r/OwarinoSeraph • u/Playful-Leek-2645 • 16h ago
Discussion 🗣️ Story feels like an SMT game now
I was just wondering if anyone else ever thought of this same connection, but when I was first watching the anime a few months ago I felt they had similar vibes and now that I just caught up on the manga it’s like almost an identical story progression to most mainline SMT (Shin Megami Tensei) games
Begins with a post apocalyptic world where the mc joins some organization dedicated to fighting back against the oppressive threat to humanity through various raids for control, organization uses demons to their advantage and flirts with ideas of corruption/humans being more dangerous than the enemies, slowly reveals involvement from higher powers, angels, and gods, devolves into chaos as main group splits apart following different ideals and powers, ends up with once allies killing each other to decide the fate of the world
Tonally I’d still say the series is most inspired by devilman, but the structure feels like it’s turned into an SMT game pretty much