This show has every trashy trope you can think but
THERE IS NO PLOT ARMOR.
Watching this feels like having your favorite cocktail served in a cracked glass that may or may not shatter before you're done drinking. Or like a metalcore cover of an 80's classic. On a paper, it doesn't break any new ground, but somehow it does. It is comfort food, but tense. It is predictable, but you can't tell what happens next. Ayy, enough rambling. Give it a watch, make your opinion (and tell me how my similes suck)
I give it a nine, I was royally entertained.
Aug 14, 2024
Drop this anime after 1st season. You're welcome.
Here's a few reasons why the second season is not worth your time (neither is this review) 1) Characters It was frustrating how little agency the main cast had. You could pretty much leave them out and the story would play out about the same. But wait, there is a line up of brand new characters, surely these guys have awesome story to te-- nope, they are awful. If you're at the last episode of the season and can't even remember the name of the character this thing is about, yeah, that's not good, that means you just don't care. ... 
Jul 18, 2021
Devilman: Crybaby
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I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Never have I ever seen this much responsibility on Netflix shoulders as in 2018. Devilman:Crybaby was the first anime show that they had ever produced by themselves was fairly an ambitious project even for a giant corporation such as Netflix for these specific reasons: 1) It was a reboot of already existing anime series, in times, when reboots are not handled well. 2) The known the fact that Netflix is largely oriented to western audiences 3) (anime) streaming platforms were a saturated market There was no way to accurately predict how this endeavor is going to turn out. Before I ... |
