History Manga / Devilman

* NotGoodWithRejection: God. Satan/Ryo rebelling against him once and refusing to follow him, has effectively ''derailed all of creation'', any notion of a 'grand plan', and doomed the lives of everyone within it. The wrathful deity rips from the fallen angel, Akira - the only person Lucifer ever did love, [[DisproportionateRetribution over and over again in a vicious time-loop]].

* BroadStrokes: Yes, the ''Demon Knight'' prequel manga does explain a few things, like why Satan is a hermaphrodite [[spoiler: (he/she is a forced fusion of the male SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Lucifer and human girl Yuria)]]and the origins of demons[[spoiler: (They are humans or aliens forcefully hybridized with animals, by God, who is a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien/[[AncientAstronauts Ancient Astronaut]])]]. But it does directly contradict stuff found in ''Amon: Darkside of Devilman'', ''Devilman Lady'' or even the original manga, and does not explain other stuff, like the hermaphroditism of other angels than Satan, and ignores the existence of Michael. But this is quite possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the EternalRecurrence/[[GroundhogDayLoop Time Loop]] nature of the series, and the frequent [[CosmicRetcon Cosmic Retcons]], which allows the events of past occur in numerous, different variations.

** In ''Devilman Crybaby'', Akira has to break the news to Miki [[spoiler: that her entire family has died]]. As Miki wordlessly retreats to her room, a close up shows Akira's face contort as tears begin streaming from his eyes. Akira tilts his head back and sobs loudly in an almost childlike manner. Miki, alone in her room, hears Akira crying and is finally hit by what has happened. Soon both Miki and Akira are heard wailing.

* {{Lesbian Jock}}: Aoi is this in ''Devilman Grimoire''.

* {{Lipstick Lesbian}}: Jun is this in ''Devilman Grimoire''.

* MutualKill: Silen tries this on Akira after he mortally wounds her. It doesn't quite work out for her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Satan takes Akira's death much harder in Devilman Crybaby than he did the manga. In the manga, when he realizes Akira was already dead while he was talking to him, he has more of resigned acceptance. When he realizes it in Crybaby, he completely breaks down, feeling emotions he had suppressed outwardly for the first time in his existence.]]
* {{Mythology Gag}}: In chapter 10 of ''Devilman Grimoire'', Akira fights an ice demon who bears a resemblance to Ryo Asuka. The end of the chapter is very similar to the end of the original manga, [[spoiler:except Akira and his foe's positions are reversed, with Akira revealed to be talking to the upper half of the demon's corpse. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]], though]]. Also doubles as a [[ContinuityNod continuity nod.]]

* RapidFireFisticuffs: Devilman uses this to defeat Amon in the third OVA, just before he delivers the killing blow.

* {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:Ryo Asuka]]

* WaterfallShower: Shirenu takes a shower under a melting glacier in the 2nd OVA.

''Devilman'' is a {{manga}} and {{anime}} franchise enormously popular and influential in Japan for combining superhero tropes with supernatural and religious horror, with elements inspired by the Abrahamic religions exotic to Japanese eyes. It was created by the (in)famous Creator/GoNagai in 1972 as a reworking of his earlier ''[[Manga/MaoDante Demon Lord Dante]]''. The manga was originally made to promote the concurrent anime by Creator/ToeiAnimation which was LighterAndSofter than ''Dante'', but it soon revealed its own much, ''[[UpToEleven much]]'' DarkerAndEdgier direction. It has spawned several spin-offs over the decades, and was later adapted into two {{OVA}}s in 1987 and 1990 which only covered part of the story and a live action movie in 2004.

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 final battle between Devilman and Satan. Go Nagai scripts and Yuu Kinutani provides pencils with high detailed art. In 2005 they 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.

On 25 December 2014 ''Devilman Saga'' was released in Shogakukan. It is written and drawn by Go Nagai and its main character is Yuki Fudo, a Japanese roboticist who is called in to study a strange and ancient mural from Antarctica. According to promotional material, it is the final chapter in the original Devilman storyline.

Devilman appears in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, ''VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen''. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39anQm12y5s crossover OVA trilogy]] with ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' called ''Anime/Cyborg009VsDevilman'' came out in October 2015, celebrating the franchise's 50th Anniversary. It received a worldwide release streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} in April 2016, complete with an all new English dub.

** the series also changes the name of Miki's younger brother from Tare to Tone.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Mikiko's (Miko) chapter in ''Neo-Devilman'', her first pages in the story has her touching herself while in deep thought as for why she doesn't see herself as a good girl. In this vision that's even how she became a devilmen in the first place, apparently demons like to possess girls at their ''moments''.

* 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.

* BigRedDevil: generally averted as the demons are a CastOfSnowflakes, Amon being the the only one who plays it straight

* BroadStrokes: Yes, the ''Demon Knight'' prequel manga does explain a few things, like why Satan is a hermaphrodite [[spoiler: (he/she is a forced fusion of the male SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Lucifer, and human girl Yuria)]]and the origins of demons[[spoiler: (They are humans or aliens forcefully hybridized with animals, by God, who is a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien/[[AncientAstronauts Ancient Astronaut]])]]. But it does directly contradict stuff found in ''Amon: Darkside of Devilman'', ''Devilman Lady'' or even the original manga, and does not explain other stuff, like the hermaphrodititism of other angels than Satan, and ignores the existence of Michael. But this is quite possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the EternalRecurrence/[[GroundhogDayLoop Time Loop]] nature of the series, and the frequent [[CosmicRetcon Cosmic Retcons]], which allows the events of past occur in numerous, different variations.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Satan's motivations for trying to bring his "order" upon earth; in some versions he is doing it for human- and demon-kind's 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 extent, true - Satan wants to create a 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 Miki because he thinks he is the only one who can save Akira.]]

* FakeMemories: Nagai himself goes this way in his chapter for ''Neo-Devilman'': at the climax of the 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.

* 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 focusing on their breasts and buttocks; still Go Nagai averted the series taking the {{Fanservice}} route by simply making these "improvements" only a visual extra.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Initially only the demons shared this idea, since Earth belonged to them first, and they say humanity stole it from them. After demons and devilmen became public knowledge, Akira and other 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, where Akira simply reaches the conclusion that humans are the ''real'' demons and that he will help anyone that values life, regardless of whether it's a demon, devilmen, or even human.

** In ''Devilman Crybaby'', Akira has to break the news to Miki [[spoiler: that her entire family has died]]. As Miki wordlessly retreats to her room, a close up shows Akira's face contort as tears begin streaming from his eyes. Akira tilts his head back and sobs loudly in an almost child like manner. Miki, alone in her room, hears Akira crying and is finally hit by what has happened. Soon both Miki and Akira are heard wailing.

* OrderVersusChaos: In Amon manga Satan and God are representing two different orders - one that involves demons and one that doesn'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]].

* TookALevelInBadass: At the start of the manga, Akira Fudo is so weak and timid, Miki has to stand up to bullies for him. After he merges with Amon, not only does [[{{Squee}} Miki take notice of his swagger]], Akira literally beats his bullies one handed.
** 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 toughness 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.

* LighterAndSofter: The 1972 anime series in comparison with the manga. Lots of changes to the story were made, the violence and nudity were considerably toned down, lots of comic relief was included, [[spoiler: and most [[SparedByAdaptation of the characters who died at the end of the manga are still alive in the last chapter of the first anime series]], which also has a BitterSweetEnding instead of the tragic conclusion of the manga.]]

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 in anticipation of the final battle between Devilman and Satan. Go Nagai scripts and Yuu Kinutani provides pencils with high detailed art. In 2005 they 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.

The events of ''Devilman'' lead into Nagai's later sequel series, ''Manga/ViolenceJack.'' Its characters have also appeared in other manga and anime shows and movies, [[{{Crossover}} meeting]] Nagai's other famous creations like ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/CuteyHoney''.

Another Nagai series, ''Manga/DevilmanLady'', was a reinterpretation of the original series except that he switched the characters' genders switched and provided pseudoscientific explanation for the "demons". It was similarly violent and controversial.

* GodIsEvil: Not so much "evil" as [[spoiler: doesn't like demons and sees them as [[MyGreatestFailure an abomination.]]]]
** This changes [[spoiler:In Amon, where it's revealed God has everything happen in an endless loop that makes '''everyone''' suffer and die just to make Satan watch Akira die by his/her own hands for eternity. Meaning that he condemns two whole sapient species to suffer and die horribly and pointlessly over and over for eternity [[DisproportionateRetribution just to punish a single rebel]] ({{Satan}}, of course).]] At that point he can be considered damn close to early ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' YHVH in terms of bastarditude.

''Devilman'' is an enormously popular and influential {{manga}} and {{anime}} franchise that combines superhero tropes with supernatural horror, created by the (in)famous Creator/GoNagai in 1972 as a reworking of his earlier ''[[Manga/MaoDante Demon Lord Dante]]''. The manga was originally made to promote the concurrent anime by Creator/ToeiAnimation which was LighterAndSofter than ''Dante'', but it soon revealed its own much, ''[[UpToEleven much]]'' DarkerAndEdgier direction. It has spawned several spin-offs over the decades, and was later adapted into two {{OVA}}s in 1987 and 1990 which only covered part of the story and a live action movie in 2004.

''Devilman'' is an enormously popular and influential {{manga}} and {{anime}} franchise that combines superhero tropes with supernatural horror, created by the (in)famous Creator/GoNagai in 1972 as a reworking of his earlier ''[[Manga/MaoDante Demon Lord Dante]]''. The manga was originally made to promote the concurrent anime by Creator/ToeiAnimation which was LighterAndSofter than ''Dante'', but it soon revealed its own ''[[UpToEleven even more]]'' DarkerAndEdgier direction. It has spawned several spin-offs over the decades, and was later adapted into two {{OVA}}s in 1987 and 1990 which only covered part of the story and a live action movie in 2004.

''Devilman'' is an enormously popular and influential {{manga}} and {{anime}} franchise that combines superhero tropes with supernatural horror, created by the (in)famous Creator/GoNagai in 1972 as a reworking of his earlier ''[[Anime/MaoDante Demon Lord Dante]]''. The manga was originally made to promote the concurrent anime by Creator/ToeiAnimation, but it soon revealed its own much DarkerAndEdgier direction. It has spawned several spin-offs over the decades, and was later adapted into two {{OVA}}s in 1987 and 1990 which only covered part of the story and a live action movie in 2004.

''Devilman'' is an enormously popular and influential {{manga}} and {{anime}} franchise that combines superhero tropes with supernatural horror, created by the (in)famous Creator/GoNagai in 1972. The manga was originally made to promote the concurrent anime by Creator/ToeiAnimation, but it soon revealed its own much DarkerAndEdgier direction. It has spawned several spin-offs over the decades, and was later adapted into two {{OVA}}s in 1987 and 1990 which only covered part of the story and a live action movie in 2004.

''Devilman'' was a {{manga}} and {{anime}} series that combined superhero tropes with supernatural horror. It was made by the famous Japanese author Creator/GoNagai in the 1970s. It became enormously popular and influential in Japan and was later adapted in the form of a {{OVA}} and a live action movie. There was an animated {{crossover}} movie in which Devilman met another of Nagai's famous creations, ''Anime/MazingerZ''.

A boy named Akira discovers 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. Akira gains the ability to transform into a superpowerful, batlike demon. As Devilman, he fights bizarre demons, most notably the harpy-like Siren, and the turtle-like Jinmen, while still trying to lead a normal life.

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

The events of ''Devilman'' lead into Nagai's later sequel series, ''Manga/ViolenceJack.''

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 in anticipation of the final battle between Devilman and Satan. Go Nagai scripts and Yuu Kinutani provides pencils with high detailed art. In 2005 they 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.

In it, a boy named Akira, discovers 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. Akira gains the ability to transform into a superpowerful, batlike demon. As Devilman, he fights bizarre demons, most notably the harpy-like Siren, and the turtle-like Jinmen, while still trying to lead a normal life.

* BlandNameProduct: Akira is seen purchasing a "[=CalorieBuddy=]" at a convenience store in episode 3 of ''Devilman Crybaby''.

** The 2018 anime series ''Crybaby'' is one of the darkest and edgiest adaptations of the series, with large amounts of blood and gore intermixed with scenes of graphic sexual content.

** In ''Crybaby'' Akira has to break the news to Miki that [[spoiler: her entire family is dead.]] Miki immediately goes to her room without a word. Akira, unable to say anymore, tilts his head back and begins to cry loudly. Miki, upon hearing Akira's sobs, is finally hit by what has happened and soon both of them are heard wailing.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Used very liberally in ''Crybaby'', in which scenes of gratuitous sex and graphic violence are juxtaposed together (if not occurring in the same scenes).

* RagingStiffie: Akira gets one in his track suit in ''Crybaby''.

* ThemeNaming: The 2018 remake, ''Devilman Crybaby'', is named as such due to Akira's tendency to cry whenever learning of a tragedy. Even after [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]] after getting his Devilman powers, Akira still has a habit of crying. Crying is meant to represent him still maintaining his humanity.

An animated adaptation of the manga, called ''Devilman Crybaby'' was created under director Creator/MasaakiYuasa and was released by Creator/{{Netflix}} on January 5th 2018. The teaser trailer can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOWPSc9Vv8 here]].

* RagingStiffy: Akira gets one in his track suit in ''Crybaby''.