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Digital Devil Story
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The original source material for the Shin Megami Tensei video game series and all of its many derivatives, Digital Devil Story is a trilogy of novels written by Aya Nishitani. Written in the late 1980s, there are three books in the series: Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (Reincarnation of the Goddess), Digital Devil Story 2: Mazu no Senshi (Warrior of the Demon City), and Digital Devil Story 3: Tensei no Shūen (Demise of the Reincarnation). The first novel was adapted into an OVA as well as given a video game sequel (same title as the first book, but with "story" written with the kanji for "monogatari", and "story" in furigana). There was also a sequel series of six novels also by Nishitani, titled New Digital Devil Story, that deals with the aftermath of the original trilogy.In Jusho High School, the student body is divided into two groups: the gifted class and the normal class. One day, Akemi Nakajima, one of the gifted and something of a maverick within the school, has the bad luck of being targeted by the semi-delinquent normal Kondo Hiroyuki. The reason? Nakajima had rejected Kyoko Takamizawa's advances, and in a fit of petty vengeance, she manipulated Kondo's crush on her to deliver Nakajima a vicious beating by proxy.Humiliated and infuriated by the injustice, Nakajima goes about getting his revenge. Everyone knows that Nakajima is an ace programmer, but there's one thing no one knows: he's also an amateur magician. He had previously stumbled into the revelation that magic and programming were more or less the same, and had been building a Demon Summoning Program in his spare time. He'd never intended to use it... until Kyoko and Kondo provoked his rage. What follows is a disaster that can only gets worse before one can even hope that it will get better...As you might expect from the original source material for the MegaTen franchise, Digital Devil Story sets the basic foundation for the games that followed. That means it's happy to explore arcane lore even as it jumps into places that will make the average reader wish for some Trope Co. Brain Bleach.The novels were never released in the West. However, a dedicated English translation of the first two novels can be found here, along with a reedited version found here and here. A French translation is also being worked on. While the third novel hasn't been translated, certain websites have a rather quick summary of the plot, and the YouTuber Marsh has made a summary of all nine books. As of April 2022, an English translation for the first book of the ''New Digital Devil Story" novels is being worked on. | |
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Hot Teacher | |
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Hot Teacher: Ohara. Pity that being raped by Loki drove her insane. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Using you ace progamming skills and amateur wizard talents to create demon-summoning software? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: In the second book, both members of the Big Bad Duumvirate take turns as the central villain, with Isma being focus for the first two-thirds and Set taking charge after Isma's death. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The ISG's main server contains an AI program named Craft. Sadly the text does not mention if it was manufactured by Hewlett Packard. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: What sets everything in motion. | |
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Spontaneous Human Combustion | |
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Spontaneous Human Combustion: Izanami really likes making people who cross her, Yumiko or Nakajima burst into flames, the most notable victims being Isma Feed and Nakajima's possessed mother. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kyoko. She doesn't get to enjoy it for very long. | |
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Dragon Ascendant | |
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Dragon Ascendant: Loki goes on to become the Big Bad of the first book following Nakajima's Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Yumiko. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: Or more like orphaned translation project. The third story of the original trilogy has gone untranslated for years, and nobody even touched the New Digital Devil Story novels until a resurgence of interest prompted a translation group to start work on the first novel in April 2022. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Lucifer wins at the end of Demise of the Reincarnation. The New Digital Devil Story sextology deals the aftermath of this. | |
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Magic from Technology | |
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Magic from Technology: By realizing the similarity between structured summoning rituals and programming algorithms, Nakajima wrote the Demon Summoning Program. And was horribly successful. This concept would pave the way for demon-summoning arm terminals and smartphones in Shin Megami Tensei. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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In the third book, Nakajima is arrested for killing several members of Lucifer's cult and ends up being sentenced to death for his summoning of Loki in the first book, only to lash out again after Lucifer murders his father right in front of him and gets killed in self-defense by an Izanami-possessed Yumiko. When she regains consciousness she nearly takes her own life in despair when she can't contact Izanami for answers, only being stopped by Izanami possessing her yet again to bury Nakajima's corpse. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Gets more and more cynical with each installment, with both the original trilogy and its sequel series having some major Downer Endings. | |
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Sufficiently Analyzed Magic | |
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Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Pretty much the gist of the story. It's why the devils are, in fact, digital. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: Yumiko knows this quite well. Ouch. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nakajima. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The books have a tendency for depressing endings or cliffhangers. In the third book, Nakajima is arrested for killing several members of Lucifer's cult and ends up being sentenced to death for his summoning of Loki in the first book, only to lash out again after Lucifer murders his father right in front of him and gets killed in self-defense by an Izanami-possessed Yumiko. When she regains consciousness she nearly takes her own life in despair when she can't contact Izanami for answers, only being stopped by Izanami possessing her yet again to bury Nakajima's corpse. The ninth and final book has nuclear bombs dropping on several locations around the world culminating in a God-sent meteor annihilating the east coast of America, and while Asuka, Reiko and the other crusaders survive the meteor's initial impact, their ultimate fate is left uncertain, Charles Reed outright saying after the Time Skip that most of North America has died as a result of fallout from either the nuke on Washington or the meteor that hit the east coast. Really the only good thing is that Nakajima and Yumiko are together again thanks to Nakajima reincarnating as Angel, but that doesn't fix the fact that two of the largest cultural and economic forces on the planet are now dying wastelands overrun by demons (and that's assuming no particularly ambitious demons tried to invade the neighbouring countries). | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: Nakajima, by the end of the first book. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Kyoko has Kondo beat the crap out of Nakajima because he rejected her. Nakajima summons Loki and has the demon consume Kyoko and Kondo's souls. | |
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Reincarnation | |
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Reincarnation: The main characters are the reincarnations of Izanagi and Izanami. In the second book, Special Forces agent Narukawa is the reincarnation of Tsukuyomi. Asuka, the protagonist of New Digital Devil Saga, is a reincarnation of Izanagi and Izanami's son Susanno. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Loki enters as Nakajima's dragon, albeit with his own designs. Ohara gets promoted to Loki's Dragon soon after. | |
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Even the Girls Want Her | |
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Even the Girls Want Her: The paragraph that introduces Ohara notes that she's "attractive even to the eyes of other women." | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Kerberos is more like a loyal oversized puppy to Nakajima. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Loki quickly disabuses Nakajima on who runs who. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn:: Nakajima. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
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Pretty Boy: Nakajima. To quote the book: | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Yomotsu-Shikome dies facing Loki in order to buy Nakajima enough time to revive Yumiko. In the second novel, Narukawa dies killing Isma and Typhon while fighting Set to buy time for Nakajima and Charles Feed to escape. | |
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Villainous BSoD | |
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Villainous BSoD: Nakajima suffers this after Loki betrays him. | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
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Teacher/Student Romance: This is what Yumiko originally thought was happening between Ohara and Nakajima. It's far worse than that... | |
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New Transfer Student | |
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New Transfer Student: Yumiko. Too bad it had to be into Jusho High... | |
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Combat Tentacles | |
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Combat Tentacles: One of Loki's powers, he uses them to crush people and absorb their blood. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: Japanese deities, Norse gods and Christian figures (up to and including God Himself) are hanging around, and the Big Bad Triumvirate consists of Lucifer, Set and Hel. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nakajima. Sure, he successfully develops the Demon Summoning Program. Unfortunately, he failed to build in proper safeguards that would impose a contract on a summoned demon. Loki turns on him very quickly, resulting in the deaths of at least half his classmates, as well as many innocent bystanders. To top it all off, after Nakajima defeats Loki, Ohara ends up summoning Set, the most powerful evil god of ancient Egypt. As icing on the breaking cake, many demons have sensed the pathway Nakajima opened to their world, kindling their ambition to conquer the human world. More than just a handful of those demons want to ally themselves with Nakajima. The ending of the second book isn't any better. Sure, he beats Set and saves the world, but he also unwittingly allows several demons to escape from Atziluth by insisting that he has to save Yumiko. The third book ends with Nakajima being possessed by Lucifer to kill Yumiko, with Izanami taking over and slaying Nakajima in self-defense. | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: Yumiko is a transfer student (è»¢æ ¡ç”Ÿ, tenkousei). Remove the middle character and you get reincarnation (転生, tensei). | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Kondo. Like Kyoko, he doesn't get to enjoy it for very long. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Nakajima, at first. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Nakajima. He summoned a deity-class demon with his program, sure, but he also neglected to include little details like the duration of the summoning, compensation, and conditions... Ohara has this as well. When Loki is defeated, she freaks out, and fiddles with the Demon Summoning Program, something she doesn't understand and can barely operate. She ends up summoning Set and inadvertently making things much worse for Japan. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Both of Nakajima's initial targets, Kyoko and Kondo, are portrayed as rather terrible people. Kondo is a ruthless bully who's violently driven out many students of Jusho High, while Kyoko is a Manipulative Bitch who orchestrates the violent beatdown that sets Nakajima off because he rejected her advances. Averted with Nakajima's third sacrifice, a high school teacher who was simply killed off as part of the Deal with the Devil, and possibly because He Knows Too Much. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Nakajima seems like he's heading this way at first. Loki takes that role from him. Set assumes this role after Loki's death, and holds on to it for the second book, while also entering an equal partnership with the warlock Isma Feed as a Big Bad Duumvirate. Lucifer himself takes the role in the third. | |
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Kill the Cutie | |
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Kill the Cutie: Yumiko. Twice. | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy: Loki teaches Nakajima this lesson. Painfully. | |
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Sex–Face Turn | |
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Sex–Face Turn: An inverted (and very non-consensual) version happens to Ohara, courtesy of Loki. | |
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Gender-Blender Name: Akemi is usually a woman's name. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
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Infinity +1 Sword: The Japanese god of fire Hi-no-Kagutsuchi is turned into one of these. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: A segment in the first book and several segments in the second book go into absurd detail about the lives of minor characters. The segments usually end with them being slaughtered. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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The ninth and final book has nuclear bombs dropping on several locations around the world culminating in a God-sent meteor annihilating the east coast of America, and while Asuka, Reiko and the other crusaders survive the meteor's initial impact, their ultimate fate is left uncertain, Charles Reed outright saying after the Time Skip that most of North America has died as a result of fallout from either the nuke on Washington or the meteor that hit the east coast. Really the only good thing is that Nakajima and Yumiko are together again thanks to Nakajima reincarnating as Angel, but that doesn't fix the fact that two of the largest cultural and economic forces on the planet are now dying wastelands overrun by demons (and that's assuming no particularly ambitious demons tried to invade the neighbouring countries). | |
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Summon Magic | |
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Summon Magic: The Demon Summoning Program. | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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Urban Fantasy: Set in Tokyo, there are demons running around, Solomon Crests, thaumaturgy... yup, it qualifies. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: The loving care with which Loki's... activities are described can result in Squick. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Nakajima. The narration specifically mentions he takes after his mother. Used by Kyoko as a taunt. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
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Protagonist Title: Well, Deuteragonist Title, but in this novel, which has part of its name translate to "Goddess' Reincarnation", Yumiko is the reincarnation of the goddess Izanami. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Charles Feed is mentioned in passing in the first book. He becomes a major supporting character in the second. | |
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Functional Magic | |
| Digital Devil Story / int_dfe120e5 | comment |
Functional Magic: Thaumaturgy and other real world magicks. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: The main protagonists can be very stubborn about not giving up. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: The main protagonists have this in spades. | |
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Crossover Cosmology | |
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Crossover Cosmology: In the first book alone, we have Loki, Izanagi, Izanami, Yomotsu-Shikome, and Set. The Cthulhu Mythos also makes an appearance, though none of the creatures from it appear in person. Nakajima's collection of occult books includes the Necronomicon and the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the occult organization ISG's headquarters is located in Arkham, Massachusetts. | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl: Ohara. She snaps Yumiko's neck out of jealousy, right before Loki would have raped Yumiko. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: They're abound in this world. Kondo, Kyoko, Nakajima for most of the first book...and this is before things go apocalyptic. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Charles Feed, Nakajima's mentor, is the Abel to Isma Feed, a warlock who becomes Set's summoner and part of the Big Bad Duumvirate. | |
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Powers as Programs | |
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Powers as Programs: Nakajima successfully builds a Demon Summoning Program, and also develops a Demon Transfer Theory which gives demons virtually free range. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: For the first book, and the final book of the New Digital Devil Story series. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Poor Yumiko has to endure this. As does Izanami. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Yumiko's sweet, mischievous, and feisty. She's also the reincarnation of Izanami, and has taught many characters a thing or two about the efficacy of fire. | |
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