List of Date A Live characters

The following is a list of characters from the series Date A Live originally written by Kōshi Tachibana and illustrated by Tsunako.

Main characters

Shido Itsuka (五河 士道, Itsuka Shidō)

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Saeko Zōgō (Shiori) (Japanese), Josh Grelle (English)^[1][2]

Shido is the protagonist of Date A Live who possesses a strange power that allows him to seal the powers of a Spirit in his body with a kiss; however, the seal will only work if the Spirit holds enough trust or affection toward him to allow it. Although considering trust and affection is a two-way street he probably needs to have a certain amount of affection too, or at least genuinely want to help the spirit from the bottom of his heart which he usually does even before seeking out a spirit. This ability to seal and contain 99% of a spirit's power might have been given to him by Phantom soon after it turned Kotori into the spirit Ifrit. After sealing a Spirit's powers, there will be an invisible link connecting him and the Spirit, through which a portion of the sealed power will flow back to the Spirit if said Spirit's mental state becomes unstable, and back to Shido once the Spirit's mental state restabilizes. So the more angry/distraught/unhappy a spirit is the more power she takes back temporarily while conversely the happier/content/joyful a spirit the more her power level doesn't rise from the minimum level of 1%. He also has the ability to recover from severe injuries which would normally be fatal. This ability is revealed in volume 4 to be due to his having sealed Kotori's power five years prior to the start of the story, and him using her healing ability each time he gets injured. Although this only works on severe or life threatening injuries, minor injuries like scratches and bruises that would heal naturally will heal at a normal human level unless a severe injury triggers the healing flames. In volume 5, he discovers he can also use the powers of the Spirits other than Ifrit's that he has sealed. He can only use the powers in a limited fashion for a short time as even doing one strong attack drained his energy to the point, where he almost passed out and had to be shifted to the hospital.

After sealing the power of several spirits, Shido's own powers go berserk in Volume 12, changing his personality and turning him into a threat. To return Shido back to normal, Kotori and the other spirits must come together to kiss him, so as to calm down his unbalanced sealed power, which will cause a disaster worse than what had happened 30 years ago.

While having a completely different personality, Shido tries to 'impress' his classmates Ai, Mai, Mi, his homeroom teacher Tamae Okamine and even Ellen Mira Mathers, who happened to pass by the area Shido was at, by showcasing the powers of the spirits he had sealed (In this case, the power belonging to Yoshino, Miku, Natsumi and Origami). When Kotori and the other spirits came to approach him, Shido shook them off easily and told them that if they want to kiss him, they have to engage him like what he had done to seal the powers of spirits-----a date.

Near the end of volume 12, during his date with Yoshino, DEM interfered and tried to capture Shido, but he destroyed the team of 20 Bandersnatch easily using a powerful spirit flash. Later, Shido's sealed powers went completely berserk during his date with Tohka due to the second spirit calling out for him. He was almost killed while going on a rampage, when Clinton, one of Ratastokr's executives activated the Dáinsleif, a satellite weapon designed to destroy spirits. Fortunately, Shido was saved by Phantom, who then weakened Shido's spirit barrier, so Kotori and the others can break through to kiss him. They succeeded in doing so after violent clashes with him.

Abandoned by his birth mother, he lives with his foster sister Kotori. He has blue hair and brown eyes, and is in his second year in Raizen High School, class 2-4. He was in despair for a time after being abandoned and subsequently adopted, which made him sensitive to similar feelings from others and wanting to bring them out of it, fueling his desire to save the Spirits. He meets his real sister Mana Takamiya later in volume 3. In volume 7 Westcott briefly addresses him as Takamiya before switching back to Itsuka.

Tohka Yatogami (夜刀神 十香, Yatogami Tōka)

Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Michelle Rojas (English)^[1][2]

Tohka is the first Spirit saved by Shido. She transfers into his class at the end of the first volume. Shido named her for the date of their first meeting, the 10th (though one kanji is different, the tenth day of a month is pronounced as Tohka). Reine later added the Yatogami surname for her. She has long dark purple hair and purple eyes. She is ignorant of the ways of the world, but nevertheless has a normal sense of embarrassment. She seems to have strong feelings for Shido, which she is shown to be unable to understand when she gets jealous after seeing Shido accidentally kiss Yoshino. However, on learning that Yoshino is a Spirit like herself she decides to support Shido in his cause to save the other Spirits such as Kurumi. She even actively participates in battles at times. As of volume 12 she is confirmed to be in love with Shido.

She gets captured by DEM Industries at the end of volume 6, then in volume 7 on seeing Shido ambushed and is about to be killed by Ellen, she is filled with such despair that she transforms and goes on a rampage, attacking everyone in sight including Shido. However he manages to kiss her to bring her back. Westcott calls her transformed state the Demon King, adding that this transformed state is the actual form of Spirits like her in the bordering dimension that they come from before manifesting in this world.

Her Angel is Sandalphon, which takes the form of a broadsword, usually with a throne that doubles as the scabbard, although at times it seems as though she can do just as much damage with or without it, using her hands to project dark energy spheres or bolts in order to slice through inanimate objects with ease. Her Astral Dress, Adonai Melek, consists of a purple ballgown. At full power she shatters the throne (volume 1) and combines the pieces with the sword turning the blade into Halvanhelev (the Last Sword) lengthening the blade several meters long, dramatically increasing her powers and can be charged to unleash an ultimate blow. Fortunately, the one time she used Halvanhelev charged up Shido was able to stop and seal her before the energy was unleashed. When she goes completely berserk (volume 7) her Angel changes to Nahemah, the Qliphoth counterpart of Sandalphon, and her Astral Dress becomes darker in color and more revealing, in this state, Isaac referred her as "Demon King" (魔王, Maō). Her AST and Ratatoskr codename is Princess.

Kotori Itsuka (五河 琴里, Itsuka Kotori)

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)^[1][2]

Kotori is Shido's foster sister and the commander of Ratatoskr who is originally a human that gains the power of a Spirit five years before the beginning the series and thus, saved by Shido at that time. There is no record of how she obtains her Spirit powers, and she is unable to; she does not know why both Shido's and her own memories are vague or missing at that crucial point, though she suspects someone may attempts to erase those memories. However, she is not able to handle her Spirit powers for long before she loses control and is overcome by a powerful need to destroy and kill. When her Spirit powers overwhelm her, she retains almost no memories of any events that transpire during that time. She temporarily takes back her powers from Shido to save him from Kurumi with her power being sealed by Shido once more later on. The reason another sealing was needed was because she took all 100% of her power back breaking the Spirit Link between them that would cause her powers to return to Shido when she calmed down. During this state Shido has none of Ifrit's powers and thus is completely and mortally human which will stay dead when killed. At the second sealing, she and Shido both regain their lost memories of the first sealing: an entity called "Phantom" granted her her Spirit powers when she was left alone at home and crying (with which she destroyed everything around her and nearly killed Shido), told her to kiss Shido if she wanted him to live (which was how Kotori knew about the method to seal a Spirit's powers, and also the ability to heal from serious injuries that Shido got from her), and afterwards stripped them of their memories of its existence, as well as Shido's memories of the entire incident. This memory also disproves Origami's belief that Kotori was the one who killed her parents.

She has red hair, often in twin tails, and her eyes are red. She is almost always shown with a Chupa Chups lollipop in her mouth. She displays two very different characters, bordering on split personality. When she wears white ribbons in her hair, she is completely relaxed and peaceful and shows an immature, spoiled character that's always clinging to her brother. When on Ratatoskr's mothership, Fraxinus, or dealing with major situations, she switches to black ribbons taking on an arrogant, superior attitude to everyone including Shido, but nevertheless still cares deeply for him as shown on many occasions. This difference in character is revealed in volume 4 to be due to Shido giving her black ribbons as a present for her ninth birthday after sealing her powers, and telling her to be strong as long as she wears them. However she is extremely weak to horror-related things, and reacts strongly to them regardless of character.

Her Angel is Camael, a halberd with a flame edge that is capable of changing shape to a cannon that extends to her right elbow. The cannon takes some time to charge up and absorb Kotori's flames and has a devastating attack that blew a hole clean through Zaphkiel and almost killed Kurumi. Kotori with her powers has the ability to recover from severe injuries, which Shido is able to use unconsciously while her powers are sealed inside him. Its represented by healing flames coming out of the wounds. How much of this effect remains when her powers are sealed is unknown. Her Astral Dress, Elohim Gibor (meaning "Almighty God" in Hebrew), is a kimono which mainly consists of the colors pink and cream. In her Spirit form she also has horns growing on her head, with her black ribbons tied on them. Her irises are also a slightly brighter tint of pink in this state.

Origami Tobiichi (鳶一 折紙, Tobiichi Origami)

Voiced by: Misuzu Togashi (Japanese), Michelle Lee (English)^[1][2]

A highly intelligent classmate of Shido who is athletic, "beautiful", and the most famous person in Shido's school. She is often described as doll-like in appearance. She has short white hair and blue-grey eyes. She is the only human "girlfriend" of Shido, and out of all the other girls who like him, she is the most aggressive in her pursuit of him showing no bounds in her attempts to learn more about him, get closer to him, or even on trying to get more intimate with him. If not obsessive it borderlines as she does some weird things such as knowing Shido's exact measurements, and dressed up as a maid when he visited her after overhearing he likes maids. Her dating preparations include an energy drink where one drop will increase his energy a hundredfold, chloroform for emergencies, and a pair of handcuffs with masking tape in case she needs to use them. She knew Shido from when they were children living in the same apartment building and him doing something that had a profound impact on her.

Her hatred of Spirits stems from a Spirit who killed her parents five years prior when it blasted her parents after they managed to escape their burning home. Due to this, she joined the AST, in which she holds the rank of Master Sergeant, in an attempt to find the Spirit responsible for the fire codenamed "Ifrit" and kill her. She reluctantly believes Shido when he tells her that while Kotori, who turns out to be "Ifrit", unintentionally started the fire, she did not kill Origami's parents and that there was another spirit there (later named Phantom). Although whether Phantom killed her parents is unknown. However, considering Phantom went to great lengths concealing its identity such as not having a clear image or voice whenever meeting anybody in addition to wiping Shido's and Kotori's memories 5 years ago its unlikely that it was the girl Origami saw during her parents death. This singular aim of revenge has enough drive within her to overcome her calm, calculating, and composed personality for her to go to the extent of disregarding orders and hysteria, getting her into trouble on more than one occasion. Notably, she was about to be discharged from the AST in volume 5 until Westcott intervened, after which her punishment was reduced to two months of not being allowed to use Realizers. At the end of volume 9, she left the AST to join DEM as a wizard. However, her position in DEM as a wizard did not last long and she became a spirit in volume 10.

In volume 10, she lured Shido to a trap and later attempted to kill the spirits with him out of the way, but was eventually defeated by Tohka when she got back all her spirit powers. She was later turned into a spirit by Phantom and went back in time with the help of Kurumi in an attempt to fend off the Phantom who at the time she thinks was the Spirit who caused her parents deaths, which she was proven wrong just moments after she fended Phantom away, and the truth hit her very hard as she realized who killed her parents, Origami herself. As a result, she falls into extreme despair and turns berserk, similar to but worse than what had happened to Tohka in volume 7. Upon returning from the past, the berserk Origami started attacking the hospital and the surroundings where Shido and the other spirits are at. Shido, bent on reverting Origami to her original self, approaches her, helped by Fraxinus to fend off her attacks.

In volume 11, thanks to Shido saving her parents while in the past, the world changed and moved to a different timeline. Here, Origami has long hair and a different personality as compared to her previous timeline self. However, her parents still died due to a car accident. She also was an ex-AST member, but this time her reason for joining and leaving was different. Little did Origami know that she actually still manifests Satan within her together with all her memories from the previous timeline. Near the end of volume 11, Origami was invited by Shido to a date but turns into "Devil" upon seeing "Ifrit" flames healing Shido's wound when he injured his left arm, while he tried to save her from falling off a cliff. With the help of the other spirits, Shido managed to reach the inversed Origami who was fighting over the control of her body with her previous timeline self. Origami finally succeeded in gaining control over her body and broke free of Satan's rampage, reverting into Metatron. Shido then took this chance to kiss Origami and sealed her power. At the end of the volume, Shido told Origami that he'll be depending on her (as part of the spirit team) for any future incidents and she accepted with a smile.

Her angel is Metatron which is a large crown that floats around her head, which can call out larger pieces of floating golden pillars that seem to resemble to a larger crown that surrounds her. Her powers are mainly the control of light energy. At the end of volume 10, her angel inversed and became known as Satan in volume 11. In her inversed form, her astral dress, Eheia, turns dark and becomes more revealing. The crown on her head also turns dark and changes shape. Kotori called the inversed Origami a 'worst spirit' comparable to Kurumi.

She is also a protagonist of Date AST Like, a spin-off manga which focuses on her relationship with Mikie in the AST, as well as the main character of Date A Origami, a 4-koma comic strip manga which focuses on the romantic comedy aspect of the main series.

Spirits

Spirits are extraterrestrial beings from a different dimension whose arrival is usually preceded by a spatial quake. These spatial quakes are usually involuntary, but they can also cause spatial quakes voluntarily, as Kurumi, Kotori and Miku have shown. Each Spirit has a numerical kanji in their name. They also each possess an Astral Dress as well as an Angel, which are respectively named after the Divine Names of the Sephirot of the Kabbalistic Tree of life corresponding to the numerical kanji in their names, and the archangels governing the corresponding Sephirot. Each Spirit has a unique ability, and each displays different levels of knowledge about Earth. When a spirit inverses so does the angel who gets replaced by a demon of the corresponding Qliphoth, e.g. Tohka's angel Sandalphon of her Malkuth Sephira is replaced by the demon Nehema associated with the corresponding Nehemoth Qliphah, and Tobichi's angel Metatron of Keter Sephira by Satan of the Thamiel Qliphah. It is later revealed that the source of a Spirit's power is a gem known as a Sephira Crystal. When a human is exposed to a crystal, they receive whatever power the crystal stores inside. Giving a Sephira Crystal to Kotori and Miku is how Phantom turned them into Spirits.

Angel

The absolute shield that protects the Spirits; the form, the shape and even its function all reflect on the Spirits itself. Angels can take many forms, from monsters, instruments to swords, all of which seem to display some special power. Acts as both a medium and amplifier for the Spirit's powers. Usually used in its default form by their Spirits, but can be altered into various forms for various reasons. For example, Gabriel is a huge organ but Miku was able to summon it as one pipe to amplify her powers while still being able to move around freely. Kotori's Camael can change from a mostly melee style Axe into a long range cannon that charges up and shoots her power in one catastrophic blast. Tohka combined her throne with Sandalphon to create her ultimate and most powerful sword Halvanhelev.

Astral Dress

Astral Dress, or raiment, is the Spirits' armor created by their power. Provides high powered protection against physical attacks so conventional weapons can't pierce or damage it. Against attacks from DEM weaponry or other Spirits it does provide significant protection, but can be damaged or pierced through. Whether the protection is limited to the areas covered is unknown but likely able to protect exposed features (like the face) as most of AST's combat protocol seems to be blasting the Spirits with full force anywhere can hit rather than to specifically aim for exposed areas. The form of the Astral Dress, so far, either can't be altered or none of the Spirits have tried to alter it. While the Astral Dress and (before being sealed) any clothes Spirits wear are made of Reiryoku, only the Astral Dress itself provides protection. As noted by Tohka, in the first Volume of the Light Novels when she almost got sniped, not only were the clothes she was wearing not considered her Astral Dress, but is extremely inferior for providing protection (if any.)

Identified Spirits

The identified spirits with their associated numbers are 1. Origami Tobiichi, 2. Nia Honjou, 3. Kurumi Tokisaki, 4. Yoshino, 5. Kotori Itsuka, 7. Natsumi, 8. Yamai, 9. Miku Izayoi, and 10. Tohka Yatogami.

Yoshino (四糸乃, Yoshino)

Voiced by: Iori Nomizu (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)^[1][2]

The Second Spirit saved by Shido. She has the appearance of a young girl around Kotori's age, with long blue hair and matching eyes. She has a very shy personality, depending on her puppet in her left hand, Yoshinon, most of the time for communication. She is a very docile Spirit, and does not attack the AST when they attack her, not even summoning her Angel, reasoning that if she does not like being hurt, they would also not like it. However when she loses [Yoshinon] she will be at a loss, and when attacked will summon her Angel, but only to defend herself.

Her Angel is Zadkiel, a giant rabbit puppet that she summons and controls with her right hand. It is capable of breathing out freezing air that freezes the AST members along with their territory. Other than her Angel, she is also capable of manipulating the three states of water, but is usually seen manipulating ice, however there is a tiny amount of Spirit Energy in each drop of the rain that appears whenever she manifests herself in this world. Her Astral Dress, El, consists of a green rabbit suit and a white petticoat. Her AST codename is Hermit.

• Yoshinon (よしのん, Yoshinon)

A split personality that was born out of Yoshino's wish to not be alone and not to have her powers hurt others. It is Yoshino's ideal self, as well as her friend. Unlike Yoshino, it speaks out with confidence and is prone to offending others. It acts as Yoshino's pillar of support, allowing her to keep calm enough to not attack others. It usually does the speaking for Yoshino, appearing to speak through ventriloquism by her doing, but their thoughts are independent of each other, and she has no control over what it says. Yoshinon's personality only comes out while Yoshino is wearing the puppet and both personalities consider the puppet to be Yoshinon. Yoshino is always the human shaped spirit Yoshino, Yoshinon is always the puppet so there are never any cases where Yoshinon takes over Yoshino's body, other than the arm holding the puppet, and Yoshino never becomes the puppet.

Kurumi Tokisaki (時崎 狂三, Tokisaki Kurumi)

Voiced by: Asami Sanada (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)^[1][2]

The third Spirit that appears in the series, and the most dangerous. Her Astral Dress, Elohim, is a Gothic Lolita style dress made out of crimson and black frills. While in her Astral Dress, she wears her black hair in twintails, with the hair on her left side longer than her right. While not in her Astral Dress, her hair is tied up slightly differently, with both sides being of the same length except for the fringe covering her left eye, showing only her red right eye. Her left eye is an inorganic golden clock face, representing her remaining time (essentially measuring how much life she has left.) Although she is prone to killing people without a second thought, there is a twisted justice to her actions. She has so far only killed humans who are doing bad things such as surrounding and hassling her when she wanted to be left alone. She cares for animals a lot, such as when she killed four guys who were shooting a kitten with air guns by making them the targets for her guns. She transfers into Shido's class in volume 3 and even announces that she is a Spirit. She is attracted to Shido from the very start, gaining the envy of Tohka and Origami. She is very aggressive in her actions, causing Shido to be bewildered during his mission on making her fall in love with him. However she reveals to Shido that she transferred to Raizen High School in order to eat him, or specifically the power that he has within him, to gain a large amount of life. She has a history with Mana, as Mana has been repeatedly killing Kurumi, but fails due to the fact that Kurumi keeps reappearing through the use of her clones. She manages to easily defeat the combined forces of Tohka, Origami and Mana at the end of volume 3, but was defeated at the beginning of volume 4 by Kotori. She managed to flee after Shido stood in front of her to stop Kotori from killing her. In the volume's epilogue she is seen regaining her time using her shadow powers to absorb the life of people within a building just enough to knock them out for a bit, but without killing them to 'avoid attracting attention'. She seems to have taken a liking to Shido as she appears in several side stories forcing him to do something with her for fun, but without trying to 'eat' or kill him. Such as going on a date or having him comment on several cosplay outfits she tries on for him.

She reappears at the end of volume 6 to help Shido rescue Tohka who has been captured by DEM Industries, as well as to use Shido as a distraction to find something else in the possession of DEM Industries. It is revealed at the end of volume 7 that she had been looking for and had failed to find the Second Spirit, who was captured by DEM Industries and held somewhere, and was the only one who knew the location and identity of the First Spirit, the one that caused the spatial quake 30 years ago. She reappears again at the middle of volume 10 and helped Origami return to the past on her request. Near the end of volume 10, she shows up at the battlefield and told Shido that Origami, in her current berserk state, is unstoppable. She then sends Shido back 5 years into the past on her behalf for an unknown mission, supposedly to not only find out what exactly caused Origami to fall into such despair, but to find out how Origami met him from that long ago. In volume 11, she assists Shido who is in the past, trying to find out what exactly caused Origami to inverse. She then found out through Shido's mind that the inverse was caused by Origami learning the truth about her killing her own parents. She then told Shido to meet her past self after he had failed to stop Origami from killing her parents in front of her younger self for the first time. With the help of Kurumi from the past, Shido returned to the time before Origami's parents were killed and tries to reverse the situation for the second time, where he succeeded in doing so. He lost contact with Kurumi upon crossing over to a new timeline.

In volume 12, she tried to rescue the second spirit from a DEM plane carrying the spirit, but she was defeated by a certain wizard who wears the same wiring suit as Ellen Mira Mathers with her weapon, Aroundight. She reappears again at the end of the volume to search the plane for the second spirit, which was destroyed by Shido's spirit power earlier on, but was shocked to find out that she had escaped. As of volume 12 her powers have yet to be sealed by Shido.

Her Angel is Zaphkiel, which takes the form of a massive clock face with a musket and a flintlock pistol taking the place of the minute and hour hands of the clock, and which allows her to control time. She is able to summon her past selves to fight or take her place as they are essentially Kurumi herself. This not only allows her to cheat death by summoning herself from before her death, but also makes it more difficult for Shido to reach her; such as when Shido was able to persuade a clone on top of the school but was interrupted when she killed that version of herself for showing weakness, circumventing any emotional persuasions the same way as physical injuries. Although which memories are kept and which die with the one killed is unknown along with how Kurumi uses her clones to evade death. From within her shadow they can reach out their arms and grab people to hold them or to drag them into the shadow which somehow ends up with the person seeming to have exploded when the area is shown later. They can come out of the shadow and use the same clothes and guns as the original but not the powers of the Angel directly.

The twelve Roman numerals on the clock has different powers that only the original Kurumi can use. She has twelve different abilities she can use, which are named after the first twelve Hebrew numerals. The abilities she has shown so far include First Bullet: Aleph (which speeds up time, allowing the target to move faster), Second Bullet: Bet (which slows down time and causes the target to move slower), Fourth Bullet: Dalet (which reverses time and which can undo injuries the target sustains), Seventh Bullet: Zayin (which stops time, freezing the target and preventing it from moving), Eighth Bullet: Het (which makes clones of the target, these clones being cloned from a past form of the target, and this ability being the secret behind her past selves and why she keeps reappearing after being killed), and Tenth Bullet: Yud (which allows her to see the past experiences of the target). Her power causes her life to be eaten away, the clock hands on her eye rapidly turning in the clockwise direction each time she uses Zaphkiel's power. This forces her to obtain 'time' from outside sources, specifically from either killing other humans using her shadows, or using the City of Devouring Time to weaken those caught in her shadows to strengthen herself. In addition, the real reason she wants to gather a large amount of time is to not only be able to use Twelfth Bullet: Yud Bet to go back 30 years in time to kill the First Spirit, but also to have enough left over to do the deed. Her AST codename is Nightmare.

Yamai (八舞, Yamai)

Together, they are the Third Spirit saved by Shido. Similar in age to Shido, Kaguya and Yuzuru are identical twins, even being described as "clones" since they both split from the same Yamai Spirit, with the reason for the split as well as the original Yamai's personality both being unknown. Although they are two different, independent individuals, strictly speaking they are still one Spirit, Yamai. They both have long orange hair and mercury colored eyes. They are well known to people who know about Spirits as well as the general population due to causing a major atmospheric change when they duel while having a significant amount of witnesses. However the spatial quakes they cause have few to no casualties due to them manifesting high up in the sky. Their constant duels stem from both of them arguing about who is the real Yamai. Both of them have dueled in various fashions, with 25 wins apiece and 49 draws after 99 matches. On seeing Shido they agreed their 100th and final match to be who can seduce him first.

However deep down they each wanted the other to live, resulting in the both of them asking Shido to choose the other. When they learned of each other's true thoughts, they got angry enough at each other for not wanting to live, to fight again, this time to see who would run out of energy first. The real winner is revealed to be decided by who loses(the winner disappears, or "survival of the weakest." However Shido managed to stop them and give them the option of both living on as Yamai, as well as him sealing both their powers together. They both realized that what they really wanted, was for both to live on together. Being grateful to him for giving them that option, they kiss him together, which seals their powers. They join Shido's school, transferring to class 2-3, the class beside Shido's.

Their Angel is Raphael, whose true form is a bow and arrow weapon, El Kanaph, which has a high penetration capability, and is formed by combining their weapons. They both possess the power to control air currents. Their Astral Dresses, Elohim Tzabaoth, are visually masochistic, being covered in a dark colored coat with various parts of their bodies being covered by straps, Kaguya's being purple and Yuzuru's being blue. Both also have locks which possess torn off chains protruding from them, Kaguya's being on her neck, right hand, and right leg, and Yuzuru's being on her neck, left hand, and left leg. Their AST codename is Berserk.

• Kaguya Yamai (八舞 耶倶矢, Yamai Kaguya)

Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)^[2]

Her personality is outgoing and very highly spoken of herself to the point that she doesn't always think statements through. The resulting effects from her outspokenness can make her seem childish or immature. She has her long orange colored hair braided up. Her main weapon is El Re'em, a lance.

• Yuzuru Yamai (八舞 夕弦, Yamai Yuzuru)

Voiced by: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)^[2]

Personality-wise, she speaks in a distinctive manner in an almost robotic structure with her intent of the statement stated beforehand in a one word sentence. She is reserved however she will not hesitate to point out the flaws within Kaguya's arguments. She looks identical to Kaguya, albeit being slightly more well-endowed than her twin. Other differences include her hair being braided into three portions and her expression appears listless. Her main weapon is El Nahash, a chain.

Miku Izayoi (誘宵 美九, Izayoi Miku)

Voiced by: Minori Chihara (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)^[2]

The fourth Spirit saved by Shido. Miku is a Spirit that first appears in volume 6 of the series. She is introduced as a student of Rindōji Girls' Academy who first appeared in this world in March, and transferred to Rindōji in April. She also works as a very famous and popular idol singer. She is initially distrusing of men as well as humanity. She has violet hair and eyes, and she is always seen with a yellow flower-shaped hair clip in her hair. Her Astral Dress, Shaddai El Chai, adds a yellow crescent moon to the hair clip, as well as a number of white flowers in her hair. The Astral Dress itself consists of a mainly yellow dress with some blue parts as well as white frills.

Before the beginning of the series, she is originally a human who was not good at anything but singing, but she can sing better than everyone else around her, and hence has dreamed of performing on the big stage from a young age. She makes her debut as Tsukino Yoimachi (宵待 月乃, Yoimachi Tsukino) when she is 15 years old. A year later, she refuses to sleep with a TV producer, after which rumors about scandals began to spread. Losing her trust with her agency and her fans, she attempts to reconnect with her fans with her singing, but suffers psychogenic aphonia on stage, resulting in her losing her voice. This led her to contemplate suicide until Phantom approached her and gave her her current Spirit powers. Due to this incident, it diminishes her trust with everyone, resenting males and seeing females as her slaves and puppets. Years later, after Shido saves Tohka from DEM's clutches, and later keep his vow to to help her as well by saving Miku from Tohka's wrath, she falls in love with him, deliberately initiates the kiss to allow him to seal her powers, and even calls him "darling", trusting him to keep his vow to continue to be her fan even if everyone else distrusts her. She loves Shido to the point of declaring him to be her boyfriend around others.

Her Angel is Gabriel, which takes the form of an organ complete with speakers, through which she can transmit and strongly amplify her voice, and by extension her sound-based powers, of which she has demonstrated three so far: March, which enhances the listeners' physical strength, Rondo, which generates sound pressure in the form of a wall and is her primary form of defense and attack, and Solo, which brainwashes her listeners to cause them to be devoted to her, but can be blocked out by a pair of earplugs. A devoted follower will refer to Miku as Onee-sama (Formal Japanese for big sister) and think or do things they normally wouldn't do, even if unasked, to help her out no matter how insane the action. Such as what Kotori and crew were about to do as punishment to all the people, especially Shidou, who had hurt Miku before being interrupted. Her AST codename is Diva.

Natsumi (七罪, Natsumi)

The fifth Spirit saved by Shido. Natsumi is a spirit who first appears in Volume 8. Her initial appearance is a healthy young adult, but near the end of the volume, her true form is a sickly little girl. In both of these forms, she has emerald colored hair and eyes. She acts hostile towards Shido after believing that he saw her true form which he did not actually see. This is because the AST's dust which cancels out her magic also blinded him so by the time he could see again she was already back in her adult form. As the beginning of her revenge she disguises as Shido in his school to try and ruin his life, but she was found out by the real Shido, as well as Tohka and Origami who saw through her disguise. Having her perfect disguise seen through infuriates her even further and keeps telling herself over and over that it's impossible for her perfect disguise to be seen through. She later threatens Shido in which he has to find out who she was disguising as in one of the twelve photos of people he knows or else those twelve will disappear. After Shido finds out who she was disguising as, Haniel, for some reason, has its mirror break which releases the people who were already captured. Natsumi, who was in a nervous state, had also reverted into her true form in front of Shido and his friends who were captured. Most likely this was because Shido 'won' the game which shattered Haniel's mirror breaking all the spells it was maintaining, such as the one imprisoning the others and the other one making Natsumi look like a voluptuous young adult. As Natsumi felt embarrassed from having her true form seen, she transforms back into her adult form and transforms Shido and the others into children. She then flies off on Haniel.

In Volume 9, her hiding place was later found by the Fraxinus and Natsumi escaped to a inhabited mountain side. There, she was attacked by Ellen Mira Mathers and got heavily injured. Just as Ellen was about to attack her again, she was saved by Shido and the other spirits with him. She was then transported to the Fraxinus, returning to her original form on the way. Kotori and the others affected by Natsumi's magic were turned back to normal as well as her transformation ability was released when she lost consciousness. Natsumi was later brought to an underground facility in the city owned by <Ratatoskr> where Shido attempted to seal her powers with the help of Kotori and the others present. However, his plan failed when Natsumi escaped from the underground facility after having too much negative thoughts about the great treatment Shido & the others gave her. Natsumi later assisted Shido and the 5 spirits to stop 3 artificial satellites sent by DEM Industries which was planned to assassinate Issac Westcott from destroying the entire Tenguu City which they succeeded in doing so. Natsumi then initiates the kiss with Shidou to allow her powers to be sealed, upon being satisfied by Shidou's response on a question and request to confirm how important she is to him.

Her Angel is Haniel, which takes the form of a broomstick. Its ability can transform the target into any form Natsumi wants. This can be people, objects, whatever she desires. Such as turning some of the AST members into cute animals during their battle. The Angel has a gem on the tip that can turn into a mirror which can entrap anyone inside. Her AST code name is Witch. Her power can also be used on Haniel itself to mimic another Spirit's Angel and its abilities, but to a lesser degree. For example, she used it against DEM's third satellite by mimicking Tohka's Angel, Sandalphon, to create an attack wave of her own. However, it was noted that while powerful it was inferior to one from Tohka with all her Spirit Powers.

Nia Honjou (本条 二亜, Honjō Nia)

"The Second Spirit", and also the ninth spirit to appear. She was first mentioned in Volume 7, but made her first appearance in Volume 12 and meeting Shido in Volume 13.

Phantom (ファントム, Fantomu)

A mysterious entity who gave Kotori, Miku, and Origami their spirit powers. This was done by offering them a gem that dissolved into their hands infusing them with the power of a spirit. It's unknown whether only some or all Spirits were humans given powers or were always Spirits in the first place. Her motives so far, other than creating more Spirits, is unknown. How she creates the crystals or selects girls to turn into Spirits is unknown also. Whenever meeting someone Phantom always hides her identity by turning her appearance and voice into 'noise' so while people know she's there and can 'hear' her voice in their minds, nobody can discern or remember what Phantom looked or sounded like (even on camera) so her whole identity, including gender, is hidden. How or why the gems gives certain powers or influences the receiver is unknown so only theories exist on why Kotori experiences increasingly destructive impulses when she uses her powers, extreme attacking and healing, versus what Miku experiences, who doesn't have destructive impulses when using her powers, whose powers are more of control and boosting with minimal offense and defense. This entity is also the one who told Kurumi about where the second spirit to show on Earth may be held in along with the information that Shidou holds the powers equivalent to three Spirits within him. Phantom is revealed to be a silver long-haired girl and has a similar speech pattern to Reine. She stated that Origami was the best girl to turn into a spirit and is surprised that she is rebelling against her. Whether she is the first Spirit who showed up thirty years ago or one of the first few who came after hasn't been revealed, although it's unlikely considering she knows Kurumi wants to kill the first Spirit but hasn't tried to stop or hinder her. Although this could be arrogance on her part, or knows Kurumi is doomed to failure no matter what, or knows how it will turn out but requires Kurumi making the attempt in order to trigger an event that would only occur from Kurumi trying to change time. For example, Origami's life would've been extremely different if Kurumi hadn't sent her back in time to prevent a life changing event without realizing that her future self was the cause of the event that changed her past self. Meaning, the event in the past could never have happened if Kurumi didn't have her powers or if she hadn't used them to send the Spirit Origami back in time. Although Shidou did prove it is possible to change the future (Volume 11 - Tobiichi Devil,) some things are predetermined to happen at some point anyway. For example, even though Shidou made a big change happen to the past Origami's life that should have erased her hatred of Spirits, she still joined AST determined to fight Spirits, became a Spirit herself, and inversed into Devil.

Ratatoskr

Ratatoskr (ラタトスク機関, Ratatosuku Kikan) is an organization created for the purpose of resolving the issues of Spirits and the spatial quakes through peaceful means. Commanded by Kotori Itsuka, it was created for her brother as he has the means to peacefully seal a spirit's powers. Ratatoskr's command center is located upon their airship known as the Fraxinus, located 15,000 meters (49,000 ft) above Tengu City. The headquarters for Ratatoskr is at an undisclosed location which houses the records for Ratatoskr as well as being the location for high-ranking members of Ratatoskr and the Rounds to operate from.

Reine Murasame (村雨 令音, Murasame Reine)

Voiced by: Aya Endō (Japanese), Barrett Nash (English)^[1]

Reine is the analyst onboard the Fraxinus, she is a non-certified medic who can perform simple first aid tasks. On the second day of the semester, she transfers into Shido's school as his assistant homeroom teacher. She is soft spoken, often speaking in a nonchalant manner who seems to have a physically weak stature and always seems to be tired. She even says that she has not slept for 30 years.

Kyouhei Kannazuki (神無月 恭平, Kannazuki Kyōhei)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)^[1]

Kyouhei is the vice-commander of Ratatoskr crewing the Fraxinus, a ship located 15,000 meters above Tengu City. He shows masochistic qualities when receiving any type of physical punishment from Kotori. He displays psychological foresight in his defense of the Fraxinus which appears to be an ability known by Kotori to the point that she is dismissive of a physical attack upon the Fraxinus because of his presence. He is also the former captain of the AST, when Ryouko had just joined. He kept the AST in line with unusual punishments whenever they stepped out of line; first timers had to cosplay for a day, second timers had to step on him on top of having to cosplay, whatever happened to third timers was so bad that Ryouko went pale thinking about it and refused to say a word about it. However he was well-respected due to his skills with the Realizers. He left the AST to "find a suitable master to serve", and joined Ratatoskr, but left a wish to be reinstated in case he wanted to return. While he does have bizarre fetishes, his ability and brain is so great that he is able to do the job of a Command Realizer (which has the combined stress of 7 Realizers which would burn out most wizards,) but command the crew of the Fraxinus in battle, and manipulate the Yggd folium onto an enemy ship to act as a mine doing all three simultaneously in Volume 5 of the Light Novels. Although he still pales in comparison to Ellen's abilities considering how well she fought, especially considering the enormous power and stress of the special CR-unit, Goetia, she skillfully flew in Volume 10 of the Light Novels.

Kyoji Kawagoe (川越 恭次, Kyōji Kawagoe), "Bad Marriage"

Voiced by: Gō Inoue (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English)

Married and divorced five times, Kyoji has been given the title "Master of Love". One of several male assistants to Shido by giving a vote on the appropriate course of action Shido should take when acting.

Masaomi Mikimoto (幹本 雅臣, Mikimoto Masaomi), "Boss"

Voiced by: Kentarō Tone (Japanese), Bradley Campbell (English)

Masaomi is an incubus during the nighttime. One of several male assistants to Shido onboard the Fraxinus. His introductory phrase, Mahal kita is Filipino for I love you.

Hinako Shiizaki (椎崎 雛子, Shiizaki Hinako), "The Nail Knocker"

Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka (Japanese), Maeghan Albach (English)

Described as "bringing pain to every rival of her love" and "the woman who lives at 2am", Hinako is introduced with a voodoo doll. One of several female assistants to Shido onboard the Fraxinus.

Munechika Nakatsugawa (中津川 宗近, Nakatsugawa Munechika), "The Dimension Breaker"

Voiced by: Gorgeous (Japanese), Matt Thurston (English)

Munechika is a man with a hundred waifus. One of several male assistants to Shido onboard the Fraxinus.

Kozue Minowa (箕輪 梢, Minowa Kozue), "Deep Love"

Voiced by: Tomoko Usami (Japanese), Sara Ragsdale (English)

Kozue is a woman whose sincere and earnest devotion was feared by the government. One of several female assistants to Shido onboard the Fraxinus.

Elliott Baldwin Woodman (エリオット・ボールドウィン・ウッドマン, Eriotto Bōrudowin Uddoman)

Voiced by: Jōji Nakata

Elliott is an elderly man of higher than 50 years of age who is Ratatoskr's Machinery's founder as well as Kotori's benefactor. He is described as good natured and is the chairman of the Rounds. He seems blind since as all of the books within his library are written in Braille, yet after meeting Tohka in person he said "She really looked happy" rather than she sounded or she seemed happy. He receives respect from Kotori to the point that she wears her military uniform properly without her signature Chupa Chups lollipops. Seemingly, he possesses authority over Kotori to the point in that being suggestive of appropriate action to take should the worse case happen after Shido manifested an Angel, Kotori replied that she would kill Shido. His secretary is Karen Nora Mathers, Ellen Mathers' (aka Adeptus 1 of DEM) older sister.

AST (Anti-Spirit Team)

The Anti-Spirit Team is a special unit within the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force that is designed to suppress and kill the threat posed by Spirits. They utilize Combat Realizer units (CR Units) layered on top of combat wiring suits to enhance normal human capabilities while providing offensive and defensive combat capabilities. The CR Units are based upon equipment that utilizes technology recovered by humans after the original spatial quake that have been described as "magic through science". The CR Units of the AST have an operating area otherwise known as the operator's "personal territory" that can be expanded or contracted at the will of the operator, thus leading to a decrease or an increase in the territory's effective capability. In this personal territory, the impossible can occur thus leading to the description of "magic through science".

Ryouko Kusakabe (日下部 燎子, Kusakabe Ryōko)

Voiced by: Ao Takahashi (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)^[1]

Ryouko is of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force's Anti-Spirit Team who leads the young girls of the AST while being 27 herself.

Mana Takamiya (崇宮 真那, Takamiya Mana)

Voiced by: Misato (Japanese), Felecia Angelle (English)^[1]

A temporary Second Lieutenant of the AST, Mana works for the DEM Industries based out of England as a Wizard. Revealed to be the biological sister of Shido, she is unable to remember her time with Shido but possesses just a picture which was her only proof that she had a brother. As with Shido, she has blue hair and brown eyes, with her blue hair tied in a ponytail. Due to the procedure she underwent to strengthen her fighting power, she has less than 10 years to live, but was kept from knowing this truth about her body. After being defeated by Kurumi, she is hospitalised but is taken away by Ratatoskr in volume 5 whereupon she learns of this truth and defects to the organization in volume 6.

Mikie Okamine (岡峰 美紀恵, Okamine Mikie)

Voiced by: Kanami Satō

Holding the rank of Private, Mikie is described as having brown eyes and hair, with her hair tied in pigtails. She is in Origami's and Shido's year but she skipped a grade, making her one year younger. Her age being close to Origami's leads her to have a strange attraction to Origami. Her dedication to Origami is shown by the fact that she was willing to resign from the AST when she thought Origami was going to have a disciplinary discharge.

She is also the protagonist of Date AST Like along with Origami.

Mildred F. Fujimura (ミルドレッド・F・藤村, Mirudoreddo Efu Fujimura)

Voiced by: Saki Ogasawara

Holding the rank of Sergeant First Class, Mildred is described as a girl with blue eyes and blonde hair who wears glasses. She often goes by the nickname "Mily". Her age is close to Origami's thus leading her to have a strange attraction to Origami. She is a mechanic who occasionally gets delusional about others for her own personal fantasy.

Kiriya (桐谷)

DEM Industries

One of the largest corporations in the world, it is based out of England having originated out of a defense industry and it is the only known industry that is able to manufacture Realizer Units. The Realizer units equipped by the world's military, police forces, and especially the AST are all made by DEM Industries. They are economic rivals with Asgard Electronics, the company that supports Ratatoskr, with operatives who are able to utilize CR Units with experience exceeding that of special forces groups from different countries. The "DEM" within their name stands for Deus Ex Machina. They're marginally inferior to Ratatoskr in the development of aspects related to Realizer units due to advancing in various fields and oppose their policy of protecting and sheltering the Spirits, as according to them the only way to deal with the Spirits is by destroying them. Although, from their actions in various novels it seems that they consider their ends justify any and all means no matter the cost, sacrifice, or collateral damage. Whether its brainwashing and overcharging their wizards to openly attacking an event with hundreds of people just to send a slap to their opponents faces. As long as their goals are realized, killing hundreds of people in the process is an acceptable loss and not worth losing sleep over.

Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott (サー・アイザック・レイ・ペラム・ウェストコット, Aizakku Rei Peramu Wesutokotto)

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu

The twisted managing director of Deus.Ex.Machina Industries. He is around 30 years old and a tall man with dark ash blond hair and sharp eyes. He seems to know more than he lets on, such as the knowledge of Tohka's transformed state, as well as Shido's past. All of DEM's elite wizards refer to him with -sama, fanatically loyal, and willing to do terrible acts just because he said so. Considering Mana's amnesia before she joined DEM, headaches whenever she tries to remember the past, and respect for Westcott even after finding out what was done to her there is a possibility that brainwashing, conditioning, and/or a Realizer used to make them so loyal to him alone. Such as when Adeptus 3 was hesitant about a mission to capture Tohka that would expose their equipment to the public and create numerous civilian casualties just to slap Ratatoskr's face rather than use a plan to minimize both, such as the original plan on the island where the Yamai twins appeared. Yet she and the others were going ahead with it without reservation simply because Westcott said it would be for "humanities' greater good." Issac himself has shown little care, much less humanity, in his thinking as long as his goals are realized. Whether its discussing ways to break Tohka's spirit through torture with the same manner and care one would discuss the weather, or the loss of life and DEM property when Tohka snapped, he never showed any sign or thought of guilt, despair, sorrow, or grief, but was happy that she inverted as if nothing else mattered.

Ellen Mira Mathers (エレン・ミラ・メイザース, Eren Mira Meizāsu)

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō

Known as the world's strongest Wizard who works under Westcott as his secretary. She had previously worked for the AST at his request. She has vowed to never lose to any opponent, even agreeing that she may go so far as to commit the atrocity of destroying the world in the process. She is also Karen Nora Mather's younger sister. Whether her fanatical devotion to Issac is sincere or imprinted on her is unknown, but was willing to cut off the hands of DEM board members who had voted against him. Also wants to kill Woodman for what she consider's his betrayal. Like Issac, she doesn't care about the lives of others (except for Issac himself) except for how they can show some use in furthering his objectives. This is shown when she hopes Paddington and the Arbatel were completely destroyed when she loses contact with them rather than considering if she should go help. Or when she captured Tohka, while completely ignoring a rioting Miku, without showing any concern or thought about the situation other than the fact that other Spirits were there who could be dealt with later. Like Mana it's likely that she has a shortened life span as a side effect to the process to strongly increase her own abilities. It is hinted that she might be sleeping with Issac as his mistress.

James A Paddington (ジェームズ・A・パディントン, Jēmuzu A. Padinton)

Voiced by: Toshiharu Nakanishi

Second executive head for Colonel, he is the captain of the DEM Industries' 500 meter airship Arbatel. He is a middle-aged man with a beard. Has an arrogant personality and more concerned with saving his career when things went south rather than his crew's lives or maintaining secrecy. While held in captivity after the island incident by Ratatoskr, Isaac terminated him after using him to communicate with Westcott.

Jessica Bailey (ジェシカ·ベイリー, Jeshika Beirī)

Voiced by: Yūko Kaida

Long red haired woman and is the third strongest DEM wizard. Like the other DEM wizards she's concerned with receiving Issac's favor and completing his orders first, and personal morals a distant second. Such as going along with the plan to attack Tohka while she was in a heavily crowded area, despite misgivings, just because Issac ordered it. Was the leader of the DEM wizards sent to the AST after the island incident to "help out" with the authority to act on their own in order to accomplish Issac's mission of finding and capturing Shido and Tohka at the first opportunity shown. Arrogantly considers herself and the other DEM wizards helping the AST as elites helping out immature amateurs only until they complete their own secret mission. Seemed to have enjoyed giving radical orders to the AST without explaining anything other than having the backing of the higher ups and protests would be a waste of breath. Is extremely jealous of Ellen and Mana being more powerful and therefore closer to Issac. After losing to Mana in their first battle she somehow got her powers severely charged up allowing her to use the Red Licorice, a combat version of the White Licorice test type for their second battle. However, this would burn her out in hours and not years overwhelming her mentality causing her to go berserk. So in her attempts to kill Mana during their second battle she was completely ignoring any damage she dealt to her own comrades and the surrounding area. When she was approaching her limit Mana dealt her a terminal blow, killing her. Her last words were wondering if Issac would finally notice her.

Raizen High School

Raizen High School (来禅高校, Raizen Kōkō) is a high school located in Tenguu City within the Kantou region where Shido and other major characters attend. Having been built on the disaster area that affected Japan from the spatial quake thirty years ago, the school is installed with an underground bunker for whenever there is a spatial quake in the area.

Hiroto Tonomachi (殿町 宏人, Tonomachi Hiroto)

Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese), Nick Haley (English)^[1]

Shido's classmate. In the anime, he has a 2D girlfriend who is actually a character from "Fall in Love: My Little Seed" (恋して マイ・リトル・シード, Koishite Mai Ritoru Siido), Date A Live's in-universe visual novel.

Tamae Okamine (岡峰 珠恵, Okamine Tamae)

Voiced by: Kaori Sadohara (Japanese), Anastasia Munoz (English)^[1]

Homeroom teacher for Shido's class, she is called Tama-chan by her students. As she is 29 years old and still single, she is very anxious to get married.

Ai Yamabuki (山吹 亜衣, Yamabuki Ai), Mai Hazakura (葉桜 麻衣, Hazakura Mai), & Mii Fujibakama (藤袴 美衣, Fujibakama Mii)

Voiced by: Risako Murai, Kayoko Tsumita, & Midori Tsukimiya (Japanese), Jamie Marchi, Leah Clark, & Monica Rial (English)

Shido's classmates. They always seen together and are friends with Tohka, supporting her in her efforts to become Shido's girlfriend, while reprimanding him upon seeing him with other girls. Their given name is a pun for I, My, and Me.

See also

• List of Date A Live episodes

References

External links

• Character bios from the anime adaptation (Japanese)
• Character bios from the game (Japanese)
• Character bios from the second game (Japanese)
• Character bios from VITA game (Japanese)