Review of Devilman: Crybaby

Went into this series with out knowing much aside from some few soundless clips and knowing it was highly praised. Still, I don't feel I hyped this series at any point. .::Story::. It is pretty scattered in between gratuitous sex and gore scenes in a secret and then not so secret war between humans and devils, you might need to pay attention to connect the dots when it isn't clearly stated, still don't expect a reward for doing so, as the story is weak, there is little character development aside from the classic exposition dump from the final episode. The world wants to feel like our world, butits pretty hard to draw parallels when there is so much inconsistency in its characters and developments. At some point Ryu (second MC) shoots an automatic weapon at broad daylight, and no one bats an eye, not even the christian and loving Miku, who is the main girl questions why Akira (MC), a decent boy and goodhearted boy, wants to hang out with him... oh wait, he is his childhood friend, so its fine *sarcasm*.
At some other time, a lot of people have publicly died and the world is a complete chaos and some people (closely related to those events) is just moving forward with their life, like its not the end of the world.

The story has many shock value moments, but you might want to unplug your brain to fully enjoy them. As I said, there are many nagging lack of common sense that undermine some of those moments.

.::Characters::.
Akira (MC): he cries and cares for others, he gets a big change by episode 2, becoming a bad boy because he just becomes half devil... and for most of the series he remains the same up to the last episode when he gets a minor bump. He has a complete lack of agency for 8/10 episodes.

Ryu (2° MC): he is complete garbage as character for 9 episodes and at episode 10 gets an exposition dump developing his character which... was actually kinda good, but doesn't save how flat he felt all the other episodes.

Miku (Main girl): she is mostly, just there to be carried by the plot, and to run with a real suave animation.

.::Animation::.
The animation is really fluid, at the cost of having no shades and reusing like hell the clunky looking devil-running animation which makes nice contrast with the suave human running animation. Aside from that, there isnt much stand out moments, the gore is ok, the sex scenes lack punch. But everything is serviceable enough for a good time for anyone wanting some mindless violence and shock value moments.

.::Music::.
It's serviceable most of the time. The rap segments are dope.

.::Overall::.
I would only recommend it to people that don't care much about good characters, dialogue, world development, or message of the series, and are interested in some dark aspects of human kind (lust and gore). Personally, I didn't like it and felt it was kinda a waste of time, and just finished because my brother liked it. By episode 2-3, I knew this wouldn't fly for me, if you feel the same, even by ep1, just drop it.