Having read the manga (this is an important point to the critique, as i think its vital to the overrall enjoyment and understanding of the anime) i hoped for an animation of the manga, logically, but devilman crybaby is more of a reinterpretation than an adaptation, so things start out different right of the bat on the first episode.
I think this review would be giant if i dissecated every episode, which would be addequate, but not efficient, so i will critique every separate point of the anime, the story, art, sound, characters and "enjoyment".
The story, the story loosely follows the one of the manga with exception of the end, which gets some elements of amon: the darkside of the devilman, its okay, not like the original story was great or anything, some interpretations of the manga, got out great, for example, all "main demons" like selene, aswell as come good additions, the score for this is 7.
The art, highest point of the anime, from the animations, the general aesthetic, everything is great on this aspect, nothing special to comment, 10.
the sound, uhhh i can see this point being a 10 to a lot of people because is s y n t h w a v e and shit, but i can see through this, most of it is just generic one note on the keyboard stuff, thats just shameful, but amongst these, there are some really well developed songs, like the devilman theme, or some other ones that share some elements to the early nine inch nails work, thats a 7.
the characters, they are okay mostly, almost none of the agregate anything very significant to the plot except the main characters, near the end some characters get some short exposure, but its mostly not important to the plot, the characters get a 6.
"enjoyment" is something hard to analize with objective values and imparciality, so i will not write anything about it, the main goal on my reviews is to be objective, so i will just say that my score on this subject is 7.
if you sum everything and divide by 5 you'll get 7.5, and thats the score for this anime, now i will list some important points on this anime.
.Theres a lot of "dumb ecchi moments" (this is the best way i found to describe it), of all the episodes that had sex scenes, half of them were necessary or maybe less, im also pretty sure every episode on this anime had a tit shown, and i assure you most of them were unecessary and didnt aggregate anything positive to the anime, nor it made it "more adult", in some ways it kind of reminds me of the room, where the director just punched in a bunch of sex because it was cool.
.theres a plot device where ryo reconstructs the face of a man using video evidence, everything about this part was dumb, but this is more of a nitpick.
.after the deaths have started on the sabbath, it turns into the one of the best parts of the whole anime (for better or for worse) having the perfect OST for the moment, ambience, and etc.
.devilman no uta is amazing.
And thats it! overall a good anime, but nothing VERY good, amazing, great, or whatever, its a flawed pretentious art project based on a classic manga.
I hope you liked my review and undestood my points, remember to always be impartial, i will also read everything in regards to this review, english is not my main language so i hope i didnt mess anything up.
xoxo Loren
