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Shia is one of the main characters in the popular anime / manga Pitaten.
Shia is a demon (manga) or a demon apprentice (anime). She is gentle, kind-hearted and isn't very good at being malicious or killing humans. She's generally weak all around, even more so when her staff becomes broken under Misha's influence.
Manga
In the manga, Shia is older than Misha. She was friends - and eventually lovers - with Taro Higuchi, Kotarō's great-grandfather at age six (physically).
Shia was adopted by a family as a very small child when she was abandoned, and named Shima after she cried that out every night in her sleep (she was actually crying out her real name, Shia, although Taro and her adopted family still referred to her as Shima). As a child, she caused bad luck everywhere - and it took Taro some time to teach her that she wasn't a demon and a jinx (although, in actuality, she was).
When Shia was getting close to death, she was taken from the human world by Nya, who taught her that she had to drink blood to sustain herself and that she would need at least some human blood as that was the most powerful (she had only been drinking animal blood as Shima). Later, Shia departed from Nya again to go back to Taro, who was now a young adult while Shia still looked like a child. Shia and Taro got back together and eventually fell in love, producing two offsprings, Kotarō (uncle of Kotarō) and Shino (Kotarō's grandmother) - which makes Shia Kotarō's great-grandmother.
As Shia refused to drink human blood, she became steadily weaker until she attempted to kill her child Kotarō for his blood, so she went back to Nya and left Taro.
In the present day, Shia has returned to the human world to find Taro and her children. Nya now accompanies her as a black cat. She found herself living with Misha as she had nowhere else to go, and became distracted with looking after Kotarō, her great-grandson, with whom she feels a connection.
Eventually she found herself a part-time job and almost settled down until Nya and a picture of Kotarō's late mother (who bore a strong resemblance to Shia's old family) reminded her of her mission and she left without warning. Kotarō and Misha managed to seek her down at Kotarō's great-grandfather's house. While there, Taro (Kotarō's great-grandfather) died in his sleep. Shino and Kotarō, the younger Kotarō's grandparents on his mother's side, had already died, and he stayed with his aunt.
Kotarō and Misha found Shia and told her of this, and Shia realised that she had a family with Kotarō, Misha and all her new friends. Nya warned her of the consequences of leaving, but Shia refused and went anyway. However, Shia was very weak and died before they could even get home - she was never resurrected and Nya took away her body.
Kotarō only learned she was a demon after she had left for Taro's house, when Sasha informed him, Misha already knew but just didn't care. Shia is very gentle, loving and holds a motherly figure, she was the one who calmed down and helped Takashi, care for Kotarō as his own mother did and although she died, she holds a place in the hearts she helped.
Anime
In the Anime, Shia had a considerably less complicated past. She came to earth as a demon apprentice, and Nya played the part of her mentor. Shia got a part-time job in a restaurant and cared for the children like a mother, eventually taking the place of Kotarō's mother. After helping children in a local hospital, Shia and Nya both realised that she could never be evil so Shia was erased from the universe by the other demons. All but Misha and Nya forgot about her (as Misha is an angel) and eventually Misha resurrected her (which caused Misha to be deleted from the universe for doing so).
By the end of the series, Shia was a human and continued to happily work her part-time job. Uematsu, Ten, Misha and Kotarō learned that Shia was an apprentice demon early in the series, when she absent-mindedly told them - Sasha found out when she first laid eyes on Shia.
"Shia (Pita-Ten)"