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Jin Kuga is a character who appears in the second series of the manga, Kamichama Karin Chu, as a new transfer student and a popular young idol. He is fourteen years old and has dark brown hair and light brown eyes. Jin carries the power of the god Hades, which he accesses through a ring. He uses a staff as his weapon in his transformed state. Jin is motivated by a deep desire to make his father proud of him, which drove him to enter the entertainment industry and become an idol. Despite his public success, his living situation is quite poor; he resides in a small shack in the garden of a grand mansion, having never been permitted to step foot inside the main house. In his everyday personality, Jin is portrayed as sweet and charming, which contributes to his popularity and his large following of devoted female fans. However, he has a noted tendency to behave in a perverted or lecherous manner, particularly around the main character, Karin. He develops a strong romantic attachment to Karin, whom he calls his goddess or megami, because she resembles a woman who appears in his dreams to give him advice. This puts him in the position of a love rival to Kazune Kujyou. Jin's role in the story is that of a new comrade who fights alongside the main characters against a new enemy called the Seeds of Chaos. A central conflict for Jin involves his connection to the antagonist Rika, as she attempts to revive a man named Kirihiko Karasuma through him. It is later revealed that Jin is the reincarnation or is hosting the spirit of Kirihiko Karasuma, Himeka Karasumas father, and when this influence takes over, he becomes evil. His relationships with other characters are key to the plot. He interacts with Karin as her devoted admirer and with Kazune as a friendly rival. In a significant turn of events, the three main characters combine their powers to travel back in time, which comes at the cost of Jin being erased from their memories and the timeline. Despite this sacrifice, after the timeline is altered, Jin is seen attending the wedding of Karin and Kazune in the final pages of the manga, implying that their paths cross once more in the new future. His notable abilities are derived from his divine power as the god Hades.