History VideoGame / DevilChildren

* BonusBoss: Zebul, Phegor, and Berith in the Deep Hole of Red/Black/Dark.

* ThreeAmigos: Setsuna, Mirai, and Zett in the latter parts of the anime.

* AdultFear: Episode 28 of the anime has Jack Frost play a game of hide and seek with the Petite Frosts of his village, only for them to be Vritra. While the little Frosts are rescued in the end of course, Jack Frost is absolutely nerve wracked upon losing his young kin, as would any parent or older sibling when a child goes missing during what was supposed to be an innocent game of hide and seek.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Nagahisa is killed in any ending where you don't side with him in Red/Black book.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Elegy is soon on the heroes' side in the manga, and gets to be Setsuna's love interest when the two hardly share a conversation in Setsuna's game.

These games were [[AnimeOfTheGame adapted into an anime]], ''Shin Megami Tensei: DeviChil'', 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. It also has a manga with an entirely different plot.

These games were adapted into an {{anime}}, ''Shin Megami Tensei: DeviChil'', 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. It also has a manga with an entirely different plot.

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. It also has a manga with an entirely different plot.

Released only in Japan except for two games, ''Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children'' starts off with ''Red Book'' and ''Black Book'' for the UsefulNotes/GameboyColor (later given an UpdatedRerelease for the UsefulNotes/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 there, 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.

''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 Shou Ougi 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 UsefulNotes/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. Who battle against the tyranny of the Imperium from Valhalla. This also received a non-localized anime.

''Fire Book'' and ''Ice Book'' for the Gameboy Advance still center around Jin, Akira, and their cast, which has angels and demons appearing on many worlds in order to fight each other and begin Armageddon after the events of ''Light/Dark''.

''Puzzle de Call'', a puzzle game for the Gameboy Advance. It stars the demon partners of Jin and Akira, known as Gale and Rand, as they attempt to save the two Devil Children who have been captured in another world.

* TheEmpire: The Imperium of Light/Dark Version. Brought back in ''Messiah Riser''.

* LighterAndSofter: Sort of. By art style and script complexity, at least. {{Atlus}} really did make a valiant effort to produce this kind of game, but in the end they couldn't break out of their mold and just made the terrible things happen to younger people.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Quite a few demons that were good or while not good but weren't aligned to a certain side ended up becoming the minions of the villains in the anime. Zebul became the BigBad of the first anime, Raphael became a spy for the ObviouslyEvil Light Imperius and his ArsGoetia minions in the second anime, [[LightIsNotGood Enoch]], and more.

* ArsGoetia: Many bosses in the series are Goetia demons. Many of whom are either still Angels or allied with them. There are exceptions of course. Though due to being bosses they tend to belong to the Boss Type, which is made up of demons of different races faced during the story.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They vary in all forms, shapes, and sizes. Amongst them are the usual angels, several ArsGoetia demons, Satan, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Amesha Spentas]], and concepts.

''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. Who battle against the tyranny of the Imperium from Valhalla. This also received a non-localized anime.

Released only in Japan except for two games, ''Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children'' starts off with ''Red Book'' and ''Black Book'' for the GameboyColor (later given an UpdatedRerelease for the UsefulNotes/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 there, 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.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They vary in all forms, shapes, and sizes. Amongst them are the usual angels, several ArsGoetia demons, Satan, the [[{{Zoroastrianism}} Amesha Spentas]], and concepts.

Released only in Japan except for two games, ''Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children'' starts off with ''Red Book'' and ''Black Book'' for the GameboyColor (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 there, 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.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Quite a few demons that were good or while not good but weren't aligned to a certain side ended up becoming the minions of the villains in the anime. Zebul became the BigBad of the first anime, Raphael became a spy for the ObviouslyEvil Light Imperius and his ArsGoetia minions in the second anime, [[spoiler:Enoch]], and more.

* AllMythsAreTrue: And some they just made up.
* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Azazel]]'s 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:Raguel's]] motivation in ''White Book''.

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Jashin, Seipher, Quazir, and both Shugoshins will all eventually be reborn even if they are killed.

* TheAtoner: Takaharu Ougi and some Angels.

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

* BittersweetEnding: None of Red/Black Book's endings are completely happy. Either the world has been destroyed, or Nagahisa is dead, or you only exist as a god.
* BonusBoss: Zebul, Phegor, and Berith in the Deep Hole of any game.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Benevolent example in Zebul. He manipulates the events of Red/Black book to ensure that Ragnarok happens and not Armageddon. It's hinted early on but not apparent until Takajo Zett takes his true form]].

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

* 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, neverending warfare as the destiny of the universe.

* GlamourFailure: The [[spoiler:Fire and Light demons of Muspellheim aren't very good at copying the appearance of the Bel brothers in ''Book of Ice'']].

* GodOfEvil: Jashin is a evil god defeated by Hoshigami before she created the universe. Then returns as the FinalBoss of White Book.
* HalfHumanHybrid: They don't happen often: rare enough to require a TitleDrop even. There's also the Angel Children born between humans and angels. It's also possible to pass on the powers of demons/angels to a human to make them a hybrid. [[spoiler:This is how Masaki becomes TheChosenOne in White Book as he's part Angel, Human, and Demon]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: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]].
** Other examples includes Bosses one might come across in certain games who either realize they've been duped or like the Protagonists enough to join them. One example is Remiel joining Jin after he learned that [[spoiler: the Enoch he was serving is a fake]].

* LightIsGood: Nathanael in ''White Book'', Hoshigami, and Lord Light. [[spoiler:Michael in ''Fire/Ice'']].
* LightIsNotGood: The angels goals are to destroy humans and demons alike in the first three games.

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

* MultipleEndings: In Red Book/Black Book you side with the angels and destroy the world, side with Lucifer and remake it, or make yourself the new God?

** [[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]].

* SealedEvilInACan: The villain of ''Messiah Riser'' was this until recently.

* TimeMaster: Both Lord Light and Darklord. [[spoiler:Which makes the fact that they didn't foresee Muspellheim and Nifleheim destroying Valhalla weird]].
* TimeTravel: In Light/Dark Books onwards. [[spoiler:This is also how Jin prevents Lucifers death]].

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Angels think this. [[spoiler:Eventually get [[HeelFaceTurn better]] after ''White Book'']].
* VillainDecay: Uriel started out as a angel who will do genocide in Red/Black Book and is fought as a boss, but becomes a DirtyCoward who is never fought in White Book.
* WeCanRuleTogether: After Takaharu Ougi fails to fulfill his role, [[spoiler:Raguel]] offers Masaki a chance to aid him in conquering the world.

* 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 Shugoshin]].

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

* NamesTheSame: The two Imperius share their names with two angels in the anime. Dark Imperius is Azrael and Light Imperius is Remiel.

* NoExportForYou

* SequelFirst: Red Book and Black Book will never make it over here, will they.

* ThreeAmigos: Setsuna, Mirai, and Zett in the latter parts of the anime.

The gameplay is similar to most games in the series, and many demons from the rest of the world make an appearance. There is one puzzle game called ''Puzzle de Call'' and a RealTimeStrategy game called ''Messiah Riser''. A Devil Children game was released on the Mobile Phone in 2011-2012.

* TheEmpire: The Imperium of Light/Dark Book.

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

This is the only subseries in the franchise that carries the title of ''Shin Megami Tensei'' in Japan. Light Version and Dark Version were also the first games to bear the title ''Shin Megami Tensei'' in the west, beating out [[OlderThanTheyThink the game people usually ascribe that honor to]], [[ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne]], by several months.

** The anime has Lucifer [[spoiler:except he's been Brainwashed&Crazy]] and Zebul. The second anime has the Light Imperius [[spoiler:and Enoch]].

Released only in Japan except for two games, ''Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children'' starts off with ''Red Book'' and ''Black Book'' for the GameboyColor (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.

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Azazel]]'s 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''.