| Djibril (Jiburiru)- The Devil Angel | |
| Ja Kanji: | 魔界天使ジブリール |
| Ja Romaji: | Makai Tenshi Djibril |
| Genre: | Hentai, Comedy, Magical girl |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Windows98/2000/Me/XP/Vista |
| Released: | April 23, 2004 (Original Release), May 23, 2008 (Vista compatible) |
| Type: | ova |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 01 | |
| Director: | Corrida |
| Studio: | Front Wing Animac |
| First: | 2004 |
| Last: | 2006 |
| Episodes: | 4 |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 2 | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Windows98/2000/Me/XP/Vista |
| Released: | April 22, 2005 (Original release), May 23, 2008 (Vista compatible) |
| Type: | ova |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 02 | |
| Director: | Corrida (ep 1-2) Jiro Nakano (ep 3-4) |
| Studio: | Front Wing Milky Studio |
| First: | 2007 |
| Last: | 2009 |
| Episodes: | 4 |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 3 | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Windows2000/XP/Vista |
| Released: | June 27, 2008 |
| Type: | ova |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 03 | |
| Director: | Jiro Nakano |
| Studio: | Front Wing Milky Studio |
| First: | 2009 |
| Last: | 2010 |
| Episodes: | 2 |
| Makai Tenshi Djibril 4 | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Windows2000/XP/Vista/7 |
| Released: | April 23, 2010 |
| Sengoku Tenshi Djibril | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Windows2000/XP/Vista/7 |
| Released: | July 29, 2011 |
| Dennou Tenshi Djibril | |
| Developer: | Front Wing |
| Publisher: | DMM/Fanza Games |
| Genre: | Eroge |
| Platforms: | Browser, Android |
| Released: | April 2020 |
is an eroge visual novel series created by Frontwing composed of the classic entries and one spinoff, titled MegaChu. Each of the entries have also spawned trimmed down erotic OVA releases, which enjoyed mild popularity in the west. This series is created by Kūchū Yōsai and produced by Noboru Yamaguchi.
The game series also won a Bishōjo Game Award on September 5, 2008, as part of the best game series ever.[1] The first two games were rereleased in 2008 due to a problem with DirectX 10 and the video playback software, causing Front Wing to standardize all three games released that year with the same engine, which removed compatibility with Windows 98 and Me. Makai Tenshi Djibril 4, the beginning of a new saga based at a school seemingly founded by Luvriel for Devil Angels, was released on April 23, 2010, and used, for the first time, graphics displayed in native 576i HD.
For the 2011 game, instead of Djibril The Devil Angel 5, the game is called, and features all six of the main characters from Djibril Episode 1 to 4 as if they are from the Sengoku period of Japan, the last game produced by Noboru Yamaguchi before his death.
In early 2020, Frontwing announced a sixth game, in conjunction with DMM Games, starring a new cast of angels, titled, with a cyberspace theme, with the characters from the first three games returning with brand new designs. This is also the only game in the series with a partially censored version, as well as being released online. Both the censored and adults only versions were shut down in 2021.
At the beginning of summer break, A young man named Naoto Jinno asked Rika Manabe, his girlfriend, to go out with him, planning to propose to her, only for his attempt to do so be interrupted by Asmodeus and Luvriel, commanders of a holy conflict, with Naoto and Rika helping Luvriel recover after she is defeated. As a result, Rika becomes a Devil Angel, an angelic warrior who fights using Amore, gathered through the act of making love, something Naoto is fairly happy to do.
In the second game, and its related anime, Hikari Jinno, his sister who was studying overseas, comes to visit, at the same time as Rococo, Asmodeus's sister, decides to attack Rika in revenge for Asmodeus's defeat, turning her into a demonic version of a Devil Angel, causing Hikari to end up a Devil Angel, with Naoto slightly more reluctantly, at first, generating Amore within her, and they manage to purify Rika and defeat Rococo.
In the third game, Naoto finds himself helping test out the New Angelic Gaia Interface, in the form of a blue haired girl, when a new antagonist, pretending to be a photography student, lures Rika and Hikari into a trap that sees Hikari corrupted and Rika unable to help. Due to NAGI's digital nature, she is able to regenerate from damage and take greater risks, which is needed when the demons deploy the first completely robotic devil...
The fourth game has a different concept, with Luvriel having established a school for potential Devil Angels, recruits Momo Sakura, Aoi Ayonokouji and Yuzuha Hoshikawa, also known as Spica, Althaea and Junos, to defend it from a pair of non-identical twin devils, Meimei and Maimai.
The fifth game was an anniversary title, featuring the casts of Makai Tenshi DJibril 3 and DJibril 4 meeting when Luvriel goes to see the Jinnos, only for them to be thrown into a parallel version of Sengoku Japan, with the various Devil Angels taking on personalities that were based on famous Japanese heroes as they try to figure out how to get back to the present.
The sixth, and currently final, game has Luvriel having re-established her school, this time placing the campus within cyberspace, with the assistance of the original devil angels. However, where there are angels, there will always be demons... and the angels will always need Amore...
A major plot point of each of the three games is the metamorphosis of the female lead into one of the Devil Angels, under the title of Djibril, with later games, and the associated anime including the sub-plot of cleansing a former lead character. This is done using a halo, normally supplied by Luvriel, but alternative metamorphosis methods do appear in the various games.
The form of a Devil Angel differs with the person, with each having both an angelic aspect and a demonic aspect, depending on how they gain the power to shapeshift. These usually are signified by a change in hair color, with angelic Djibrils, all having hair that is some shade of light blue, and the addition of a leotard-style outfit. The only exclusion to this is the New Angelic Gaia Interface, which only has the metamorphosis being that N.A.G.I. just gained a leotard. In Makai Tenshi Djibril 4, however, this is changed completely to a form of a jumpsuit, with hair colors not changing, and, by Dennou Tenshi Djibril, all Devil Angels are created in the same way as N.A.G.I.In the games, the dark aspect is indicated by the colors of their uniforms changing to red and black, as well as changing their eye color, as well as other additions dependent on the level of corruption. Later games used the specific title Djibril for them so they wouldn't be confused with the historical angel Gabriel.
Known Devil Angels include -
"Amore" (Magical Energy): Metamorphoses Rika, Hikari or Nagi into Djbril from having sex with a person of the opposite sex for whom they care for. Negative Amore, created by tentacle and/or demonic sex causes a Devil Angel to turn dark. Notably, Super X-32 can absorb and use positively charged Amore according to the anime, making it clear the Amore is virtually identical, but processed differently by a Devil Angel, however it is made.
"Tenshi no Shiki" (Angelic Ceremony): By performing particular sexual acts under the same conditions as when they accumulate Amore certain powers are stored up. Each power has two different forms: A Heaven Form and a Hell Form, which are achieved by a different act, but give the same effect. Despite the names of the forms, they do not visibly cause a Devil Angel to have a greater or lesser chance of turning Dark over time. These were phased out with later revisions of the Djibril metamorphosis process.
"Cellular Regeneration": A unique power of Djibril Zero, She is able to regenerate battle damage like the loss of limbs without too much effort, but she is not able to avoid some forms of damage, due to limits in her programming. This also allows her to shapeshift parts of her body to create extra weapons to offset the loss of some human-type Djibrils.
"Angel Super Nova": A Super Form, used once when their main powers fail them, this powers them up, allowing them to break free from whatever danger they are in. It is empowered by the wishes of someone who they especially care about.
In Series 1, Djibril used this to break up the perverted Angelic Ceremony and allowed herself to destroy Rirouge.
In Series 2, Djibril Aries used a variant of the technique to both defeat Dark Djibril and to break free of the dark trance.As far as can be told, Djibril Zero, Super X-32 and Misty Mei cannot use any version of this ability, the former due to being artificially created, the latter due to never appearing in any of the three games as an angel.
"Zero Cannon": An ability shown for Djibril Zero in the anime, it allows her to attack demons at more extreme ranges, by firing a beam of positively charged Amore, with the side effect that it cannot be used to defeat Devil Angels, including artificial ones like Super X-32.
In the series, the opening theme songs differ from one another. Game theme songs were later inserted in the anime series at the end of credits, when the episode ends, in lieu of title credits. These were supplemented in the latest two games by ending themes, with both games having their opening sequences released online well in advance of the game's release.In the original three games, The themes, where appropriate, are used in instrumental form as a leitmotif for each of the main female leads, and a remixed instrumental form is used as the menu theme for all four games. The lyrics, composer, and vocals of the theme songs for all six games were written by the Japanese pop rock band, Funta (Under the name of U), with the help of the anime J-pop company, GWAVE.
Kuru Kuru Lovely Day was released as an audio CD as part of the promotional materials for Episode 3. Other themes include "Control Is Impossible", A fast tune used in the three games and two anime to indicate a comical or crazy moment, which seems, in a lot of cases, to involve directly Luvriel, becoming almost a leitmotif in itself.