Aya Nishitani

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 '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.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)
*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.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)
*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.Nishitani Aya Famitsu Interview: From author to number one fan Wordpress.com. (dijeh, August 8, 2016) (Archived at archive.today and Web Archive)
==References==
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