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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Fuck, I knew it all along. The gateway to hell is a 80s pop-rock disco. |
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| The storytelling could be done better, a lot better... but at least it still leads where it sets out to lead... to a depraved and perverse bloodpath... |
ballistique said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Fuck, I knew it all along. The gateway to hell is a 80s pop-rock disco. And tits. Don't forget tits. |
| Love that needle's to the head part and the tits part as well :D 4/10. |
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| after watching this OVA.. me: "What's happened to anime?" the first 3 minutes were amazing & weird! loved the music! 9.5/10 |
Satou0KunJan 31, 2014 10:01 AM
| oh god the english dub is awful "Can I wear my shoes in here?" "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!" |
| Don't forget. Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone. |
| If I'm understanding correctly, fairies killed the dinosaurs and bullies demand bunnies. I just can't watch any father, it's too terrible. |
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| It was okay I guess? I felt that things went waaaaay too fast in pacing. First he's concerned about bunnies and getting a girlfriend, and the very same day he accepts the pact of the devil and to leave behind everything in the process to dedicate his life fighting demons, with a grin on his face. Why isn't he upset in the slightest that his friend put him in such a horrible position? And then you have the disco ritual part. Ignoring the ridiculous situation, how did they transform again? Just by abandoning reason and following their instincts? Wouldn't the world be infested with demons all the time then? They just party, get violent and suddenly *BAM* demon transformations. Riiight. Akira never even met the requirements, he just ran out of fear and apparently that was enough to ignite his turning. In any case, it has some nicely 80s animated gore. It's an okay watch, but they didn't think this story through at all. Stuff just happens without rhyme or reason. |
| This OVA only felt like it was for those that have read the manga. Enjoyable enough I guess but still got boring at parts. |
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| I think it's a pretty good adaption of the manga. Could be a bit better, but I like the suspense behind it. I think Devilman needs a new anime adaption of the manga. If they get Mad House behind it, you will get a big hit in my opinion. |
| I understand that they needed to become demons, well, Akira did, but they killed innocent people in the process. The transformation was cool, but that ending was kinda confussing, why did Ryou die anyway, because if Akira did it, he would have been torn apart. |
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| A good tension-building prologue for Devilman. This OAV succeeds in hooking you by establishing the starting point of the saga, helped by a revamped design still faithful to Nagai, fine drawings supporting those visuals and a perfect music score (the strongest element to me) except for the oddly kitsch track (almost "super-hero like") toward the end. The voices were sounded adequate. It could have been a lot better if the direction was not so uninspired even compared to Nagai's own style (though, a scene during the first visit seemed pretty "Nagai-esque"). And a typical weakness of Nagai is preserved by the adaptation: situations made to get you but so improbable they lead to many obvious questions (that you are supposed to throw away). Enjoyment: 5/5 without a doubt. Score: 8/10 Quasi-perfect introduction to the manga. February 28, 2018 @lihle808 He doesn't. He even appears in the OAV who adapts the second tome of the manga. March 10, 2022 sjbauer said: Actually, 80s films and most of 80s OAVs (like this one) were well-made thanks to the money and time allocated.well made for how old it is. |
Rei_IIIMar 10, 2023 3:54 AM
| Serious ethical issues going on here... Plot itself is weak as water. |
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| Okay, I loved it when Akira protected the bunny. |
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| Best worst dub lol |
| I found it to be quite derivative |
| That was hella gruesome, with graphical intense scenes especially at the sabbath party. What I don't understand did Ryo really die in the end? If he did he would've been pathetic to die in such a stupid manner. Overall I thought it was good even if it had a limited time( it is an ova after all). 7/10. |
lihle808Feb 28, 2018 2:32 PM
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| This was beautiful. The edgy-ass dub, the fluid animation, the outlandish, satanic scenarios and designs. Truly the schlocky OVA adaptation the original manga deserved. 11/10 |
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| Quite the blast seeing this again. |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| woah- i'm 40 minutes into this and am like- ....why are the cute blonde guys always the most evil >:v? sure, i bet there's an argument about "necessary evil", but still "-let's murder all these people i've kept locked up down here for god knows how long!" "-you're crazy, this is crazy, they can get killed with guns- i'm gonna kill them with guns. and maybe kill you too since you think nothing of killing all these humans-" |
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Satou0Kun said: after watching this OVA.. me: "What's happened to anime?" the first 3 minutes were amazing & weird! loved the music! 9.5/10 I'm watching this again and honestly, I love it more than ever. I also feel the same as you, what has happened to anime? I mean, if you could make gore look so grotesque and beautiful at the same time, then they nailed it in those first 3 minutes. I still love anime and probably always will, but the stuff from the past just hits differently. I like the look of a lot of modern anime shows, but the stuff from the past is just so much easier on the eye. |
| I liked it but the pacing was just little off in my opinion. Like at the start we were introduced to Akira's crush and Akira crying over some dead bunnies, and later that day he was killing hundreds of demons without even hesitating. Honestly I think that this was too short maybe something like 1 1/2 hours would have made it even better. Imo the ritual part was hilarious. The transformation was pretty cool but I don't get it how Akira's personality changed so much. He literally went berserk and slaughtered everybody there. I get it like he controlled a demon and stuff but still he was fully able to transform back to his human form and cry over Ryo's death. 7/10 |
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| Ryou's Spanish dubbed dialogues were hilarious, actually this whole thing was hilarious! Eccentric combination of fairies, dinosaurs, demons, boobs and even a disco, I can't take this seriously, lol. The music was great tho, Kawai Kenji did an awesome job. |
| Damn this was done very nicely, Although they altered stuff here and there but still this was pretty faithful to the manga and I enjoyed every second of it! |
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