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

These are the 1st through 5th Spirits that Shido encounters.

1st to 5th Spirits

Tohka Yatogami

Tohka Yatogami

Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Michelle Rojas (English), María García (Latin-American Spanish)

Code name: "Princess" / "Dea"

Angel: Sandalphon (Throne)

Astral Dress: Adonai Melek

"You were there for me, you saved me, much like how today, you asked me out on a date and showed me how nice this world is."

The first Spirit that Shido encounters. Shido named her Tohka after the date of their first meeting (April 10), with one kanji being different. Reine later added the Yatogami surname. Shido seals her powers at the end of Volume 1, and she is allowed to attend the same school as him.

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Traits that apply to both incarnations

• Alternate Identity Amnesia: Her natural and Inverse forms have separate memories. Inverse Tohka doesn't recognize Shido or the name he gave her, while when Shido seals her Inverse self, Tohka has no idea what happened afterwards.
• Back from the Dead: Mio's will influences the world to resurrect Tohka by the end of Volume 22.
• Battle Ballgown: Her Astral Dress is a set of purple-and-cream plated armor and underneath, she wears a dress with a two-layered, knee-length skirt which has a pink-to-white gradient.
• BFS: Her Angel, Sandalphon, is a massive broadsword which emerges from a throne. By fusing the throne with the sword, she can transform Sandalphon into Halvanhelev, which is an even bigger blade with gold and black etchings and red Tron Lines. Her Superpowered Evil Side wields a dark version of Sandalphon, called Nehemah, and can similarly reform her blade into Paverschlev.
• Came Back Strong: After Mio seemingly kills her in Volume 18, she comes back able to draw from the powers of all the other Spirits (including Mio herself) to actually put up a fight this time... but then Mio simply uses her third angel Ain to wipe Tohka from existence.
• Cool Board: Sandalphon’s throne can be converted into one, which she used to help Shido reach Yoshino.
• Cool Chair: Her Angel's scabbard is a throne, of all things. It can combine with her BFS for her Finishing Move.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes are both purple.
• Dimensional Cutter: The final volume reveals this is Sandalphon's full power, but Tohka subconsciously sealed it out of worry of hurting others
• Dual Wielding: In her Full Form, she gets a secondary Angel called Shekinah, which, like her own Angel Sandalphon, is a broadsword. Her Fusion Dance with Tenka allows her to wield the latter’s Nahemah along with Sandalphon.
• Duality Motif: In the two personalities' fused form, the right eye is dark purple like Tohka's while the left eye is fucsia like her Inverse personality.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Briefly sports these prior to going over the Despair Event Horizon.
• Dumb Muscle: Ratatoskr's confidential files on Spirits' data put her physical prowess at the very top of the list, while setting her intelligence as low as it goes, though this could be reference to Tohka being a Fish out of Water with airheaded tendencies. Funnily enough, this is also the only stat that remains virtually unchanged in her Inverse Form's analysis (it goes up by just 1), despite trading defence for even greater speed and attack power.
• Fish out of Water: She thought the world was an uninhabited wasteland only populated by flying mecha troops that would ineffectually try to kill her. Nine months later and she's still missing some parts of being human, though she's getting a handle on that love thing.
• Forced to Watch: Westcott orders Ellen to kill Shido while Tohka watches from behind a barrier. This is what makes her snap and assume Inverse Form.
• Fusion Dance: Tohka and Tenka merge together to take on Mio's defense system in Volume 20.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her dress, hair and eye are predominantly purple, and she's a bonafide Lady of War in battle, despite being a ditz everywhere else.
• Hair Color Dissonance: The novels describe her hair as "night-colored" and on rare occasions black, but its actual depiction ranged from purple dark enough to approach black to straight-up purple.
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Tenka from the parallel world reveals that Sandalphon (and by extension Nahemah) are actually capable of cutting through the fabric of spacetime, but Tohka's kind nature subconsciously restrained its full cutting power.
• Honorary Princess: She was given the Code Name "Princess", but she's by no means royalty.
• Idiot Hero: One of the most prominent Spirits in the story, and one of the strongest fighters. Her airhead personality is a frequent basis for lighthearted moments.
• Irony: While Tohka's favorite food is kinako bread, Inverse Tohka hates it.
• Lady of War: Her Astral Dress is an elegant Battle Ballgown and she swings Sandalphon with exceptional grace, hence the codename "Princess".
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: The most extreme case among the Spirits as she had next to no memories, not even having a name like the others do. This creates a lot of Fish out of Water for her. This comes back in Inverse Form, except she has no problem with not remembering anything. When snapped out of it, she has no memory of what just happened.Subverted for her Inverse Form in Volume 15, as despite Mukuro locking everyone's memories of him away, Inverse Tohka shockingly remembers him and seems to have her own memories unique to her.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Tohka is innocent, sweet and wears bright-colored clothes, while her Inverse self later named Tenka is aloof, callous and wears dark-colored clothes.
• Never Given a Name: She is only referred to as "Princess" until Shido gives her a name, and she has no memories indicating she ever had an original name instead appearing to have had none before Shido gifted her with one. He later names her inverse form Tenka.
• Non-Elemental: Unlike other Spirits, she is not associated with a particular element. Instead, she controls Mana itself. Although considering her spirit mana tends to rip the ground apart if her emotional state gets unstable and Sandalphon's throne rises from it, she may indirectly have some Dishing Out Dirt abilities in the form of seismic waves.
• Pure Magic Being: While the other Spirits were once humans who received Sephira Crystals, Tohka was born directly from her own, hence why she was originally nameless.
• Purple Is Powerful: In line with her overall purple colouring theme, she's one of the strongest Spirits in the story.
• Rank Inflation: Her threat level as a Spirit is stated to be AAA-class, higher than Yoshino and Miku, who are B-class and A-class respectively. Her Inverse Form clocks in at SS-class, the highest threat level seen so far, surpassing Kurumi's S-class. Only Metatron is able to evenly match her in terms of Spirit mana during their rematch in volume 10, both normal and Inverse.
• Red Baron: Her Angel Sandalphon has one, as "Massacre Ruler". As does her Demon King Nahemah, dubbed "Tyrant Ruler"
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: In a single person. Tohka is the cheerful and warmhearted Red Oni while her Inverse self Tenka is the standoffish and coldhearted Blue Oni.
• The Rival: She and Origami already have an established animocity with one another before the series even begins, and it literally only gets worse once both women fall in love with Shido. Both of them regularly try to beat each other at everything, especially if Shido is involved.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • Goes ballistic when she think Origami kills Shido. She references it when convincing Origami that she understands how the latter must feel about the Spirit "Efreet" presumably being the culprit behind her parents' death, and asks if Origami is really willing to make Shido to feel the same way by killing his sister in front of him.
  • Her Inverse form has one toward Shido in Volume 15 for "humiliating" her with the kiss that sealed her back in Volume 7. Origami manages her talk her into subjecting Shido to the same "humiliation" instead of just killing him outright, and she ultimately just lets herself get sealed again when given the chance to do the latter.
• Signature Headgear: In Spirit form, she wears a butterfly-shaped hair accessory at the back of her head. As a civilian, she switches it for a red ribbon with a similar shape.
• Spanner in the Works: She's been either directly or indirectly involved in being able to help Shido seal the other Spirits.
  • She used Sandalphon's throne to help Shido reach Yoshino.
  • While she wasn't sealed, she helped Shido's resolve to try and save her by telling him why she and Kurumi weren't so different and how he changed her for the better.
  • She distracted Origami long enough to give Shido the chance to seal Kotori by giving her an Armor-Piercing Question.
  • She showed Shido how to use Sandalphon to get the Yamai sisters to stop fighting and listen to him.
  • Shido's determination to rescue her and his consequent defending of Miku showed her Shido truly meant his promise that she'd protect her.
  • When Natsumi tried to flee disguised as Kotori and then tried getting the others to admit she was ugly when running into them, Tohka, one of the first two she ran into, ends up telling her she doesn't think that which ends up later convincing Natsumi to help stop the falling satellites.
  • In the new timeline, Tohka feels something is missing since she didn't meet Origami like in the old timeline. Her constant off feelings causes her to be the first to react when Inverse Origami rampages, and helps Shido get close enough to reach her.
  • When Nia's dying due to her Qlipha being ripped out, she noticed she still had some spirit power and told everyone, letting Shido know how to save her.
  • Inverse Tohka got into a fight with Mukuro, and in the process Mukuro nearly killed Shido and began to inverse, but Inverse Tohka helps him get close enough to seal Mukuro.
• Split-Personality Switch Trigger: Whenever Tohka thinks she might lose Shido, her Inverse self takes over. A kiss from Shido turns her back into the usual Tohka.
• Sword Beam: Her main form of attack as a Spirit. Becomes even more impressive when she uses her Angel for her Finishing Move Halvanhelev. In her Inverse Form, a single slash from her Finishing Move Paverschlev creates a Sword Beam so powerful that it not only wipes out most Kurumi clones and Bandersnatch drones fighting in the vicinity, but also cleaves a very large portion of Tenguu City.
• Technicolor Eyes: Her eyes are purple with a small hint of gold. The novels call them "crystalline".
• Tron Lines: Sandalphon's blade is decorated with glowing blue lines. Nahemah's are red.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Due to the Spirits' powers disappearing after Mio's death, as Tohka is a pure spirit made from spirit power instead of a human who became one.

Traits that apply to normal Tohka

• Accent On The Wrong Syllable: She tends to mispronounce words with long vowels. This includes Shido's name, which is written in katakana (usually reserved for foreign words). Tenka also says his name this way the one time she actually doesn't just call him "human".
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: She enjoys it when Shido pats her on the head. To a degree where she gets jealous when Shido pets others on the head and not her.
• All Your Powers Combined: She gets her Full Form by absorbing power from the other Spirits, her new astral dress even shares traits from the Spirits who's powers she absorbed.
• Badass in Distress: Gets captured by the DEM at the end of volume 6, and volume 7 is dedicated to Shido trying to rescue her. He does, but not before Tohka's Inverse Form nearly kills everyone there.
• Baritone of Strength: She had a relatively low voice pitch (courtesy of Marina Inoue and Michelle Rojas in the anime) when Shido first encountered her while she was fighting the AST.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Shido manages to survive against Tohka early on because he was the first person that didn't want to shoot her. Later on, this becomes the reason she changes into who she is now, and then later what makes her fall in love with him.
• Berserker Tears: During her Roaring Rampage of Revenge toward Origami when the latter appeared to have killed Shido at the end of their first date.
• Bifauxnen: Prior to the school trip to the beach, Tohka tries to pass as a boy in order to be with Shido. She tucks most of heir hair in a ponytail, puts on the male uniform, and starts using masculine pronouns such as "ore". Origami approves, but claims that Shido should dress as a girl instead to rebalance things.
• Big-Breast Pride: Downplayed. In the first OVA, while imagining herself beating Origami in each game, one of the things she says to insult her is calling her flat chested with a smirk on her face unlike the angry frowns she gives with every other insult.
• Big Eater: Loves to eat, even if it may not be edible.
• Character Catchphrase: She frequently says "umu", an old-fashioned way of expressing confirmation.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets easily jealous when other girls put the moves on Shido, and especially when Origami is involved.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She was originally very cold and hostile to everyone, assuming that everyone was out to kill her and refusing any of Shido's attempts to communicate with her. However, after their second meeting, Shido gives her a name, and gains her trust, and the following day she sees the world from Shido's eyes which leads to her becoming the person she is now.
• Determinator: In Volume 12, her remaining power fades away and she's directly in the path of the volatile spiritual power Shido was emitting. Despite having everything against her and without the aid of the others, she walks towards Shido on her own, and she makes it.
• The Ditz: She can be quite airheaded at times.
• Expressive Accessory: Her ribbons wiggle on their own when she is excited. Or hungry.
• Extreme Omnivore: She claims to eat frying pans.
• Forgiving the Accidental Pervert: During the Yamai Tempest arc, Shido gets tricked into entering the women's hot springs by Kaguya and Yuzuru. Rather than blame him for being a pervert, Tohka actually tries to help him sneak out of the hot springs when Ai, Mai, and Mii enter the bath. This ends with Tohka accidentally pushing Shido into the ocean, but it's the thought that counts.
• Full-Name Basis: With Origami to show her enmity towards the latter. She stops doing so in the new timeline.
• Genki Girl: After she warms up to Shido, she's much livelier, if too enthusiastic for her own good.
• Girly Run: Sometimes, she runs like a little girl.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Generally a subversion, as she has a surprising sense of modesty for someone so unfamiliar with human society, leading to Shido getting pulverized when Kotori tricks him into several Accidental Pervert moments. In the OVA, she takes a nude of herself in a photo booth and gives it to Shido because Reine told her that anytime she takes a picture she should strip naked to do so (it was actually a health exam).
• Insecure Love Interest: Despite Shido's reassurances, she worries she's not good enough for him, and that he'll get tired of her antics and leave. At one point, she eats very little while on a date with him because she's afraid he'll be turned off by someone who eats a lot after watching a program stating that guys are likely to be turned off by girls who eat more than they do, though he reassures her and she instantly starts eating massive amounts again.
• Is It Something You Eat?: She constantly asks what is edible to humans, as a result of being a Big Eater and a Fish out of Water.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: She's the most airheaded of the Spirits, but also one of the sweetest.
• Love Epiphany: Finally figures out why she feels the way she does about Shido in volume 12. Puts her newfound knowledge to good use by demanding a kiss for every kiss he's given the others.
• Meaningful Name: The first name Shido gave her means "tenth day of the month" which Shido came up with since he met her on April 10th (though the kanji for "day" is replaced with the homonymous kanji for "fragrance").
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: In Date A Live: Spirit Pledge her Shekinah form plays more like a Hack and Slash character. Whereas the other characters has one attack button, and 3 attack skills, she instead has 2 attack buttons (one for her melee and the other for ranged attacks) and and one skill button. Her attack skills are executed through an attack combination instead.
• Morality Pet: Funnily enough, she serves as one to her own Inverse self. Despite her callous behavior toward everyone else, Inverse Tohka cares a lot about her other self, telling Shido not to upset Tohka as she's resealed, and giving Tohka the drive to take on Mio despite knowing that they're going to wind up dead. After Mio's death, she uses their mother's power to create an artificial world to extend Tohka's remaining time with her loved ones for as long as possible.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In the Memoria Freese Campaign Ais Catastrophe, she gets mortified when her fight to defend herself against Ais/Aiz Wallenstein somehow turned the latter into an inverse spirit. Though it later turns out it was planned by a fake Kaguya.
• Never Gets Fat: Tohka can eat large amounts of food without putting on a single pound.
• New Transfer Student: At the end of Volume 1, Ratatoskr fills her an application to be in the same school as Shido. The fake documentation is so thorough that the AST is forced to behave as though she were an ordinary student instead of the Spirit they'd fought just days before.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Tohka outright acknowledges that she could have ended up just like Kurumi had Shidou not saved her, which restores Shido's resolve to save Kurumi.
• Perpetual Frowner: When she's first introduced, she's seen with a frown on her face. At least until Shido befriends her.
• Powered Armor: After she Came Back Strong in Volume 18, instead of merging Sandalphon's throne with the sword to summon Halvanhelev, she converts it into armor called Ratelibish, which made her powerful enough to actually injure Mio.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The emotional Red to Origami's stoic Blue. Only applies to everyday interactions, in battle she burns cold while Origami is likely to go off like a (red) rocket.
• Say My Name: In Chapter 1-32 of the Memoria Freese Campaign Ais Catastrophe, she screams out Ais's full name when the latter summons her Demon King, Heaven's Catastrophe.
• Sobriquet Sex Switch: In the novels, Tohka renames herself "Tohru" when she dresses like a Bifauxnen.
• Stepford Smiler: In Volume 20, she learns that Mio’s death will gradually erase all the Sephira Crystals she created, and Tohka will disappear along with hers because she’s a pure Spirit. Deep down, she’s terrified, but she continues acting normally to not upset Shido more than necessary. It’s only after hearing Yoshino confess her feelings to Shido that she finally breaks down and gives her own confession (which seemed to be Yoshino’s intent) before disappearing.
• Super Gullible: Origami frequently plays with her naivety about the world.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: She becomes more cheerful after Shido gains her trust.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes kinako (roasted soy flour) bread.
• Tsundere: Sweet (Dere) type. She's usually sweet towards almost everyone, especially Shido, but try to flirt with the latter and she becomes a short-tempered Clingy Jealous Girl.
• Undead Tax Exemption: Some characters comment on her sudden appearance, but not even Origami visibly connects the Spirit "Princess" with the new girl. The novel explains why: Reine gave Tohka such a detailed background that Origami's superiors up to the highest ranks have been forced to concede that she simply could not be anything other than the Ordinary Highschool Student her attitude proves she is not.
• Unknowingly in Love: She initially doesn't understand what love is and that she feels strange when seeing Shido with other girls because she loves Shido.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Shido. They're obviously attracted to each other, but several factors, mainly Tohka's naivety and Shido's evergrowing Spirit harem, keep them from being proper boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She attacks anyone stupid enough to threaten Shido.
• Vocal Evolution: In the original Japanese version, Marina Inoue went with a deeper sounding female voice for Tohka in the early episodes of Season 1 compared to the higher pitch that comes after.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She doesn't know why seeing Shido kiss Yoshino (it was on accident) felt so painful. Figures it out in Volume 12.
• Wingding Eyes: In the OVA, her eyes become starry when she shows her new phone to Shido. She also gets swirly eyes after taking three trash cans to the face (just one in the novels) from the windstorm the Yamai sisters' fight is causing.
• Wistful Amnesia: After Mukuro seals everyone's memory of Shido, Tohka's subconscious feeling that someone important is missing from her life stresses her out so much that she Inverses again.
• The Worf Effect: While she's consistently shown to be one of the strongest Spirits in a straight-up fight, Ellen easily defeats her twice. Justified since Tohka fought the first two battle in her limited Astral Dress and therefore couldn't use her full strength against Ellen, who is explicitly stated to be the world's strongest Wizard.
• The World Is Just Awesome: She'd developed this attitude by the end of her first date with Shido, to the point that she was starting to sympathize with the people who wanted her dead for the threat she could pose to it.

Traits that apply to her Inverse Form

The Inverse form of Tohka. She first appears in Volume 7, when Tohka's helplessness to stop Ellen from killing Shido pushes her past the Despair Event Horizon. Unlike the mindlessly destructive Inverse forms seen later in the story, Tohka's Inversion results in a separate, but far more less ruthless personality taking over.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair like the regular Tohka, but she has a very cold, arrogant, and hostile demeanor that makes her completely unapproachable.
• Badass Fingersnap: She's able to manipulate her artificial world by snapping her fingers.
• Barehanded Blade Block: Her confrontation with Ellen sees the former catch the Wizard's laser blade with her bare hand (the novels do indicate that she wasn't unscathed), before following up with a Sword Beam aimed at Westcott.
• Black Swords Are Better: Nahemah is a pitch-black, and evidently much more powerful version of Sandalphon.
• The Comically Serious: In Volume 15, while competing with Mukuro at a cafe for Shido's lips, a maid tells them to perform a heart gesture and chant "Moe Moe Kyun" to get Shido to eat cake. Inverse Tohka proceeds to do it to the cake she put on the floor so as to make Shido eat it like a dog, and later performs the gesture at Mukuro, apparently believing that it's a sign of aggression.
• Does Not Like Spam: Some side content suggests that Inverse Tohka hates kinako (roasted soy flour) bread.
• The Empath: For much of the story, she could not perceive the outside world, and could only sense Tohka's emotions. After repeated Inversions, she can share Tohka's senses, allowing her to see how much the latter loves Shido, and admits that it eventually started to rub off on her.
• Evil Costume Switch: Her Astral Dress looks almost the same as the one worn by the regular Tohka, except for a darker color scheme and a much more revealing design, such as including a Navel-Deep Neckline and see-through skirt.
• Evil Laugh: She lets out a cackle after seemingly killing Shido with Paverschelev.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Her voice is lower than the regular Tohka and she lacks all of Tohka's nicer personality traits and love for Shido, making her very cold and cruel.
• Eye Colour Change: Her eyes are fucsia, in contrast to the regular Tohka's dark purple eyes.
• Haughty "Hmph": Frequently does when she accompanies Tohka and Shido on their date, which she only reluctantly did to please Tohka.
• Hey, You!: She rarely ever calls anyone by name, which could be influenced by not having a name herself for most of the story. She merely calls Shido "human", spent her entire confrontation with Mukuro calling her "Key Spirit", and usually refers to Mio, who is essentially her mother, as "that woman". She eventually starts calling her other self "Tohka" and addresses Shido by his name for the first time as she bids him farewell at the end of their date.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: After Mukuro's powers are sealed, Tenka willingly lets Shido seal her, but tells him to never make Tohka sad again. When she accompanies Tohka and Shido on their date in Volume 20, she openly threatens to kill him if he doesn’t keep Tohka happy.
• Informed Flaw: Ratatoskr puts her intelligence just one point above Tohka’s comically low value, though it doesn’t really show up in the story since she’s portrayed as much more serious.
• Jerkass: She's generally condescending and hostile to everyone around her. Even when she's talked down from outright killing Shido in Volume 15, she still takes every opportunity to belittle and torment him.
• Literal Split Personality: She gains her own body by using Mio's power after taking her Sephira Crystal.
• Meaningful Name: In Volume 20, Shido decides to name her Tenka to distinguish her from Tohka. While the kanji for "Ten" means "sky" or "heaven", it sounds like the English word for the number 10.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her Astral Dress is open in middle exposing much of her chest and navel.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: She protects Shido from Mukuro's Inversion because she doesn't want him dead before she gets revenge for "humiliating" her back in Volume 7.
• Physical God: In Volume 20, taking control over Mio's Crystal makes her an existence similar to a god.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: She wears a violet skirt complimented with black stockings as part of her civilian garb, giving her a more serious look than her other self.
• Purple Is the New Black: Her Astral Dress is a noticeably darker purple than Tohka's usual attire, and it has more sinister connotations, in line with the cause of her Inverse Form's activation. She also channels dark energy throughout the entire DEM building, and black clouds gather around her as she winds up for one of her tremendously powerful attacks.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: A very strange and unique example. Not for Tohka herself, but for Tenka, as Mukuro's sealing of Shido from everyone's memories didn't effect her Inverse form's personality. Yet Tohka inverses as a result of the stress from forgetting Shido, but when Inverse Tohka originally appeared, she had no clue who Shido or Tohka even were.
• Sadist: In Volume 15, she sits on top of Shido and tries to make him eat cake from the floor, spanking his butt when he starts to object.
• She Is the King: Isaac Westcott calls her Inverse Form "the Demon King".
• Split-Personality Makeover: While the normal Tohka's hair is always partially tied into a ponytail, her hair is always fully untied, even with a similar ribbon in her Astral Dress.
• Stripperiffic: Her Inverse Astral Dress is noticeably skimpy, featuring Navel-Deep Neckline that bares most of her skin down to her midriff, and a transparent skirt that shows off her Zettai Ryouiki.
• Superpowered Evil Side: When Ellen stabs Shido from behind and moves to finish him off, Tohka transforms into her Inverse self, which laughs off all of Ellen's attacks before trying to murder Shido and Miku. It takes a lot of shouting from Shido and a recreation of their first kiss to return her to normal. It comes back in Volume 15, but the evil part is subverted this time. Inverse Tohka even willingly lets her powers and herself be sealed for "Tohka's" sake.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Just to get rid of Shido, she uses Paverschlev to cut a huge chunk of the city and the mountains behind it.
• Took a Level in Kindness: By Volume 20, while she retains a somewhat condescending attitude toward Shido, she admits that she's been influenced by her other self's feelings toward him and is openly supportive of their relationship.
• Worthy Opponent: She had initially brushed Mukuro off as an annoying "Key Spirit" who was getting in the way of her payback toward Shido. but she sounds disappointed when Shido seals her.

Yoshino

Yoshino

Voiced by: Iori Nomizu (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English), Denisse Aragón (Latin-American Spanish)

Code name: "Hermit"

Angel: Zadkiel (Puppet)

Astral Dress: El

Yoshino and her puppet Yoshinon

"I... I'm not Yoshinon. I'm Yoshino. Yoshinon is my best friend."

The second Spirit to appear. She's very shy and relies on her Hand Puppet Yoshinon to communicate with others. She causes rain to fall whenever she appears, which is part of her ability to control the three states of water. Mainly uses ice attacks though. Shido seals her powers at the end of Volume 2, and later lives in an apartment specifically built for sealed Spirits.

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Traits that apply to Yoshino and her puppet

• Consulting Mister Puppet: Yoshino is almost never seen without her Hand Puppet Yoshinon. She willingly removes Yoshinon as she confesses to Shido in Volume 20, and gradually stopped wearing Yoshinon entirely by the end of the story, though the puppet is still a cherished keepsake from her late mother.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: In a single person. Yoshinon is an outspoken puppet with a loud voice while Yoshino is a shy girl with a quiet voice.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Yoshino is the timid and quiet Blue Oni to Yoshinon's energetic and noisy Red Oni.
• Split Personality: Reine suggests that Yoshinon is another personality Yoshino developed so she could have a friend to cope with the AST's constant assaults without fighting back. It's a plot point during Natsumi's arc that Yoshinon is an ordinary puppet if Yoshino isn't wearing it.

Traits that apply to Yoshino

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Much like Tohka, Yoshino becomes a little friendlier thanks to Shido being nice to her rather than trying to shoot her on sight.
• Berserk Button: When Shido is starting to know her, he finds out Yoshino does not like it when he calls Yoshinon a mere puppet.
• Blank White Eyes: During the search for Yoshinon, Yoshino's stomach starts to growl, and Shido asks if she's hungry. She tries to deny, but it growls again, making her blush and display these in embarrassment.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Her raincoat's hood sports bunny ears and a poofy tail, and her puppet Yoshinon is also rabbit-like. Her Angel Zadkiel even takes the shape of a massive ice hare, though it's not exactly cute. The artbook shows that her Demon King Astaroth similarly takes the form of a massive black hare, albeit one that glows with blue flames.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the anime, when it suddenly starts raining during Tohka and Shido's first date in Episode 3, you can see Yoshino in front of the arcade they take shelter in. Naturally, the following episodes focus on her as the second Spirit Shido meets.
• Covert Pervert: For such a quiet and timid girl, some of the comments she makes through Yoshinon are quite vulgar. Not to mention, she greatly enjoys Soap Operas, she once untied Tohka's top in front of Shido, and this is on top of her surprisingly clever tactics in seducing Shido in Volume 12. That last case is even lampshaded by Kotori.
• Crazy-Prepared: When each of the Spirits are given the chance to seduce Shido in Volume 12, Yoshino wears a one-piece swimsuit. But then, when it gets damaged due to DEM attack, Yoshino simply tears off her swimsuit completely to reveal another one, bikini worn. This not only successfully stuns Shido, but Kotori even comments that she is "a terrifying child".
• Curtains Match the Window: Light blue hair with matching eyes.
• Dark Horse Victory: Wins a date with Shido over Tohka and Origami who had been competing with each other for most of the session. To be fair, Yoshinon had declared earlier on that Yoshino would win, though that was likely said in jest. She also won the Spirit battle royale in Volume 20 and earned the right to express her love confession to Shido.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Iori Nomizu sings the second and third ending credits (as well as Yoshino's own end-of-arc song), and is also part of the band "sweet ARMS", which does the opening song for both seasons. Amusingly, Yoshino finds "Save My Heart" embarrassing in a karaoke scene in ''Arusu Install".
• Elemental Eye Colors: She has water/ice powers and fittingly, her eyes (and hair because Curtains Match the Window) are blue.
• Emotional Powers: Whenever Yoshinon is separated from her, Yoshino gets so anxious that she unintentionally freezes her surroundings.
• Eyepatch of Power: When in her Inverse Form, Yoshino wears an eyepatch identical to her puppet's.
• Fragile Speedster: She has fairly high reiryoku and is second only to the Yamai sisters in speed, but her strength and defence are lacking.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: While she probably meant every word of her confession to Shido in Volume 20, it was just as much intended to push him and Tohka to be open about their feelings for each other before the latter disappears.
• Ice Magic Is Water: Her favorite application of water magic is ice, which she can use for defense or transportation.
• An Ice Person: While she can manipulate all three states of water, this is the main application of her Spirit powers, exhibited by how she whips up a blizzard, freezes opponents' feet or shoots icicles at the drop of a hat.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Her blue eyes go with her friendly, yet shy personality.
• In the Hood: Her Astral Dress is a green raincoat with bunny ears.
• Making a Splash: She can manipulate the three states of water, though she mostly uses ice for attacking with the light novel also demonstrating she can use rain drops like bullets. It also rains every time she comes to the world.
• Mini-Mecha: Zadkiel is, interestingly enough, controlled by Yoshino through an interface on its back.
• Mystical White Hair: Unlike other Inverse Spirits shown so far who keep their hair colors (only darkened for some), Yoshino's blue hair turn white when she enters hers.
• Never Bareheaded: As a Spirit, she wears a rabbit-eared hood over her head. Her profile states that she likes cute hats, and is indeed usually seen wearing one after she integrates into human society.
• Nice Girl: A very friendly young girl at heart.
• No Full Name Given: Yoshino is one of two Spirits who doesn't have her surname revealed initially, the other being Natsumi. Her surname is Himekawa, being originally an ill girl who went missing after she was turned into a Spirit over 20 years ago.
• Older Than They Look: She was turned into a Spirit over 20 years ago, meaning that at the start of Volume 1, she's at least in her early thirties.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She stuns everyone by willingly removing Yoshinon before she confesses to Shido at the end of Volume 20.
• Overnight Age-Up: In Volume 11, she's turned into a highschooler's age briefly by Natsumi. Happens again in Volume 16, this time as an adult.
• Power Incontinence: Suffers this even more so than other Spirits; if anything happens to Yoshinon, Yoshino's mental state becomes unstable and she ends up either causing rain (at best) or freezing stuff around her (at worst). Also, it rains whenever she comes into this world.
• Powers Do the Fighting: Unlike other Spirits, Yoshino herself doesn't have any combat abilities and is weak to taking direct attacks. Instead her Angel, Zadkiel, manifests as a giant rabbit-like puppet and fights for her by absorbing water from the air and releasing it in the form of freezing air.
• Red Baron: Her Angel Zadkiel is the "Frozen Puppet"
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Yoshino's blue eyes turn red when she is in her Inverse form.
• Reluctant Warrior: She doesn't even fight back against the AST if she can help it, if she gets separated from Yoshinon however...
• Shrinking Violet: While her Hand Puppet has an outspoken personality, Yoshino herself is quite shy around people. She's much more passive than the other Spirits and has trouble articulating full sentences, relying on Yoshinon to do the talking for her. Later volumes have Yoshino speaking for herself as she gains confidence.
• Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: After her mother, Nagisa, stopped visiting her at the hospital due to having died in a workplace accident, her health gradually became worse. It was only by becoming a Spirit that she would recover.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: In addition to being An Ice Person, she's extremely shy and soft-spoken. She deals with this by communicating through her hand puppet Yoshinon whenever the situation calls for a more extroverted approach. This is completely averted in her Inverse Form, however.
• Split Personality Take Over: The possible motif of her Inverse form. Unlike every other Inversion shown so far, Yoshino's appearance changes drastically once Inverted: Her hair becomes white, her eyes glow red, and she wears an eyepatch on her right eye; the impression leaves one wonder if Yoshinon takes over her body. This is made more obvious as Inverse Yoshino has a puppet that lacks all of Yoshinon's usual decorations (sans the dress) with its eyes being shut, like a shy girl Yoshino normally is.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Her surname "Himekawa" contains "ice" and "river", referencing her ice and water powers.
• Superpowered Evil Side: While it hasn't appeared in the main story, the artbook released alongside Vol 16 and the Date A Bullet spin-off reveals what her Inverse Form looks like.
• Tender Tears: She cries when she's reunited with Yoshinon, thanks to Shido. After that, she cries whenever something happens to Yoshinon.
• Those Two Girls: After befriending Natsumi the two are often seen together, with Yoshino even asking Natsumi to accompany on her quest to retrieve her lost memories, and introducing Natsumi as her best friend. She's also close to Tohka, as the two are often seen hanging out and playing together and acting in a sisterly way.
• Ventriloquism: She's a skilled ventriloquist and since she's so shy, she uses it to make her Hand Puppet "speak" for her.
• Water Is Womanly: Yoshino can control the three states of water, but she prefers using ice. She is also a very polite and gentle, if shy, young girl who wouldn't even harm a fly.

Traits that apply to Yoshinon

• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Yoshinon's visible eye glows when Yoshino is pissed.
• Gratuitous English: At the very end of episode 5 of the anime, Yoshinon says "To be continued!"
• Hand Puppet: Yoshino carries Yoshinon as her companion puppet and usually speaks through it.
• It Was a Gift: Yoshinon was a gift given to her by her mother while she was at the hospital.
• Power Limiter: Sort of. Yoshinon calms Yoshino down enough for her not to use her powers on others.
• Security Blanket: Yoshino describes Yoshinon as her hero and ideal self, claiming that it's the only reason she can stay calm while avoiding the AST's attacks. Without it, she became much more easily frightened and prone to summoning Zadkiel.
• Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Yoshinon, being the talkative personality of Yoshino, spends a large amount of its screentime making sarcastic comments on anyone and everyone.
• Third-Person Person: Yoshinon always refers to itself as "Yoshinon".
• Tragic Keepsake: Yoshinon was handmade by her mother Nagisa Himekawa, who would die in a work accident shortly afterward. Yoshinon's personality is actually Yoshino subconciously replicating Nagisa's.

Kurumi Tokisaki

Kurumi Tokisaki

Voiced by: Asami Sanada (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English), Fernanda Ornelas (Latin-American Spanish)

Code name: "Nightmare"

Angel: Zafkiel (Clock) and Rasiel (Book)

Astral Dress: Elohim

Click here to see her 2nd Astral Dress^note 

"I want his power. I want to make him mine and become one with him."

The third Spirit to appear, and the most brutal so far, with a kill count of over 10,000, and one of the few Spirits so far in the series to actively kill people with her powers rather than by spacequakes alone. She kills her targets by dragging them into her shadow, "eating" them, thus replenishing her lifespan so she can cast her powers.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Zafkiel's bullets are condensed bits of her shadow.
• Actually a Doombot: Kurumi initially stuns everyone with her apparent ability to come back to life after getting gruesomely killed over and over, but they'd really only seen her clones dying.
• Affably Evil: She's very well-spoken and polite for a mass murderer. She plans to devour Shido for his power, but she genuinely likes him and enjoys going on dates with him. She even tries to talk Shido into letting her take his life without resistance since she thinks killing Mio in the past will undo his death anyway.
• Aloof Ally: She's not officially part of Shido's group, but on ocassion she will help him if their goals align to some level. This includes the attack on DEM in Volume 7 because she's looking for a captive Spirit, and Volume 11 because she wants him to prove the past can be changed and Inverse Origami's rampage causes problems for her plans.
• Animal Lover: Her love and kindness for small animals is the closest thing to a humanizing emotion that she has.
• Anti-Villain: Her actual goal is to travel back in time to prevent the birth of the First Spirit, whose spacequake killed 150 million people and was the cause for the births of other Spirits. Doing so will retcon all the deaths she caused in preparation for it. After meeting Nia and learning she can't beat the First Spirit no matter what, she decides to kill the people who summoned it into the world: Westcott, Ellen, and Elliot.
• Arch-Enemy: Mana has killed countless numbers of her clones to the point that it's merely a routine, and considers her purpose in life to make sure Kurumi ultimately winds up dead. Kurumi and her clone army don't take Mana that seriously, as their hostility is instead directed at the First Spirit and the people who created her.
• Ax-Crazy: She wastes little time in demonstrating just how much of a psycho she is, killing people left and right with pleasure, though most of her victims appear to be Asshole Victims. Luckily, it seems Shido's influence has helped her mellow out of this over time, but not fully.
• Bad Boss: Kurumi won't hesitate to kill any clones who act out of line. Her first actual appearance is to kill a clone for nearly getting sweet-talked into a Heel–Face Turn.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems like a nice, if extremely flirtatious girl. Then she starts killing people.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's hard to tell whether her motives are good or bad. On one hand, she's devouring people to keep her time-based powers functional, intending to accumulate enough to travel to the past and kill the First Spirit and prevent the 150 million deaths it caused. On the other, she makes those killings as sadistic as possible, and seems to have connections with Phantom, whose motivations are even more mysterious. Volume 16 reveals that she met the First Spirit, Mio Takamiya, and got her powers from her only to be betrayed when her actions led to her murdering her best friend Sawa Yamauchi. This nearly caused her to Inverse, an event that instilled Kurumi with burning hatred toward Spirits as well as broke her enough to turn her Ax-Crazy.
• Body Backup Drive: When she's warned in advance that she's going to die from Mio's Chest Burster, she passes off her Sephira Crystal to one of her clones to prevent Mio from taking it, then repairs her original body with Dalet.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the first episode of season 2, Kurumi looks directly at the camera over her shoulder and talks about her goals while alone on a rooftop. However, the original scene from Volume 4 had her speaking to Phantom.
• Breakout Character: Although she was always intended as a major character, being one of the Spirits around which the plot revolves, Kurumi is arguably the series' most popular Spirit. She even has her own spin-off novel: Date A Live Fragment: Date A Bullet.
• Byronic Heroine: Initially, Kurumi seems to be purely evil and Ax-Crazy, but her behavior and motivations become more complex and sympathetic after her dark past is revealed, to the point that she can be considered a misguided Anti-Hero instead of a villain. She's beautiful, sophisticated, adaptable, determined, and conflicted between her murderous methods and more benevolent nature that she tries to hide.
• Cast from Lifespan: Her 12 Bullet time powers consume her time, or in other words, life force. It's also a rare case of the lifespan being replenishable... by absorbing the lifespan or Reiryoku of others (making this closer to Cast from Hit Points). After being defeated by Kotori, she hasn't been shown killing people anymore (at least onscreen), just drains them.
• Casting a Shadow: Manipulating shadows is her primary power. Kurumi can use her own shadow to phase into the ground or walls, as well as summon white-colored Creepily Long Arms from it. It also functions as storage, as she can store her clones and other people within it.
• Character Catchphrase: She says "Ara Ara...." very often.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: A side story has her putting on a Meido outfit with Origami.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • In Volume 17, shortly before Shido decided to seal all of her bullets, she put into action a contingency plan just in case something were to happen to either of them during the sealing. Knowing that he sealed Vav during the events of Volume 16, but also knowing that he isn't aware that he has it, she creates a clone and and sends her one hour ahead in time with orders to tell Shido of this fact. This ends up paying dividends, as Kurumi's fear of a third-party intervention comes true and she is killed by Mio before the sealing can be done. One hour later, the clone manages to get her message to Shido and expires shortly after (due to it being exactly one hour after Kurumi dies). Shido then uses this knowledge to use Vav's Mental Time Travel ability to jump back in time 24 hours.
  • In Volume 21 Kurumi manages to survive, knowing that the clone body she transferred her memories and Sephira crystal to would disappear once the spirit powers were gone. After Mio discarded her original body, the clone used Dalet to restore it before transferring her memories and crystal back.
• Creepy Crosses: After she steals Nia's Sephira Crystal from Westcott, Kurumi's Astral Dress gets an upgrade that comes with it being decorated by crosses, complementing her Elegant Gothic Lolita fashion style and infamous reputation as the "Nightmare".
• Cute and Psycho: In her first arc, Kurumi goes back and forth between acting lovey-dovey around Shido and brutally murdering civilians while laughing maniacally. She tones it down later on, as the cute side of her personality becomes more prominent.
• Cuteness Proximity: Despite how Ax-Crazy she is, Kurumi has a big weakness for cute animals, especially cats. In her second arc, Shido repeatedly tries using this to lower her guard, like making a cat-themed bento and bringing her to a spot where she can pet stray cats.
• Dark Action Girl: Unlike the other Spirits, she is very aware of her murderous actions, and is the most dangerous one to date with a S-level threat classification, Inverse Spirits notwithstanding. She even manages to defeat Tohka, Origami and Mana successively during her date with Shido, and later on stall out Yoshino and the Yamai sisters, who were under Miku's control. Note that she doesn't hurt them or Miku because Shido specifically asks her not to.
• Dark Is Evil: She's able to control shadows as part of her powers, and prominently dresses in dark colours save for her red Astral Dress (which is partially black, by the way). She's also completely bonkers as far as Spirits go.
• Deer in the Headlights: When Efreet!Kotori charges her Angel to attack Kurumi, rather than efficiently dodge it, Kurumi instead asks her clones to shield her, even though moments earlier the same Angel cleaved through her clones with ease. Volume 16 reveals this was likely the result of the traumatic memory of killing the original Camael wielder, her best friend Sawa Yamauchi.
• Despair Event Horizon: Her entire world shatters when she discovers she murdered her best friend, not even realizing it was her at first. She narrowly avoided Inversion by “rewinding” herself with Dalet.
• Determinator: In Volume 16, she uses Vav over 200 times to avert Shido’s death. Her own clones point out that she clearly doesn’t just view Shido as prey anymore if she’s that determined to save him. Even Ellen feels a newfound respect for her after knowing about this.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Kurumi has two, surprisingly enough. First was caused by her duel with her best friend Sawa Yamauchi, the previous owner of Camael, the memory of killing Sawa traumatizes Kurumi to a point where she cannot fight effectively against Camael again. The second one was given when she gave a secret "thank you kiss" to an unconscious Shido back then in Volume 4, as the kiss accidentally managed to seal Vav in Zafkiel. If Kurumi was able to utilize her full abilities against Kotori, the story would probably have ended in Volume 3 with her devouring Shido, and she would have a much easier time advancing the rest of her plans if she could use her Mental Time Travel.
• Easily Forgiven: Played straight with Shido, who continuously treats her with kindness and insists there is some good in her. Subverted with the other Spirits.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's a dreadful mass murderer with long black hair and pale skin.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her Astral Dress is inspired by Gothic Lolita fashion, with the crimson and black frills and all.
• Enemy Mine: She helps Shido during Miku's arc, after the latter uses a Mind-Control Music on almost the entire cast, turning them all against him. She doesn't make it clear why she's helping him though, whether to repay him for stopping Kotori from killing her, or because It Amused Me. Volume 16 seems to imply the former case to be true.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She might be a brutal killer, but she’s disgusted by how a group of thugs beat up a cat for no reason.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: She often curtsies when she greets others.
• Evil Is Hammy: The more evil she acts, she hammier she gets. It's almost like she likes to make a spectacle out of murdering people.
• Evil Laugh: Quite a few times (it sounds like "Kihihihi!"), notably when she sets off a spacequake before her duel with Kotori in her Spirit form.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Aside from the white pupils generally seen in Spirits, her constantly-covered left eye is literally the face of a Victorian Pocket-Watch.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: While she's wearing her Astral Dress, her hair is longer on the left side than on the right, resembling the hands on a clock.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Kurumi is remarkably polite, using the highly formal pronoun "watakushi" and addressing nearly everyone with the honorific "-san". This fits her elegant behavior (when she isn't in Ax-Crazy mode at least) and hints at a rich background. Volume 16 mentions that she was raised as the daughter of a rich family.
• Freudian Excuse: She somehow ended up in another world and was attacked by a shadowy monster, and then saved by Mio Takmiya who reveals it's a spirit which is a destroyer of the world. Kurumi accepts Mio's offer to gain power to help her stop them, but eventually discovers what Spirits truly are when she discovers she murdered her best friend. Feeling she was used, she resolves to kill Mio so the Spirits will never appear in the world.
• Friendly Enemy: It seems that Shidou's actions at the end of her arc has caused Kurumi to cease antagonizing Shidou and his group. And on a few occasions, she even goes out of her way to help Shido when he's in need. Despite this, she is clearly still after him.
• Friend to All Living Things: Except to human beings... or at least the nastier side of humanity considering the people we've actually seen her kill are not exactly saints. Turns out she only hates the First Spirit (who might not even be human), and the ones who summoned the entity. It is also implied Kurumi sees other Spirits as unknown victims just like her.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has a lower pair of pigtails in her casual attire, though it's more pronounced in her Astral Dress, with uneven length on each side of her head to represent the hour and minute hands on a clock.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Once she learns that the Spirits Mio was having her kill were all Once human like herself, and she had even just killed her best friend Sawa, Kurumi just barely avoided Inversion by using her Fourth Bullet to rewind her emotional state. Afterwards, she went from a Samaritan to the mass-murdering Well-Intentioned Extremist she is today.
• Good Girl Gone Bad: Before she became a Spirit, Kurumi was a sweet girl who only wanted to do good. But then Mio tricked her into killing humans she had turned into monsters, including Kurumi's friend Sawa and Kurumi became an Ax-Crazy mass murderer so she can take revenge on Mio by murdering her in the past.
• Guns Akimbo: Her Angel includes a flintlock pistol and a flintlock musket, representing the hour and minute hands of a clock. When using her special bullets, she’ll point the guns to the positions on her clock designating the time for the number of the bullet.
• The Heavy: Anytime Kurumi appears onscreen you can be sure that she's going to modify the status quo, to drive the plot, to make some reveals about the Myth Arc and to somehow send the various other Spirits on the heroes way.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Shido manages to reach out to her by Taking the Bullet for her, she (probably) undergoes this. It's not complete though. She reveals to Shido in Volume 16 why she can't let this happen fully.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her long bangs cover her clock-like left eye when she's blending in with humans.
• I Let You Win:
  • To Mana, constantly. When she gets serious, Mana doesn't stand a chance.
  • In the Spirit battle royale, Yoshino manages to make her expend enough Spirit power that she couldn’t use Nia's Angel or Astral Dress anymore, and she considers this her loss despite still being conscious with her original Astral Dress and Zafkiel active. Turns out that she wanted to conserve power to reverse the modifications to Mana's body that had shortened her lifespan.
• I'm a Humanitarian: She repeatedly states that she will one day "eat" Shido. Since she's after Spirit energy, she (probably) doesn't mean that literally.
• Indirect Kiss: Kurumi and Shidou share one in the Date-A-Live Drama CD, when Shidou gives Kurumi some of the drink he's already had. Kurumi takes note of it.
  Kurumi: Ufufu...this makes it...an indirect kiss, right?
• Inhuman Eye Concealers: Since her left eye is a golden clock, she hid it with a medical eyepatch until she got embarrassed about it, then started using her hair bangs to cover it.
• Kick the Dog: One of her few unambiguously evil acts was attempting to destroy Raizen High School with a spacequake just to prove to Shido how irredeemable she was.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Kurumi's soft spot for cats is one of the few traits that show she isn't an absolute monster.
• Knight of Cerebus: Shido had initally seen Spirits as unfortunate victims of circumstances who were hunted down for Spacequakes outside of their control, so it was quite traumatizing for him to encounter a Spirit who not only directly, but gleefully, kills people.
• Lecherous Licking: In the anime, she licks her fingers while commenting on how "delicious" Origami looks (in the novels, she outright licked Origami). Later, she licks Shido when he gets a small wound on his cheek and says that a little spit will fix it.
• Leitmotif: Kurumi is the first character in the whole series that had a OST for her own character. Her main soundtrack is Rhapsody Rage.
  • She also has a secondary theme song that serves as the theme song of her Angel Zafkiel.
• Life Drinker: In order to fuel her time-based powers, Kurumi uses "City of Devouring Time", a dark barrier that slowly consumes the lifespan/Reiryoku within its radius. The consumption rate is inversely proportional to the size of the barrier, as displayed in Volume 10 when Kurumi uses a concentrated version of it on Origami and Shido to quickly drain their Reiryoku for Time Travel.
• Literal Split Personality: In the Date A Live Fragment: Date A Bullet 2 spin-off, she has a conversation with her own Inverted self, the White Queen.
• Love Epiphany: After Shido gets killed by Ellen in the first loop of Volume 16, Kurumi kisses his dead body and this unseals her Vav bullet. Kurumi finally realizes that the real reason Vav was sealed was because she kissed Shido as thanks for protecting her from Kotori and he made her fall in love with him a little at that time.
• Magical Eye: Her left eye indicates her remaining lifespan. The hands move counter-clockwise when she is absorbing lifespan, and every time she uses her time powers it will move clockwise at high speed. Curiously, even when she is doing nothing her eye ticks, although to what direction is unknown.
• Meaningful Name: The "kuru" in her given name means "crazy". The "toki" in her surname means "time".
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Her codename is Nightmare for a good reason.
• New Transfer Student: At the start of Volume 3, she infiltrates Shido's high school through unexplained methods in order to get closer to him.
• Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice: Kurumi is very ladylike, wears a frilly dress, and is the Spirit with the largest body count.
• Numerical Theme Naming: Aside from the general number naming for each Spirit's Sephira, the names of her Bullets are 1 to 12 using Hebrew numbers.^note It'd have been Alphabetical Theme Naming using the Hebrew alphabet, if her Twelfth Bullet was Lamed instead of Yod Bet.
• Old Shame: In the past, she wore an eyepatch to obscure her obviously unnatural left eye. Now, she looks back on the eyepatch with shame and has settled on using her hair to hide her eye instead.
• Older Than They Look: She appears to be 17 years old, but when Shido encounters the Kurumi from five years ago, she appears to be the same age. As her friend Sawa's death was over 20 years ago, this would make her actual age at least 37.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: After Shido saved her from Kotori, she ends up protecting him several times, though she insists that her goal of eating him hasn't changed and she simply doesn't want him to die before then. By Volume 16, when she runs herself ragged in a Mental Time Travel "Groundhog Day" Loop to save Shido's life from DEM, even her own clones are starting to question if that's truly all he means to her.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: She brutally murders would-be rapists and animal abusers in her arc.
• Pet the Dog: Quite considerate for a mass murdering Spirit who claims she is "beyond redemption".
  • She has a soft spot for animals, particularly cats. The only time we see her killing because she wants to (and not to restore her powers) is when she kills a bunch of kids abusing a kitten.
  • In volume 10, when Origami requests to time travel back five years, Kurumi first jokes about the reasons, but empathizes with her desire to fix her past and ultimately acquiesces with the condition that Origami use her own Reiryoku to power the time travel, reasoning it will be a good test for the time travel.
• The Plan: She wants to gather enough power to travel back 30 years into the past and kill the First Spirit, and she needs the power sealed within Shido to accomplish this. After meeting Nia in Volume 13, she changes the plan after learning she won't be able to kill the First Spirit to simply preventing it's summon into the world. Her fight with Kotori and Shido's act of trying to protect her also makes her decide to simply steal his spirit power in Volume 16 and keep him alive, rather than actually eat him like she originally intended.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Had this dynamic with Bete in the crossover campaign, Ais Catastrophe in Memoria Freese. With her being the polite villainess to his rude hero.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Her school uniform comes with black tights to complement her polite speech.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Kurumi is stunningly beautiful, with midnight black hair, fair skin compared to pearls as well as a pair of alluring heterochromatic eyes.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Kurumi is a black-haired, (partially) red-eyed girl whose Astral Dress is made out of crimson and black frills, and she's the most murderous of the Spirits.
• Red Baron: Her Angel Zafkiel has "Emperor of Time" as its title. She herself has gained the title "Worst Spirit" for her body count.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her right eye is red and she's one of the deadliest Spirits in existence.
• Rescue Romance: Kurumi starts to develop feelings for Shido after he protects her from Kotori's Spirit form.
• Self-Duplication: She can create clones that have all her experiences, memories and abilities. These clones are kept in her shadows' "storage half", and can be brought out en masse at Kurumi's behest. When still in Kurumi's shadow, the clones can also restrain targets by taking on the form of long white hands with a red outlining. The clones are often used for reconnaissance, and can deliver information verbally or directly convey it to the original Kurumi's head, though the latter method requires <Yud> and risks overloading her with too much information at once.
• Sex for Services: After using Yud to share her past with Shido, she strips down and offers him "everything except her Reiryoku", believing that it's the most she can give in exchange for his life before she changes history to undo his death. The Nibelcole jump in before Shido can make his choice.
• Sexophone: Of the trumpet variety; her leitmotif, "Portrait", plays whenever she enters a room or starts acting seductive.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her Astral Dress is almost entirely backless.
• Shadow Walker: She can hop in and out of her shadow, which serves as both a storage space and a Life Drinker "stomach".
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Enjoys teasing Shido, like when she cheerfully flashes her panties at his request (Kotori accidentally fed him the wrong line).
• She's Back: She returns to Raizen High one month after Mukuro is finally sealed, and it seems she intends to continue what she started in Volume 16 where she's the main focus.
• Slasher Smile: Most of her smiles are of the murderous variety. Comes with being Ax-Crazy.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: She always speaks in a polite and serene tone, even when she's brutally killing people.
• Squishy Wizard: She has very high reiryoku, but she's not that strong, durable or fast (without the assistance of her First Bullet). As broken as a Time Master is on paper, she simply couldn't match up to Kotori's regeneration and (literal) firepower, and only survived because of Shido.
• Start of Darkness: When Mio's actions cause her to murder her best friend Sawa Yamauchi against her will, Kurumi decides that she needs to change the past so she can kill her, later make sure she's never able to be summoned into the world.
• Story-Breaker Power: Considering that Kurumi is a Time Master on top of Superpower Lottery, it's no guess as to why she still hasn't been sealed by Shido. He would be unstoppable if he has her powers. When it looks like Shido is about to seal the deal for good at the end of Volume 17, Mio interferes with the process and kills Kurumi to prevent Shido from gaining all of her powers. This move turns out to be ineffective in the end with Shido using Vav to mentally time travel back in time with the plan of stopping Mio before she started her killing plan.
  • Later in the story she obtains Rasiel, making her borderline omniscient on top of her time powers.
• Sultry Bangs: She hides her left eye with her hair when she's in her civilian disguise, which befits her sophisticated and flirtatious demeanor.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her left eye is a gold clock that spins clockwise while using her powers and counterclockwise while absorbing others' lifespan.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Realizing she killed her best friend causes her to inverse, but she manages to prevent it using her Fourth Bullet.
• Superpower Lottery: She is the first Spirit shown to have two unrelated domains of powers (Shadow and Time). Even though her time powers consume enough lifespan for it to threaten her life, she can mitigate that by draining others of theirs. As Kurumi herself puts it, when she gets serious, "any power is meaningless." Only Kotori at her unsealed state manages to send Kurumi to the curb, and this was likely caused by Kurumi's personal weakness against Kotori's Angel.
  • Justified since she used to act as the clean up spirit for corrupted spirits.
• The Tease: She really likes teasing Shido. Seems to be part of the reason she hasn't eaten him yet. She kicks this up a notch in the Miku arc, even going so far as to lick his cheeks and playfully nibble on his ear.
• Temporal Duplication: Using Zafkiel's Time Master powers, she can make temporal clones of herself.
• Through His Stomach: In her second arc, Kurumi and Shido try to earn each other's affection by exchanging their bento lunches. Since Shido usually does all the cooking himself, Kurumi's tactic is effective.
• Time Loop Fatigue: She puts herself into a loop, trying and failing to save Shido from DEM's assaults 204 times'. While her time reserves reset on each trip, it gradually wears down on her mind, ultimately fainting in the middle of her date with Shido.
• Time Master: Although used more often, this ability is actually stated by the novels to be her secondary ability, where she shoots bullets of varying effects. To activate these, she has to summon Zafkiel, and then position her guns in front of the number she wants to use. The magnitude and/or the duration of each bullet's effects are determined by the amount of lifespan she spends on each shot.
  • Super-Speed: Aleph. It accelerates the time of anything it hits, including herself for that matter. Bet does the opposite, slowing things down instead.
  • Rapid Aging: Gimmel. It causes an object or person she shoots to age.
  • Healing Factor: Dalet. It allows to physically rewind time of objects she hits, allowing her to undo any damage provided she can still shoot the gun. However, while it can reverse any physical ailment (even her own Inversion), she can't use it to bring back someone who's died.
  • Seers: Hei. It lets Kurumi see a glimpse of the future.
  • Mental Time Travel: Vav. It allows Kurumi to send someone's consciousness into the past. How far can the subject go is determined by the lifespan she spends, but the subject will stay in the past indefinitely, and both her mana and her clones would reset in number, effectively functioning as a Reset Button for the target. This does put a strain on the target's mind, however. This bullet was accidentally sealed in volume 4 and initially unable to be used, but it recovers after Kurumi kisses Shido's corpse and she becomes able to use Vav again.
  • Time Stands Still: Zayin. Objects it hits will freeze in time.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: Het. It allows her to use her past memories as clones, allowing her to spy and gather information safely, and if they are killed, their memories return to the original. However, they lack the original's 12 Bullet powers, and is noted to be far less powerful than Kurumi herself, although they do retain the ability to use guns, manipulate shadows, as well as summoning City of Devouring Time and spacequakes.
  • Telepathy: Tet. Targets shot will share their senses with Kurumi when sent to other timelines. Used in conjunction with Yod Bet.
  • Pensieve Flashback: Yud. It allows her to see the past of objects she has hit, restore her own memory, or pass memory onto others. This might be the reason she's avoided gaining Easy Amnesia like the other spirits.
  • Time Travel: Yud Aleph sends someone to the future, while Yud Bet, sends someone to the past. The amount of lifespan Kurumi spends will determine how far can the target go throughout the timeline as well as how long can they remain there, targets will be forcibly moved back after a certain amount of time has passed. Any changes made upon the world will not be remembered except by the ones who are shot by the bullet, as well as Kurumi herself.
• Token Evil Teammate: Kurumi is an ally to Shido sometimes, but she's way more brutal and malevolent than anyone in his team.
• Trauma Button: Kotori's Angel, or at least its berserk state, is likely this for Kurumi as her best friend (whom she killed) Sawa Yamauchi was the original wielder of Camael.
• Tsundere: Despite her obvious affection for Shido, Kurumi doesn't like to admit she wants him for anything more than his power. She even fires a bullet at her own clone for confessing her feelings for Shido on her behalf. Kurumi's own clone is amused by Kurumi going tsun-tsun because of her reluctance to admit she does have strong feelings for Shido.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Using Zafkiel to send Origami back in time to kill the murderer of her parents leads to the events of the latter inversing and destroying the world in the previous timeline. She is not happy in regards to this realization.
• Unwitting Pawn: Mio tricked her into killing corrupted Spirits by convincing her she was protecting the world from monsters of Mio's own creation.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before becoming a Spirit, she had a strong sense of justice and lamented the inequality in the world, seeking to help out those in need. Mio used this in order to recruit her in her mission to hunt down Spirits.
• Viler New Villain: While Tohka only attacked others in self-defense and Yoshino wouldn't hurt a fly, Kurumi is the first Spirit who maliciously kills people. Once she makes her appearance, civilians die en masse, and none of the protagonists are able to talk her out of it. It takes a fully unsealed Spirit to take her down and Kurumi might not have lost if said Spirit's Angel was not her Trauma Button.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: For most of the series, Kurumi's goal is devouring Shido to steal his power. Despite knowing falling in love with him will give him the ability to seal her powers, she ends up doing so anyway because of his kind heart.
• Villainous Rescue:
  • In Volume 7/Season 2, even if it's for her own agenda, she saves Shido from Miku and provides the opportunity Shido needs to save Tohka from DEM and to help Miku from herself.
  • In Volume 16/Season 4, Kurumi saves Shido from DEM's assassins multiple times through a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: She's the first Spirit that is against Shido trying to help her. On top of that, she also manages to prevent the other characters he's relied on up to that point from helping in their usual fashion.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She's killed 10,000 people to acquire enough time to travel back in time and prevent the first spacequake which claimed 150 million lives. Although, her intention is less about saving them and more about undoing the existence of Spirits.
• When She Smiles: Her infrequent happy smiles are as sweet as any of Tohka's.
• Wild Card: Almost on par with Phantom at this trope. Although villainous at first, Kurumi seems to have a knack in helping people when they are at their lowest (as with Shidou and Origami, later). Her motivations are unclear, and while she seems to follow Phantom's directions at first, it's eventually clear that her goal to kill the First Spirit isn't Phantom's orders and in fact Kurumi isn't even on Phantom's side. (as she sends her clones to observe the mysterious entity).
• The Worf Effect: Gets hit hard with this at the beginning of Volume 4 (Episode 10 of the first season) just to show that her powers aren't up to snuff in the face of Kotori's powers. Volume 16 however implies this was actually a case of Worf Had the Flu, as her backstory reveals Kurumi has killed one of Camael's previous owners before, and was traumatized by the encounter.
• Yandere: Kurumi eagerly speaks of "becoming one" with Shido and tries to kill him with the same excitement. Lampshaded by the author.

Kotori Itsuka

Kotori Itsuka

Although we see her earlier than the others, she is only revealed to be a Spirit in Volume 4, as the fourth Spirit introduced. See her entry on the Itsuka Siblings page.

Yamai

Yamai

Code name: "Berserk"

Angel: Raphael (Bow)

Astral Dress: Elohim Tzabaoth

Left: Kaguya. Right: Yuzuru

Twin Spirits who appear in Volume 5. They were originally one entity, but for reasons unknown got split into two: Kaguya and Yuzuru. These 2 have very distinctive personalities, and the original personality is gone. They cause a storm every time they appear.

The duo have been fighting 99 times to determine who is the real Yamai, with 25 wins each and 49 draws. On seeing Shido, they decided that their 100th and final battle will be to see who can seduce Shido first.

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The twins share the following tropes:

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They initially appear to hate one another, but they both want the other to live to the point they want to sacrifice themselves, and are happy when Shido finds another way. Some of their interactions even seem more like lovers than sisters.
• Birds of a Feather: They each develop a platonic version during their arc. Kaguya became fast friends with her "kinsman" Tohka because she was the only one who took her delusions of grandeur seriously, while Yuzuru started admiring "Master" Origami for giving her advice on seduction (both are also very emotionally reserved).
• Blow You Away: Both have control over wind, and are introduced by brewing a hurricane when fighting over who's the real Yamai for the 100th time.
• Braids of Action: They both have braids only Kaguya has hers wrapped in a bun and Yuzuru has hers in a ponytail.
• Chained by Fashion: Their Astral Dresses have manacles on one leg and one arm, with broken chains. The positioning shows that they were originally chained to each other.
• Clingy Jealous Girls: In their introduction arc, Kaguya and Yuzuru literally cling to Shido's arms and fight with each other over his attention to make him choose which of them is his favorite. They grow out of it by the end of the arc, as both girls decide none of them deserves Shido more than the other. In the following arcs, they're perfectly fine with Shido spending time with them separately or dating other Spirits.
• Combination Attack: They can do these in battle. Or when playing beach volleyball. Or seducing Shido. Also, this is how they manifest the bow El Kanaph, which is the true form of their Angel. They pull one off with Yoshino in book 9, blowing away an AST team that dropped their territories to avoid Yoshino freezing them.
• Death of Personality: They explain to Shido that the original Yamai's consciousness is gone, and they're competing over who should have control when they remerge while the loser will essentially disappear. The original Yamai was actually a human girl who received a Sephira Crystal as she was dying from getting run over, but her vanishing twin absorbed in utero resulted in two Spirits from the same Crystal. The sisters' Fusion Dance into Yamai Kamazachi is actually a mixture of their consciousness, and while they regain their memories of their past life, the original Yamai's consciousness is in fact dead and gone, similar to Shido with his previous life as Shinji.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Their Astral Dresses wouldn't look out of place with a dominatrix, as they're form-fitting leather outfits that leave little to the imagination, and come with opera gloves, thigh-high boots, chokers, and chains.
• Early-Bird Cameo: They briefly show up in the OVA, playing Breakout in the arcade. Amusingly enough, both are wearing their Astral Dresses.
• Emergency Transformation: Kazamachi was run over saving a child. When she was dying, Mio transformed her into a Spirit, resulting in Kazamachi being revived as the Yamai twins.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Kaguya is outspoken and uses exaggerated gestures in an attempt to sound cool, while Yuzuru is soft-spoken and has a robot-like speech pattern.
• Fusion Dance: In order to fight Beast, Kaguya and Yuzuru fuse together to become the original Kazamachi Yamai. They later defused to avoid being hugged by Miku..
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: The relationship between the twins became this after Yamai split in two, with each sister ostensibly trying to prove their superiority and trash-talking the other. The war ends after they are sealed.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: They engage in this when they first appear before Shido episode 2 of season 2.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Both girls privately tell Shido to pick the other one in episode 3 of season 2, because they care deeply about the other girl, and want them to live on and sacrifice their own body/Spirit in the process. Fortunately Shido offers them a third option, and his decision allows both of them to survive.
• Hesitant Sacrifice: After Shido tells them he can save both, they both tearfully reveal to each other they not only don't want to die, but don't want to lose each other either.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: The Yamai Twins' Astral Dresses are not identical. In civilian clothes, they tend to wear opposite colors or mirror each other until eventually developing their own styles. Yuzuru has a ponytail and Kaguya doesn't. Kaguya is slightly taller than Yuzuru. And much to Kaguya's chagrin, Yuzuru has larger breasts than her.
• The Immodest Orgasm: They make very loud and erotic noises when Shido applies suntan lotion on them at the beach.
• Incest Subtext: The affection they have for each other occasionally slips into Twincest subtext. It's almost always lampshaded and Played for Laughs, though.
• Lightning Bruisers: The Ratatoskr data book gives them very high stats all around (with the highest being their agility), with the exception being intelligence (though nowhere as low as Tohka). This is quite appropriate for their threat level (AAA). It's also noted their Astral Dress doesn't give them much defense, but also that it wouldn't matter given their power over the wind. Yamai Kazamachi combines their Angels for even more power, and her speed is explicitly portrayed as supersonic.
• Literal Split Personality: They're originally halves of the same Spirit. While the reveal that all of the Spirits were all formerly human and shared Easy Amnesia had put this in doubt, said doubt was erased entirely when we finally see Kazamachi, the original Yamai.
• Lovely Angels: Weapons notwithstanding, they're almost always fighting together after they join Shido's harem.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: Their Angel's true form is that of a bow, which uses Kaguya's El Re'em (lance) as a gigantic arrow, and Yuzuru's El Nahash (chain) as the bowstring. The actual bow is formed from both twins' unique wing.
• Ms. Fanservice: Their Astral Dresses are very revealing, and they're properly introduced in the middle of a Beach Episode arc. Naturally, they get the lion's share of volume 5's fanservice.
• New Transfer Students: They join Shido's school (though they're not in his class) in the middle of Volume 5, right in the middle of a field trip. Naturally, Reine has to make up an explanation to Tamae on the spot.
• Ojou Ringlets: They both got them and they are really long. Probably because they look like cyclones of course.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When they celebrate after teaming up to score a point, the two look quite happy gazing at each other despite having shown hatred for each other prior to this. Shortly after they each separately have a private conversation with Shido, revealing they actually care about the other more than they care about themselves.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Kaguya is brash and hotheaded, while Yuzuru is calm and speaks in Terse Talking, not unlike a certain twins with the same illustrator.
• Power Gives You Wings: They each gain one wing when they manifest their Angels. These two wings form the two limbs of their Angel's actual form, a bow. Yamai Kazamachi has both wings.
• Power Incontinence: A storm appears whenever they use their powers.
• Red Baron: One for their Angel Raphael, "Hurricane Knight"
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kaguya is the energetic, loud Red and Yuzuru is the calm, quiet Blue. Their Astral Dresses, to an extent, are coloured in a similar manner; Kaguya's is purple and Yuzuru's is blue.
• Scarf of Asskicking: As Yamai Kazamachi, their Astral Dress gains a very long scarf.
• Shameless Fanservice Girls: Both of them are quite forward in their attempt to seduce Shido.
• Sibling Triangle: The twins try to make Shido fall in love with them and the one he chooses will become the true Yamai Spirit while the other will disappear. However, Shido refuses to choose only one of them and the twins realize they don't want the other to disappear, so they agree to let Shido seal their powers and join his Battle Harem.
• Statuesque Stunner: Yamai Kazamachi stands at an impressive 180cm (5'11") with even larger breasts than Yuzuru, though she notes that her original human incarnation was much shorter and flatter.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Kaguya's name has "arrow" and Yuzuru's has "bowstring", which indicates what role their individual Angels serve in Raphael's combined bow form. The original Yamai's name, Kazamachi, contains "wind".
• Stripperiffic: Their Astral Dresses really stretch the definition, given they bare so much skin by exposing their shoulders, some of their breasts, midriffs and thighs.
• Theme Twin Naming: The twins' names refer to a bow and arrow. Kaguya's name contains the kanji for "arrow" and Yuzuru's name contains the kanji for "bowstring".
• Threesome Subtext: They adore each other just as much as both adore Shido. They're still not about to share him with the other girls if they can help it.

Kaguya Yamai

Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English), María José Moreno (Latin-American Spanish)

The outgoing and outspoken Yamai twin.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Her lance, El Re'em, is actually used in the twin's combined attack as a massive arrow that is able to pierce through the Arbatel's Deflector Shields and hull.
• Antiquated Linguistics: She intentionally uses on a haughty archaic tone to sound mystic, though she finds herself forgetting to do so at times, especially when Yuzuru's mocking her.
• Chuunibyou: While she is supernatural as a Spirit, her exaggerated speeches like forming a "baptism of darkness with her kinsman" (befriending Tohka) display an overactive imagination. Yuzuru occasionally needs to "translate" it into conventional vocubulary.
• Cleavage Window: Her Astral Dress has an opening that shows off her cleavage.
• Genki Girl: She's described as outgoing and outspoken, to the point of being childish at times.
• Gratuitous German: She likes dressing things up with random German, like threatening to stab Yuzuru and Shido with her Sturm (later Schatten) Lanze, and calling her hand protector in bowling a Fegefeuer Gauntlet. The Yamais' short story for Ratatoskr's Daily Observations reveals that she keeps a book of foreign words to spice up her attack names, with the German section underlined.
• Jousting Lance: Raphael El Re'em, which is depicted in the anime which is a big, red lance. It's actually a giant arrow.
• Large Ham: On top of being hotheaded, she uses a very dramatic and nearly unrealistic vocabulary, in contrast to the calmer Yuzuru. It's later revealed that she's just acting; she believes being a Spirit is "super awesome", therefore she must act appropriately. After she forgets to use it twice when talking with Shido, she stops using the unique vocabulary, but keeps everything else.
  Kaguya: "I'm the Kama Sutra incarnate!"
• Petite Pride: While the twins' cup sizes aren't that much different from each other, when Yuzuru tries to invoke the Buxom Beauty Standard in order to win over Shido, Kaguya is quick to answer that sacks of lard can't even begin to compare with her own slender body.
• Showgirl Skirt: She wears a half skirt around her waist which drops to the knees and opens around her thighs.
• Tareme Eyes: Her eyes are wide and round, contrasting Yuzuru's Tsurime Eyes and representing her role as the more emotive twin.

Yuzuru Yamai

Voiced by: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English), Alessia Becerril (Latin-American Spanish)

The calm and collected Yamai twin.

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• Badass Cape: Her Astral Dress has a small cape.
• Big-Breast Pride: While the twins' cup size aren't that much different from each other, she invokes this in regards to fighting over Shido against Kaguya, claiming that large breasts are a must. The latter is quick to say the contrary.
• Chain Pain: Her weapon El Nahash is a very long chain, which the story calls a pendulum. It's the bowstring of the Angel's actual form.
• Deadpan Snarker: For all her calm behaviour, she sure likes to throw harsh insults at Kaguya with a straight face.
• Defiled Forever: Her reaction when Shido seals the twins' powers and causes their Astral Dresses to disappear.
  Yuzuru: Shedding tears. Yuzuru can't become a bride anymore.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Her listless, half-opened eyes are noted as one of the differences between her and the more lively Kaguya.
• Dull Surprise: Her response to a human (Shido) interrupting their duel.
  Yuzuru: Wonder. Yuzuru cannot contain her surprise.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Yuzuru is coolheaded and stoic, but has a very sweet side that she only shows to Kaguya and Shido, her two most important people.
• Terse Talker: She almost always talks in this manner, uttering a word expressing the nature of her phrase beforehand. The only time she breaks this is near the end of Volume 5 when she and Kaguya are confessing to each other about not wanting to die and stay with each other, where she tries to do this but is too emotionally pent-up to say the word fully.
• Third-Person Person: Unlike Kaguya, she always refers to herself as "Yuzuru".
• Tsurime Eyes: She has narrow eyes, contrasting Kaguya's Tareme Eyes and representing her role as the less emotive twin.
• Underboobs: Her Astral Dress reveals the underside of her breasts.

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