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Kisaragi Corporation, a self-proclaimed Nebulous Evil Organization, has run into a dilemma: with almost all of Earth firmly under their iron-fisted rule after surviving wave after wave of Sentai heroes, their leadership's attention now turns to what to do with its massive workforce. The solution they came up with is to send its best footmen to other, Earth-like planets, where they can extend their reach.

Combat Agent Six, one of Kisaragi's top(-ish) lieutenants, has been selected (on a dice roll) to be transported to a medieval European-style planet occupied by Human Aliens. Paired with Alice Kisaragi, a combat android with the appearance of a preteen girl, Six would have to commit atrocities and thus be able to collect "Evil Points" to spend on building a base for a future Kisaragi invasion.

Along the way, however, Six and Alice also get recruited into the military of the Kingdom of Grace, which they learn is also under siege from the armies of a Demon Lord and his Elite Four. Of course, Six and Alice cannot let another party beat them to the whole world conquest schtick, so now they decide to split their time between their duties to Kisaragi and Grace. In the meantime, they recruit three girls to their party: Snow, an ambitious captain of Grace's royal guard who recommended them for service; Rose, a humanoid chimera with the ability to assimilate the appearance and abilities of anything she eats; and Grimm, a wheelchair-bound dark mage. Now if only something can be done about their eccentricities...

Combatants Will be Dispatched! (戦闘員、派遣します!, Sentōin, Haken Shimasu!) is an ongoing 2017 light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki (Konosuba), with illustrations by Kakao Lanthanum, published by Kadokawa Shoten under its Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint. There is also an ongoing 2018 manga adaptation illustrated by Masaaki Kiasa, published by Media Factory under its Monthly Comic Alive imprint, as well as an anime adaptation directed by Hiroaki Akagi for J.C. Staff which started airing in April 4, 2021.

These Tropes Will be Dispatched!

  • Accidental Proposal: In Volume 3, as an apology for ruining the Undead Festival she worked so hard on, Six buys Grimm a necklace. Six does this not knowing the world he's in uses necklaces instead of engagement rings as items to signify a marriage proposal. Six manages to get her to reduce it to a Fallback Marriage Pact.
  • After the End: When Six and Alice enter Grace Kingdom, they discover the remains of a tank, implying the world they're on once had technology equivalent to Earth.
  • Alien Invasion: In a twist on the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai formulae, the Nebulous Evil Organisation has already conquered Earth. Now, they're sending henchmen like Six and Tiger Man out to infiltrate and invade other planets.
  • Antlion Monster: One very nearly destroys Six's vehicle in volume 2.
  • Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: A semi-recurring nameless woman is a victim of Six's sexual harassment in order to get Evil Points. Except that instead of being put off, she’s very clearly into it, and rattles off about various fantasies like being assaulted right on the street or being kidnapped and forced to constantly give birth. Both times, Six freaks out and tells her to leave because he’s creeped out by her behavior. He doesn't even get any Evil Points, due to her consent.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: When Tiger Man gets his claws (literally) into one of the Demon King's elite four, a Pretty Boy named Russell, he forces the kid to dress in a French maid costume and clean their headquarters. Tiger Man then remarks that, even though he's normally into little girls, Russell is so cute he doesn't mind.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: Lilith finds herself in this situation when she travels to the other world. She's armed to the teeth and can wipe out entire armies on her own, but all her ammo must be purchased with Evil Points, since the world they're in is a medieval one. Even a few seconds of sustained fire will burn through a huge chunk of her stored Evil Points, so Lilith has no choice but to hold back on using her guns unless she really needs them.
  • Bait-and-Switch: In Volume 3, Six sneaks into Tillis's room in the dead of night, strips off all his clothes, and... starts doing squats next to her bed. Solely to jack up his Evil Points.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
    • Alice initially acts very polite and respectful towards Snow in order to gain her trust and avoid suspicion on Six. Once Snow was demoted, the latter was shocked when Alice drops the act and starts putting Snow in her place.
    • Princess Tillis frequently proves to be far more scheming and manipulative than her Princess Classic image suggests. She refuses to activate the water artifact simply because it has an embarrassing code phrase, despite the fact that her kingdom is undergoing a drought. In Volume 6, it's even shown that her moral color is even darker than some Kisaragi group members.
  • Brain/Computer Interface: Six has a chip in his brain that awards him Evil Points and allows the android Alice to translate the local language via Electronic Telepathy.
  • Brick Joke: Midway through the first volume, all hope seems lost when news broke out that the crown prince and hero of Grace has been teleported away with one of the Elite Four to an unknown location. By the end their fates were disclosed: he and the demon both landed on Belial's front lawn, and are now being trained as Kisaragi agents.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: The economy of Kisaragi Corporation runs on Evil Points. It's pretty much a given their members are committed to doing evil. The reason that they sent Six to the other world in the first place was that they were hoping he would become one of these, because he's secretly too nice of a person deep down.
  • Chainsaw Good: Six's signature weapon is the R-Buzzsaw.
  • The Chosen One: Grace Kingdom has a prophecy about a fabled warrior with a mark on his hand leading them to victory. Six leaps to the obvious conclusion and holds up his hand to show them the mark that's appeared. He is promptly informed that he has a mosquito bite. The chosen hero has already been located, and it's Tillis's brother, the prince. Subverted at the end of volume 1. The prince goes missing in action via a teleport spell, allowing Six to step up and rout the demon army with heavy firepower.
  • Chuunibyou:
    • All three Supreme Lords of Kisaragi run on this trope. Two of them, Astaroth and Belial, strut around in Stripperific outfits and make grand proclamations about their plans to conquer the world, only for their cool, collected demeanor to easily crumble and reveal their pretentious, easily embarrassed selves whenever Six starts teasing them. Lilith, the third leader, is a chuuni of the Mad Scientist variety, always dressed in a dashing labcoat and gloating about her inventions.
    • Rose likes to strike poses and make self-indulgent speeches about her powers. Unlike Megumin, she's only doing it because the man who created her told her to, and she's deeply embarrassed about looking like a fool.
  • Cooldown: Six can activate his power armor's super mode, with the caveat that he's rendered immobile for two minutes and forty seconds after it runs out. This nearly gets him killed with some Brutal Honesty towards Snow that he just likes her for her body, but the cooldown finishes just before she tries to slice him to ribbons.
  • Combat Pragmatist:
    • Six is this in spades. Rather than fight head-on, he'll do things like wiping out the enemy supply lines, set the bottom of a tower on fire to smoke out the occupants, climb the outer wall of a tower to ambush the guards, and resort to taking hostages and blackmail in order to achieve victory. While Snow, Rose, and Grimm will acknowledge the frighteningly effectiveness of Six's tactics, they still can't help but feel sorry for their opponents and wonder if they're actually the bad guys.
    • At one point, Snow challenges Six to a fight. Knowing he's outmatched, he charges forward and blatantly grabs her boobs. Besides earning Evil Points, this also makes Snow so angry that she starts randomly slashing at him with her sword while screaming that she's going to kill him, eventually giving Six the win when she's too tired to keep going.
    • Due to spending time with Six and Alice, Snow has become this as well. During Volume 2, she suggests ambushing a demon camp in the night when they can’t defend themselves. Six and Alice still one-up her by suggesting an even dirtier plan.
  • Comically Missing the Point: When trekking through the desert in Volume 2, the party argue over whether to eat some wild orcs they just slew. Six balks at the idea of eating something intelligent enough to hold a conversation with him, but Snow assures him wild orcs only know barbarian languages, so there's no way they could talk to each other, unaware that Six's cybernetic enhancements allowed him to understand their tongue.
  • Crapsack World: Both Earth and the alien planet are not nice places to live. The former is facing pollution, overpopulation, and resource shortage issues that will drive humanity extinct in the next few decades. Meanwhile, the alien planet is just made out of scattered kingdoms scrabbling amongst each other for resources while monsters and natural disasters chip at all sides.
  • Crossing the Desert: Six and his squad are tasked with retrieving some water-bearing fruits from the desert in Volume 2. They arrive by buggy, but it's destroyed, forcing them to march back on foot (and further weighed down with Grimm's corpse after she dies of dehydration).
  • Crossover: Volume 2 contains a short crossover chapter where Combat Agent 22 visits the world of KonoSuba. After a tryst with Kazuma's party, he abandons his plans for invasion and runs back home. Since KonoSuba takes place in a parallel universe and not another planet, it's unclear if this is canon to either series.
  • Death is Cheap: Alice notes that if worse comes to worse, she can self-destruct her current body and then return with a new one. Six has to remind her that she's the only one (aside from Grimm) with this ability since they're not androids.
  • Defiled Forever: Played for laughs. Grim is so embarrassed about giving Six a Panty Shot during their first meeting, and starts crying telling him he better take responsibility and marry her.
  • "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The opening theme, "No.6", is sung by Miku Itō (Russell), and the ending, "Home Sweet Home", by Miyu Tomita (Alice), Sayaka Kikuchi (Snow), Natsumi Murakami (Rose), and Minami Takahashi (Grimm).
  • Doing In the Wizard: Grimm attempts to prove her god and ability to summon undead is more than simply an advanced form of technology when Alice dismisses her claims as simply being an esper mutation. When she summons a greater devil, Alice makes several requests of it, from creating planets to simply unclogging a toilet. When the devil is unable to fulfill the requests, Alice remains skeptical about the existence of the supernatural. Finally averted when she and Six try putting socks on Grimm, who is cursed to never be able to wear footwear. After a few seconds of wearing them, she explodes, finally convincing Alice that magic truly does exist.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: When Six gets serious, he shows what he can really do with his limited Evil Points and outdated cybernetic enhancements. For this reason, later arcs find ways to restrict his Evil Point usage to prevent him from just utterly curb-stomping his opponents.
  • Eating the Eye Candy:
    • Being a Lovable Sex Maniac, Six is often obviously ogling the girls, such as Snow, Heine and Astaroth.
    • When 6 does his "Top-Knot" prank on Prince Angles, all the girls stare in awe at his size with Grimm getting a big grin on her face.
    • When Heine teleports topless to the demon lord's castle, all the demons gazes at obviously focusing on her bare chest.
  • Elite Four:
    • Averted in that Kisaragi Corporation is under the command of an Elite Three. However, the trio wants Six to perform deeds that provide enough recognition for him to get promoted into their ranks, thereby making them an Elite Four.
    • Played With in the case of the Demon King's army generals, while they start as four only two remain by the end of Volume 1.
  • Embarrassing Password: When Six and Alice reboot Grace Kingdom's rainmaking device, Six immediately sets the password to "Dick Festival", just so he can watch an embarrassed Princess Tillis say it in public. Alice points out that since any member of the royal family can use the device, the king will probably be using it too. Sure enough, in volume 2, the king runs away because he'd rather let the drought continue than say it in public.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Kisaragi may be an evil organization, but even they have standards.
    • Pedophilia is strictly banned, and offenders are executed on sight. Tiger Man in particular is very, very careful about crossing this line.
    • Sexual assault past a certain point is not allowed. Combatants can flip women's skirts, take off their clothes, grope their breasts and butts, and force them to pose for lewd pictures. Anything past that is forbidden. They're also not allowed to do any of that to civilians.
    • Combatants have to perform evil deeds to get points in order to purchase necessary equipment, but there are lines that even they will not cross. For instance, Six is horrified at the Grace Kingdom's diet consisting of intelligent sentient beings who can speak human language.
    • The Evil Points System isn't absolute. If necessary, they will send the necessary equipment needed by a Combatant in order for them to survive whatever situation they're in. There are consequences if they don't have enough Evil Points, though.
    • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil to them. When Lilith and Six visit a factory farm and find out it's run by slave labor consisting of sapient humanoids, they're clearly horrified. When Snow casually tells them that they protect and feed said slaves in exchange for their work (then eat them when they die), Lilith completely freaks out and screams that they’re pure evil.
    • Despite this, Alice manages to cause this when a demon of Zenarith who cuts deals in exchange for souls. After the demon admits Alice's wish to create new planets is impossible, Alice asks for the demon to exterminate the Demon Kingdom. The demon who barters for souls is horrified by the suggestion, stating that what Alice is asking for is genocide.
  • Evil Is Petty: Literally. In order to rack up the Evil Points he needs to purchase equipment, Six commits a variety of petty misdeeds like running around town flashing women, or going in for a kiss with Snow and then pantsing her instead.
  • Expy: As Akatsuki remarks in the first volume, he published the series on "Let's Become a Novelist" before his other works, but given how scarce info on the original web novel is, it probably didn't do well. So it seems like he took the opportunity to reuse some of his ideas and archetypes when writing his later works:
    • Combat Agent Six is a transplant from Earth who combines Genzo Shibata's combat experience with Kazuma Satō's amorality and perversion ramped up to eleven.
    • Alice combines Princess Iris's blond hair and childlike appearance with Megumin's limited firepower, as well as Kazuma's penchant for snark and being the party's Only Sane Man.
    • Snow is a mashup of Darkness's mature looks, swordsmanship (sans poor accuracy) and large breasts, Carmilla's charisma, Shigure and Aqua's bluish hair (silvery, in her case) and greed, and more specifically Aqua's inflated ego, bad financial acumen, and being the Butt-Monkey of the party.
    • Rose takes up Megumin's chuunibyou antics (as well as her self-awareness as to how embarrassing it was) and affinity for fire with a dash of Hanako's voracious appetite.
    • Grimm is a big-sister figure in the mold of Wiz, albeit minus her dignity and with her pre-undeath Old Maid tendencies amplified, with jokes about her boobs flipped into Altena's Panty Shot jokes, with dashes of Kazuma's tendency to frequently die and be resurrected, as well as Aqua's near-complete uselessness in battle.
  • Fallback Marriage Pact: Six promises Grimm they'll get married if they are both single by the time they are 30.
  • Fantastic Racism: The Kingdom of Grace discriminates against demihumans like Rose and Grimm, and flat out even eats some of them. For this reason when the Demon Kingdom surrenders, they seek the protection of Kisaragi, believing they treat demihumans as equals because Tiger Man is someone with high rank within the group, not realizing that he was just a mutated human.
  • Fighting from the Inside: Played for laughs. After Snow kisses Six and makes a pseudo-Love Confession to him, Six engages in some Brutal Honesty by admitting that he only wanted Snow for her body and a one-night stand of sex. Snow slowly goes into Pervert Revenge Mode, struggling to not draw her sword and kill Six, with Six even encouraging her to slow down. It fails, and she's soon crying Berserker Tears while trying to stab him to death.
  • Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good: The heroes are members of an evil organization, while the heroic nobles are less than noble.
  • Good Is Dumb: Goodness proved inept and unable to solve the world's long-term problems. So Kisaragi decided evil might work better instead. The heroes trying to take down Kisaragi are not seen, but they aren't effective enough.
  • Gray-and-Gray Morality:
    • Kisaragi is taking over the world only to be able to unite everyone to fix it. Their Greater-Scope Villain status means they can address the major problems with the world that everyone on a smaller level is unable or unwilling to deal with.
    • The longer the story goes on, the more the conflict between Grace and the Demon Kingdom is shown to be not so black-and-white. While the demons are the aggressors, they're invading due to their lands being ravaged by a monster, and they have their share of well-meaning demons. Grace, as shown later, engages in slave labor of sapient humanoids, has no issue eating sapient humanoids like orcs, ostracizes Grimm and Rose despite both being helpful due to their non-human heritage, and their royalty is shown as remarkably self-centered with the refusal of the king and the princess to say an embarrassing phrase even if it means saving their kingdom from a drought.
  • Honey Trap: Tillis's plan to secure water crystals from a neighboring kingdom involves sending Snow there specifically to tempt the prince, and then using Six to blackmail him. It actually might have worked if Grimm didn’t accidentally cast an impotence curse (it was aimed at Six, but he dodged and the prince was hit instead).
  • Honor Before Reason: Grace Kingdom's main strategy is always to face the vastly superior Demon Army head-on in every battle, ignoring other strategies that could simultaneously make their battles easier and reduce casualties. As a result, their country is losing battle after battle and is on the verge of defeat.
  • Human Aliens: The citizens of Grace Kingdom, situated on what is described as a far-flung alien planet, are indistinguishable from humans. Six and Alice even call them "humans" without any reservations. Given all the mysteries surrounding the planet, they may actually be humans.
  • Humongous Mecha: It's noted that Kisaragi regularly fights against mecha used by various Sentai teams with their own. It turns out the other world also has mecha of various types, from humanoid to insect-like.
  • The Ingenue: Viper is cheerful, hard-working, and naive to a fault. The other Combatants are horrified that she takes their attempts at sexual harassment along with everything they say at face value and make a promise among themselves to look out for her. This reaches the point where, upon learning that Viper plans on allowing herself to be executed in order to give her people a chance to survive, the Combatants risk destroying Kisaragi's relationship with the Kingdom of Grace along with their jobs in order to save her.
  • I Know Mortal Kombat: During Kisaragi's invasion of the Demon Kingdom, Combat Agent Ten volunteers to fly a transport plane for Six and his team. While in the air, he casually mentions that his experience with flying a plane comes from playing Ace Combat and is piloting the plane with a controller, causing Six and Lilith to have the appropriate reaction.
  • Kavorka Man: Prince Engel is a chubby, balding unattractive guy who still a Chick Magnet due to his shrewd charm and money. He even gets Heine and Snow Catfighting over him. Six gets very angry about this, which leads to him playing a nasty dick show on him during the party, causing a diplomatic disaster.
  • The Leader: Originally Six was the leader of the two and Alice is just his support android. But it slowly switches around because Six and the other Combatants are all idiots and Alice is the Only Sane Man. By later volumes she's outright giving both Six and Snow salaries to ensure they don’t starve to death. Justified because while initially Six was sent to the other world in order to spy on the inhabitants and build a base, he ended up starting a mercenary group with the Grace Kingdom believing that they're representatives from another country. This requires someone with bureaucratic & negotiation abilities, which Six lacks. This is shown in later volumes as Alice is the one negotiating with Tillis from behind the scenes, not Six.
  • Lost Technology: The remnants of an ancient civilization litter the barren wasteland of Grace Kingdom, such as a tank on its gates and a device that can control the weather situated right in the castle's courtyard.
  • Mascot: Meat the Ripper, Kisaragi Corp.'s Mascot with Attitude. He looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid in black leather with a mohawk. Some of the phrases in his voice box include:
    "HI, I'M MEAT! TIME TO SLAUGHTER HEROES!"
    "HI! I'M MEAT! TIME TO SLAUGHTER SPINSTERS!"
    "HI! I'M MEAT! TIME TO SLAUGHTER INCOMPETENT LACKEYS!"
    "HI! I'M MEAT! COMBAT AGENTS SHOULD EAT MEAT!"
  • Money Dumb: Snow is remarkably bad with her money. She often spends extreme amounts of money and/or takes out loans to buy expensive swords, which get consistently lost or broken anyways. When she explains to Alice and Six that she got kicked out of the castle, the flashback even shows Snow carrying a backpack full of swords instead of the expected necessities like food or water. This can be at least partly explained by Snow's upbringing in poverty; because she never learned to properly manage money, she spends whatever money she does get irresponsibly quickly, to the point that she ends up consistently broke.
  • Money Fetish: Snow, due to her extremely poor upbringing. Also because she constantly buys stupidly expensive swords that she can’t possibly use.
  • Monstrous Humanoid: The demon king's army is composed of many stock devil archetypes, though Kisaragi also has many mutants in its employ like Tiger Man.
  • Mundane Solution: What Six and Alice usually propose, as they've been raised in an organization that focuses on Pragmatic Villainy. The Kingdom of Grace is often at odds with their plans, however, due to them putting a high level of value on "glory in battle," and believing that a Boring, but Practical plan such as cutting enemy supply lines or burning down a stronghold doesn't present a worthy challenge.
  • Naked Freak-Out: Heine is often embarrassed by the humiliations Six puts her through, with one involving rendering her topless in front of a bunch of demons, and she reacts by screaming and covering herself with her hands.
  • Nebulous Evil Organization: Kisaragi Corporation, Six's employers and Alice's creators. They're evil in that they want to Take Over the World, employ dark agents to do their dirty work, and have their agents do bad things to earn "Evil Points" which they can spend like currency. However, their rule is said to be rather nicer than most evil organizations, and Agent Six is a little too nice for them in spite of him being a grade-A pervert.
  • Never My Fault: Six consistently denies having done things he clearly did, like overwrite the rainmaker's password with "dick festival" or strike up a friendship with a mokemoke. Curiously, even his internal narration suggests he doesn't know what the other person is talking about, meaning either he's just that dense, or the chip in his head is interfering with his memory.
  • Noble Demon:
    • Six, and to a lesser extent Alice and the rest of the Kisaragi group. While they’re unashamedly trying to Take Over the World they’re perfectly willing to ally with the Grace Kingdom to protect them from the demons and one of their mentioned objectives is stopping dangerous creatures that are a threat to the kingdom. How much of this is due to morals and due to Pragmatic Villainy is debatable, however, and Alice mentions that Six’s low rank is due to him being unable to commit truly evil acts, meaning that this might not be standard practice.
    • The actual demons can come across as this, though it depends on the individual. Heine spares Snow during their first fight despite there being no reason to and continuously offers Six to join their side. She even tells another ally that she doesn’t hate humanity despite the conflict, though she does hold a grudge against Six.
  • No Party Like the Donner Party: When the party is stranded in the desert in volume 2, Rose is on the verge of eating Six alive. And that's not a euphemism. Earlier she also looks at Grimm's fresh corpse, making it obvious Six wasn't her only target.
  • Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Being a Villain Protagonist, Six has the ability to request supplies from Kisaragi as long as he has the requisite number of Evil Points. However, when his balance goes into the red, he whines about being punished if he goes back home.
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: After spending a week in the desert, Rose gets all hot and bothered and says she "can't resist" any longer. She and Six have a lengthy conversation about primal urges and morality in dangerous situations, and when the chimera coos over how good Six looks he calls her a real man-eater. Alice then refers to this trope by asking both sides to plainly state what they're talking about. Six thought they were talking about sex, but Rose literally wants to eat him.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Standard procedure for Kisaragi operatives, like Combat Agent Six and Tiger Man. The Supreme Lords, Astaroth, Belial, and Lilith, try to enforce this, but Six knows their real names and uses that to get under their skin.
  • Our Liches Are Different: Grimm is an undead sorceress who can't be permanently killed. Her soul is tied to an altar, and if her corpse and items of sentimental value are placed upon it, she will resurrect during nightfall.
  • Pants-Pulling Prank: In a desperate battle, Snow allows Six to "molest her" in order for him to get enough Evil Points for a weapon. But since she was attracted to him by that point, him kissing or groping her wouldn't count since she was consenting, so he instead decided to trick her with an Almost Kiss and then pulled down her panties, which promptly mortified her and earned him the necessary Evil Points.
  • Pool Scene: Episode 10 of the anime is filler episode featuring a Kisaragi Corp's post-battle parties which takes place in a pool, being mostly an excuse to show off Belial and Astaroth in bikinis both in and out of universe, as Lilith is recording the whole thing and sending it to all employers in an elaborate plan for her to win a popularity contest.
  • Powered Armor: Six's black combat armor enhances his strength and allows him to commit superhuman feats of agility. However, Six notes that his power armor is an older model and can't be compared to modern power armor.
  • Production Throwback:
    • Black Lilith is basically Megumin in a Labcoat of Science.
    • When Six finds out the world he's been sent to has magic, he immediately strikes a pose and screams, "EXPLOOOOOOOSION!" Nothing happens.
    • As Six verbally lashes out on Lilith after discovering from Alice that her teleporter only has a success rate of less than five percent, Belial tries to soothe his rage by offering to send him the latest volume of KonoSawa.
    • At the end of volume 2 (fittingly) Alice summons a Mobile Fortress Destroyer from Kisaragi Corp.
    • While farming for Evil Points, Six twice encounters a girl with fantasies reminiscent of those of Darkness'.
    • After Alice has to inspect Six's lower body, she nicknames his dick "chunchunmaru".
    • Much like Kazuma and Eris, Grimm meets Zenarith whenever she's waiting to be revived, though unlike Kazuma, she doesn't recognize her goddess, instead thinking she's dreaming about a weird girl yelling at her.
  • Resurrective Immortality: Although Grimm can die, if she's set on an altar and an offering is made to her god Zenarith, she will come back to life no matter the cause of her death. Alice is technically also this but she never gets a chance to show it presumably because teleporting in a new body would be a hassle.
  • Red Baron:
    • Freezing Astaroth
    • Flaming Belial
    • Black Lilith
    • Zipperman (Six)
    • True Demon King (Tillis)
  • Ridiculously Human Robot: Alice, Kisaragi Corporation's high-spec pretty girl android. She's so lifelike, she's completely indistinguishable from a flesh-and-blood Little Miss Snarker. Except that her power core will explode if she's jostled too much.
  • Running Gag:
    • Snow spending a fortune on a fancy sword, which is promptly destroyed while she's still making payments on it.
    • When the party work on a task together, the universe will go out of its way to give Grimm—and only Grimm—a messy or undignified death.
  • Selective Obliviousness: Anytime somebody mentions to Tillis that she can end the drought simply by saying "dick festival" in public, she pointedly ignores them and continues talking like nobody spoke up.
  • Sentai: Mentioned in passing by Six. He says Kisaragi had to defeat quite a lot of them in order to conquer Earth.
  • Secret Test of Character: The real reason Six was picked as the one to invade the new planet. In Volume 4, Lilith the Dark outright states that by sending Six into so harsh an environment as the planet he's on, hopefully he'd turn into a "proper" villain that they could promote to their ranks instead of remaining a halfway-decent person deep down.
  • Sexophone: Whenever something sexy or fanservice happens in the anime, it tends to be accompanied by a suggestive saxophone riff.
  • Sexy Surfacing Shot: When Six logs into Lilith's stream of the pool party, the very first thing he sees is Astorath climbing out of the water in her tiny bikini, and he's instantly hooked.
  • Shoulders-Up Nudity: When we see a flashback of Rose being born inside People Jars, she's naked in there but she's only seen from above the collarbone.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Shower of Awkward: Six says he once tried to peek at Astaroth in the shower, but ended up in a mix-up and he caught Tiger Man in the shower instead.
  • Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Alice takes this viewpoint.
    Alice: "Snow's not the brightest, but she's also not that hard to understand. It makes her easy to manage. People motivated by money are pretty dependable when it comes down to it. Idealists who talk up stuff like sincerity and truth tend to lose sight of reality."
  • Skinny Dipping: During the Pool Scene, Belial attempts to convince Astaroth to swim naked, but she refuses, much to her luck given Lilith was secretly recording the whole thing.
  • Stripperific: The amount of authority a warrior woman has is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing she wears. Astaroth, Belial, Snow, and Heine all wear very little clothing and command armies, while the other female characters dress more modestly. Actually justified in Volume 5. Heine claims that, being a fire user, she needs to wear her outfit to avoid catching fire or overheating using her attacks. Snow follows up by stating that the majority of the demon forces are orcs and goblins who prefer to take women prisoner rather than killing them and the more skin you show the more they’ll try to avoid damaging their prey. Snow also claims this is why female soldiers never wear helmets; they need to announce their sex.
  • Stripping Snag: When Heine teleports away to leave Russell to deal with Six and his party, Six tries to grab her too late... but he does end up yanking her top off, earning some Evil Points. She ends up back at the demon kingdom topless and giving the servants waiting for her at the Demon Castle a generous view of her bare chest.
  • Take a Third Option: Six's mission is to spy on the inhabitants of this world and make preparations for Kisaragi to Take Over the World. He ends up growing attached to the people of Grace Kingdom, and rather than turning against them or leaving them to their fate against the Demon Army, he sets things up so Grace Kingdom hires Kisaragi as mercenaries; so they are still technically fulfilling their mission.
  • Take Over the World: Kisaragi's goal, and are on the verge of doing so on Earth at the beginning of the series. Now they plan on doing the same thing on other worlds in order to solve Earth's overpopulation, pollution and dwindling resources problems. It should be noted that they're nicer about it than most evil organizations. They’re perfectly willing to enter an alliance with the Grace kingdom to protect them from the demon lord’s army in exchange for territory and Alice mentions that they’ll try to terraform empty and uninhabitable places the locals can’t use anyway rather than forcibly subjugating the populace.
  • Those Two Guys: Grimm and Rose are often seen together and seem to hang out the most independent of the group. The two of them being outcasts prior to joining Six’s group likely has something to do with it. Grimm even calls Rose her best friend and she officially quits and joins Kisaragi at least in part to stay with Rose.
  • Toplessness from the Back: After Six snatches off Heine's top just as she teleports, the viewer sees a shot of her bare back as she stands in front of a bunch of demons who are staring at her bare chest.
  • Translator Microbes: When they arrived on the planet, Alice hacked the chip in Six's brain so she could translate the local language for him.
  • Vampire Vords: The English dub gives the devil Grimm accidentally summons a distinct Slavic accent, which she drops when Alice starts messing with the summoning circle projecting her image.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite being a Card-Carrying Villain organization, Kisaragi seems to be the only group that's trying to fix the abundant problems of both planets (see Crapsack World above). Six even notes the irony of an evil organization forcing everyone to do what’s best since a divided group of humans can’t work together to solve the issues without old grudges getting in the way.
  • "We're Live" Realization: Astaroth realizes her pool party has been recorded and live-streamed by Lilith right after she almost confessed her feelings for Six, causing her to be mortified.
  • Whip of Dominance: Kisaragi's "Punishment Squad" is a bunch of guys wielding whips and dressed in sinister BDSM-themed clothing. We never see them in action, but Six clearly fears them.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:

"You have earned Evil Points."

 
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Crown Prince vs Clown Prince

Six is annoyed the ugly prince has girls trying to seduce him or fighting over him, especially when he realizes the prince "clueless" act is a ruse.

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