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The direct descendants of Noah. A family of superhumans who cooperate with the Earl. The Noah are characterized by their grey skin tone, yellow eyes and a horizontal line of seven cross-shaped markings on their foreheads. Each of the Noahs possesses his/her own unique ability, as well as a common ability to destroy Innocence. Six of thirteen expected members have been introduced, making seven possible Noahs who have yet to appear. Skin has been rumored to be killed by Kanda after the battle in the Noah's Ark. A fourteenth Noah was killed by the Earl for betraying them, but has never been properly revealed. In chapter 166, Cross Marian says that Mana Walker was the fourteenth's older brother, and Allen has the fourteenth's memories implanted in him.

Akuma make up the bulk of the Earl of Millennium's army. Akuma are demonic constructs that serve mainly as foot soldiers under the command of the Earl and the Noah. Akuma are created through a multi-stage process. First, the Earl locates someone who is grieving from the loss of a loved one. The Earl then appears to them and convinces them that he can bring their loved one back to life. Next, the Earl presents a skeletal 'doll' and tells the grieving individual to call out the person's name and ask them to come back to life inside the construct. Upon doing so, a pentagram is inscribed on the doll's head along with the name of the individual. Upon coming to life, the Earl commands the doll to kill the grieving person and then 'wear their skin', taking on the identity of the griever and powered by the loved one's bound soul.

So far, Akuma have been shown to undergo four stages of evolution. The exact conditions that cause an evolution is not explained. However, each evolution to a new stage makes the Akuma smarter, stronger, and more sadistic. Additionally, with each evolution the soul attached to the original machine undergoes further and further decay.

• Level One (LV1) - All new Akuma begin in a common level One form. The level One form appears as a large oval body with no arms or legs, a mask-like face, and tentacles dangling beneath them. Typically, they also have large numbers of gun-barrels protruding from their bodies, which fire poisonous 'bullets', although they appear to be extremely inaccurate. Level Ones have no personality and act more on instinct or the orders of the Earl and Noah. From Allen's eye, the souls of level 1 Akuma still look basically human, albeit with a somewhat corpse-like appearance.
• Level Two (LV2) - Under the right conditions and if they survive long enough, a Level One Akuma will evolve into a Level Two Akuma. Unlike Level Ones, Level Two Akuma come in a variety of forms and shapes, with no two seemingly alike. Additionally, Level Twos develop a distinct personality and consciousness, and often have unique abilities and attacks. They are smarter and more cunning than Level Ones and able to act independently. Level 2 Akuma also possess the ability of speech as is stated by Pierrot while Allen and Kanda are in Martel. The soul of a level 2 Akuma as seen by Allen is more skeletal, and parts of the "body" have begun to dissolve. In Martel, Allen notes that the soul is "becoming corrupt."
  
• Level Three (LV3) - Level Three Akuma are the second highest evolved form of Akuma. Level Threes retain their Level Two personalities, but they become more sadistic and ruthless. Most Level Three Akuma take on a similar form, appearing as very tall armored humanoids with an eyeless helm covering their eyes. They differ in form primarily in the adornments on their head , the hair that flows from behind their helms and the shape of their armor. Level Threes are incredibly strong and resilient, even capable of withstanding direct attacks from an Exorcist's Innocence. Most Level Threes have a unique ability based on the manipulation of 'dark matter' within their bodies. In Allen's first encounter with a Level 3, he sees the soul as only a single eye surrounded by darkness and calling out to him for salvation. Notably, this is the only time a corrupted soul has directly addressed Allen while bound to an Akuma body.
  
• Level Four (LV4) - It is formed in an elaborate ceremony that involves both human and Level 3 Akuma sacrifices. A mother-like organism is then spawned, and the actual Level 4 then bursts from its abdomen. According to Allen, the soul trapped in the Level 4 doesn't even resemble a soul anymore and is just darkness. The Level Four Akuma refers to itself as a 'massacre weapon'. The Level Four's strength is monstrous, as it is able to severely injure Allen, a General-Level Exorcist, with just a flick of its fingers. It used some kind of a sound attack, that managed to disable all the Exorcist Generals and destroy the entire Science sector. Its speed is so great that normal humans don't even have enough time to notice it decapitating them. The existing Level Four also doesn't seem to care who it attacks, though it cites this as a result of being 'excited'. It was also noted by Bookman that in the entire history of the war between the Black Order and The Millennium Earl that the Level Four attacking the Black Order Headquarters is the first ever encountered.

Numerous akuma have been seen in the series. A few have been named, and a few have had backgrounds revealed. Some characters have been introduced, and then turned into akumas. The akuma here are akuma who have been named, and have been their own person, separate from the souls embedded into their circuitry.

The first level 2 Akuma encountered by Allen and Kanda. He was introduced as a level 1.5 akuma, and evolved to level 2 after shooting through his force field prison and blowing up a finder's head. It has the ability to clone anyone and their power, even the ability to fly (due to the two bat wings on its back). However, it is personified that he can also copy the appearance and abilities of elements (which is shown when it transformed into sand when it had its final attack on Allen and Kanda). It should be noted that when he mimics other people his appearance is a mirror image, with each side reversed. Pierrot was ultimately destroyed by the combined powers of Allen and Kanda. He was the first level 2 Akuma, as well as the first level 1.5 Akuma, to be shown in the series. Also, only in the show, he is a male Akuma with a female soul.

A squad of akuma who attacked Allen, Miranda, and Lenalee when they were in the "Rewinding Town".

Ice stands on two bulky looking arms with a wind key on its torso, which later on turns into his "gas fire" form. Even though his takes the form of "fire", Ice still seems to possess the mechanical qualities of all akuma (this is shown when Allen slices off his arm in his "gas fire" form and bits of gears and bolts are shown in his wound). This akuma produces "Ice Fire", which are flames that burn at 100 degrees below zero. Ice self-destructed under Road's orders. Because the Akuma self-destructed, the trapped soul could not be saved. This caused Allen to weep, not for the Akuma, but for the lost soul. He was the second to be destroyed, and the first akuma in the series to self-destruct. He wore his level 1 akuma face as an armband. Ice posed as a pickpocket to trick Allen and Lenalee into chasing him so Road could capture Miranda. His pockpocket skin had long hair and a brown jacket.

Kazekiri has two blades for arms that split into 4 blades, that resembles somewhat of a buzz saw, which can create blades of air. It was one of the few level 2 Akuma who's level 1 face is still its face. He was destroyed when Lenalee kicked his face out and sliced him in half, and he was the last to be destroyed.

Finally, Pang has four heads, and five faces counting the level one Akuma face which appears on every level 2 Akuma, which it wore like a belt buckle, and has an arm band on one of its arms. He can produce destructive sound waves called "Pang Voice". He also resembled a candle. He was destroyed was Allen jumped on him and blew him up with the gun-sword arm. He was the first to be destroyed.

Their original group also consisted of three level 1.5 akuma and another level 2 akuma that resembled a centipede and had three tongues. The four of them were destroyed by Allen in the initial bar fight. There was also another level 2 akuma that was destroyed by Allen in a dark alley when it attacked Miranda Lotto. Its mid-section resembled Ice's, but appeared to sit on a lamp shade, had one arm that seemed to just float in the general area that it should be, and had a head that looked like a poorly made Temari with a mouth held together by the level 1 akuma face that was on the side of its head, who was referred to as "Akuma". In the manga, it had the ability to float around what looked like floating bowling balls, but in the anime, it shoots beams of purple energy from its mouth like the Centipede akuma.

A level 2 Akuma that attacked Allen and Lavi from on top of a building by hitting steel at them, which melted after impact. It was destroyed by Lavi. Another one (or the same one) was seen behind a building when Allen and Lavi left for the hospital. Another one attacked the hotel room where Bookman, Komui, and Lenalee were. It killed the two finders, but was beaten into a million pieces by Bookman. It was ultimately destroyed by Lenalee when it made one final jump for Komui. It delivered the message of the Millennium Earl's declaration of war on the world and the Black Order.

One interesting characteristic of this Akuma is that it does not have a level 1 akuma face anywhere on its body. This is due to the fact that all level 2 Akuma have a level one face somewhere on their body (or even as their real face).

A level 2 Akuma that serves The Earl of Millennium. The sacrifice used to make her was a beautiful woman so that was the form she assumed as a human. Eliade believed that this was the reason why, after recovering her intellect when she evolved into a level 2 Akuma, she became obsessed with beauty and shopping. Although her beauty let her become a popular woman, her Akuma nature always made her feel ugly. Even so, she felt incomplete and wanted to love someone else, as an Akuma, she believed was impossible for her. After that, she met Krory and the two began a complex relationship. She was later killed by Arystar Krory after he discovered that she was an Akuma. Before her death, Eliade said she wanted to love Arystar. Eliade could produce bubbles that absorb all the water inside the victim's body in an instant. Although she was destroyed, Eliade's ghost appears to Arystar when he is fighting Jasdevi, where she says she could neither go to Heaven or Hell due to her lack of a soul and told him not to die to join her before urging him to fight on. Arystar calls her a delusion, but proclaims his love for her anyway.

It's was the first Level 4 Akuma encountered in the series that was born as a result of a large number of sacrifices of human and Level 3 Akuma being absorbed into a Combined Akuma. This Level 4 seems innocent like a child normally, but after remembering its purpose and what it was, "a weapon of slaughter", it has gradually become more sadistic and lustful for death during its attack on the Black Order. This Akuma is extremely powerful, being able to block Allen's Crown Clown in its sword form with one hand, flicking Allen into a wall with a force that knocked him out, sending out a scream able to disrupt any exorcist's synchronization to low levels, even Generals, and seemingly killing General level Exorcists with a blast of Dark Matter (making it on par if not stronger than most Noah). The Child Akuma was trapped in a Talisman prison after trying to kill Komui Lee, but it did not stop it for long (mostly because it did not make much of an attempt to escape instead considering the whole battle a game). After attempting to kill Komui while descending down the elevator to Hevlaska, Kanda saved Komui, but at the cost of losing most of his shoulder to the Akuma's poison. The Level 4 was about to kill Lenalee, when Allen returned to the fight, much to the surprise of the Child Akuma and giving time for Lenalee to re-synchronize with her Innocence. The Child Akuma was about to kill Allen when Lenalee regained her Innocence and fought the Level 4 together with him. With Lenalee's new Innocence, she and Allen managed to pin down the Akuma by attempting to drive Crown Clown into it's torso, with Lenalee's and Allen's combined strength. The Akuma is so strong that it managed to hold the sword back, but not till Cross Marian appears and uses 'Carte Garde' to somehow influence the Level 4 to remove his hands from the blade. Without the hands pushing back, the sword was driven into the Level 4's body. However, the Child Akuma miraculously survived the blow dealt by Allen and pushed him and his Sword of Exorcism back, out of pure rage and declaring its hatred for 'Innocence'. Marian took over and managed to cause it to swell up when the Level 4 underestimated Marian and found itself with 6 bullets in its body (though it was strong enough to stop one of the bullets, something even Tyki could not do). The Child Akuma attempts to escape, but was pierced again by Allen and Lenalee when it was delayed from escaping by both Klaud Nine and Winter Sokaro.

As mentioned, it resembles a small, short child. It has two halos suspended over its head, and the traditional Akuma pentagrams. The Akuma is laden with tribal tattoos, with mannequin-like seams connecting its joints. Oddly enough, the Akuma's right breast is swollen like a female's, but its left more resembles a male's pectoral muscle, suggesting that the Akuma is androgynous.