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She has no intention of respecting Jin's boundaries, as she is very intent on seducing him and getting him to abandon Nagi.
* NunsAreMikos: Zange is a Shinto goddess who ''very loosely'' bases herself on the image of a Catholic nun. Her host being a daughter of a priest is treated in the same way as daughters of Shinto priests, who are not required to be celibate.
* NunTooHoly: Even when she's not interacting with Nagi or the rest of the art club, she still doesn't act very pious for someone dressed like a nun.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zange is the name she gave to herself after possessing Hakua's body. [[spoiler:Her original name is Nagi like her sister.]]
* PhysicalGoddess: [[spoiler:In the finale, Zange gains her own physical body nearly identical to her sister's thanks to Jin making a statue from the wood of Zange's tree.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Zange is the assertive and confident Red Oni to Hakua's passive and shy Blue Oni.
* {{Sadist}}: She gets aroused at the idea of humiliating her sister by stripping her naked and binding her so some students find her in an indecent position.
* ShipperOnDeck: She seduces Jin to mess with Nagi, but Zange also wants to help her host Hakua get closer to the boy she likes.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Zange does this briefly when she first possesses Hakua and first tries on a nun outfit.
* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler:She exorcises her own sister Nagi after Nagi is corrupted by impurities.]]
* SiblingRivalry: With her older sister Nagi, as they are both competing to be the top idol of Kannagi.
* SignatureHeadgear: She wears a distinctive cross hairpin to complement her NaughtyNun outfit.
* StealthHiBye: Zange pops up in the middle of other characters' conversations without warning quite often.
* SymbioticPossession: Her possession of Hakua is a mutual agreement. Zange needs a human vessel to attract worshippers and deal with impurities. Before Zange took residence in her body, Hakua was having many problems because she was prone to DemonicPossession. Hakua is alright with Zange possessing her because she can sense the goddess isn't a bad spirit and honestly thinks Zange is doing a good deed by hearing people's problems.
* TheTease: She likes to flirt with Jin. It's mostly to make him flustered, but she also wants to make moves on the boy Hakua likes because Hakua won't do it herself.
* TerribleArtist: Hakua was the one who drew Zange's sign to attract believers because the one Zange drew first had such awful art that Hakua wanted to cry if Zange walked around in her body while carrying such an ugly sign.
* TsurimeEyes: Her true form has the eyes slanted upwards, showing her assertive personality.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hakua Suzushiro]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KanaHanazawa
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The young girl who currently acts as a vessel for Zange. Although Hakua herself doesn't mind being a body for Zange to use and she later becomes dependent on the goddess's help, her father thinks otherwise, and wishes for his daughter to be free from Zange's possession.
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* AccidentalPervert: She finds out Shouhou is a girl when she walks in on her at the toilet.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is navy blue in the manga, but the anime made it purple.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The reason why Hakua has a crush on Jin in the first place is because she found a kindred spirit in him when they were little, with the revelation that they could both see ghosts.
* BlessedWithSuck: Her ability to see spirits made her childhood very miserable. Unlike Jin, Hakua's ability was due to a curse that she inherited after her mother died and her timid nature left her very open to be [[DemonicPossession possessed by malevolent spirits.]] And even without the danger of her body being taken over, the ghosts that Hakua saw were mostly suicide and war victims.
* BullyMagnet: In the past, she was bullied by other children who didn't believe she could see spirits as she claimed and accused her of only wanting attention.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has blue hair to match her blue eyes.
* DefectingForLove: [[spoiler:Hakua doesn't want Jin to hate her for Hakua's actions, so she forces Zange out of her body after Zange purifies Nagi.]]
* DemonicPossession: She suffered from this frequently before Zange decided to possess her body.
* EmptyEyes: One way to know if Hakua is in control of the body is that Hakua's pupils lack eyeshine. They gain eye shine towards the end of the story to show her newfound confidence.
* FairyTaleMotifs: Before Zange came along, Hakua felt like a princess trapped at a tower because her father had to keep her inside the house so spirits wouldn't possess her.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: She first met Jin at a summer camp when they were children. Jin didn't recognize her because Hakua never returned to the summer camp because her body kept getting possessed by spirits. He finally remembers her when she reminds him of their experiences together at the camp.
* FriendlessBackground: She could never make friends while growing up because of the incidents where she got possessed by evil spirits. With some of Zange's help, Hakua can make two good friends with two girls at her class.
* GrandTheftMe: Subverted in that Hakua is willingly letting Zange possess her. But Zange still acts much more boldly and risque than Hakua would like. However, if Hakua truly has a problem with what Zange is doing and fights back, she regains temporary control over her body.
* GrewASpine: Hakua starts the story as a shy girl who lets Zange have full control of her body due to her weak will having made her prone to possession since childhood. She slowly grows more confident thanks to the support of Zange and her two best friends. By the end, she has developed enough backbone as to [[spoiler:Zange and spirits not being able to possess her anymore]].
* HelplessGoodSide: Shy, quiet Hakua is a far cry from the clingy, manipulative Zange inhabiting her body.
* HereditaryCurse: According to Zange, she inherited the curse that claimed her mother's life. Hakua's fainthearted nature made it harder for her to cope with said curse than her mother did.
* HeroicWillpower:
** [[spoiler:Seeing Jin so furious with Zange after her exorcism of Nagi convinces Hakua that even Zange had gone too far with her antics. Thus, Hakua forces Zange out of her body on her own and reclaims it.]]
** Near the end of the manga, [[spoiler:Zange loses the ability to control Hakua's body because Hakua has built enough self-confidence to resist possession.]]
* HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, shoulder-length sidelocks, and straigth waist-length hair. While shy, Hakua shows some traits of a YamatoNadeshiko since she's kind, demure, and gains a strong will over time.
* HopelessSuitor: She has a crush on Jin, but even she knows that she has even less of a chance than Tsugumi because Jin only wants Nagi.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Hakua has the same ability as Jin to see the dead and other spirits. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, this left her very open to DemonicPossession.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Since she knows Jin won't ever fall for her, all she wants is that he can be happy with Nagi.
* InSeriesNickname: "Aqua" by Jin, since it sounds so similar to Hakua.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and a gentle, demure personality.
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Tried to hang herself on the church's tree, but was stopped by Zange, who decided to take control of her body.]]
* NotSoWeak: She tends to give Zange absolute control over her body and its actions, and while Hakua can't stand to be without her help, she will retaliate and fight for control if she disagrees with what Zange is doing.
* RedOniBlueOni: The passive and shy blue to assertive and confident Zange's red, emphasized with their different eye colors.
* SecretKeeper: She's the first to find out Shouhou is a girl when she accidently walks in on her in the toilet.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's so extremely shy that she lets Zange do all the talking for her and when she's in control of the body while alone with Jin, she can do nothing but cower in a corner.
* ShyBlueHairedGirl: She has blue hair and a very shy personality.
* SupremeChef: Hakua made the bento box with delicious food that Zange brought for Jin. Zange can't cook at all without Hakua's help.
* TaremeEyes: She has droopy eyes suiting her shy and kind personality.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's very skilled at embroidery.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Just like [[BettyAndVeronica Nagi and Tsugumi]], Hakua also has a crush on Jin. Although, she doesn't actively pursue his affections because she knows she doesn't have a real chance anyway. In the final chapter, Jin muses over how he probably could have developed feelings for Hakua if the options of Nagi and Tsugumi weren't available.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's often portrayed in an aquamarine dress which is the source of Jin's nickname for her, "Aqua." She's also the most demure and gentle of Jin's potential love interests. Bonus points for her hair and eyes also being blue.
* UnhappyMedium: Before Zange possessed her body, Hakua needed to go through several exorcisms because she was susceptible to possession by malicious spirits that caused her to act violently or make lascivious advances at boys of her class. This caused her father to keep her inside the house and Hakua became depressed to the point she was about to hang herself at Zange's tree when the goddess took over her body.
* WaterIsWomanly: Her name Hakua sounds like aqua which means water, wears an aquamarine dress several times, and because her father is a priest, she can use holy water to cleanse impurities. She's also a very kind, calm, and polite young lady.
* WillingChanneler: Hakua willingly lets Zange use her body for whatever purpose she deigns. [[spoiler: After Zange very ruthlessly exorcises Nagi, Hakua agrees with Jin's stance that Zange was too merciless in her purification. Hakua then expels Zange from her body.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Daitetsu Hibiki]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TakanoriHoshino
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Jin's "rival" in the art club and one of his friends. Because of outward appearances, most people, Jin included, think of him as a delinquent until they actually get to know him. He is very talented artistically, and is considered one of the best members of the art club.
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* TheAce: According to the other members of the art club. Sometimes borders on InformedAbility since everyone talks about his abilities more often than the audience is actually ''shown'' them, and when the viewers/readers ''do'' get glimpses of Daitetsu's work, it isn't particularly spectacular or genius.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He really is a GentleGiant, but when Jin was in trouble in junior high, he chased off some delinquents by punching a dent in the wall of a building as a warning.
* FaceOfAThug: While having a scary-looking face and imposing figure, he is actually very sensitive and kind.
* FriendlessBackground: Daitetsu was feared by his peers for his fierce looks, which resulted in him having very few friends growing up. Daitetsu even tells Jin that he shouldn't be a delinquent precisely because it's so lonely.
* GentleGiant: Daitetsu is actually pretty timid and dislikes fighting despite his daunting appearance.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Very obviously, Daitetsu is a subversion of this trope, though he can at least act the part for a little bit when he confronts other true {{delinquents}} in order to protect Jin.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Male version of this trope.
* MistakenForGay: With Jin. Trying to dispell the rumors only worsened the situation.
* NiceGuy: When you look past his intimidating looks, Daitetsu is easily the nicest guy in the series.
* PermaStubble: Adds on to the whole YoungerThanTheyLook thing.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't speak quite often, and when he does, he only tends to say what is necessary to get his thoughts across.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The sensitive to Jin's manly, relatively speaking.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He's a high school freshman along with Jin. Still looks like he's a lot older though.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Meguru Akiba]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TetsuyaKakihara
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Another member of the art club, but all he ever draws is manga. He claims to have joined the art club instead of the manga club because he could not stand the otaku behavior of its members, although Akiba is quite the otaku himself.
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* BoomerangBigot: He hates other otaku, but shows an large amount of insider knowledge on anime and manga.
* ButtMonkey: Takako enjoys making fun of him, though occasionally he'll redirect some of her comments to make her look bad.
* CharacterFilibuster: When it pertains to his interests, he loves to talk about the quality of the techniques that were used to create them, whether good or bad. Depending on how emotionally invested he is in a topic, he may have anywhere from a short response to a whole verbal thesis prepared on how he feels about the subject.
* ClosetGeek: Akiba is a closet {{Otaku}} who insists that he is interested in some of his more unsavory tastes and shows merely for the art. He is critical of other otaku and joined the art club in order to be away from the ones who were a part of the manga club. In middle school, he was open about his passion for MagicalGirl shows and perverted manga, but all it got him was his peers calling him disgusting and avoiding him. That's what he's trying to appear more "normal" in high school.
* DelinquentHair: His hair is naturally black, but he dyes it blond.
* GenreSavvy: Akiba is the one of the cast who can quickly get he workings of the story, such as being able to figure out Nagi is a PhysicalGoddess drawing worship power out of {{otaku}}'s love for {{moe}}.
* LastNameBasis: No one ever really calls him by his first name, instead calling him Akiba.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He says that if they were in the manga, Jin would be the main character because he has both a pretty "relative" living with him and a cute childhood friend.
* MeaningfulName: Akiba? Sounds a bit like Akihabara, ''the'' hot spot in Tokyo for otaku culture...
* MetaGuy: At times, he will point out how the characters situations would believably fit into a manga.
* SequentialArtist: He draws his own manga at the club and is trying to get published at the magazine Monthly Deja-Vu.
* StereotypeReactionGag: Usually comes from Takako or Jin assuming something, but then it turns out that it's true, whether he'd like to admit it or not.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Takako Kimura]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RisaHayamizu
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The president of the art club and Jin, Daitetsu, and Akiba's senior. She enjoys watching the interactions of the male club members and eventually blossoms into a YaoiFangirl.
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* CutenessProximity: Takako loves seeing anything that she decides is cute, with girls like Nagi being very high on her list.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Takako is very eager to see cute girls in cute clothing.
* TheGadfly: She gets a kick out of teasing the art club's younger members.
* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in twin braids and has a youthful personality.
* GuyOnGuyIsHot: She doesn't mind any implicit BL between her club members.
* {{Meganekko}}: She's a friendly young girl with glasses.
* MuggleBestFriend: To [[spoiler:Shino, unexpectedly. Turns out Shino is a magical girl who protects the town's people from impurities and Takako has been helping her carry out the job behind the backs of their other friends.]]
* {{Nosebleed}}: The most prone to them due to her overactive imagination.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:She's the only one who knows Shino is secretly a magical girl.]]
* SkewedPriorities: [[spoiler:When she finds out Shino has turned into a magical girl, her only concern is questioning whether a high school student counts as a "girl".]]
* YaoiFangirl: She takes pleasure in seeing the usual {{yaoi}} tropes play out in front of her.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Jin notes that Takako looks like an office lady outside of school, and after watching her saccharine karaoke song performance, the rest of the club also decides that her performance would suit a high school student instead, to which Takako replies that she ''is'' a high school student.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shino Ookuchi]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MaiNakahara
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Vice president of the art club and Takako's best friend. She is quieter than Takako but enjoys watching the younger members' interactions just as much as the president does. She is especially interested in how Jin handles his own feelings for Nagi.
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* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: She's deeply embarrassed when people see her in her [[spoiler:magical girl outfit]] because it's basically a cosplay that looks childish in a girl of her age.
* EyesAlwaysShut: She always keeps her eyes closed. This is a trait of her family with her father explaining they're emulating the portratal of Buddha's closed eyes. The only times we see Shino open her eyes is when she [[spoiler:turns into a magical girl]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Near the end of the manga, it's revealed Shino had an exciting plot going on without anyone noticing. [[spoiler:The squirrel familiar of Nagi's tree chose Shino to be a magical girl who would purify the impurities around the town. So, while Nagi and Zange were dealing with impurities, Shino was too.]]
* MagicalGirlWarrior: [[spoiler:She cleanses impurities while dressed as a magical girl wielding a naginata.]]
* NaginataAreFeminine: She's a ladylike {{Ojou}} and wields a naginata as her weapon [[spoiler:when she turns into a magical girl]].
* {{Ojou}}: Her family is the most influential and wealthiest in the Kannagi town. Some of her relatives even have a private beach.
* ProperLady: She seems to be built up in this way, being quiet and ladylike.
* SatelliteCharacter: Most of the time she isn't seen unless she's with Takako or one of the other club members. She got a bit more focus in the BeachEpisode chapter of the manga, but other than that she tends to be with Takako most of the time. [[spoiler:This is subverted with the reveal that Shino is secretly a magical girl and has been dealing with impurities behind scenes for the entire series.]]
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:She knows all about the Shinto gods and impurities being real thanks to the squirrel of Nagi's tree telling her about them. She also had an idea of who Nagi was fron the start, but didn't confirm it until much later.]]
* TeamMom: She seems to be this for the art club, as she is the most mature member of the group and tends to look on its members and the other girls with the most concern.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reiri Suzushiro]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KentaMiyake
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Hakua's father and a theology teacher at Jin's school. He is also a Catholic priest. He wishes for his daughter to be free of Zange's possession, and to that end has decided to support Nagi in her efforts to overthrow her sister as an idol to the town.
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* OverprotectiveDad: {{Justified|Trope}}, as Hakua had been prone to DemonicPossession from a very young age ever since his wife died, and the malicious spirits that possessed Hakua ''had'' made her act sexually forward towards the male students in her old school.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hears Nagi out when he discovers that she's a goddess and lends her his help afterwards.
[[/folder]]

!!Others
[[folder:Miyuu Kanzaki]]
A relative of Shino. Miyuu is a little girl who lives at the Shiomi town next to the sea. She's something of an idol in the town as all the residents adore her.
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* CosmicMotifs: She wears stars in her hair and clothes.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: She plays cute and innocent to make herself lovable to the people in town [[spoiler:and gain divine power through their "worship"]]. Her true self is more similar to Zange.
* DragonsAreDivine: [[spoiler:The deity she represents is a sea dragon.]]
* IdiotHair: She has a curly strand of hair standing on the top of her head.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is tied up in twin-tails because they look adorable in a little girl like her.
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler:She's a human avatar of the dragon god that protects the Shiomi town.]]
* PrecociousCrush: She has a crush on the much older Ryuuya who is like a big brother to her and says he will make her his bride when she's older. [[spoiler:Since Miyuu and Ryuuya are avatars of the same dragon god, Nagi thinks the deity must be narcissistic.]]
* RapunzelHair: Her pigtails reach all the way down to her knees. [[spoiler:Like Nagi and Zange, Miyuu is the manifestation of a deity.]]
* RoseHairedSweetie: {{Subverted|Trope}}. She's a pink-haired little girl who acts nice and cheerful to endear herself to others. Her true personality is far from sweet.
* SchoolSwimsuit: She wears one at the beach.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only girl among [[spoiler:the dragon god's four human avatars. Nagi is pretty sure the god is male and compares Miyuu to Akiba playing a videogame with a female character.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: She refers to herself in third person because of her young age.
* VerbalTic: She ends her sentences with "-suno". Unless she drops the DeliberatelyCuteChild act, that is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ozuma]]

A mysterious boy created from a huge mass of impurity that seems to have some connection with Nagi.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: He likes eating his ramen with mayonnaise. Nagi seems to have picked up her strange sense of taste from him.
* BodyguardCrush: Subverted. [[spoiler:He was Kannagi's bodyguard and the townsfolk spread rumors about them being lovers, but they weren't.]]
* ExtremeOmnivore: He got used to eating insects when he was traveling as a monk. [[spoiler:This is what made it easy for him to eat impurities.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:When he finally meets Nagi, their bodies fuse together and she turns into a corrupted goddess.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: In the finale, [[spoiler:Ozuma is finally exorcised for good by Nagi and Jin. The last thing he does is telling the two to stay well with a smile.]]
* HandHidingSleeves: He first shows up as a kid wearing only a shirt too big for him, with the sleeves hiding his hands.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He's eventually revealed to be Jin's ancestor.]]
* MadeOfEvil: He's made from the impurities in the town that Zange gathered inside a coffin.
* MistakenForRomance: Zange claimed that Ozuma was Nagi's lover, but [[spoiler:that was all a misunderstanding on her part. In the past, Zange heard the townsfolk say Kannagi had taken a man as her lover and Zange assumed it was truth when she saw her sister with Ozuma, not knowing he was just her bodyguard.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: [[spoiler:He taught the originally cold Kannagi about humanity and they were close enough that even Zange believed they were lovers, but their relationship wasn't romantic and Ozuma was married to a human woman named Hibari.]]
* PeekABangs: His hair covers his right eye.
* RapidAging: He first appears as a child. He later grows into an adult after Zange collects more impurities to construct his body.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: When he met Kannagi, he had already lived for 300 years even though he still looked like a young man.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:He was planning to retire to the mountains and raise a family with his wife after he and Kannagi finished purifying the impurities plaguing the land. Unfortunately, the impurities were so many that Ozuma had to consume them in order to contain them into his body.]]
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Since Kannagi's power couldn't fully exorcise the impurities in the land, Ozuma turned himself into a living vessel for the impurities by eating them. He planned to isolate himself in the mountains, but Kannagi absorbed him in a failed attempt to help him reincarnate.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name has been translated as "Ozuma" or "Ozma".
* ThanksForTheMammary: He met his wife [[spoiler:Hibari]] when he woke up on her lap and accidentally groped her chest.
* WalkingSpoiler: His connection with Nagi is at the core of the main mystery in the series. Nearly all imformation about him gives away the major twists in the series.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shouhou Hinoue]]

A buddhist monk in training that takes shelter in Jin's house. Shouhou is researching the history of Ozuma who shares a mysterious connection with Nagi, motivating Shouhou to work together with Jin to find answers. Shouhou is initially believed to be a boy, but she's in fact a girl who passes herself as a boy to protect herself when traveling alone.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: She looks androgynous enough to pass off as a cute boy without anyone suspecting her true gender.
* BoyishShortHair: Her short hairstyle is one of the traits that make it easy to mistake her for a boy.
* GirlinessUpgrade: In the epilogue four years later, Shouhou is starting to embrace her femininity as people are starting to notice she's girlier now and she's open to the idea of wearing dresses from now on, to the delight of her shikigami.
* InnocentCohabitation: She stays at Jin's house for a while. This is the main reason why she didn't want him to know she's a girl.
* RecursiveCrossdressing: When she goes to the SchoolFestival dressed in a male uniform, some girls mistake her for a {{Bishonen}} and put her in an Literature/AliceInWonderland cosplay.
* ShesGotLegs: Although she's lacking in the chest department just as much as Nagi, Jin thinks her slender legs make her look good in a skirt.
* SupremeChef: Tsugumi is left speechless at Shouhou's cooking skills.
* SweetPollyOliver: She poses as a boy for the sake of exposing herself to less danger during her travel.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Despite her boyish looks and not being comfortable with femininity in general, Shouhou is very good at cleaning and cooking. Although, when Jin says this should have been a giveaway of her gender, Shouhou doesn't believe having domestic skills should be a women-exclusive trait.
[[/folder]]

* OnlySaneMan

* DuplicateDivergence: [[spoiler:She's an embodiment of the Kannagi deity. After learning of Kannagi's past with Ozuma, Nagi and Jin ask Kannagi to grant Nagi an individual existence so Kannagi doesn't continue blocking her memories and Nagi can live as she wishes. After Nagi's body is destroyed while exorcising the impurities plaguing the town, she's reborn as a human girl completely unrelated to Kannagi and Zange.]]

* SupremeChef: She's very good at cooking.

* SealedInAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Since Kannagi's power couldn't fully exorcise the impurities in the land, Ozuma turned himself into a living vessel for the impurities by eating them. He planned to isolate himself in the mountains, but Kannagi absorbed him in a failed attempt to help him reincarnate.]]

* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:After her revival, Nagi doesn't remember Jin due to her Kannagi personality blocking her memories of him.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By gathering the impurities to form Ozuma and having meet with Nagi, she causes Nagi to become a corrupted goddess when Nagi absorbs Ozuma like she did in the past.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Her original self absorbed a corrupted Ozuma in an attempt to make him reincarnate. She became corrupted by the impurities too and Zange had to exorcise her. As a result, Kannagi's land was plagued by impurities for centuries and Ozuma couldn't even reincarnate since his essence because one with the impurities.]]

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: He's a mostly normal high school student who just happens to be able to see spirits and impurities. One day, he makes a statue from the wood of a sacret tree and craves it in the image of a goddess he saw once as a tree. Then, that same goddess materializes through the statue and asks his help to exorcise Impurities since she can't touch them herself without becoming corrupted.

* HimeCut: PlayedWith. She's a Shinto deity who acts like a {{Miko}} to exorcise Impurities. Fitting the image, she has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and classic-length straight hair. However, personality-wise, she is childish and clumsy instead of graceful and dignified.

* MuggleBestFriend: To Jin and Nagi. Unlike them, she's a completely normal human and doesn't know her two best friends are exorcising Impurities, thinking Nagi is just playing at being a MagicalGirl.

* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler:She exorcises her own sister Nagi after Nagi is corrupted by Impurities.]]

* SupremeChef: Hakua made the bento box with delicious food that Zange brought for Jin. Zange can't cook a lot without Hakua's help.

* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:After her revival, Nagi doesn't remember Jin due to something blocking her memories of him.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Tsugumi's Betty.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:As a goddess of calamity.]]

* GodIsDead: [[spoiler:Zange performs a purification ritual on Nagi after she has absorbed TheCorruption, and Nagi disappears afterwards.]]
* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:She presumably is exorcised just as she asked Zange to do. Even Zange is surprised at herself afterward for actually going through with it.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Nagi is not aware of her past at first, and although she knows she has to cleanse the town of impurities because they'll cause corruption, she still has no idea what the nature of the impurities are, and with her lack of power, she also finds herself questioning if she was ever really a goddess in the first place. This also occurs to her whenever her goddess-personality maniifests.]]

* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler:To her old lover, Ozuma. She decides that the two of them are both artifacts of the past who have no role in the present, and decides to absorb his corruption into her so that Zange may exorcise the both of them.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Nagi's Veronica.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She has an obvious crush on Jin. It's very present in the original manga, but emphasized in the anime, where Jin (unknowingly) really does turn down anything that looks like it might vaguely be an advance from her.

* HopelessSuitor: For Jin. He cares about her a lot, but Tsugumi is very aware that he has Nagi in his sights.

* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Tsugumi is Jin's childhood friend and has an obvious crush on him, but ignores those feelings in favor of treating Jin as her little brother even when she's growing jealous of his closeness to Nagi. [[spoiler:At the end, Jin turns her down precisely because he's too used to seeing Tsugumi as a mother/older sister and she's too late now that he already chose Nagi.]]

* TaremeEyes

* DuplicateDivergence: She and Nagi were originally the same guardian deity of the Kannagi town. Their object of worship, the sacred tree, had part of it tken and plated at the other side of the town's river. The two trees were worshipped as the separate entities, so Zange gained her own identity as Nagi's younger twin sister.

* ManipulativeBitch: Very calculating in her efforts to become the town's sole goddess [[spoiler: culminating in her gathering enough impurities to reform Nagi's old lover, Ozuma.]]

* NunsAreSpooky: Mostly in her debut, but other chapters [[spoiler:like the ones that highlight her resurrection of Ozuma]] also tend to focus on this side of her.
* NunTooHoly: She sure breaks character a lot when she's out of the public eye. And even when she's not interacting with Nagi or the rest of the art club, she still doesn't act very pious.

* EmptyEyes: One way to know if Hakua is in control of the body is that Hakua's pupils lack eyeshine. They gain eye shine towards the end of the story to show her newfound confidence.

* WaterIsWomanly: Her name Hakua sounds like aqua which means water, wears an aquamarine dress several times, her father is a priest, and she can use holy water to cleanse impurities. She's a very kind, calm, and polite young lady.

Jin's "rival" in the art club and one of his friends. While having a scary-looking face and imposing figure, he is actually very sensitive and kind. Because of outward appearances, most people, Jin included, think of him as a delinquent until they actually get to know him. He is very talented artistically, and is considered one of the best members of the art club.

* FaceOfAThug: Daitetsu only ''looks'' like a delinquent.

* NiceGuy

* {{Meganekko}}

* TeamMom: Seems to be this for the art club, as she is the most mature member of the group and tends to look on its members and the other girls with the most concern.

* OverprotectiveDad: {{Justified|Trope}}, as Hakua [[spoiler:had been prone to DemonicPossession from a very young age ever since his wife died, and the malicious spirits that possessed Hakua ''had'' made her act sexually forward towards the male students in her old school.]]

* PrecociousCrush: She has a crush on the much older Ryuuya who is like a big brother to her and says he will make her his bride when she's older. [[spoiler:Since Miyuu and Ryuuya are avatars of the same dragon god, Nagi thinks the deity must be narcissistic.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He ate the impurities that were plaguing the land in order to become a vessel of their evil and isolate himself in the mountains forever. Kannagi absorbed him and had her sister exorcise her so Ozuma could reincarnate.]]

* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: She's a PhysicalGoddess who is living with Jin because she needs his help to exorcise Impurities. So no one asks too much questions about why Jin has a young girl crashing at his house, she passes herself off as Jin's relative who moved with him to escape her abusive household.

* HimeCut: Subverted. Zange's human host has blunt bangs, shoulder-length sidelocks, and straigth classic-length hair. She presents herself as a benevolent and ladylike nun, but she's really crafty.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she is very self-serving, Zange does occasionally show that she cares for Hakua and even Nagi.

* NaughtyNun: She even cut her skirt in order to broaden her appeal, and she has no problem acting promiscuous when flirting with Jin or manipulating any other person.

* NunsAreMikos: Zange ''very loosely'' bases herself on the image of a Catholic nun.

* RedOniBlueOni: With Hakua, who is the blue to Zange's red.

* TheTease

* BlessedWithSuck: Her ability to see spirits. [[spoiler:Unlike Jin, Hakua's ability was due to a curse that she inherited after her mother died and her timid nature left her very open to be [[DemonicPossession possessed by malevolent spirits.]] And even without the danger of her body being taken over, the ghosts that Hakua saw were mostly suicide and war victims.]]

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Suffered from this frequently before Zange decided to possess her body.]]
* EmptyEyes: One way to know if Hakua is in control of the body is that Hakua's pupils lack eyeshine.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:The reason why Hakua has a crush on Jin in the first place is because she found a kindred spirit in him when they were little, with the revelation that they could both see ghosts.]]

* HereditaryCurse: [[spoiler:According to Zange, she inherited the curse that claimed her mother's life. Hakua's fainthearted nature made it harder for her to cope with said curse than her mother did.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:Seeing Jin so furious with Zange after her exorcism of Nagi convinces Hakua that even Zange had gone too far with her antics. Thus, Hakua forces Zange out of her body on her own and reclaims it.]]
* HimeCut:

* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Zange's red, emphasized with their different eye colors.

* TaremeEyes

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Just like [[BettyAndVeronica Nagi and Tsugumi]], Hakua also harbors feelings for Jin. Although, she doesn't actively pursue his affections because she knows she doesn't have a real chance anyway. In the final chapter, Jin muses over how he probably could have developed feelings for Hakua if the options of Nagi and Tsugumi weren't available.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's often portrayed with an aquamarine dress because of Jin's nickname for her "Aqua." She's also the most demure and gentle of Jin's potential love interest.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has purple hair.

Another member of the art club, Akiba is a closet {{Otaku}} who insists that he is interested in some of his more unsavory tastes and shows merely for the art. He is critical of other otaku and joined the art club in order to be away from the ones who were a part of the manga club.

* GenreSavvy: Akiba is definitely the most GenreSavvy of the cast, and at times will point out how the characters situations would believably fit into a manga.
* IResembleThatRemark: Hates other otaku, but shows an large amount of insider knowledge on anime and manga.

* {{Otaku}}

[[folder:Ozuma]]

A mysterious boy created from a huge mass of impurity that seems to have some connection with Nagi.

* GirlinessUpgrade: In the epilogue four years later, Shouhou is starting to embrace her femininity as people are starting to notice she's girlier now and she's opwn to the idea of wearing dresses from now on.

* MistakenForGay: With Daitetsu. Their relationship is on a friendship level with one-sided rivalry from Jin, but circumstances and the things they say in public end up making them look like they've got some HoYay going on.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:He has outstanding spiritual powers because he's a descentant of Ozamu who has spiritual powers rivaling a god's. In the finale, Jin can summon the same giant foot as Ozamu to purify the giant spider impurity.]]

* ProperLady: Seems to be built up in this way, being quiet and ladylike.

* UnhappyMedium: Before Zange possessed her body, Hakua needed to go through several exorcisms because she was susceptible to possession by malicious spirits that caused her to act violently or make lascivious advances at boy of her class. This caused her father to keep her inside the house and Hakua became depressed to the point she was about to hang herself at Zange's tree when the goddess took over her body.

The president of the art club and Jin, Daitetsu, and Akiba's senior. She enjoys watching the interactions of the male club members and eventually blossoms into a YaoiFangirl. She gets a kick out of teasing the younger members and takes pleasure in seeing the usual {{yaoi}} tropes play out in front of her.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Takako is very eager to see cute girls in cute clothing. She doesn't mind any implicit [=BL=] between her club members, either.

* YaoiFangirl

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Despite her boyish looks and not bein comfortable with femininity in general, Shouhou is very good at cleaning and cooking. Although, when Jin says this should have been a giveaway of her gender, Shouhou doesn't believe having domestic skills should be a women-exclusive trait.

* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:He and a human Nagi reunite at the end of the manga, but they can't enter a relationship right away because now he's 20 and she's only 13. Their feelings for each other are still strong, though.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: It takes him a while to admit even to himself that he has feelings for Nagi. To his defense, Nagi acts very immaturely most of the time, and Jin only decides to aim for a real RelationshipUpgrade once she started to show signs of reciprocating.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The savvy guy to Nagi's energetic girl.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Nagi.

* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:Her human reincarnation is seven years younger than Jin and she finds him when she's 13 years old. Thankfully, Nagi knows it would be creepy for them to reassume their romance like this and makes clear she won't let Jin do anything with her until she's older.]]

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, Nagi reincarnates and returns to Jin as a 13-year-old human girl.]]

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The energetic girl to Jin's savvy guy.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Jin.

* DoggedNiceGirl: In spades.

* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Tsugumi is Jin's childhood friend and has an obvious crush on him, but ignores those feelings in favor of treating Jin as her little brother even when she's growing jealous of his closeness to Nagi. [[spoiler:At the end, Jin turns her down precisely because he's too used to seeing Tsugumi as a mother/older sister to see her romantically, especially now that he has Nagi.]]

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Just like [[BettyAndVeronica Nagi and Tsugumi]], Hakua also harbors feelings for Jin. In the final chapter, Jin muses over how he probably could have developed feelings for Hakua if the options of Nagi and Tsugumi weren't available.

* CannotSpitItOut: His feelings for Nagi. To his defense, Nagi acts very immaturely most of the time, and Jin only decides to aim for a real RelationshipUpgrade once she started to show signs of reciprocating.

* FormerTeenRebel: He tried really, really hard to be one.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks an archaic dialect of Japanese, including using "warawa" as a first-person pronoun.

* CryCute: Nagi comes off her high horse and stops fooling around when she's forced to confront the fact that she has no idea who she really is, or even if her divine nature is real.

* MagicalGirlfriend: A tree goddess that changes Jin's life when she's unintentionally brought to life by him and she gets him to help her with catching impurities, and, as expected, they end up falling in love with each other.

* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest

* AlphaBitch: She's popular and well-known in the school, but she is very manipulative and abusive towards Nagi.

* FilleFatale

* RedEyesTakeWarning

* SignatureHeadgear: She wears a distinctive cross hairpin to complement her Catholic nin outfit.

* ExtremeDoormat: Tends to give Zange absolute control over her body and its actions, and while Hakua can't stand to be without her help, she will retaliate and fight for control if she disagrees with what Zange is doing.

* InnocentBlueEyes

* LethalChef: When the girls have a cooking contest to have Jin taste their food, Hakua insists that Zange leaves all the cooking to her. The result ''barely'' resembles food.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Only when Zange is in control, otherwise she fittingly has blue eyes.

* RomanticRunnerUp

* EyesAlwaysShut: Takako says that if Shino sings, she'd open them.

* TheOjou
* TheQuietOne
* SatelliteCharacter: Most of the time she isn't seen unless she's with Takako or one of the other club members. She got a bit more focus in the BeachEpisode chapter of the manga, but other than that she tends to be with Takako most of the time.