Ahem, on to the review.
I have no idea why someone wanted to make this story in particular into a hentai. I haven’t read the manga that was the prototype for this anime, but I’m aware it’s probably similar and the adaptation couldn’t be done much better. If the sex scenes were replaced even only by half by events actually important to the plot and somehow developing characters, this anime would be better than about 80% of things I watched.
The plot is the best thing about it, in my opinion – it’s actually fascinating and if it was spent more time on, made things more logical – that would make it one of my favourites. Instead we have a lot of unnecessary rape scenes that are a justification for the characters to shapeshift or simply get more powerful, which I find NOT satisfying.
There are only two characters that have screen time that is actually not sex and one of them I wouldn’t even consider calling a “main character”, but his motives are explained to the viewer, instead of anything in this show. It’s a pity he’s introduced in a second episode and doesn’t appear in the third.
The art is pretty good in itself, but the quality of the recording didn’t age well, so there’s a lot of stray pixels, the animation is laggy, I could forgive the music because of the time this anime was airing (the 80s, duh), but sometimes it just ruins the mood.
It feels as if the author was largely inspired by the original Devilman series, but didn’t exactly know how to execute his own ideas. There ARE good things about Urotsukidouji, they are simply outweighed by the bad ones, so in the end – not worth a watch, even for someone who likes a bad anime.
