Nightmare Fuel / DEVILMAN crybaby

The original Devilman was quite frightening, but Crybaby cranks the horror dial up to eleven!

Warning: Spoilers Off applies to these pages. Proceed at your own risk.

Episode 1 - I Need You

• The Sabbath rave in the first episode turns into a non-stop horror show, from Ryo suddenly stabbing everyone within reach with a broken bottle to the demons taking over people and subjecting the hosts to Body Horror, then violently killing everyone they can get a hold of. Those afflicted by possession were subjected to all manners of horrific Freudian transformations as sexual organs were transformed into snarling appendages to chomp down on hapless victims fleeing in terror during the rave. All this, topped off with Akira's transformation and violently slaying the other demons. It doesn't help that the episode ends with Akira turning to the camera and giving one hell of a Slasher Smile.
  • The raver who gave Akira some drugs at the beginning of the rave is the first to transform and she urinates herself in terror immediately before the possession to show she's aware of what's about to happen.
• The fact that this story shows Sabbath parties as a common hot spot for young adults and teens is pretty unsettling considering how people were blatantly said to be killed at these events by demons possessing the attendees while the trend was popular.

Episode 2 - One Hand is Enough

• The murderous game demons played in the second episode, where they kidnap hapless humans, trick them into fighting for their lives just to No-Sell their efforts, then killing and eating them.

Episode 4 - Come, Akira

• Jinmen. While nowhere near as powerful as he was in the manga, he's still a sinister presence. The first time we see him, he possesses the body of Akira's father and then massacres everyone on the bus out of the airport, including Akira's mother.
  • Later, when Akira finally meets him, we find out what happens to some of his victims: they get trapped as sentient masks who can still speak and remember exactly how they died and what they thought of before their deaths! Even worse, one of those masks/victims happens to be Akira's mother and another is a little girl begging for her own mother...

Episode 6 - Neither Demon nor Human

• The entire massacre at the track meet, with everyone unlucky enough to be at the field getting violently mauled and trampled by Koda, who's lost control after Ryo drugged him beforehand and then intentionally pushed his Trauma Button by revealing footage of a Sabbath rave. Only Akira, Miki, and Miko survive, and they're nothing but horrified at the entire carnage.

Episode 7 - Weak Humans, Wise Demons

• The rampant paranoia following Ryo revealing the existence of demons to humanity. The whole world has become a police state and is on the verge of erupting into a full-on war.
• After a training exercise, Miko is accosted by a man with a gun who then forces her to have sex with him. It ends poorly as Miko crushes his head like an overripe melon during the act, but then she just keeps going for her own pleasure. It highlights both the fact that humanity is going mad at the revelation that Demons are real and that a Devilman's instincts override human morality to a disturbing degree.
  • It also counts as Fridge Brilliance since female spiders are known to eat male spiders during or after mating.
  • Humans can actually get erections and even ejaculate after death, so two counts of Fridge Brilliance.
    • However, the above implies Miko may have been there for awhile.
• The entire scene where Ryo gives a speech about the humans destroying themselves out of fear of the demons. Even though nothing nightmarish is happening at the time, what's terrifying is that he acts completely unlike his usual self, and the sadistic glee and madness in both his voice and expression just helps further unsettle the audience; especially since it gives them a glimpse as to who he really is. It's most disconcerting to hear in the Japanese dub, thanks to Ayumu Murase's chilling performance.

Episode 8 - I Must Know Myself

• What happens to Miki's family. Picture this, your wife suddenly decides to skip town taking your youngest child with her and she does this in the middle of what appears to be the End of Times, with people falling in mass hysteria and killing each other gruesomely at the mere idea that they will turn into demons. You obviously go in search of your family to keep them safe, having to witness destruction and death while trying to remain optimistic that somehow everything will be okay. However, when you finally find them, your wife is in the process of being devoured by a demon and to top it all your child is nowhere in sight... or so it seems. Just when you're coming to terms with what's happening and you decide to kill the demon when suddenly you realize that the demon eating your wife is your son. Honestly, what happened to them in the manga was horrible enough but here they really took it up to eleven.
• Even worse, Taro is conscious of his actions, but cannot stop himself. When he devours a dog due to his Devilman appetite, he does so in a few moments off-screen. When eating his mother, he's doing so slowly, as if he's holding himself back. And then, when Mr. Makimura begins screaming that Taro is no longer his son, tears start pouring out of Taro's eyes, implying he's fully aware of his own actions, but cannot stop himself, and is just as horrified by the situation as his father is. No wonder this moment ended up on both the Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker pages.
• The soldiers in beige uniforms and tactical gear who enter the village and massacre the people there are pretty terrifying to see.

Episode 9 - Go to Hell, You Mortals

• The episode shows humanity at its absolute worst as they violently brutalize and murder each other for the mere suspicion of being demons. Miki tries to get ahead of the situation and stick up for Akira, but this only results in her getting doxxed! Eventually, she, Miko, and Wam's crew get hunted down and violently murdered, and their bodies are cut into pieces and put on pikes. When Akira discovers Miki had been murdered, he completely loses it and incinerates her killers.
• Miki, Miko, Wam and Gabi's deaths are upsetting enough, but the sheer glee on display from the lynch mob and particularly the traitors from Wam's gang is practically nauseating.

Episode 10 - Crybaby

• The end of the world begins in spectacular detail, as all of the worlds remaining militaries are deployed against demons, eventually resorting to the use of nuclear weapons which destroys almost every city. On top of this, Satan begins to join in on the carnage, creating super-storms and massive volcanic eruptions to begin to process of wiping out humanity.
• The last humans hide out in a bunker beneath a rock spire, which the demons eventually track down and ambush. Even with the humans trying their best to fight back, it's obvious that their efforts are futile.
• Everyone except Ryo ends up getting slaughtered in the human/demon/Devilman war, with nukes being shown to wipe out cities all over the world, the last human and Devilman forces being ripped apart, Akira being torn in half, and the Earth being reduced to a wasteland looking like something out of the effects of the Third Impact in Neon Genesis Evangelion. All this before God comes in to blast Ryo and the planet just so Akira and Ryo can eventually relive the horrors all over again.

Other

• There's just something nightmarish about this official scan◊, where Akira is at his most feral (complete with red eyes) with a large white hand ominously looming over in the background and reaching out for him. Anyone who watched the series can already tell whose hand that is.
• There's actually a continuation of aforementioned image: which consists of Ryo/Satan and the entire demon army. Sure, while this seems like standard fare in an anime that portrays even worse things, there's still something scary about how all the demons look completely bestial and seem to be going in for the kill at the same time. Not to mention, there's also the look on Satan's face... as if he's insanity incarnate.