Review of Devilman: Crybaby

This review contains indirect small spoilers that are used to explain my reasoning behind the rating. The spoilers shouldn't have an effect on your experience as you watch it and you won't be able to predict events based on solely this review. If you wish to remain 100% spoiler free then please do ignore this reviewmore to reach the quota of a 23 minute long episode.

Devilman: Crybaby starts out fairly interesting about young boys from which one is a sadist and the other one is always crying. Those little boys grow up and due to time they each go their own path until they are at the age of high school students. The sadist has made it pretty far due to being a genius at young age with a lot authority while the crybaby is trying to live his life as a normal student. He still cries every time someone is feeling sad.

Now this sounds pretty interesting right? That is what I thought as well. As the story continues the two of them meet up in a rather odd way where crybaby suddenly must go with genius sadist. And this is where the world of devils unfolds full of sex and gore, not that I mind, but it is pointless gore. Tearing up devils in half in a rampage and clearing out hordes of "enemies".

Everything in this show is fairly not logical apart from the choices the characters make. For example if you saw outside your house a weird creature you would freak out and if you had a gun you would shoot at it otherwise you would be terrified and run away making noise in order to get attention from other people. But in the setting of the show the logical choices don't fit the actual story and plot. As a matter of fact they degrade the quality. In the given example a more fitting response would be for you to be pumped with adrenaline and trying to pull a full Rambo and that creature. But everyone suddenly gets realistic and terrified or decide to follow the masses.

As the story progresses with loads of events a lot core characters get eliminated for no valid reason. In terms of logic they should've been easily able to survive. But the logic only is at the mindset of the people in the way they make choices.

This anime is like an over dramatic high school project made by students that had to emphasize on drama and other elements that don't fit together the way they went with it. The story could be told in 2 episodes. The character development from all characters in another 2 episodes. Add sex and gore to that and you have suddenly a full anime.

I did enjoy the sound effects and music though, compared to your average anime they were simply outstanding. But I wish those points would go to the story, which was terrible.

This is one of the type of anime that leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth. You feel demotivated and don't understand why you even bothered to waste time in this. I have seen far worse, but honestly I hope I won't encounter trash like this ever again. If they at least focused on a good story instead of sex and gore then this could be really good! It had so much potential. It could be really interesting it had plenty of unique combinations of elements, but it was all progressed in a bad way.

It is like going a night out to a casino and after playing 100 games you will have lost every single game. Not 1 small victory in between. Just a whopping 100% loss.

But I am an honest man. They did something at least decent and at some points they tried. That's why I didn't give this a 1 but the points they deserved at certain aspects.

There are plenty of people that enjoyed this show and I fail to understand how and why. I would've watched it earlier but I was extremely skeptic about this. My feelings were on point. But if you are in this kind of thing then perhaps for you it might just be the perfect show. Keep in mind that my opinion doesn't necessarily need to be yours as well.