THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR ALL THREE VOLUMES. This review may also reflect more the works of the fan-translators, rather than the original author himself. STORY (7.5/10) The storytelling is a bit confusing sometimes. On volume 1, lots of formal and uncommon words in English are used, and on volumes 2 and 3 lots of characters are introduced and referenced, some re-reading was needed. However, it still got amusing, it tells how demons come to the human world by using computers way before the internet was commonly used. Akemi Nakajima is the catalyst, as he first summoned Loki to get revenge on people who beat him fora stupid reason. He was already a fan of the occult but could not predict that Loki wanted to dominate the world. Akemi, as the reincarnation of Izanagi, summons Hi-no-Kagutsuchi as a sword, and uses it to defeat his enemies.

In volume 2 specifically, the story got much more captivating around Seth, with more creative points (like creating a portal on a satellite on a dead orbit), and telling about secondary characters for both the heroes and the foes, including people from US and Japanese governments.

Volume 3 had the storytelling a bit less eye-catching than volume 2 but could keep up with the amount of characters. Instead of Loki or Seth, Lucifer himself is the enemy, but from behind the curtains.

During the story, Akemi is mostly trying to rescue Yumiko (the reincarnation of Izanami), she sometimes can fight by herself by using Izanami's powers, but that does not go much far. On the other side of the same coin, she does her best to save Akemi as well.

CHARACTERS (7/10)
Akemi and Yumiko are well written. Akemi starts as the one who brought despair to the world but wants to repent for his sins and fix all he has done and does his best to save Yumiko. She may not be as powerful as him, but has a strong connection to Izanami, who mostly acts as an advisor, and sometimes even controlling her.

The supportive characters besides them are well written too, some do not have much background, but not that it was all that necessary. Volume 2 introduces a dozen new ones, and most of them still appear on Volume 3.

ENJOYMENT (8/10)
Being a fan of Megami Tensei thanks to Atlus works, the novel is enjoyable, especially due to being niche compared to other famous Light Novels/Mangas on the west and being able to keep a straight line from the beginning to the end.

OVERALL (8/10)
The novel is a masterpiece compared to the OVA adaptation. There is also the video game, being a continuation of Volume 1, but difficult to play nowadays, lots of map-drawing is needed. The remake for SFC called Kyuyaku Megami Tensei is more palpable, being very similar to Shin Megami Tensei I, if, and II.

A complete translation of volume 3 does not exist, it rather has the first three chapters translated by the original author himself and posted at a blog, then he posted all the seven chapters in Japanese. I took chapters 4 to 7 and used Google Translate to read, got most of it though.