YMMV / Devil Children

• Broken Base: This is likely the most divisive subseries of Shin Megami Tensei, and is often not talked about as much as other games in the series. Most of this is in regard to the Audience Shift to accommodate young children and the Lighter and Softer attempt at the franchise formula. Some find this as dumbing down the franchise and just seeming silly while others don't mind it and still find the games fun despite the shift to a younger demographic.
• Complete Monster: In the manga by Fujii Hideki, Demon King Azazel, Driven by Envy, usurped the throne from his benevolent brother Lucifer. Sparing Lucifer's life to humiliate him, Azazel orders the massacre of the Cerberus Clan, children included, considering them traitors; allows the fracture of the Demon World into warring factions; and banishes his own daughter Elegy after seeing his past self in her. Receiving news of the invasion of the Angels, Azazel abandons his subjects and sends his spy to fight the heroes in the Fire Land, destroying it in the process. When the Devil Children arrive to his palace, Azazel promises to kill Setsuna in front of his father Lucifer and mocks the death of Elegy's loyal servants. Realizing the Devil Children have the Rainbow Key, Azazel claims a desire to create a paradise, only to be mocked by Lucifer, who reveals that Azazel desires to use the Rainbow Key to dominate the world. In his battle against the heroes, Azazel causes notorious destruction in his own capital, which he justifies by saying that now that the apocalypse is near, it doesn't matter.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: From the Shin Megami Tensei: DeviChil Anime, we have Canon Foreigner Queen Frost. While being a member of the already-popular Jack Frost Family helps, she's also well-liked for her regal and elegant attitude that switches to a more tomboyish persona during emergencies and her unique design. She's popular enough to have gotten her own card in the Devil Children Trading Card Game, and appears pretty often in fangames. It's to the point where she's requested to appear in an actual Shin Megami Tensei game, and it also helps that other Jack Frost variants from the Devil Children series (Like Frost Ace, Lucifroz, and especially the Devil Children version of King Frost) made appearances in other Shin Megami Tensei games.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The anime adaptation is sought out by SMT fans almost entirely because the lovable Series Mascot Jack Frost is a main character and gets into various adorable antics that are the source for many reaction gifs in the fandom. Thus quite a few fans who otherwise don't care for Devil Children at least want to see where these Jack Frost gifs come from.
• Memetic Mutation: As Jack Frost in the anime adaptation sports a wide variety of emotes as opposed to being stuck with his signature open smile, his facial expressions and antics have been a source for numerous reaction gifs. In the non-Japanese MegaTen fandom, the popularity of these Jack Frost gifs arguably exceed the popularity and knowledge of the anime adaptation itself.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This game still has succubi and incubi (and yes, Incubus still has a Gag Penis).
  • Then there's the manga, which takes this even further by being far more darker and violent than the video games it was based off of. And keep in mind this was serialized in a magazine aimed at elementary school boys. It was even described as "Berserk for kids"

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