It all builds up to the tragedy that eventually happens in the story. What happens to Miki's family quite differs from the anime. She doesn't feel nearly as outgoing as the Miki from DMCB sadly. She helps bring a sense of normalacy to the story, along with the Makimura family, although they also do this with the rappers from Devilman Crybaby. She is actually quite the honest girl who also happens to hold a special place in Akira's heart. Just from the first chapter you can already tell how well she happens to know Akira, and she isn't afraid to stand up to bullies.
Miki is easily the ideal girlfriend for Akira. Its not until the end that Ryo finally realizes how much he loved Akira, but that was pretty obvious with his actions during the series. He is a fine example of what happens to a character when they push away the concept of love completely from themselves. There was even a fair share of foreshadowing for Ryo in the Devilman Crybaby, if you're looking hard enough. The build up with the plottwist with Ryo was pretty well done, most figuring it out from the foreshadowing. He is the driving force behind Akira throughout the series. He is a cold detached individual who also happens to be pretty calculating. Ryo has always been the character who has unconsciously been manipulating everything from the background, not just with Akira but with the later events in the series. He will take matters into his hands, consequences be damned, all while being driven by Ryo, the one behind his journey the entire time. He not one to sit idlely by when stuff is happening. Nevertheless he's still a good character who still cares a lot about the people who are getting slaughtered by demons. Akira just has that nice boost of confidence when he becomes Devilman, although at the same time he isn't as portrayed nearly as empathetically as the Akira from Devilman Crybaby. A pretty normal guy who has a pretty crazy friend being Ryo who happens to get friend involved in something big, but was willing to go through it because he has a good heart that wants to put others first. Akira is a pretty straightforward protagonist to put it simply. I also like to add that the nudity feels like a theme to the lust that adds up to the nature of humans and demons for the series, which adds to the themes of Devilman pretty well.Ĭharacters- For the most part, I think the characters are for the most part pretty decent. Tragedy is never far from the characters of Devilman. And the author isn't afraid of showing some of the explicit violence that happens with some of the really unlucky characters.
Devilman manga panel series#
Easily one of the goriest shonen series to come out in the 1970s. The author really adds to the atmosphere with the body horror transformations we see with some of the demons and the characters. Its one hell of a crazy ride from start to finish!Īrt- Now the art looks pretty decent for the most part. The story begins to take a different turn when humans begin to discover that demons really exist and that in turn begins to affect how society begins to fall apart at the seams, leading to all of hell breaking loose. Within the first volume, we finally get to see Akira turn into Devilman and that is when Akira's war against the demons truly begins.
I think for the most part the manga does a good job explaining its themes because it takes the time to explain them more effiently compared to the anime, not to say that the anime does a bad job of it. He plans to have Akira fuse with a demon because he has the qualities to control its powers, and explains how they plan to do it. After explaining to Akira that demons are trying to take over the human race and proof of how they've always existed, he explains his plan of fighting back against the demons. Ryo fires some shots from his gun to scare them off, then spirits away Akira for a plan he has in mind. Story- The manga is basically following the story of Crybaby beat for beat during the introduction when Akira and Miki are jumped by some punks on their way to school. Here are some of the finer points of why I think Devilman may be Go Nagai's best work. Now out of curiousity I have read the original story by Go Nagai and I still think it holds up pretty well.
I think a big part of why I got into the Devilman manga was because of the fact that I saw Devilman Crybaby, one of the first big hit anime to come out 2018.
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