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The main characters of Ah! My Goddess.

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Keiichi Morisato

^{Click here to see Keiichi in the TV Anime}

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (JP); Scott Simpson (EN–OVA), Tony Oliver (EN–Movie, Mini-Goddess), Drew Aaron (EN–TV); Luis Daniel Ramírez (LA Spanish-OVA), Um Sang-hyun (KOR)

An engineering student at the Nekomi Institute of Technology and a member of the NIT Motor Club. He's below average height^† (160cm, or 5'3") and kind of a doormat, often taken advantage of by his classmates. One day while forced to stay in his room taking calls for people, he accidentally dials the Goddess Relief Office and summons the goddess Belldandy, who says she will grant him one wish. Assuming she's part of an elaborate prank by his seniors, he wishes for her to stay by his side forever. They've been together ever since, and their relationship is the core of the series. Unfortunately for everyone, Keiichi isn't good at expressing his feelings.

Originally from Kushiro, a small town on the northern island of Hokkaido, Keiichi is a very skilled mechanic and an exceptional race driver. He is eventually bestowed the directorship of the Motor Club, which he subsequently passes on to Sora Hasegawa. At the point he was supposed to have graduated (but turned out to be one class short), he started working at the repair shop Whirlwind owned by the Motor Club's founder, Chihiro Fujimi. At some point after that, he picked up the stray class and finally graduated, though we never actually see him do so.

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• Accidental Pervert: Every once in a while, Keiichi becomes one, which can be attributed to either pure accident or somebody who pulls the strings in order to make Belldandy jealous and dishearten her enough to leave Keiichi and go back to Heaven. Most of the time it's played for comedy, as Belldandy trusts Keiichi's loyalty to her. But when it's played seriously, it's played dead seriously, if Belldandy's jealousy storms are of any indication.
• Badass Biker: He's the best racer in Nekomi until Chihiro returns, especially when riding his bike with Belldandy on the sidecar.
• Badass Normal: During the Angel Eater arc, Keiichi demonstrated that, thanks to having received love from multiple goddesses, he is one of the few mortals capable of supporting an angel. And the guy pulls it off TWICE.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • In the anime, Skuld realizes that she has this kind of relationship with Keiichi in the episode where she temporarily grows up. In the rest of the media, this is the way it goes whenever she's not mad at him. While he laments on the fact that Skuld is interrupting his love progress from time to time that doesn't stop him from treating Belldandy's sister like his own.
  • In First End, Keiichi dies saving Megumi from a car accident. Peorth even argues that this is what drove him.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: Implied in the TV series. When Mara first showed up and turned Keiichi into a scooter (for kicks) after Belldandy and Urd caught her, they made her give them the demonic password to turn Keiichi back to normal. When Keiichi came back... naked... Belldandy blushed bright red, while Urd just looked down and grinned with an interested "Hmmm...". Given Urd's personality, it's likely if Keiichi didn't have one of these, she'd have poked fun at him for it.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Played with but ultimately subverted. While under the effects of a botched potion made by Peorth, poor old Keiichi has not only his sister Megumi crawling all over him, but Skuld and Urd as well... and Peorth herself in the anime. Naturally, once Bell steps in and nullifies the potion, everybody's back to normal.
• Butt-Monkey: Occasionally, usually whenever something created by Urd, Skuld, Mara, Tamiya, Otaki, or Chihiro is involved. Many chapters in the third quarter of the manga have multiple shots of Keiichi sporting looks of pain or horror.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Every time Keiichi has naughty thoughts about Belldandy, someone notices and promptly calls him out on it... if he doesn't do it himself.
• Cannot Spit It Out: For most of the series, he can't gather the courage to properly confess to Belldandy.
• Chaste Hero: Even though he lives with a beautiful goddess, he barely shows lust towards her and his advances towards her are fairly innocent. This is partly In the Blood – his father Keima is a severe gynophobe^• (that's the technical term for "afraid of women"). It's subverted towards the end of the manga with the reveal that Heaven altered Keiichi's mind so that he wouldn't lust after Belldandy and she knew the entire time, only removing the mental block on Keiichi's carnal desires when she kisses him to save both of their lives.
• Chastity Couple: With Belldandy. They live together and are obviously in love, but they don't go past the holding hands phase for a long time. Turns out this was caused by Heaven's machinations, since Keiichi's sexual lust was magically suppressed to maintain the separation between divine beings and mortals even in the face of the contract that bound Belldandy to him. Belldandy removes the mental block when she kisses Keiichi, finally allowing them to be more physically intimate.
• Chick Magnet: Once Belldandy stays with him, all the ladies show some interest in him at some point, except Chihiro. It's not that kind of series though.
• Covert Pervert: He has a porn stash in his room. Everyone (except Belldandy) knows about it and where it is – in the back of the second drawer of his desk – and pokes fun at him for it.
• Deadpan Snarker: As the Only Sane Man, he has moments where he lets rip.
• Determinator: Able to break out of situations where he shouldn't be able to out of sheer will and love for Belldandy (such as when he was possessed by the Lord of Terror). Also implied in one episode/chapter that this is how he's such a good racer - he trains constantly.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • He is seen smoking in his first appearance. This habit vanishes once Belldandy appears.
  • His mechanic skills are not apparent at first, it took Otaki's interference to repair his busted sidecar in the first chapter.
  • He is initially more dishevelled and less level-headed; he's also wimpier and even more of a pushover. The art evolution also made his features softer and gave him a neater appearance.
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: He has trouble just saying "I love you" to Belldandy, much to everyone else's consternation.
• Famed In-Story: Keiichi has at the very least local fame at NIT, much to his surprise. If Megumi is famous herself, it's partly due to Keiichi's exploits as well.
• Forgotten Anniversary: Incidentally subverted. He wasn't planning on it but he happened to get married to Belldandy on his own birthday. No chance of forgetting that one.
• Fun with Acronyms: Gives himself the nickname of K-1 (Kei-ichi).
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Seeing Urd deep-kiss Belldandy (to remove a throat virus) caused him to bluescreen.
• Give Geeks a Chance: A motorcycle geek who gets the girl of everyone's dreams – of course, everyone else wonders just how the hell that even happened.
• Guile Hero: Whenever he's in a dangerous situation, Keiichi's ability to think on the fly has saved him and the Goddesses multiple times over.
• Interspecies Romance: With Belldandy. He's a human and she's a goddess.
• Living Legend: A considerably tame example. Keiichi is famous at NIT for his exploits with the Motor Club and for his relationship with Belldandy, as the Professors Kakuta point out.
• Magic Contract Romance: With Belldandy. The wish he asked of her was for her to always be with him, leaving them magically bounded. As a result, they fall in love.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Belldandy. He's a human with a regular lifespan and she's a goddess who is seemingly The Ageless.
• Mistaken for Cheating: Happens to him a lot – either accidentally, via magical mishap, or if another woman tries to actively pursue him. Fortunately he only has eyes for Belldandy. Unfortunately, Belldandy's jealousy storms exist.
• Nice Guy: He's a kindhearted guy who always wants to help others.
• Only Sane Man: Ends up having to play straight man to humans, gods, and demons alike.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: In the manga, it is very unusual to see him wearing socks or slippers inside his house, even preferring on some occasions to keep his jacket on but not his socks, and in earlier chapters, he never wore them with shoes going outside. Subverted in the anime and the movie where he almost always wears socks.
• Seen It All: He's able to take pretty much everything in stride. Interestingly, this isn't because of the shenaningans with the Goddesses, but because of those of the Motor Club: when he first met Belldandy by having her emerge from a mirror he quickly concludes is a prank from Tamiya, giving an early hint at just how crazy they are.
• Super Drowning Skills: Until he met the Lorelei, Keiichi didn't know how to swim. To put things in perspective, it took the accidental magical influence of a race of mermaids for him to be able to swim; he was that bad at it.
• Taking Advantage of Generosity: He always draws the shortest stick in this respect, as people around him, friends included, tend to abuse his good nature. This is one of the reasons Belldandy loves him, as he does not mind bearing the weight.
• Understanding Boyfriend: He has somewhat gotten used to the many complications that come packaged with living with Belldandy and her two sisters. In the manga, he says that dealing with all the weirdness is a small price to pay if it means he can be with Belldandy.
• Unlucky Everydude: Keiichi started out as this, before eventually being developed into more of a Nice Guy. It would be difficult not to become nicer under the constant scrutiny of a divine being, though.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • He is very much this with Chihiro. She's basically the older sister he never had.
  • With Skuld, whenever she's not mad at him.
• Weirdness Magnet: Comes part and parcel with having 3 goddesses living with you, not to mention having the leaders of both Heaven AND Hell as in-laws by the end of the manga. Jeesh, guy's got it kinda rough.
• You Must Be Cold: Subverted. Keiichi has a great tolerance to cold because he is from Hokkaido.

Belldandy

Angel: Holy Bell

^{Click here to see Belldandy in the TV Anime}

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (JP), Akemi Okamura (JP–Mini-Goddess 1-13), Yumi Touma (JP–OVA [young]), Mio Shionoiri (JP–Movie [young]); Juliet Cesario (EN–OVA), Bridget Hoffman (EN–Movie, Mini-Goddess), Chloe Thornton (EN–Movie [young]), Eileen Stevens (EN–TV), Circe Luna (LA Spanish-OVA)

A goddess who ends up contractually bound to Keiichi Morisato after he accidentally dials the Goddess Relief Office. Ever since, Belldandy lives with Keiichi at the Tariki-Hongan Temple in Nekomi City, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo). She actually has the power to cancel the contract at any time, but she won't, saying Keiichi is a special person in her heart and that her purpose is to make him happy.

Belldandy is kind, patient, and warm, not only to Keiichi but to everyone without exception. She can easily sense other people's emotions, and tries her best to be empathetic to all those around her. However, even though Belldandy tries her best to be as kind as possible, it is revealed that she's actually incredibly insecure about her own emotions, particularly if it involves Keiichi in any way. If she sees any human girl pursue him, she'll become jealous and her subconscious rage will precipitate a power-leak that affects everything in the immediate vicinity, referred to as a "jealousy storm".

Belldandy is licensed as a Goddess First-Class (Unlimited), and as such is highly skilled. Her power is so great, in fact, that she is required to wear a special earring on her left ear that constantly seals the full brunt of her magical strength. Belldandy's angel is Holy Bell; her elemental attribute is wind. Like all angels, Holy Bell augments Belldandy's magical powers when called upon, and like all angels, she also reflects her master's current state.

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• All-Loving Heroine: Comes with the territory of being a First-Class Goddess. In her case, "all-loving" goes so far as to include inanimate objects.
• Alternative Continuity: The mythical Norn Verðandi is a Jotun giantess and Valkyrie unrelated to the Aesir (the Norse pantheon). Though there are three main Norns, there are also numerous minor Norns that govern the fate of mortals.
• Bash Siblings: When racing with bike and sidecar, Belldandy and Keiichi are this. Their synergy must be seen to be believed. Sadly for fans of the anime, this only shows up in the manga... and one scene early in the movie.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: First heard when she sings with her angel Holly Bell to repair the shrine. It's so beautiful that, in a singing contest Sayoko had rigged to try and humiliate her, the judges give her a 100/10 score.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: It's revealed near the end of the manga that she'd been monitoring Keiichi for years and had developed feelings for him even before meeting him face to face when she descended to Earth to fulfill his wish. However, she did not expect to get stuck away from heaven due to said wish. She was upset about this early in the manga and it showed, though it worked for the better eventually.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She is the sweetest person you'll ever meet... unless you piss her off, especially if you try to harm Keiichi.
  • While most of the early examples of this is comical in nature due to her expressions, the first serious example of this is in the manga when Keiichi and Sora are trapped inside the Motor Club room with a love potion-infused lunch box. Knowing where the love potion comes from, she confronted Urd with them with a Death Glare that is enough to make her older sister of all people to tremble in fear.
  • Don't make her jealous. If she's in Clingy Jealous Girl mode, she subconsciously causes small explosions and freak weather changes.
  • Oh, and don't threaten her either. Toshiyuki Aoshima tried to rape her once, and this got him tossed through a wall. With a tornado.
• Blow You Away: Her elemental affinity is wind.
• Break the Cutie: In the movie. She is so traumatized by Celestine's actions that her memory has to be erased.
• Brought Down to Normal: She's not physically as strong or coordinated when she doesn't have her powers; she even pines at not being able to sing. It is not outright stated if this extends to her preternatural capacity to excel in all earthly tasks, though it's implied. In hindsight, she argues that she would not like being as limited as a human.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: One of the restrictions of being a first class goddess.
  • However, just because she can't lie, it doesn't mean she has to tell the truth. She can and has withheld information... like in the very late manga where it's revealed that she knew about Heaven altering Keiichi's mind so he would not desire Belldandy sexually. This was the path of least resistance when she bound Keiichi in contract, as the Judgement Gate was a considerably riskier alternative that could have meant losing each other forever. All for the sake of being with him.
• Chastity Couple: With Keiichi. They're practically a couple, even living together, but neither of them actively tries to get more physically affectionate than hands holding and hugs. Turns out Belldandy put Keiichi in a restrictive contract that made him unable to lust for her for years, because that would avoid calling the Gate of Judgement and the risk it carries of losing him forever. She was okay with this due to the lack of risks until she had to cancel the contract to save their lives, thus the Gate of Judgement was immediately called.
• Child Prodigy: As Velsper found out when they performed their Doublet ceremony, she could easily counter anything that he could throw at her when he was trying to prove her lowly compared to him.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She really is kind, compassionate, and warm, but also very possessive of Keiichi. She won't say or do anything, but just be prepared for magical feedback that can cause anything from minor explosions to freak weather changes, caused by her subconscious mind. She will only act if anyone directly threatens Keiichi.
• Compelling Voice: Even in a world where most magic is based on song, Belldandy stands out for having this. It's so powerful that when performing at a karaoke tournament to support the NIT Motor Club, even Mara (who had been planning to take advantage of the event by converting the song into a demonic spell) was overcome by the feelings of bliss that ensnared the crowd while she sang. So much so that she joined everyone else to sign up for club membership.
• Conditional Powers:
  • Belldandy's powers and the access clearance that she can attain entirely depend on her licensure; she still has her powers, but the license itself grants her different levels of what she can do with them. The license is also symbolic, as it serves as proof that she has the self-control and dexterity to wield said powers responsibly.
  • As shown in the reality of Yumi Touma's book First End, Belldandy's (and other goddesses') capacity to affect the nature and the environment around her entirely depends on the condition that she doesn't violate universal laws; in other words, nature itself obeys her authority as a goddess as long as she respects what it entails. In reciprocity, nature can refuse to obey her if it deems that she violated said laws (like the fact that she tried to override Keiichi's death by restarting the universe). It's fair to mention that no said instance occurred in the manga itself.
• Death Glare: When anyone threatens Keiichi, she tends to give this. She can even scare her father with it. And her father is Tyr, the Almighty.
• De-power: In several occasions:
  • She becomes tremendously vulnerable when she gets sick;
  • Velsper renders her powerless in order to destroy time;
  • Hild removes Holy Bell from her in order to force a familiar inside;
  • Eihwaz drains her power through a series of rigged rooms, though she ultimately fails; Hagal then drains her completely in the end;
  • Subverted in First End. She finds herself powerless once she and her sisters restart the universe to keep Keiichi alive; she tries to heal an ancient tree that doesn't heed to her spells, but she eventually realizes that she's not actually powerless, only that nature won't obey her because she committed the sin of breaking the rules of reality by restarting the universe.
• Dissonant Serenity and The Stoic: Through most situations where another person or even Goddess would be pulling their hair. Even when angered she doesn't betray a sneer.
• The Ditz: Comes off this way to people due to her trusting nature and unfamiliarity with the human world.
  • For some reason she is even more of a ditz when in her mini-form.
• The Dreaded: The other goddesses and Mara are terrified at the idea of her getting enraged, to the point that a simple Death Glare from her has once paralized Urd, Skuld and Peorth through fear.
• Drunk on Milk: One 12oz/355mL can of cola and she's hammered.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her first goddess outfit is heavily Indian-esque, with a forehead marking to match. Said marking also changed sizes often to reflect her emotions.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the manga. The animated adaptations, produced years later, use her final characterization.
  • Originally relied on red lightning magic with no traces of wind at all. See her entry for Shock and Awe below.
  • Although still friendly, she didn't really think much of Keiichi at first, often rolling her eyes at how pathetic he was. Of course this changed quickly once the contract was in place, but that's more because his Hidden Depths and Nice Guy nature grew on her.
  • She was very outwardly emotional to the point of easily picking fights with Urd early on (granted, Urd means well but is very unpleasant to be around at the beginning). It tones down when Skuld appears in the manga, as Belldandy's younger sister needs a role model to look up to. She can still show anger, but it is only reserved for situations where she is heavily provoked.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: With the way Urd and Skuld behave, she might as well be the oldest sister out of the three.
• Fauxreigner: Most people that meet her think that she is a Westerner, and her mannerisms and customs are Scandinavian; early in the manga, Belldandy does admit that she's mostly familiar with Scandinavian cuisine until she begins to try more endemic dishes. Justified due to her being a Norse goddess.
• Foreshadowing: Early in the manga when Belldandy and Keiichi first kiss, Keiichi is surprised at the unseemly fact that from nowhere thousands of flowers just sprouted around them; though he thinks nothing of it at the time, during the Niflheim arc Belldandy uses the same tactic to be able to hide from Hagal and it's later revealed that the flowers are a reaction to their contract. As part of this contract, the System/Ultimate Force renders Keichi unable to lust for Belldandy for years until the contract was dissolved at that very moment.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Belldandy uses extremely polite speech patterns in the original Japanese, right down to using the highly formal pronoun "watakushi". It complements her Yamato Nadeshiko traits very well.
• Friend to All Living Things: And some unliving things as well. See Machine Empathy below.
• Go-Getter Girl: According to Urd and Skuld, Belldandy just collected Goddess licenses as a hobby before she met Keiichi. To put things into perspective, she is a Norn who also has the combative ability to have earned a Valkyrie's Silver Wings. This is part of the reason why Skuld never understood why Belldandy settled for a lowly mortal down at the Earth when she used to be so much more in Heaven. Unpredictably, she excels in all earthly activities too.
• Hair Antennae: Typically 4-6, but varies wildly in the early manga.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Belldandy's hair color varies over time, depending on when Fujishima colors her. Started silvery-purple in the manga which slowly turned grey and eventually settled with light brown while black and white are reserved for the majority of Heaven flashbacks. The anime invariably makes her hair dirty-blonde.
• Heroic BSoD: She goes catatonic before the events of the movie when she learns that her mentor Celestine turned traitor; it's so bad that they have to erase the memory for her to begin functioning again.
• Home Sweet Home: She worked hard enough as a goddess for most of her life to earn herself a respite on Earth without anyone batting an eye in Heaven. With Keiichi, they both built a home to live in and surrounded themselves with loyal friends and family. Damn anyone else if they don't let her go all "domestic".
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Everything she wears. She'd look gorgeous even dressed as the Michelin Man.
• Improbable Hairstyle: As a goddess, it's understandable that her hair is immaculate and impeccable; her ponytail, however, is idiosyncratic on its own and it's extremely rare to see it undone.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She defines the concept of a pure-hearted person. The definitive moment would probably be the Angel Eater arc. Attempting to turn her evil by replacing her angel with a demonic familiar resulted in the familiar being purified and becoming (functionally) an angel... at least until Velsper got ahold of it.
  • One of Hagal's stated goals was to completely drain Belldandy's goddess energy and replace it with demon energy, getting around the "incorruptible" part and making Belldandy herself a demon.
• The Ingenue: So sincere, naïve, and nice that it hurts. One demon even comments that her niceness is a potent spiritual attack, and there are plenty of examples in the manga where it's been weaponized. It's also shown to be a method of deflection.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Only in the anime; in the manga her eyes are sorta greyish, like her hair.
• Insecure Love Interest: Despite being a goddess, she often asks Keiichi if she's good enough to be with him, usually if she suspects another woman is getting too friendly with him. And he constantly reminds her that she is. In chapter 285 this is revealed to be partly because Belldandy was aware of Heaven's manipulation of Keiichi's mind when the contract was first made.
• Interspecies Romance: With Keiichi. She's a goddess and he's a human.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She is an incredible fighter who is always immaculately dressed. Even her battle suit could pass for a night dress.
• Lady of War: She's gentle, graceful, and uses a staff as a weapon. Her angel even uses a bow and arrow.
• Leg Focus: Belldandy is not nearly as showy as other girls in the manga, but her immaculate legs are shown to be the feature that Keiichi most admires and ogles on her.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Whenever she removes the earring that seals her powers (like in the Lord Of Terror story), someone is going to come to a bad end. The land around her literally distorts because she's got so much power at her disposal and is about to use it.
• Lonely at the Top: Being the tenet of support for Urd and Skuld means that they don't play with her the way they play with each other. She's actually jealous of the relationship between her sisters.
• Lost in Translation: Her name is supposed to be Verðandi, like the Norn she's named after. Toren Smith, the original English translator of the manga, was well aware of the Norse elements and the "correct" spelling – in fact he wrote a short essay explaining it to readers – but opted to use Fujishima's incorrect transliteration anyway.
• Love Before First Sight: Belldandy tells Keiichi she has been watching him (as part of her job) most of his life, and was in love with him before they ever met.
• Loved by All: Belldandy is almost universally loved. Her beauty, grace, and kindness make her instantly popular with the student body of Nekomi Tech (minus Sayoko), including the members of the motor club like Otaki and Tamiya. Even Marller, a demon and one of Bell's nemesis, is on genuinely friendly terms with her, willing to have meals with her and do karaoke together when they end up at a hot springs together. Even Banpei, a robot programmed without emotions, somehow falls in love with her.
• Machine Empathy: This is how she deals with machines; she talks to them like an understanding friend and fixes their problems. As she stated, "Every last nut and bolt is like a friend to me". This is also the reason why Banpei is so attached to her despite not having an emotion program.
• Magical Girlfriend: Contractually and doing a really damn good job at it.
• Magic Contract Romance: With Keiichi. They're bound together because he wished Belldandy would be together with him and they fall in love as a result.
• Magnetic Hero: Attracts others to her with her compassion and inner steel. It is even implied several times in the series that she is the one who holds the main character group together.
• Martial Pacifist: She's ridiculously powerful, but prefers domestic work and singing. The "pacifist" part disappears late in the manga when she and (especially) Keiichi's lives are in danger.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Keiichi. She's an immortal goddess and he's a human.
• Meaningful Name: Like her sisters. she's named after a Norse Norn, in her case Verdandi who represents the present.
• Neat Freak: She's very obsessed with cleaning and putting things in order. This reflects in her appearance, her approach towards everyday life, and her problem-solving skills.
• Never Gets Drunk: She could drink a distillery's worth of booze and not even hiccup. But keep her away from the cola.
• Nice Girl: She's a sweet, kindhearted, caring, helpful, and polite goddess.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Before Skuld showed up, Belldandy and Urd fought almost as often as Urd and Skuld would later do. She was also prone to wacky face faults back then, something that would usually be out-of-character for her to do as the resident Yamato Nadeshiko.
  • When it comes to racing, her competitive streak rivals Keiichi's.
  • In First End, Belldandy nearly destroys the universe to keep Keiichi alive.
• Pacifist Wind: Belldandy's magical affinity is to wind and her defining trait is her abundant kindness and gentleness to virtually everyone she meets. She is such an exemplar of Incorruptible Pure Pureness that a demon has commented that her kindness alone is a potent spiritual attack. She rarely will be an aggressor or even use her superior magic abilities offensively even when provoked...unless someone threatens Keiichi or gets her jealous. Compare her to her much more hot-headed and aggressive sisters, Skuld and Urd who have water and fire & lightning affinities, respectively.
• Paperworkaholic: Belldandy legitimately enjoys working at Heaven's Celestial Bureaucracy, as opposed to Urd and Skuld, who see it as a chore.
• Parental Substitute: Due to the huge age difference, their busy mother, and Belldandy's status as The Reliable One, Skuld sees Belldandy as more like a mother than a big sister, which is part of why she is not okay with Keiichi "stealing" Bell away from her.
• Parrot Exposition: Especially in the anime, she occasionally repeats whatever Keiichi is surprised about to reflect her purity and cluelessness on earthly customs.
• Person of Mass Destruction: When she gets jealous, she causes storms, and wishes that she grants can destroy the entire world - in theory. (In practice, anyone who would wish for the world's destruction won't get a wish.)
• The Pollyanna: Invoked. She is very optimistic and positive, but she is not above worrying and she has clearly defined limits to her patience. She's very difficult to move, but she is most definitely not invulnerable.
• Power Limiter: As with most high-level deities, Belldandy wears power-limiting jewelry... namely a double-clasp earring. It's a bad day for whoever is on her receiving end on the rare occasion she removes it.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: She's usually barefoot, wearing very short and loose "socks" that leave her toes and heels bare and a pair of anklets. Subverted in the spin-off The Adventures of Mini-Goddess, where she actually wears shoes.
• Promotion to Parent: Ansuz, due to her obligations, was never around Belldandy or Skuld, so their raising depended largely on their own devices and the use of mentors. As such, Belldandy practically raised Skuld like her daughter, which is why her little sister is so protective of her.
• Rebellious Princess: At Tariki-hongan Temple, Belldandy is the only resident goddess who doesn't even show hints of doing any research or any intention of continuing her duties in Heaven and has been called out numerous times on this.
• Reflective Teleportation: Belldandy can use mirrors to traverse long distances.
• The Reliable One: Is the most constantly responsible among the three sisters.
• Shock and Awe: Early in the manga, where Belldandy is more outwardly emotional, red lightning orbs are prominent in her magic. Victims of Bell's lightning magic includes the Earth Spirit, Keiichi, Urd, Sayoko, and Aoshima on separate occasions. This disappears once Mara is introduced and she started using wind magic instead.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She hasn't felt attraction for anyone but Keiichi.
• Spy Catsuit: Her riding leathers for when she's racing, all of which have some form of heart motif.
• Technical Pacifist: Belldandy is only ever reluctant to do violence, even wanting to talk down an Eldritch Abomination. Generally, the only time she'll actually use those immense powers she has for fighting is if someone threatens her sisters or Keiichi. Even then her combat is, at worst, of the "surprising what you can live through" variety. The rules under which gods and demons live make this pretty much mandatory for them both. "Sealing" and various harassment are okay, but killing just takes out someone on your own side too.
• The Three Faces of Eve: The calm, compassionate, and domestic Belldandy, goddess of the present, represents the wife.
• Totally Trusting Love Interest: It's a common occurrence for someone to pull Keiichi into a compromising situation, but Belldandy always believes him when Keiichi explains that it's Not What It Looks Like.
  • It happens multiple times with her older sister Urd:
    • On one occasion, he doesn't even need to explain — when Belldandy finds Urd naked in the bath with him, her immediate response is "Why didn't you tell me so I could join you?", prompting another character to say that Belldandy must be stupid to trust Keiichi so blindly. But considering that Keiichi can't even make moves on the eminently willing Belldandy, it's quite reasonable.
    • On another occasion, Belldandy finds Keiichi in another compromising situation with Urd and instead of staying around to talk, she runs away crying, not because she believes Keiichi is cheating on her. In fact, she outright states that she trusts him. But she now believes Urd is in love with Keiichi, and she's torn about taking Urd's "love" from her.
  • Belldandy once defended Keiichi from a manufactured compromising situation by saying "It's true! He doesn't have the guts to do that!" She realized how bad that sounded and tried to correct herself but just made it worse. Specifically, she corrected herself by saying, "My Keiichi...isn't enough of a man to—" This results in the unsound effect of "Digging the hole deeper."
  • Urd weaponizes the trust at one point, manipulating Keiichi into groping another woman in front of Belldandy and trusting that Belldandy's jealousy of that other woman getting Keiichi's affections would be subconsciously channeled into explosions, powerful enough to defeat an attacker they were facing.
  • Belldandy has flat-out stated that she will always believe Keiichi — even if he's lying.
• Turn Out Like His Father: Hild argues that Belldandy's attitude and demeanor reminds her so much of Tyr that she finds it unnerving. This is one of the reasons Hild is both fond and resentful of Belldandy at the same time, and why she picks on her in particular.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Several characters comment that Belldandy is terrifying when something threatens or demeans her boyfriend. They're not lying.
• Weirdness Magnet: Most of the otherwordly or supernatural events that happen in the series are due to her constant presence on Earth. She argues that she's effectively creating an imbalance just by being there, which consequentially causes the creatures from Niflheim to try to compensate or drive her away from Earth. And then, Urd and Skuld showed up too.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Despite being a Norse Goddess, Belldandy embodies this trope to the fullest – sweet-tempered, loving and devoted, gentle touch of inner iron, there's even a picture of her in a kimono on Images Links.

Urd

Angel: World of Elegance

^{Click here to see Urd in the TV Anime}

Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JP); Lanelle Markgraf (EN–OVA), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN–Movie), Wendee Lee (EN–Mini-Goddess), Shannon Conley (EN–TV), Sylvia Garcel (LA Spanish-OVA)

Belldandy's older half-sister, and the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi. Urd ranks as a Goddess Second-Class, Limited license (management category), similar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is the Yggdrasil System Administrator and Manager. Though she is much more powerful than her sisters, she is not a First-Class Goddess for several reasons. Urd shares a common father with her younger sisters, but has a different mother, the Daimakaicho, Hild. Because of this, Urd is a hybrid of Goddess and Demon, reflected in the half-white/half-black appearance of her Angel, World of Elegance. Her elemental attribute is fire and lightning.

Urd fancies herself a Goddess of Love, so she comes to Earth to spur Keiichi onward with love potions and well-meaning (but deceitful) advice. However, as punishment for deserting her post and for using her powers on Earth without authorization, The Almighty banishes her from Heaven until further notice. After being allowed to go back, she decides to stay on Earth instead.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her goddess outfit is dark blue in most manga illustrations and the OVA, but in the TV series and the movie it is purple.
• Alchemy Is Magic: To reflect her status as the Norn of the Past, Urd is shown to be a talented potion maker. Justified because many cultures in the past began experimenting with alchemy.
• The Alcoholic: Justified. Alcohol is her main source of energy on Earth.
• Antagonistic Offspring: A mild example towards Hild. Deep down, though, Urd does love her.
• Big-Breast Pride: She's VERY proud of her large chest, to the point of having an "if you've got it, flaunt it" mentality and being occasionally accused of being a hooker. She even goes so far as to tease Skuld about it... never mind that poor Skuld is physically a kid 99% of the time.
• Big Sister Instinct: Frequently pops up from time to time whenever Belldandy and Skuld are in danger. She is wiling to risk her life for her younger sisters.
• Born of Heaven and Hell: She's part Goddess and part Demon. The mixed breeding is why her angel has both white and black wings and hair, which startled Urd when she first summoned her. She doesn't have any issue overall with the residents of Heaven and Hell, since she is loved by her sisters, Mara still considers her a friend, and her mother still loves her. Though, the last one she won't admit for fear of becoming a demon herself.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Urd's inherent powers are potentially leagues above those of her sisters and possibly any other deity except The Almighty and Hild (her parents), but she prefers to hang out with her siblings to watch over them and have some fun instead.
• Broken Bird: Due to her heritage. See Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid, though.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her large chest is a big part of her sex appeal and why she's such a Dude Magnet.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Cannot express any feelings of affection for her mother, in case her soul gets charmed by the demons. It's shown that Urd indeed loves Hild very much, and is proud to no end of being her daughter.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Averted! Part of the reason Urd refuses to become a first-class goddess is she believes that it's important that she retain the ability to tell a lie to protect those she loves. She has such a reputation for lying that even Belldandy can see through her.
• Characterization Marches On: When Urd first appears in the manga, she tries to rape Keiichi (which is played for comedy) in order to "advance" his knowledge of sex – her intent was to make him less fearful of approaching intimacy with her sister. She is also shown to be outright mean-spirited towards Skuld (who isn't a Bratty Half-Pint during her first manga appearance). Post Volume 6, Fujishima softened her up quite a bit and made her less of an "Evil Big Sister" and more of a "Cool Big Sister" character. To reflect this, his art style changed to make her less mean and jerky-looking.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Urd's logic on how engines work can be a little bit off; in "Mystical Engine" she believes that they are powered by trolls. Turns out The Cuckoolander Was Right several pages later.
• Comically Missing the Point: Keiichi brings Urd and Skuld an extra TV so they stop going at each other's throats, completely missing the fact that it's not the TV that they like as much as competing with each other.
• Consummate Liar: She is so good at lying that she refuses to be promoted to a first class goddess so that she can use those talents to protect her beloved ones and pair Keiichi and Belldandy together.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: How Urd likes to deal with people, particularly Skuld and Aoshima.
• Cool Big Sis: Only develops into this in later adaptations and manga chapters. In the movie she's much more mature than average.
• Costume Evolution: Wears fingerless gloves. Much later they get swapped out for regular gloves.
• Daddy's Girl: Subverted. Being the daughter of the Daitenkaicho and the Daimakaicho has brought her very little advantage, though her relationship with her father is implied to be the key to her being out of trouble in spite of her mistakes (though this extends to Belldandy and Skuld too). One of the problems she faced early on in her life was that, as a half-goddess half-demon, she was seen as a potential liability and given very little credit for her achievements, so she only found consolation with her sisters and no one else.
• Death Glare: Another of the things she inherited from her mom.
• Divided Deity: Urd gets split into Goddess and Demon halves, with the former acting much more like her kindly sister Belldandy and the latter more like her Jerkass mother (not to mention Demon-Urd taking the Stripperiffic outfits of regular-Urd to extremes). They eventually realize that neither Urd is the true Urd and recombine.
• The Dreaded: Chrono nervously remembers Urd as "The Exchanger Of Goals And Means" and "Heaven's 2nd Class Goddess Of Destruction". This carries overtones of an ominous reputation that Urd seems to have in the heavenly ranks.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: The times Urd fully accessed her demonic magic caused... problems.
• Dude Magnet: As per her role as Ms. Fanservice. Urd once caused a squadron of police cars to drive after her once they caught a glimpse of her impressive legs while she was riding a motorcycle in a high-slit dress.
• The Exile: She is banished from Heaven for abandoning her post and using her powers on Earth without prior authorization.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: As indicated in Belldandy's entry above, Urd doesn't act like she's the oldest out of the three. She exhibits many second child traits and stereotypes, especially the rebellious aspects.
• Fighting Spirit: Summoned a muscular genie to shoot rubber bands for her in the Great Rubber Band War against Skuld's wooden tank and Peorth's makeshift vine railguns. There's also the snowman she created in the OVA.
• Foil:
  • Urd and Skuld are banes to one another and will spend every waking hour trying to one-up and upset each other in every way possible; they do this so much that it makes Belldandy jealous.
  • She is this to Hagal. Urd is Hild's natural daughter who cannot express love or admiration for her mother for fear of becoming fully demonic; Hagal is Hild's adoptive daughter who loves Hild unconditionally and is wholly demonic through and through.
• Foreshadowing: Many characters commented that Urd acted more like a demon than a goddess before her heritage was discovered.
• Fountain of Youth: For one episode (three manga chapters), due to Yggdrasil's system malfunction right after the Lord Of Terror arc.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Played with. Urd is the Beautiful Sister by default, but she is quite snarky sometimes and no intellectual slouch herself (unless machines are involved). She also tries to hook Keiichi and Belldandy together while Skuld tries to keep the two apart.
• Good Bad Girl: She's tried getting Keichi to be more assertive with Belldandy by getting him to have sex with her even though she has full knowledge of the restrictions imposed on Keiichi's lust towards Belldandy; it seemed that she did it in the hope that the contract would be broken by doing so, which instead lasted until Belldandy lifted it.
• Good Is Not Soft: Even when split into her goddess and demon selves, Goddess!Urd still strikes Keiichi with a thunderbolt for staring at her during a Panty Shot (courtesy of Skuld who stamped a marking on her backside to differentiate Goddess!Urd from Demon!Urd)
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her default outfits in the anime are mostly of this color.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: Can at the very least, say "I love you" in multiple languages.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Especially in the early parts of the manga, Urd is very easy to anger. She mellows down post-Lord of Terror though.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She is very sociable and very alcoholic.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out, she has far more self control than it appears when it comes to her powers. Her demonic powers would make her Hild's equal, but since she fears to lose any semblance of control if she accessed them she refuses to use them, at least until the situation was that hopeless and she made sure Skuld could stop her if her fears turned out correct.
• Hopeless with Tech: Being a foil to Skuld and to reflect her status as the Norn of the Past Urd is this, normally Type 2. She does well with the Yggdrasil system though; she is even the system administrator. It's the mechanical stuff that she has problems with, which stands out more because sophisticated machinery is a common feature in the series.
• Hot-Blooded: Is extremely passionate and fiery in many things she does; Skuld assumes her to be foolish due to this trait of hers.
• I Am Not My Mother: Though deep down she finds Hild cool, she is seriously against returning to Hell with her or going full demon.
• Immortal Immaturity: Can be just as bratty as Skuld.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: It fits her potion-making talents, she even wears them when she isn't making any.
• Lady of Black Magic: She has the graceful appearance, elemental affinities of fire and lightning, and an Angel named "World of Elegance". However, she doesn't have the composure, instead being headstrong, short-tempered, and bratty.
• Love Goddess: Or so she fancies herself to be. Almost if not all of her attempts at planning this result in trouble for whoever she tries helping, usually poor old Keiichi.
• Makeup Is Evil: She was depicted with heavy sharp mascara and deep red lipstick when she was posessed by the Lord of Terror. The same applies to her demon self when it is separated from her in a later arc. In the case of the latter it wears off when she went undercover so that Keiichi and Belldandy cannot tell the difference between her and full-goddess!Urd.
• Meaningful Name: Like her sisters. she's named after a Norse Norn, in her case Urd who represents the past.
• Midair Bobbing: Prefers to float rather than sitting on furniture.
• Ms. Fanservice: Provides most of the fanservice in the series with her voluptuous figure and revealing outfits, and she's fully aware of it.
• Mystical White Hair: She's a goddess / demon hybrid with long white hair, which makes her more obviously supernatural compared to her sisters.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: A consistent feature in most of her wardrobe is a deep V-neckline that reaches her navel.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Can pull the haughty ohoho laugh just like her mother.
• Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: Half-demon on her mother's side. Subverted in that there doesn't seem to be any prejudice on either side and most of the angst comes from Urd herself coming to terms with her demon ancestry, though one flashback to Urd's past in volume 30 showed that some lesser unnamed goddesses might have had a problem with it.
• Not So Above It All:
  • She's really, really proud of being Hild's daughter and she finds her extremely cool, only that she cannot say it out loud for fear of turning into a demon.
    • She even shows jealousy at Hild's familiarity when speaking about Hagal, and utterance of pride for her. It's shown that Hild does not say this to arise jealousy on Urd, but she was rather making an off-hand commentary.
  • She's willing to cheat and lie not only for the sake of her sisters, but also for Keiichi.
• Only Sane Woman: Surprisingly gets moments of this every now and then. Keiichi is still the main one with her around.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Whenever Urd lets her demonic side come to the fore, as in the Lord of Terror or the Split Bodies arcs, she becomes significantly less comical and more threatening. Everyone notices, and everyone is terrified when they see it. This generally occurs whenever she is not the comic relief in a story arc (which she usually is).
  • The wrath she expresses at learning that Hild could have died had the coup not happened masks her sadness at how close her mom was to perishing. This is as close Urd comes to telling her mom that she loves her, which is an aspect that is not lost on Hild.
  • Gets flipped on its head during the Split Bodies arc - in an attempt to identify which body is the demon, Keiichi reasons that he can tell the two Urds apart by looking into their eyes. When he tries it, both Urds give him identical Moe expressions, causing him to freak out because Urd never does "innocent and cute".
    Keiichi: "I have seen the stuff nightmares are made of."
• Parent with New Paramour: Her parents were forcibly separated by the Gate of Judgement, though Tyr later married Ansuz and had Urd's sisters with her. Urd and Ansuz get along just fine, as Ansuz argues that having Urd was more than worth the risk her parents had to go through to create her.
• Percussive Maintenance: A firm believer of this trope.
  • In "I'm the Campus Queen", she kicked the bike she's supposed to repair due to her frustration of not knowing how to fix them and being left behind by other contestants. This technique actually works in her favor.
  • She also tried to do this in order to fix Banpei, who anxiously waited for his "girlfirend" to be given sentience by Skuld. Amusingly Urd's hand gets hurt by Banpei's helmet.
• Playing with Fire: She can also cast fire magic, though usually via World of Elegance's aid.
• Pretty Freeloaders: Along with her younger sister Skuld. Keiichi is quick to point this out.
• Proud Beauty: She's quite aware of her beauty and status as Ms. Fanservice, and happily shows off at every opportunity.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She's not shy in the slightest and doesn't care much about Keiichi or others seeing her naked.
• Shipper on Deck: Actively ships everyone and everything she sees fit, namely Keiichi/Belldandy, Skuld/Sentaro (to some extent) and Banpei/Sigel. Her strained relationship with Troubadour probably took part in it.
• Shock and Awe: This is Urd's elemental affinity, so throwing lightning bolts everywhere is her go-to move, usually whenever something ticks her off. Her ultimate move also involves summoning a magic circle conjuring a violent lightning storm.
• Side Effects Include...: Though she fancies herself a Love Goddess, Urd is more given to potions and pharmacology. However, her tendency to go overboard and constant third-party interception (Skuld and Peorth) means that most of the time, none of the stuff she concocts works like it's supposed to, and the effects are even worse when she's not consulted about it.
• Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: Urd's brown skin and silver hair cause her to stand out compared to her sisters and the rest of her cast, and were inherited by Urd from her mother, the demon queen Hild.
• Spanner in the Works: She and Skuld really like to help Keiichi and are always the first ones to jump the gun for him in his endeavors, though they always end up causing more harm than good.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's not really that tall, but she is the tallest resident in the temple. She also happens to be drop-dead gorgeous.
• The Tease: She loves acting flirtatiously and being a tease, even when she has no intention of following through.
• The Three Faces of Eve: The flirty, fiery, half-demon Urd, goddess of the past, represents the seductress.
• Trickster Mentor: Acts as one to Keiichi when it comes to his love story.
• Troll: The main difference between Skuld's immaturity and Urd's is that Urd likes to make fun of people for fun's sake alone, at times bordering on malicious intent. This can arouse ire even in Belldandy.
• Unwanted Assistance: She tends to get so enthusiastic about progressing Belldandy and Keiichi's relationship that she might as well throw a wrench in the works instead. Curiously, this is played straight even when she isn't overtly trying to help, since she does absolutely nothing to prevent Skuld from actively interfering in their close moments either.
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • As she's part-demon, she has a weakness to a genre of music. Depending on the translation, it's either Austrian polkas or Japanese enka.
  • When she's divided into good/evil Urd, her evil side resides within a clone of her made by Mara. Turns out, a clone's body isn't nearly as efficient at handling a goddess's powers, which leads to its defeat.
• Willfully Weak: Twice over:
  • The one time she actually removed her self-imposed restraints on her demon-side, she proved herself Hild's equal.
  • When she took the exam for becoming a First-class Goddess with full access to her power she was given a temporary one, and when she touched the shoulder of Peorth, a full First-class Goddess, she left an imprint - and that was while wearing the limiters for the human world. And while she passes the exam, she chooses to stay a Second-class... Because with the First-class Licence came a ban on lying, and she prefers maintaining this ability. She also didn't take the exam at all the first time and claimed to have flunked it for her lies for this precise reason.
• With Friends Like These...: She often does more harm than good. Whenever she's not trying to amuse herself, she can be somewhat reliable. The only person that finds her completely trustworthy when it counts, out of all people, is the equally unreliable Skuld (not even Belldandy).
• The Worf Effect: As exemplified in the Angel Eater and Niflheim arcs, she is usually the first one to get knocked out despite her strength to demonstrate the power of the villains.
• Worf Had the Flu: The reason she's so often under The Worf Effect despite her power is that she's been holding back her true powers the entire time, the godly ones because having the license to access them fully would see her banned from lying (and she values this ability for her sisters' sake), and the demonic ones for fear of losing control... As happened the one time she felt she had no other choice.

Skuld

Angel: Noble Scarlet

^{Click here to see Skuld in the TV Anime}

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP); Pamela Weidner (EN–OVA), Sherry Lynn (EN–Movie, Mini-Goddess), Kether Donohue (credited as Annice Moriarty) (EN–TV), Monica Estrada (LA Spanish-OVA), Gaby Beltrán (LA Spanish-Mini-Goddess)

The younger sister of Belldandy, and the third Goddess to appear to Keiichi Morisato. She is the third daughter of the Almighty Tyr, and his second daughter with Ansuz. Skuld has a Goddess Second-Class, Type One (limited) license: a category similar to her eldest sister Urd. Skuld is one of Yggdrasil's system debuggers. She compensates for her lack of magic power with her innate talent for invention, which is known throughout Heaven. Skuld is an engineering genius, capable of building just about anything out of the most mundane parts under most limited resources. She can compute equations and redesign even the most complex engineering blueprints in no time.

She travels to Earth after Belldandy's proximity to Keiichi started creating an increasing number of bugs in Heaven's supercomputer Yggdrasil. At least that was her official excuse, as she believed Belldandy was living with Keiichi against her will. She tried to convince Belldandy to return to Heaven to resolve the bug problem and at the same time with the ulterior motive of alleviating her loneliness. After realizing that Belldandy's relationship with Keiichi was not going to end any time soon, Skuld decides to stay on Earth and act as Belldandy's unofficial chaperone. She is also noted to have a head-butting relationship with her sister Urd.

Her elemental attribute is water, though her reliance on her inventions and explosives made this less apparent at first. She begins to develop her goddess powers later in the story as part of her Character Development, including eventually gaining an angel, whose name is Noble Scarlet.

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• A-Cup Angst: Sometimes has shades of this despite being (in goddess terms) a kid, mostly whenever Urd ribs her for her lack of maturity. The anime adaptation makes it more prominent.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the main cast, emotionally speaking at least.
• Bad Liar: She's nowhere as experienced as Urd in that respect, so every time she resorts to lying, it comes crashing down on her like a house of cards.
• Children Are Innocent: She might not be a proper child – as a goddess, she's potentially thousands of years old already – but she is indeed much younger in mind, body, and experience than her sisters and their friends.
  • When the Gate of Heaven prompts Keiichi to insert the giant key in her chest keyhole, all that innuendo is actually lost on Skuld, who is just making a confused expression filled with worry. Keiichi, Urd, and Peorth are red as beets, while Belldandy has one of her jealously outbursts.
  • This is likely why she is the only main character to not be corrupted by the forces of evil(Keiichi and Urd were once possessed by the Lord of Terror, Belldandy appears to be so when Hild forced a demonic familiar into her).
• Clingy Jealous Girl: In a sisterly manner towards Belldandy because Belldandy left Heaven to be with Keiichi.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Played with. Skuld can use magic, which she mainly uses to build her gadgets; it's shown that this magic is so powerful that it can overcome Mokkurkalfi's nullification, which neither Belldandy nor Urd can match. While she's practicing her elemental manipulation powers with water, Skuld shows that her abilities are enormous if unsupervised by either Urd or Belldandy.
• Cute Bruiser: By default since she couldn't use her magic until she fell for Sentaro and it started to develop.
• Cuteness Proximity: Her hotheaded nature will dissipate when she sees cute animals and machines.
• The Cutie: The very reason the people she meets try to approach her. Skuld is a gorgeous young girl, though her wary nature prevents her from appreciating the compliments she gets, considering that she's suspicious of almost everyone she meets.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has her moments in her early appearances (where Urd's recklessness and Hair-Trigger Temper is at its peak) and in Flights of Fancy.
• Depending on the Writer: Skuld's jealousy towards Keiichi and Belldandy's relationship varies every chapter and adaptation – most of the time she butts in from the word go to stop them but it tones down when there are more pressing matters (understandable), when it is her focus episode, or when it involves ghosts.
• Doing in the Scientist: All those machines she makes are ultimately revealed to be the result of one of her latent goddess powers.
• The Dreaded: As in Urd's entry of this trope, Chrono jumps back at the presence of Skuld while scowling; much like Urd, Skuld also seems to have an ominous reputation in heaven.
• Everyone's Baby Sister: Invoked. As she finds out in the TV series, Keiichi doesn't treat her any differently even when she's accidentally grown up, meaning that she did recognize that he has boundaries that he always respects regardless of the situation; as such, to Keiichi, Skuld is not any less Belldandy's little sister just because she's temporarily older.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Skuld hates being treated like a 12-year-old. Unfortunately for her, not only does she look the part, she also acts like it. It doesn't really matter that she's centuries or millennia old in Earth terms, since by heavenly reckoning she is still a kid, and she does not take that well.
• Foil:
  • To Urd as mentioned in her entry.
  • She is this to Mokkurkalfi. They are both overtly proud Gadgeteer Geniuses and the little sisters of tremendously powerful beings which they love unconditionally. Incidentally, they both use red battle suits.
• Gadgeteer Genius: To reflect her status as the Norn of the Future. She turned a greeting mannequin with that just repeats the same sentence over and over into a fully functioning robot with human level intelligence.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Played with. Skuld is the more reclusive, smart sister by default, but she also has her bratty moments. She also tries to keep Keiichi and Belldandy apart while Urd tries to hook them together.
• Hammerspace: She can stuff infinite amount of bombs (which are bigger than her fists), batteries, and remote controllers inside her shirt.
• Hates Being Alone: The main reason she showed up at Tarikihongan in the first place is because her sisters left her alone in Heaven. Though she is extremely runty and proud, she is shown to enjoy the company and friendship of most people she meets as long as they don't treat her as a kid. In particular, she is utterly terrified of being left alone in a fight because of her underdeveloped powers.
• Hot-Blooded: Skuld has a very short fuse compared to her sisters. She's not only prone to outbursts, she is also markedly confrontational and trigger-happy. The virtue in all of this comes from the fact that while she measures the consequences of her actions poorly, she is never malicious.
• If It's You, It's OK: Skuld doesn't keep any secrets from Sentaro, having openly admitted to being a goddess when asked what she was.
• Imagine Spot: Appears in the form of cutesy crayon drawings in the OVA and the TV series.
• Immortal Immaturity: Despite being a goddess, Skuld can be a brat.
• Incompletely Trained: ^•This entry was formerly under the obsolete "Hero in Training" label; not sure whether to relocate it here or to Magikarp PowerShe is on the road to becoming one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, goddess in Heaven according to Urd... that is, if she's able to keep her pride in check. It's shown that both Urd and Belldandy are actively working on her, though they are cautious in not filling her with ideas, seeing that Skuld is already very cocky.
• Inverted Trope:
  • Much to the contrary of Keiichi and Belldandy's relationship, Skuld is actually the one who is pursuing a relationship with Sentaro and not the other way around. She is the one worrying about advances, what to do or not to do, and making an effort not to alienate him. Though it seems to be working, it's not happening nearly as fast as she'd like. She does get a tremendous boost to her powers as a result, though.
  • In spite of both being machine and design geeks, this is not a common aspect that Skuld and Keiichi have that affects their relationship for the better as it should. If anything, they rarely if ever interfere with each others' work. Most of their interactions concern Keiichi's relationship with Belldandy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In the OVA, when bugs started forming due to Keiichi and Belldandy's close proximity, Skuld unsympathetically tells Keiichi that it is for the good of the world if he no longer sees Belldandy again. However, she uses this as an excuse to break them up and bring Belldandy home with her. Urd angrily calls Skuld out on how much of a selfish brat she's being.
• Little Miss Badass: She may be small, but she can still kick some ass.
• Loving Bully: She is more than willing to slap Keiichi around, but she is no stranger to his kindness and love for her.
• Making a Splash: This is her elemental affinity and it shows from her ability to teleport to anywhere with water, though she never used it initially due to her inexperience with magic. Her water magic develops later on in the series.
• Meaningful Name: Like her sisters. she's named after a Norse Norn, in her case Skuld who represents the future.
• Mundane Made Awesome: She has the habit of doing this by sheer passion, but her crowning achievement in this trope is her defeat and killing of the Lord of Terror by using a magnet to erase the Lord of Terror's floppy disk container.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: She will fly into a fury if Keiichi gets too cozy with Belldandy, especially in the anime and early on in the manga. Later on in the manga this is toned down as she matures and as Keiichi and Belldandy finally grow closer. It's nearly absent in the OVA.
• No Indoor Voice: Especially when Annice Moriarty voiced her. This is especially noticeable when she gets angry.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Invoked. Though Skuld is shown to have grown up◊ by design since the beginning of the manga, Ansuz remarks that she hasn't really gotten any bigger. That's her mom saying that.
• Not So Above It All:
  • She'll never admit it, but she is as close to loving Keiichi as part of her family as she is to Belldandy. One of her character development aspects is her gradual realization of seeing Keiichi as a reliable and caring person.
  • She loves Urd as much as she loves Belldandy. If anything, she trusts Urd more than Belldandy does.
• Only Six Faces: If her inventions have a face they will usually ended up looking like Banpei. Sigel is spared from this because she is a repurposed human-made automaton whom Skuld retrofitted an AI into at Banpei's request.
• Overnight Age-Up: For one episode (1½ chapters of manga), she grew past her "little brat form" and she was more then a match for Belldandy while it lasted. And while she was at it, she began to develop feelings for Keiichi.
• Playful Cat Smile: Gives a very mischievous cat smile towards the diskette-bound Lord of Terror before she erases him with a magnet.
• Plot Tailored to the Party: The episode where she (temporarily) grows to adult size in the anime is a combination of two separate stories in the manga: one where she grows up and Urd shrinks due to problems at Yggdrasil, and one where she unwittingly intercepted an "I love you" declaration from Keiichi. ^note  She "intercepted" Keiichi's love declaration earlier in the TV series, but nothing came of it, at least not for her.
• Power Incontinence: Tends to accidentally go overboard when using water magic, which this is caused by her lack of experience controlling them.
• Pretty Freeloaders: Along with her eldest sister, Urd, she is living at the temple without helping with the rent or chores. However, she insists that her many machines are very useful.
• Puberty Superpower: Starts developing her powers as soon as she learns to love – in other words start maturing and learning to feel for someone outside of her own family.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Need we say more?
• Reed Richards Is Useless: She probably could have revolutionized the world a dozen times over if she didn't keep her talents to herself. This is even lampshaded.
• The Resenter: She really dislikes praising Keiichi and considers him a braggart even when the praise is completely warranted. She somewhat mellows out in this respect because of his kindness towards her.
• Semantic Superpower: Invoked and played with. It's never made clear whether Skuld is actually a true genius regarding her creation of fantastic machinery due to her knowledge, or rather an individual that can achieve mechanical marvels out of sheer willpower and applied magic. Though she might be an actual genius, the speed on which she can build incredible machinery is certainly supernatural. According to her sisters, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her actual potential.
• Signature Headgear: Wears a large hair ribbon around her head in the middle of the manga. Initially functions as a device to resist mind-control during the "Queen Sayoko" arc, she continues to wear it until the end of volume 20. The movie (which was in production during said time period) keeps the ribbon too.
• Sore Loser: After having her robot trapped by Megumi's in the Robot Wars, she took down both robots by detonating her own to make the fight a tie. Later, Belldandy encourages her to shake hands with Megumi as a sign of friendship... only for poor Megumi to get electrocuted by her at the end.
• Spanner in the Works: She and Urd really like to help Keiichi and are always the first ones to jump the gun for him in his endeavors, though they always end up causing more harm than good.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Hild quickly notes that Skuld resembles Tyr.
• Stuff Blowing Up: On three, everybody! 1, 2, 3: Skuld Bomb Away! She was once exposed to an enchanted object that makes everyone see it as something or someone they can't help but kiss. To her, it looked like a missile.
  • In the Hagal Arc is revealed she has an anti-proton bomb capable to destroying the entirety of Hell, for use in case the situation became that bad.
• Sweet Tooth: Especially ice cream since it's her main energy source.
• The Three Faces of Eve: Immature kid sister Skuld, Norn of the future, represents the child.
• Tim Taylor Technology: Most of her inventions are powerful but very impractical.
• Tsundere: Towards Sentaro, such as expressing concern for him when he crashes his bike and then saying that she was actually concerned about his bike; or glaring at him and calling him an idiot when she admits that she was indeed worried about him instead of the bike.
• Unsound Effect: The very first power she develops makes her able to stamp words on her target. The power amplifier in the Queen Sayoko arc shows it can become powerful enough to destroy walls.
• Valley Girl: Spoke like one in the English dub of the 2005 anime and the 2006 Flights of Fancy anime. Granted, she is voiced by Annice Moriarty, who is really good at playing these type of characters. This is most notable in the English dub of the Flights of Fancy episode "Ah! The Goddess's Confession!" when she shouts "THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD HAPPEN!".
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • With her eldest sister Urd, she constantly fights and bickers with ut also trusts and enjoys spending time with.
  • Whenever she's not antagonizing his relationship with Belldandy she is also this with Keiichi, since they are both gearheads.
  • Though they are in the road to becoming an Official Couple, Sentaro and Skuld are among the best of friends towards each other, and also pre-teens, which means they can misunderstand each other easily.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Skuld is afraid of ghosts. This trait is a plot device to keep her from interfering the drama caused by Chieko Honda and Shiho Sakakibara pursuing Keiichi in front Belldandy on separate occasions.
• Wrench Wench: She can build amazing devices and even robots out of even the most mundane of spare parts. This is revealed to be a form of magic late in the manga.
• Yandere: It is often played for laughs, but she can get carried away in her quest to secure Belldandy's attention for herself (in a non-romantic, little sister way, of course).
• You Keep Telling Yourself That: She actually likes Keiichi as a person and she's glad that he and Belldandy are together, not that she'll ever admit it.

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