Diabolo (manga)

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Diabolo

ディアボロ

Genre

Horror, Supernatural

Manga

Authored by

Kaoru Ohashi
Kei Kusunoki

Publisher

Shueisha

Other publishers:
TOKYOPOP

Serialized in

Crimson Comics

Original run

2001 – 2003

No. of volumes

3 (Complete)

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Diabolo is a Christan-based manga that takes place in Japan. The plot is very simple. There are six great spirits that serve Lucifer, each of which has a hand in destroying the world. The main characters, Ren and Rai, try to stop them while looking for their 7-year-old cousin Mio. Although in volume two we find out that Rai has fallen from grace and is indeed possessed by one of the six spirits. The book's antagonists are often 17-year-olds. It describes its plot as "The age where the ensured bend to temptation and slowly fall from human to devil."

[edit] Six Great Spirits

Agliarept- Known as 'The General'. Has the ability to read minds.
Satanachia- Has the ability to enslave all and manipulate them at will.
Fleurety- The 'Lieutenant Commander'. She is the supposedly invincible queen of the night.
Sargatanas- The 'Brigadier Major'. The Spirit of the wind, who can go anywhere and travel between dimensions.
Nebiros- The most cruel Spirit who controls premomition and pain, and is the best necromancer in hell. Rai becomes Nebiros.
Lucifuge Rofocale- Describes himself as an intelligent spirit with courage who controls all wealth and knowledge.

[edit] Other characters

Hiromi- A girl Rai and Ren "saved," bringing her to see the truth about the Diabolo after she had sold her soul to it. She drops out of school and isolates herself in her apartment with her mother, trying to help Ren and Rai defeat the Diabolo using information garnered from chat rooms and the internet.