Kishin

The Kishin or Guardian are all patron gods or warrior deities from various pantheons or countries. They protect a specific direction, race or country accordingly. Most of them however, are derived from Far Eastern mythology. They are generally physically overwhelming demons, and are all capable of utilizing weapons. With few exceptions, the Buddhist Four Heavenly Kings always make their appearance in every single Shin Megami Tensei installment. They are Light-Chaos (except in Majin Tensei II where they are Light-Neutral) and the namesake of the Guardians species.

Appearances

 * Megami Tensei
 * Megami Tensei II
 * Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei
 * Shin Megami Tensei
 * Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
 * Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey / Redux
 * Shin Megami Tensei IV
 * Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse
 * Shin Megami Tensei V
 * Majin Tensei
 * Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
 * Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
 * Soul Hackers 2
 * Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
 * Megami Ibunroku Persona, as Hierophant Arcana
 * Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner
 * Devil Survivor / Overclocked
 * Devil Survivor 2 / Record Breaker
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2

Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
"Angry gods.  Their anger is directed at things like hostility, injustice, and bad luck, and is said to drive away the evil gods who create those things. They despise iniquity most of all and are compassionate gods. For this reason, they often protect/serve the chief god(s) in many pantheons."

Law-aligned demons are from Amatsukami, Chaos-aligned demons are from Kunitsukami.

Devil Survivor
The Kishin race has the Double Up Racial Skill, which allows their team to attack opposing teams up to 2 times during a single turn. Combined with the Beast's Animal Leg skill, it allows a single team to attack two separate enemy teams in one turn, or when combined with the Dragon's or Vile's Evil Wave and Chaos Wave skills, it allows a team to attack an enemy twice without any worry of retaliation, provided they remain outside that enemy's range.

Devil Survivor 2
The Kishin race has the Double Up Racial Skill, which allows their team to attack opposing teams up to 2 times during a single turn. Combined with the Beast's Animal Leg skill, it allows a single team to attack two separate enemy teams in one turn, or when combined with the Dragon's or Vile's Evil Wave and Chaos Wave skills, it allows a team to attack an enemy twice without any worry of retaliation, provided they remain outside that enemy's range. Stronger Kishin have this skill changed to Matchless, which grants a second chance to use skills outside battle. * Available only in Record Breaker.