History Manga / Devilman

* ItGotWorse: Big time.

A new Devilman manga, ''Devilman Grimoire'', began running in Champion Red magazine on 19 April 2012. It is written by Go Nagai and illustrated by Rui Takato. A remake of the original manga, it is set in the present day and stars Akira Fudo and Miki Makimura, who believes herself to be a witch. It features many characters from the original Devilman, but in different situations. It remains to be seen whether this series is connected to previous series of the Devilman universe (Devilman, [[spoiler:Violence Jack, Devilman Lady and Shin Violence Jack]]), or whether it is an alternate universe.

Ultimately, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Ryo is actually Satan (and a hermaphrodite who's in love with Akira) and the two friends have a final battle that ends in the world being overrun by demons. Nagai's later series, ViolenceJack, is set in the resulting [[AfterTheEnd postapocalyptic world]]. ]]

** Might be an UnbuiltTrope as it's probably one of the first if not first use of it in manga and one of the rare instances that shows how haing one corrupts and changes once cowardly boy into a BloodKnight.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Main difference between Amon in his manga and OVA - the former is clearly selfish and evil, but has his own set of standards and Silene seems to work as his MoralityPet. When you remove that, you get [[CompleteMonster the latter]].

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Amon was originally this, but he transcended to CompleteMonster after [[spoiler: Miki Makamura got killed]].

* ActionGirl: Miki but only in the original manga, where she borders on being a Sukeban. She's downgraded to more of a neutral female. In contrast Miko becomes a bit of a demon hunter in the third OVA and is something of a right-hand-lady to Akira.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In contrast with the original manga where [[spoiler:Miki dies and Devilman Akira loses faith in humanity to fight only for his devilmen army]], the LighterAndSofter anime has Akira solely focused in protecting Miki and not much else, needless to say [[spoiler:she survives in this adaptation]].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The short sequel for the ''AMON'' manga, ''Strange Days'' features a whole new cast of characters, whom some will become devilmen and clash at Devilman vs. Satan final battle, the focus is Kira and Ryuu, and their band ''THE FLYERS''.

* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow: Class 0 or class 3 at the end of the manga]]

* AscendedExtra: Amon, the original demon whom Akira's Devilman form take its powers from, stops being merely a past legacy mentioned in the original manga, to being given a personality and form in the final OVA and even more in the manga with his name; Amon actually takes over Akira entire body in it, both in demon and human form thus being promoted to protagonist.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the anime series, instead of just horrendous demons clashing against Devilman in dark scenarios as seen in the manga, the animated adaptation often had giant monsters randomly attacking a nearby building, for this reason Akira was given extra powers for this adaptation, not only he could transform into Devilman but he also could transform into a ''Giant'' Devilman to fend off these monsters.
* BadassBiker: Akira in the anime series, taking account the LighterAndSofter adaptation couldn't have Akira desmembering and mauling demons in a gruesome manner to cement his badass status, they just gave him a nice bike to ride in between the fights.

* CainAndAbel: Ryo and Akira. [[spoiler: Satan and Amon in Amon manga]]

* CompositeCharacter: In ''Devilman vs GetterRobo'' Akira has story and personality of his manga incarnation but powers of anime incarnation. Silene in that manga has look of manga version, powers and personality of anime version and little bits of later incarnations, including her love for Amon.
** Amon himself in his manga, he is not a ObviouslyEvil as in the [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] nor as good and gentle as Akira, Amon is just a tad more bitter than Akira turned out to be after the Devilman transformation.
* ContinuitySnarl: Averted, the ''AMON'' manga makes painfully clear that Amon took over Akira's body completely with no chance to revert back, this would negate the original story in which Akira was himself till the final clash with Satan by stating that Amon is the one in control now; ''Strange Days'' comes and has Akira in control of his body just in time for the final battle, implying that Akira was back in control sometime between ''AMON'' and ''Strange Days'', the war went on for 20 years after all.
* {{Chickification}}: Miki in just about everywhere else outside the original manga and the first [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]], originally she pushed Akira into becoming more active and insisting that he fought back against people who bullied him, eventually she liked Akira even more when he became more agressive in his Devilman days; other adaptations like the Anime and the final [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]], likes to portray Miki in a more pure light, she is not shown to be amused by Akira being agressive and certainly does not encourage him to fight anyone, even in ''AMON'' where she retains her original personality, the agressive part is still gone.

** And with GetterRobo in ''Devilman vs Getter Robo'' manga. [[spoiler: Which features Devilman and Getter [[CrazyAwesome COMBINING]]]]
** There's also the appearance of the Cartoon version of Devilman in the manga ''MazingerAngels''. Once again, he holds his own against giant robots. Later in that series, [[{{DororonEnma-Kun}} Enma-kun]] passes Akria by at a festival, and they give each other a knowing, angry glance.
** ''Chibi Chara Go Nagai World'' is a chibi crossover between Devilman, MazingerZ, GetterRobo and ViolenceJack [[spoiler: which actually weirds out titular characters, as Violence Jack is reincarnated Akira]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Akira in the ''AMON'' manga, he only stars for about half the first volume and later only appears during flashbacks, his body is completely taken over by Amon who stars the series from start to finish but with a slight twist that in this version he isn't that different from Akira's Devilman persona itself.
* DeconstructorFleet: Amon: The Darkside Of Devilman argurably takes original series and deconstructs few things. Original manga itself seems to deconstruct or [[UnbuiltTrope unbuilt]] many common shonen tropes.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Satan [[spoiler:Ryo]], in Nagai's hands s/he is not only a hermaphrodite, but Nagai draws him/her with female-like facial features and body curves, also in some designs he seems to imply that Satan's lower parts is that of a woman; other artists in the other hand, like Yu Kinutani from ''Amon/Strange Days'' and many others from ''Neo-Devilman'', maintains [[spoiler:Ryo]] male psyche even in Satan form, in some extremes they might draw Satan with a male lower part too; and yet the breasts are present in all renditions of Satan.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Satan's motivations for trying to bring his "order" upon earth, in some versions he is doing for human and demon kin well being (in his eyes) and for Akira of course, in others he is doing ''just'' for Akira and no one else.
** [[spoiler: In Amon all of those motivations are, to some extend, true - Satan wants to create better world for demons, but also wants to bring his own vision of order, which is why Amon opposes him. He reveals Akira's secret out of jealously towards Mikki because he thinks he is the only one who can save Akira.]]
* DevilButNoGod: Played in the live-action movie

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Ryo Asuka, in Nagai's hands he is very lady-like, when he is seen in [[spoiler:Satan form Ryo ''becomes'' a woman, Nagai draws his face with unmistakable female facial features and body curves]]; only other artists downplays Nagai's original design and maintains Ryo just in lady-like territory.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Main difference between Amon in his manga and OVA - former is clearly selfish and evil, but has his own set of standards and Silene seems to work as his MoralityPet. When you remove that, you get [[CompleteMonster the latter]].

** Ashura from Amon manga is clearly an expy of [[MazingerZ Baron Ashura]].
* FakeMemories: Nagai himself goes this way in his chapter for ''Neo-Devilman'', at the climax of Devilman vs. Satan battle, there's a flashback of Akira meeting Ryo for the first time at school, here Ryo seems to manipulate Akira's memories to make it so they already knew each other, implying that a few traces of Satan were there since the very begining.

** [[spoiler: Satans fate as revealed in Amon is to eternally lose the one s/he loves for all eternity as punishment for rebelling against God.]]

** [[spoiler: In Amon God has everything happen in a endless loop that makes everyone suffer and die just to make Satan watch Akira die by his/her own hands for eternity.]]
* {{Gorn}}: not as bad as some others, but still incredibly horrific, particularly in the {{OVA}}s
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Oddly enough, no one's really evil, but no one's really good either. The demons only want humans gone because they're seen as intruders; the humans want the demons gone because they don't particularly like the idea of dying. God is just a dick.
* HaveWeMetYet: In Nagai's own chapter for ''Neo-Devilman'', centered in the final moments of Devilman vs. Satan battle, there's a flashback when Ryo and Akira first met in school, in this vision it seems that Ryo implanted fake memories of Akira and him being childhood friends, Akira even wonders if they ever met before but gets familiar with Ryo shortly after.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Satan--but after it's far to late to do anything about it. Really.]]

* HeroicWillpower

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Ryo and Akira accidentally ''create'' Hitler by going back in time to stop a demon.)

* HotterAndSexier: Go Nagai took full advantage of Yuu Kinutani's incredibly detailed artstyle while making the AMON manga, while there's no explicit sex, many of the girls inclusing Miki herself were given more curvalicious body proportions, and humanoid female demons like Siren who are mostly in the nude, were often given many pannels in focus of their breasts and buttocks; still Go Nagai averted the series from taking the {{Fanservice}} route by simply making these "improvements"' only a visual extra.

* HumansAreBastards: Initially only the demons shared this idea since earth belonged to them first, and they say humanity stole from them while they weren't any better, after demons and devilmen became public knowledge, Akira and devilmen started to think like this too, as most of humanity went in a senseless rampage against demons, devilmen or any living being that they ''thought'' was aiding the "monsters", this aspect is expanded further in the ''AMON'' manga, Akira simply reaches the conclusion that humans are the ''real'' demons and that he will help any people that values life, not taking account if it is a demon, devilmen or even human.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Sirene loved Amon that resides in Akira, she also shows some interest in Akira's more agressive personality as Devilman which resembles a LighterAndSofter Amon, in ''Neo-Devilman'' she becomes more interested in Akira himself, not for his demon heritage but for his devilmen determination.

* NoFourthWall: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/devilman/v03/c001.3/44.html Akira telling the readers that the story is going to be]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} much darker....]]
* OrderVersusChaos: In Amon manga Satan and God are representing two different orders - one that involves demons and one that don't. Which is why [[spoiler: Amon, who is clearly chaotic, refuses to ally himself with Satan, as he sees no difference betwen Satan and God]].

* ShapeShifterBaggage: Averted. Ryo explains that when moved the heavily burned, demon-possessed corpse of [[spoiler:his "father" Dr. Asuka, the body's mass was twice as what it should be.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: An interesting case. The manga is gut-wrenchingly cynical but, Nagai (who wrote ''Devilman'' as a cautionary tale) is firmly idealistic and believes that humanity is heading for a bright future. The writing process took such a heavy toll on him that he had to write the ''much'' LighterAndSofter ''MazingerZ'' on the side to blow off steam.

** Name of Hell General serving Satan is either Zenon or Xenon.
* StupidEvil: Amon at one point in ''Apocalypse of Devilman'' OVA, but the prize goes to demon sent to kill Mikki and Michiru in ''Devilman vs Getter Robo'' - Akira saves Mikki and demon escapes with Michiru, but, instead of outright killing her, he wastes time wondering if he should eat or rape her and concludes to do both right before Akira finds them and kills him.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Ryo, is in fact, the hermaphrodite Satan, who took the body of a human to learn mankind's weaknesses and plot their demise.]]
* ThematicRoguesGallery: Demons

** While Miki became a non action girl, and Ryu got to show off his shooting skills later, in the OVA Akira shows some bravery, as well as that missing purness not seen in the manga. He stands up to three goons who killed nearly all the rabbits in a pen, all except one, he takes a bike chain to the head and several punches but refuses to let them have the rabbit. They back off when their leader is impressed.

* WouldHurtAChild: Amon

A new Devilman manga, Devilman Grimoire, began running in Champion Red magazine on 19 April 2012. It is written by Go Nagai and illustrated by Rui Takato. A remake of the original manga, it is set in the present day and stars Akira Fudo and Miki Makimura, who believes herself to be a witch. It features many characters from the original Devilman, but in different situations. It remains to be seen whether this series is connected to previous series of the Devilman universe (Devilman, [[spoiler:Violence Jack, Devilman Lady and Shin Violence Jack]]), or whether it is an alternate universe.

To promote the final [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] Apocalypse of Devilman in 1999, Go Nagai resurrected the manga in two forms; one is a collection of short stories entitled '''Neo-Devilman''' where he and many other writers/artists (17 to be precise) contribute to the Devilman mythos with their own spin-offs and visions for the original tale, the other is where Nagai teamed up with Yuu Kinutani to create a 6 Volume manga simply called '''AMON''', which is centered around and expanding the events between humanity's persecution of demon/human hybrids and the atincipation for Devilman vs. Satan's final battle; Go Nagai writes the tale while Yuu Kinutani pencils with his high detailed art. In 2005 these two teamed up again to create '''Strange Days''', a single manga volume centered around a group of devilmen, Kira and Ryuu, clashing at Devilman vs. Satan's final battle, it tells their story of how their rivalry came to be during the persecution against devilmen.

To promote the final [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] Apocalypse of Devilman in 1999, Go Nagai ressurected the manga in two forms, one is a collection of short stories entitled '''Neo-Devilman''' where he and many other writers/artists (17 to be precise) contribute to the Devilman mythos with their own spin-offs and visions for the original tale, the other is where Nagai teamed up with Yuu Kinutani to create a 6 Volume manga simply called '''AMON''', which is centered around and expanding the events between humanity's persecution of demon/human hybrids and the atincipation for Devilman vs. Satan's final battle; Go Nagai writes the tale while Yuu Kinutani pencils with his high detailed art. In 2005 these two teamed up again to create '''Strange Days''', a single manga volume centered around a group of devilmen, Kira and Ryuu, clashing at Devilman vs. Satan's final battle, it tells their story of how their rivalry came to be during the persecution against devilmen.

Ultimately, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Ryo is actually Satan (And a hermaphrodite who's in love with Akira) and the two friends have a final battle that ends in the world being overrun by demons. Nagai's later series, ViolenceJack, is set in the resulting [[AfterTheEnd postapocalyptic world]]. ]]

** He does in none other than chapter 0 of ''Devilman Grimoire'' [[spoiler: where he mocks a Harpy by revealing he at her boyfriend and then eating her next.]]

** In ''Devilman Grimoire'' Miki loved playing as a witch as a child because of the stories about Solomon who could control the Goetia Demons.

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* {{Expy}}: of ''DemonLordDante'', Go Nagai's earlier work.

A new Devilman manga, Devilman G, began running in Champion Red magazine on 19 April 2012. It is written by Go Nagai and illustrated by Rui Takato. A remake of the original manga, it is set in the present day and stars Akira Fudo and Miki Makimura, who believes herself to be a witch. It features many characters from the original Devilman, but in different situations. It remains to be seen whether this series is connected to previous series of the Devilman universe (Devilman, [[spoiler:Violence Jack, Devilman Lady and Shin Violence Jack]]), or whether it is an alternate universe.

A new Devilman manga, Devilman G, began running in Champion Red magazine on 19 April 2012. It is written by Go Nagai and illustrated by Rui Takato. A remake of the original manga, it is set in modern times and stars Akira Fudo and Miki Makimura, who believes herself to be a witch. It features many characters from the original Devilman, but in different situations. It remains to be seen whether this series is connected to previous series of the Devilman universe (Devilman, [[spoiler:Violence Jack, Devilman Lady and Shin Violence Jack]]), or whether it is an alternate universe.

While the TV series was dark by {{shonen}} anime standards, the manga and most other versions are pure HighOctaneNightmareFuel, filled with things like graphic violence and dismemberments.

* NoFourthWall: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/devilman/v03/c001.3/44.html Akira telling the readers that the story is going to be]][[Foreshadowing much darker....]]

* [=~Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act~=]: Ryo and Akira accidentally ''create'' Hitler by going back in time to stop a demon.)

** While Miki became a non action girl, and Ryu got to show off his shooting skills later, in the OVA Akira shows some bravery, as well as that missing purness not seen in the manga. He stands up to three goons who killed nearly all the rabbits in a pen, all except one, he takes a bike chain to the head and several punches but refuses to let them have the rabbit. They back off when their leader is impressed.

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Game/MegaMan Dr. Wily]]!? Why are you a turtle, and more importantly, why are you eating people!?

** Arguably averted depending on how much or how little faith you put in humanity's ability to remain reasonable. Humanity only going on a senseless rampage after literally being attacked by flying hordes of demons, after the military start being possessed by demons mid-combat, Russia, under the control of the demons, tries to spark a thermonuclear exchange with the U.S., a scientist reveals that all the physical demons humanity is fighting are originally humans and to top it all off Satan revealed on television the fact that Akira is a demon to the unsuspecting public. The prospect of a demon living among them in disguise sparks a predictable response.

The story involves a boy named Akira, who discoverers the Earth is being invaded by demons. His friend Ryo convinces him that the only way to stop the demons is to have him merge with one of them. Their plan succeeds, and Akira gains the ability to transform into a superpowerful, batlike demon. As Devilman, he fights various bizarre demons, most notably the harpy-like Siren, while still trying to lead a normal life.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Main difference between Amon in his manga and OVA - former is clearly selfish and ChaoticEvil, but has his own set of standards and Silene seems to work as his MoralityPet. When you remove that, you get [[CompleteMonster the latter]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[MegaMan Dr. Wily]]!? Why are you a turtle, and more importantly, why are you eating people!?