Review of Devilman: Crybaby

Devilman: Crybaby Review Story (7/10) Good More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+ The story of Devilman is quite straightforward at first. Main character gets the power of a powerful demon named Amon and with his friend takes out full demons bringing terror to humans. But the more you uncover beyond the synopsis especially with that borderline spoiler opening you soon find out that the main character and his friend have an extreme difference in the opinion of basically everything that's going on around them. The conflict reminds me of another series in a way you may have heard of it.. you know Berserk? Now I know technically Devilman predatesthe story of Berserk with Devilman being the 70s while Berserk is late 80s hell Kentaro creator of Beserk himself stated that Devilman had to be his biggest inspiration for the creator of Berserk so I pay my respects to this franchise and Go Nagai. You can easily see the many similarities, although from a story standpoint both are good you can tell Kentaro learn a thing or too. Either way I don't want to turn this into a comparison post. The story for Devilman is good.

Art and Animation (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.50/10) Good

Animation more so throughout majority of the series was good but you can definitely see that the art style on the other hand more so than often couldn't hold up to a consistent quality of reason. More so than often I would see art style derps and question how much exactly did Netflix give this animation studio to release certain scenes like this without a bit of clean up? It took me out of the immersion as a found myself more so than often saying in the back of my head when one of these scenes occurred going "Eww why does the artstyle look like a 6 year ago drew this?" and I would have forgiven this if it didn't happen so frequent. Nonetheless this is probably my biggest and only issue when it comes to this section. It didn't stop me from watching the entire thing but you or should I say I couldn't sit here and say that it was very good to any degree. Animation was like I said though was fairly clean though.

Sound (9/10) Great

Now I want to say that this is my first time consuming anything Devilman related and I also want to say that I did watch it in English Dub on Netflix. I had no issue with the voice acting of the english dub everyone sounded fine and if there's anything that made this section great it had to be the background music especially the song that plays when Devilman debuts. Every time it played you know he was about to kick ass and it got me hyped.

Characters (8/10) Very Good

Many characters in Devilan Crybaby were very good. None that stood out were extremely amazing or super deep and I didn't think any character was particularly bad except for like one which I will get to in a bit. Majority characters had their reasons for doing what they did and it all made sense to a degree. But if there is one character that was just a bit confusing to follow to me it was Miko, you see here go through multiple character developments within the running of the series and although majority of the time character development can be seen as a good thing, I don't think character development is 100% of the time a good thing especially if it happens why too much and way too drastically to any character. At first I understood why the character was jealous and mad and that characterization on her made sense at first. But when the Demon War broke out and the characters starts to help the very person she hates with all of her heart, I just couldn't get behind that, was it because of the Demon War that changed her mind? Maybe.. but I personally didn't like or could get behind the change a character that ultimately ended up sacrificing herself over someone she showed so much hatred and jealously towards for basically the entire anime. I mean think about it what do you think that character Miko would have done when if her and Miki actually did officially race and she proved that she was faster? Once she proved that (just an assumption here) there's a high chance she would have felt empty inside still jealous at basically everything else she said in episode 9 she was jealous of Miki over. I wouldn't have been surprised if she would have ended up killing Miki over the amount of things her brain would have came up with to prove she was better that wasn't just running faster like I said she stated multiple things in episode 9. The way her character was ultimately handle I personally was not a fan of. Everyone else I didn't have too much of an issue with, I guess that little dreadlocked kid and the weirdo tall man that was with that rap scene crew in episode 9 their betrayal didn't make any sense but I guess since we didn't really have much time all you can consider that is nitpicking at this point... I guess

Enjoyment (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

Episode 1 was definitely the best episode and the anime was off to an amazing start but the more I watch the more it's flaws stopped me from bingeing the entire thing from start to finish and although I don't think that are big flaws (except those art style derps), I can't sit here and say that they didn't hinder my overall enjoyment. Nonetheless I still fairly enjoyment myself it was short and sweet but I wasn't a fan too much of that ending... ah well I heard many things were changed from the source material.

Overall (8/10) Very Good

Being the only thing Devilman I've watched or read I thought it was a very good anime although with a few short comings I still enjoyed myself a good amount with it. Especially after figuring out that if it wasn't for this franchise one of my favorite manga (Berserk) wouldn't exist how the way it is. Will I read or watch the past Devilman content? Don't know right now but I don't regret watching this one at all.