The novel Megami Tensei, which served as the basis for the video game, was itself based on a short story. In 1985, I was serializing computer-themed science fiction short stories in SoftBank’s magazine Oh!PC. When I visited the Animageeditorial department to ask about compiling them into a collection, Editor-in-Chief Toshio Suzuki told me, “Short story collections don’t sell. But this story is interesting—why don’t you turn it into a novel?” It was a story about a bullied high school student who summoned a demon using a PC.
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