zondag 14 januari 2018

(Average+) Devilman Crybaby

Series in one sentence:  
A little ditzy kid turns into a muscular chiseled-faced man overnight and still everyone recognizes him as that same kid.

Series in more sentences:

Young Akira gets reunited with an old friend, who asks his help with a demon experiment he and his partner were busy with before he got possessed by one. The experiment becomes a success; and Akira gets taken over by a powerful creature without losing his humanity to it, turning him into an enhanced human being with the capability to transform into a full demon.

But his friend appears to have more plans in mind for the demon race, and it doesn't take long until the whole world is in chaos. Akira decides to fight for justice and tries to protect his loved ones in a world where both demons and humans have lost their minds.

 

Awful animation and art style, man, some scenes were just painful to watch. But cool intro.
I saw the icon for this at Netflix today, and I had time available, so there you go. When I first read the title I expected this was going to be something goofy, or at least comedic, but it's neither of these things.

Expect some heavy 18+ imagery and concepts, like damn me. I was eating lasagna during this.

The intro is a bit rushed, the relationships portrayed not all that fleshed out, and there's a very heavy focus on sex/sexual urges, but now that I've finished watching the whole thing, I can't say I didn't enjoy the plot.
The way the human race started losing their shit was a bit extreme, I always wonder if people would turn this hopelessly disgusting when met with a doomsday situation, but I guess it was needed to prove a point about humanity and demons?
More importantly, why did Akira trust his friend for so long? I stopped trusting that guy just a few episodes in, but he kept coming back to help him.

Anyway, I liked the conclusion, I didn't expect things to end in such a tragedy. It made the anime a whole lot stronger in my eyes.



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