Aya Nishitani is the novelist whose works inspired the creation of the Megami Tensei franchise.
He was born in 1955 and is a graduate of Hokkaido University's economics department. He was inspired to write Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei while working at an electronic manufacturer. Digital Devil Story was originally written as a serialized piece in Oh!PC magazine and was later developed into a full novel.
Credits[]
This is a list of his works relating to the Megami Tensei franchise. Nishitani, however, has continued to work on other novels outside the series' scope.
- Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
- Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City
- Digital Devil Story 3: Demise of the Reincarnation
- New Digital Devil Story: Goddess of Enchainment
- New Digital Devil Story 2: Queen of the Ice Fields
- New Digital Devil Story 3: Planet of the Devil
- New Digital Devil Story 4: Wrath of the Young Emperor
- New Digital Devil Story 5: Eternal Goddess
- New Digital Devil Story 6: Bonds of Reincarnation
- Shin Megami Tensei: El Seiram (1-4)
Games[]
This is a list of games Nishitani has been credited on.
- Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (PCs)
- Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (Famicom)
- Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II (Famicom)
- Shin Megami Tensei (Super Famicom, PC Engine CD, Mega-CD)
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible (Game Boy, Game Gear)
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible II (Game Boy)
- Shin Megami Tensei II (Super Famicom)
- Shin Megami Tensei: if... (Super Famicom)
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Special (Game Gear)
- Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei (Super Famicom)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (Sega Saturn)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Akuma Zensho (Sega Saturn)
Trivia[]
- According to Suzuhito Yasuda, the character designer for the Devil Survivor series, Aya Nishitani attended the same school as him, making him his upperclassman.[1]
- Digital Devil Story was not the only novel by Nishitani that inspired a game. His later released Tokyo Shadow novels were made into a game for the Sega Saturn and Playstation.
- According to Nishitani, the idea for the demon summoning program came from his interest in astrology as a child which lead to him learning about western black magic. Because of this he thought the idea of practicing black magic on a PC would be interesting.[2]
- He was inspired by Hanmura Ryou and H.P.Lovecraft.
- In 1994, his favorite game from the series was Shin Megami Tensei.
- He has said that at the time of writing the original books that the Chaos alignment was closer to his way of thinking but now he currently prefers the Law alignment.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 女神転生原作の西谷先生が学校の先輩だった 不思議な繋がりもあるものだわ・・・ @suzupin (Apr 20, 2013)
- ↑ The creator of Megaten, Nishitani Aya, talks about Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, Buddhism, Norse mythology and Lovecraft… dijeh.tumblr.com (Archived at archive.today and Web Archive)
- ↑ Nishitani Aya Famitsu Interview: From author to number one fan Wordpress.com. (dijeh, August 8, 2016) (Archived at archive.today and Web Archive)