Akuma (Tenshi Adachi)

### Appearance

Slender, slim, muscular, bronze skin, crimson red hair, red eyes with matching linings, red horns, demon wings, red devil tail, bare chest, red choker, red shoulder pads with black spikes, blood red pants, dark gray belt, red and black armbands, black kneepads with red gems, crimson red boots

### Home

Akuryo
Adachi Mansion (formerly)

### Allies

**As Tenshi Adachi:** Junichi Nagai, Umihiko Kishino, Chikaze Hanawa, Mugen Shoji, Esumi, Junko, Maina, and Rikae Oshima, Chion Koizumi, Nobuya Okinaka, Hozumi Zarate, Akina Fushiguro, Chizuru Kaito, Megara Takei, Kanayo Banba
**As Akuma:** Mika, any akuma he resurrected, Chizue Ishikawa (formerly), the Bloodstone Gang, the Slaughter Sisters, Izanagi,

### Enemies

**As Akuma:** The Gogoiru Warriors, Chizue, Haru, and Tenshi Ishikawa, the Tsukumo sisters, Kanami and Kumiko Hojo, Yoshi Okamoto, Masayo Miyazaki,

### Likes

Power, vengeance, conquest, murdering people, getting innocents killed,

### Dislikes

Spies, traitors, anyone between him and his goal, angel light,

### Status

Destroyed, spirit purified

**Akuma** (born **Tenshi Adachi**) is the main antagonist of *Devil Beats!: New Life*, but also the overarching antagonist of the *Devil Beats!* anime.

## Personality

Akuma is a cruel, sadistic, and evil man who seems to be the one who cursed everyone's town with akuma. Whenever he used to go to Mysteria and let his deans poison its villagers, they would turn into akuma by feeding on their blood, turning it black until they die. In truth, he is the oldest of the akuma because he died about three hundred years ago after a vampire he met in his castle killed him.

## Appearance

Akuma is a three hundred year old man who appears to be forty one years old, he is slim and muscular with bronze skin, crimson red hair, red eyes with red linings below them, and red devil accessories including horns, demon wings, and a devil tail. His chest is bare, and he wears a red choker, red shoulder pads with black spikes, blood red pants with a dark gray belt, black and red armbands, black detailed kneepads with red gems, and crimson red boots. He can also be seen wielding a red demon spear.

When he was a human named Tenshi Adachi, he was slender and had fair skin, black hair, and gray eyes, and he wore a black office jacket with a white shirt and a red tie underneath, black pants, and black boots with dark gray soles.

During his funeral, Tenshi’s black hair was loose, his skin pale and his eyes red, and he wore a white headband, a black robe, and white flats.

## Role in the series

Akuma made his first appearance in the end of First Abduction. He is first seen looking into his crystal ball, stating that Mysteria had been destroyed as a result of his curse and vowing to do the same to Matsunoki as well. In Third Loss, he is informed that Kanami had gotten ill and later died to Mika’s bite and has a henchman collect her body by the end of her funeral. In Fourth Awakening,

As revealed in Tenth Origin, it’s revealed that he was a human named Tenshi Adachi, who used to be the owner of a mansion with Junichi Nagai, Umihiko Kishino, Chikaze Hanawa, Mugen Shoji (the people the Bloodstone Gang used to be), and sisters Esumi, Junko, Maina, and Rikae Oshima (the young maids the Slaughter Sisters used to be) as his servants until a female vampire he met, possibly from Transylvania, bit them starting with him. Afterward, he woke from his coffin with messy hair and red eyes before breaking out his coffin and digging his way back to the surface, where he bit a man who was walking to his grave. He would then go on to bite Chizue and her triplets after a friend of their father invited him for dinner, and later bit Chiharu and her older triplet sisters Hayami, Kura, and Rika before being found out and captured. Despite being a jinrou/tamashii, he was taken outside to be burned and his heart was staked as revealed in Twentieth Confession, which made him vow vengeance against the human world, which was why he awakened in a devil world within Mysteria–the village he was killed in–and claimed it, but also brought back his servants as akuma. During the process, he met a young succubus named Mika on a street and offered her bloodlust should she join him.

As revealed in TBA, Tenshi is revealed to have run a whole circus back when he was still a human. His performers consisted of a French-Japanese mime named Chion Koizumi, a fire performer named Nobuya Okinaka, and a ribbon performer named Hozumi Zarate, all of who danced like marionettes. Additional performers included an animal tamer and aerial silk performer named Akina Fushiguro, a strongwoman, stunt artist, and tightrope walker named Kanayo Banba; a trapeze artist, gymnast, and fashion performer named Chizuru Kaito; and a ball balancer, juggler, and clown/mime named Megara Takei, who are all best friends turned sisters. These performers, having died as a result of the same illness that took Tenshi and his servants, would become known as the Satsui Trio and the Kawaii Creeps, minions of Izanagi, a servant of Akuma.