Shin Megami Tensei

Six adaptations across twenty six years, and not one of them follows another.

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Where to start with Shin Megami Tensei

There is no watch order on this page and there never was one. Six unrelated works made between 1987 and 2013, sharing a publisher and a premise and nothing else. No character, no place and no plot crosses between any two of them. They are listed oldest first because a list has to be in some order.

  1. 1
    Devil Survivor 2 The Animation (2013) Devil Survivor 2 The Animation

    The newest and the most approachable, thirteen episodes, and the closest in tone to what people expect from the name.

  2. 2
    Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1987) Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

    Forty five minutes, and it is where all of this starts. It adapts the novel the games came from, not a game.

  3. 3
    Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation (1995) Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation

    Two episodes of mid nineties body horror. Short, grim, and entirely its own thing.

  4. 4
    DeviChil (2000) and D-Children: Light & Dark (2002) Shin Megami Tensei: DeviChil

    A hundred and two episodes of children's monster collecting between them. Take them only if that is what you came for, and know that several episodes of the second are lost.

  5. 5
    Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (1997) Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner

    Live action, late night, two seasons, and the hardest of these to find anything reliable about. Nothing to do with the Devil Summoner games.

Then what? Persona grew out of this series and has its own page here, with a real order on it. The two sets of adaptations share no story.

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Everything, Oldest First

  • Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 1987
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation 1995, 1 season, 2 episodes
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 1997, 2 seasons
  • Shin Megami Tensei: DeviChil 2000, 1 season, 50 episodes
  • Shin Megami Tensei: D-Children: Light & Dark 2002, 1 season, 52 episodes
  • Devil Survivor 2 The Animation 2013, 1 season, 13 episodes

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