Soon after arriving in this world, she meets Linfa, an angel who looks exactly like Pam's human friend Rinka, but with a very different personality. Linfa attacks Pam but Pam is saved by a man named Remy, who tells her that the world she is in is inhabited only by spirits, angels, and devils, with humans only existing in fairy tales. This goes for Pam as well, as she has been turned into a devil trainee, a low level devil, and is told that, in order to return to her world, she must become a full-fledged devil.
Stray Little Devil is a five volume long fantasy Manga by Kotaro Mori, which was originally serialized in the shonen magazine Dengeki Comic Gao! from 2004 to 2007. It has been translated and published into English by Dr Master Productions.
Stray Little Devil contains examples of:
- All-Ghouls School
- Alpha Bitch: Camio.
- Amusing Injuries: Pam is lucky demons are so much sturdier than humans.
- Audience Surrogate: Pam.
- Author Appeal: There has to be an explanation for all of those butt shots.
- Beach Chapter
- Big "NO!": Literally. Thanks to Pam's godlike powers, her Big "NO!" takes physical form. It's about 20 feet tall and made of stone, and she saves the world (partially) by dropping it on Zu's head.Remy: That's the Tupsimati's power, all right, but used ridiculously.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Orobas.
- Calling Your Attacks: An angel's magic is based on vocal invocations.
- Cats Are Mean: Sitri enjoys being mischievous, stealing Pam's pendant in an early chapter.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Orobas.
- Clothing Damage: Infrequently. Then the final battle is full of it.
- Cooking Duel: Pam has one with an angel chef in the second volume.
- Cool Big Sis: Lizyerra.
- Cosmic Keystone: The Tupsimati, which gives its user an insane amount of power. Pam has a piece as her pendant.
- Council of Angels
- Cute Bruiser: Almost every young devil.
- Cute Little Fangs: Most of the devils have these.
- Dark Is Not Evil and Light Is Not Good: Being an angel or demon does not make someone good or bad.
- Divine Punishment: The World is set under a Rule known as the "The Law of the Conversation of Luck" which means that any Good action done by a Demon or Angel towards the opposing side will be repaid with Bad Luck. In the end Pam just gets rid of the law using the Tupsimati because she finds it stupid.
- Deus ex Machina: Lampshaded by the author in an Omake, but not really used. Godlike powers are bandied about, but they're either there from page 1 (Remy) or set up ahead of time (Pam). See Cosmic Keystone above and Physical God below.
- The End of the World as We Know It: This is Zu's true purpose, and Ishtar wants to use him to destroy the spiritual world and recreate it in her own image.
- Enigmatic Minion: Remy. And especially when he seemed so nice (if cheerfully aloof) at first!
- Evil Costume Switch: When Linfa becomes Ishtar.
- Eyepatch of Power: Lizyerra. As it turns out, it's because she is a fallen angel. Usually, both of her eyes would have been branded, but Aregna was able to protect one.
- Fanservice
- Ice-Cream Koan: The Panda demon has a tendency to recur these at inopportune times.
- In Vino Veritas: Sitri is usually very calm and mischievous. When he gets "drunk" from eating a certain plant, he starts stripping the clothes off anyone he meets. This includes all the men he meets as well.
- Inherent in the System: The Law of the Conservation of Luck.
- Intertwined Fingers: Pam and Linfa at the end, along with their first kiss.
- Kansai Regional Accent: Raim... for whatever reason, since Japan does not exist in this world. Lampshaded by Pam, even!
- Kissing Discretion Shot: Pam and Linfa at the end.
- Knight Templar: A lot of angels are like this, but Dracaena takes the cake, advising the Council of Angels to break the peace and start a war on the devils, just because he really hates devils due to a tragic past.
- Meaningful Name: Pam, as she has "Akuma", Japanese for "devil" in her name.
- My Own Grampa: Played with; Pam is the reincarnation of the "kind-hearted devil" her grandmother Kohaku met, the Demon King Marduk. They were lovers, and when Kohaku returned to her own world, Marduk gave her some of his soul to save her life, and she eventually married a human male.
- Noble Demon: Most devils fall under this.
- Non-Human Sidekick: En Zu and the other familiars.
- Physical God: Remy, more or less. Thanks to the Tupsimati, Pam obtains godlike powers as well.
- Reincarnation: Pam is the reincarnation of the Demon King Marduk, Rinka/Linfa is half of the reincarnation of the Angel Queen Ishtar.
- Reincarnation Romance: It is implied that Ishtar had feelings for Marduk and Kohaku, and her reincarnation Linfa falls in love with Marduk's reincarnation, Pam.
- Relationship Reveal: Aregna and Lizyerra in volume five.
- Say My Name: Pam seems fond of saying Linfa's name.
- Skinship Grope: Raim to Vine. She's punished for it afterward.
- Shrinking Violet: Vine.
- Shower of Angst: Linfa has one after losing Aregna and hurting Pam.
- Shown Their Work: Despite being set up as a fairly generic fanservice title, the author has got a solid understanding of Mesopotamian, Babylonian and Norse mythologies.
- Stripperiffic:
- Raim's usual attire. Lampshaded by Pam when she notes that her bathing suit covers about as much as her normal clothes.
- Lizyerra isn't that much better. When she loses her shirt in a fight, her bra barely shows any more skin.
- Swiss-Army Tears: How Pam cures Linfa after she is turned to stone. Justified because Pam has godlike powers at the time.
- Taken for Granite: Ishtar does this to Linfa. Pam saves her, of course; see above.
- Theme Naming: Most of the devils' names are taken from the Ars Goetia.
- Time Skip: The epilogue.
- True Companions: Pam and her friends.
- Tsundere: Linfa.
- The Unmasqued World: Pam pretty much opens up Earth for angels and devils after the Time Skip
- Unusual Ears: Some of the devils have these.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
- Year Inside, Hour Outside
- Yuri Genre: The feelings between Pam and Linfa/Rinka are made obvious at the end of volume five.
