History VisualNovel / DiesIrae

* ''Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~'' (2012-18) - An [[BleachedUnderpants All-ages release]] for the PSP which adds a boatload of new contents ([=CGs=], routes, and animated scenes).

* TitleDrop: In Marie route, the VN's original ending, [[spoiler: in Ren and Reinhard's aria chant duel sequence, the name of their Atziluth forms the original title of the VN: Dies Irae - Also Sprach Zarathustra. In Rea route's first ending, and the original ending for the "completed" re-released VN, the Atziluth aria duel between Reinhard and Mercurius once again ends by dropping the title of the renewed VN - Dies Irae - Acta Est Fabula. Once again, in the Drama CD that was later adapted as Rea route's second ending in the BleachedUnderpants re-re-release of the game, the title is namedropped by Reinhard and Marie: Dies Irae - Amantes Amentes.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Kasumi has a mole on her breasts. This came in handy during [[spoiler:Ren's battle with Spinne. Spinne entangled three women on his web, and Ren was able to figure out that none of them where Kasumi as Spinne claimed thanks to that fact]].

* CreepyChild: The undead ghost children from Lebensborn. While they are fairly innocent as far a ghosts go, they still managed to be quite unsettling regardless.

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The Omnia Vincit Amor sidestory acts as a distant epilogue to Marie's route, taking place in Berlin 60 years after the events of the main story]].

* TheyDo: In ''Nihil Diffcile Amanti'', [[spoiler:which serves as the epilogue of Rea's route and the visual novel as a whole, Ren Fuji and Rea Himuro tie the knot while feeling the warmth of Marie's embrace.]]

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Throne, which is located at the center of the Universe and houses the current Hadou God]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Shirou in the routes where he does acquire his Yetzirah. [[spoiler:In Marie’s route, he acquires it while punching his way out of a monster that had supposedly killed and eaten him.]].

* TitleDrop:In Marie route, the VN's original ending, [[spoiler: in Ren and Reinhard's aria chant duel sequence, the name of their Atziluth forms the original title of the VN: Dies Irae - Also Sprach Zarathustra. In Rea route's first ending, and the original ending for the "completed" re-relased VN, the Atziluth aria duel between Reinhard and Mercurius once again ends by dropping the title of the renewed VN - Dies Irae - Acta Est Fabula. Once again, in the Drama CD that was later adapted as Rea route's second ending in the BleachedUnderpants re-re-release of the game, the title is namedropped by Reinhard and Marie: Dies Irae - Amantes Amentes.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:At the end of Rea's route, Ren and Shirou beat each-other to bloody pulps on top of the school roof, mirroring the events at the start of the story]].
* WorldOfHam: Suffice to say, there is no shortage of characters hamming it up in this novel, with only only getting even more hammy as it goes on.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The various endings have various levels of character mortality, but usually the body count is pretty high. Kei's route is the only one with most main characters staying alive while Rea's route features a sort of ResetButton ending]].

* TalkingToYourself: Karl and Ren have the same voice actor.
** Kei and Beatrice as well.

A mobile game [[http://dies-p.net spinoff]] titled ''Dies Irae Pantheon'' was announced in August 2017, with the series producer hoping for an English localization. Unfortunately, Light's parent company Greenwood closed it's doors in late March 2019, leaving ''Pantheon'' tentatively canceled and the fate of the series at large up in the air, including future English localization's.

* TakesOneToKillOne: While killing an Ewigkeit user is doable in theory for a normal human, in actual practice it is nigh impossible. This is due to the way Die Ewigkeit works as it gives it's users effectively extra lives on top of a whole host of other abilities. Thus the only really effective way to kill one is to use weapons that take "several lives on each use", and normal such weapons like bombs and nukes just aren't practical. Hence why Ahnenerbe exists, weapons wielded by Ewigkeit users, as they attack the soul directly and can take all those extra lives with more limited attacks. The only known instance of a normal human killing an Ewigkeit user was [[spoiler:Shirou killing Wilhelm at the end of Kasumi's route]], and that relied on a very specific loophole created by the users own powers.

* IRejectYourReality: The third level of Die Ewigkeit, Beri'ah, allows user to materialize their desires: for example, if a character desires to not be touched by anyone, his Beri'ah allows him to be always faster than his opponent. Atziluth is the same taken UpToEleven, when the desire is so strong that it starts to change the entire world.

* StaticCharacter: Pretty much the entire roster end the story as the same people they were in the start with only some very minor character development spread out here and there. The focus of the story is instead on who they are as people and how they got to where they are now.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of Kasumi's route, pretty much all of the cast except for Kasumi herself are either dead or comatose. And while the summoning of Reinhard disrupted, it is only delayed as opposed to actually stopped]].

After a [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] hinted at an English Steam release earlier in the year, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences?token=08472cba a Kickstarter campaign]] for an English localization of the ''Amantes amentes'' version of Dies Irae launched in December 2016. The visual novel was released in June 2nd, 2017. An 18+ patch was released 6 months afterwards. The anime has been confirmed for streaming on {{Website/Crunchyroll}}. Creator/{{Funimation}}'s Simuldub premieres on October 24th, 2017. Watch it [[https://www.funimation.com/shows/dies-irae/ here]].