This review does contain spoilers Or rather I realized some of the images themselves I included are spoilery So therefore pow a spoiler warning just to be safe but it really feels like I was one of the very last people I know of on this planet Earth to actually finally watch this so why am I even talking 500https://i.ur.com/9w16IQa.gif Devilman Crybaby directed by Masaaki Yuasahttps://anilist.co/staff/100068/MasaakiYuasa The Tatami Galaxyhttps://anilist.co/anime/7785/TheTatamiGalaxy/ Kaibahttps://anilist.co/anime/3701/Kaiba/ Ping Ponghttps://anilist.co/anime/20607/PingPongtheAnimation/ etc is a fucking wonderful and goofy ride from beginning to end. Gore weird sexual shit and human suffering all over the place. Thanks Netflix 440https://i.ur.com/flRxBEl.png No censorship whatsoever lets just dive right iwell okay. The blood of demons is like mustard yellow? But I guess that was an actual specific design choice maybe? 440https://i.ur.com/XvKyPVb.png Apparently the blood of demons in the original mangahttps://anilist.co/manga/31474/Devilman/ or other Devilman adaptations is supposed to be/was red but... I get it it would have been a lot of red on the screen if everyone bled the same. The demons bleed mustard its... acceptable I guess. After all just because their blood isnt red doesnt make their deaths any less violent than the deaths of the various humans. 440https://i.ur.com/i62WG3F.png But no just jumping right into it this series was fucking fantastic. But personally I almost had a hard time taking it seriously half of the time? I mean yes the gore is over the top and there is certainly a darker tone throughout a lot of the show not just the end it was still... almost silly. In a refreshing way. Oh and I should note that I had zero knowledge of anything Devilman prior to watching Crybaby. 440https://i.ur.com/1lLcI6A.png 440https://i.ur.com/EjQ2EYu.png The show is just so openly heavy handed with a lot of the more emotional or darker sequences and/or scenes. As a matter of fact initially I was honestly kind of not having this show. 440https://i.ur.com/mXMmSHi.png I was just kind of bored and uninterested for a good portion of the first episode but then Ryo showed up snatched away our main character Akira and then just immediately goes to a nightclub to start an actual bloodbath. 440https://i.ur.com/GyLmT87.png There are just so many big tonal shifts or things that almost felt like they were too silly? Like the fact that the original 70s Devilman exists in the Crybaby version of the universe. Like Akiras entire character after changing into Devilman. Like the rap group. When the rap first started I just immediately wanted it to stop. But by the end of the show I realized the rap group actually fitted surprisingly well within the puzzle that is Devilman Crybaby. To be honest there were plenty of moments that I felt that were very obviously out to get the viewer to feel emotional. A lot of these moments didnt really work for me? 440https://i.ur.com/zjeVPWd.png But thats maybe just me because Im assuming not many people who watched this were actively cheering on for more death. Unfortunately going into this I was very familiar with a certain serieshttps://anilist.co/manga/30002/Berserk/ that was heavily inspired by Devilman so that led to my viewing experience being irrevocably altered. As from the very beginning I had numerous assumptions about certain characters. Despite this though I really really really liked a certain character. Ryo. I could take or leave Akira. 440https://i.ur.com/XzYAlFB.png Ryo was just so fucking cool from beginning to end and the fact that there is a character who causes all of the havoc and mayhem of a series by taking his best friend to a nightclub and then starting a massacre with his own two hands and a broken bottle is amazing. ...You know me saying that I essentially didnt care about the emotional weight of most of this series would make you think I disliked this series. But its quite the opposite. Like the three main words I would use to describe Devilman Crybaby is goofy gory and fun. Yet the series literally ends with... 440https://i.ur.com/JhDet1p.png The gore. The soundtrackhttps://www..com/watch?v=jiAp85OVaJ4. The demons. The excessive emotion manipulation that fucking baton jesus christ. The endless amounts of death. The animation that consistently walks the tightrope between goofy and over the top. These are the primary reasons why I loved Devilman Crybaby. As a matter of fact as far as like action series go its certainly up there for one of the ones that have entertained me the most recently. I think no matter what your personal opinion ends up being on this show you gotta at least admit that its unique. 440https://i.ur.com/VNOgbXG.png ...I gotta give it a 99 out of 100. Theres just no denying how much enjoyment I actually got out of it. Ive more than once said that gore isnt everything but you know... the entertaining and crazy action stacked on top of it made it work in my opinion. It almost feels like I am absolutely restricted from not loving it. Like if it wasnt for some of the purposely goofier stuff the fucking rap and some of the... sexual stuff I almost 100 loved this series through and through. 440https://i.ur.com/nPquIId.png Like wow who knew. An adaptation of an overly violent and dark series with very strange sexual stuff apparently CAN work in 2018. You just need people who want to actually make it. And... people who are actually talented and/or know what theyre doing. And... a way around the very obvious limitations that censorship is gonna put on it. And... probably money... and... if the original manga series is actually concluded and not indefinitely inprogress that... also probably helps. 15https://i.ur.com/dWkjMLN.gif AHEM. Devilman Crybaby Watch it If you havent already. As long as youre not averse to horribly violent and/or sexual stuff And maybe youll actually respond better emotionally to the story because unlike me maybe youre not a fucking psychopath. Because arguably one of the most messed up scenes of the entire show I would maybe actually probably describe it with the word beautiful. Granted its of course also fucking grisly and dark but its beautiful I love Devilman Crybaby 500https://i.ur.com/Ms96nSQ.png