History Characters / DevilmanCrybaby

* WorfHadTheFlu: It's likely that Akira wouldn't have had such a hard time against Xenon (in both battles, to point out) if he wasn't wounded/ambushed beforehand.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: More like Adaptational Intelligence Upgrade. Ryo was already rather smart and clever in the original manga, but in ''Crybaby'' he's a TeenGenius.

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* SecretSecretKeeper: He seems to be aware of Akira becoming a Devilman early in the series, as seen when he snaps Akira from his demonic lust-driven haze before the latter could do anything to Miki.

[[folder:Akira's Family]]

Reijiro and Kaori Fudo are Akira's parents. They often work overseas, and as such, leave Akira in the care of the Makimura family while sending running shoes to Akira on a regular basis.

Noel Makimura is a minister from a western country (possibly Ireland, going by the Celtic artwork in his house), living with his wife Akiko and his children Miki and Taro. They own a vegetarian restaurant. They are close friends with the Fudo family and took Akira in while his parents worked overseas.

->'''Taro voiced by:''' Eri Inagawa (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English), Lise Leclercq (French), Jose Luis Piedra (Latin American Spanish), Annalisa Longo (Italian), Maximilian Belle (German), Carloz Magno (Brazilian-Portuguese)

Miki's younger brother. Despite his age, he has a very wild and morbid curiosity as shown in his tendency to look up online subjects that are either erotic or dark.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Not really dumb so much as not being prepared ''enough''. After Akira's Devilman identity is exposed, she makes a heartfelt speech online in an attempt to defend Akira. Whether or not she's aware she would get doxxed, the first thing you'd expect her to do is to immediately put some shoes on and be a little quicker with packing. But she doesn't, and the rest is history.]]

[[folder:Miki's Family]]

->'''Taro voiced by:''' Eri Inagawa (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English), Lise Leclercq (French), Jose Luis Piedra (Latin American Spanish), Annalisa Longo (Italian), Maximilian Belle (German), Carloz Magno (Brazilian-Portuguese)

Noel Makimura is a minister from a western country (possibly Ireland, going by the Celtic artwork in his house), living with his wife Akiko and his children Miki and Taro. The family owns a vegetarian restaurant. They are close friends with the Fudo family and took Akira in while his parents worked overseas.

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* BeneathTheMask: Ryo is highly intelligent and level-headed, but later episodes hint that there's an unhinged side of him lurking beneath. [[spoiler: Said unhinged side hints at Satan's ''true'' malevolent personality, which he still hides with a calm veneer.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: Her human form has this, with her shirt opened to her naval.

* AdaptationalJerkass: He's still a villain, but in the manga he was loyal to [[spoiler: Satan]] through and through, even as he questioned some of his actions. In this adaptation however, [[spoiler: he's TheStarscream]].

* TheDreaded: [[spoiler: When He makes His presence known by wiping out a large faction of demons masquerading as the army, all the other demons around the world react in fear. Even ''Satan'' is so unnerved that he's reduced to a screaming and trembling mess.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: This God isn't exactly the God depicted in the Bible, and whatever He is, a few things can be made certain: He is ''powerful'', He is an otherworldly being, and He is ''not'' friendly.]]

* AllLovingHero: Miki is nice, patient, and sweet to everyone she meets, and keeps a bright attitude even when things get bleak, still believing in the best of humanity. Though as Akira points out, while her kindness is a good thing, she can also be too earnest and naive, [[spoiler: and her naivete ends up being the cause of her death]].

* FragileSpeedster: Miki is ''fast'', which helped her survive [[spoiler: the track event massacre]]. However, unlike Akira and Miko she is only human, and with the added disadvantage of [[spoiler: not having any shoes on, she meets her grisly end when a mob goes on a WitchHunt for her in the penultimate episode]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: She ''tries'' to give one to [[spoiler: the mob who is out to kill Miki]], but they fall on deaf ears.
-->'''Miko:''' What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be good? What is justice? What is right?

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Ryo is no saint, that's for certain, and his love for Akira is his one humanizing aspect -- and said love is also what causes him to break down upon realizing that Akira is dead. This is even more saddening when you know that God made it so he would experience the same tragedy over and over again.]]

* BeneathTheMask: Ryo is highly intelligent and level-headed, but later episodes hint that there's an unhinged side of him lurking beneath. [[spoiler: This applies even after regained his memories.]]

* BullyHunter: In a flashback, Akira had to run barefoot due to a trio of bullies stealing his shoes. Ryo gives said bullies a look that lies between a KubrickStare and a DeathGlare before the scene cuts to Ryo giving Akira four pairs of shoes (including Akira's own), implying that Ryo did something to literally scare the bullies out of them.
* CameraFiend: Whenever demons are involved, Ryo always has his video camera in the ready. Justified as his plan is to get as much evidence as possible so that by the time he reveals the demons' existence to the world, no one would be able to refute his words. [[spoiler: This also ends up biting Akira in the ass when Ryo discloses the truth (or half-truth, to be precise) about him as well.]]
* CharacterRerailment: Ryo didn't actually suffer from CharacterDerailment so much as he suffered from a mild case of {{Flanderization}}. In the manga, he was perfectly capable of strategizing and even being a dead serious, outright scary person, but some adaptations/sequels tend to focus almost entirely on [[spoiler: his one-sided MadLove for Akira]]. Both of these aspects are balanced in ''Crybaby'', as he remains calm, calculating and increasingly frightening, but [[spoiler: his devotion to Akira]] is still made clear throughout the story.

* ColorMotif: Ryo is associated with white, in contrast to Akira's black. What's interesting is that none of the positive aspects on the color (such as goodness, innocence, purity) match Ryo at all, as [[LightIsNotGood he is the antithesis of said aspects]]. On the other hand, white also represents coldness, emptiness, and sterility, which fits him perfectly. Additionally, white symbolizes both death and the end and beginning of a cycle, [[spoiler: which alludes to Ryo being cursed to kill Akira in the end before God pushes the ResetButton for him to go through the whole thing again]].

* DissonantSerenity: Played with. He's usually calm even in the direst of situations to the point that it can be unsettling, though there are a few instances when he shows a lot of emotion instead. A good example is when [[spoiler: the humans become paranoid and murderous after learning about the demons, to which Ryo is initially unperturbed and apathetic about, but then when Akira confronts him about it he goes into a long and crazed rant about humanity bringing about their own downfall]]. This trope is played straight again after [[spoiler: remembering his true identity, and he barely shows any change of emotion until his fight with Akira and Akira's subsequent death]].

* FalseFriend: Played with. There are times where it seems like he really regards Akira as a friend, then there are times when he sees Akira only as a tool in his goals and completely disregards Akira's concerns about the possible chaos said goals would entail. [[spoiler: Though by the end, this trope is subverted since it's made clear that [[ItMeantSomethingToMe he sincerely cares for Akira]], despite his actions and morality (or lack thereof) causing their friendship to deteriorate.]]

* FiveStagesOfGrief: [[spoiler: His reaction to Akira's death has him shifting between denial (pleading with Akira to answer him and to wake up despite knowing that he can't) and depression (finding himself in tears and continuously sobbing over Akira's corpse).]]

* ImprobableAge: He's no older than a high schooler, but he's already a professor working in America.

* IntriguedByHumanity: An interesting subversion. Ryo's opinion of humanity is based entirely on logic, even if it's not of the optimistic kind. [[spoiler: But in truth, Ryo ultimately regards humans with disdain, seeing them only as irrational pests infesting the Earth. Even then, he's emotionally attached to a human himself -- said human having all the virtues that Ryo lacked and which he mocked humankind for having.]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Played with. He doesn't seem to harbor any jealousy or resentment towards Miki in this adaptation, and while he tried to kill her at one point, his reasons were purely pragmatic. [[spoiler: But his action of revealing Akira's status as a Devilman to the world resulted in Miki's death when she defended Akira, and one of the reasons Ryo outed Akira was to isolate him from everyone else. It's uncertain whether her death was part of the plan or not, but either way, Ryo shows no remorse about it.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Angels are more ancient than even the demons, and as one, Ryo is far, ''far'' older than he looks.]]

* TheSociopath: He comes close to being one. For starters, he has almost zero empathy, is extremely intelligent and manipulative, and while he carries himself with composure it's obvious that he also shows signs of insanity and bloodlust (moreso on the latter). What, or ''who'', keeps him from completely fitting the trope is [[MoralityChain Akira]].

* WhatIsThisFeeling: [[spoiler:He begs Akira's body for an answer on why he feels what he is feeling once he notices he is dead, unaware that he had already given the answer moments ago.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Zigzagged. Unlike in the manga, Ryo shows no signs of being a CrazyJealousGuy. In ''Crybaby'', he only opted to kill Miki at one point out of suspicion that she may know about Akira's other identity, and [[spoiler: his act of revealing the truth about demons to the world was planned from the beginning rather than something he did out of jealousy. But then he also outs Akira's secret to the public in Episode 8 not only to exacerbate their paranoia, but also to alienate Akira from his friends. And unlike his manga counterpart, he never shows regret for what happens to the Makimuras.]]

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Downplayed. Ryo was already rather smart and clever in the original manga, but in ''Crybaby'' he's a TeenGenius.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Ryo is no saint, that's for certain, and his love for Akira is the sole humanizing aspect about him -- and said love is also what causes him to break down upon realizing that Akira is dead. This is even more saddening when you know that God made it so he would experience the same tragedy over and over again.]]

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:As Satan, Ryo is a hermaphrodite, having both male and female parts. This technically labels him as intersex, but whether or not Ryo sees himself in the same way is up for interpretation; though it's likely that he still sees himself as male -- at least in the Japanese dub, [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns since while he refers to himself with "watashi" at first, he eventually switches back to "ore"]] [[note]] "Watashi" is a unisex pronoun, albeit used more commonly by women since men tend to use the pronoun only in formal situations; "ore" on the other hand, is a pronoun that's used specifically by men [[/note]].]]

* ILoveTheDead: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Certainly not out of preference]], but as shown by the fact that she kept fucking the corpse of her attempted rapist after crushing his head, she's not ''adverse'' to it. [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody Though her doing that was probably just a result of her Devilman instincts.]]]]

* AdaptationalBadass: While he doesn't have the same amount of powers at his disposal in contrast to the source material, ''Crybaby'' is one of the few adaptations where Akira ''completely'' consumed Amon's will, since even in his most vulnerable moments, there's no hint of Amon threatening to take over.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Akira was more of an AntiHero in the manga, especially after his transformation. In ''Crybaby'', Akira is a straight-up hero.
* AdaptationDyeJob: The color of his skin in his Devilman form varies depending on the adaptation, and in ''Crybaby'' it's a dark blue.

* TheAntiNihilist: He seems like your typical WideEyedIdealist at first, but he's not naive enough to believe that love and peace can solve everything, and especially after being informed about the demons, knows very well what a harsh reality the world actually is. Nevertheless, he still chooses to fight demons, and despite being gradually broken by the countless losses he experiences throughout the story, he doesn't lose faith in the will of humankind; and believes that when faced with the impossible, it's better to fight back than do nothing.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: As a Devilman, he's essentially half-human and half-demon. But he pursues only ''demons'', and he seeks to save the other Devilmen. That being said, if they're siding with the enemy instead, Akira will kill them with zero hesitation.
* BadassInDistress: Even with his newfound abilities, Akira doesn't always have it easy in his anti-demon crusade. [[spoiler: He would have died in his fight with Silene after her fusion with Kaim had it not been for her kicking the bucket she could finish him off. There's also his second fight with Xenon, which leaves him wounded enough that he can't ''fly'' back to Miki, which is a really bad thing since otherwise he might have been able to save her from getting lynched.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: He just wanted to use his powers for good, and asks for nothing more than for humankind to keep surviving and to be a little less hate-mongering. [[spoiler: In the end, he's rewarded with humanity's demise... as well as his own.]]

* BookDumb: According to Ryo, Akira wasn't exactly doing well in his academics. Whether this is [[spoiler: yet another lie in his false propaganda or not]] isn't confirmed, but even if that isn't the case, Akira isn't an idiot by any means.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Akira is the Brooding Boy to Miki's Gentle Girl. He's not gloomy so much as he is sensitive, though he does gradually get more and more broken by the events of the story, [[spoiler: and it eventually got to the point that he's no longer to empathize with anyone]].
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: As a Devilman, he will literally tear his enemies a new one and never goes soft on any of them, and in special cases, [[BewareTheNiceOnes is willing to extend the same courtesy to humans]]. But beneath Akira's demon-possessed body lies a heart so human that he weeps for the pain of the others, and that same heart is also why Akira chooses to fight demons in the first place.

* CategoryTraitor: He's seen as one by the other demons, who keep on assuming that he's ''Amon'' and had simply lost his memories.

* ColorMotif: Naturally, Akira is symbolized by the color black. Black symbolizes the following -- protection: Akira's desire to keep humankind safe; strength and power -- the former referring to his empathy (which is his greatest virtue), and the latter referring to his increased physical fortitude after his transformation; and grief: Akira gradually experiencing more losses throughout the series). Black also tends to be associated with evil, [[DarkIsNotEvil which contradicts Akira in every way]].

* CosmicPlaything: Ever since he became a Devilman, Akira has been earning more tragedies than victories. [[spoiler: First, he loses his parents to a demon, loses his ''surrogate'' parents and brother due to the latter becoming a Devilman, and finally loses Miki, who was his last anchor to his humanity -- to top it all off, he learns that his best friend is actually his ultimate enemy. It doesn't help that thanks to God and the punishment He planned for Satan, Akira is destined to always suffer so that Ryo/Satan would suffer as well.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the StockShonenHero trope (with the "shonen" part upgraded to "seinen"). He gets a drastic personality and appearance change after becoming a Devilman, but deep down Akira is still a sensitive and empathetic young boy who just wants to protect the people he cares for, even believing that it's because he has people whom he cherish that he still retains his humanity. He holds nothing back when fighting demons, but he's not immune to feeling sympathy for them if they exhibit signs of humanity; and he tries to reach out to other Devilmen as he knows that they're not monsters but have to hide who they are in fear of being persecuted. Even though he experiences the disadvantages of being a Devilman, along with witnessing the world engaging in a war after learning about demons, he never loses his determination. What is deconstructed is that [[spoiler: unlike most other examples, his heroic traits do not stop grant him anything close to a victory by the end--not to mention the fact that he completely averts IncorruptiblePurePureness by way of him actually losing his empathy over time, as he endures more and more trauma]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Akira is without a doubt the protagonist of the story who also has a huge impact on the plot from the beginning to the end. [[spoiler:But ultimately, the story is not about Akira; rather it's about Ryo and what he can learn from Akira: love. Everything Akira did was to lead up to it.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Despite everything happening to him and the world around him, Akira continues to retain his humanity as seen in him still being able to cry. [[spoiler: But Miki's death turns out to be the last straw, breaking him so much that he's no longer able to shed tears for anyone else.]]

* HeroicBSOD: He goes through one after [[spoiler: his parents' deaths]], slaughtering demons left and right even without Ryo to keep watch over him and being unable to keep his more bestial instincts in check. It's ultimately his battle with Silene that snaps him out of it, as he takes out both his emotional and sexual frustrations on her.

* IAmAMonster: Though Akira is normally insistent on the fact that he's ''not'' a demon but a Devilman, at one point he mutters that he ''is'' a demon after all when Ryo warns him that he's in danger of being exposed.

* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''Devilman'', not a demon; though this is justified since there are other stark differences between the two besides moral alignment.

* LightningBruiser: As a Devilman, Akira possesses both SuperStrength and SuperSpeed. And due to fusing with one of the most powerful demons, is consequently one of the strongest Devilmen.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Not that either of them are aware of it, but Akira turns out to be one to Ryo since he's the only reason why Ryo has any humanity in him at all. [[spoiler:This is made clear in the ending, since even though the war ended with both the humans and demons perishing, Ryo didn't seem to mind so as long as Akira was still alive. But when he realizes that's not the case, Ryo is so overwhelmed by sadness (something he never experienced before) that he can only hold Akira's body while crying in grief.]]

* MessianicArchetype: Even though he's half-demon, he's a nigh-perfect example of this trope. He's TheChosenOne in the sense that Ryo called for the most powerful demon to possess him, he fights for humanity's sake, [[spoiler: and is friends with someone who's not simply a SatanicArchetype but actually ''Satan'' himself -- who then betrays him]]. Even later, he tries to convince a mob to stop stoning innocents, and [[CrucifiedHeroShot stands there with his arms spread out]] while the mob just continues to attack him... with the violence eventually dissipating when the children approach him and hug him, similar to how the children would come to Jesus in the Bible -- and the other adults follow suit, which mirrors how many people would line up and have Jesus heal any of their injuries.
* MoralityChain: Played with in that even though Ryo cares for him, it doesn't stop him from [[spoiler: plunging the world in war and leading demonkind to eradicate the humans]], but Akira's presence in his life still allowed him to eventually learn both love and sorrow, [[spoiler: even if he learns it a bit too late.]]
* MoralMyopia: While not as bad as with Ryo, even Akira can be guilty of this. Although he cries for others when they're hurting, there are a few times when Akira ''doesn't''. Despite the occasional argument with Ryo he will gladly overlook any murders by those he cares about as long as it doesn't hurt those close to him or someone he has empathized with like Koda. [[spoiler:In the end, it's only when Miki dies that he truly has a problem with what Ryo's done.]]

** He never does what Miki tells him about not looking at perverse stuff on the living room computer nor did he change the password when it's clear Taro was learning things he shouldn't through it. [[spoiler: That, combined with the aftermath of Koda's rampage, eventually led to Taro's transformation into a Devilman. To be fair, it's likely that even if Akira did the above, Taro still would have turned; since like many other kids, Taro would find other ways to look up things not suitable for his age.]]

* PervertedDrooling: He's practically salivating when he's walking around the red light district, though this is less because something or someone he saw aroused him and more because his demon-infused body is seeking copulation.

* ProHumanTranshuman: While he transforms into a human-demon hybrid, Akira is still completely on humanity's side and fights for their survival. However, the trope is deconstructed in many ways. Akira kills demons only when there are no other witnesses since if anyone sees him, it's likely that he'll be seen as another demon. Then when the world goes into war after learning about them, Ryo points out that despite Akira's heroic intentions, his status as a Devilman means he's likely to be hunted by both humans and demons alike.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Downplayed. Whenever Akira turns into a Devilman, any shirt he wears is completely destroyed, but the same doesn't go for his pants and footwear; while they disappear when he fully transforms, when he reverts back to his human form, he's left shirtless but any clothing below the torso is shown to be intact.

** When Akira sees [[spoiler: what happened to his parents]], he's as grief-stricken as he is angry -- and this is seen when he's heavily breathing in and out and visibly struggling while taking on his Devilman form.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Akira tries to stand up for Miki when the rapper gang was imposing on her, Wam asks him if he's a mermaid due to popping up from below the docks -- to which Akira enthusiastically replies that he is. Then when he comes back the next day to retrieve Miki's bag, he introduces himself to the gang as "the mermaid" since they didn't recognize him at first, what with his appearance change and all.

* ProHumanTranshuman: Akira sees his newly-gained Devilman abilities as an opportunity to fight for humanity, though the trope is deconstructed in many ways. Akira kills demons only when there are no other witnesses since if anyone sees him, it's likely that he'll be seen as another demon. Then when the world goes into war after learning about them, Ryo points out that despite Akira's heroic intentions, his status as a Devilman means he's likely to be hunted by both humans and demons alike.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Ryo was already rather smart and clever in the original manga, but in ''Crybaby'' he's a TeenGenius.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[spoiler: Even before he remembers his true identity, Ryo was already ruthless and couldn't really care about anyone else besides Akira and himself. And while wanting to kill the entire human race isn't a good thing, Ryo did it not out of megalomania or insanity, but because he wanted to demons to freely roam and inhabit the Earth once more, and despised God all the more for trying to kill them just because they weren't up to His standards. God Himself on the other hand, was more than willing to doom an entire planet and the many races living in it to extinction and have Ryo suffer losing his beloved countless times, all because he dared to slight Him.]]

* AdaptationalUgliness: Xenon's female head on the right looks uglier than how she looked in the manga, where she now has a frog-like face, while in the manga she was more attractive and human looking.

* AdaptationalWimp: While she's still a decent match for Akira in this adaptation, she no longer has the ability to teleport and conjure fire, which made her an even more dangerous opponent in the manga.

* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler: An accidental and tragic example. In the finale, he ends his fight with Akira by bisecting the latter. However, it's possible that he meant to ''wound'' -- not ''kill'' -- Akira and was only overcome by his bloodlust at the time, since when he realizes that Akira's dead the entire time he was speaking to him, Ryo has an emotional VillainousBreakdown.]]

* AdaptationalWimp: While she's still a decent match for Akira in this adaptation, she lacks the abilities to teleport and conjure fire, which made her an even more dangerous opponent in the manga.

* CharacterRerailment: Though it should be made clear that Ryo didn't suffer from CharacterDerailment as much as he suffered from a case of {{Flanderization}}. In the manga, he was perfectly capable of strategizing and even being a dead serious, outright scary person, but some adaptations/sequels tend to focus almost entirely on [[spoiler: his one-sided MadLove for Akira]]. Both of these aspects are balanced in ''Crybaby'', as he remains calm, calculating and increasingly frightening, but [[spoiler: his devotion to Akira]] is still made clear throughout the story.

* AdaptationalWimp: While she's still a decent match for Akira in this adaptation, she lacks the abilities to teleport and conjure fire, which in the manga marked her as a more dangerous opponent.

->'''Akiko voiced by:''' Sayaka Kobayashi (Japanese), Anne Yatco (English), Chelo Díaz (European Spanish), Giuliana Atepi (Italian), Andrea Wick (German), Rita de Cássia Oliveira (Brazilian-Portuguese)

* EvilAlbino: [[spoiler: While angels are otherworldly beings, Ryo/Satan more or less fits the trope due to his angel form having pure white skin and his status as one of the most malicious characters in the series.]]

** He never does what Miki tells him about not looking at perverse stuff on the living room computer nor did he change the password when it's clear Taro was learning things he shouldn't through it. [[spoiler: That, combined with the aftermath of Koda's rampage, eventually led to Taro's transformation into a Devilman.]]

* DirtyKid: In the second episode, Taro is seen using Akira's account to browse his history and find pornographic images, and he seems to be doing this often. [[spoiler: It's also possible that his hobby of looking up grisly or racy things on the internet is what made him a target of DemonicPossession.]]

* TheCutie: Prior to the events of Episode 1, at least.

* CreepyMonotone: He starts speaking in a constant soft tone [[spoiler:once he transforms into Satan]]. He also spoke in a nigh-robotic tone when he was a child, at least when he's not getting emotional.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Like Akira, he also lies somewhere in-between. Appearance-wise he fits the former, being a little lanky, pale, and while not exactly effeminate, is nowhere near as well-built as Akira (at least not after he became a Devilman). Personality-wise however, he is anything ''but'' sensitive.