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Devilman Crybaby is the edgiest/darkest anime I ever watched
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Devilman Crybaby didnt make me feel anything since I had already seen the OVA's and didn't like the new art style very much. I was just mainly in it to see if I like the modern day changes and was pretty happy, but still greatly prefer the older works.
I'd agree if the show hadn't ended with everyone dying. It isn't even just her death that pushes him by the end, either; her family and his parents have all died by the beginning of the last episode.
lmao, those are quite the choices... I'm halfway through Devilman, and so far the violence / nudity hasn't phased me much.
Is the animation intentionally really bad? I tried watching but I couldn't because it looked like an Adult Swim budget show.
I can put on the anime before the fight starts, you'll fall asleep before ya even touch me. ;D
It wasn't funny to me... :(
It's hot takes like this that are going to turn me into the type of devilman that betrays humanity.
The English dub of the original Devilman was one of those dubs just filled to the brim with a shit ton of gratuitous cursing.
Lol, it was my biggest problem with the anime myself. It's fast paced but the demons look really cheap compared to how awesome they looked like 30 years ago in the OVA's
That would only be true if Miki had little significance beyond her relation to Akira, when if anything it seems to go the other way. Her death brings the broader themes of the show to form, because when confronted with her death, we then have to decide whether the ideals that Miki stood for, or even humanity itself, can be erased by that kind of brutality, or not. And that's basically the question that the show leaves us with.
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Fucking thank you, I felt like I was going crazy when people were legit saying the animation was really good when I posted I couldn't get past the first episode cause it was so bad.
Me and my GF looked at each other about 9 minutes into the first ep and were like "wtf are we even watching, people got paid to do this?"
For Crybaby, the violence didn't phase me much at first. It's just later on in the series where the violence and the events that took place got to me. Like what happened was just fucked up. That's all I can really say about it.
Are you guys talking about the way it moves or the way it looks (the style)? Either way, I disagree, but I could understand any problem you have with the latter.
Mostly the way it looks, but also the way it moves. It look generally low rent af like something someone would put together for Newgrounds back in 2001.
If you have never watched a Yuasa show before this is how he and his team likes to animate the shows he works on and is the usual style/look of it. It is done intentionally.
Funny how that works. I heard about Devilman from Violence Jack but Devilman's world looked like a normal action story. After watching this and reading the original comic I was proven wrong. This is much more dark and sad.Devilman is so insanely bleak that I actually tracked down Violence Jack BECAUSE it has a happier ending with the Devilman/Satan rematch...
I repeat. VIOLENCE JACK has the happy ending.
Looked up Yuasa cause I'm not an anime nerd, found out they did Ping Pong too which... now that I think about it makes sense. Weird though that I really liked Ping Pong (especially the action animation) and am now even more confused as to why Devilman Crybaby looks as poor as it does.
If you want something else to put out the flame of joy in your heart, watch Vampire Princess Miyu (TV). It's on Hulu. I was way too young to be watching it when I did. Jigoku Shojo is also really good.
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I won't say Devilman Crybaby did not have production issues, cause it seemed to run into more bumps than usual and reusing animation. But it still, IMO, has a solid foundation and amazingly animated moments I expected of a Yuasa show, so I did not have many issues with it. Also some episodes were key animated by only 1 person in this show (don't know if Ping Pong did the same thing). But I assume probably because Yuasa could not get as many people on board this time to come work on the show. The Anime industry is packed to the brim with making shows right now so people may be stretched more thin than usual. Budget doesn't matter much with anime. It is all about the talent brought on board that makes the quality of it. It is a misconception people usually make as most anime on TV have similar budgets
Ah yes, Vampire Princess Miyu TV, which did the Grimdark Magical Girl Show well before Madoka.
It's no Bible Black or Urotsukidoji
Edit: sorry, forgot to add they are "grimdark, edgy" since those are the only adjectives allowed in this thread
Edit: sorry, forgot to add they are "grimdark, edgy" since those are the only adjectives allowed in this thread
Wow. Comparing tween flash animation with fluid animation often done on ones.
Reminder - this is a famous example of 2001 Newgrounds animation:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/28240?id=28240
Reminder - this is a famous example of 2001 Newgrounds animation:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/28240?id=28240
I stopped watching like 5 minutes into the first episode because the artstyle seemed really lazy.
Maybe it gets better later on. But maybe they should do a better job of not scaring people off with how terrible the opening scenes of the show look.
From what I saw, it looked low budget as hell.
One of the first scenes is literally a still image of a character being dragged through a still environment. No animations beyond moving X and Y coordinates of still objects.
Maybe it gets better later on. But maybe they should do a better job of not scaring people off with how terrible the opening scenes of the show look.
From what I saw, it looked low budget as hell.
I really wished I hadn't seen the OVAs or read the manga before watching this so that I could feel the dread of the ending like you guys have experienced.
You mean the scene of a guy travelling on a travelator? You've been to an airport right? People tend to stand still on them. Which I should note is over 5 minutes into the show, meaning you ignored a lot of animation up to that point.
I think Miki's death is more nuanced than the way women get fridged historically. Miki isn't killed off to motivate Akira into action against a villain. Miki's death symbolized the death of everything good in the world. It's the death of hope that this story could possibly have a happy ending. Without her there's nothing left but apocalyptic march toward extinction.
Evangelion is an interesting, if flawed, gem of a show that revitalized original television anime and anyone who wants to familiarize themselves with anime should experience the show.
OP, this person has trash taste. Eva is incredible. Check it out.
havent watched many have ya OP :/
Don't get me wrong OP, Crybaby is good by all means...but its always amusing to me to have people listing the newest or mainstream series out there on "top 10 best" lists and such.
For those of us going through the 2000s, 90s, 80s and even 70s, its not exactly something accurate
Don't get me wrong OP, Crybaby is good by all means...but its always amusing to me to have people listing the newest or mainstream series out there on "top 10 best" lists and such.
For those of us going through the 2000s, 90s, 80s and even 70s, its not exactly something accurate
JoJo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eva. Show clearly hampered by budget issues. Nonsensical story with no character development in protag. Eva spoiler
Also what is the justification for a giant vagina monster with eyeballs n vaginas in its hands. Like why? Literally nothing happens in the show except for having everyone die.Its edgy for the sake of being edgy and thats it. Edgy can be good, but not "lol look at all these mentally ill characters, ok they're dead now."
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I can't tell if your spoiler is about JoJo, Devilman Crybaby, or Evangelion.
My issue with Devilman is how dark (actually dark, opposite of light) it is.. There are entire fight scene in the dark. CANT SEE SHIT CAPTAIN... I guess they fight but its such wasted animation...
I thought the same thing. After I watched this great anime I was in my school gym class, and I thought "okay baby, let's DO THIS" quietly to myself. We were practising doing relay runs passing the baton. I had flashbacks of Miki, so pure and full of light and joy and quite pretty and respectful. When the baton was fingered to me, all I could think of was passing it to Ryo, my good friend whom I most love. Then I don't know something hit me in my heart's chest, like the icy chill of snowflakes on a long lost child's smile in the cold winter, but at the same time I was burning hot fire in my chest and please excuse me but also in my crotch. And IDK I just started running harder, harder and harder, harder and harder and harder, and I was on all fours just like the Devilmen and woman do it in the show! Like how the show is real and the old 70s show is fake and in the show, I think maybe the story was real and of course now the show is fake to use the common parlance. Almost like a prophecy. But please don't worry about me. I've been watching the news, scanning for activity of you-know-what, and checking social media and when the call comes I will answer the call even though it may be futile because all of life is futile anyway, humans are so stupid and it's very sad but also makes me quite pissed off pretty much all the time even before I took over the body of a demon. It's very hard life, and I have bad dreams just like Akira Fudo-sama, and I fight the urges almost every day, probably five days out of every seven days usually at school is when my violent thought is triggered. But even when humans are stupid to me I just laugh and think "fuck you" and run away on all fours faster than a lightning.
It was some kind of demonic influence and I'm glad I told you all even though I know some of you may laugh too at me. And you know what I'll have to say? "Fuck you"!!! because I don't actually care what any of you believe but please listen to me for your own sake and I'll swear I'm saying the truth.
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