History YMMV / Devilman

* CompleteMonster: See Monster/{{Devilman}}

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan]]
* MagnumOpus: Go Nagai considers the franchise to be his best work.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Between Akira and Ryo. Made more complicated by the fact Ryo is in reality the [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous hermaphrodite Satan]]. On the other hand, Satan '''is''' outright stated to be in love with Akira, and the world ending and being recreated over and over again, is a way by God to punish him/her, by Satan watching Akira's suffering repeat itself.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Between Akira and Ryo. Made more complicated by the fact Ryo is in reality the [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous hermaphrodite Satan]]. On the other hand, Satan '''is''' outright stated to be in love with Akira, and world ending and being recreated over and over again, is a way by God to punish him/her, by Satan watching Akira's suffering repeat itself.

* SnarkBait: The Live Action movie, which was the winner of the first Bunshun Kiichigo Awards (The Japanese answer of the GoldenRaspberryAward)

** Ryo's plan for turning Akira into Devilman involves gathering a bunch of hippies together in his basement. ItMakesSenseInContext, yes, but it's hard to take the line "These people here are rouge hippies I've gathered together" seriously.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jinmen. For crying out loud, out of all the Characters in this series....He even has a {{MUGEN}} character.

* CompleteMonster:
** Jinmen, the depraved turtle-like demon eats humans alive to [[YourSoulIsMine devour their souls]], leaving an imprint of them on his shell while they are trapped in agony. Jinmen targets vulnerable humans on purpose, with children being a favorite meal, including a 10 year old named Sachiko who had befriended Akira. Those he devours are left [[AndIMustScream alive and conscious]], but trapped until Akira kills him.
** Amon was a demon that was [[DemonicPossession taken inside of Akira Fudo]] but was eventually trapped inside him, existing as Akira's SuperpoweredEvilSide. When Akira crosses the DespairEventHorizon, Amon finally emerges in the OVA ''Amon: The Dark Side Of Devilman''. Amon murders humans and demons [[ForTheEvulz for his own twisted amusement]] and takes delight in [[MindRape mentally torturing Akira with images of him as Devilman devouring his beloved Miki]] and in one of the most memorably horrifying scenes, when Amon discovers a little girl in rubble, he lifts her up before ''eating her alive'', horrifying even other demons.
** Candy from the AMON side story was a SerialKiller before achieving great power. In the post apocalyptic world, Candy ekes out a power base by convincing humans there is no such thing as Devilmen, resulting in purges of countless peaceful humans believed to be demons. Candy takes delight in the deaths of the innocent and simply enjoys wielding power over others.

* CompleteMonster: Jinmen, Amon in his OVA, Candys in Amon's manga.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The movie version suffers from this.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The story is genuinely a criticism of militarism and how fear and hatred bring only tragedy.

* FridgeHorror: In ''Devilman Grimoire'', actually. Remember how, in the original ''Devilman'', [[spoiler: Miki and Tare were horribly murdered by a psychotic lynch mob consisting of their own neighbours, because they thought she was a witch?]] When one considers that the cast is pretty much the same in ''Grimoire'' (with a few additions), it stands to reason that the Makimuras' neighbours most likely are also the same people. Which then leads to the realisation that the whole neighbourhood is a ticking time bomb, ready to go off under the right conditions. It doesn't help that Miki goes around announcing to anyone who's willing to listen that she is a witch.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The story is genuinely a criticism of militarism and how fear and hatred bring only tragedy.
* TearJerker: See the [[TearJerker/{{Devilman}} Tear Jerker]] page for this series.

* NightmareFuel: The whole thing.

** Due to a notoriously mistranslated subtitled version of the 1972 anime, DEBIRU Man has become a popular nickname for the title character.

** Due to a notoriously mistranslated subtitled version of the 1972 anime, DEBIRU Man has become a popular nickname of the title character.

* FridgeHorror: In ''Devilman Grimoire'', actually. Remember how, in the original ''Devilman'', [[spoiler: Miki and Tare were horribly murdered by a psychotic lynch mob consisting of their own neighbours?]] When one considers that the cast is pretty much the same in ''Grimoire'' (with a few additions), it stands to reason that the Makimuras' neighbours most likely are also the same people. Which then leads to the realisation that the whole neighbourhood is a ticking time bomb, ready to go off under the right conditions.

* FanNickname: [[UltimateMarvel ''Ultimate'']]''Devilman'' for Devilman Grimoire.

* NightmareFuelUnleaded: The whole thing.

* SpecialEffectsFailure:The movie version suffers from this.