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Protagonist (Devil Summoner)

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We did it...Kyouji... You may not really be Kyouji, but you're a Devil Summoner worthy of the Kuzunoha title. Still, since you aren't really Kyouji... What do you want me to call you?
~ Rei Reiho to the protagonist where they can decide to inherit Kyouji Kuzunoha's name or keep their own name

Background

The protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is a young man in his 20s who ends up in the body of Kyouji Kuzunoha. His occupation is decided by the player.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner

The protagonist is attacked by demons at an Amusement Park, but he is saved by Kyouji Kuzunoha. However, the protagonist is later trapped in a warehouse by Sid Davis. Sid sadistically hunts and kills the protagonist. The protagonist's spirit possesses the recently deceased body of Kyouji, the man who had saved him before. He then begins a quest to find a way to return to his original body and eliminate the demons haunting Hirasaki City. At the end of the game, when asked by Rei Reiho what his real name is, he can choose to inherit Kyouji's name or use his own name. Either way, he continues to stop demons from causing destruction in the city.

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

The protagonist appears as the ultimate Boss in the Extra Dungeon, having the demons Metatron, Kali, Anat, Shiva and Vishnu assisting him. Beating him only yields a special congratulatory message. His demons have powerful high-leveled spells, which requires one to be very prepared before fighting him.

In the 3DS version of the Extra Dungeon, Raidou Kuzunoha XIV and Raido Kuzunoha XIV are fought following the battle against him.

Megami Ibunroku Persona

He appears in inverted colors on Masao Inaba's shirt, and a poster of him can be found in the Mikage Subway.

General Information

Name: Protagonist, Kyouji Kuzunoha (Can choose to inherit Kyouji Kuzunoha's name when asked by Rei what his real name is), Jouhei (In the novel), Jun'ya Echi (In Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Sealed Soul)

Origin: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner

Sex: Male

Age: 20s (Is noted during a Kazauma Kaneko works to be in his 20s[1])

Classification: Student, Self-employed, Unemployed, or Part-timer (Can choose one of the occupations at the beginning of the game)

Species: Human

Occupation: Office worker, Civil servant, Devil Summoner, Detective

Status: Other (The protagonist is a deceased soul possessing the body of Kyouji Kuzunoha)

Alignment: Neutral Good (Works as a detective and devil summoner, helping out the town from various demon incidents and saving the world from the revived Inaruna. When he is sent down into AVICI HELL and escapes it, Charon asks him if he wishes to return to his body in which he says no having Charon note the protagonist as an honorable soul)

Codex Statistics

Key: Pre-Possession | Post-Possession | Mid Game | Late Game | Soul Hackers

Tier: 10-B, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Low 8-C, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | 4-C, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | 1-C, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | 1-C, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Cardinality: Finite | Finite | Finite | At least ℵ2 | At least ℵ2

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Human level, Far Higher with Observation (Observation can be used to massively amplify one's stats, such as when the early game Shin Megami Tensei 1 protagonist was amplified to be able to fight with all the other end game protagonists and fight] Stephen. With it's power being noted by Stephen to give humans the potential to exceed the Axiom) & Willpower (A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them, the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before) | Small Building level (Can fight and defeat low level demons. Low level demons should be comparable to other low level demons who have access to Agi skills, which can vaporize humans, which gives these results. Along with access to Bufu skills, which can completely freeze opponents, giving these results), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Star level (Has deity level demons, which which all powerful and god level demons sustain a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon that is sustained by said demon and destroyed upon their death[2], which should put them beyond demons not considered powerful ones such as Tonatiuh, who is an armed warrior that holds the sun on his back[3] and Huoniao, who shot down nine of the ten suns falling from the sky[4][5]), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse level (Fought and defeated the Demiurge, who is stated by Metatron to be the most powerful of YHVH's fragments. YHVH's own universe is more vague and more infinite then anything Nanashi or Flynn have ever seen[6], where they've seen demons such as Ouroboros, who is the embodiment of infinity[7], putting it at least beyond ℵ1 in size. With even YHVH himself noting he is infinity[8], and he exists as an incomprehensible transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation. He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything[9] . which would mean he created[10] infinite universes[11], and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse[12]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor a void that transcends time and space, with it requiring a special ritual to enter, where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place[13], putting it beyond even The Expanse a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse[14]. Viewed as so immeasurably powerful that the combined cast of SMT IV Apocalypse, needed to deny his divine nature and form understandings repeatedly through the use of observation in order to defeat him. Defeated Sid Davis who treated the defeat as the Demiurge as something minor and was planning to kill the Demiurge himself[15]. Fought and defeated both forms of Princess Inaruna, who was noted by Sid Davis that her great power will cause destruction the likes that one could only begin to imagine[16], and in which removing her seals required Sid to summon the likes of the Demiurge[17]), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse level (Fought against Keiji Minegishi & Nemissa but ultimately lost. Keiji and Nemissa fought right after a casual Raido Kuzunoha XIV and Raidou Kuzunoha XIV with the Soulless God Oumagatsu who implied to have transcended time, allowing them to access Akarana Corridor a void that transcends time and space, with it requiring a special ritual to enter, where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place[18], putting it beyond even The Expanse a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Durability: Human level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Small Building level (Tanked being in the epicenter of an explosion that destroyed an entire building), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Star level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Striking Strength: Human Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Small Building Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Star Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Complex Multiverse Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Lifting Strength: Average Human | Average Human, Class 5 with Demons (Should have demons comparable to Fury Type demons, who can move entire cars casually with "Use Force") | Average Human, Class 5 with Demons | Average Human, Class 5 with Demons | Average Human, Class 5 with Demons

Travel Speed: Average Human | Superhuman (Can keep up with demons, who can keep up with Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, who is shown in the Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army intro to outrun Gouto-Douji at full speed) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Superhuman

Combat Speed: Average Human, cannot be blitzed due to Observation (Observation allows for humans to not be blitzed by demons who are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse) | Unknown (Can tag demons who are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse) | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Reaction Speed: Average Human, cannot be blitzed due to Observation | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Stamina: Average | Superhuman (Can go through entire dungeons fighting hordes of demons without showing any sign of being tired)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with Sword, Hundreds of Meters with Guns, Kilometers to Planetary with demons (Demons have access to magic such as being able to create snowstorms and freezing the entire world), Cross-Dimensional for his demons (Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them, and can attack from there. Demons can also create mirage realms, that shroud an entire area in mist, with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back, requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them), At least Complex Multiversal with Observation (Can affect beings such as YHVH through their observation. YHVH's own universe is more vague and more infinite then anything Nanashi or Flynn have ever seen[19], where they've seen demons such as Ouroboros, who is the embodiment of infinity[20], putting it at least beyond ℵ1 in size. With even YHVH himself noting he is infinity[21], and he exists as an incomprehensible transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation. He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything[22] . which would mean he created[23] infinite universes[24], and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse[25]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor a void that transcends time and space, with it requiring a special ritual to enter, where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place[26], putting it beyond even The Expanse a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse[27]. Viewed as so immeasurably powerful that the combined cast of SMT IV Apocalypse, needed to deny his divine nature and form understandings repeatedly through the use of observation in order to defeat him)

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (After just picking up Kyouji Kuzunoha's body could easily use it to combat against demons and like, immedieatly got used to being a Devil Summoner along with a detective, along with Rei Reiho noting at the end of the game that the protagonist was worthy of being a Kuzunoha, which to officially have titles such as "Kyouji Kuzunoha" and "Raidou Kuzunoha" requires one to succeed in the Kuzunhoa training hall, where people wishing to become Devil Summoners risk their lives with exmplery spirits equal to even Raidou falling here. Defeated demons such as the Demiurge, with eons of experience)


Powers and Techniques

Is a user of Observation which grants them:

Observation (Varies between Unconscious Manifestation & Concious Manifestation; Observation users consciously and unconsciously change truths around them creating Gods and demons from myths and rumors), Negation (The power of observation, has the ability to make something without form, be certain and stable, The Axiom, tasked humans with observing the universe, allowing humans to assign an answer to phenomena without an answer. Dagda mentions humanity's "understanding" (observation) is what's locked him and Danu in physical forms. Nanashi and his party's denial of YHVH cast him into a demonic form. Gods and demons exist within a human's observation. Demons that also exist beyond death can be killed by observation users), Negation of Personal Nonexistence (Ayin Physiology; Can kill The White and demons, who naturally exist within the expanse, which the Monochrome Forest exists within the expanse, a place that is eerily still, having no sound or smell, where even the ground itself feels unusual, which demons naturally exist in. The Forest also holds the White’s realm, which is a vast, white space), Negation of Incorporeality (Can harm and kill demons, who are beings made of data, that exist in a virtual world, along with being pure information. With even the most basic of objects in the verse existing as data), Negation of Abstract Existence (Type 1; Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms, and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in), Negation of Acausality (Causality Immunity; Can harm and kill demons, who are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse, demons such as Ishtar are capable of going into separate multiverses, along into the "real world", demons such as Demi-fiend, can exist in different universes asides from the original SMT 3 universe, demons can exist even when the flow of time itself collapses and there is nothing left but a void), Negation of Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Observation users such as Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV, can harm demons with regular guns and swords, even though demons when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry[28]), Negation of Immortality (Ageless, Life and Death Immunity, & Reliance [On Concept]) & Resurrection (Atemporal Resurrection; It is noted by Lucifer that only a human can kill gods and demons, that when gods and demons try to fight each other the most they can do is seal each other. Permanently killed YHVH. All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence), Negation of Dimensionless Existence (Non-Dimensional; Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help, the "true forms" of demons are in truth without the concept of form, without observation they are not certain nor stable, are a phenomena without an answer and are unbound by concepts such as truth completely unshaped by reality. Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity which they are free from in their true forms), Timeless Physiology (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases), Negation of Omnipresence (Observation can reduce one into a singular being, when the being was originally one that was everywhere within reality), Negation of Omniscience (Humanity's observation of YHVH defies his words and truths, YHVH is an all-knowing being that sets the fate of the entire world), Irreversible Damage (Nyarlathotep used a spear conjured by humanity's observation of a wound that can never heal to inflict a blow that could not be healed even by the strongest healing magic), Existence Grounding (Observation users can bring a demon or god's existence down to their level, such as when Flynn and his party's denial of YHVH as the one true god brought him to the level of a demon, massively weakening him. Dagda mentions humanity's "understanding" (observation) is what's locked him and Danu in physical forms), Power Bestowal (Gods & demons are granted by humans observations of them. To the point that a gods power is based off if humans still remember them. Observation has the ability to resurrect someone and give them strength to the point where they can fight Stephen with The Axioms powers), Power Nullification (Observation allows one to remove one's defenses and strengths along with some of their innate abilities), Reality Warping (Stephen stated that humans have the power to shape the world. Philemon states people have tremendous power in their souls over the flow of reality, with their strong wills being able to change reality), Conceptual Manipulation, Subjective Reality, & Creation (The power of observation, has the ability to make something without form, be certain and stable, The Axiom, tasked humans with observing the universe, allowing humans to assign an answer to phenomena without an answer), Truth Manipulation (Humans have the ability to change the answer they've found into faith, and eventually into truth. Observation debased YHVH's truths, removing him from everyone's mind, killing him), Memory Manipulation (Through the power of observation, the Persona 2 Innocent Sin cast were able to erase their meeting during a summer evening, creating an alternate timeline), Perspective Manipulation (The power of observation allowed humans to change the very design of the Abyss [the Expanse] to what they perceive it as[29]), Statistics Amplification & Resurrection (Observation has the ability to resurrect someone and give them strength to the point where they can fight Stephen with The Axioms powers. Isamu was able to survive a hit from Thor despite being a regular human), Statistics Reduction (Flynn and his party's denial of YHVH as the one true god brought him to the level of a demon, massively weakening him. One's will and beliefs can lower even a nonexistent entity's (such as The White) stats. Gods powers can be greatly reduced if they're forgotten. Observation allowed Aleph and his party to harm YHVH who stated as they were his creations, there blades cannot harm him, yet they were able to).

Resistance to Memory Manipulation (Observation user's refusal to accept one's memory being erased allows their memory to stay even from a universal reset)

With their Willpower, they get: Sheer Will (Naturally users of willpower tend to have some of the strongest willpower in their respective universes), Statistics Amplification (A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them, the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before), Regeneration (True-Godly. Characters that get completely erased by demons to the point that everything returns to nothing (otherwise known as returning to The Axiom) but with enough willpower one can regenerate back to life), Resurrection (Everyone praying for Raidou bolstered his willpower up, allowing him to resurrect and regenerate part of his body).


Resistance to Pain (Users with high willpower can fight through pain that's so unbearable that it makes one unable to move, constantly take damage and being unable to control their demons well), Memory Manipulation (Noted by Polaris that all of the memories and relationships of the Devil Survivor 2 cast will be completely erased if they choose to restore the world, requiring a strong willpower to retain them), Empathic Manipulation (Humanity's willpower allows them to ignore the voice of God, with Zelenin needing to sing a stronger sword to wipe their willpower away), Truth Manipulation (Users with huge willpower can ignore the truths created by YHVH due to the bonds with their friends)

Human Achievements (Can have one of several occuptations including Office worker and Civil servant), Nondualism (Everything within Megami Tensei is one, with one simple word binding all together, oneness),Reincarnation (Reincarnation Cycle, Standard; All people when they die are sent to The Axiom to reincarnate back, some become demons in these cases), Accelerated Development (Leveling;Physical Stats and Abilities. The protagonist can grow in levels from battles even if they don't directly fight in them), Possession (The soul of the protagonist can go into others bodies if they are deceased).

All previous powers and abilities, Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Now in possession of Kyouji Kuzunoha's body who can easily defeated low level demons), Weapon Mastery (Can use a large variety of weapons in combat ranging from swords, spears, fusion weapons, handguns, shotguns, machineguns, and rifles), Social Influencing (Is capable of convincing demons to join his side and fight with him as a Devil Summoner), Resurrection (If the protagonist dies, they are able to escape the AVICI HELL, where they can speak to Charon who will allow them to re-posses Kyouji's body), Attack Reflection (Passively reflects all Mind based skills), Summoning (Has an arm terminal that accesses them to the demon summoning program, allowing them to recruit and summon demons), Information Analysis & Data Manipulation (The COMP was created as a program designed to capture and analyze data, and record the data into the computer's memory so a user may summon a demon whenever. The Arm Terminal has a built in auto-map feature for all areas, incluidng areas in the expanse), Sealing (Can suck demons into their arm terminal), Erasure, Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Conceptual Erasure, Metaphysical Erasure, & Data Erasure; Can completely erase demons, attacks in the Megami Tensei verse erase one from existence, with their body, mind, and soul, this would include a demon's Magatsuhi, which is born from the suffering of emotions, such as suffering, anxiety, sadness, and an enormous amount that exist in the Amala Network, a network which has a place of information and all of one's emotions transferred into Magatsuhi, along with this, melting and liquefying demons and it's been shown humans can be erased too from attacks).


Resistance to Physical Attacks (Has a resistance to strike based attacks), Gun Attacks (Has an immunity to gun based attacks), Magic (Has a resistance to magic based attacks), Holy Manipulation (Has an immunity to expel based attacks), Death Manipulation (Has an immunity to death based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has an immunity to nerve based skills), Curse Manipulation (Has an immunity to curse based skills), Absolute Zero (Can take hits from absolute zero spells), Transmutation (Can wander AVICI HELL where one wandering too long will turn into a demon), Erasure, Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Conceptual Erasure, Metaphysical Erasure, & Data Erasure; Can survive and take hits from demons, which attacks in the Megami Tensei verse erase one from existence, with their body, mind, and soul, this would include a demon's Magatsuhi, which is born from the suffering of emotions, such as suffering, anxiety, sadness, and an enormous amount that exist in the Amala Network, a network which has a place of information and all of one's emotions transferred into Magatsuhi, along with this, melting and liquefying demons and it's been shown humans can be erased too from attacks)

Healing (With Medicine, restores a smalla mount of health. With Life Stone, restores 25% of health. With Bead, restores all health. With Soma, restores health and magic to full along with removing all status effects), Restoration (With Chakra Drop, restores 5 magic. With Chakra Chip, restores 10 magic. With Chakra Pot, restores 20 magic. With Soma, restores all health and magic to full and removes all status effects), Purification (With Dis-Stone, removes the stone status effect. With Dis-Paralyze, removes the paralysis status effect. With Dis-Poison removes the poison status effect. With Dis-Charm, removes the Charm status effect. With A-Chinsin, removes panic, happy, sleep, and bind status effects. With Soma, restores all health and magic to full and removes all status effects. With Petranon, cures petrification that the regular dis-stone cannot), Resurrection (With Kintan, revives a dead ally with 1/8 health. With A-Kakusei, revives dead ally with 1/4 health. With Hangon-Ko, revives dead party member with full health), Fire Manipulation (With Dragon ATM, deals medium fire elemental damage to all foes), Electricity Manipulation (With Stinger, deals medium electric elemental damage to all foes), Explosion Manipulation, Resistance Manipulation, Power Nullification, & Law Negation (With Ryukaku, deals heavy almighty damage to the front row of foes. With G-Horn, deals heavy almighty damage to all foes.Almighty damage is done to all foes by producing a large explosion. Modes such as Berserk Mode from Digital Devil Saga 2 gives all of their attacks almighty effect, where it bypasses all resistances.Almighty skills bypasses all barriers and reflectors, invulnerability, and resistances, as putting up barriers to reflect, void, resist, etcetera do not affect almighty attacks. Almighty attacks can even work in and affect reason bearers, who can change the very laws of battle to make attacks not allowed in reality which if they are done then the character is sent straight to hell, showing almighty attacks are beyond even the laws of the universe), Death Manipulation (With Tenketsushin, instantly kills one foe), Status Effect Inducement (With A-Kinju, inflicts the bind status effect on all foes), Paralysis Inducement (With Gleipnir, inflicts paralysis on an enemy. With Stun Grenade, throws down a stun grenade that paralyzes foes allowing one to escape from battle), Attack Reflection (With A-Kingyo, reflects physical attacks. With A-Chinkai, reflects magic attacks. With Spriggan Vest, passively reflects gun bassed attacks), Statistics Amplification (With S-High, temporarily increases max health. With strength incense, raises strength by 1 and restores health to full. With intelligence incense, raises intelligence by 1 and restores health to full. With magic incense, raises magic by 1 and restores health to full. With vitality incense, raises vitality by 1 and restores health to full. With agility incense, raises agility by 1 and restores health to full. With luck incense, raisies luck by 1 and restores health to full), BFR (With Repulse Water, lowers the encounter rate of lower-level demons in areas), Forcefield Creation (With Core Shield, protects party from effects of damage traps), Save & Load (With Back-Upper, saves game anywhere, though can only have one at a time. With Back-Upper R, saves game anywhere and can be infinitely re-used. With Back-Upper M, saves game anywhere during a New Moon and can be infinitely re-used), Empathic Manipulation (With Chain Buster, induces the panic status effect. With Randy Shot ammo, shoots out bullets that induces the charm status effect), Power Nullification (With Death Scythe, induces the close status effect), Poison Manipulation (With Beserk Pile, induces the poison status effect. With Venom Shot ammo, shoots out bullets that deal poison), Sleep Manipulation (With Tranquilizer Rounds, shoots out bullets that induces the sleep status effect), Petrification (With Medusa Cartridges, shoots out bullets that induces the stone status effect), Absorption (With Frost Hood and Lantern Hat, abosrbs both the ice and fire elemental skills).


Resistance to Physical Attacks (With Hard Ten Gallon, resists physical attacks), Gun Attacks (With Plate Bandana, resists gun based attacks), Fire Manipulation (With Jyushichuu, resists fire elemental attacks), Air Manipulation (With Star Helm, resists force elemental attacks), Mind Manipulation (With Ichikikin and Dolphin Helm, resists attacks that effect ones psyche), Light Manipulation (With Korin Helm, resists light elemental attacks), Darkness Manipulation (With Soukikan, resists darkness elemental attacks), Ice Manipulation (With Yasaka Jewels, resists ice elemental attacks), Death Manipulation & Holy Manipulation (With Final Guard, prevents instant death from expel and death attacks)

All of his summons have Demon Physiology which gives:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Demons can casually rip out a man's throat. They can also casually eat fully grown humans), Sheer Will (Demons are able to survive and withstand attacks that should kill them), Immortality (Ageless; Demons are the descendants of the gods of old. Who are able to do battle for an eternity. Reliance [On Concept (Infinity)]; Ouroboros the embodiment of infinity notes that unlike humans who are finite, demons have infinite and endless powers, allowing them to resurrect back infinitely no matter when due to not being made of finite matter. Reliance [On Concept (Observation)]; All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence), Reincarnation (Reincarnation Cycle, Standard; Along with this, all demons that die return to The Axiom and reincarnate), Undead Physiology ( Many demons tend to be undead beings and humans that die and become ghost become demons), Abstract Existence (Type 1; Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms, and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in), Dimensionless Existence (Non-Dimensional; Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help, the "true forms" of demons are in truth without the concept of form, without observation they are not certain nor stable, are a phenomena without an answer and are unbound by concepts such as truth completely unshaped by reality. Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity which they are free from in their true forms), Timeless Physiology (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases), Personal Nonexistence (Ayin Physioloy; The home of the demons is the expanse, which the Monochrome Forest exists within the expanse, a place that is eerily still, having no sound or smell, where even the ground itself feels unusual, which demons naturally exist in. The Forest also holds the White’s realm, which is a vast, white space), Incorporeality (Demons are beings made of data, that exist in a virtual world, along with being pure information. With even the most basic of objects in the verse existing as data. Even if a demon's physical form is lost, their residual MAG can still remain, allowing one to infuse them within one's weapons or objects), Nondualism (Everything within Megami Tensei is one, with one simple word binding all together, oneness), Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; Atemporal Resurrection; All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence. Along with this, all demons that die return to The Axiom and reincarnate. This allows demons to die and come back in a short timeframe due to their continuous existence from The Axiom and the observation of humans. This means even if all of reality were to cease existing, The Axiom would still exist within it, allowing demons to come back), Acausality (Causality Immunity; Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse, demons such as Ishtar are capable of going into separate multiverses, along into the "real world", demons such as Demi-fiend, can exist in different universes asides from the original SMT 3 universe, demons can exist even when the flow of time itself collapses and there is nothing left but a void), Paradox Existence (Out of Universe and In the Universe; Demons are a race of entities and are at the same time the same entity sharing all one collective hive mind of memories, species will note if they've been captured before even if they're being fought in an area one's never been to or were fused prior, demons such as Forneus and Decarabia talk about an event that happened in Nocturne where Forneus was late to a meeting due to his death from Demi-fiend), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance, Nutritional Self-Sustenance, & Restful Self-Sustenance; Demons can naturally exist and breathe within the vacuum of space without any adverse effects done to them.[30] Due to their innate physiologies, demons naturally do not need to breathe, eat, or sleep.[31]), Accelerated Development (Level;Physical Stats and Abilities. Demons and Humans are able to grow from battles, allowing them to enhance their level of strength, magic, agility, luck, etcetera. Additionally, they can learn new skills and abilities from battles and further increase their HP and Magic capacity, and get strong enough to the point that they can fight end game tier demons), Reactive Adaptation (Demons as they grow in battle form changes around their body until they transform into a higher level with newer stats and newer abilities to learn), Berserk Mode (Demons enter a state of pure rage and berserk mode during the full moon, being completely irrational and unable to be negotiated with), Precognition (Destiny Perception; Demons have the ability to see into the future, with the likes of Eligor being able to see things to come), Extrasensory Perception (Demons are able to tell who is actually a demon in disguise and who is an actual human. Demons can sense the power of an opponent and compare it to the power they sensed of others.[32]), Corrosion Inducement (Demons can shapeshift into a blob, allowing them to melt areas, completely dissolve objects such as steel chairs, and completely crush humans.[33][34][35]), Duplication (Demons can make duplicates of themselves. With them being completely disconnected from the demons, thus killing or defeating the clones in no way affects the original and they can endlessly spawn more), Invisibility & Perception Manipulation (Demons are naturally invisible to humans, and can do actions such as make noises and fight without humans noticing), Quantum Manipulation & Intangibility (Spatial. Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them), Non-Standard Interaction (Demons can interact with each other and Gods, despite their physiologies and existences), Hell Manipulation (Demons naturally use evil powers from hell), Sealing (Gods and Demons cannot kill each other, thus resulting in them needing to seal each other), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Noted by a soul that demons can eat souls), Empathic Manipulation (Women cannot resist the allure of demons, even if they despised a demon normally, they'd fall mdaly in love with them if they had sex with a demon even once[36]), Size Manipulation & Statistics Amplification (Demons can grow in size to grow strong enough to fight Messiahs), Technology Manipulation (Demons can stop technology from working with their evil powers), Shapeshifting (Demons can shapeshift into humans to trick others), Hacking (Demons can hack into various servers and set up firewalls and "digital traps"), Necromancy (Demons can raise people from the dead and turn them into zombies), Personal Domain & BFR (Demons can pull one into alternate dimensions where coordinates and direction are different. Along with pull entire areas such as mansions into pocket dimensions. High level demons such as fiends can create personal realms to battle people in. Alice created her own personal domain that she could freely control. Demons can also freely teleport people to other locations), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Demons can warp areas into alternate dimensions such as the inside of a school. Once one is in said dimension the demon will keep it's hold into the dimension until it's defeated), Subjective Reality (Demons are able to take the thoughts of people and materialize them into something real), Information Manipulation & Matter Manipulation (Can absorb and consume mangetite, which is an information construct. As demons can make pocket realms and higher level demons can make universes, they are by extension they are creating areas entirely made of data and information down to their sub-atomic level. As demons can make pocket realms and higher level demons can make universes, they are by extension they are creating areas entirely made of data and information down to their sub-atomic level), Illusion Creation ("Real" Illusions) & Perception Manipulation (Demons can create mirage realms, that shroud an entire area in mist, with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back, requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them), Velocity Manipulation (When attacks are nullified or avoided, the enemy will forcibly forfeit their turn to move, allowing one to attack sooner, this extends further with absorbing attacks completely ending an opponents turn regardless of how fast they are), Teleportation (Demons are capable of teleporting around usually through manipulating their own Magutushi or Magnetite), Telepathy (Demons are able to speak telepathically to others.[37][38] Demons such as Aogami speaks telepathically with Nahobino), Power Bestowal (The memories of a demon's techniques can be passed down into weapons), Absorption (Demons can absorb lifeforce and Magutushi out of another. Demons can feed off the lifeforce of people to manifest themselves into the real world. Demons have the innate ability to absorb the air and earth into their bodies[39]), Healing Negation (Demons can inflict wounds that only spiritual magic can heal), Power Absorption (Demons can absorb the remains of other demons to gain their abilities), Consumption (Demons can consume and devour their enemies to gain power in battle), Dimensional Travel (Demons can feed off the lifeforce of people to manifest themselves into the real world), Healing (Demons naturally have healing properties, allowing them to heal other people. Demons have shown to heal wounds they create and "seal them away"[40]), Telekinesis (Higher level demons can telekinetically affect the entire environment to cause the Earth to shake, cause fissures, and affect mountains[41]), Erasure (Existence Erasure, Conceptual Erasure, & Data Erasure; Demons can kill humans, which in the process erases said beings from memory and existence), Pierce Resistance (Pierce Immunity; Demons even when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry.[42]), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Demons even when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry.[43]), Invulnerability Negation (Demons are capable of harming each other, and are viewed as valuable tools to get past other demons invulnerability), Possession (Demons can possess one’s body), Creation (Demons can create Shikimi no Kage's that are unable to be put down for good and will regenerate), Resistance Negation (Shikimi no Kage have specific weaknesses that cannot be exploited by Raidou's gun or other things to do with their specific elemental weakness, requiring Raidou to get a demon's elemental magic to affect it), Regeneration Negation (Unknown; Demons can fully destroy Shikimi no Kage's, that they've created that are unable to be put down for good and will regenerate), Forcefield Negation (Demons can destroy barriers made to block out humans from entry).



Limited Resistance to Observation (Demons to an extent can resist some humans abilities of observation as shown with them being immune to conventional weaponry[44] and higher-dimensional demons not being able to be perceived by some observation users).
Resistance to Cosmic Radiations, Biological Manipulation, & Gravity Manipulation (Demons can naturally exist and breathe within the vacuum of space without any adverse effects done to them.[45]), Death Manipulation (Demons can naturally exist within the vortex world which kills all humans who enter), Disease Manipulation, Corruption, Data Manipulation, & Petrification (All demons are unaffected by the Cuvier Syndrome, a state where corruptive data came out of the black sun, irreversible petrification), Sealing (Demons naturally have a resistance to sealing if they’re stronger then their target, and their sealing resistance gets amplified during the full moon), Forcefield Creation (Demons can pass through tainted barriers that humans cannot pass through), Elemental Manipulation (Shikimi no Kage have specific weaknesses that cannot be exploited by Raidou's gun or other things to do with their specific elemental weakness, requiring Raidou to get a demon's elemental magic to affect it)

Power Bestowal (Demons can grant others their powers and strength), Reality Warping, Space-Time Manipulation & Creation (All powerful and god level demons sustain a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon that is sustained by said demon and destroyed upon their death.[46] Demons such as Morax have created and ruled over their own realms within the Schwarzwelt, and controlled their own sectors, being noted to be the energy source the Strange Journey team were looking for, said energy source is noted to control the entire sector, and be linked to the sector like a magnet. Each sector is a space-time plane layered atop each other, being planes outside of the human worlds local space-time existing in a quantum tunnel, along with being noted as parallel universes and other dimensions overlapping being isolated in time and space by enormous power being connected by quantum tunnels. Demons such as Set with enough Magnetite gathered can merge entire worlds.[47]), Immortality (Life and Death Immunity; Higher tiered demons exist beyond death itself), Sheer Will, Resurrection, & Transformation (Permanent Transformation; Some fiends are born from men that die in competitive sports), Curse Manipulation (Gods such as Anahita can remove curses).

Resistance to Physics Manipulation (A god's divine energy isn’t bound by the laws of physics)
Higher-Dimensional Existence (God Tier demons are higher dimensional beings that cannot be perceived by lower one's Burroughs, requiring them to come down into the lower dimensions for the character to perceive them), Madness Manipulation (God Tier Demons such as Kagutsuchi's light can cause demons to grow more hostile towards others, making it impossible for negotiation and to escape from them. They'll also calm down once a New Phase passes).

Resistance to Erasure (Conceptual Erasure; The strongest and highest level demons can survive Kagutsuchi's light, which can wipe one from existence)


Equipment


  • GUMP: The Devil Summoner Kyouji Kuzunoha comes equipped with heavily modified gun that has been integrated with a compact COMP system. The hybrid device is known as a "GUMP," which is a shortened term for Gun-COMP. Aside from its obvious purpose, it still functions like a regular gun. A COMP, also known as an Arm Terminal, is a portable computer which many characters have used in order to communicate with, transport, and summon demonic entities using the Demon Summoning Program. It comes with a list of other features such as automapping and auto-recovery.
This dropdown contains the equipment of Devil Summoner.

Recovery Items

Item Japanese Effect Loyalty Bonus
Medicine きずぐすり / 傷薬 Restores a small amount of HP -
Life Stone ませき / 魔石 Restores 25% of HP 2
Bead ほうぎょく / 宝玉 Restores all HP 16
Chakra Drop チャクラドロップ Restores 5 MP 4
Chakra Chip チャクラチップ Restores 10 MP 8
Chakra Pot チャクラポット Restores 20 MP 16
Soma ソーマ Restores HP/MP to full, and removes all status effects -
Dis-Stone ディストーン Removes Stone status -
Dis-Paralyze ディスパライズ Removes Paralysis status -
Dis-Poison ディスポイズン Removes Poison status -
Dis-Charm ディスチャーム Removes Charm status -
A-Chinsin ちんしんふ / 鎮心符 Removes Panic, Happy, Sleep, and Bind statuses -
Kintan きんたん / 金丹 Revives dead party member with 1/8 HP -
A-Kakusei げほうかくせいふ / 外法覚醒符 Revives dead party member with 1/4 HP -
Hangon-Ko はんごんこう / 反魂香 Revives dead party member with full HP -

Combat Items

Name Japanese Effect
Dragon ATM ドラゴンATM Deals medium Fire damage to all foes
Stinger スティンガー Deals medium Elec damage to all foes
PZ Faust PZファウスト Deals heavy Almighty damage to one foe
Ryukaku りゅうかく / 龍角 Deals heavy Almighty damage to the front row of foes
G-Horn ギャッラルホルン Deals heavy Almighty damage to all foes
Tenketsushin てんけつしん / 点欠針 Instantly kills one foe
A-Kinju きんじゅふ / 禁呪符 Inflicts Bind on all foes
Gleipnir グレイプニル Inflicts Paralysis on one foe
A-Kingyo きんぎょうふ / 禁凝符 Reflect Physical attacks for one turn
A-Chinkai ちんかいふ / 鎮怪符 Reflect Magic attacks for one turn
Final Guard ファイナルガード Prevents instant death from Expel and Death attacks
Stun Grenade スタングレネード Guarantees escape from battle
S-High サマナーズ・ハイ Temporarily increases max HP
Picture うつくしいえ / 美しい絵 Art. Can be used against Dantalion.
Statue こうかなぞう / 高価な像 Art. Can be used against Dantalion.
Pot めずらしいつぼ / 珍しい壷 Art. Can be used against Dantalion.

Incenses

Name Japanese Effect
St Incense ちからのこう / 力の香 Raises Strength by 1 and restores HP to full
In Incense ちえのこう / 知恵の香 Raises Intelligence by 1 and restores HP to full
Ma Incense まりょくのこう / 魔力の香 Raises Magic by 1 and restores HP to full
Vi Incense たいりょくのこう / 耐力の香 Raises Vitality by 1 and restores HP to full
Ag Incense はやさのこう / 速さの香 Raises Agility by 1 and restores HP to full
Lu Incense うんのこう/ 運の香 Raises Luck by 1 and restores HP to full

Valuables

Name Japanese Description Notes
Mysterious Doll なぞのにんぎょう / 謎の人形 Mysterious doll that forms the basic structure of a demon
Petranon ペトラノン Needed to cure Rei's petrification
Shuffler Book シャッフラのしょ / シャッフラーの書 Allows Rei to learn the Shuffler skill
Fake ID Card ぎぞうIDカード / 偽造IDカード Needed to get into the U.S military base
Capitol Key ぎじどうのかぎ / 議事堂の鍵 Needed to get into the Diet Building at the New City Hall
Professor's Note きょうじゅのメモ / 吾妻教授のメモ A note written about the ancient tomb maze's mystery
Hee-Ho Doll ヒーホにんぎょう / ヒーホー人形 Found in Yarai-ku coin locker
Demon Compendium Extra Volume 悪魔全書別巻 Adds boss data to Demon Compendium and Dark demons to fusion search PSP version only
Death Tally 他界の割符 Halves cost of summoning demons from the Compendium PSP version only

Gems

Name Japanese Value Loyalty Bonus
Garnet ガーネット 1000 8
Amethyst アメジスト 1000 8
Aquamarine アクアマリン 1000 8
Onyx オニキス 5000 16
Topaz トパーズ 5000 16
Turquoise ターコイズ 5000 16
Ruby ルビー 10000 32
Sapphire サファイア 10000 32
Opal オパール 10000 32
Emerald エメラルド 25000 64
Diamond ダイヤモンド 25000 64
Pearl パール 25000 64

Miscellaneous

Name Japanese Effect Notes
Tonkourapan とんこうらばん / 遁甲羅盤 Displays map until next moon phase cycle
Repulse Water ふえんじ / 奉旨 Lowers encounter rate of lower-level demons
Core Shield コアシールド Protects party from effects of damage traps
Back-Upper バックアッパー Saves game anywhere. Can only have one at a time.
Back-Upper R バックアッパーR Saves game anywhere. Can be re-used. PSP version only
Back-Upper M バックアッパーM Saves game anywhere during a New Moon. Can be re-used. PSP version Hard Mode only
This dropdown contains the weapons in Devil Summoner.

Weapons

Melee
Swords
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex Bonus Effect
Athame Knife アセイミーナイフ 7 5 A1-2 Both - -
Randall Knife ランドールナイフ 18 7 A1 Both - -
Iron Fan 鉄扇 30 9 A0-1 high Both - -
Katar Dagger カタール 20 10 B1-2 Both - -
Zhang Xin Lei/Shoushinrai 掌心雷 13 15 A2 Both - -
Custome Jutte 変わり十手 18 7 B2-3 Both - -
Kabuto-wari 兜割り 30 6 A0-1 high Male - -
Lian Shuang Gui Sword 練双鬼剣 32 10 A0-1 high Male - -
Luban Chi/Rohanjaku 櫓斑尺 28 20 B0-2 Both - Bind
Kotetsu Blade コテツブレード 45 35 A1-2 Both - -
Masamune Blade マサムネブレード 70 28 A0-2 Both - -
Yasutsuna Blade ヤスツナブレード 160 20 A0-1 low Both - -
Kazakku Knife カザックナイフ 115 15 A0-1 high Male - -
Yaksha Nunchaku ヤシャぬんちゃく 28 19 B3-5 Both - -
Heavy Zaghnal ヘヴィザグナル 120 21 A0-1 high Male Ag -2 -
Sankoeken (Trident Vajra Sword) 三鈷柄剣 64 27 A1-3 Both - -
Onibouchou (Demon Cleaver) 鬼包丁 74 67 A2 Male - -
Chain Buster チェインバスター 62 22 B0-2 Male - Panic
Momo no Bokken (Peachwood Sword) 桃の木剣 90 19 A0-1 low Both - Shock
Kuryuuhaken (Sword of the Nine Dragons) 桃の木剣 96 20 A2 Both - -
Kaiser Sword カイザーソード 90 90 Front row Both - -
Tian Peng Ding Ba/Tenhouteiha 天蓬釘把 115 53 A2 Male - -
Vajra Mace ヴァジュラメイス 76 39 A2-4 Male Ag -2 -
Orichalcum Pata オリハルコンパタ 66 70 B3-5 Both - -
Death Scythe デスサイズ 60 8 B0-2 Both Ag -2 Close
Excess Sword エクスゼスソード 113 12 A1-3 Both In -1, Ma -1, Vi -1, Ag -2, Lu -2 Bind
Gallian Sword ガリアン・ソード 117 40 Front row Both - -
Plasna/Plasner Sword プラズナーソード 74 60 B3-5 Both - -
Onimaru no tachi (Onimaru Longsword) 鬼丸の太刀 158 51 A2-3 Male - -
Sword Tomahawk ソードトマホーク 161 45 A2 Both - -
Zanbatou 斬馬刀 132 40 Front row Male - -
Maluzium Axe マルジアムアクス 170 10 A2 Male Ag -2 -
Ryuugatou (Dragon Fang Sword) 竜牙刀 170 20 A0-1 low Male - Shock
Shadowjack シャドゥジャック 46 40 B3-5 Male St +3, Ma +2, Vi +1, Ag +3, Lu +1 -
Spears
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex Bonus Effect
Ye Lang Xian/Garousen 餓狼筅 37 15 A1 Both - -
Kongoujou (Pilgrimage Stuff) 金剛杖 128 30 A0-1 low Male - -
Tri-lance トライランス 38 50 B0-2 Male Ag -2 Shock
Heat Glaive ヒートグレイプ 193 50 A1 Both - -
Gae Bolg ゲイボルグ 60 32 B3-5 Both Ag +3 -
Koumajou (Demon Slayer's Cane) 降魔杖 42 32 A2-3 Both - Close
Spear of Dubthach ズフタフの槍 32 32 A2 Both In -2 Bind
Berserk Pile ベルセルクパイル 26 24 A2 Male St +3, Vi +1, Lu +1 Poison
Huo Jian Spear/Kasensou 火尖槍 116 33 B0-7 Both St +3, Ma +1, Vi +1 -


Fusion Weapons
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex Bonus Effect
Mumei Katana むめいのかたな 10 5 A0-1 high Both - -
Qi Xing Sword/Shichiseiken 七星剣 24 12 A1 Both - -
Kurikara Kodachi 倶利伽羅の小太刀 20 45 B2-3 Both St +2, Ma +1, Lu +1 -
Jagatou (Snake Fang Sword) 蛇牙刀 15 28 B1-2 Both St +2, Ma +1, Ag +1 Poison
Headhunting Mandau 首狩りマンダウ 22 70 A1 Both St +3, In -2 Close
Yamikaze Kunai 闇風のくない 20 87 All enemies Male St +2, Ag +3, Lu +1 -
Spirit Sword 練気の剣 101 40 A1 Both - -
Murasamemaru 村雨丸 98 50 A0-1 high Both St +2, Lu +1 Freeze
Nihil Sword 妖刀ニヒル 12 32 B0-7 Male St +2, In -2, Ma +5, Vi -1, Ag +3, Lu -2 Bind
Hei Yan Sword/Kokuenken 黒炎剣 60 12 B2-4 Both St +3, Vi +2, Ag +1, Lu +1 -
Keshou-oujin 化粧御身刀 111 65 A1 Male St +2, Ma +2, Vi +2 -
Zankan Sword 斬奸剣 64 24 A2 Both St +2, Vi +2, Ag +3 Bind
Wu Huo Shen Fan/Gokashinensen 五火神焰扇 34 65 B2-4 Both St +1, In +1, Ma +2, Vi +3, Lu +1 Shock
Gang Lie Dao/Gouretsutou 剛烈刀 201 70 A1-3 Male St +3, In +2, Vi +2 -
Kusanagi Sword 草薙の剣 180 58 B1-3 Male St +3, In +1, Ma +1, Vi +2, Ag +1, Lu +3 -
Kikouseiken (Sirius Sword) 輝煌星剣 175 75 A1-3 Both St +4, Lu +2 Bind
Ruyi Bang 如意棒 130 80 All enemies Both In +1, Ma +1, Vi +2, Ag +3, Lu +2 -
Mjolnir トールハンマー 150 68 All enemies Male St +5, Vi +2 -
Muhyoutsukikage (Silver Moonlight) 霧氷月影 170 90 A0-7 Both St +3, Ma +2, Vi +1, Ag +3, Lu +1 -
Yououhaken (Supreme Emperor Sword) 陽皇覇剣 255 12 A2-7 Both St +5, Ma +1, Vi +2, Ag +2, Lu +2 Paralyze
Firearms
Handguns
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex
Tokarev トカレフ 24 8 A0-1 low Both
Desert Eagle デザートイーグル 30 12 A1 Male
Astra M902 アストラM902 30 23 A2-3 Both
Nambu Type 100 ナンブ百式 62 30 A0-7 Both
Buster Shot バスターショット 140 27 Front row Male
Colt Thunderer サンダラーコルト 66 50 All enemies Male
Shotguns
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex
Bulldog ブルドッグ 40 40 B2-4 Both
SPAS12 SPAS12 50 42 B3-5 Male
SPAS15 SPAS15 55 38 B3-6 Male
Knuckle Blaster ナックルブラスタ 60 50 B4-6 Male
Machineguns
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex
Steyr TMP ステアーTMP 58 34 Front row Both
Ruger MP9 ルガーMP9 80 41 Front row Both
Ingram M10 イングラムM10 104 50 Front row Male
Zillonium Gun ジリオニウムガン 112 43 Front row Both
Rifles
Weapon Japanese Attack Accuracy NOH Sex
Dragunov ドラグノフ 65 66 C1 Both
Tankgewehr タンクゲベール 200 52 C0-1 low Male
Barrett M90 バレットM90 135 50 C0-1 high Male
Solothurn S18 ソロサーンS18 174 60 C0-1 high Male
Cat Punch ネコパンチバズ 240 28 C0-1 high Both
Insanity H インサニティ・H 144 35 B0-7 Male
M16A2 M16A2 48 30 Front row Both
AK47 AK47 80 27 Front row Male
M249 Minimi M249ミニミ 40 39 All enemies Both
M134 Vulcan M134バルカン 50 48 All enemies Male
Cloud Buster クラウドバスター 90 62 Front row Both
Burst Riser バーストライザー 110 50 All enemies Male
Ammo
Ammo Japanese Attack Accuracy Effect
Normal Rounds 通常弾 1 0 -
Burst Rounds 炸裂弾 2 5 -
Venom Shot ベノンショット 4 0 Poison
Shot Shell ショットシェル 5 0 -
Randy Shot ランディショット 1 0 Charm
Stun Shot スタンショット 2 0 Shock
Tranquilizer Rounds 麻酔弾 2 0 Sleep
Armor-Piercing Rounds 徹甲弾 10 0 -
Dispel Shot デスペルショット 3 0 Close
Slug Shot スラッグショット 14 0 -
Rising (Raijin) Cartridges ライジングカート 4 0 Shock
Medusa Cartridges メデューサカート 2 0 Stone
Bomber Bullets ボンバーブリット 16 8 -
Adamantine (Vajra) Rounds 金剛弾 5 0 Bind
Plasma Cartidges プラズマカート 6 0 Shock
Mercury Bombs マーキュリーボム 24 12 -

Armor

Helmets
Helm Japanese Defense Evade Sex Bonus Resistances
S'A Chain S'Aチェーン 7 2 Male - Normal
Hard Ten Gallon ハードテンガロン 12 2 Male - Physical
Plate Bandana プレートバンダナ 14 6 Both - Gun
Fritz Helm フリッツヘルム 16 4 Both - Normal
Jyushichuu じゅしちゅう 20 6 Both In +1 Fire
Star Helm スターヘルム 21 4 Both In +1 Force
Ichijikin いちじきん 27 4 Both In +2 Psyche
Dolphin Helm ドルフィンヘルム 31 8 Both In +2 Psyche
A Max Helm Aマックスヘルム 46 8 Male - All
Yasaka Jewels やさかのまがたま 52 4 Male In +3 Ice
Korin Helm こうりんのかぶと 57 12 Male In +3 Light
Red Flame Helmet ほむらのはつむり 18 6 Both In +2, Lu +1 Fire
Soukikan そうきかん 62 12 Both In +1, Lu +2 Darkness
Yaksa Mask ヤクシャのかめん 52 16 Male In +2, Lu +2 Fire
Frost Hood フロストずきん 16 2 Both In +1, Lu +3 IceDrain
Lantern Hat ランタンハット 18 6 Both In +1, Lu +3 FireDrain
Body
Armor Japanese Defense Evade Sex Bonus Resistances
Garuche Suit ガルチェのスーツ 11 1 Male - Normal
Coat Jacket コートジャケット 14 4 Male - Force
Kevlar Vest ケブラーベスト 19 8 Both - Sword
Spectra Coat スペクトラコート 33 2 Both - Gun
Jyushikou じゅしこう 33 8 Both - Fire
Silver Mail シルバーメイル 46 1 Both - Shock
Hakutou Kaisei はくとうかいせい 57 8 Both Vi +2, Lu +1 Sword
Tetrajammer テトラジャマー 60 10 Both Vi +2 Psyche
A Max Suit Aマックススーツ 78 14 Male Vi +2, Ag -2 All
Swan Clothes しらとりのころも 80 16 Male Vi +2 All
Lion Armor からじしのよろい 99 15 Male Vi +3 Light
Megingyoruzu メギンギョルズ 98 25 Male Vi +5 Physical
White Flame Armor びゃくえんがい 40 4 Both Vi +2 FireDrain
Hades Armor よみのがいこう 88 8 Both Vi +3, Ag -2 Darkness
Spriggan Vest スプリガンベスト 60 2 Male Vi +2, Lu +2 GunReflect
Gauntlets
Gauntlets Japanese Defense Evade Sex Bonus Resistances
Shoukigairin しょうきがいりん 4 1 Male - Normal
Rivet Knuckle リベットナックル 5 1 Male - Normal
Damascus Garb ダマスカスグラブ 5 4 Both - Normal
Muscle Arm マッスルアーム 10 2 Both - Normal
Jushijun じゅしじゅん 10 4 Both - Fire
Tri-Shield トライシールド 14 2 Both - Physical
Momonoki Iron もものきごて 18 4 Both Ma +2 Shock
Jamming Arm ジャミングアーム 19 8 Both Ma +2 Psyche
A Max Arm Aマックスアーム 24 10 Male Ma +2 All
Yata Mirror やたのかがみ 21 18 Male Ma +3 HeatRes
Flame Kote れっかのこて 24 17 Male Ma +3 FireDrain
Rising Garb ライジンググラブ 27 15 Male Ma +3 Physical
Blue Flame Kote せいえんのこて 10 4 Both Ma +3 FireDrain
Bakugairin ばくがいりん 36 5 Both Ma +5, In -1 Physical
Kwancha Guard カワンチャガード 21 4 Male Ma +1, Lu +1 Physical
Leg Gear
Legs Japanese Defense Evade Sex Bonus Resistances
Side Gore Boots サイドゴアブーツ 4 1 Male - Normal
Bat Wings バットウィングス 6 2 Male - Normal
Jackboots ジャックブーツ 8 1 Both - Normal
Kevlar Chaps ケブラーチャプス 6 8 Both - Normal
Jushichoutai じゅしちょうたい 6 10 Both - Normal
Gaia Guard ガイアガード 14 1 Both - Normal
Peach Clogs もものきぐつ 14 10 Both Ag +2 Normal
Regga Slam レッガースラム 15 15 Both Ag +2 Normal
A Max Leg Aマックスレッグ 17 18 Male Ag -1 All
Susano Gusoku すさのおのぐそく 22 14 Male Ag +3 Normal
Kongou Gusoku こんごうのぐそく 20 16 Male Ag +3 Normal
Yellow Flame Armor おうえんのぐそく 7 4 Both Ag +2 Fire
Saida Gusoku せいだのぐそく 20 14 Both Ag +3, Ma -2 All
Tengu Geta テングのゲタ 11 18 Male Ag +5 Force
Weapon Images

Notable Techniques

This dropdown contains the skills of the protagonist demons.

Magic

Fire
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Agi アギ Inflicts light Fire damage A1 3
Agilao アギラオ Inflicts moderate Fire damage A2-3 10
Maragi マハ・ラギ Inflicts light Fire damage Front row 6
Maragion マハ・ラギオン Inflicts moderate Fire damage All enemies 22
Fire Breath ファイヤーブレス Inflicts moderate Fire damage Front row 8
Hellfire ごうかしょうかん / 劫火召喚 Inflicts moderate Fire damage All enemies 25
Cauterizing Fist しょうしゃくけん / 焼灼拳 Inflicts light Fire damage.
Consumes HP.
All enemies 28
Ice


  • All Bufu spells can inflict Freeze.
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Bufu ブフ Inflicts light Ice damage A1 3
Bufula ブフーラ Inflicts moderate Ice damage B2-3 10
Mabufu マハ・ブフ Inflicts light Ice damage Front Row 6
Mabufula マハ・ブフーラ Inflicts moderate Ice damage All enemies 25
Blizzard Breath ブリザードブレス Inflicts moderate Ice damage Front row 8
Glacial Blast ぜったいれいど / 絶対零度 Inflicts moderate Ice damage All enemies 26
Electricity


  • All Zio spells can inflict Shock.
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Zio ジオ Inflicts light Elec damage C1 4
Zionga ジオンガ Inflicts moderate Elec damage C1 10
Mazio マハ・ジオ Inflicts light Elec damage One row 7
Mazionga マハ・ジオンガ Inflicts moderate Elec damage All enemies 26
Shock ほうでん / 放電 Inflicts light Elec damage B3-5 8
Thunder Break サンダーブレイク Inflicts moderate Elec damage All enemies 28
Volcanicker ボルカニッカー Chance to inflict instant death.
Orgone Ghost exclusive.
All enemies 110
Force
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Zan ザン Inflicts light Force damage A1 3
Zanma ザンマ Inflicts moderate Force damage B2-4 12
Mazan マハ・ザン Inflicts light Force damage Front row 7
Mazanma マハ・ザンマ Inflicts moderate Force damage All enemies 28
Psionic
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Psi サイ Inflicts light Psionic damage C1 3
Psio サイオ Inflicts moderate Psionic damage C1 10
Mapsi マハ・サイ Inflicts light Psionic damage One row 7
Mapsio マハ・サイオ Inflicts moderate Psionic damage All enemies 32
Holy
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Hama ハマ Low chance of instant Holy death A2 8
Hanma ハンマ Low chance of instant Holy death Front row 10
Hamaon ハマオン Low chance of instant Holy death All enemies 15
Kyou キョウ Low chance to inflict Mirror status A1 3
Hakyou ハ・キョウ Low chance to inflict Mirror status Front row 5
Shikyou シ・キョウ Low chance to inflict Mirror status All enemies 7
Mirror Prison ミラープリズン Moderate chance to inflict Mirror status.
Strix exclusive.
All enemies 15
Dark
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Mudo ムド Low chance of instant Dark death B2 4
Mudola ムドラ Low chance of instant Dark death One row 12
Mudoon ムドオン Low chance of instant Dark death All enemies 18
Evil Eyes イーヴィルアイ Chance of instant death C1 8
Spite Shout うらみのどうこく / 恨みの慟哭 Reduces enemy's level by 2.
Inaruna exclusive.
All enemies 98
Vampire Kiss ヴァンパイアキス Inflicts Bat status.
Tendou exclusive.
All enemies 20
Soul Jack ソウルジャック Reduces enemy's level by 1.
Kumbhanda exclusive.
All enemies -
7 Shooting Stars しちせいこうてん / 七星降天 7 consecutive instant death attacks.
Hokuto Seikun exclusive.
All enemies 20
Almighty
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Megido メギド Inflicts heavy Almighty damage A1 8
Megidola メギドラ Inflicts heavy Almighty damage Front row 22
Megidolaon メギドラオン Inflicts heavy Almighty damage All enemies 52
Foul Law げどうのほう / 外道の法 Inflicts moderate Almighty damage C1 10
Venom Flash どくのひかり / 毒の光 Inflicts light Almighty damage and Poison All enemies 26
Judgement ジャッジメント Inflicts moderate Almighty damage to enemies
with a different alignment
All enemies 54
Holy Wrath てんばつ / 天罰 Inflicts moderate Almighty damage to enemies
with a different alignment
All enemies 108
Brahmastra ブラフマーストラ Inflicts heavy Almighty damage All enemies 64
Genocide Fist ぜつめつはけん / 絶滅覇拳 Inflicts moderate Almighty damage against
the slowest enemy. Inaruna exclusive
C1 20
Ailment
Mind
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Dormina ドルミナー Inflicts Sleep One row 3
Shipani シパニ Inflicts Panic All enemies 6
Hapirma ハピルマ Inflicts Happy Front row 4
Panic Voice パニックボイス Inflicts Panic All enemies 12
Happy Dance ハッピーダンス Inflicts Happy All enemies 12
Lullaby こもりうた / 子守唄 Inflicts Sleep All enemies 10
Crying Scream なげきのほうこう / 嘆きの咆哮 Inflicts Charm and Stone All enemies 55
Nerve
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Marin Karin マリンカリン Inflicts Charm C1 4
Insanity Eyes インサニティアイ Inflicts Charm B1-3 8
Sexy Dance セクシーダンス Inflicts Charm All enemies 20
Paral Eyes まひにらみ / 麻痺にらみ Low chance to inflict Paralyze C0-1 4
Death Ring デスリング Inflicts Paralyze.
Demiurge exclusive
All enemies 40
Vice Gospel バイス・ゴスペル Inflicts various status ailments.
Sid exclusive
All enemies -
Bind
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Shibaboo シバブー Inflicts Bind One row 5
Bind Voice バインドボイス Inflicts Bind All enemies 6
Magnetic Storm マグネストーム Inflicts Bind One row 5
Brain Burst ブレインバースト Inflicts light Psionic damage and Bind B4-6 12
Magic
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Shuff シャッフ Inflicts Card C1 3
Shuffle シャッフル Inflicts Card One row 5
Shuffler シャッフラー Inflicts Card All enemies 10
Makafuji マカフージ Inflicts Close C1 5
Buddha's Laugh やくしぶっしょう / 薬師仏笑 Inflicts Close All enemies 8
Venom Breath ベノンブレス Inflicts Poison All enemies 5
Photon Shot フォトンショット Inflicts Card.
Kashiyama exclusive
All enemies 15
Fiore Splendido げほうげんかじん / 外法幻花陣 Inflicts Magic damage.
Inaruna exclusive
All enemies 50
Magic Bullet まてきだん / 魔笛弾 Damages demons only.
Sid exclusive
All enemies 30
6 Shining Stars ろくせいきこう / 六星輝煌 Randomly heals 6 allies or enemies.
Nanto Seikun exclusive
All enemies 30
Healing
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Dia ディア Small HP recovery One ally 2
Diarama ディアラマ Moderate HP recovery One ally 4
Diarahan ディアラハン Full HP recovery One ally 12
Media メ・ディア Small HP recovery All allies 6
Mediarama メ・ディアラマ Moderate HP recovery All allies 6
Mediarahan メ・ディアラハン Full HP recovery All allies 32
Posumudi ポズムディ Heal Poison One ally 2
Phasedi パァスディ Heal Panic, Happy and Sleep One ally 3
Charmdi カルムディ Heal Charm One ally 5
Petradi ペトラディ Heal Stone One ally 8
Mutudi クロズディ Heal Close One ally 5
Paraladi パララディ Heal Paralyze One ally 7
Metamodi メタモディ Heal Mirror and Card One ally 4
Patra パトラ Heals Panic, Happy, Sleep and Bind One ally 3
Me Patra メ・パトラ Heals Panic, Happy, Sleep and Bind All allies 5
Recarm リカーム Revive with low HP One ally 12
Samarecarm サマリカーム Revive with full HP One ally 24
Recarmdra リカーム・ドラ Sacrifice self to revive with full HP All allies 10
Nurse かいほう Light HP recovery One ally 1
Saint Song せいじゃのうた / 聖者の歌 Light HP recovery All allies 5
Warm Embrace あついほうよう / 熱い抱擁 Full HP recovery All allies 14
Angel's Kiss てんしのキス / 天使のキス Recover HP for Law-aligned only All allies 12
Demon's Kiss あくまのキス / 悪魔のキス Recovery HP for Chaos-aligned only All allies 12
Virgin's Prayer オトメノイノリ / 乙女の祈り Revive. Jeanne D'Arc exclusive All allies 24
Support
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Tarunda タル・ンダ Lowers attack. Stacks up to 4 times All enemies 4
Rakunda ラク・ンダ Lowers defense. Stacks up to 4 times All enemies 4
Sukunda スク・ンダ Lowers accuracy. Stacks up to 4 times All enemies 4
Dekaja デ・カジャ Cancels -kaja effects All enemies 8
Tetraja テトラジャ Block any Holy or Dark spell once All allies 5
Tetrakarn テトラカーン Reflect Physical attacks for one turn All allies 6
Makarakarn マカラカーン Reflect Magic attacks for one turn All allies 6
Tarukaja タル・カジャ Increase attack. Stacks up to 7 times All allies 5
Rakukaja ラク・カジャ Increase defense. Stacks up to 7 times All allies 5
Sukukaja スク・カジャ Increase accuracy. Stacks up to 7 times All allies 5
Makakaja マカ・カジャ Increase magic power. Stacks up to 7 times All allies 5
Dekunda デ・クンダ Cancel -nda effects All allies 8
Psycho Blast サイコブラスト Lowers accuracy and magic power All enemies 12
Untouched Zone けっかい / 結界 Block any Holy or Dark spell once All allies 4
Earth Wall だいちのかべ / 大地の壁 Reflect Physical attacks for one turn All allies 5
Penta Wall ペンタウォール Reflect Magic attacks for one turn All allies 5
Water Wall みずのかべ / 水の壁 Block one Fire attack All allies 5
Fire Wall ほのおのかべ / 炎の壁 Block one Ice attack All allies 5
Psycho Barrier サイコバリアー Block one Psionic attack All allies 5
Sonic Boom しんくうは / 真空破 Raise attack and accuracy All allies 12
Active Song たかぶりのうた / 昂ぶりの歌 Raise attack and magic power All allies 12
Die Hard ダイ・ハード Raise defense and accuracy All allies 12
Tatami Shield たたみがえし / 畳返し Reflect Physical attacks for one turn.
Consumes HP.
All allies 5
Provoke ちょうはつ / 挑発 Doubles attack, halves defense All enemies 3
Intimidate いかく / 威嚇 Halves attack, doubles defense All enemies 3
Lucky Step ラッキーステップ Greatly increases accuracy.
Hare of Inaba exclusive
All allies 24
Frilly Wall フリフリウォール Reflect Fire, Ice, Elec, Force and Psionic
attacks for one turn. Mamedanuki exclusive
All allies 10
Misc
Spell Japanese Effect Target MP Cost
Necroma ネクロマ Revives an ally as Undead for one battle. One ally 12
Sabbath サバト Summon a demon from the COMP without the Magnetite cost One ally 10
Traesto トラエスト Teleport to the dungeon entrance Party 3
Estoma エストマ Avoid encounters with low level enemies - 3
Mapper マッパー Display a map until the next New Moon - 4
Liftoma リフトマ Take no damage from Trap floors Party 4
Escape にげる / 逃げる Escape from combat One ally -
Rest やすむ / 休む Recover HP. Rarely causes Sleep One ally 5

Physical

Rush
Spell Japanese Effect Target HP Cost
Peck ついばみ Inflicts light Rush damage C1 3
Bird Gimlet バードギムレット Inflicts light Rush damage C1 4
Chew かみちぎり / 噛みちぎり Inflicts continuous light Rush damage B2-4 4
Spiral Bite スパイラルバイト Inflicts light Rush damage C1 3
Tackle たいあたり / 体当たり Inflicts continuous light Rush damage B2-3 5
Lariat ラリアット Inflicts moderate Rush damage A0-1 4
Guillotine Heel ギロチンヒール Inflicts light Rush damage C1 3
Poison Bite どくかみつき / 毒噛みつき Inflicts light Rush damage and Poison A1 4
Charm Bite みわくかみつき / 魅惑噛みつき Low chance to inflict light Rush damage and Charm A0-1 7
Stone Bite せきかかみつき / 石化噛みつき Low chance to inflict light Rush damage and Stone A0-1 8
Ether Mace エーテルメイス Inflicts light Rush damage and Paralyze All enemies 14
Flare Rush フレアーラッシュ Inflicts continuous light Rush damage A0-7 7
Rumble Rush ランブルラッシュ Inflicts light Rush damage All enemies 8
Blood Festival ちまつり / 血祭り Inflicts continuous light Rush damage A0-7 8
Meat Bullet にくだん / 肉弾 Sacrifice self to inflict heavy Rush damage C1 3
Cherry Blossoms さんげ / 散華 Sacrifice self to inflict heavy Rush damage All enemies 3
Diablo de Corps にくたいのあくま Reduces enemy HP by 40% or 100%,
inflicts Shock. Gargantua 8 exclusive (in PSP-version no longer exclusive and used by David)
A1 4
Tech
Spell Japanese Effect Target HP Cost
Jumping Knee ジャンピングニー Low chance to inflict light Tech damage C0-1 3
Vulcan Kick バルカンキック Inflicts light Tech damage A2-7 3
Stun Crash スタンクラッシュ Inflicts light Tech damage and Shock All enemies 5
Flying Knee とびひざげり / 飛び膝蹴り Inflicts light Tech damage A1 3
Meteor Fist メテオフィスト Inflicts light Tech damage B3-6 4
Wolf Claw ぐんろうけん / 群狼拳 Inflicts Tech damage Front row 4
Hell Thrust じごくづき / 地獄突き Inflicts light Tech damage and Close A0-1 3
Innga コーズニフェクト Inflicts moderate Tech damage C1 7
Rasen スクリュスラップ Inflicts continuous light Tech damage B0-7 10
Scatter ひきさき / 引き裂き Inflicts light Tech damage A1-2 3
Poison Claw どくひっかき / 毒引っかき Inflicts light Tech damage and Poison A2 3
Stun Claw まひひっかき / 麻痺引っかき Inflicts light Tech damage and Paralyze A0-2 4
Wing Flap はばたき / 羽ばたき Inflicts light Tech damage All enemies 4
Venom Needle ベノンニードル Inflicts light Tech damage Front row 12
Paralyze Needle パララニードル Inflicts light Tech damage and Paralyze Front row 8
Mince Needle ミンチニードル Inflicts light Tech damage Front row 7
Flesh Mash かいなのひとふり / 腕の一振り Inflicts heavy Tech damage.
Ou-Magatsuhi exclusive
All enemies 16
Cold-hearted Mistress むじょうのまい / 無情の舞 Inflicts heavy Tech damage.
Inaruna exclusive
All enemies 22
Slash
Spell Japanese Effect Target HP Cost
Arm Chopper りょううでおとし / 両腕落とし Inflicts light Slash damage and Paralyze A0-2 7
Spin Slash かいてんぎり / 回転斬り Inflicts continuous light Slash damage B4-6 10
Skull Cracker スカルクラック Low chance to inflict heavy Slash damage C0-1 11
Deathbound デスバウンド Inflicts continuous light Slash damage A0-7 11
Blight ベノンザッパー Inflicts light Slash damage and Poison B2-4 12
Schneiden Axt だいせつだん / 大切断 Inflicts moderate Slash damage A1 11
Atom Slicer こっぱみじんぎり / 木っ端みじん斬り Inflicts continuous light Slash damage A0-7 10
Mist Slash かすみぎり / 霞斬り Inflicts moderate Slash damage Front row 15
Quick Murder しっぷうじんらい / 疾風迅雷 Low chance to inflicts light Slash damage and Bind C0-1 17
Mass Genocide 100にんぎり / 百人斬り Inflicts light Slash damage All enemies 31
Bamboo Slice からたけわり / 唐竹割り Inflicts moderate Slash damage, taking 20% HP;
1/16 chance of instant death. Doesn't work on bosses
A1 17
Critical Slash 1とうりょうだん / 一刀両断 Inflicts light Slash damage, taking 30% HP;
1/16 chance of instant death. Doesn't work on bosses
Front row 21
Lightning Blade いなづまぎり / 稲妻斬り Low chance to inflict heavy Slash damage and Shock.
Fariedone exclusive
C0-1 12
Empty Wave きょくうざんぱ / 虚空斬破 Inflicts moderate Slash damage.
Guan Yu exclusive
One row 18
Killing Step キリングステップ Inflicts heavy Slash damage on Mirrored enemies.
Strigoi exclusive
C1 2
Hassou Tobi はっそうとび / 八艘飛び Inflicts moderate Slash damage 8 consecutive times.
Yoshitsune exclusive
All enemies 14
Spear
Spell Japanese Effect Target HP Cost
Macha's Strike マッハづき / マッハ突き Consecutive Spear attacks A0-7 11
Skewer くしざし Inflict Spear damage to a column One row 10

Other

Standard Tactics: The protagonist initially as a human has no real method of attacking. Though later on he proceeds to use his weapons along with demons in combat either commanding them, or letting them decide what to do during combat themselves.

Weaknesses: His demons are weak to mercuric sulfide[48][49][50][51].

Note: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner doesn't have an official nor fan-translation, due to this the scans gathered come from youtuber Marsh's "The Devil Summoner Experience" where he explains the game and story in depth and lparchive's playthrough, where they play through the game and post screenshots with scenes they translate.

Trivia


  • The protagonist is briefly seen in-game during the cutscene following his initial death. During that scene, he has different clothes compared to his promotional and in-game artwork; a black short-sleeved top, white pants and casual shoes. He also appears to have brown instead of black hair.
  • The protagonist's hairstyle and clothing are promotional items in Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE. Despite being directly based on the protagonist's hairdo, the hairstyle bears Kyouji's name.
  • The protagonist appears as a cameo in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory as a C-ranked quest giver. The quest itself is named Evil Classroom and requires Neptune to find three "Heretic Jellys" so the protagonist can increase the HP and MP of the demon he is currently using. Based on the quest description, the protagonist seems to be a bit of a bird-brain as he misnames the Heretic Jelly as "Renegade Jelly."
    • The protagonist appears yet again in a A-ranked quest named Negotiation Failure where he apparently failed to convince a "Kerberos" (Cerberus) to join him and asks Neptune to defeat four of them for him since he got injured.
  • Arsène Lupin III is one of the main inspirations for the protagonist's design. Other inspirations include the protagonists of Tantei Monogatari, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

References

  1. Kazuma Kaneko Works V, Exposition pg. 23, No.00881: Kyouji Kuzunoha A, Sentence 4: "その時のアクシデントで、二十代の名もなき若者の魂が、キョウジの体に入り込んでしまう(この青年の体は病院で植物状態)"
  2. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 4 "Quickening" "I don't think so. From what I've just seen, there's no mistake that a magnetic field suitable for summoning a demon was set up. It may be that the reason no demon appeared was that it might have arrived in the Assiah world via a different magnetic field."
    "There’re still some details about the mechanism for demon summoning that I don't really understand yet."
    "Unusual words, coming from the genius that was the first to successfully summon a demon via a computer." Feed grinned broadly, but his expression soon turned grave as he looked directly at Nakajima.
    "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?"
    "Yes, that's right."
    "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
    "So what would happen if two contact points were opened at the same time?"
    "The demon would decide where it wanted to appear. However, there are some examples in medieval records of demon summonings that report that when the difference in strength of the two magnetic fields was great enough, the demon would be pulled to the stronger field, regardless of which it wanted to go to..."
  3. "The sun god of Aztec lore who is also worshipped as a war god. He is said to give warriors strength. He is often depicted as an armed warrior with the sun on his back."
    —Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse compendium
  4. "A three-legged bird said to live in the sun. In ancient China, there used to be 10 suns which would take turns traveling the sky. But one day, all ten suns appeared in the sky and scored the earth. A man named Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns."
    —Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey compendium
  5. "Ancient Chinese legend has it that once there were ten suns that strode across the sky, each in succession. One day, all ten appeared at once, bringing flame to sear sky and earth alike. A hero named Hou Yi raised his bow to shoot down nine of the suns, sparing humanity and the earth. It was said that a three-legged Kau lived within each of the suns. Now, only one travels across the sky, bringing light to the world. It's sic fires burn strong enough to warm, but not to sear and scar."
    —Devil Survivor 2 compendium
  6. Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: YHVH's Universe Entrance
  7. SMT: Strange Journey REDUX - Boss: Ouroboros
  8. Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse YHVH Boss
  9. Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.
  10. Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei II: Law Ending
  11. (Web Archive link in case link ever dies
  12. Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei II: Law Ending
  13. The Herald of Yatagarsu is capable of teleporting Raidou into The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she exists a plane not apart of the human world, further showing how out of reach this plane is, it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time
  14. SMT IV SIDE-Quest guide: For the Past... for the Future
  15. "That's right, I suppose you being here means you defeated Demiurge? I'm very grateful. He helped me to remove the seals by manipulating the Tendou-gumi and the mayor, but he fulfilled his duty and is of no use to the organization now. You've saved me the work of getting rid of him myself."
  16. [https://lparchive.org/Shin-Megami-Tensei-Devil-Summoner/Update%2019/ "...You finally made it, but it's too late now. I have removed the seal, and Kumiko Hatano will soon become the vessel for Princess Inaruna's soul.
    Her confines have been lifted, and there is nobody left who can stop her now. The princess's great power will cause destruction the likes of which you can only begin to imagine. Fufufufu.
  17. "That's right, I suppose you being here means you defeated Demiurge? I'm very grateful. He helped me to remove the seals by manipulating the Tendou-gumi and the mayor, but he fulfilled his duty and is of no use to the organization now. You've saved me the work of getting rid of him myself."
  18. The Herald of Yatagarsu is capable of teleporting Raidou into The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she exists a plane not apart of the human world, further showing how out of reach this plane is, it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themself otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time
  19. Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: YHVH's Universe Entrance
  20. SMT: Strange Journey REDUX - Boss: Ouroboros
  21. Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse YHVH Boss
  22. Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.
  23. Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei II: Law Ending
  24. (Web Archive link in case link ever dies
  25. Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei II: Law Ending
  26. The Herald of Yatagarsu is capable of teleporting Raidou into The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she exists a plane not apart of the human world, further showing how out of reach this plane is, it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time
  27. SMT IV SIDE-Quest guide: For the Past... for the Future
  28. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 7, Chapter 2 "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  29. Narisawa: Now, let’s change the subject. I’d like to talk about the Abyss or the demon areas. This time the Abyss is designed like the Sephiroth Tree. We need to read the strategy guide in order to understand that, but is this how you originally envisioned it?
    Okada: I said earlier that Tokyo Millenium and the Underworld are in contrast but generally speaking, their opposite is the Abyss. It’s like saying Lucifer is Satan’s opposite.
    Narisawa: Kabbalah is a secret formula that belongs to humans, so how do you explain Lucifer using it to design the Abyss?
    Itou: That is why we have opposites. We can consider the possibility of humans being the ones who were influenced. We don’t know whether they saw the Abyss’s design after a near-death experience or were telepathically struck by some waves, but if pushed to say, the Kabbalah that’s transmitted through the world right now could be a representation of what they “saw”.
    Narisawa: It’s a reversal.
  30. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "To Space", The glitter of the stars and the unending void surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning blue globe shone up at him. It took him a few moments to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi he held emitted a strand of light in the inkwell of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, responding to the tens of thousands of stars.
    It seemed that Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move in the vacuum of outer space. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. Swinging his sword, Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw.
    An incomprehensibly enormous serpent; though the demon had only owned a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body.
    Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful, practical satellite lying in medium Earth orbit.
    It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space.
    The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind.
    But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this machine down with me is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here!
    Several pale glowing things that looked like hoods aimlessly floated beside Nakajima.
    Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of foolish humanity’s dominion over the earth will not be long. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signaling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think on it.
    Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment that had given Set a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power Nakajima had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew a whip-like arc that emitted red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent."
  31. Note: Demons normally showing these contradictions is due to the observation of humanity affecting them.
  32. Digital Devil Story Chapter 4, "Sword of Flame", Page 55 "RAUIERE!" Yomotsu-Shikome tried to tell him something in a foreign tongue. She could sense that this intruder possessed a power much different and far greater than the human tomb robbers that had foolishly wandered in before. If possible, she wanted to repel him without having to fight. Caught off guard, Loki stood still and narrowed his jet-black eyes, as if sizing up the power of this new arrival. Then, he started to walk forward calmly, an arrogant smirk on his face.
  33. Digital Devil Story Transfer, Chapter 1, Page 28 "Hashiguchi abruptly noticed that the display looked like it was damp, as if it was covered in a layer of condensation. As he tried to wipe the screen off with his hand, he felt something stick to his fingertips, and jumped back in surprise. Something slimy was stuck to his fingers; as he shook them violently, a heavy, disgusting jelly-like substance fell to the floor with a splat.
    "Ugh! What the hell is this!?"
    Inoue turned around at Hashiguchi's cry and froze in shock. Beneath the skin of the pink protoplasm, a mesh of green-colored veins spread out as the whole blob pulsated like an organ torn out of its host. The repulsive lump of flesh made a squishing sound as it started to approach the two men. Backing up, Inoue stumbled over a chair and sprayed the contents of his stomach all over the floor.
    "Inoue! Get a hold of yourself!" Grabbing his coworker's arm to keep him standing, Hashiguchi started to run toward the door. As he turned, the gelatinous blob lashed out; tentacles covered in a viscous sticky fluid like red jam grabbed onto the legs of both men in an instant.
    "Shit!" Hashiguchi cursed as he grabbed files and the phone off his desk--any object within reach--and began throwing them at his attacker. When it showed no fear, he grabbed a chair, lifted it over his head, and brought it crashing down on top of the thing. However, the skin of the gelatinous blob simply pulled the steel chair into its body, where it was quickly dissolved right before Hashiguchi's eyes."
  34. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36 "However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs.
    "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body."
  35. Digital Devil Story Chatper 2, Sword of Flame, Page 53 "At that time, Loki swiftly entered Shirasagi Mound, and was standing before the passageway that Nakajima had passed through earlier. "Just you wait, Nakajima. Soon, I will defile your precious woman before your very eyes before devouring you whole." With a twisted smile on his face, Loki transformed himself into an amorphous blob and oozed into the tunnel. Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the plaza before the burial pathway. At that instant, its outer membrane hissed and gave off smoke as it started to melt. "Damn you!" Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body, and kneeling on the ground, let loose a terrible howl. Most likely, he could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Even now, the one gelatinous place of his body between his eyes throbbed and pulsated. Gritting his teeth and standing, Loki stared solemnly at the crimson burial road."
  36. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 37 "Leaving his handsome face intact, Loki started to change into a cylindrical lump of flesh that sprouted countless small tentacles. The pink protoplasm started to glow and the movement of the tentacle fondling Yumiko's body became faster and rougher.
    Yumiko lost all will to resist, and her head fell to the side limply as she passed out. Loki started to pull her doll-like body into his own; he failed to notice that Ohara was glaring furiously at Yumiko even as she was enveloped within the protoplasm.
    Many women could not resist the allure of demons. Even if they despised them normally, they’d fall madly in love with them if they had sex with them even once. For Ohara, who had devoted herself body and soul to Loki, watching him have sex with one of her students in front of her eyes was an unbearable humiliation. Once Yumiko's slender white legs had sunk into the protoplasm and she was inside Loki up to her chest, Ohara went mad with jealousy, grabbed Yumiko’s head, and started to twist it.
  37. "Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2, "Conflicts" "Crying out, Typhon whipped and spasmed. Sword and all, Nakajima was thrown aside, but Kerberos leaped into the air and caught him. Right then, Nakajima got the sense that he heard Yumiko's voice from far away. Looking around in confusion, the image of Yumiko, bound to a cross and writhing in agony, appeared in his mind. Most likely, Set had sent him the picture of her current state as the core of his enormous protoplasmic temporary body. Nakjima noticed that one of the eyes in her lovely, terrified face was dripping blood."
  38. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space" "However, he could not stop fighting. As minor demons from Set's world continued wriggling while trying to enter the Assiah world, an unmistakably familiar voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. Nakajima! I'm here! Aim for here! Yumiko! Is that you!? The instant Nakajima heard the voice, the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi regained a shine like a nova as it tore through the air. Stab your sword in the direction of my voice! Nakajima quickly noticed a pale, white, phosphorescent glow on a part of the enormous serpent's scale-encased body. Yes, I'm inside the demon! If we attack from inside him and outside him at the same time, we might be able to defeat Set... Led by Yumiko's voice, Nakajima stabbed his blade toward the phosphorescent glow. But an instant before the tip reached it, the tail of the giant snake forcefully knocked the blade aside and sent Nakajima flying far back. Flipping over and regaining his composure, robe fluttering behind him, Nakajima saw the rolling form of Set uncoiling, as if swimming through the vacuum. Foolish girl! To think you would let me know that you still live! Now I no longer have to depend on this irritating machine!
  39. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City Chapter 2 "Conflicts" "Isma's body appeared to float in the air as he laughed, and two unusual lights appeared by his feet. Covered in jet-black scales, the great black serpent Typhon stared at Nakajima with its golden eyes, Isma riding on its back, as it slowly rose into the air, towering like an enormous tree. With its head nearly extended to the full height of the tower of flesh, the huge serpent shuddered and assaulted Nakajima. The lower half of Isma's body had been fused into Typhon's; perhaps it was another sort of fusion the demon could do in addition to its innate ability to absorb the earth and the air into its own body."
  40. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "Quickening" "Matoba was taking a nap on the sofabed in the study next to his office. The heavy black bags under his eyes betrayed his exhaustion from his nonstop efforts to bring his party together and block the National Secrets Protection Act from being passed. Taking advantage of the fact that the world stage was becoming a war of information, the restrictions in the act clearly indicated that the Liberal Party was veering further and further to the right. As the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, that was hard for Matoba to allow.
    A quiet breeze blew into the room through the air conditioner that Matoba had left on. Not even disturbing the sound of that breeze, the snake slipped into the room through the slit under the door. It raised its head, fixating on its prey. Its small red eyes looked over the snoring, sleeping form of Matoba. Wiggling its body rapidly, the white snake slithered across the floor, effortlessly climbed up the sofabed and dove into the V-neck of Matoba's exposed undershirt, clearly by his unfastened tie.
    Without any hesitation, the pale serpent bit into the exaggeratedly expanding and contracting fat stomach before it. Like a sharp drill, the slender body of the snake tunneled into Matoba's gut. As if he felt no pain whatsoever, Matoba slept on peacefully.
    A minute or so later, Matoba suddenly twisted up from the sofabed as if a wave of high-voltage electricity was running through him. His body started to spasm wildly. However, it appeared that the Apep had gained full control of his nervous system; he soon started snoring again and fell into a deep sleep. Strangely enough, the wound on his stomach had sealed, as if cured by some sort of magic. Only moments later, the light sound of a Cedric driving away could be heard from the front of Matoba's manor.
  41. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2: Chapter 2, ""I made it back to Toyoashihara..." His lips trembled with relief. Opening his arms wide, the youth took a deep breath of the humid air, pursed his lips forcefully, turned around, and sat down. For a while, he stared at the form of the grotesque woman chasing him, then shook his head sadly and closed his eyes. The youth started to meditate. When the woman had gotten within reach of a stone's throw, his body seemed to float slightly in midair for a moment, and then there was a huge undulation in the atmosphere. As if a huge invisible power had been released, the earth shook, and the fissure that appeared directly beneath the youth spread to the surrounding moutains, and countless rocks started to fall on the path. As the woman stopped, a giant boulder rolled in front of the path in front of her eyes, sealing it off. "Izanagi! I will come to you! Even if it takes hundreds or thousands of years!" The sound of the woman's bitter cries rose from beyond the towering pile of earth. "Forgive me, Izanami..." Plugging his ears with his hands, the youth staggered into the wetlands, the tall reeds rising even above his height."
  42. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  43. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  44. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  45. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space", "Accompanied by the glittering of the stars, unending empty space surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning shining blue globe looked up at him. It took him a few moments for him to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. In them, he held the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, emitting a strand of light in the blackness of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, as if responding to the tens of thousands of stars. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. It appeared as if Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move about in the vacuum of outer space. Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw. It was that of an incomprehensibly enormous serpent. Though the demon had only possessed a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the natural effect of powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body. Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Now a giant snake, Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful yet functional satellite lying in dead orbit. It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space. The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this satellite down with me to the surface is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here into space! Beside Nakajima, several pale glowing things that looked like hoods floated aimlessly. Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of the age of the foolish humans' dominion over the earth will not be long now. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signalling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think it over. Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment of outer space that had given the demon a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power he had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew an arc like that of a whip emitting red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent. Fool, you do not value your life. Set lurched forward. Weaving away from the enormous serpent's attacking fangs, Nakajima was enveloped by a miasma like ice. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi had already produced many pale sparks striking the body of the serpent coiled around the satellite. Yet the tough scales showed no sign of injury. Not only that, but the ugly faces and disgusting tentacles of materializing new demons floated like ghosts in the space around him. The noisy voices of the demons amplified like they were advancing down on Nakajima."
  46. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 4 "Quickening" "I don't think so. From what I've just seen, there's no mistake that a magnetic field suitable for summoning a demon was set up. It may be that the reason no demon appeared was that it might have arrived in the Assiah world via a different magnetic field."
    "There’re still some details about the mechanism for demon summoning that I don't really understand yet."
    "Unusual words, coming from the genius that was the first to successfully summon a demon via a computer." Feed grinned broadly, but his expression soon turned grave as he looked directly at Nakajima.
    "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?"
    "Yes, that's right."
    "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
    "So what would happen if two contact points were opened at the same time?"
    "The demon would decide where it wanted to appear. However, there are some examples in medieval records of demon summonings that report that when the difference in strength of the two magnetic fields was great enough, the demon would be pulled to the stronger field, regardless of which it wanted to go to..."
  47. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 5, "He Who Calls" "Isma had realized that the bizarre life form that had torn itself out of Ohara's belly was a temporary body for Set, who had been planning to take form by possessing Loki's child. According to his theory, summoning a demon via a computer would require creating a magnetic field with which to summon the demon and the processing of the demon's data to be materialized, both of which would have to be done at virtually the same time. If the magnetic field was weak, the point of connection between the demon's world and the Assiah world would narrow, constraining the amount of data that could be processed. On the other hand, no matter how powerful the magnetic field was, unless the digital data could be processed quickly and concisely, the demon would never be able to take form. It was quite possible that even a supercomputer would not be able to handle the massive amount of data that would be needed to materialize a high-ranking demon. Despite that fact, the high-ranking demon Set was able to to take form in the Assiah world, even if it was only in a makeshift body. Something must have added a great deal of power in setting up the necessary magnetic field for a summoning; this in turn would ease the restraints on the data processing. Isma was convinced that something was Yumiko. Most likely, the high concentration of biological Magnetite within her body had been a major player in creating the magnetic field for the summoning. The divine constitution that she had inherited from Izanami was nothing but a giant retention of that highly concentrated Magnetite. While meager in comparison to that of Yumiko, ordinary humans also retained some biological Magnetite. If enough of it was collected, it might be able to create a permanent overlap of the Atziluth and Assiah worlds entirely. Therefore, having already formed a contract with Set, Isma borrowed his power to summon many people and attempt to create a tower of human flesh. And everything was proceeding just according to plan. Even know the heavens split with a terrible thundering, and Set's most powerful servant, the great serpent Typhon, reared its head into the air as if slithering from behind a black curtain, knocking over the Soga Forest's trees as it went. "Typhon, welcome. Breathe deeply and take in the air of the Assiah world." Isma looked kindly at the enormous snake. "Take a look, your first victim awaits in the shadow of that tree." As Isma pointed to the copse where Officer Nimura was, Typhon vanished beyond the trees. Meanwhile, Set had transformed into a gigantic, vile pillar of flesh, his sinister, red glowing eyes at its peak darting all around the area. Typhon's presence is proof that the demon world Set rules is starting to meld with the Assiah world. Now all that remains is to gather more biological Magnetite and solidify the connection... Isma's eyes shimmered even brighter with madness."
  48. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36-37 "Powerless, Nakajima stared at Loki and Ohara.
    I should have considered the possibility that this could happen. I'd better find a weakness, and soon!
    Nakajima frantically pointed the sensor connected to his computer at the nearly-materialized Loki. Calling up the ISG host computer, he sent the data the sensor had gathered about the demon to Craft. Meanwhile, Loki extended his hand toward Yumiko, rigid with terror. His bronze, naked body was beautifully symmetrical, almost like the Greek Apollo, and his muscular chest was covered in black scales. His black eyes, from which no one could possibly fathom any emotion, paralyzed her.
    "Come over here." Pointing his talon at Yumiko, Loki commanded her in a low, cold voice. Yumiko looked to Nakajima for help, but he merely glanced at her and continued talking with the AI.
    Nakajima knew he wouldn't have a chance if he tried to fight Loki directly, but Loki probably couldn’t risk doing anything to him so long as Nakajima had control of the computer environment. Nakajima knew that he had to find some sort of weakness to Loki while he still had the chance. He had a hunch that Loki would not be able to leave the magnetic field being generated by the computer.
    However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs.
    "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body.
    >CRAFT, HURRY!
    Covering his ears so he wouldn't have to hear Yumiko's screams, Nakajima frantically kept hitting the keys. Finally the data transfer LED lit up, and Craft sent a response.
    ACCORDING TO THE DATA YOU SENT, THE JELLY SUBSTANCE IS 58% WATER AND 17% ECTOPLASM. THE REMAINING MATTER IS NOT NATIVE TO THE PLANET AND CANNOT BE ANALYZED.
    >HAS THERE EVER BEEN A CASE OF SIMILAR MATTER BEING DISCOVERED BEFORE?
    YES. THIS CENTURY, SIMILAR MATTER WAS DISCOVERED IN A MAYAN TEMPLE AND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
    > WHAT IS ITS WEAK POINT?
    I CANNOT MAKE A HYPOTHESIS DUE TO INSUFFICIENT DATA. HOWEVER, THE MATTER DISCOVERED UNDER A RELIEF IN THE MAYAN TEMPLE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE EVAPORATED WHEN IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH MERCURIC SULFIDE-BASED PAINT.
    > MERCURIC SULFIDE? YOU MEAN A MIXTURE OF MERCURY AND SULFUR. BUT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT. TELL ME HOW TO DEAL WITH HIM NOW!
    UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT DATA TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER."
  49. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Pages 50-51 "A viscous drop of water fell onto Nakajima's cheek. Listening closely, he could hear the steady sound of water coming from high above. Over the aeons, the lime deposits in this trickle had accumulated here and there along the path to form giant stalagmites. Nakajima touched the rising cliff to feel it. The surface of the cold stone was wet with condensation. When he scratched it, the rock crumbled away easily, revealing a new layer of red stone below. Idly recalling that the ancient red paint used in ancient Japanese tombs was mercuric-sulfide based, Nakajima suddenly remembered Craft's words.
    When explorers had discovered material that was apparently part of a demon's body in a Mayan temple, it evaporated when it came into contact with their mercuric-sulfide based paint. In other words, this tomb was designed specifically to keep demons out. His courage buoyed by this realization, Nakajima picked up Yumiko's body and walked toward the depths of the red valley. However, he’d never had that much in the way of stamina in the first place. In less than ten minutes, his legs were exhausted. He would have liked Kerberos' help, but he didn't want to put any more stress on the already terribly-injured demon. Besides, this path with walls literally painted with demon repellent would hardly be the most appropriate place for Kerberos.
  50. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Page 51 "Yomotsu-Shikome took a step forward. As Nakajima met her gaze, he carefully laid Yumiko down, wiped the cold sweat on his hands onto his slacks, and picked up his handheld computer.
    "Kerberos, please come here."
    Before the white haze that emerged from the liquid crystal display could even take on a rough outline of its shape, it vanished with a weak bark. Apparently, the pathway’s crimson paint really did seal off the power of the demon beast.
  51. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 2, Page 53 "Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the burial chamber plaza. The moment he touched the floor, his outer membrane hissed smoke as it started to melt.
    "Damn you!"
    Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body. Kneeling, he let loose a terrible howl. He could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Between his eyes, the one gelatinous place on his body throbbed and pulsated.

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Explanations

The following is an explanation of the various status effects of Megami Tensei

Status Effects
Name Effect Apperances
Freeze Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Ice skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a frozen enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit. Most Megami Tensei Games
Shock Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Electricity skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a shocked enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit. Most Megami Tensei Games
Poison Depletes health at the end of each turn, often persisting on the field. Most Megami Tensei Games
Paralyze Paralyzed characters are unable to move. Unlike Shock, this often persists for more than one turn. Most Megami Tensei Games
Stun Stunned characters have lowered agility and defense. Most Megami Tensei Games
Confused Confused characters become indecisive and may either attack a random enemy, do nothing or flee in a panic. Most Megami Tensei Games
Charm Character begins attacking their own allies or cast healing spells on the enemies. Most Megami Tensei Games
Stone Prevents the target from moving. This persists even on the field and is treated as similar to being dead. In most games, if the protagonist is petrified, it triggers a game over. In some games, Force spells will shatter a petrified opponent. Most Megami Tensei Games
Sleep Prevents any action in battle. Character loses a turn. In some games, sleeping characters restore some of their HP and MP. Most Megami Tensei Games
KO Can no longer participate in battle. In most games, if the protagonist dies, it is game over. Can only be recovered with Recarm spells. Most Megami Tensei Games
Bind Prevents any action from a unit. In Persona Q and Persona Q2, Binds are spilt into three different subsets that stop specific actions. Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Persona Q
Persona Q2
Bomb Bomb is implanted in party member. When those inflicted with this status are hit, they explode, dealing damage to the entire party. Defending will prevent damage. In the Devil Children series, only the character inflicted with Bomb is hurt when hit by Fire attacks. Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Devil Children series
Happy Overjoyed and may not attack. Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Devil Children series
Rage Attack is increased, but the afflicted will attack anyone other than themselves as if they were Charmed. In the Persona series, Rage lowers the afflicted's defense and agility. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Persona 3
Persona 4
Persona 5
Down Character may get their turn skipped and they take more damage. Overlaps with other ailments. Persona 3
Persona 4
Persona 5
Hungry Hungry characters will become indecisive. On their turn, they will either not take action and receive a small amount of Almighty damage or attack an ally. DDS: Avatar Tuner
Persona 5
Sick Capacity (how much the character can carry) is doubled. Shin Megami Tensei NINE
Fly Renders the target 200% vulnerable to all affinities and reduces all their stats except Ag to 1. Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Sick Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of a turn with a party holding this character, there's a 5% chance that another character will be infected. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Lost Flynn cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Brand DLC only. Reduces HP and MP recovery to 1 point. Can't be cured. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Sick Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of the party's turn or an individual party member's turn, if a party member is afflicted, there is a 5% chance that another party member will be infected. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Lost Nanashi cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Brand Reduces HP and MP recovery to 1 point. Can't be cured, but wears off randomly or automatically after battle. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Close Prevents a unit from using their magic. Represented by kissing and hearts when inflicted by skills. Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
Mirror Affected character cannot move, takes increased damage from physical attacks but reflects all magic. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Card Affected character cannot move, takes increased damage from Fire attacks, and decreased damage from physical attacks. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Bat Affected character steals HP from allies outside of battle. Can spread to allies. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Plague Stronger version of Poison that deals more damage. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Dance Affected character cannot move. Evasion is increased. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Tipsy Affected character may take a random action Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Drunk Affected character performs random actions Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
High Provides bonuses to all actions, but they also become random. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Guilt Randomly-selected actions cannot be performed. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Blind Hit rate and evasion dropped. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Sick Loses HP at the end of the turn and when walking around.
Works like Poison, but Sick is considered a different ailment in-game.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Cloak Cannot be directly targeted by single-target attacks.
Defense lowered and cannot summon Persona.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Puppet Allows controlling a K.O-ed ally.
Puppet can attack and use items, but cannot summon Persona.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Beast Buffs all stats. Amount varies depending on the current moon phase. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Illusion When a character is in the illusion status effect, his/her hit rate will decrease significantly. Persona 2
Possession Possession occurs when the demon inhibits the characters body. When a possessed character summons a persona, there's a high chance that the possessed character will attack instead. Persona 2
Despair Drains SP every turn, cannot move.
Dies/Faints after 3 turns have passed.
Persona 5 / Royal
Rattled Cannot move, damage taken increased. Persona 5 / Royal
Artist's Grace Inflict weaknesses to all affinities. Persona 5 / Royal
Lust Affected targets may lose a turn. Persona 5 / Royal
Wrath Affected targets have their attack raised sharply, but their defense decreased sharply for a turn. Allows free action. Persona 5 / Royal
Envy Affected Targets may attack random party members with weapons when a support skill is used on anyone but the envied target for a turn. Persona 5 / Royal
Ache After a successful hunt, the character that just ate might get affected by a stomach ache. Occasionally inflicted as a side effect from eating a Moldy Roll. This prevents the character from gaining any AP after the battle. Allies also won't get any AP from the consumed monster, if AP sharing skills are set. Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Bat Reduces all stats and makes the affected character weak to Force. Wears off over time or when battle ends. Does not override passive skills that affect Force resistance. Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Egg When the team holding the affected character has their next turn, the affected character takes a large amount of Almighty damage and a Maggot is summoned next to them. Devil Survivor

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