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Look, the story of this anime is great because it's Berserk. Berserk has good story and as far as I know, they didn't change much from original manga. So story is good and well-paced. The decision to change or remove parts of original story for anime adaptation is on director and staffs so they did made right decision by stick to the source material.

Also, we've finally move away from Golden Age arc to Black Swordsman arc, so that's a plus. Credits to them for not repeating the same story for third time. Nothing wrong with GA arc tho. It just got adapted like twice at ... this point.

Suzumu Hirasawa came back to made OST for this show too and his music are still GODLY.

BUT THE ANIMATION, MAN. I get that Berserk is hard to animate due to Miura's God-Made art style, especially with TV budget. But there's no way you gonna do Berserk justice when characters look like cardboard cutout that just survived F5 level tornado like that.

Beautiful Nightmare.

To me, this is THE definitive Devilman. Even surpass the original. Of course, this is subjective view but to me this is THE best Devilman adaptation ever.

Yuasa's expressionism style goes surprisingly well with Devilman's dark and depressing story. Every sad and heartbreaking moments got amplified to 1000 by the highly expressive art style. Characters' face and body contorted and flex along with their emotions that breaking and twisting in exaggerated yet realistic way that you can clearly feel their pain and sadness. Visuals of this anime just clawed into your feelings real deep that there will be some scenes that's going to burn into ... your memory longer than you expected.

The grim story that Devilman was known of also executed perfectly. It feels very organic. Not exaggerated for the sake of showing gore or sex to shock viewers but to naturally portray these sides of human beings. Some part also got changed to add feeling of realism to the story. It's pretty strange and fascinating how the most unrealistic looking Devilman anime portrayed the most realistic tone and emotion the most.

Also, music by Kensuke Ushio which mixed between orchestral and techno fits the show surprisingly well. They weren't just sounds good and memorable but they also supercharged emotions in each moments to the max like some kind of emotion nitro rocket fuel or something. Like the art style, they can sounds unconventional in some tracks but it fits well.

I swear my brain fried itself halfway into this anime.
On one hand it kinda have experimental feels to it. Like someone who were really into several cool stuffs on Japanese TV or cinema tried to pack all of those stuffs into one OVA. So you have superpower martial arts, demons, dark fantasy, sci-fi, dimension traveling beings, Tiger Mask, even SPACE SHERIFF FOR CRYING OUT LOUD going crazy and doing their stuffs in one hour movie like some kind of 80's Japanese Avengers.

It's as chaotic as it sounds. Plot was as light as balloon that you don't know if things you see in the movie ... make sense or not. You might not like it if you want anime with strong story to follow. I certainly not a big fan of it. I also can't deny that the chaotic mess that it is has some charm to it like some B action movies.

Also, animation in this OVA is GOD-MADE. Fight scenes were fluid and beautifully animated and gore were so well animated they were both disgusting and breathtaking at the same time. Especially the scene which a girl got reconstructed from bones to flesh. Peak animation quality there.