Devilman: Tanjou-hen

Akira Fudou leads the life of a typical high school student. After a chance encounter with school bullies, he is rescued by his childhood friend Ryou Asuka. Ryou and Akira catch up over the course of an afternoon that ends with them crashing a party at a nightclub. Initially uncomfortable with the environment, Akira is shocked when violence provokes some of the club's partygoers to transform into demonic monsters. He and Ryou are only saved from the encounter thanks to the intervention of a great demon known as Amon. Amon possesses Akira, and the two together form the powerful Devilman⁠—a being that, due to the influence of Akira's strong empathy for his fellow man, is resolved to keep the human race safe from the threats of demonkind.

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Asuka, Ryou Main

Mizushima, Yuu Japanese

Fudou, Akira Main

Hayami, Show Japanese

Devilman Main

Hayami, Show Japanese

Makimura, Miki Supporting

Kouyamaki, Jun Japanese

Jinmen Supporting

Professor Asuka Supporting

Terashima, Mikio Japanese

Yamanobe Supporting

Manjirou Supporting

Uchida, Naoya Japanese

Fudou, Kaori Supporting

Ikeda, Masako Japanese

Fudou, Reijirou Supporting

Tsukayama, Masane Japanese

Iida, Umanosuke Director, Script

Nagai, Go Script, Original Creator

Wolskel, John Script

Sakamoto, Eizou Theme Song Performance

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Apr 24, 2022

Abdallah_Rhim

Recommended

🔻مراجعة اوفا ديفل مان الأولى 🔻
(devilman : the birth)

ديفل مان واحد من الأعمال اليابانية العريقة و المؤثرة على الصناعة لمؤلفه غو ناغاي مؤلف جريندايزر و مازينجر و عدة أعمال أخرى ، و تتحدث هذه الأوفا عن الصراع بين البشر و الشياطين و كيف ان الطريقة الوحيدة لمواجهة الشياطين هي أن تصبح شيطان لأن البشر مهما بلغ تطور اسلحتهم لن تصبح نداً للشياطين كما وضح ريو لأكيرا في حوار دار بينهما . شخصياً هذا اول عمل متعلق بالديفل مان لكن لدي بعض المعلومات عن السلسلة و تم حرق بعض الأشياء عليّ

🔴 التقديم

تبدأ الأوفا بمشهد يعرض قتال بين الشياطين و ... يبدو أنه في زمن قديم ، و هذا القتال يريك منذ البداية كمية وحشية الشياطين حتى بين بعضها البعض . اما الشخصيات فرأينا مشهد يظهر فيه البطل اكيرا فودو و هو يجد ارانبه التي يعتني بها قد قتلت الا واحد كان في حالة رعب و طريقة ضمه الى صدره و امساكه بالأرنب تعكس شخصيته اللطيفة و بعد مهاجتمه من قبل الجانحين ظل ممسكاً بالأرنب ما يجعلنا نرى حس اكيرا بالعدالة و لا ننسى وجود حبيبة له ما يرينا انه ايضاً إجتماعي . اما الشخصية الرئيسية الأخرى ريو فظهر و هو يطلب من اكيرا المجيء معه و عند تدخل حبيبة اكيرا اخر سكين و هددها فيه ما يعكس شخصيته العدوانية و طريقة مشيّه التي تبدي عدم الإهتمام الا بما جاء لأجله
و برأي هذا التقديم كان ممتاز 👌

🔵 علاقة ريو و اكيرا

بالنسبة لي علاقة الشخصيات الرئيسية التي تشكل فريق تكون جيدة عندما تكون هذه الشخصيات تكمل بعضها . مثال بسيط من عمل اخر علاقة موب و ريغن بإختصار موب يحتاج لريغين كمعلم و ريغين يحتاج موب لمواصلة مهنته . فدعنا نرى هل علاقة ريو و اكيرا جيدة؟
ريو يحتاج محاربة الشياطين إنتقاماً لوالده ووضحنا أن الطريقة الذي سيعتمدونها هي أن الشيطان يستطيع هزيمة الباقي و لكن لكي يستطيع البشري السيطرة على قوة الشيطان ان يتحول يجب أن يكون شخصاً ذو قلب نقي و لديه حس بالعدالة و هذه صفات اكيرا
و بالنسبة لأكيرا فكان ريو مجرد صديق قديم منذ البداية و بسبب شخصيته الطيبة اراد مساعدته لكن بعد أن اشتد الخطر ما جعله يستمر هو ادراكه أن المخلوقات التي قتلت ابواه هي شياطين بعد أن صدق وجودها و إنتقاماً لهما أستمر بمساعدة ريو . و تم اخبر ريو اكيرا ايضاً ان الشياطين ستعود لإستعادة الأرض و هذا سبب إضافي لإستمرارهما

🟠 الإنتاج

جيد جداً بالنسبة لي و لا اقول هذا بسبب سنة الإنتاج بل هو فعلاً جيد المشاهد الدموية و المؤثرات الصوتية تدخلك الجوّ و الإهتمام بالتفاصيل في داخل الأجساد المقطعة و تمزق الثياب رهيب و رسم الملامح في المشاهد التي تجمع ريو و اكيرا تعكس شخصيتهما خصوصاً العيون و هذا جانب لا يبدع فيه الأعمال الا القليل

🔺️ خاتمة 🔺️

اوفا ديفل مان الأولى مميزة جداً . لم اشاهد نسخة كراي بيبي لكن الناس تفضلها عليه حسب ما رأيت و لم يظهر حتى الأن أي مشهد يوحي بالشذوذ
سبب تقييمي لها بتسعة هو أني فعلياً انتظر تويستات اتوقع تظهر في الأوفا الثانية و اذا ظهرت لن يكون من العدل إعطائهما نفس التقييم ، و تطور اكيرا لم ينتهي بعد
و ربما بعض الرسومات العارية لكن كانت بشعة فعلياً و لا تثير أي شخص لول

🔻Devil Man ova 1 review 🔻
(devilman: the birth)

Devil Man is one of the ancient and influential Japanese works on the industry by its author Go Nagai, author of Grendizer and Mazinger and several other works. This OVA talks about the conflict between humans and demons and how the only way to confront demons is to become a demon because humans, no matter how advanced their weapons are. You will not be a strong enemie for demons, as Ryo explained to Akira in their conversation. Personally, this is the first work related to Devil Man i have watched , but I have some information about the series and some things have been spoilet to me

🔴The beginning

This OVA begins with a scene that shows a fight between demons and it seems that in ancient times, this fight shows you from the start how brutal the demons are even between each other. As for the characters, we have seen a scene where MC Akira Fudo appears while he finds his rabbits he takes care of appearing in horror, the way he holds him on his chest and holds them reflects his cute personality. He is also social and has a girlfriend. And when Ryo comes to take Akira with him, his girlfriend intervenes, but Ryo takes out a knife, which reflects his aggressive personality, and the way he walks reflects his indifferent personality as well. And in my opinion, this presentation was excellent 👌

🔵 Ryo and Akira friendship

For me the friendship of the main characters who make up a team is good when these characters complement each other. A simple example from the work of another friendship Mob and Reagan. Mob needs Regin as a teacher and Regin needs Mob to continue his career. So let's see is Ryo and Akira good friendship? Ryo needs to fight demons to avenge his father and we saw that the way they would adopt is that the devil can defeat the rest, but in order for a mortal to control the power of the devil to transform, he must be a person with a pure heart and a sense of justice and these are the characteristics of Akira .
For Akira, Ryo was just an old friend from the beginning but there was a reason why he continued his friendship with Ryo after the danger increased, and we see that he knew that demons killed his parents and this was one of the reasons why he continued with Ryo's plan. Ryo also tells Akira that the demons will return to take back Earth, which is all the more reason for them to continue

🟠 Animation and sound effects

This aspect was excellent even though this OVA is old. The sound effects and scenes of bloody ruptures were extremely accurate. And the way Ryo and Akira were drawn to reflect their personalities in some scenes, this is something we don't see in some other anime.

🔺️ Conclusion 🔺️

The first Devil Man OVA is very special. I haven't seen the Crybaby version, but people prefer it. According to what I saw, no scenes suggesting homosexuality have yet appeared
The reason I rate it with 9/10 is that I am actually waiting for the twists I expect to appear in the second OVA, and if they appear, it would not be fair to give them the same rating, and Akira's evolution is not over yet .
And maybe for some nude drawings but it was really ugly and didn't excite anyone lol .

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 2, 2019

WhiteWolfKiba

Mixed Feelings

Devilman: The Birth is the first of 3 80's/90's OVA's that adapt roughly the same material as Netflix's terrible Devilman Crybaby. This OVA is somehow both worse and better than Crybaby at the same time, and I'll explain how. First of all the artwork/animation is actually quite good. Despite being made in the late 80's the anime still looks good today because the character designs are very detailed, unlike the 2018 Crybaby. Unfortunately, BECAUSE the art is more detailed, when something very violent/gory happens it makes you sick to your stomach, more so than Crybaby made you feel with its lack of detail in the ... art. I also need to mention how much animal violence is in this anime: several cute bunnies are mutilated by school bullies and Ryo's poor dog is brutally beheaded by his mad father, and both scenes are for shock value. As an animal lover myself I hated this anime for those 2 scenes alone.

This first OVA basically stretches out Crybaby's 1st episode to an hour in length. Not much happens storywise in this OVA aside from giving some much-needed backstory about the demon world (which was absent from Crybaby) as well as details about Ryo's family and how Akira becomes Devilman for the first time. I like how this anime stays focused on the important stuff and doesn't waste your time with track and field stars, "passing the baton," random weird rappers, etc.

In terms of characters, some are more developed, while others are even less developed. For instance Miki is even less developed than her Crybaby version, barely getting any screen time at all. We learn a little more about Ryo here, as we start to feel a little bad for him after seeing all of the crazy stuff he dealt with his dad trying to murder him and killing his dog. Still, it's not long before Ryo goes full-asshole, threatening Miki with a knife just to get her to stop following them?! Next thing you know he's murdering people in that nightclub just to test a theory about demons. When the victimized dancers try to kill Ryo in retaliation and Akira stops them, you find yourself asking, "Why? Why not let them do it?" I'll say this: Akira Fudo is MUCH better here than his Crybaby version! In Crybaby it was so rushed that we barely got to know Akira before he gets possessed by Amon, but in Devilman: The Birth we take our time with this character and he only gets taken over by the demon at the very end. I MUCH prefer this approach to the way Crybaby did it. Instead of simply telling you over and over what a good person Akira is, this version of the anime actually has a scene SHOWING you he's a good person! Imagine that! Here we see how distraught Akira is upon finding the dead bunnies, and he literally puts his life on the line to protect the sole remaining bunny from bloodthirsty bullies. I actually like this Akira so far, and I hope they continue to make him a likable protagonist in the next two OVA's.

Overall, I'd say if you can stomach the animal violence this anime is OK, 6/10. Not great by any means, but part 1 is certainly watchable and preferable to Crybaby. Now let's see how they handled Devilman parts 2 and 3...

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 21, 2020

BerserkerGapher

Not Recommended

Honesty this movie(dub that is) is ironically one of the funniest things ive seen. Just the line delivery is so over the top that it carries the movie. The pacing is actually pretty decent tho but that probably due to short running time. A lot of things bugged me tho like how the music never fit any of the scenes. I had a hard time telling if a scene was supposed to be scary, badass, funny, or sad because all the music cant empahaise anything and when it can the voice acting ruined it. The characters were kinda forgettable and the story was really ... basic. There wasent a lot here but damn this movie is entertaining for all the wrong reasons.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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