Angels in anime...?

[robkelk]

(I asked this over on Usenet; I'll probably get some more replies if I ask here, too.)

I've got a reason (involving that angels-and-demons-RPG that Bob's worked on in the past) to compile a list of anime that have western-style angels as characters. They don't need to be absolutely accurate depictions of Judaeo-Christian-Islamic angels, but they do need to at least look the part...

Ah My Goddess! (TV) - the goddesses have assistant angels that are actually a part of them; each angel reflects her goddess' physical and emotional state.

Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne - assuming the anime is reasonably close to the manga, there's an angel and a fallen angel in the main cast.

Risky/Safety - Safety is an "apprentice angel".

Any more?
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[Epsilon]

Interestingly enough while the tvtropes Wiki has like a dozen pages devoted to various types of devils and demons the number devoted to actual angels is...
really quite small.

That said: Wish, by Clamp

Disgaia, based on the game of the same name.

Angel Sanctuary

I Wanna Be An Angel (well, close enough)

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Epsilon

[Morganite]

Pita-Ten! (

[CrimsonKMR]

Van from Escaflowne has wings, especially his movie version....
There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

[Bob Schroeck]

Try the "Our Angels Are Different" page at TVTropes -- it should at least start you in the right direction.

Aren't there angel-like creatures in X/1999?

Excel Saga had a little shoulder-angel Excel.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Epsilon]

Does Evangelion count?

;p

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Epsilon

[WengFook]

Epsilon wrote:

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Does Evangelion count?




;p




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Epsilon

Damn! Epsilon beat me to it
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[Kurisu]

Comment struck from the thread. (Didn't read the replies all the way through.)
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[OpMegs]

Not an exact example, but almost every Gundam seen in Gundam 00 has been named after a position of the angelic hierarchy:

- Gundam Exia (Exousia, Greek for "Powers", a rank of the Second Sphere)
- Gundam Dynames (Dunamis, Greek for "Virtues", also of the Second Sphere)
- Gundam Kyrios (Kuriotes, Greek for "Dominions", same as above)
- Gundam Virtue (....yeah. This one explains itself)
- Gundam Thrones (Rank of the first sphere)
- Gundam Cherudim (Cherubim, obviously)
- Gundam Seravee (Seraphim, also obviously)
- Gundam Arios (Aries, which is a duty assigned to angels in some early Zodiac texts)
- Gundam Arche (Greek for "Principalities", a rank of the Third Sphere)
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[Ankhani]

Pardon my Ignorance, but I from what I remember hearing of yall's talks on Anime in general, I belive it was Maccros that has the Valkyrie which is a loose
fitting/looking angel interpretation. (Right?)
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