History VideoGame / DevilChildren

This is the only subseries in the franchise that carries the title of ''Shin Megami Tensei'' in Japan.

* LighterAndSofter: By art style and script complexity, at least.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance. There are also two puzzle games in the series, ''Messiah Riser'' and ''Puzzle de Call''. This the only subseries in the franchise that carries the title of ''Shin Megami Tensei'' in Japan.

** Remiel/Dark Imperius realizes he doesn't want to kill the girl heroes since the girl whom he loved appeals to his real self. Needless to say, Azrael/Light Imperius shows up and kills him within 2 minutes.

** Azrael/Light Imperius realizes he doesn't want to kill the girl heroes since the girl whom he loved appeals to his real self. Needless to say, Remiel/Dark Imperius shows up and kills him within 2 minutes.

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Azazels]] desire to rule over the demon world leads him to [[spoiler:trap Lucifer and impersonate him]] in Red/Black book. He then plans on taking over the human world and sends demons to attack it. This is also [[spoiler:Raphael's]] motivation in ''White Book''.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Azazels desire to rule over the demon world leads him to [[spoiler:trap Lucifer and impersonate him]] in Red/Black book. He then plans on taking over the human world and sends demons to attack it. This is also [[spoiler:Raphael's]] motivation.

* BigBadWannabe: Azazel in Red/Black Book.

* HeelFaceTurn: Michael has become good by the time of ''Fire/Ice Book''. He's also become a [[BeautyEqualsGoodness prettyboy]] in the process. [[spoiler:Raphael does one in the anime]].

* MasterOfDisguise: The [[spoiler: Fire and Ice demons of Niflheim are ''much'' better at disguising themselves than the Muspellheim angels in ''Fire Book''.]]

** Fire/Ice Book you either refuse Shugoshin in his true forms offer to become a God or you agree and become God of a world in a ForeverWar.
* NamesTheSame: The two Imperius share their names with two angels in the anime. Dark Imperius is Azazel and Light Imperius is Remiel.

* YouCantFightFate: The Flame/Ice Apostles of Fire/Ice Book firmly believe in this along with all their followers in Muspellheim/Niflheim. [[spoiler:Defeating them and proving them wrong has them ask Jin and Akira to defeat the true mastermind]].

These games were adapted into an {{anime}}, ''Shin Megami Tensei: Devi Child'', that takes liberties with the game's characters and plot, making it more like a typical shounen adventure series but keeping the mechanics of recruiting, summoning, and fusing demons.

* HeyItsThatGuy!: [[ShowtaroMorikubo Yosuke]] is the son of Lucifer, [[AkiraIshida Ryoji]] is Mammon, MamoruMiyano is Akira, AkioOhtsuka is a Virtue, and [[JunkoTakeuchi Naruto]] is Crocell.

''White Book'' (Gameboy Color) takes place a few years after ''Red Book'' and ''Black Book'', though keeping many of the same characters and themes. Masaki Kuzuha is a teenage boy accused of putting a girl into a permanent sleep; both he and his friend Takaharu Ougi enter Makai in order to find a way to cure her. Forces seem set on putting them against each other, despite them being close friends.

''Light Book'' and ''Dark Book'' were the two games localized in America as ''Demi Kids: Light Version'' and ''Dark Version'' for GameboyAdvance. They again take the same story and show it from two different perspectives, ''Light Book'' from the slacker named Jin and ''Dark Book'' with Akira, his friend, as the hero. This also received a non-localized anime.

''Fire Book'' and ''Ice Book'' for the Gameboy Advance still center around Jin, Akira, and their cast, but take the focus away from angels and demons fighting each other and instead show a conflict that takes place after the events of ''Light/Dark''.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Azazels desire to rule over the demon world leads him to [[spoiler:trap Lucifer and impersonate him]] in Red/Black book. He then plans on taking over the human world and sends demons to attack it.

* DubNameChange: Plenty of demons had their names changed along with places. Earth became Rem, Makai became Dem, etc. There are some exceptions. Beelzebub (Zebul), Azazel (Azel), Belphegor (Phegor), and some others had these names in the Japanese version.

* ForeverWar: Between the Angels and Demons of Muspellheim and Niflheim in Fire/Ice Book. They're also willing to drag all other worlds into their [[ApocalypseHow war]] by [[spoiler:disguising themselves as angels or demons then attacking the other side]]. This is also the goal of Shugoshin who sees eternal warfare as the destiny of the universe.

** The first three games played it straight between Angels and Demons for the most part with them being WellIntentionedExtremist in ''Red & Black Book'' but [[spoiler:ultimately subverted in White Book, while the angels ''do'' want order they are ruled by the power hungry Raguel who only cares about order because it means he can TakeOverTheWorld]]. ''Fire and Ice Book'' have a similar theme but with Fire and Light representing Order and Ice and Darkness representing Chaos stuck in a ForeverWar.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Angels are generally some of the last enemies in the games, and the ones you can blame.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Azazels desire to rule over the demon world leads him to [[spoiler:trap Lucifer and impersonate him in Red/Black book. He then plans on taking over the human world and sends demons to attack it.

ShinMegamiTensei is a series of video games with serious adult and religious themes. Apocalypses happen frequently. People die. Friends betray each other.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children has all of that. It's just got a cheerier art style.

Released only in Japan except for two games, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children starts off with Red Book and Black Book for the Gameboy Color (later given an UpdatedRerelease for the Playstation), the story of Setsuna Kai and Mirai Kaname, a pair of human teenagers quickly revealed to be the titular Devil Children, half-humans and half-demons. This is a very rare occurrence and gives them great power when they come from the human world to the demon one - Setsuna, the hero of Black Book, to rescue his younger brother Nagahisa, and Mirai, the heroine of Red Book, to find out about her father. Once their, the situation quickly complicates far beyond their original goals, and to progress they must gather more [[{{Mons}} partners, or demons]], to fuse and raise in strength.

Red and Black Book have an anime, Shin Megami Tensei: Devi Chil based on them that takes liberties with the game's characters and plot, making it more like a typical shounen adventure series but keeping the mechanics of recruiting, summoning, and fusing demons.

White Book (Gameboy Color) takes place a few years after Red and Black Book, though keeping many of the same characters and themes. Masaki Kuzuha is a teenage boy accused of putting a girl into a permanent sleep; both he and his friend Takaharu Ougi enter Makai in order to find a way to cure her. Forces seem set on putting them against each other, despite them being close friends.

Light Book and Dark Book were the two games localized in America as Demi Kids: Light Version and Dark Version for Gameboy Advance. They again take the same story and show it from two different perspectives, Light Book from the slacker named Jin and Dark version with Akira, his friend, as the hero. This also received a non-localized anime.

Fire Book and Ice Book for the Gameboy Advance still center around Jin, Akira, and their cast, but take the focus away from angels and demons fighting each other and instead show a conflict that takes place after the events of Light/Dark.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance. There are also two puzzle games in the series, Messiah Riser and Puzzle de Call. This the only subseries in the franchise that carries the title of ''Shin Megami Tensei'' in Japan.

* CuteShotaroBoy: Many as well. Amongst them include the Bel brothers.

* {{Tsundere}}: Masaki Kuzuha is one to his childhood friend Takaharu Ougi.

Devil Children has all of that. It's just got a cheerier art style.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance. There are also two puzzle games in the series, Messiah Riser and Puzzle de Call.

* Doppelganger: An enemy that looks like the current protagonist.

* HeelFaceTurn: Michael has become good by the time of ''Fire/Ice Book''. He's also become a {{Bishounen}} in the process. [[spoiler:Raphael does one in the anime]].

* HeyItsThatGuy!: [[ShowtaroMorikubo Yosuke]] is the son of Lucifer, [[AkiraIshida Ryoji]] is Mammon, MamoruMiyano is Akira, and [[JunkoTakeuchi Naruto]] is Crocell.

* OracularUrchin: The Angel Raziels books always tell the future of what happens in Red/Black/White Book and are found throughout the game.

* VillainDecay: Uriel started out as a angel who will do genocide in Red/Black Book and is fought as a boss, but becomes a DirstyCoward who is never fought in White Book.

* TheDragon: Mephistopheles and Isaac to Ice Apostle and Flame Apostle in Fire/Ice Book. Fenrir and Abaddon to Lucifer in the anime. Crocell, Ose, and Gemory to Imperius Remiel in the second anime. Puck is this and IncompetentSideKick to Raguel in White book.

* NameTheSame: The two Imperius share their names with two angels in the anime. Dark Imperius is Azazel and Light Imperius is Remiel.
* NewGamePlus: Available in some games.

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Azazels]] desire to rule over the demon world leads him to [[spoiler:trap Lucifer and impersonate him]] in Red/Black book. He then plans on taking over the human world and sends demons to attack it.

* BigBad: Michael in Red/Black book, [[spoiler:Raguel]] in White Book, The Imperius in Light/Dark Book, and [[spoiler:Shugoshin in Fire/Ice Book]].
** The anime has Lucifer [[spoiler: except he's been Brainwashed&Crazy]] and [[spoiler:Zebul]]. The second anime has the Light Imperius [[spoiler:and Enoch]].
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Azazel]] in Red/Black Book.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Zett in the anime. [[spoiler:Azazels]] daughter Elegy sides with the [[spoiler:[[LesserOfTwoEvils Angels]]]] in Red/Black book after seeing what her [[spoiler:fauther]] does.

* TheDragon: Raguel to Jashin in White Book.

* ForeverWar: Between the Angels and Demons of [[spoiler:Muspellheim and Niflheim]] in Fire/Ice Book. They're also willing to drag all other worlds into their [[ApocalypseHow war]] by [[spoiler:disguising themselves as angels or demons then attacking the other side]].

* GodIsEvil: Jashin is a evil god defeated by Hoshigami before she created the universe. [[spoiler:Then returns as the FinalBoss of White Book]].

** The first three games played it straight between Angels and Demons for the most part with them being WellIntentionedExtremist in ''Red & Black Book'' but [[spoiler:ultimately subverted in White Book, while the angels ''do'' want order they are ruled by the power hungry Raguel who only cares about order because it means he can TakeOverTheWorld]]. ''Fire and Ice Book'' have a similar theme but with Fire and Light representing Order [[spoiler:though early on they disguise themselves as dark demons]] and Ice and Darkness representing Chaos [[spoiler:with them disguised as Angels]] in a ForeverWar.

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: [[spoiler:Raguel]] is willing to awaken [[spoiler:Jashin]] to destroy creation by sacrificing himself since his goal [[spoiler:to TakeOverTheWorld]] is foiled by his fellow angels, demons, and Masaki.

* AdultsAreUseless: It does have children as the focus, rather than the ambiguously teenage to adult protagonists of other games.

* ArchangelMichael: Nagahisa's father.

* BiblicalBadGuy: Beelzebub (Zebul), especially in the anime. Sorta. {{Satan}} in the anime.

* BonusBoss: Zebul in the Deep Hole of Red/Black Book.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Zett in the anime.

* HalfHumanHybrid: They don't happen often: rare enough to require a TitleDrop even.

* LightIsNotGood: The angels' goals are to destroy humans and demons alike.

* MultipleEndings: Side with the angels and destroy the world, side with Lucifer and remake it, or make yourself the new God?

* SatanIsGood: Lucifer wants to unite the demon and human worlds, and is as good a father as he can possibly be.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Angels think this.

* YinYangBomb: Book of Light and Book of Dark.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Demons vary in their personalities as much as humans do, but don't seem to be all that bad. Angels, too, aren't always jerks.

* SatanIsGood: Lucifer wants to unite the demon and human worlds, and is as good a father as he can possibly be.

* BittersweetEnding: None of Red/Black Book's endings are completely happy. Either the world has been destroyed and remade, or Nagahisa is dead, or you only exist as a god.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Setsuna and Mirai save people. A lot.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance. There are also two puzzle games in the series, Messiah Riser and Puzzle de Call.

Released only in Japan except for two games, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children starts off with Red Book and Black Book, the story of Setsuna Kai and Mirai Kaname, a pair of human teenagers quickly revealed to be the titular Devil Children, half-humans and half-demons. This is a very rare occurrence and gives them great power when they come from the human world to the demon one - Setsuna, the hero of Black Book, to rescue his younger brother Nagahisa, and Mirai, the heroine of Red Book, to find out about her father. Once their, the situation quickly complicates far beyond their original goals, and to progress they must gather more partners, or demons, to fuse and raise in strength.

White Book takes place a few years after Red and Black Book, though keeping many of the same characters and themes. Masaki Kuzuha is a teenage boy accused of putting a girl into a permanent sleep; both he and his friend Takaharu Ougi enter Makai in order to find a way to cure her. Forces seem set on putting them against each other, despite them being close friends.

Light Book and Dark Book were the two games localized in America as Demi Kids: Light Version and Dark Version. They again take the same story and show it from two different perspectives, Light Book from the slacker named Jin and Dark version with Akira, his friend, as the hero. This also received a non-localized anime.

Fire Book and Ice Book still center around Jin, Akira, and their cast, but take the focus away from angels and demons fighting each other and instead show a conflict that takes place after the events of Light/Dark.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance.