Review of Devilman: Crybaby

Haiku review: Derivative crap No matter its "edginess" Is still only crap Prose review: Months ago I gave Ex-Arm a rating of 1. But Devilman Crybaby didn't achieve its overarching crapitude through some simple trick such as technical incompetence. No, Devilman Crybaby got awful the hard way. It seems that Netflix is looking for the "Hey! I think I have a pubic hair!" crowd, because anyone who has watched much anime has seen every single thing in Devilman Crybaby a dozen times, every time done better, or more perceptively, or with an actual point. This is the most entirely derivative work in all of anime, without the features that would haveat least made it a decent parody.

I mean, they even stole the ED from Angel Cop as the ED for ep. 9, though the Angel Cop music was much better. Samarai Champloo made better use of rap, Akira had a better Akira, Ergo Proxy did better psycho-dystopia, Nana had better girl-girl interaction, Dororo had better dismemberment and a better monster, Belladonna of Sadness had better edgy animation, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt had a better plot, FLCL made more sense overall, and the original Neon Genesis Evangelion had a more sensible ending.

And countless others had better biganimetiddies.

This is one of the series I wasted time on in my every-other-year month subscription to Netflix. At least, I won't be sad the month is over, given this being the kind of stuff they're producing.