Oni

	Oni
	オニ
	SMT3P5XDCBR Artwork from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Artwork from Persona 5: The Phantom X Artwork from Devil Children Black Book and Red Book
Other Name(s)	OgreDemiKids Light Version and Dark Version; ; Chivalrous FiendPersona 5; Persona 5 Royal;
Origin	Japanese culture
Race(s)	BruteDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II; Kyūyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei II; Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne; Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax; Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey; Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux; Shin Megami Tensei IV; Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse; Shin Megami Tensei V; Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance; Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine; Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2; ; JakiDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei; Kyūyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei I; ; OniDevil Children Black Book and Red Book; Devil Children White Book; Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book; Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book;
Alignment(s)	EvilDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei; ; NeutralDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II; Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne; ; Neutral-ChaosShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey; Shin Megami Tensei IV; Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse; Shin Megami Tensei V; Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance; Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine;
Arcana	ChariotPersona 3 Reload; ; StrengthPersona 4; Persona 4 Golden; Persona 5; Persona 5 Royal; Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth; Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth;
Order(s)	Fury

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Oni is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

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Origin

An oni^[a] is a type of violent or evil spirit from Japanese culture. Oni is often translated as "Japanese ogre". Notable oni include Shuten-dōji and Ibaraki-dōji, both of whom were famously slain by Minamoto no Yorimitsu.

Oni are often depicted wielding a kanabō,^[b] a studded iron war-club. The Japanese phrase 鬼に金棒 oni ni kanabō (literally "[to give] a metal club to an oni") means "[to give someone or something] a decisive advantage".^[1]

Design

Oni's Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne design was intended to look like a Heian period "punk".^[2] Its hairstyle and the argyle pattern on its clothes were inspired by punk.^[3]

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Oni.

Compendium

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Compendium Entries
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne	A common demon in Japanese mythology. A powerful red creature with a horn on its head that attacks villages with its iron club and plunders food, riches and women.
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster	A common demon in Japanese mythology. A powerful red creature with a horn on its head that attacks villages with its iron club and plunders food, riches, and women.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous visage and brute strength. They plunder and loot villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs. They have a horn on their heads, red skin, long claws, and razor-sharp teeth.
Shin Megami Tensei IV	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous visage and brute strength. They plunder and loot villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs. They have a horn on their heads, red skin, long claws, and razor-sharp teeth.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous visage and brute strength. They plunder and loot villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs. They have a horn on their heads, red skin, long claws, and razor-sharp teeth.
Shin Megami Tensei V	A common demon in Japanese mythology. This terrifying and powerful creature is known to raid human villages for food, riches, and women. It is characterized by red skin, horns on its head, long claws, and sharp fangs.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2	An evil monster of Japanese lore known to plunder and massacre villages with their giant iron clubs. They have horns on their heads, long claws, and razor-sharp teeth. They are usually a red or blue color appearing in countless tales.
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, and massacre the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, and massacre the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 3 Reload	An evil monster from Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 4	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 4 Golden
Persona 5	An evil monster from Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 5 Royal
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth	An evil monster of Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 5 Tactica	An evil monster from Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs.
Persona 5: The Phantom X	An evil monster from Japanese lore known for its hideous appearance and brute strength. They loot and plunder villages, massacring the townspeople with their iron clubs. They have horns on their heads, red skin, long claws, and razor-sharp teeth.
Devil Children Black Book and Red Book	GBC: あたまにツノが　はえた　おおきな　からだのデビル　するどいツメで　なんでもきりさく PS: 頭に角が生えた　大きな体のデビル　するどいツメで　何でもきりさく Translation:
Devil Children White Book	あたまにツノが　はえた　おおきな　からだのデビル　するどいツメで　なんでもきりさく Translation:
Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book	頭に　角が　生えた　カイリキで　ものしりなデビル　見た目はコワイが　自然を　愛する　優しい　性格 Translation:
DemiKids Light Version and Dark Version	Though fearsome to behold, this powerful demon is actually very kind and sensitive.
Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book	頭に　角が　生えた　カイリキで　ものしりなデビル　見た目はコワイが　自然を　愛する　優しい　性格 Translation:

Game Appearances

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

Onis make up a large chunk of the Mantra. When getting to Ikebukuro, an Oni can be found who will attack the Demi-fiend just for trying to talk to him. On the first floor of Ikebukuro, two Onis are waiting behind a door to ambush the Demi-fiend and take his belongings.

Another Oni on one of the floors of the Mantra's Headquarters can be conversed with, who will say that despite Thor pardoning him, he still does not like the Demi-fiend and attacks him.

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Onis make up most of the demon mercenaries created by Morax in Sector Antlia. They boast that they will invade the Earth and attack the Protagonist as he progresses through the sector. When defeated, they are shocked that they have lost against a human.

Shin Megami Tensei V

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Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon

Oni is featured in the Case File "The Curse Reborn." In it, Raidou goes to the North Training Hall to defeat the demon that cursed Watanabe Tsunatsugu, which turns out to be an Oni. The Oni reveals that he had his arm cut off by Tsunatsugu's ancestor a thousand years ago, but once he had healed his arm back on and went to enact his revenge on the ancestor, he discovered that he was long dead from old age, leaving him the sole option of taking it out on his descendant. Deciding to try and turn the world into a new Hell, the Oni then summons multiple of his brethren and attacks Raidou. After he is defeated, he is left in disbelief that his thousand years of training were all for naught. Before the Oni dies, however, he taunts Raidou by revealing that his death will not break the curse on Tsunatsugu, and that it signifies the vengeance that will befall the country. He proclaims there is nothing that can be done to break the curse and dies laughing, completing the Case File.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language	Name	Meaning
English	Oni
English	OgreDemiKids Light Version and Dark Version
Japanese	オニ Oni	Oni. Katakana rendering of 鬼 oni, meaning "evil spirit; ogre".
Japanese	遊侠の獄卒Persona 5 Royal (Shadow) Yūkyō no Gokusotsu	Chivalrous Hell-Guard
Simplified Chinese	鬼 Guǐ	Ghost, Demon
Simplified Chinese	游侠狱卒Persona 5 Royal (Shadow) Yóuxiá Yùzú	Knight-Errant Hell-Guard
Traditional Chinese	鬼 Guǐ	Ghost, Demon
Traditional Chinese	遊俠獄卒Persona 5 Royal (Shadow) Yóuxiá Yùzú	Knight-Errant Hell-Guard
French	Oni
French	Monstre chevaleresquePersona 5 Royal (Shadow)	Chivalrous Monster
German	Oni
German	Galanter UnholdPersona 5 Royal (Shadow)	Gallant Fiend
Italian	Oni
Italian	Demone solennePersona 5 Royal (Shadow)	Solemn Demon
Korean	오니 Oni	Oni
Korean	협객俠客 간수看守Persona 5 Royal (Shadow)	Chivalrous Prison Guard
Polish	Oni
Brazilian Portuguese	Oni
Russian	Они Oni	Oni
Peninsular Spanish	Oni
Peninsular Spanish	Bárbaro cortésPersona 5 Royal (Shadow)	Courteous Barbarian
Turkish	Oni

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Notes

↑ Japanese: 鬼(おに), romanized oni
↑ Japanese: 金(かな)棒(ぼう)literally "metal stick", romanized kanabō

References

↑ 故事ことわざ辞典 (Koji Kotowaza Jiten, "Traditional Idiom Dictionary") (1968), 鈴木棠三 [ja] ("Tōzō Suzuki"), 広田栄太郎 [ja] ("Eitarō Hirota"), editors. Published by 東京堂出版株式会社 [ja] (Tōkyōdō Shuppan Kabushiki-Gaisha, "Tokyodo Shuppan Co., Ltd."). ja. p. 158.
↑ "昔から言っているんですけど、オニっていうのは人間の反逆者というか、パンクスっぽいものなので、平安時代のパンクスという感じでデザインしていますね。" Shin Megami Tensei: Demons Bible (2003). Published by Shinkigensha. Japanese. p. 190. ISBN-13: 978-4-7753-0149-4.
↑ "だから自分の描くオニはパンキッシュなイメージでトサカつけたり、パンクといえばロンドンなので、「パンクかな?」などと思いつつアーガイル柄を入れてみたり。" Famitsu PS2. Published by Enterbrain. No. 139 Page 25. Cover date February 28, 2003.

[1] Japanese: 鬼(おに), romanized oni

[2] Japanese: 金(かな)棒(ぼう)literally "metal stick", romanized kanabō

[3] 故事ことわざ辞典 (Koji Kotowaza Jiten, "Traditional Idiom Dictionary") (1968), 鈴木棠三 [ja] ("Tōzō Suzuki"), 広田栄太郎 [ja] ("Eitarō Hirota"), editors. Published by 東京堂出版株式会社 [ja] (Tōkyōdō Shuppan Kabushiki-Gaisha, "Tokyodo Shuppan Co., Ltd."). ja. p. 158.

[4] "昔から言っているんですけど、オニっていうのは人間の反逆者というか、パンクスっぽいものなので、平安時代のパンクスという感じでデザインしていますね。" Shin Megami Tensei: Demons Bible (2003). Published by Shinkigensha. Japanese. p. 190. ISBN-13: 978-4-7753-0149-4.

[5] "だから自分の描くオニはパンキッシュなイメージでトサカつけたり、パンクといえばロンドンなので、「パンクかな?」などと思いつつアーガイル柄を入れてみたり。" Famitsu PS2. Published by Enterbrain. No. 139 Page 25. Cover date February 28, 2003.

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