Review of Devilman: Crybaby

I grew up watching some of the original Anime spin off from the manga in the 90s. You can still tell that this was written in the good ol' days of manga/anime where it was totally all boobs and gore. Now what's not to like with that? Well... I'm old and I've seen a lot of other things and this isn't enough to captivate like it did a young boy. I've got to start with the art direction, which I've seen criticised. It's spot on, capturing the 70s manga style which was much more comic. You can see how the lineage of this traces back tooriginal Astroboy/Tetsuwan Atomu.

Story wise, it's really quite faithful to the manga, which is 10/10 spot on as it should be. I despise adaptions (unless done by the original author) where they take huge liberties, and we've seen in more recent times (well apart from the US where they produce the worse crap possible with Rings of Power) where directors are able to keep their ego in check. It's famous for a reason and doesn't need some 3rd rate idiot inserting their own rubbish that needs the z rate hacks at Screen Rate to be bought to justify it.

The whole theory behind it isn't bad - and was an original take back then - it's less so now, so newbies will either hit that they've already seen this, or will really enjoy.

It is definitely worth watching for a piece of re-enacted and righted history (the original series and OVAs deviate wildly from the manga and miss many of the biggest points), so it leans into the mangas message that Humans are weak trash, as we're currently seeing around the world. Ah well...