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From The Codex
"Counting on you!"
~ When using Mishaguji Raiden
"Summon!"
~ When using Hitokoto Storm
"Moh Shuvuu!"
~ When using Raptor Guardian
"Come, Mokoi!"
~ When using Mokoi Boomerang
"Gouto."
~ When using Provoke
Enough with the distraction. We're on a case, remember?
Et tu, Gouto?
Are you sure, Gouto?
I see. ...Then I will hold nothing back, for the sake of the future.
Heh. You certainly are an odd fellow... Though, I must say, that idea has piqued my interest as well...
DOUBLE SUMMON!
I wanted to train you, but it is I who has learned something new from this experience. I thank you.
That's enough, you two. We still have a case to solve.
B-But, I can't abandon my duty...
Indeed it was. I will remember you. Now, if you'll just pardon me...

Background

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is the protagonist's nickname of the Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha series.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Raidou Kuzunoha XIV’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is a young student of the Yumizuki High School who was trained in the Kuzunoha village in the art of the Devil Summoner. Once he was ready, he undertook the trials at the nameless shrine in the heart of the Shinoda mountains and became the fourteenth Raidou Kuzunoha. He was assigned a partner by the Herald of Yatagarasu named Gouto, a sarcastic talking cat who was to guide Raidou in the ways of a Devil Summoner, and was sent to work part-time at the Narumi Detective Agency as a cover for his true task.

As the newest Raidou Kuzunoha, it is his duty to protect the capital from the demons of the Dark Realm and ensure that the supernatural world is kept in check. His abilities with a katana are without equal, and his skill with a pistol is unmatched, but Raidou's true power comes from the demons tucked away in confinement tubes beneath his cape.

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is the newest member of a line of summoners who have claimed the title of "Raidou Kuzunoha." Originally a student at the Yumizuki Imperial High School, Raidou went through extensive training until he was ready to undergo a series of trials at the Nameless Shrine in the Shinoda Mountains, where he earned his title. The Herald of Yatagarasu assigned a talking cat named Gouto-Douji to watch over him. Raidou Kuzunoha uses a katana, revolver and demon tubes known as kuda to capture and use demons for detective work as well as protection.

Raidou Kuzunoha is assigned to protect the capital from various supernatural dangers. He works out of the Narumi Detective Agency in Tsukudo-Cho, under the watch of Shouhei Narumi. Raidou was contacted by Kaya Daidouji, who wanted to hire him to kill her in order to prevent her from being controlled by her demonic blood. While talking to Raidou, Kaya was kidnapped by mysterious soldiers in red armor.

Raidou continued investigating the case of the mysterious girl, until it lead him to the Daidouji Manor, in which he met Kaya's uncle Kiyoshi. After uncovering information about a curse on the Daidouji family, Raidou witnessed Kiyoshi transforming into a monster called a "Red Cape." When Raidou began to pursue Kiyoshi, he was stopped by a mysterious rogue Devil Summoner, who summoned Ichimokuren in an effort to stop Raidou from interfering.

In this prequel novel, Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is revealed to have actually been named Jōhei. Raidou was a student of Yumizuki Imperial High School before becoming the apprentice to Shouhei Narumi. He wields a katana called Muramasa.

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV returns as the protagonist of the fourth Devil Summoner game. He returns to shrine in Shinoda and undergoes retraining in preparation for returning to work for the Herald of Yatagarasu. Gotou-Douji returns in order to provide guidance in the same capacity as he did in the first game. Gotou unseals some of Raidou's abilities to allow him to summon two demons at once, and Raidou returns to work as the capital's guardian, seeking out the new disturbances that were detected by the Herald of Yatagarasu. Raidou once again winds up working with Shouhei Narumi and Tae Asakura.

In this sequel, Raidou and Narumi were asked by a young woman by the name of Akane Narita to find a man by the name of Dahn. Following the clues, he managed to unveil that Dahn is related to the mysterious murders and suicides that are happening in the capital. As he continues to solve the mystery even further, he was stopped by a group of masked man, the Fukoshi. As they released a mysterious insect which is called the Luck Locust, Raidou had his luck drained and had to battle against Binbou-Gami and eventually lost.

The series occurs after the events of Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon, where Raidou continues his job of protecting the capital while working in the Narumi Detective Agency. He becomes involved in the case of the Lone Marebito after incidents involving humans becoming demons or summoning demons at the cost of their lives start to appear.

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV appears in the Nocturne Chronicle Edition and the HD Remaster, replacing Dante in his role as a recruitable ally. Despite not being the protagonist of the game, Raidou remains silent, with Gouto speaking in his stead.

At the start of the fifth Kalpa, Raidou also stops to have a chat with the Demi-fiend and recognizes his skills from the previous two times they clashed across the game. Raidou and Gotou offer to team up with the Demi-fiend and offer him a deal with a little gamble. Raidou produces two different mahjong tiles and the Demi-fiend is to guess left or right. If the tile he picks is the 9 tile, the Demi-fiend gains 100,000 Macca, but if he picks the 1 tile, he only gets 1. The 9 tile always ends up on the left.

Most of his in-game skills parallel Dante's from the original, but have new names. The differences between their skill repertoires are that Dante can learn the conversation passive "Intimidate," but Raidou instead uses the milder "Arbitration," also the counterpart of Dante's "Son's Oath," called "Raidou the Aeon," possesses the additional effect of Pierce, making him viable in the battle against the ultimate boss.

Raidou is mentioned in Pre-Conception Tokyo, where he is described by a passerby as "a pretty school kid all dressed up in black, with a cat." The same NPC mentions that he has "seen" Raidou somewhere else before. Unlike Dante, he did receive an ending cutscene, where he and Goutou go back to his world. Goutou is then seen typing about their experiences in the Vortex World.

Raidou appears alongside Gouto-Douji and his alternate self Raido Kuzunoha the XIV in Soul Hackers as bonus bosses in the EX Dungeon, after defeating "Kyouji Kuzonoha." Raidou and Raido are both voiced by Tomokazu Sugita in the Japanese version.

Statistics

Key: Early Game | Late Game

Tier: 8-C | 2-A, possibly Low 1-C

Name: Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, Jōhei (His original name in the Kuzunoha Raidou tai Shibito Ekishi novel)

Origin: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Human, Devil Summoner

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Has access to Bufu skills, which can completely freeze opponents, and Agi skills, which can vaporize humans) |

Durability: Building level |

Striking Strength: Building Class |

Lifting Strength: Unknown |

Travel Speed: Superhuman |

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal (Can tag a late game Demi-Fiend)

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Tier: 2-A, possibly Low 1-C

Name: Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, Jōhei (His original name in the Kuzunoha Raidou tai Shibito Ekishi novel)

Origin: Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Human, Devil Summoner

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Hyper Multiverse level, possibly Low Complex Multiverse level (Can harm a late game Demi-Fiend, requiring him to run from Raidou for a good duration of their chase. Demi-Fiend implied to have fought YHVH during the True Demon route, who effortlessly created infinite universes that are infinitesimal in size compared to him, and exists as an incomprehensible transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation. Defeated Metatron, who is second to God and was directly amped by him. Destroyed Kagutsuchi, who as an avatar of The Great Will, it is easily stronger than the likes of Metatron, who was being amped by them by the time he fought Demi-fiend. YHVH is a being who created infinite universes that are infinitesimal in size compared to him, and exists as an incomprehensible transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation. Able to contend with end game Demi-fiend wielding the Masakados magatama, but ultimately lost. Created and sustains the Vortex world, which was resulted from him erasing the past, present and future of the universe, in order to construct the Vortex World in its foundations. Exists as the light that encompasses and administers all of creation within the Amala universe that is said to contain countless worlds along with being the source to creation with his defeat causing the destruction of the Amala universe. Capable of empowering the Reason Gods, among which is Ahriman, in order to allow them to reshape the foundation of the Vortex World and birth a new reality. Defeated a weakened Lucifer, although it was more of a test of strength than a serious fight. Put up a good fight against the Protagonists from DDS, SMT IMAGINE and V, but decisively lost. Fought against a fully powered Stephen alongside the other Messiahs and managed to defeat him after a long battle, although the former was more amused and satisfied by their performance than seriously threatened in the aftermath of the fight. Stephen at the time was partially in possession of The Axiom's powers and sensed that the Messiahs had the potential to exceed it, putting them above the likes of YHVH. Additionally, Stephen is superior to Matter Lucifer, who transcended beyond Heaven after defeating YHVH)

Durability:

Striking Strength:

Lifting Strength:

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Traveled across large sessions of the town on foot in under a day)

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal (Can tag a late game Demi-Fiend, can tag Kagutsuchi, who exist throughout all of Time and Space and the infinite universes that exist within the Amala universe)

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal

Key:

Tier: 8-C physically, 2-C with Observation | 2-A

Name: Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, Jōhei (His original name in the Kuzunoha Raidou tai Shibito Ekishi novel)

Origin: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Human, Devil Summoner

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Has access to Bufu skills, which can completely freeze opponents, and Agi skills, which can vaporize humans) | Hyper Multiverse level (Can harm a late game Demi-Fiend, requiring him to run from Raidou for a good duration of their chase)

Durability:

Striking Strength:

Lifting Strength:

Travel Speed:

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal

Stamina: (Could chase after Demi-Fiend for a while without getting tired. )

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with Blades, Hundreds of Meters with Firearms, High Multiversal (Able to travel to alternative universes and can cross dimensions, which there are infinite of)

Intelligence: Genius (Succeeded in the Kuzunhoa training hall, where people wishing to become Devil Summoners risk their lives with exmplery spirits equal to even Raidou falling here. The basics of combat are little but child's play to Raidou. Can defeat Pgn Okiku-mushi, whose killed over hundreds of devil summoners. A skilled and trained dectective apart of a dectective agency where there's no caper they can't solve. Defeated Tsuchigumo when he was ambushed and he purposefully lured Raidou to him for the ambush. Could chase down Demi-Fiend easily even after Demi-Fiend set up multiple walls and such to block his entires. Views the Devil Summoner Soul Hackers cast having to use machinery to summon demons as pathetic. Him fighting the Devil Summoner Soul Hackers cast is to him "stretching his muscles" and testing his skills. Calls himself a senior summoner in comparisson to the cast. Defeated a Frost Tarrasque, who has several thousands of years of experience)


Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Skilled with the sword in combat, being able to use several variations, and skilled with firearms in combat. Along with this he can use both his sword skills and gun combos together), Accelerated Development (Leveling, Other; Physical Stats & Abilities. As Raidou's demons become more loyal, it increases his abilities as a summoner, Raidou naturally levels up and grows stronger), Sheer Will (Noted to have an exemplery spirit), Damage Boost (Can deal critical hits), Enhanced Senses (Can feel a strange draft that he didn't feel in any other area of the house), Extrasensory Perception (Can see demons who are completely invisible to humans), Clairvoyance (Is aware of where Demi-Fiend is), Save and Load (With dragon caves Raidou can record his progress without being disturbed), Time Paradox Immunity (Type 0. Can interact and speak with alternate Raidous and Gotou's), Immortality (Type 9. Raidou can have alternate universe selves replace him as they are all capable of multiversal travel), Time Travel (Can appear in different eras to test his strength with other fighters), Dimensional Travel (Able to travel to alternative universes and can cross dimensions), Statistics Reduction & Empathic Manipulation (With provoke, drastically decreases one's defense and causes rage), Sealing & Social Influencing (Can confine a demon, into a tube which is a technique that turns demon enemies into allies, even if they originally refused to join they will become his ally), Summoning (Can summon demons in battle to fight other demons), Elemental Manipulation (Has elementially-affiliated bullets), Ice Manipulation (With ice bullets, instantly freezes a foe upon contact), Fire Manipulation (With fire bullets, induces burn on a foe upon contact), Resistance Negation (With any of his attacks he can deal a pierce effect, pierce allows the user's physical attacks to bypass all resistances, except for Repel), Resistance to Physical Attacks (Resists physical attacks naturally), Magic (Resists magical attacks naturally), Death Manipulation (Completely nullifies and is immune to the death status effect), Mind Manipulation (Completely nullifies and is immune to mind based status effect), Curse Manipulation (Completely nullifies and is immune to the curse status effect), Status Effect Inducement which includes: Poison Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Power Nullification, Sleep Manipulation, & Empathic Manipulation (Completely nullifies and is immune to status ailments, which include poison, bind, paralyze, mute, sleep, charm, panic, and happy), Concept Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Transmutation, Soul Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation and Reality Warping (Unaffected by the conception which as is implied by its name, the Conception's purpose is to bring forth a new world, with new laws determined by a Reason. The Conception is set in motion by Hikawa, who strives to create a world of perfect stillness. After being set in motion, everyone outside of the hospital is killed instantly and turned into Magatsuhi or souls. Tokyo is uprooted and twisted into a spherical world known as Vortex World),

All of his summons have Demon Physiology, Flight (With Azumi, can use the power of flight), Extrasensory Perception (With Agathion, can sense areas with spiritual energy that not even Raidou who can see demons can sense), Fire Manipulation (With Pyro Ukobach, can shoot out fireballs), Soul Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (With Pryo ukobach's ignite, can affect the soul forcing one to tell the truth), Ice Manipulation (With Azumi, can fire out an ice attack that instantly freezes the opponent), Electricity Manipulation (With Mishaguji Raiden, does a massive electric attack), Light Manipulation (With light emission, creates a ), Healing (Some of his summons can heal Radiou and themself with dia), Weather Manipulation & Air Manipulation (With Hitkoto Storm shoots out a massive gust of wind), Energy Projection (With Jack, can shoot out energy blasts), Mind Manipulation (With Alp, can cause an enemy to be confused with her hits), Telepathy (With Alp, can read people's minds), Shockwave Generation (Can summon Tsuchigumo who causes a massive shockwave), Status Effect Inducement (With Mokai Boomerang, makes the hit targets inflicted with the dizzy status), Purification (With Raptor Guardian, removes all debuffs), Explosion Manipulation, Resistance Manipulation, Power Nullification, & Law Negation (Via almighty attacks. Almighty damage is done to all foes by producing a large explosion. Almighty skills in Persona bypasses all barriers and reflectors, invulnerability, and resistances. Almighty attacks are able to hurt someone wielding the Omnipotent Orb, which bends the rules of reality to defend the user from attacks), when his loyalty is maxed out with his summons they can give him items, Resistance to Air Manipulation (Alp resists force attacks),


Standard Equipment

*Katana: He wields a katana on his side noticeable underneath his cloak that he can use deftly in combat. Raiou can use this in conjunction with his revolver and demons to overwhelm the opponent greatly. Along with this, he can use his katana with a demon for a powerful combination attack.

  • Revolver: A supernatural revolver strapped to his right hip, despite it's appearance as a standard revolver it is capable of firing elementially-affiliated bullets, along with him being able to use his reolver with a demon for a powerful combination attack.
  • Kuda: The summoning tubes, or kuda, are used to call forth and store his demons are slotted into white, bandolier-like pockets strapped to his chest. He can use multiple at once for a great number of demons.

*Ukobach:

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army

Demon Order Level HP MP St Ma Vi Lu MAG Cost Investigation Confinable Reflects Absorbs Blocks Resists Weak
Pyro 2 80 78 5 6 5 5 13 Ignite Yes - - Fire - Ice
Skill Cost Effect
Agi 3 Light Fire damage to one target. (Straight line)
Flame Shot Combo Mega gun damage to target, will burn if weak to Fire. (Straight line)
Fast Escape Passive Reduces escape time.

Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon

Demon Order Level HP St Ma Vi Lu Conversation Investigation Reflects Absorbs Blocks Resists Weak Frail
Pyro 12 197 8 10 6 7 Fast Talk Ignite - - Fire - - Ice, Electricity
Skill Cost Effect
Maragi 12 Medium Fire dmg to an area. Stun: Med
Pulpina 16 Light Mind dmg to an area +Panic(Med)
Fire Slash 40 Heavy Fire dmg to all. Stun: Short Type: Blade
Endure Passive Revive with 1 HP (once per battle)

Notable Techniques

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Race Level HP MP St Ma Vi Ag Lu Reflects Absorbs Void Resists Weak
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*Devil Summoning: Raidou is a devil summoner who uses demons to fight by his side during battle and for investigations. Due to humans normally not being able to see demons, Raidou can used various summoned demons for many activities he himself can't do, such as using demons to sneak into rooms without being noticed. Despite the games making it look like he can only summon one demon at a time this is actually a Game Mechanic as in official cutscenes show him about to summon multiple demons at once, along with this in the canonical manga he can summon many demons.

*Boogie-Woogie: Deals multiple physical damage to one foe through repeatedly shooting them.

  • Enter Yoshitune: Enter Yoshitsune is an exclusive skill to Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne that deals medium Physical damage and then summoning Yoshitsune to finish off with a lightning bolt.
  • Mishaguji Raiden: Summons Mishaguji to deal heavy electric damage and 15% shock to all foes.
  • Hikoto Storm: Summons Hitokoto-Nushi to deal heavy force damage to all foes.
  • Raptor Guardian: Summons Moh Shuvuu to negate all -nda effects (status effects/debuffs) for all allies.
  • Provoke: Buffs physical attack and decreases defense both by 2 levels, all foes and restores user with some MP.
  • Mokoi Boomerang: Summons Mokoi to deal medium physical damage and 30% panic to all foes. Undodgeable.
  • Jiraya Dance: Summons Tsuchigumo to deal heavy almighty damage to all foes.
  • Raidou the Eternal: Multiplies equipper's all damage dealt by 1.5 and all physical/phys-almighty attacks bypass target's most resistances except for repel.


Other

Standard Tactics:

Weaknesses: Cannot confine enemies that are more powerful then him. If he is ever defeated by low tier enemies, the one's that precede him will kill him for such a disgrace.

Note: Despite the games making it look like he can only summon one demon at a time this is actually a Game Mechanic as in official cutscenes show him about to summon multiple demons at once, along with this in the canonical manga he can summon many demons.

Gallery

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army

Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito

Other

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