Review of Devilman: Crybaby

I was expecting this to be a good one given all the positivity I've seen around it, but honestly I found it to be pretty much trash. It has a nice art style for sure and I don't object to it having a lot of sex/gore etc... but honestly that's all it had. The characters range from generic to mind bendingly stupid and the plot has no angles other than shock, which quickly becomes entierly predictable. The main comparision that comes to mind for me is Evangelion. This show really really wants to be that but it totaly fails. Sure evangelion is pretty dumb inmany ways and much as I love it it's obviously quite flawed, but this has next to nothing going for it. [Spoilers follow]

When this show does the whole everyone dies horribly thing you don't give a crap, one of the people we are seemingly supposed to care about literally ate their gran in the last episode and this dosen't address that at all. Sure many innocent folk died, including the love interest character, but anyone who looked at the first half of this story and thought anything else was going to happen really just dosen't know their anime plots. Given how many shows have already done this ending you've got to work on making us like the characters, and this show just put their character archetypes down and assumed we'd naturally care, but character archetypes are not people and we haven't spend nearly enough time with any of these folk to get to like them in any serious way.

Evangelion had flaws, but it spent a long time getting us invested in the characters so that when things went sideways we cared, this fails to do that and without it all it is is flashy visuals. It also seemed to think we hadn't figured out who the super evil guy who lived in apartment 666 really was? Does it think the viewers are like 10 years old? Presumably not given all the demon vaginas.