Review of Devilman: Crybaby

So this is what the anime community or I should say the crunchyroll community considers the best anime of 2018? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh my where do I even begin to say that is one of the worst crap I have ever watched? I feel I will copy and paste my review of Parasyte because it is kinda the same problems I have with Parasyte are present here as well in DevilMan CryBaby but some things are better. Some spoilers ahead because are required for me to express how much I don't like this thing. Story = 2 So the story of DM CryBaby is about the tragic story ofAkira who transform himself into a demon or are as he calls himself a Devilman and all thanks to his "GOOD" friend Ryou and how he must survive and deal with this life of being a hybrid between human and demon.

Honestly the concept is not bad again, I always love to see how something out of the ordinary is mixed with a mundane and real setting with no superpowers established at all. But then the show just gives you a little inside of those superpowers but doesn't fully explains them to the viewer.

The prime example being that Akira goes to this satanic ritual called Sabbath with his friend Ryou, where everybody there could become a demon, but he becomes a different kind of demon, a Devilman, because he is pure of heart. But then you get to the end and you get that the little brother from our protagonist's classmate, Taro, becomes a demon out of the blue. Like how the hell you do not explain that plot point? Did he go to a club to join the Sabbtath? Did he do a satanic ritual all because of the internet rumors? I mean they were even trying? They throw these ideas of the blue just because convenience. Also the ammount of scenes to make you feel pain and sadness are simply laughable. I mean they throw here and there the past of Akira's parent and just that and when the worst happens to them, they try so hard to get an emotional contact and the only thing we know is that they are doctors helping in foreign land. Just that that's the whole arc they present to us.

Also the ammount of porn is so excessive to the plot, sometimes it doesn't need it. It is just there to kill minutes of run time with boobs, sex scenes, twerking, masturbation. It is too distracting to ignore and doesn't add too much to the series.

The only good scene that I found on this one was the speech given almost at the end of the series. I don't want to describe because I felt that the show could at least be a 7 with that but the ending had to ruin it.

Characters= 4

Akira is the best character out of all. I mean he tries to maintain his private life and the Devilman part apart and to don't interfere with each other. He gets a lot of development and even if many call him a coward and a crybaby and he does the job done of not wanting to live a life like that.

Miki is also a really good character, although she is perfect in every sense, I don't feel that it ruins the show at all. I like her how she tries to understand Akira and his relation with Ryou and also her track and field teamates with all that is going on but one field she is kinda of airhead is by how Akira runs. Yeah I could maybe understand that in the canon of the series, someone would not have all those drastic changes like changing hairstyle or even growing a bit, but looking at the way they run, that doesn't change from one day to another like that and even no normal human being would run like that. Try it and your freaking chin will hit the floor in less than 5 seconds woman.

Ryou simply is the blandest character out of all of this. He is the evil mastermind for this plan but it is so idiotic. He is the Bad Guy Bruce Wayne, he has a lot of money, he knows everything since he is a child and yes everything on why is he like that is reveal at the ending, but honestly his plan is so idiotic and more on the end when has a change of heart for some reason when everything is going nuts around him.

One aspect that I really liked from the humanity, here they act as they suppose to something out of the ordinary with superpowers. They go to a state like Fallout games and I simply loved it. I loved how the humans fear and attacks to others because all the state of panic when it is revealed those creatures exist.

Art = 5

The animation and character designs are ok. At first I thought Mamoru Hosoda was behind all of this but to my surprise it was Masaaki Yuasa and it's his worst work by far. Some scenes don't make a lot of sense artistic wise, it looks like he went with all the budget to the porn part. Sometimes it is desproportional to the body and even the backgrounds.

Sound = 9

This is where DMCB excells the most. All those electronic music tracks and emotional tracks are simply well put together, just in few occasions it feels out of place like in government meetings. But besides that it is a well solid soundtrack and even on my favorites.

Overall = 3

This is a poor attempt that just because of shock factor and sex and they attract people like even the same show says. The plot is all over the place, they don't define what makes devilmen and demons different from each other at all. The animation is sometimes ok and sometimes bad and has a good soundtrack. Maybe
check it out to see the comparison between the old series or if you want watch Parasyte 2.0 but honestly the ammount of hype this thing had and to be called anime of the year does not deserve it at all.