History YMMV / DEVILMAN

** Of all the voice actors who have voiced Ryo Asuka, Creator/ToruFurusawa (who voices Ryo in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation 1 game) and Creator/YumiKakazu (who voices Ryo in the PC Mahjong game) can be considered the weakest choices for Ryo. Toru Furusawa gives Ryo a voice that sounds way too deep and masculine to even remotely suit him, and Yumi Kakazu gives Ryo a voice that makes him sound like a girl or a 13 year old boy.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The movie version suffers from this. Though, considering it was made in 2004, the CGI was rather impressive for its time.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The 70s anime series adaptation. While its cheesiness (you know it's goofy when Devilman wears a ''speedo'') and repetitive plot structure were quite standard for children's anime of the time, these same elements make it quite dated to a modern audience. This is especially noticeable when you compare it to the manga, which is dated in its own ways (like Nagai's crude art), but which has overall stood the test of time far better thanks to its much darker and more ambitious story.

* EvilIsSexy:
** One of the prime reasons why [[BreakoutVillain Sirene]] became such a popular character.
** [[spoiler: Ryo was already pretty easy on the eyes, but He gained an upgrade in sexiness once his true form of Satan was revealed.]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The movie version suffers from this. Though, considering it was made in 2004, the CGI was rather impressive for its time.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Of all the voice actors who have voiced Ryo Asuka, Creator/ToruFurusawa (who voices Ryo in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation 1 game) and Creator/YumiKakazu (who voices Ryo in the PC Mahjong game) can be considered the weakest choices for Ryo. Toru Furusawa gives Ryo a voice that sounds way too deep and masculine to even remotely suit him, and Yumi Kakazu gives Ryo a voice that makes him sound like a girl or a 13 year old boy.
** The 2004 live action movie was criticized for casting teen idols with no acting skills as the main characters. Some also scratched their heads at Akira and Ryo being played by twins, which causes a whole slew of problems. The first one is that Akira and Ryo weren't blood-related in the manga. The second problem is that Ryo is Caucasian on his mother's side, so he's only half the same ethnicity as Akira. The third problem is Ryo's [[spoiler: crush on Akira]], which [[{{Twincest}} goes without saying]].

** Humanity both labelling minorities as being far more likely to turn into demons after Rainuma spreads false information about how demons work, and partially blaming them as being responsible for demon attacks on humanity, leading to them commiting hate crimes considering that very similar things have happened in real life, except replace demons with something else, such as Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians for terrorism, people from the continent of Africa for AIDS, Latin-Americans and African-Americans for drug dealing and gang violence, and Eastern Asians for COVID-19.

** Humanity both labelling minorities as being far more likely to turn into demons after Rainuma spreads false information about how demons work, and partially blaming them as being responsible for demon attacks on humanity, leading to them commiting hate crimes considering that very similar things have happened in real life, except replace demons with something else, such as Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians for terrorism, people from the continent of Africa for AIDS, Latin-Americans for drug dealing and gang violence, and Eastern Asians for COVID-19.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the opening of the original anime, while fighting a giant demon snake, the snake bites the lower half of Devilman's body. [[spoiler:Akira lost the lower half of his body when he died at the end of the story.]]

** Sirene, who would later become something of a BreakoutVillain in no small part due to her memorable design. [[CreatorsFavorite Go Nagai himself ended up being quite fond of her]].

** Sirene, who would later become something of a BreakoutVillain in no small part due to her memorable design. Go Nagai himself ended up being quite fond of her.

** The original manga ''in spades'' is filled with {{Gorn}} and nudity, but it ran in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' of all things, and some of its elements were actually inspired by children media (for instance, the demons's ability to fuse together, called ''gattai'' in the original, was apparently a children's play at the time). It's no wonder Nagai's next series, ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' moved to a Seinen magazine after many complaints.

** The original manga ''in spades'' is filled with {{Gorn}} and nudity, but it ran in ''Weekly Shonen Champion'' of all things, and some of its elements were actually inspired by children media (for instance, the demons's ability to fuse together, called ''gattai'' in the original, was apparently a children's play at the time). It's no wonder Nagai's next series, ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' moved to a Seinen magazine after many complaints.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubSdfYqCgK8 Devilman OVA Dub]] [[SoBadItsGood in its entirety.]]
** "And then... he died." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
** "Is it okay for me to run my shoes in here?" "I don't give a shit."
** “Then somehow we fucked up!”
** [[http://hentai-sama.tumblr.com/post/154753550082/me-at-any-social-gathering A scene]] where Akira mutters "What the fuck?!" in exasperation... while at a party has become a popular video on Tumblr, particularly when shared out of context.
** "YOU CAN CALL ME.... '''''DEVILMAN!'''''"
** "WHY, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!?"
** "I'm no longer Amon, he's eating shit in hell right now!"
** "I'll soap you tits for ya. Whaaheyyyy!"
* On Tumblr, some fans would make jokes about people such as Creator/DanteAlighieri being fans of Devilman, and such works as Literature/ParadiseLost, Literature/TheDivineComedy and even Literature/TheBible itself being ''Devilman'' FanFiction.
* Japan's local meme flavor is [[https://bit.ly/33EWpfZ Wakaruman,]] where 70's Devilman is used to express understanding or confusion in a manner similar to [[https://bit.ly/2VNJ2Yi Wakari Tetsuya.]]

** "And then... he died." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"