Random: Shin Megami Tensei Fans Voted For Their Top Demon, We Kinda Wish They Hadn't

Really people!! I blame Atlus!

I kinda remember playing Final Fantasy on the NES with a buddy of mine. And the last boss sorta had a penis? We were laughing like hyenas about it. But it probably was not actually like that.

Haven't played the game since, so I dunno if we were just too drunk and imagined it.

I am not really that suprised... But it's still something!

Lmao cause of course it's first.

/facepalm

Oh. That's enough internet for me today.

Oh they knew all right.

My favorite is this dude (Ifrit) from Shin Megami Tensei If

Not exactly subtle.

@JHDK That's debatable...

That's... uh...
Uhm..
Huh..
Well, nuts to that.

That's filth.

There are more than 345 I'm almost certain, it's just that the vote was between demons that appeared in Strange Journey specifically.

Somehow, this kind of makes me think of Urotsukidoji...
Bizarre to see this featured on the front page, but then again: on any average day, there's no end to online dickery, so it's also kind of fitting, I suppose...

On second thought: maybe it's actually the accompanying "catch phrase" that's even more disturbing than the imagery. And it also makes me wonder how all this fits into the whole "adhering to site rules and protecting younger readers from unnecessary obscenities" thing...

Those SMT devs think that they're so edgy by having a penis in their games. Behold NINTENDO:

@MegaTen - Those themes go back thousands of years in Japanese art and culture, but hey... lol Internet penis, amiright!!!

And people say Bayonetta is smut?

What the...

Serious butthurt.

That thing could defeat any Pokemon alive

Mara isn't the only SMT one to be like that. Look at Mishaguji.

Personal favourites are Succubus and Leanan Sidhe for obvious reasons .

[insert Penis joke].gif

SO I can't check nintendo life with the kids around anymore? I mean come on. I don't want to see that in the first place, but especially to put it front page.

I come to Nintendo life because it is generally one of the FEW safe places online to AVOID this stuff. It's why I don't go to IGN anymore. But lately it's been different, not as bad as elsewhere, but we don't need this.

Not surprised, at all. LOLOL!

@gurtifus @ThanosReXXX Never thought I'd see those references mentioned in 2017, LOL.

This is way too hilarious!!

Haha. Can't say I am surprised but it is humorous nonetheless. Didn't know that demon even existed.

@Curlynob With a name like yours? You can't talk lol.

I like Apollo a lot.
A shame he rarely shows up.

That's not right.

Never poll the internet on anything.

Boaty McBoatface, giant penis monster and...Donald Trump

@GrailUK Ha ha, it's a curly hair reference, not a nob joke.

I don’t get it. I just see a dragon slug with a specially fitted helmet on.

😉

Rated M, anyone? ;p

And that one reviewer had the balls to complain about the "sexualized" cat demon.

A penis monster with a mouth and tentacles riding a spiked chariot is the last thing I would expect to see on the front page of a Nintendo site, lol.

@GC-161 genious, had me laughing for a good while

im surprised that its on the front page banner, isnt that like having GTAVs strip club scenes front and center?

@speedracer216 Nintendo still has a pretty "safe" collection of websites for your kids.

And I highly doubt kids that grew up sheltered will look at that image and recognize it as a penis. If they do recognize it as such, you're too late in keeping them safe.

Who did this? I almost feel like the next set of demons for V will be Mary O. Shiri and Martha O. Pai riding on Mara. Lenny face.

@masterLEON I guess... you're... welcome?

Now imagine me back in those days when that series started: I was still living at my parent's place, and being an avid anime collector (still on VHS tapes back then), I pre-ordered pretty much anything that came out under the "Manga" label.

I came home with a couple of new tapes, and after dinner, I went to my room to watch the latest additions to my collection.

Imagine my surprise when those specific bits came on, and imagine my absolute horror when just as they did, my mum walked in, to tell me that coffee was about to be served. Luckily, I was quick to react, so I was able to switch to another channel, before she was even able to see what the fuss was all about... phew... '

@GC-161

I don't get it.

@Dezzy

Can't stump the Trump.

Some good choices in there. I would have put Pascal and maybe Shiva in there too.

That p-e-n-i-s is posessed and can talk. We need the master sword so that it becomes normal again lol.

@10-zx LOl, I must confess it took my a while to see what he was on about!

Mara for smash.

I remember when it first showed up in SMTIV, my jaw dropped even though I knew about Japanese folklore and customs. Yeah, I'd have voted for him

Hopefully, the winning demon gets an Amiibo for the SMTV on Switch

Yes!!! I knew you could do it, NintendoLife! You've cast away your puritan shackles and embraced the future by going for the throat! And the future is a long, hard road with millions of potential possibilities wriggling around, just looking to find YOU! This day will live on, for it is the day NintendoLife graduated into adulthood. But for now, let us rejoice in adulation at the long hard road we came from, all behind us...

@10-zx think HARD and you will

I can never look at the girl I like in the same way. Her name is Mara and this came out on her birthday. Why Nintendo Life why.

@JHDK "It's not everyday Nintendo Life puts a picture of a penis with a mouth on the front page."

True. We haven't seen Michael Pachter on the front page for some time.

This King Mara is famous for not only because of his apperance, but also a lot of dirty puns that The Megami Sensei series has offered.

Just look at this video https://youtu.be/2cDU6dyHwI0?t=2m25s

Minor NSFW for reason.

So if you go back to that Switch unveiling press conference thing, they had a trailer for an as-of-then unnamed Shin Megami Tensei game (now known to be SMT5), and they tucked Mara in the back of the video.
Nintendo showed a giant penis demon on the public unveiling of their new console, alongside announcements to games up to Mario Odyssey. Just a funny thing I think only people 'in the know' would have noticed.

@GC-161
It's not about sheltering really. I think shelter too much and they just die of shock when they found out what's out there. That said, I recognize it just fine and am intentionally at this site to avoid seeing stuff like that. I know at some point sites can't cater to me, I just have to move on as I did from IGN, gamestop, kotaku, etc. because I personally am choosing NOT to look at cleavage, phallic symbols, etc. etc.
...
Just wish this place would stay "safe" because I love this site. it's the ONLY gaming site I go to.

Nintendo also let this one “slip in there”:

Edit; gosh I suck at using my iPad for anything lol

Congrats to Harvey Weinstein's weener Mara on this big win!

Honestly it probably wasn't a hard decision.

Wow...

@aesc

Lol yep realized that after I posted it. Fanx ✌🏿

@Damo
Just so you see this feedback. Not trying to clog the feed, but not sure how else to contact staff members. I come to Nintendo life because it is generally one of the FEW safe places online to AVOID this stuff. Seems lately it's been a bit different, not as bad as elsewhere, but we don't need this. I know at some point sites can't cater to me, I can always move on and go to different sites as I moved on from IGN, gamestop, kotaku, etc. because I personally am choosing NOT to look at cleavage, phallic symbols, etc. etc. ... Just wish this place would stay "safe" because I love this site. it's the ONLY gaming site I go to. Thanks for reading.

@speedracer216 Well YOU can continue to come here. You're old enough to laugh this one off.

Just keep your kids away from the internet in general until they are able to process such material without it damaging them.

I didn't even know there was a voting thing. I just finished SMT 2 yesterday and I'm on to SMT 3 today

@aesc Yeah, Nintendo is sneaky...

But please understand that they once owned LOVE HOTELS.

LOL. And kudos to Nintendo and their sense of humor for the unintentional (or intentional) penis inclusions

@PlywoodStick Aaaannnnddd........ you went there.
You just HAD to say long and hard, right?

Sooo many questions come to my mind with this (design, the voting fan, altus, why). My top one is what are it's attacks, and how it's executed (on female characters)

Nice to know there's still hope in humanity lol

Nooo! Yoshitsune should be on the list! And Mara at first...monsters!

I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing at the "my girlfriend's named Mara" comment. XD

It's funny that I once got suspended on this site for using a censored version of the f-word, yet you can pretty much place a picture of a big old penis on the front page without remorse. Real consistent there, guys.

Can't say that I'm very keen on the winner.

I had my WTF and LMAO moment for today!

It’s that what it actually says next to it!!!? XD I saw a picture of this ages ago I didn’t realise it was actually real!

My buddy Butters would be thrilled...

I got something in my front pocket for you
Why don’t you reach on in my pocket and see what it is
There, grab onto it it’s just for you
Give it a little squeeze and say how do you do?

There’s something in my front pocket...

kinda expected, it is a popular demon.
kinda like a mascot.

on the other hand my favorites would be, mastema, xi wang mu, beelzebub and belial.

ah yeah, obligatory mara quotes:
"it's all about the girth"
"L...Let me recover...ya feisty boy..."

My goodness what's going on in here! blushes

@aesc I love how there are two P's there, too.

Good thing that monster doesn't appear in Xenoblade Chronicles X riding a certain bird...

For a second, I saw this at the top of the page and thought "...I thought I typed in NintendoLife... How did I get to Rule34?"

@GC-161

Oh, I got it.

The big rock in the distance.

Well, all I've ever seen is what happens when you repeatedly press L / R, anyway.

I think this is the single article comment thread where moderating has been intentionally disabled.

@GC-161 At least for me, its more that.... a news site such as Nintendolife, there is usually a reasonable expectation that the front page itself is generally safe for consumption outside our home (and that the articles are descriptive enough or have warnings so we may choose not to read certain articles, like an SMT article, in certain environments.)

Uh, wow.

@bloodycelt Well maybe they could've used a censored image/thumbnail with a warning on the frontpage.

But then certain people would cry bloody murder about NL censoring things.

@10-zx What would they moderate exactly?

A picture showing a tower and a couple of rocks?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE lol, well played sir

@GC-161

Save for the pictures, literally the entire comment section.

They can't because they're guilty themselves of bringing it up in the article.

@10-zx What exactly needs moderating?

@aesc OMFG I'm dying, why doesn't that have more likes

@speedracer216 So the rest of us who possess the maturity to simply laugh at this should miss out on such news in the future because you don't like it?

It's a stiff challenge moderating this thread. No one rose to the occasion. Still, it's only the comments section. If it was in the forums I dare say it would be a different ball game.

@GC-161 Or they could have just used a stock image of SMT or Atlus on the front page, and put the Mara pic in the article.

I suppose its just differing expectations on what to expect on the front page, vs the articles. I don't expect Mara on a front page, but at the same time I would not click on any link discussing SMT unless I knew the environment could handle SMT.

@bloodycelt They could've certainly made it a surprise by NOT showing us on the front page who had won.

And including a tongue and cheek reference/joke hinting at who did win.

But what is done is done.

I like boys now.

@bimmy-lee
Not really. I believe this is just Kaneko's interpretation of Mara's seductive powers over the Buddha. I don't think there's a long history of Mara being depicted as a phallus. I could be wrong of course.

Also, let's not forget about the likes of Arioch, Mishaguji, Therion, and the super-subtle Rahu!

Bit of a shocker to see poor Jock Frost ending kn 5th place though, coming after Moh Shuvuu of all things?

LOL at some of these comments.

Mara isn't my favorite demon, but I did enjoy the side quest that involved it in SMT IV Apocalypse.

@Expa0 Yeah I remember SMT4 having over 400 demons.

Wow.

@Starbuster
like I said, I know sites can't cater to me. I feel like other sites do plenty of this so people can get it elsewhere, but where can I get the site that doesn't do this? it's what brought me here originally, could be what makes me leave i guess. but that would be sad.

lol, this was like the time Level-5 had their best character vote and the plane from Aero Porter won, but the logo from Aero Porter also cracked the Top 10. I wonder if they've also promised to do an art of all Top 10 choices?

Jack Frost would've been my vote. Another Jack Bros. spinoff would be cool.

I will never be able to unsee this!
😂😂😂😭😭😭

@TheGameSquid - I wasn’t referring specifically to Mara. I was referencing themes of lust, greed and consumption that are often represented as an anthropomorphic penis in ancient Japanese art.

@uhhhhhhhh your name suits you for these things. lol

Got dangit, Mara can not only make top 10 but also number 1, but not Aharabaki!?

Whaaaaa? Nekomata didn't make the top ten?

EDIT: And the neighbor's dog just barked, which he rarely does. wtf?

Must have been a hard vote.

@speedracer216 right, so the best approach might be to accept that you'll see this sort of thing occasionally, and don't click on the articles.

This is good stuff, keep up with it the good work NL! XD

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
I owe you a steak dinner because that was glorious. XD

Moist

@Starbuster
the actual picture was on the front page..... it's alright. i'm checking out ww.mynintendonews.com. looks ok.

@GC-161

...Forget it...

"after of see the note and comments (and obvious, the image)
...

...
ok, some normal in internet, I guess

@SakuraHaruka English fail.

Heresy! How dare NintendoLife show a picture of a Shinto god!

@Starbuster
Yes, I know I'm not good with my speech (well, grammar) in English, but, I try not to use the translator often to exercise...

@Starbuster ...but an ENGRISH win!

I'm just here for the comments

@SakuraHaruka It's all good.

@GC-161 lol indeed.

"Alright guys, seems in order to sell more copies we'll need to gear the next installment towards a 'certain audience'."

@GC-161 I think it's hilarious that they even brought back Peach Beach for Mario Kart Wii and decided to leave the giant penis in there.

@PlywoodStick

And now I want to play Genital Jousting.

Edit #1: On the Switch.

Edit #2: With HD rumble.

Edit #3: But in all seriousness, maybe the thumbnail image for the article should be changed? It's not exactly "safe for work." Then again, I'm not sure that Nintendo Life has ever purported itself to be.

This site doesn't seem rated E for everyone recently!

Why is this a thing? O_o

This is by far, the dirtiest comments section I've seen in nlife, and I never thought the staff would be the ones responsible for initiating all this 😂😂

Sometimes the world beats me down. All the terrible news, and tragedies that happen on our planet drag me to new lows, and I don't think i can go on.

And then a green penis monster wins a popularity contest, and I remember what we are fighting for. God speed Greenis. God speed.

Of course it would. Lol

I think that Smash Bros thing should say "Pounds the Competition!"

Lol

Black Frost has always been a favorite of mine, but Metatron is probably my #1 favorite

@ThanosReXXX I saw Urotsukidoji (English dubbed) in a packed movie theater with a group of friends from high school (about a year after graduating). We had no idea what it was about except it was anime, it had a lot of supernatural action, and it was on the big screen. And wow, THAT was a lot of 'action', LOL! Even some people in the audience got some action themselves by their dates! It was...an experience. My friends and I still make dialogue references once in a blue, the dub had tons of ridiculous deliveries. It's a classic! Parts 2 and 3, not so much. (Makes me regret ever buying the box set )

@masterLEON I'm almost afraid to say that I actually have the entire series, so not only parts 1, 2 and 3, but also Urotsukidoji series 2, 3 and 4. I just wanted to know how the, ahem... "story" ended...

And it was all Japanese for me. Those girly squeals were both a turn on and a turn off, and definitely a source of embarrassment in the situation I described above...

I had a rough day. This was just what I needed LMAO 😂.

@ThanosReXXX

I can totally relate to post #54. Back when I was a teenager, I rented a film from the anime section of Video Avenue thinking it was a magical girl anime like Sailor Moon. And it kind of was, only it involved A LOT of something else too! I should also mention that the VCR I watched it on was located in the living room. As were my parents.

First Bayonetta now this mockup... What a weiner...

@KainXavier Ouch! That is even more embarrassing than my experience. My mother didn't actually see what I was watching, because I quickly switched to another channel. Or so I like to believe, since she never really mentioned it afterwards...

Wow, I missed this article ....and I'm glad I did.....sadly it couldn't last. Internet: 1
World: 0

Mara in the games despite the traditional representations, always seems like cheap teen bait to me. Depressing Jack Frost couldn't win

Of course, this is Japan, and none of the half naked female characters won. $20 says this was voted mostly by the female player base

@ThanosReXXX
I can totally relate ... i bought the first 3 on VHS back than and rented the fourth from video store. Contrary to the popular opinion, my favorite Urotsukidoji is Nr. 3!
Actually, i would gladly re-buy them on DVD, unfortunately it seems to be pretty expensive these days :-/

@ZockiGalore I know. I wanted to do the same, actually with all my animes on VHS, but some series are indeed crazy expensive, or not even available anymore.

So, I just downloaded them instead...

Atlus representing all the people out there with hypospadias! You can't leave any group out these days!

@justin233 do what?!