History VisualNovel / DiesIrae

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The third level of Die Ewigkeit, Briah, allows user to materialize their desires: for example, if a character desires to not be touched by anyone, his Briah 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.

* ''Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~'' (2012-06) - An [[BleachedUnderpants All-ages release]] for the PSP which adds a boatload of new contents ([=CGs=], routes, and animated scenes). This version later saw release for the Windows version in August 2012, an UpdatedReRelease for Windows 10 in December 2015, and a port for Android devices in August 2015 (as a part of the above-mentioned crowdfunding). An iOS release is set for 2016. An English version of this release is intended for release in May 2016 for PC through Steam, along with an 18+ patch to unbleach the underpants.

After a leaked image [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] hinted at it 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 is intended for a May 2017 release on Steam, along with an 18+ patch. The anime was also confirmed for an eventual English release.

* ''Dies irae: Also sprach Zarathustra -die Wiederkunft-'' (2009-07) - This version fixed those story problems, added some new music and plot to make the whole story more enjoyable and coherant

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal. After a leaked image [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] hinted at it 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 is intended for a May 2017 release on Steam, along with an 18+ patch. The anime was also confirmed for an eventual English release.

* ''Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~'' (2012-06) - An [[BleachedUnderpants All-ages release]] for the PSP which adds a boatload of new contents ([=CGs=], routes, and animated scenes). This version later saw release for the Windows version in August 2012, an UpdatedReRelease for Windows 10 in December 2015, and a port for Android devices in August 2015 (as a part of the above-mentioned crowdfunding). An iOS release is set for 2016.

* ActorAllusion: Reinhard’s voice actor chose ‘Tom Cruise’ (in katakana) as his pseudonym while working on Dies Irae.

[[caption-width-right:350: Battle Royale to run away from really fast!]]

* ''Dies irae ~Acta est Fabula~'' (2009-12) - Added two additional routes for the EnsembleDarkhorse Tsundere character Kei Sakurai, and the EmotionlessGirl Rea Himuro and adding a somewhat vague ending that was filled out in a drama CD. A download version was released in 2014.

Ren is a high school student. He had a violent fight against Shirou, and was hospitalized for two months. One day, he leaves the hospital, and tries to start a new life. But, it never comes to him. A dream of guillotine..., a murderer who chops off someone's head..., and the knights who chase him.... Ren crosses over the boundary between ordinary life and extraordinary life. "I just wanna go back..., to a boring but peaceful life...." A voice of Shirou suddenly echoes..., "If you live in this town, you'll go mad sooner or later...." A war.... What will happen to Ren in the end...?

Originally intended to be a visual novel with only a single route; Dies Irae underwent some quick rewrites due to ExecutiveMeddling after artwork posted during development lead to interest in characters who were not the main heroine.

On the surface it is a regular supernatural story with lots of GratuitousGerman and Latin but its focus was truly on the RuleOfCool and its unapologetic admission that although the story is cliche, it was the characters that would drive the story and their interactions received most of the effort.

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal. Additionally in 2016, a [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] suggests that an English localization of the ''Amantes amentes'' version releasing on Steam is being made.

* ''Dies irae: Also sprach Zarathustra -die Wiederkunft-'' (2009-07) - This version fixed those story problems, added some new music and plot to make the whole story more enjoyable and also make a bit more sense.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Despite being a group that the Schutzstaffel found too intense the L.D.O. members are given significant characterization. It is revealed that the few that are not out and out evil and are mostly forced into their roles. [[spoiler:Plenty even rebel in all the routes to do their own thing. Not for good reasons each time though. Beatrice and Valeria do everything for their loved ones while Wilhelm just wants a go at fighting Wolfgang/Ren/Shirou/anyone.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Reinhard who cannot be happy unless he is fighting to stay alive, which is hard given that he is so powerful he needs to engineer the apocalypse to do so. [[spoiler:As Ren eventually fights with him on even footing due to a HeroicSecondWind his response is to laugh with joy as he cannot see any other way to live]]. Hell for him 'taking it easy' and 'barely working' is being head of the Gestapo!
** Karl Kraft can see into the future and as so goads Reinhard into his whole plan of re-creating the world so that he may see something he could not immediately predict the outcome of. His general actions when a member of the L.D.O. freak out all the other members except Reinhard, remember that the L.D.O. is composed mostly of Complete Monsters or Blood Knights and they feel Karl is too weird.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Third level of Die Ewigkeit, Briah, allows user to materialize their desires: for example, if a character desires to not be touched by anyone, his Briah 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.
* 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! Easily his CrowningMomentOfAwesome]].
* ForTheEvulz: Wolfgang just Wolfgang. He sings nursery rhymes while he stabs people to death. Although killing people and drinking their souls gives your relic more power Wolfgang was a serial killer before he was drafted into the L.D.O.
* {{Ghostapo}}: The Longinus Dreizehn Orden or L.D.O. is this played dead strait. A unit made up of people who TookALevelInBadass at the very least.

* SentientCosmicForce: Achieving "Atziluth" or Godhood makes you this, as it involves expanding the character in question's internal world until it is a massive universe of it's own. Two Atziluths cannot coexist however [[spoiler: (At least, not unless Marie is made the Throne God) ]], so two people with Atziluths activated will have to do battle for superiority.

* VillainousBreakdown: Inverted emotionally with Reinhard who only gets happier as it looks like he might lose. [[spoiler:He had never had a problem fighting anyone before that due to his StoryBreakerPower status.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Mercurius is hated by all characters of the novel except for Reinhard and Marie.

* BloodKnight: A few characters, including Reinhard, Wilhelm, Wolfgang and Eleonore.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Ren with Kasumi in her route.

* IHaveManyNames: Mercurius: Karl Ernst Krafft, Alessandro Cagliostro, Hermes Trismegistus, Count of St. Germain, Michel de Nostredame, Paracelsus, Johann Georg Faust, Christian Rosenkreuz, Albertus Magnus and many others.

* {{Badass}}: Naturally, the better part of the cast, but Ren, Eleonore (Rubedo), Reinhard and Mercurius in particular take it off the charts.
** BadassNormal: Shirou, who in a few routes never gains any magical ability but still fights with the magically empowered L.D.O. and be taken as a serious threat.
*** [[spoiler:Specifically, Wilhelm pulls out his Briah ‘Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald’ and only succeeds in taking Shirou down with him]].
** BadassPreacher: Christof Lohengrin, alias Valeria Trifa, who packs quite a wallop and manages to take the spot as the FinalBoss of Kasumi's Route. He also manages to [[spoiler: more or less defeat Schreiber entirely just by abusing his ability to read other's emotions.]]

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* ''[[VanillaEdition Dies Irae: Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'' (2007) - Had routes for two heroines: EmpathicWeapon Maria and Ren's Childhood Friend Kasumi. Due to hasty rewrites, certain key scenes were shortened and back story was left out.

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* ''Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~'' (2012-06) - An [[BleachedUnderpants All-ages release]] for the PSP which adds a boatload of new contents ([=CGs=], routes, and animated scenes). This version later saw release for the Windows version in August 2012, an UpdatedReRelease for Windows 10 in December 2015, and a port for Android devices in August 2015 (as a part of crowdfunding mentioned below). An iOS release is set for 2016.

On the surface it is a regular supernatural story with lots of GratuitousGerman and Latin but its focus was truly on the RuleOfCool and its unapologetic admission that although the story is cliche, it was the characters that would drive the story and their interactions received most of the effort.

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal. Additionally in 2016, a [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] suggests that an English localization of the ''Amantes amentes'' version releasing on Steam is being made.

Dies Irae: Also Sprach Zarathustra:\\
Had routes for two heroines: EmpathicWeapon Maria and Ren's Childhood Friend Kasumi. Due to the hasty rewrite certain key scenes were shortened and back story was left out.

Dies irae: Also sprach Zarathustra -die Wiederkunft:\\
Fixed that, adding some new music and plot to make the whole story more enjoyable and also make a bit more sense.

Dies Irae: Acta est Fabula:\\
Added two additional routes. One with EnsembleDarkhorse Tsundere character Rei Sakurai, and the other a route focusing on EmotionlessGirl Rea Himuro and adding a somewhat vague ending that was filled out in a drama CD.

A PSP version has been announced for summer 2012 with the [[BleachedUnderpants appropriate changes]] called ''Dies Irae Amantes Amentes.'' This version was later backported onto Windows.

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal. Additionally in 2016, a [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] suggests that an English localization with optimized system for current computers releasing on Steam is being made.

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal. Additionally in 2016, a [[https://twitter.com/light_staff_tw/status/766645770162278405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaked image]] suggests that an English localization releasing on Steam is being made.

A PSP version has been announced for summer 2012 with the appropriate changes called ''Dies Irae Amantes Amentes.''

In 2015, the creators of the game launched [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/13/dies-irae-animation-project-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-100-million-yen a crowdfunding campaign]] to create [[TheAnimeOfTheGame an anime pilot episode]], and took in 100 million yen, over 300% of their original target goal.

* BadassNormal: Shirou, who in a few routes never gains any magical ability but still fights with the magically empowered L.D.O. and be taken as a serious threat.
** [[spoiler:Specifically, Wilhelm pulls out his Briah ‘Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald’ and only succeeds in taking Shirou down with him]].

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Kasumi's route.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Reinhard who cannot be happy unless he is fighting to stay alive, which is hard given that he is so powerful he needs to engineer the apocalypse to do so. [[spoiler:As Ren eventually fights with him on even footing due to a HeroicSecondWind his response is to laugh with joy as he cannot see any other way to live]]. Hell for him 'taking it easy' and 'barely working' is being head of the SS!
** Karl Kraft can see into the future and as so goads Reinhard into his whole plan of re-creating the world so that he may see something he could not immediately predict the outcome of. His general actions when a member of the L.D.O. freak out all the other members except Reinhard, remember that the L.D.O. is composed mostly of Complete Monsters or Blood Kights and they feel Karl is too weird.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Marle, who is the anthropomorphic personification [[spoiler:of the guillotine used in the French revolution]].

* EnemyMine: This is essentially why Reinhard [[spoiler: Becomes the protagonist in Rea's route, after he is shown the true definition of friendship through Shirou and Ren's fistfight, and then turns on Mercurius, who he finds out to have been deliberately keeping him in the dark on certain things.]]

* PhysicalGod: A greater part of the cast, but particularly Reinhard and Mercurius, the former of which more or less makes characters who could easily level a country or five with ease shit themselves with fear using an inkling of his full power. Mercurius manages to top this by having his weakest form of attack be tossing tens of thousands of stars, shrunk to the size of golf balls, as a god-rending hellfire barrage.

* BadassPreacher: Christof Lohengrin, alias Valeria Trifa, who packs quite a wallop and manages to take the spot as the FinalBoss of Kasumi's Route. He also manages to [[spoiler: more or less defeat Schreiber entirely just by abusing his ability to read other's emotions.]]

* PhysicalGod: A greater part of the cast, but particularly Reinhard and Mercurius, the former of which more or less makes characters who could easily level a country or five with ease shit themselves with fear using an inkling of his full power. Mercurius manages to top this by having his weakest form of attack be **tossing tens of thousands of stars, shrunk to the size of golf balls, as a god-rending hellfire barrage.**

* VitriolicBestBuds: The obvious example aside with Shirou and Ren, given that the former put the latter in the hospital for three months, Reinhard and Mercurius are more or less this [[spoiler: though Reinhard eventually finds out that Mercurius' friendship with him is basically just a way to try and control his Apoptosis]].

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Half the cast

A PSP version has been announced for summer 2012 with the appropriate changes called Dies Irae Amantes Amentes

A visual novel by the company Light (no not that light) that has had a colorful release history.

Despite doing well in sales as far as visual novels go it really: NeedsMoreLove.

Dies Irae: Also Sprach Zarathustra :

Dies irae Also sprach Zarathustra -die Wiederkunft:

Dies Irae Acta est Fabula:

Added two additional routes one with EnsembleDarkhorse Tusndere character Rei Sakurai. The other a route focusing on EmotionlessGirl Rea Himuro and adding a somewhat vague ending that was filled out in a drama CD.