Devilman Crybaby - Instant AOTY?

[@recklesquarian]

Netflix please, lend your money for some GOOD Berserk adaptation!

[@TheDoomCake]

Maybe one day we'll get a good one. One day.....

[@izuto727]

recklesquarian but what about tokyo ghoul? We need a remake now

[@ephex3094]

@@izuto727 yess the second and third season of the anime completely dropped the ball

[@Bigbob508]

It’s been 4 years 🥲

[@Catslug]

In my honest opinion, the death of miki's dad was much more emotionally impactful for me. The way his brains just get blown out, almost without ceremony. It shows how he will be forgotten, along with the rest of his family, and that's the saddest way to die, honestly. His death is the most direct reminder of the cruel, uncaring species that humanity turned into

[@ephex3094]

;~;

[@mikemarks6136]

*the cruel, uncaring species humanity can be*

[@wyattmund9286]

Btw Kukun the rapper who confessed to Miko via rap isn’t the same guy as Koba the gay super-athlete. Kukun died at the sabbath where Miko became a devilman.

[@Firenmage433]

Wyatt Mund ohh that was so damn confusing to me. Thank you for making that clear.

[@wyattmund9286]

brendon elliott Yeah, I had to pause and review to figure that out too lol. At first I thought Koba was the devilman version of Kukun, but that didn't really seem to line up at all. It was kinda confusing because they look so similar & the pace was so quick.

[@loganist8500]

Actually kukun the rapper is the devil man because when his gang group we’re at the store scene with miki the witch track athlete when they called out his name he was shocked and tried to evade them

[@qa_statsolqa3037]

incorrect @Loganist

[@OhmicFoamy]

Koba was also shown in the first episode, idk how everyone doesn't get that

[@wendellstephens6311]

Personally I wasn't bothered by Ryo's English. It sounded like it should, a person speaking a second language.

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

It sounds like a baby sucking on a potato. Better than most engrish but still bothersome

[@Rs2006REMAKEVids]

I was bothered by the Professor's English...

[@ephex3094]

@@Rs2006REMAKEVids why be bothered so easily by the voice of a character who dies like right away

[@Rs2006REMAKEVids]

Because it's the very first episode we're talking about and it takes me out of the experience. What should be creepy and horrific - the origin of the devils - becomes campy.

[@spaceylatte]

Fun fact the Russian in the Japanese dub is really good, but shit in the English dub.

[@DanielGonzalezL]

Really hope Netflix keeps putting money in the table and supporting these cool anime

[@transformersrevenge9]

Netflix is bringing back Baki the grappler, an underrated fighting show that hasn't had any new content for 17 years now. They are truly doing the lords work.

[@javelinmaster2]

Well there is Sword Gai which looks pretty cool. Plus Netflix has the rights for an anime about bondage slavery.... But now I really hope that they will do an fully uncensored bloody manly remake of Fist of the north star!

[@BagazZ123]

I'm waiting for Castlevania, hope that's good

[@Torannn]

Daniel Gonzalez I really hope Bererk is next

[@SkaryMisfit]

Too bad they weren't really behind it. That was Aniplex. If Netflix didn't take it, Devilman would have probably been released as a film (like the Kizumonogatari films)

[@DreamedLint]

I think Digibro is missing several points of what he's criticizing. (This happens a lot.) Akira being a "crybaby" is about his empathy. He cries when other people are sad. It's a somewhat bizarre level empathy that almost seems involuntary. He acknowledges the tonal shifts as being effective, but totally misunderstands the children scene. The show makes deliberate effort to juxtapose devilman the dark brooding manga with Devilman the children's super hero anime. That's why the little kid is obsessed with it and why they use a remix of the old intro in some scenes. People who claim to not take the show seriously because of its silly moments fail to appreciate how juxtaposing happy moments with horrific ones makes the horror more potent. In the scene where the children hug devilman it's a deliberate absurdity. Akira is the last bastion of empathy in a world teetering on the edge of depravity, just like he is. Coupled with the obvious (and overlooked) puberty allegories, children gathering around devilman to embrace him is emblematic of that focus on empathy. That kids could embrace fucking Devilman as their hero. Also Ryo being the focus or main character is about him receiving the show's final moral. They're the ultimate end point. It's about what Akira teaches him. It's why Miki is important and Miko, it's what the again obvious (and missed) metaphor with the baton was getting at. Ryo learns love, remorse, and empathy from the succession of characters before him. He still dies, but his arc is central to the story. He's the primary cause of most of the main plot turns. Jeez this was long-winded. While I really liked crybaby, I didn't exactly think it was super subtle, but it's still flying over people's heads somehow apparently.

[@bluespaceman7937]

Good reply!

[@file130]

DreamedLint The problem is that since the original work was a pioneer and inspiration for alot of narrative structure in anime many people have a sort of genre fatigue from it's breed of story telling. It's hard to look at the intricacies that set it apart when you go in believing it'll be another brooding nihilism fest ala Beserk, Eva, Technolize, fate zero etc. All of those works have their own special pieces but after a while they unfortunately all get lumped in together under the "controversial dark anime" banner. Crybaby just happened to come out after it's tone had been done to death.

[@Firenmage433]

This x1000

[@sladikk]

DreamedLint Not only that but the decision to make Miki a Christian was instrumental in her character, not just an excuse to make her mixed race like Digi implies. Miki is quick to forgive and a strong believer in Jesus's philosophy of "turning the other cheek". So is her father, which is why he couldn't kill his son even after seeing his transformation. She also was the reason devilmen came out of hiding and helped Akira in the end. These things are, as you mentioned, blatantly obvious to anyone who was paying attention, but apparently Digi was only looking at things at the very face value. Side note, another great series about mercy is Thundercats 2011

[@CaptainBagman]

I was wondering if his embrace of emotions and sadness was going to be enough to save the world, but it wasn't enough. It's a real tragedy.

[@marche800]

The Butterfly dude and the Running are actually two different characters. In one of the episode you can see the remains of Butterfly dude's hand (with the tattoo of the Fly part of butterfly) in Miko's house (presumably after she devoured him in a fit or uncontrollable hunger or lust). The runner dude however is alive until the final fight of the series.

[@octofreckles152]

yeah the anime presented these two characters being separate people in a confusing way, and it took me a couple episodes to realize oh yeah theyre totally different. I'm surprised Digi didn't realize that they weren't the same character though so no wonder he'd call Butterfly dude's arc weird.

[@johndeer5033]

I loved the BUtterfly dude. His Rhymes were so wonderful and fresh.

[@marche800]

John Deer Too bad his blood is now stale.

[@johndeer5033]

feels bad man

[@MS-rw1bo]

I was confused too. The runner and butterfly guy had the same hair

[@pogmoment9370]

I see your points for the last episode but I think that is precisely what makes this Devilman crybaby Yuassa's and not Nagai's. The stark difference between the two lies in how they deal with the carnage. You see, Nagai's work is crushingly hopeless and brings into question what it means to be human without ever offering an answer to it. But Yuassa does not. He sees the hopeless situation and how fucked up humans are but what happens in Yuassa's work is that he still believes in humans, or at least in the human spirit. This is made perfectly clear by the ending of show. Ryo cries. The Satan fucking cries. The literal fucking Satan cries and mourns and feels emotions of sadness. This is where we can start talking about the differences between the two. Yuassa's devilman, unlike Nagai's, can be more appropriately thought of as Greek Tragedy with Ryo as the main character. Greek tragedies, as we all know, are mostly defined by this idea of a flawed character who deals with shitty stuff happening to him only to realize his flaw later on but not being able to do anything about it since it becomes too late. THAT IS DEVILMAN. At the end Ryo looses everything, his demon army, his dreams of re-inhabiting the planet and most importantly, he looses Akria. This flaw and emotion is precisely what bestows him with the human spirit and this what Yuassa wants to focus on. All this bad stuff happens because Ryo suppresses his Human spirit. As we all know, Yuassa's works have always been really optimistic about things and this would fall in line with that too (and the fact that Yuassa thinks that Ryo is the main character of the show). You see, this is not just a story about Akira and humankind losing, it's also about Ryo losing. Ultimately what Yuassa has done to this story is that he's completely transformed what it's supposed to say. At the end he wants us to know that both Ryo and Akira lost because they abandoned their human path - one suppressed it while the other left it to save Humanity. I agree with you that it's not Yuassa's best work (ranks 5th for me in his filmography) but there are parts about this show that will unfurl only when you compare it to Devilman and you'll just how densely written this story was in terms of it's ideas. This entire video inspired to make my own video about this show, where I hope I can explain the ideas of this messy comment much better and actually flesh it out.

[@JoseDSchiffer]

Final message fails to get across for a lot of people, me included. Just too much focus in the previous episodes psychopathy.

[@FlowerEmblem]

I wish I could like this more than once.

[@dashman8499]

EXACTLY. Thank you. I LOOOOVE the final episode

[@shadowwolfclaw6894]

Holy shit. That's a mouthful of words!!!

[@cruelcumber5317]

8:35 You made the exact same mistake I did when first watching. The guy who was into Miko died at the party, the person that you think went off into random directions was actually a completely different character. I'm not going to blame you for it though since he was only really introduced briefly in the first episode and the rap that the Miko guy did would imply that the scene in the clothes store was just him getting back at his friends for what he felt was them being dicks and not the other guy being a dick to some randos, but it's worth mentioning that they aren't the same guy and the arc that we saw had some setup to it.

[@Kriss_ch.]

That weirded me out, they look so similar that I wondered what happened until I saw the rapper's half-eaten hand.

[@RobotIceCreamSandwich]

He also confused the Professor as "Ryo's father"

[@cruelcumber5317]

+Redministeren Exactly the same here. After I finished I went back to rewatch to see some of the smaller details I missed and realized everything about Koda's arc was revealed in something like the third scene. Only reason I see why they had the characters look alike is to setup the clothes store scene to present that analogy to what happens after demons are shown to the public, but so much happens in between when we last see Koda do anything and when he gets reintroduced that it's hard to remember that detail.

[@luminous3558]

The guy in the clothes store was the rapper, he died later in mikos apartment, you can see his severed hand with the butterfly tatoos then. The ahtlete guy is introduced(I guess he is ep1 for like 1min but that doesnt count) at a very bad time, right after the rapper died off screen and for some reason they look very similar making people think he is the rapper with devil upgrades. Very confusing. Also pretty sad that the rapper didnt actually get more screen time as his rap was one of the more emotionally impactful moments that wasnt just pain and suffering but something very sweet instead.

[@justsomeguywhohideshismust1613]

The guy in the clothes store was a completely different character from the rapper and the athlete. It was made so to simbolize that today a lot of people are choosing the same style of clothing and haircuts,losing their individuality just for being more like the other people

[@sharikobe]

I'm kinda disappointed that you didn't talk more about that soundtrack which was fucking phenomenal. Tracks from the OST like Buddy Ryo, Devilman no Uta, and Konya Dake are really good examples of how good the soundtrack is.

[@Cobalt360Degrees]

It kinda shocked me how much I fell in love with Devilman no Uta. But it really does use the dance vibes to work this feeling of letting loose all your inhibitions, and because of that it fits *amazingly.*

[@lkjpoiu6]

The Beautiful Silene track was incredible

[@mikemarks6136]

He couldn't do that because he would have to admit he was wrong this guy sounds like hes an anime elitist by nitpicking about the English dub which is highly preferable over the Japanese dub

[@natalielongmire2846]

I actually didn't think the scene where the kids hug him is stupid? Nothings seemed out of place with her "preachy" post, like Akira had been preaching to the idea of there being a balance between demon and human this whole time. Even though Akira couldn't save her, the way the scene played out gave the impression that they'd saved each-other in a sense.

[@ryantheanimator1156]

The problem with Miki's preachy post is that how on earth did it get the attention of, i don't know, like the entire freaking world? The scene played out like from Digimon movie or Summer War where everyone paid attention to whatever happened on the screen but just inferior.

[@wtang3833]

Ryan Tran maybe because Akira the first globally announced, by the government of Japan, devilman; and obviously due to Miki’s ties with Akira had a massive voice and got the message spread.

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

Well, I mean, it's not unthinkable. Girl posts about knowing the one specific Devilman that Ryou called out by name and speaks directly to the contrary, that sort of thing seems like it would get shared. Controversial + Topical = Memeable

[@HuskyKipzRulez]

Miki is also a notable athlete, giving her even more of a platform.

[@Namingway248]

the only thing i didnt like about that scene is how sexual the anime had been up to that point and expected me not to think about how when the adults hug him too they are basically at crotch level with him. bringing that up wouldve ruined the scene but building up the lusty aspects of the show before it and expecting me not to think about it also kind of ruined the scene.

[@MegaIata]

this anime kept me up at night for like 3 days just thinking about humanity... im tired

[@MrBattlestar10]

wallycyder311 whoa dude yeah like wow humans man whoa jesus man gahh im jus layin here man whoa i cant stop thinkin about humanity man wow gosh

[@MegaIata]

lol pretty much

[@MegaIata]

girl dies cus of a tweet

[@tailedgates9]

I said it before in a previous video. At the ending of episode 9, I couldn't believe what I was seeing... T_T

[@TheLeagueObservers]

wallycyder311 Are you 15?

[@TS-tk5kj]

The 9th episode absolutely nailed the idea of despair. Nothing is worse than having all hope being ripped away you and not being able to do anything in front of impending doom. Along with the eclipse, it's one of the more memorable moments in anime imo.

[@transformersrevenge9]

Also, the most important rap of the show was actually dubbed. It's kinda funny seeing digi show a clip of that scene and claim that it is not dubbed.

[@sladikk]

He spent most of the video nitpicking the details, many of which he got wrong. Like how Ryo's Russian coworker is apparently his Latin father because he was in the Amazon rainforest lol

[@Tamacat388]

sladikk Digo may have just watched this while high or on his phone or something. Ryo calls him a professor he was working with several times. He is seen in an orphanage several times. Where the hell did "father" come from?

[@DrDragonica]

Thanatos388 In the manga, the professor is Ryo’s father.

[@wyattmund9286]

He might’ve just confused the bit with the professor who merged with a demon because in the manga and old OVA, that guy was Ryo’s dad

[@Tamacat388]

Wyatt Mund Oh. I guess that's where the hell it came from.

[@elninoson5282]

"the worst scene in the show" was actually one of my favourite scenes .

[@stalok5963]

>Like when Ryo's father trasition to spooky latin in the first episode He starts speaking Russian (if I understood you correctly that you are talking about dude burning himself at the beginning). Plain and clean russian. There is suprisingly a lot of russian language in this. But why russian soldiers in the end speak english with a russian accent is a mystery.

[@Nyakomata]

It was also good Russian surprisingly as opposed to the english.

[@oscarpoullard9920]

Also the professor character doesn't seems to be his father in this version.

[@stalok5963]

ye, that's why it was confusing a bit.

[@nordinreecendo512]

"Devilman is really topical, but in a scary way. The idea that a single tweet can lead to the end of the world just hits a little too close to home right now." - Gigguk

[@briansmith-dp4jy]

I personally do think that alot of the big issues you had come from reading the manga first. Thus you subconsciously expect it to be just like it and don't want it any other way. Despite this obviously being a completely different take on the original

[@sladikk]

I really wish the anime explored the theme of uncontrollable empathy more. It's not just about crying when people feel sad and wanting to protect people who are being stoned to death. Every single person you interact with, you care about like they were your family. You want the best for them and feel for them every time they suffer, even if it's something minor. When people are angry at you you're less concerned about how they're making you feel and more concerned about how terrible you're making their lives as a result of your actions, even random people on the internet. You're not just sad when they're sad, you're also angry when they're angry, happy when they're happy, etc., even if you can't historically relate to their situation at all. As a result, you might even make an effort to distance yourself from emotional attachment and appear as "the logical one" because you realize how susceptible you can be to emotional manipulation. This series isn't the best at going in-depth with things though, but when MC having empathy is so important to the plot that it's included in the title as what differentiates this retelling from the previous versions, you'd think they'd talk about it more.

[@rdDolphinX]

I feel exactly the same way but I didn't know how to word it

[@sladikk]

Yeah I guess that's kinda the point, lol

[@ourDreamcatcher]

Wow. Well said!

[@the_jones528]

Yea, TL;DR I just liked watching demons get fucking SMASHED!

[@jonsnor4313]

Empathy doesnt mean you cry about everything sad whatever, there was a scene in the brandon fraser deal with the devil comedy. And there is way too much crying. A emphatic character more likely gets desperate on the inside and sad like shinji from evangelion.

[@TheGeo2003]

Why does you’re writing feel like a college student who is just adding stuff to meet a page limit?

[@doomslatte]

Crybaby introduced me into the Devilman franchise, and I read the original manga a day after I finished Crybaby. Crybaby is without its faults, as you have pinpointed some of them; pacing, some character threads' getting lost in the middle, but I still think Crybaby is better than the original manga. Now don't get me wrong, I can understand how the og manga was a momentous creation for its time, but in watching Crybaby I think it is important to understand that this is an entirely different series than Devilman. As Yuasa's have mentioned a few times, Crybaby is a story about Ryo. Crybaby Ryo was thoroughly reformed from its original; he's borderline psychopathic as opposed to the loving Ryo in Devilman manga. This change was made for one reason: To give Devilman Crybaby a different ending than its predecessor. Devilman manga ended in a tremendously bleak, and inherently nihilistic manner (moral and existential nihilism, to be precise)(I know this is your shit Digi, so I get how you could not enjoy Crybaby's ending as much as some of us do). All efforts made by anyone was rendered useless; humans are still vile until their end, Akira threw away his humanity, Ryo's burgeoning love and effort were unrequited, and this faceless God entity just restarted the shit out of the world. There is no point in assigning the hero and the villain, it's all moot anyway, and the series drove the point home pretty much effectively. But is it an ending that WE need right now? In Crybaby's ending, there IS an outcome that tied the knots of all the thematic choices Yuasa's made. Throughout the show we saw that Akira is a bundle of emotion that emphatize with every thing that breathes and would cry for them (crybaby, is Yuasa's eponymous motif). Ryo, the emotionless literally-a-satan motherfucker, never shed a single tear. But at the end, he recited a monologue that we also heard at the beginning of the series "Love doesn't exist. There is no such thing as love. Therefore, there is no sorrow. That's what I thought." with that monologue and a single tear from Ryo, we know that right then that Ryo learned that he (they??) loves Akira. Therefore, love exists. Therefore, Ryo felt sorrow at that moment. And in tow comes remorse and regret. AND the "what ifs". Right then, viewers felt the same harrowing sense of dread that Ryo experienced, while knowing that Ryo is not only the antagonist of this series, but ALSO the villain. Audience felt that the ending was unjust, but it is ultimately not a nihilistic one. There IS hope, if only Ryo found his humanity through his love for Akira beforehand. Now I know if we started the series with Ryo knowing his love for Akira, we might as well repeat the manga (which is why some fans theorize that Crybaby is a prequel to Devilman og manga), BUT if we treat Crybaby as an isolated series, as it is for many many people who made acquintance with the franchise for the first time, Crybaby's emotive ending is what we need right now as opposed to the Devilman og manga's dismal ending. I'd like to say that Crybaby's ending is Yuasa's answer to the questions that Nagai posited in Devilman og manga's ending for current political and societal climate. Is it a good answer? It is naive, but heck, it doesn't even matter. Yuasa still managed to convey his message, and it gave the audience a different experience from the og manga. Of course this IS biased, as I watched Crybaby before I read Devilman og manga. But at the end of the day, as it is obvious, how we perceive this series depends on what we value as an audience. And mine just so happened to differs from yours.

[@Kriss_ch.]

I don't think the changes to Ryo work. Partly this is because Devilman exists: We already saw how it went when Ryo was a regular ol' human instead of a maniac with no empathy. He would burn the world regardless. But even disregarding that, Devilman Crybaby uses the exact same events and story of the OG Devilman, but sticks this new personality for Ryo in there, and it doesn't work. Old Ryo was supportive, desperate, human. He was beliveable and relatable. Akira had reasons to trust him. In this new version Ryo openly films him, commits several murders, threatens to kill Miki, hacks several people's phones and stalks them, wants Akira's help to out the demons on national television etc. He's _obviously_ evil, not just out of universe(because he's the blonde, clever guy, obviously the villain, like in the original) but also in-universe. Nobody should trust him, and yet, everyone goes along with his plans. It doesn't check out. Because they wanted Ryo to gain empathy at the end, he's a complete nutter for the rest of the runtime and the old plot doesn't work with his new attitude. (That's not even mentioning the changes to his backstory, where he went from just a dude with a rich archeologist dad(but secretly not, obviously), to a teenage genius hacker archeologist who's got his own freaking television show and penthouse apartment. He's a much more outrageous character. I guess that's just Yuasa's preference, Akira went from "likes to fight" to an always hungry, always horny, always crying dumbass after all. But that's more weird characterization than weird plotting, and his character still works with the plotline, unlike Ryo's)

[@leonnewkirk1713]

Hey There doomslatte, glad someone else sees this too. Your comment that much sums up the core difference between "OG Devilman" and Crybaby, their overall message and the conversation between Go Nagai and Yuuasa. OG Devilman was ultimately a warning about war and the level of depravity humans can reach. Go Nagai gave us a bleak ending with even bleaker questions. In fact, because Devilman's world is cyclical and repeats itself, the answer to those questions are never really solved. However, Devilman Crybaby at least gives us a solution. That perhaps empathy can be the starting line. Not only that, Yuuasa preserved Akira's heart for humanity and allowed him to fight for mankind till the end. In fact, Akira, Miki, and Miki stuck to their stance on empathy and Ryo/Satan was ultimately moved to tears. By the way, I watched the 1980s OVA first, then read the manga series, and then watched Crybaby.

[@leonnewkirk1713]

And yes, these series are both responses to their political environment. Go Nagai's Devilman was born in a bi-polar world divided by the Cold War with nuclear threat looming in the background and Yuuasa's work breathes in a highly globalized world connected by social media and ever-thinning borders.

[@aaronames4745]

there's a secret sequel to devilman called violence jack that will explain why the world was reset in the end

[@FreemanEffect]

doomslatte I know I'm a bit late on replying this post but what you said was on-point and I also want to add my own interpretation to the discussion regarding 'hope' in this anime. I know some would disagree with me on this and I'm fine with that but I also watched Crybaby before reading Go Nagai's OG manga so you might take my opinion differently. I originally posted this comment at Zeria's video about Crybaby. The manga's ending was (as some would say) nihilistic because Ryo has to relieve the whole event over and over again as punishment from God, whether he learned his lesson or not and some say Crybaby's the same too. BUT if we consider Crybaby as an isolated storyline, to me, it's a little bit more hopeful because after all, the show opened with the words 'love' and 'sadness/sorrow' (among others) as its main theme. Here's an interpretation piece by a Jason Krell regarding the show to which I agree: medium.com/@Krellitlikeitis/sympathy-for-the-devil-a-lesson-in-love-from-devilman-crybaby-a6c5947a787f Unlike the manga where God 'punished' Satan for defying his His intention to destroy demons, Crybaby changed this plot point around (He didn't really care much about the demons in the anime anyway, according to the show). In the anime, Satan called God 'icy'. This means that unlike the other angels, he couldn't find love between God and himself. Thus, like a child who believed that his parent doesn't love him among his siblings, he defied Him. Because of this, God outcast Satan to Earth and cleansed it of demons (though not before Ryo saw and approves of the demons instinct nature) so that he can learn to love and emphasize while being among humans. If the show is about love and sadness, God's purpose for this wouldn't be of punishment because, in the traditional sense, He is all-merciful, loving and FORGIVING. Punishing Ryo would contradict with the core themes of the show. No, this was a 'lesson' for Ryo. For him to experience love like his fellow angels and sadness like God did when Satan was outcast. And so he did. It took WW3, human & demon's extinction and the death of Akira for Ryo to realize it but in the end, he learned his lesson (too damn harsh of a lesson, though). Thus, Earth is cleansed and reborn with 2 moons. "So why is this ending more hopeful again?" you asked. Well, because (this is my interpretation btw) there is NO time-loop in this storyline. Despite being more faithful to the manga, it still differs from it due to the changed plot point above. A time-loop would make sense in the manga as a form of punishment for Satan but would defeat the purpose of a lesson about emphathy and will instead generate more hate from Satan towards God (as in the case of the manga's continuation stories). Instead, Satan has learned his lesson and was given another chance to live to experience love and empathy in the next Earth, whether it by accepting God and return to Heaven or live happily among humans, no matter how horrible they can be. Masaaki Yuasa made a lot of hopeful moments in his adaptation like the hugging scene and the ending (especially the post-credit scene) was no exception. A hopeful, albeit pessimistic (an apt description for Crybaby's storyline) conclusion was Yuasa's goal. Something that we NEED now in this day and age. Sure, it might be naive, but it's a hell of a lot better for us to be at least pessimistic than nihilistic (there's a diffrence between the 2 btw).

[@ultrapoutch]

You seem to miss the point of what the anime was trying to say to you. I met Masaaki Yuasa at Annecy Animation Festival last year and in the conference, speaking of how he can make happy shows like Lou and extremely horrible ones like Devilman, he said "I think that even in the darkest of the darkest things, there is still some good, some light and some hope". This was in the manga too, the horrible devil Sirene, probably one of the most violent ones, in the end was beautiful and we could sense love in her. In that scene you seem to dislike, even if Devilman seem like a giant monster, horrible to them, completely different, they could still see that light in him, that emotion that lead them to understand him. Why is that? Because Akira didn't try to kill them for what they were doing. Instead he cried, like a baby, he haven't done a thing to them, he just cried until the good side of the human heart that is present in even the most evil persons in the world, begin to resonate in them. And that was the whole point of the original manga too. You never solve anything with violence, even when it seems legitimate, people should accept difference, even when it seems terrifying and full of bad sides.

[@RangerNationDubs]

He gets tbe tone and aestic thats all i heard. Not tbe meaning. Devilman isnt impactful cause it was cool and just shocking. Its impactful cause unlije most shows that try and replicate it. It means something.Stopping evil with evil will only end in destruction. Love,hope,and empathy towards each other is the only way to change the world.And many kuds growing up devilman is a hero. Ans the unbiased views of children lined up with mikis message of accepting each other.And i think this is the best version if not one of the best. Cause she just wasnt a love interest. But someone who just wanted to do right. And a perfect example of wat people can be vs a world of wat some if not many people are not all but many. She was a light that brought everything together.

[@Temujin18S]

The message of the manga was different and never about love and never pretended love would solve everything

[@megasupergames]

This one doesn't pretend it does either. The dad, and his entire family, were brutally murdered just for being in the wrong place with the wrong people. I don't see a point in Devilman. It's just a grim reminder that this is just what reality is. And I love it for it. Or maybe I don't. Love doesn't exist, maybe.

[@ultrapoutch]

DiE-lan The king of the devils Satan is literally crying at the end because he lost the person he loved. you don't have to make a good ending to tell a message. Devilman is a warning, not a fatality.

[@Temujin18S]

DiE-lan My point love was never mentioned Ryo character and backstory is completely different, in the manga Satan never denied there wasn't love his last talk with Akira was clear and precise and hits home. Satan in Crybaby doesn't seem to have really learn anything, he is still coming from a selfish place everything is still about Akira. Manga touches on more themes but Crybaby hit only one, antiwar but not just as clearly.

[@KeithBallardA]

Huh, while talking about the rap dubs not being translated to English you show the one most emotional rap that's actually translated in the English dub.

[@Sehon13Ultd]

That was the point dude. He was showing the English one to emphasize how much better that one was than the ones that didn't get translated.

[@ianmurphy3712]

This video: Terrible finale, bad pacing, preachy tone, makes you feel like devilman 10/10

[@Harril8265]

This comment: Strawman, strawman, strawman, strawman 10/10

[@the_jones528]

Ikr, he turns into the biggest analyzer, nitpicks it to death, but says it's amazing. Such bullshit. Like anyone cares about the "pacing of a character" Really bitch? Pacing of a character? Ok, I got you. Let's watch Devilman RAPE SILENE!!!!

[@andyhoov]

As someone who is more a cinephile than an anime fan, I found the reveal of Miki's fate to be especially effective. I like to think of myself as being damn near desensitized at this point to most displays of violence, but this one in particular struck me as especially cruel and horrific. Furthermore, the ensuing destruction of humanity was simply an incredible audio/visual experience. I'll never insult someone for focusing on narrative in a review (that's where most movies, shows, and anime place their emphasis after all) but I think it's also important to remember how the visuals and sounds can be just as important, and I think that's where Crybaby focused most of its energies. It certainly helps that the narrative is still good, but this is the rare show where you could remove all the dialogue and it would still be worth watching. Or maybe I've recently found myself being generally unimpressed by anime due to derivative art styles and overly long, meandering stories that stretch into multiple seasons simply because they rushed the show out even though the manga it's based on has barely gotten off the ground. Considering that, Devilman's concise storytelling and visual audacity is quite refreshing.

[@issaosama4937]

To me this story was about how we should be more empathetic, loving and accepting and how we can be very violent towards something we don't understand. That's what it meant for me.

[@kazzilla99]

issa osama and making you aware that "Satan" can cry too. Those things you mention are the most important values in the world, and any anime that can convey these ideas in a hard hitting story like devilman crybaby is a 10/10 in my book.

[@paulamj9786]

issa osama that’s the same for me.. and I’m pretty sure that that’s what it tried to meant.. people just looked too much onto the violence and sex scenes..

[@bloodmachine6049]

Digi, you confused the 2 characters with a similar hair-style. The rapper fucking died of screen. The core of this is decent, but you just got so much wrong here, it's not Ryo's father and it's bloody Russian, some changes were shared with the 90's ovas, they even further undercut Miki's death with Akira's refusal to reject humanity, and the ending scene with the moto-cycle was mostly pure fanservice, as it's a reference to the original show.

[@javelinmaster2]

Boo Machine just like the references of the old Devilman OVAs.

[@sladikk]

He got so many details wrong yet he focused on nitpicking the details lmao

[@DarthJoshReturns]

So I wasn't the only one that got the two mixed up.

[@FormlessBody]

To be fair, the rapper and the other guy do have confusingly similar character designs.

[@MrToBeEvil]

Wait what? Its not the same dude? Who the fuck is it then? Just some rando they bring in for no reason who looks exactly the same?

[@alexarias5717]

Ryo's English was great wtf?? He spoke it fluently, just because you can hear his japanese accent coming through doesn't mean he's terrible at English...

[@rix6831]

Voice actors absolutely NAILED russian pronunciation. It sounds exactly like it should be. I'm so, so impressed

[@edhenshuusha4666]

Isn't the motorcycle ending a reference to the original TV Devilman series?

[@bloodmachine6049]

Yes it is.

[@sammiboibenton]

I understood the kids hugging devil man thing. It was sort of a biblical thing. I never watched the original devil man so I don't share many of the complaints but thanks for making this video cuz I don't think I would've watched this anime if you hadn't

[@CrashBandicootFan100]

The last episode feels so clusterfucky, but for me it kinda works... I guess you could say it's a "pacing apocalypse".

[@jonatassilva2605]

The manga is not that better in that part. It has one or two things to add, but it was prety much that, Akira never stood a chance, and the whole point was not about him, but what HE teached to Ryo

[@imranmeco3393]

As he said, the pike scene was the climax and that's where the plot is the most shocking and edgy. It was a perfect scene that only left the apocalypse to wrap things up, but it prolonged it and kinda overstayed it's visit.

[@the_jones528]

It left me wanting more.....legit just MORE. I WANT MORE DEVILMAN! why the fuck did they waste their life making a post-credit scene. It shows the old earth, next to a NEW EARTH!!!

[@stanleyguzman694]

This anime gave me emotional PTSD

[@vasarat1]

Stanley Guzman You should read Berserk, that will cure your PTSD.

[@stanleyguzman694]

Billderbeerg S I’m already caught up on the manga :)

[@Jixsurez]

Ryan Godspeed I haven't watched it yet but I was thinking it was gonna be like dye fantasy.

[@tatoacevedo7509]

I liked the part where the kids hug Devilman. It even made me cry.

[@dragoniraflameblade]

FIANCE?! Congratulations!

[@fros333]

On making a [possibly fatal] terrible and rushed decision? Hope he has prenup.

[@Tamacat388]

Psyent Coity Digi just wants to do the PCP marriage and children podcast sooner rather than later.

[@Irisverse]

*fiancee. Fiance with one e signifies a male spouse-to-be.

[@fros333]

Well understood, it's that a man of reasonable intelligence is even considering getting married in this day and age that's worrying.

[@torgan]

Felicity Swan Her name is Monika

[@TheMasterQuests]

The thumbnail looked like Venom

[@kyokyoniizukyo7171]

TheMasterQuests Wouldn’t be surprised if Devilman created it...

[@TheMasterQuests]

Would make sense.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Considering more modern animators are familiar with Venom, some of them probably took liberties...and I think that's awesome!

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Mr. Ultimate its true truebelievers! Take Ruroni Kenshin for example. Kenshin's master Hiko, wears a cape similar to spawns, and some of Kenshins adversaries were inspired by Xmen characters like Omega Red & Apocalypse ..just to name a few

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Mr. Ultimate Yep its super cool and awesome when countries media influences each other! Another funny and weird one is Onepiece characters Ivankov-a dragqueen character ( inspired by Rocky Horror Picture Show ) & Franky ( Ace Ventura pet detective & Popeye)

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

''unsexy design'' you what mate?

[@thedanhibiki6960]

I love Digi but he's streets behind my dude

[@Kingdom850]

he prefers lolis so i'm not surprised

[@kamikage9420]

The brief flash of monochrome when Akira flips out at Miki's death and unleashed his flame attack gives me chills. I love that animation style that's almost entirely raw energy, like during the Devilman transformations, and in stuff like the Divine Sandstorm attack in the opening of JoJo part 2.

[@mistergremm735]

This is how shonen jump was back in 70s, there were no limits to what creators can get away with specially go negai

[@thatspecialguy3291]

Gorgeous Gremac Kinnikuman did have mess up shit lmao

[@tdfern1]

Gorgeous Gremac Could they have even show hardcore ecchi scenes like nudity back in the 70s?

[@autobotfan11]

Thomas Fernandez yes, in fact Go go Nagai create the ecchi genre in shounen jump in the 60s.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

+ Boo Machine I've heard he had the PTA kill all the characters in Shameless School, just to piss them off even further.

[@SuzakuX]

Devilman wasn't in Shonen Jump. Go Nagai published his work in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine. Totally different company. Weekly Shonen Magazine has always been aimed at an older audience, despite technically defining itself as shonen.

[@Alteredaspects1]

There's one thing that really describes Crybaby. Its rebellious in every sense of the word. From the animation, to the story pacing, to everything else. And GOOD GOD THAT FREAKING ENDING WAS GREAT.

[@clintmckee1751]

I owe Devilman thanks to influencing some of my favorite series such as Shin Megami Tensei and Berserk!

[@Tamacat388]

Clint McKee Lol! Halfway through it hit me that SMT is pretty much a series of fucking Devilman rpgs.

[@ObaREX]

Miki's death in Crybaby shook me to my core. I dunno what you're talkin' about. It was so brutal and disgusting. Nightmare enduing. Sure they never showed us her full head but the silhouette of her head and other body parts bouncing up and down on the stick with the mob dancing and cheering. Her bruised dead expression over what used to be such a cute and hopeful one... seriously. Not many anime make me feel like Crybaby did.

[@paulinam1875]

Tbh i liked crybaby better than the manga. Maybe cuz i watched it first but i feel like the story has more depth.

[@xenogears4398]

Best adaptation of the manga so far even with all the liberties taken IMO

[@MartinBerrum]

when pewdiepie makes a review of this faster than other anime youtubers 🤔

[@NerdXZ-pn4nt]

MartinBerrum he a secrect fan.

[@ladefury9523]

*i watched it becouse of pewdiepie*

[@ChrisIsTalkin]

when pewds has endless cash flow to pay editors 😉

[@nik021298]

Joey Carthew yes it wasn't. Thank god it wasn't. I got a good surprise.

[@bigstunna2049]

He's use to making videos everyday so I wasn't surprised

[@tHEWONDERszs]

okay, maybe this is just me but i love it when hearing an english dub leave a japanese rap or song untouched, I absolutely hate it when they try and change the language on a song, because it just doesn't have the same feeling.

[@Bro12393]

tHEWONDERszs I had no issue with the rapping... Do people want it changed to be some kind of desiigner trash we hear everyday?

[@tHEWONDERszs]

Brooks S no i’m just referring to when the anime gets a dub. The song that was originally in the japanese language gets changed to the english language, and it’s hard to convey the same tone or theme when switched over to english.

[@Diomenesx]

Wow, Digi's "Worst scene in the whole show" turned out to be my favorite. That scene really moved me.

[@alikitty3376]

I know that some characters were showed and killed quickly, but even so, some of them were made in a masterful way. Akira's mom, even with little screen time was filled with emotion.

[@SlingingHashSlasher]

I literally only watched this show because akira looks like mugen

[@theglowingbones]

I just watched the entire show overnight. This was my first exposure to the Devilman story, so it had a large impact for me and put me on an emotional roller coaster that will be difficult to match. I am definitely interested in consuming other Devilman media in the near future.

[@ThePhlox99]

I absolutely love this anime so much. It's like a mix of berserk and neon genesis evangelion and the art style is so well done. It's just so amazing Edit : I meant this new version, especially the ending, which is much similar to Evangelion in its abstract and erratic way

[@ShawnWeeded510]

T Phlox it's not a mix of anything. It is the grandpappy of all those things.

[@vasarat1]

T Phlox It's a lot more basic than Berserk and Eva...

[@evilblanketfish]

Devilman was 1972. A good majority of the anime you probably like got inspired heavily from it.

[@JoshLeitzel]

He's obviously referring to this modern adaption you guys, which wasn't released before those two, smfh

[@dol_mel7487]

Billderbeerg S lmao how?....

[@wargaming-u3063]

Good analysis. But i have to say that the way the ending is done makes a lot more sense if you consider the fact that Satan/Ryo is the main character. It takes him up until the last few minuets to realise that he to feels a loveing conection to others. The visuals and action of the last episode are all about him realizing and accepting that fact.

[@ayyelemayo7390]

Latin? That was russian rite?

[@sladikk]

It was in the Amazon rainforest, and it was a fellow Russian reseacher

[@snakecharmer2571]

Yes, it was Russian, and obviously voiced by a native speaker.

[@Miraihi]

Yeah, I was watching the original, and then suddenly heard Russian and was really amazed how good is that voice actor, just two voice lines in flawless Russian. If someone is interested what we are talking about, it's that scene at 12:56.

[@the_jones528]

CYKA BLYAT

[@im_bored4062]

(Spoiler btw) Im not disagreeing with you you're correct but it's also mainly about love and I think you see it completely differently if you think if it's a story about Ryu, learning that love actually exists. In the end akira kind of wins, he convinces Ryu there is love because of the sorrow he feels after his death, earlier he says there is no love therefore there is no sorrow but Ryu only realizes it when it's all over.

[@FrostKuji]

I'm with you there. After her death I kind of went numb to everything else. Episode 10 (the Ryo parts) didn't do anything for me. I felt that backstory would have been better at the beginning kinda like a episode 0. I liked Devilman: Crybaby to the point I will buy it on BluRay, BUT like Now and Then, Here and There. I'll never watch it again. lol! I won't lie, it messed me up a bit.

[@AstralTaurus]

I'm glad someone else feels the same way about Now and then here and there ;-;

[@therealytmister]

FrostKuji i feel that 💯💯 it fucked me up ..

[@tiabarber4312]

FrostKuji Yeah, it fucked me up too 🤦🏾‍♀️.

[@Slickgary007]

They literally opened with some of their back story in the first fucking episode

[@KoopahNITE]

Last few vids have been killer man. Keep up the great work.

[@hsaungaye9662]

I personally like the alternative ending when Akita just walks off after defeating Amon in his head to take control of his body again and just becomes violence jack afterwards

[@bloodmachine6049]

Violence Jack should definitelly be taken as it's own separate thing, even Nagai thinks so. Though I will sacrifice people to anyone who decides they want to do VJ anime, it needs to happen.

[@Namingway248]

keep in mind i didn't finish the manga as i write this so im sure someone can give good counterpoints from it I liked how they handled the end in the sense that there were a bunch of scenes near the beginning of the anime, as well as the end, which helped establish ryo and akira's relationship. while by itself i agree that too much of it was done too late, i felt like it all built up to the impact of the baton pass scene. i felt it really embodied this idea throughout the show that akira desperately wanted to be close to ryo and have everyone be on the same side, but even though ryo cared deeply for akira, he was never willing to pick up the baton and listen to or fulfill anyone else's wishes, ultimately leading to his sad lonely end. it makes it feel like, regardless of everything, if ryo had just stopped and reached out to see akira's side of things at any point this story could have had a happy ending. but everytime, over and over, he drops the baton and he drops the baton and he drops the baton. i feel like it forwards and goes along with the idea that we dont get happy endings because people are terrible.

[@ShawnWeeded510]

At first i hated this show then i watched again and i loved it but why the fuck are we trying to crown this AOTY and we aren't even 1 month into the year.

[@Gillyexp]

Shawn Zamir FFXV Clickbait.

[@quiky9065]

cause there must be some serious masterpiece to take aoty from his hands

[@Tamacat388]

Yuasa is a god and since Miyazaki, Oshii, and Anno aren't releasing anything this year the chances of another movie or show surpassing this is incredibly low.

[@blue_cameron]

Shawn Zamir FFXV I didn't hate it at first but I wasn't very interested in it but then I watched more episodes and I got hooked

[@jonatassilva2605]

It's too flawed and outdated (storytelling wise) to win any serious anime of th year award, and it's too serious, and niche (by today's standarts at least), to win any popularity one. So no. It's not AOTY.

[@the_jones528]

14:35 How......how the fuck is that weird? Akira is clearly just standing there getting fucking shot at, and shit thrown at him, and isn't doing ANYTHING about it, while he is CRYING! How is it surprising that at least ONE person in the crowd has common sense.

[@brianoconnell6459]

One thing that's appreciable with Crybaby is the English dub. It's decent enough, especially since the OAV from the 1990s apparently sounded like Amon/Devilman was being dubbed with the aid of a full tank of helium.

[@jenniferroche8359]

I think that having not seen the original, it was a really excellent show and I have to disagree w digit at some of his points, but I think that if I had read the original (and knew much of the plot details ahead of time) I might've made the same criticisms. For me the story unfolded fairly well. I don't think it's a perfect show, but I think it's definitely up there, and I think it deserves the praise and recognition it's been getting!

[@zakariamohamed3202]

Anime of the year easily Edit: I watched it dubbed and Kyle McCarley’s performance as Ryo was fantastic!

[@misaki-chan-5839]

well if that so, thats means how bad the anime is thi year

[@davidstubbs2361]

we're not even a month in...

[@shavooo]

that shows how low your standards are if 'this' is already AOTY to you :/ show was maybe a 6/10 at best.

[@zakariamohamed3202]

Oops, I forgot it’s nearly impossible to state an opinion on the internet without getting at least one person to thrash on your tastes. If you disagree, fine. But I personally believe that it’s gonna be difficult for other anime to top the impact and success this show garnered this year.

[@Bro12393]

Zakaria Mohamed aoty for me too buddy. I also think Ryo was fantastic If people want garbage dubs go listen to aot dubbed

[@ti2218]

"Leaving way less of an impact, at least on me, than the original did" This is an incredibly common pattern between the reviews. People enjoy Crybaby way more and have a lot more positive things to say about it's story if they haven't seen the original. What did you think was going to happen? The ending obviously isn't going to have as much of an impact on you, you've already seen it! That's like reviewing a movie based on the second time you watched it because you "saw the ending coming". Again, obviously you did, you've already seen it!!

[@javelinmaster2]

Now if Violet evergarden is as good as ppl say it is then Netflix is clearly the Winner of this season! First Netflix gave us Castlevania and now this! Netflix you better keep on going like this! Let's face it. Binge watching is just better.

[@sladikk]

I much prefer weekly episodes to be honest. That way, shows come out sooner and hiatuses are shorter. Although I guess with anime, it's usually just 1 season per show anyways

[@javelinmaster2]

sladikk yh but they also can run into production issues very easily. But hey It is just preference.

[@sladikk]

Eh, true. Especially if it's released without a break like One Piece.

[@maxxvii2037]

They also gave us Death Note. Never4get

[@javelinmaster2]

Maximiliano Gramajo Villa They also gave us: - House of cards - Stranger things - Black mirror - Hush - Castlevenia - devilman crybaby But sure let's judge them only for the bad things they've made possible.

[@Arthur-qp8hp]

17:19 - 17:24 Truer words have never been spoken

[@WalkingGirlKoi]

I have seen the first part of the Devilman OVA and yes, the gore has gorgeous detail to it. Anyway, I need to check out Devilman Crybaby and the manga because Go Nagai is a very interesting creator overall across various genres. I looked at its OVA randomly and didn't know to read the manga beforehand, though. Sigh.

[@bloodmachine6049]

Ova adapts the first 2 volumes, why is there a problem with not reading manga beforehand ?

[@Kriss_ch.]

Yeah, you can just go read the manga afterwards.

[@SkaryMisfit]

It's standalone so DW. And the two are so different you might as well do botj

[@ratt4661]

WalkingGirlKoi i remember watching the devilman OVAs when i was younger around the same time i was watching fist of the north star and it was one of the first times i looked at animation from a kinda critical point of view where i realised " holy crap this is beautiful and someone somewhere made this" along with my watching of akira.

[@francisbonnafoy307]

Well ... I accidentally watched the tenth episode of crybaby before the first. 😢

[@VerbenaHA]

This is so often a lighthearted channel and then digi pulls out stuff like this. It's eclectic and interesting.

[@jacobray8189]

I didn't read the manga, but loved the OVA. I always meant to read the manga but never got around to it. I think the show was a solid 8. Music, animation, aesthetic, characters, themes all save it from the botched pacing. However I liked the Christian element to it, which you don't see often in Japanese anime. That is the turn the other cheek philosophy that exists. Akira and Miko refusing to kill humans, until Miki's death drives Akira towards arguably Divine Judgement. I think the sequences with mankind fighting their end is out of the feeling that some of my friends told me was out of the confusion of the manga's ending. Having finally caught up on it, I agree.

[@Treem0re]

Yeah trust me the way they handled mikki's death was very impactful for first timers I had to take a 40 minute break before finishing marathoning the show The image is burned in my mind forever

[@JKumaD]

I don't consider Miko's character direction towards the end as weird. Her whole life she was hung up because a girl she liked has the same name as her and got better at her passion than her. Miko is a lesbian, the sexual nature of the show never let us see Miko, that's the significance of her and Koji having that rap moment and heart to heart later on. Koji being gay, Miko being bi, these are things that were suppressed in them, feelings they had put aside because no one sees them, like how they're names have been taken away from them, so have their identities. That's the significance of Miko saying i love you to Miki at the end. She genuinely loved her, and it wasn't weird. It was just very gay.

[@eidolon1426]

JJSSEEJ I'm sorry to tell you this... But the gay guy and the rapper are two different characters....

[@zerotoanime3953]

JJSSEEJ um no. She is not gay. She admired her. Not in a sexual way

[@thatrainbowquickie8395]

Kukkun isn't Koda though, as much as that would be cool

[@Kairi808chan]

One note: Murase Ayumu, Ryo's Japanese voice actor, was born in LA and lived in the States until about 8th grade.

[@punishedleader543]

>calling Russian latin lmao interestingly though, the Russian here was good unlike the English talk

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

The english was still vastly superior to most anime, gotta give em credit for that

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

^Yep. It sounded like it should, like a Japanese speaker speaking English.

[@JohnyK07]

Always bringing me great anime suggestions for my watchlist! Thanks, Digibro!

[@mativ6610]

"American Audience" sorry I forgot you are the only ones who speak English

[@Kermthefrog]

We speak Australian down here in bogan land so I had a hard time understanding the American language of English in Crybaby.

[@mativ6610]

Kermit The Frog Love you Kermit

[@android19willpwn]

ever heard of a "primary demographic"?

[@SophiHan02]

I guess he said American since the voice actors are meant to be speaking in an American accent

[@108wee]

Japan has closer ties with America then any other English speaking country so you could argue that the Japanese were mostly targeting an American audience and that other English speaking countries were a bonus. it could just be that Japanese are just most familiar with American culture and therefore it would be easier to write into the story. not that theres really that much American influence to the story itself anyway.

[@file130]

Masaaki Yuasa was the perfect director to make this anime stand out among so many others. However I do believe that studio Saru was not the best choice for it's production. Netflix was a necessary evil due to them being the ones to make this possible. But if they worked with a better run/high budget studio with the pedigree of Madhouse or Sunrise many of the problems (pacing/consistent animation) would have been fixed.

[@Used__Napkin]

It’s refreshing to see someone actually go into the negatives of the show instead of blind praise because it was “deep and made you think” it’s definitely nowhere near anime of the year, at least to me.

[@zerotoanime3953]

Used Napkin praise the sun

[@alicesitnikova]

12:53 - He actually transitions into Russian, not into Latin (surprisingly enough, they used a native Russian speaker).

[@lauren8475]

tbh I didn't find ryos English speech all that bad. even tho he's caucasian looking it's pretty obvious he spent most of his childhood in Japan and him having an accent makes sense imo. not that the scene wouldn't have been fine if he had perfect English but him having a strong accent didn't break immersion for me personally. I can see where you're coming from but... idk people have accents, it's thing

[@luna1515]

Lauren Wilks How the hell does he look Caucasian to you ? He looks like a Kpop Idol.

[@lauren8475]

Jun Jin he's got blond hair and blue eyes naturally,,, I said caucasion *looking* because I highly doubt he's meant to be full caucasian but he def doesnt look completely asian lmao. i imagine since he's actually not human hes pretty racially ambiguous. and idols don't naturally look like that since childhood lmao I highly doubt ryo was bleaching his hair as a child in the jungle

[@luna1515]

+Lauren Wilks Well Ryo is Satan.. he's not naturally human, he has the aesthetic and look of a Kpop idol, because that's the form he chose to take as a human. usercontent2.hubstatic.com/13467035_f520.jpg

[@r_k4146]

Jun Jin Omg ! glad I wasn't the only one who noticed, Ryo looked alot like Jimin in that style. Also here's a gif and a pic of Taehyung where he looks even more identical to Ryo, lol pa1.narvii.com/6664/7d9d30dd765259f93948cd64cc36f5052cfc6f40_hq.gif pm1.narvii.com/6424/8491c9e43a9d5b02b957cb1ce494eb99fd70cdd5_hq.jpg

[@lauren8475]

Jun Jin considering the manga was written before idols were even a thing somehow I doubt 'idol' is the aesthetic ryo is intended to convey, at least not in the kpop sense of the word

[@kou7191]

I watched both and honestly, even though I felt horrible for Miki in the original for how brutal it was, Crybaby felt more intense because it toyed with the feelings she MAY survive, and as you said she had a more active role so it was easier to get attached to her.

[@ShroomRPG]

H U M A N C O N T E N T M A C H I N E

[@LiquidChamploo]

This style of anime is so refreshing. It almost has no barriers and that allows it to be so flexible in story AND animation.

[@AstaIsAMonster]

I love the raps in this Series

[@RachaelCross]

your insistence that miki would've been better off utilized as a shock value character comes off as kind of nasty and sexist and it's frankly just sort of immature. her characterization is improved by her receiving more time as a character more than it's supposedly detracted from by the more respectful, solemn framing of her mutilation. it's not horrible just because it's a "cute anime girl head on a pike" it's horrible because we love miki as a character and so does akira, and in that way, by framing it like we're seeing through akira's eyes as he returns to the house is a lot more emotionally potent than just swinging it around in your face like grim spectacle. it's grim spectacle to the people who did that to her, but not to the audience or to akira. devilman is a gorefest but that's not inherently what it's about-- it's about the heavy emotions and themeing which the gore serves as companion to. the horror doesn't spawn from the awfulness of the mutilation, it spawns from the awfulness of human nature.

[@johnypeperwinkle6207]

When I heard it was called devilman crybaby I thought it was just gonna be Re:Zero but with devils

[@Firenmage433]

Johny Peperwinkle can we get this to top comment?

[@javelinmaster2]

But then it became a glorious, edgy (the good kind of edgy), uncensored Gorefest AND I LOVED IT!

[@Ikelae]

I actually really enjoyed the moment where he questions the crowd. I found it as the pinnacle of his chracter development, the children were meant to represent his innocence; all the while the message of love being given by his dear friend is slowly resulting in her death before our eyes. I suppose I just focused more on the juxtaposition present, and what was being conveyed, rather than the fact they re-used scenes. I don't usually mind the re-use of scenes, when used properly it is a very effective story telling device. I honestly can't think of an anime that doesn't fall into that trope at some point. I respectfully disagree with the majority of the last half of this video, but it was nice to hear another pov =]

[@tristanderamos6455]

All I got from this video is Read the manga and see the difference and why the original is better

[@tristanderamos6455]

And Akira being a crybaby,being empathetic,then becoming a DEVILMAN makes him more human A good person on the inside but his body gives him urges that are harder to deal with

[@fizzlebank]

Get rekt digi nerd

[@caverramos7581]

I wouldnt say its better. The anime Tones down on The action in order to try to characterize More. It works, but it is different, if you like backstories more than violence this one is better, if you like shock then The other one is better

[@hola25251212]

Watching anime is always knowing that the source is "better" but still enjoying the Anime for what it is showing and not what it didn't

[@the_jones528]

Yea, and fuck the reading part....

[@Ayanamiame]

I totally agree with you that Miki death scene in the manga has more impact. In Crybaby, we saw that Miki was likely dead right away from that dragging back stab wound and those people "played" with her face and body later. In the manga, that severed head just popped out suddenly and I had no idea how she was killed and could only imagine the most fucked up situation possible i.e. rape, life-mutilation all combined. I would guess that the director really like this version Miki as you have mentioned and just wanted to send her off in a more struggle-filled gracious way. I love this Miki too so I don't mind this direction of change at all

[@iliveinsideyourhouse1367]

Well in the manga, it was miki imagery torn apart and that moment it obviously miki getting killed...

[@salokin3087]

Who else knows of the original devil man through anime abandon?

[@ThreeG456]

Salokin god that was such a bad review

[@RedAbitbol]

Salokin oh yeah that review where he clearly didn't knew shit while pretending to be a connoisseur by straight up lying and pulling facts/conclusion out of his ass. (Devilman has nothing to do with escapism and is at its core an outcry against war and violence.) truly a shame that one of the finest OVA of the late 80s with amazing talent behind (Kenji Kawai,some animators/designers who actually worked in ghibli,...) mostly got exposure from a lesser nostalgia critic pretending it was shit. Literally everything was wrong with Sage's review, the way he looks down upon storytelling just gets on my nerve.

[@Lunacrystal97]

Spacejumper523 still not as bad as his End of Evangelion review

[@ThreeG456]

Griffin Bond Don't get me started

[@salokin3087]

On that, what was the main issue with that review?

[@strubberyg7451]

about the post credit scene of episode 9... Crybaby makes a lot references to Devilman, the 1972 anime. I mean Xenon was that show's final boss. now the character designs in Crybaby's post credit scene kinda resembles the that iteration. to me it's a parallel world of what could be. Akira and Miki could've ride straight into the horizon, happy, hugging and loving... if humanity wasn't shit...

[@kyshowman6847]

You gonna do a Boondocks episode?

[@MapleMilk]

I'm 100% sure Lupe Fiasco would've been so down to make those raps for the english dub But honestly, I didn't have much of a problem with the parts anyway because I switched between the two so whatever

[@king_of_scotland]

Pewdipie beat you to it my man

[@brotorb]

The pikachu9000 lol, i thought the same

[@theclawyaww3740]

well is the best anime youtuber so its expected

[@javelinmaster2]

wait pewdipie does anime?

[@vaffanculo5085]

He just did a video on devilman. And I would say its a lot better than what you would think.

[@PowerL1N3]

I just realized Production I.G. Could've also reached out to Netflix and made the following seasons through Netflix as a Netflix Original so that it could be in it's purest and rawest form. Kind of like what they did with Devilman. Like after seeing Devilman Crybaby and seeing it became a Netflix Original, A door just opened to raw and uncut anime with complete creative freedom that could really change the industry and introduce new ideas as well as outstanding production for these series.

[@daimarstein]

Didn't even watch the video yet but totally agree with the title.

[@Pekaman66]

Stein, o Shitposter what do you mean? It’s a question.

[@lichmourne00]

I mean, maybe he has the same question? lol

[@playapapapa23]

I do not agree. I think there is not enough criticism on the overall quality of the animation. I like the art style, but the animation feels really choppy. Nothing feels fluid and at times, too often, the show feels like it's barely animated. I am starting to get a little frustrated with the fact that nobody points this out.

[@willywonka6487]

I agree on the choppy animation, ive pointed this out in a few comment sections but its hard to get heard over the mindless praise

[@playapapapa23]

Willy Wonka I like Digibro's videos, and I feel like he'd pillory any other anime that committed the same sin. For me, the show is almost unwatchable.

[@Magnoliales]

Started this video at around 11pm then you gave the spoiler warning, so I decided to go and read Devilman. Finished at and this video 2 hours later. Good video :)

[@mariokarter13]

Devil Man Cry

[@darkersouls1155]

6:37 when you put that shot in there i was like "STOP YOU VIOLATED THE LAW"

[@SergioSunday]

I am also a Devilman.

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

You can call me.. DEVILMAAAAHHHH

[@kennethwilliams543]

You mentioned Guyver and Soul Taker in your vid. You have my full support and attention from now on!