You can feel the despair, the love, the violence, the cruelty, it's all there, it's Devilman on it's purest essence.
Not to mention Yuasa's beautiful directing and the excellent OST this adaptation has, overall it's a very enjoyable take on the original manga that manages to make an excellent unique and modern take on the message the original manga presented
As far as characters go i think most of them are great, specially Miki, seeing how little of a character she had in the original manga while here in Crybaby she's easily the most likeable character, i really loved her role here and it makes the post credit scene in episode 9 brutally sad, Ryo and Akira are pretty accurate to their manga selves, tho i felt Akira wasn't as heroic as he was in the manga, however it works and you can truly feel he's the heroic demon with a human heart he's meant to be.
There were some characters i didn't like, those being Miko and Koda, Koda was a dumb pointless character that i literally could never care about no matter how much i tried, this anime original fellow always felt like he didn't belong there, Miko was sorta similar, however she was a much more interesting character, yet her character never really went anywhere, she felt like wasted potential, i wish we had gotten to see more interactions with this character but they just didn't happen, even if i liked her scene at the end of episode 9 i didn't enjoy this character at all.
When it comes to changes to the story i enjoyed most of it as it stays faithful to the events in the original manga, some events happen in different order and some events change location and context whoever they mantain the original message.
But there were some changes i didn't enjoy: i didn't like the way demons finally came into contact with humans in this adaptation with the whole marathon competition thing, it felt kinda rushed, i didn't like the Jinmen fight either, the context was better with it involving Akira's parents, but the fight itself was really bad, and i think that's pretty much it.
I loved a lot of scenes they added, like Akira defending the humans in episode 9 and the entire final episode which is a masterpiece on it's own showing us a fight that was skipped in the manga and i'm really amazed to have seen in this adaptation.
Crybaby is really a beautiful adaptation and a strong contender for AOTY being only 1 week into this year, it's THAT good, really worth checking out, it gets a strong 9 from me.
