Devilman: Crybaby Episode 10 Discussion

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Jul 16, 2023 9:18 AM

#501

Sanjii_1234

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anaksimenes said:
while akira and ryo fighting, there was a cutscene from their childhood. akira takes the flag from miki and hands it to ryo but ryo never takes the flag and flag drops. is there any meaning about there.

it's a timeloop where Satan will always experience this sorrow of never experiencing the emotion to love akira but always feel it when it's too late

Jul 28, 2023 9:40 PM

#502

UsagiNoLotie

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Mar 2023

what a bizzare film when I finally am old enough to watch as its colorful..dark , grim yet mature scenes and themese that is so bittersweet (the studio with tehri own flair of the old devilman classic and slgith changes or only anime changes I appreciate)

Jul 29, 2023 1:14 PM

#503

ajcolins

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Jul 2023

I watched it in one go and was kinda tired but I found it a good watch

Aug 6, 2023 5:16 PM

#504

kitanafv

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Jul 2023

absolutely atrocious and terrifying but delightful at the same time

Aug 7, 2023 12:14 PM

#505

Addict567

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Mar 2023

So, I ended the series in one go and i think that the animation art style was really shitty BUT the story was AWESOME.

Aug 13, 2023 7:13 PM

#506

Kenji_3

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Mar 2022

528

Ryo pulling the knife on those capybaras made my heart skip a beat.

Sep 4, 2023 1:01 AM

#507

OreWaKrushna

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Jul 2023

can someone explain me the post credit scene

Oct 7, 2023 3:30 PM

#508

JedanKomad

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Mar 2021

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this definitely needed a lot more episodes.

I bet I would've loved it then. Everything was so rushed...

Oct 19, 2023 10:46 AM

#509

Christina__

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Sep 2020

actually a masterpiece

Oct 30, 2023 6:58 PM

#510

TheStarscream759

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Well this was certainly a ride, a bleak and dark one at that. It’s definitely emotional and powerful as anime, we do get a sense of what the relationship between Akira and Ryo are as a whole, for the most part the visuals are pretty good. My gripe with it is that it’s quite short in length with just 10 episodes capping it as it were. The finale was great as miserable as it was but it was a great series for me and it was a good to wrap things up.

I’m not really someone who has read the manga or seen the original OVAs and what have you but regardless I was able to understand without seen any of those. I’ll give this show an 8/10.

Oct 31, 2023 4:29 AM

#511

ToTheGyz

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Apr 2023

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Really sick final episode. Really good action, lots of backstory and reveals and everybody dies. Really great ending. Very surprising as well where this show went.

Nov 30, 2023 9:59 PM

#512

NoviSun

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Aug 2018

1822

Not bad, but I liked Maou Dante & Devilman Lady more.

Dec 2, 2023 4:57 AM

#513

MxS7HGS

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Watching Devilman Crybaby makes me thankful that anime exists. Adapting this into live-action is impossible with all the R-18 stuff, and that action, in the end, would require dozens of millions of USD to make it look cool, and these types of movies never get hundreds of millions of dollars in budget.

Dec 11, 2023 7:11 PM

#514

DiamondRed

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Feb 2018

Maldita obra de are

Jan 3, 2024 5:16 AM

#515

NandroLoner

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Jan 2024

Decent anime about devilman. I disliked very little about it.

Jan 15, 2024 1:22 PM

#516

DioBrando_69420

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Jul 2020

350

Rewatched the whole thing again for fifth time never fails to make me cry... PEAK FICTION!

Mar 12, 2024 1:33 PM

#517

KitanoKen66

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Jul 2021

Incredible ending what a masterclass

Jun 4, 2024 3:25 PM

#518

jukieta

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Jul 2021

gooooooooooooood

Jul 13, 2024 3:24 AM

#519

L-S-M-F-T

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BRAVO!!! damn fantastic!!! Great job to everyone involved! What an ending!!!

Man, all the emotion this hits you with... It musta gone right over my head the last times I watched it cause there's so much more than just a crazy fight and the world ending.

I'm glad I rewatched Devilman Crybaby and I look forward to revisiting this story in the future.

Jul 26, 2024 8:22 PM

#520

CursedSempai

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Sep 2020

this whole anime is absolute cinema. and this episode is the culmination of that fact. i will need some detox to recover my mental health tho

Jul 27, 2024 12:04 PM

#521

Dragonobo

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Sep 2023

Reply to JedanKomad

this definitely needed a lot more episodes.

I bet I would've loved it then. Everything was so rushed...

@Odabrani Absolutely not lmao, something like erased would've needed more episodes not devilman smh

Jul 29, 2024 7:40 AM

#522

Cullwick

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Aug 2020

la concha de tu madre Satanas

Aug 14, 2024 11:53 PM

#523

IzanaSolos

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Dec 2021

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Gonna to take some time to process everything. I’d heard the manga was intense—violent, sexual, and with a mind-bending ending—but I wasn’t prepared for this. Satan? That battle? Everyone dying? It was both narmy and absolutely glorious at the same time.

I had my issues with the series, but these last three episodes kind of made up for it. Too much, and I mean WAYYYYY TOOOOO MUCHHHH Nudity in this show man... FUCK. The ending was iffy, but they did what they could with the episode count. It was definitely an experience.

Now I’m even more excited to see what Science SARU has in store for the Dandadan fights.

Aug 28, 2024 4:42 AM

#524

zer0n21

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Jul 2024

honestly it was really tragic, I already knew that Akira would die because I saw that specific somewhere before, but man it hits pretty hard, makes me feel empty inside, and honestly I don’t much left to say about this.

Sep 30, 2024 9:06 PM

#525

Rice122

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Feb 2021

It was very bad and felt rushed the whole story was

Oct 13, 2024 9:51 AM

#526

frierensmid

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Sep 2024

Literal trash, so anticipated, i was lowk excited to watch just to find out it had a 10 dollar fucking budget for animation and the story-line is even worse than devilman

Nov 7, 2024 6:47 AM

#527

HisokaButtFucka

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Jun 2024

Worst anime of all time

Nov 12, 2024 4:34 AM

#528

YokaiVapor

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Jul 2020

Hagorama said:
Fuck that was really powerful,
Quite literally everyone dies.
Ep 9 and 10 were really great.

Why Did ryo grew a pair of breasts??

A solid 8/10 for me,
Art and sound were 10/10 though.
If it would have had more sol moments would have given it a 10

Liked it way better than the other stuff made by science saru.

it's really disappointing to me all of the people not understanding why Satan has breasts at the end. that is literally the lore of satan/baphomet. the divine hermaphrodite. it's real life mythology just like most of this anime. look up a picture of baphomet gain a little bit of culture for once why don't you...

Dec 13, 2024 9:08 PM

#529

LotteGiants

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Dec 2019

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I can see how this would've been mindbending and a cult classic back in the 70s and even this version might've been something special if I had less perspective when I saw it but at this point in my life it just feels like a rather cheap bunch of nonsense. I respect that it was able to absolutely go 100% for a nihilistic message but as a well-adjusted adult I fundamentally find that messaging laughable on a core level. Horrible things do actually happen in history but when fictional media portrays it seriously without any balance I find it to be a waste of time. If you actually think this portrayal of humanity is really really true then there is no point in living and if there's no point in living then there's an easy remedy to that. Which is why its a waste of time to take that seriously and anyone that stays alive to argue that is a maladjusted poser.

As for the quality of the storytelling in this show...it isn't good. Aside from a few beats about who the characters are (in the literal sense, not their personalities) you could cut out like half the episodes and miss nothing. Nobody really changes during the course of the show and everything basically turns on why Ryo is such a piece of shit. I figured it out around episode 6 or 7 and then the show goes for a bunch of unearned emotional moments by overloading how shocking the deaths of these paper-thin nobodies are. The rappers are really the only characters that have any sort of arc, honestly. Like, the first three episodes where Miki has that stupid photographer trying to molest her are so insanely pointless in retrospect. Not that it felt like a well-told plotline at the time but by the end it feels like literal filler.

I also think this show is very ugly. Ping Pong is one of my favourite anime and its art is also quite ugly in stills. The difference is that Ping Pong uses that to show extreme deformation of characters while they play and it can integrate fantastical stuff quite easily and it creates its own unique look that is fantastic. Devilman Crybaby does a bit of psychedelic stuff early on and then it gives up on doing anything interesting with its art and hides its obligatory action behind darkness and bad editing. It wants to look like Shingeki no Kyojin but it doesn't have the chops and it just suffers for it. I have no idea what the budget was for this show but the end result makes it seem like it was done cheaply by a studio without enough experience to pull off the kind of action scenes needed.

I'm honestly not entirely sure how I feel about the sound design for this show. I do like the music and it feels like it nods to the 70s show while being modern but I'm not sure if it actually blends well with the show itself. A good OST is fine but it doesn't feel like it enhances the show just by being good. As for sound effects and the like, I don't think this show does anything special. I have this same complaint about Dandadan. Not every studio can make sounds as instantly iconic as David Production or do what Sunrise does with its Gundams but I can't think of any particularly amazing sounds from this show. Its all just fine.

Honestly, this show was good enough to get me to finish without forcing myself so I can't say its bad but even though I went in with no expectations I'm still somehow disappointed. I think Masaaki Yuasa just doesn't make things I think are genuinely good other than Ping Pong (which is a legacy cementing masterpiece). I don't like phrasing criticism this way but he truly does make stuff that people love to think is very smart but is actually just directionless crap. Not that Devilman doesn't try and say anything at all but I think its substance is very slight and people that haven't ever seen anything trying to say what it gestures toward will think it is very smart and deep despite it being some cheap gut punches and silly nihilism and nothing more.

I think I wrote a review here that sounds like a 3/10 but I feel comfortable with a 6/10 ("Fine" as MAL rates that). It was somewhat entertaining and it at least takes a shot at some big themes even if they are all muddled and trip over each other. This show will be a catalyst for some people to think more about anime and story-telling in general and maybe bigger things than those. I do hope that those people eventually rewatch this years later and see that it isn't the pinnacle of anything though.

Jan 13, 11:29 PM

#530

dz__hrsh

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guys ...btw who is amon anyway??

Feb 4, 1:23 PM

#531

Kingofallkings

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May 2024

Between 7-8 for me. Has a lot of problems but liked it more than s1 of Chainsaw Man, which I just watched. Lol brutal. Good series. It started out as an average action series but turned into something better in the second half. Phenomenal ending. Go past the credits and you’ll see a post-credit scene that makes the ending slightly less bleak.

As for Yuasa, still like Tatami way more but if I ever have the urge to rewatch it might grow on me.

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