Review of Devilman: Crybaby

Devilman: Crybaby has some pretty good things going for it. The story stays interesting, dealing with the emergence of demons in the the modern world. An empathetic teenager and his genius friend try to investigate a solution. The story gets more complicated which each episode, but it never gets too hard to follow. Because its a Netflix series, each episode ends on a cliffhanger and makes it easy to want binge the whole 10 eps. relatively quick. The art work is unique and all over the place, but in a good way. The sound is pretty unnoticeable, except for some good rap numbers. There's actuallya ton of characters outside the main two. The voice acting direction is pretty bad. I watched the dub and the delivery that some of the VAs give on some lines are underwhelming to laughably bad. Every time the Main character yells "I'M DEVILMAAAAAN" it is just cringe worthy and that is just one example.

Overall, I would say that the show has too many ideas that it tries to cram into its short 10 episode run. The timing and pacing of the last episode alone fluctuates rapidly from scene to scene and really could have done with being split up into two episode. However, the show was a very easy watch and you might get more enjoyment out of the story than I did.