1 : Devilman: Crybaby Recap [CRACKED]

"Devilman Crybaby" starts with a simple premise: Akira Fudo (Griffin Burns), an emotional crybaby, learns from his mature friend Ryo (Kyle McCarley) that demons are possessing humans. The best way to fight them is to let a demon into the body, overpower it through sheer force of will, and use the gained powers to mercilessly slaughter demons. Akira is possessed by the demon Amon and does regain his mental faculties, or enough to remember that he must kill demons, not humans.

1 : Devilman: Crybaby Recap

I met Masaaki Yuasa at Anime Expo a few years back. When he was first announced as the director of DEVILMAN crybaby, I remembered seeing him speak effusively of loving mainstream anime, prizing his work on Crayon Shin-chan, and wishing he'd had the chance to work on a series like Naruto. Well, it's hard to get more mainstream than Devilman! Go Nagai's action-horror tale of one youth's transformation into a vengeful monster may have been out of the mainstream for a while, but there was a time when Devilman aired at 8:30pm on Saturday nights! That time was 45 years ago though, so this is a series that's due for a modern re-imagining.

Science SARU had a lot of creative freedom on this project - Aniplex and Dynamic Planning Inc. are the sole listed production partners, along with exclusive broadcaster Netflix. They really took this to heart, making a Devilman that's filled with crazy, colorful violence and depraved imagery, a series that dances riotously and fearlessly on the edge of hardcore pornography. A story like this shouldn't have to pull any punches, and very little is held back in DEVILMAN crybaby's exploration of human violence.

I watched parts of DEVILMAN crybaby in English and parts in Japanese. The dub is a perfectly solid piece of work, with Griffin Burns playing a nicely energetic Akira against Kyle McCarley's chilled-out, almost emotionless Ryo. In Japanese, Koki Uchiyama and Ayumu Murase's similar chemistry is whiplash-inducing if you're used to the actors' pugnacious rapport from Haikyuu!!. The best part of the Japanese cast is Megumi Han as Miki; she turns in an emotionally charged performance that sets her apart once again. 041b061a72