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Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (神風怪盗ジャンヌ, Kamikaze Kaitō Jannu?), also known as Divine-Wind Phantom-Thief Jeanne or Phantom-Thief Jeanne, is a manga by Arina Tanemura which falls under the shōjo genre, more specifically the Magical Girl sub-genre.

It originally ran between February 1998 and July 2000 in Shueisha's Ribon Magazine, later released in 7 collective volumes. On June 16th 2007 the series was released in kanzenban format, the final 6th volume set to come out in October.

CMX, an imprint of DC Comics, licensed the series as Phantom-Thief Jeanne but later decided to use the original title. Toei Animation, the creator of the anime, refers to the series as Jeanne, the Kamikaze Thief on its English-language website.

Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne was later turned into a TV anime. It was featured on a Japanese monthly manga magazine Ribon during February 1998 - July 2000, 30 stories in total. Seven volumes of the manga were published. It is also on sale in Canada and the US starting in the month of November 2005. The anime was a Toei Animation production, and aired from February 1999 - January 2000 on TV Asahi (44 episodes).

It is almost the year 2000. God's power is scattered on Earth, and if He does not gather enough by the year 2000, He will die. The Devil, who wishes for this, sends his own agents to gather the energy in the form of chess pieces of magic.

The 16-year-old Maron Kusakabe is usually a normal high school student, but she can transform, with the assistance of the angel Fin Fish, into the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc in order to hunt demons, which hide themselves within works of art. If a demon is defeated, the associated work of art disappears, which is why she is called a kaitō ("phantom-thief").

Maron's best friend is Miyako, the daughter of a diminutive police detective who aims to arrest Jeanne. Maron falls in love with Chiaki who is also secretly Sinbad (a demon hunter himself).

Jeanne's weapons include her Checkmate pin which she can summon from a small "demon-detecting" device called the "Petit Claire", her gymnastic ribbon, a fan, and later a sword (only in the manga). The ribbon can slice through anything if whipped, and can also be used to grab a hold of things. The fan deflects attacks, while the sword is basically your regular sword, only it can checkmate. In the anime, she first uses the "Rebound Ball" which is like a rubber yo-yo that can stick to almost anything, and is useful for smacking people with. In addition, it would appear she has access to comical bombs that can vary to smokescreens or actual explosions. The ribbon, which appears halfway through the series, is also used as a way of checkmating demons in the anime.

Chiaki, or "Kaitō Sindbad" (Sinbad), uses pins and daggers in the manga, but a tri-headed boomerang-like weapon in the anime. As time goes on in the anime, Sinbad is revealed to also use a special type of string that he can trap demons in. Unlike Jeanne, Sinbad is able to conjure several pins at once, blasting them towards a demon for a checkmate.

If Jeanne's hair ribbon or Sinbad's bandanna are undone, then they go back to being their autentic selves. (Jeanne is seen undoing her hair ribbon in Episode 29 [Season 2]. Sinbad is seen without his bandanna in Episodes 16 (kind of, but he has it back on when he hugs Jeanne) [Season 1], 19 after he kisses Jeanne on the roof, she pushes him which he falls off and he is seen laying on his back with his bandana off [Season 1], 33 [Season 2].) In the manga, Sinbad's headband takes the place of the bandanna. If the headband is taken off, he goes back to his original self. In the anime, he stopped wearing his bandanna after Maron found out he was Chiaki. In the manga, he stops wearing if after volume 1.

Maron and Chiaki fall in love with each other as time goes on. Chiaki at first "fakes" falling in love just to get closer to Maron, knowing Maron is Jeanne. Later he falls in love truthfully after realizing that Maron's worth the effort, even if she does "hate" him.

Maron, on the other and, is confused and does not know what "love" means because she was left alone without a family, so no one taught her. At first their relationship gets off to a rocky start, with her always freaking out at Chiaki's advances. She sees the other side of Chiaki though, and realizes that he's not such a bad guy after all.

The seven-volume manga contains a few plot twists involving the characters Finn Fish, Noin, and of course, Jeanne and the people around her. It tells in detail about Finn Fish's backstory, which becomes an integral part of the storyline in the later chapters, expounding on Finn's relationship with the other angels and the events that led to her becoming Maron's partner.

The anime which has 44 episodes, is mostly filled with filler episodes; however, most of the important plot threads are stretched out over these episodes, appearing in roughly the same order as in the manga. The backstory of the angels is neglected completely, however.

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