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anyone else with Meimi's well-being, leading to him confessing his love and beginning a romantic relationship with her. Soon after, Rosemary forcibly reveals Saint Tail's identity as Meimi to him and kidnaps him, forcing him to speculate about Meimi's intentions for four days in isolated captivity, but when Saint Tail comes to rescue him and Maju mocks one of her calling cards by calling it a "love letter", he realizes that Meimi had been trying to support him the entire time and goes out to help her, literally and figuratively "catching" her and forgiving her for everything. Eight years later, he becomes a
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kidnapping him. When Saint Tail arrives to rescue him, Rosemary takes an interest in her skills as a thief and offers to adopt her so she can join her and Maju in stealing for luxury, but Saint Tail refuses; eventually, after witnessing Asuka Jr. reuniting with Meimi and showing her unconditional love, Rosemary expresses wistfulness at the idea of having met someone like him twenty years earlier and decides to leave town with Maju.
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heists causes him to start having suspicions of her actually being Meimi, he develops an extreme obsession with catching Saint Tail himself and ascertaining whether this is the case; in the process, he begins to sympathize with Saint Tail's actions and harbor doubts about arresting her, observing that Saint Tail has become an "ideal" whom the world treats more as a concept than a human being.
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over accuracy when making his articles. Due to his proactive nature in looking for "scoops", he is well-informed about local gossip and thus sometimes provides useful information for Saint Tail's heists; however, because he holds a grudge against Saint Tail for having humiliated him during one of her
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with her classmate, Asuka Jr., who is assigned to the Saint Tail cases as an assistant detective. As she observes his sincerity and enthusiasm while pursuing her as Saint Tail, she develops romantic feelings for him, feeling that she wants to encourage his passion and would be willing to be caught as
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The mayor of Seika City and
Takamiya's uncle. He is in charge of Asuka Jr.'s appointment in the Saint Tail cases and also allows Takamiya to join at her request; while he initially considers taking Asuka Jr. off the case after Takamiya accuses him of being unmotivated, he allows him to stay on after
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Meimi's father and a professional stage magician. He met Eimi when she was on the run from the police and helped hide her with his magic tricks, treating her with unconditional love despite her background as a thief. He is the one who taught Meimi how to do stage magic and hopes that she will follow
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After witnessing Asuka Jr. hesitate in capturing Saint Tail, she tries to have
Morinaka take him off of the Saint Tail cases, believing that doing so will remove the biggest obstacle to him paying attention to her. However, Asuka Jr. manages to pass the test that Morinaka gives him, forcing Takamiya
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Having developed feelings for Asuka Jr., she believes Saint Tail to be a romantic rival and begins harassing Meimi once she suspects that they may actually be the same person. Wanting to protect Meimi from her, Asuka Jr. agrees to a bet with
Takamiya that if her suspicions are correct and Meimi is
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who uses her position to hear out the townspeople's troubles through confessionals and pass on the information to Saint Tail so she can plan out her next heist. While she has a gentle personality, she often avoids things that are inconvenient for her by claiming that "everything is the will of
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and has difficulty understanding romance or girls. He is brought onto the Saint Tail cases as an assistant due to his connections via his father; while he disapproves of Saint Tail's methods, he respects her altruistic motives and considers her to be an honorable rival. His initial motive for
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She and Maju arrive in Seika in the hopes of vengeance on
Lucifer, but after learning that Eimi is retired, she decides to enact her revenge on Saint Tail instead. After Meimi accidentally uses her real name on her calling card, Rosemary retaliates by revealing her identity to Asuka Jr. and
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or put people to sleep. She adopted and trained Maju as a thief, and the two of them travel around towns to steal from their inhabitants and live in luxury. She holds a grudge against
Lucifer for broadcasting her real name in public via one of her calling cards, as she finds her
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Asuka Jr.'s father, a police detective who had pursued
Lucifer in the past. Asuka Jr. joins the Saint Tail cases specifically because he considers his father to be too "incompetent" for the job. In the anime, he appears to assist his son on cases and arrest any criminals she
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and metaphorically "catches" her by relieving her of her duty as Saint Tail, resulting in Saint Tail vanishing from the public eye while Meimi returns to a normal life. Eight years later, she cuts her hair short and eventually marries Asuka Jr. after he proposes to
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her with baseless accusations. Although he is popular with girls in school for his good looks, he falls in love with Meimi when she pretends to show interest in his photography skills while trying to get information out of him; his attempts at aggressively
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whom Meimi had bonded with at a pet shop and had been planning to buy before she ends up being bought by one of Saint Tail's heist targets. After her new owner is arrested for fraud, Meimi decides to take her in. Her name "Ruby" comes from the
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to realize that nothing will be able to dissuade him from pursuing Saint Tail. Once Asuka Jr. and Meimi formally enter a romantic relationship, she ultimately decides to accept it and give them her support. Eight years later, she becomes a
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Morinaka. Shortly after her arrival in Seika, she declares Saint Tail to be "evil" and uses her connections to force herself onto the Saint Tail cases, easily resorting to using methods such as
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in order to carry on Saint Tail's wish of protecting Seika City, and is implied to be using Seira's confessional tips the way she once did; he continues to help keep Meimi's secret, and eventually proposes to and marries
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long as he is the one to do it; however, she mistakenly believes that he would only have interest in Saint Tail and not "Meimi
Haneoka", and that he would quickly despise her if he discovered her deceiving him with her
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to ensure that her heists go smoothly. Besides hearing out confessionals, she is also talented at information gathering, and she can also manipulate people into doing things by making use of their weaknesses.
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lifestyle as a nun and decides to take her out on a date and give her presents to make her happy. Eight years later, he becomes a professional journalist and also remains unaware of Saint Tail's identity.
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for her own thefts and helps
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actually Saint Tail, Asuka Jr. will have to begin dating
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in his footsteps as a magician; however, he had instructed her not to show anyone her magic until she became a full-fledged magician and is thus unaware of her activities as Saint Tail.
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with her make her uncomfortable, earning Asuka Jr.'s ire on her behalf and eventually inducing jealousy at the idea of Sawatari's actions potentially taking her away from him.
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him, forcing her to perform her "last theft" as Saint Tail to rescue him. In the process, Asuka Jr., who in fact has completely forgiven her, physically "catches" her in
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from her to always send him a calling card and let him know every time she embarks on a caper, and to not allow anyone else to capture her but him.
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Genichiro had given Eimi. She is affectionate with Meimi and very intelligent, providing useful support to Saint Tail during her heists.
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adult man, resulting in her admitting her "loss" of the bet, leaving Meimi alone, and staying out of the Saint Tail cases for some time.
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over his classmates making fun of him for his failure to catch her, so he meets with Saint Tail in secret and extracts a
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