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Devilman/"Akira Fudo"
One of the Demon Lord Zenon’s most trusted warriors, assigned to go into the human world and prepare a base from which the Demon Tribe would start their invasion. He instead fell in love with Miki Makimura and resolved to defend humanity.
- Adaptational Name Change: Downplayed, in the manga the demon was called Amon with Devilman being Akira's superhero monicker, here the demon’s name is Devilman.
- Badass Biker: Taking into account that the Lighter and Softer adaptation couldn't have Akira dismembering and mauling demons in a gruesome manner to cement his badass status, they just gave him a nice bike to ride in between the fights.
- Came Back Wrong: He dies, only for his body to be possessed by Devilman, and he becomes cockier and more of a bully.
- Character Development: Started out either ambivalent or actively hostile to most humans and uninterested in fighting against Zenon's forces unless they come after him or Miki first. By the end of the series he's started to take a more proactive role in defending humanity from demons.
- Composite Character: Somewhat retroactively, he’s one of Amon, Akira Fudo and Ryo Asuka/Satan, seeing as he was a demon that came to the human world to conquer it for the demons only to fall in love with a human he met while there.
- Decomposite Character: On the other hand Devilman and the pre-transformation Akira are separated into two different characters.
- Death by Adaptation: Akira is killed along with his father, and his body is taken over by Devilman.
- Defector from Decadence: He used to work for Zenon, but turned against him to protect humanity and Miki.
- Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Devilman killed the real Akira Fudo in the first episode and possessed his corpse to used it as a disguise to infiltrate humankind, kickstarting the events of this continuity. As such, we know little to nothing about how the real Akira was, aside from what was seen during the prologue.
- Improbable Weapon User: He uses his belt as a makeshift whip.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is basically the local school bully, but he genuinely loves his adoptive family and Miki.
- No Name Given: He is simply called “Devilman”.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: At first, he doesn't particularly care about humanity, telling another demon that he's only defending it because Miki would be very upset if the demons wiped them out.
- The Power of Love: His love for Miki brings out the best in him.
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Aside from his Magic Pants.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He survives with Miki, fully embracing his identity as Akira.
- Would Hit a Girl: Aside from Harmless Villain Lala, he fights the female demons just as brutally as the males.
Miki Makimura
Akira’s Love Interest.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Averted; she hated it when he acts mean to the other students, and will retaliate by hitting him.
- Damsel in Distress: Sometimes becomes this, as the demons love to target her to get at Devilman.
- Love Interest: To Akira.
- Love Redeems: Devilman’s love for her is what convinced him to betray Zenon.
- Morality Pet: She's the reason Amon turned back against his own kind after being sent to destroy humanity.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She survives along with Akira.
- Tsundere: She often yells at Akira and hits him whenever he’s being The Bully, but she cares for him nonetheless.
Tare Makimura
Miki’s little brother.
- Puppy Love: With Miyo.
- Running Gag: His tendency to pee his pants whenever he’s scared.
Miyo
Tare’s girlfriend, she often gets swept up in the demon chaos alongside Tare.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: She lives with her grandmother, her parents are never brought up.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: Although we don’t see them do it onscreen, she and Tare will occasionally bring up that they planned to get married.
- Puppy Love: With Tare.
Lala
A demoness who is sent after Devilman, but decides to stick around and become an ally.
- Beware the Silly Ones: To call her dumber than a sack of rocks would be offensive to the rocks, but that doesn’t mean she’s useless in a fight in one episode she was able to use her demon powers turn a pencil sharpener and a lamp into crude one shot guns, and if she wasn’t under fire from the JSDF she might have been able to make something deadlier.
- Brainless Beauty: She transformed herself into a cute but very stupid girl. And she is really aware of this.
- Butt-Monkey: One of the few demons that no one, not even Zenon or Devilman himself, take seriously.
- Canon Foreigner: She appears only in the '70 series.
- Dumb Muscle: She's really. really. really. dumb. But her power to mold items into anything she wants is not one to be underrestimated, as she can turn ordinary objects into deadly weapons.
- Gonk: Her real face looks like a car that has drove into a brick wall. She does attempt to fix her face when she has the chance.
- Harmless Villain: She lacks intimidating abilities and is too stupid to be considered a threat to anyone.
- Ms. Fanservice: There is quite a bit of focus on her legs and other nice areas.
- Really 700 Years Old: She is regarded as cute in appearance but is actually quite old.
- Reality Warper: A bit more hands on than most examples, she’s basically able to sculpt solid matter into anything she wishes. In one episode she used the trash in an abandoned apartment to create a luxurious bedroom.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Killed by Magdora, which sets up the serious, apocalyptic tone of the final episodes.
- Too Dumb to Live: After Akira sarcastically tells her to kill herself because “only death can cure a fool” she decides to commit suicide. She soon proves to be too dumb to die later because Akira soon finds her trying to slit her throat with a paper knife (a type wooden knife commonly used as a letter opener) because she was worried about hurting herself with a real knife.
- Villainous Crush: She is in love with Devilman and believes that his attempts to avoid her are because he is too shy reveal his (nonexistent) romantic feelings for her.
Demon Tribe leaders
Demon Lord Zenon
The supreme leader of the Demon Tribe.
- Bad Boss: He's willing to kill anyone who fails him, or wants to live a peaceful life, as witnessed when he has a demon, Lita, stabbed as an example for wanting a peaceful life.
- Big Bad: Since Satan/Ryo does not appear, Zenon is the one who sends out the demons that Devilman fights.
- Karma Houdini: He is still left standing by the end, with the implication that Devilman will eventually face him.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He never fight Devilman himself, instead preferring to send minions to do the fighting for him.
- Make an Example of Them: Kills Lita because she did not want to kill humans, and he wants to warn the others what will happen to those who do not follow his orders.
- The Unfought: God serves as the Final Boss, while Zenon never fights Devilman.
Demon General Zannin
- Arc Villain: The first of three generals who sends out his minions to defeat Devilman.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: He has a second pair of eyes in his chest.
- You Have Failed Me: He kills Vetra as punishment for his cowardice.
Himmler/Iwao Himura
A demon working undercover to assist Zannin and Zenon.
- The Dragon: To Zannin.
- Expy: Of Ryo Asuka from the manga.
- Internal Reveal: Devilman discovers that he is a demon only in his last appearance, but the audience is let in on this in the first episode where he appears.
Demon General Muzan
- Arc Villain: The second of three generals who sends out his minions to defeat Devilman.
- Bakeneko and Nekomata: He's a cat demon with numerous tails around his waist.
- Gag Penis: More of a visual gag than anything but one of his tails is rather strategically located.
Demon Marshal Lacock
- Arc Villain: The third demon general that Zenon assigns the task of eliminating Devilman.
- Canon Immigrant: She is added to the cast in Devilman Saga.
- Dragon with an Agenda / The Starscream: She agrees to eliminate Devilman on the condition that Zenon abdicate rule of the demon tribe to her.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares more about her subordinates than the other demon generals did, when her lover Arlon dies in battle against Devilman she decides to kill him herself.
- Soul Jar: Her belt, as long as it remains intact she can recover from any injury.
Demons of the Demon Tribe
Rerasu
One of two demons besides Devilman selected by Zenon as a candidate to possess Akira Fudo's body and infiltrate the human world.
- Eye Scream: He ends up stabbing himself in the eye while fighting Devilman.
Daruni
The other demon, besides Devilman, Zenon selected as a candidate to possess Akira's body.
- Fat Bastard: Visibly chunky and an evil demon.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Devilman Kills him by kicking him upwards into a bunch of icicles.
Henge
- Composite Character: His rampage in the Makimura household is similar to Aqwel and Ghelmer’s attack in the manga, there’s even a point where he takes the form of bath water and carries Miki upstairs.
- Meaningful Name: His name is the Japanese word for change or shapeshifter.
- Mythology Gag: At one point he takes a form resembling Linghorn from Demon Lord Dante.
- Shapeshifter Default Form: A giant yellow snake with heads branching off like the branches of a tree.
- Starter Villain: He’s the first demon that Devilman fights against to protect humanity.
Sirene
- Adaptational Dye-Job: In most other material she has pink flesh tone skin and white feathers, the anime gives her blue skin and black head feathers and orange body feathers.
- Adaptational Modesty: To keep things family friendly, her pubis of feathers is upgraded into an Organic One-Piece Bathing Suit.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: She takes her sweet time trying to kill Miki, rather than just kill her then and there. Doing so gave Devilman the opportunity to save Miki just in time, and results in her death.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: She dies rather anticlimactically due to Bond Villain Stupidity rather than fusing with a demon or Kaim.
- Starter Villain: The first Monster of the Week fought by Devilman.
Geruge
A demon sent by Zenon to eliminate Devilman, he bears a resemblance to Ghelmer from the manga.
- Hollywood Acid: Shoots it from his tail.
- Irony: In the manga Ghelmer was a demon who’s powers involved water, Geruge is a demon that Devilman kills by throwing into the sea.
- Paranoia Gambit: He tells Devilman that he’s going to kill Miki before sundown, Akira spends the entire day being overprotective of Miki until she gets fed up with him and slaps him in the face hard enough to make him bleed and now Devilman has a weak point Geruge can aim for.
Vetra
A demon employed by Zannin to help him spread chaos in the human world.
- Death by Adaptation: In the manga series written by Mitsuru Hiruta to tie into the anime he’s killed in battle against Devilman rather than being killed by Zannin for retreating.
- Dirty Coward: Retreats as soon as he loses the advantage against Devilman, twice.
- Puppeteer Parasite: He used a number of demon spiders, capable of possessing people, to carry out his mission.
Lita
A female demon who tried to leave the Demon tribe but was imprisoned by Zenon.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: She tried to leave the demon tribe only to be impaled, sealed in ice, and later thawed out and eaten as part of a trap for Devilman.
Zaldover
- Monstrous Cannibalism: She eats Lita in order to take her form.
Rokfel
A psychotic and arrogant demon who was sent by Zenon to kill Devilman. He was less than enthusiastic about having to work with Zannin though.
- Ax-Crazy: He was very eager about his mission to kill Devilman but ended up veering from his mission just to cause greater bloodshed.
- I Work Alone: Becomes his undoing as his refusal to accept Zannin's help allowed Devilman to defeat him.
- Make My Monster Grow: He was able to grow to gigantic size by absorbing a skull that was recovered from an archaeological dig site.
- Prehensile Hair: The hair on on his head can form into tiny arms.
- Reused Character Design: Which way it goes is unclear but he shares his "long neck with a human head and a second face at the base" design with another demon in the manga called Somerci.
Zool
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: He proves to be just as dangerous as the rest of the Demon Tribe when he rips a volleyball player in half while playing with his doll.
- People Puppets: He can control anyone so long as he has a doll sculpted in their image.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He’s very lazy and would much rather spend time playing with his dolls, never mind that they can influence the people their modeled after and if the doll is broken that person dies in the same manner.
- Voodoo Doll: Small clay dolls made in the image of a targeted human, whatever happens to the doll happens to the person it looks like, and Zool plays with them like Barbies
Abil
Zool's bodyguard while he causes havoc with his voodoo dolls. He's also sent to retrieve a painting of Miki from Himura to make a doll of her that they can use to threaten Devilman.
Iyamon
Bau
- Big Brother Instinct: Is very insistent that Iyamon calls for him if she’s in trouble.
Gondroma
- My Brain Is Big: His alien like head is his most notable feature.
- Mythology Gag: He's modeled after the demon Blemshat from the Demon Lord Dante Manga.
The Gan Triplets
Gandee, Gander and Gandagan were a trio of demons who went to the human world to eliminate Devilman.
- Cyclops: Each of them only have one eye.
- Kick the Dog: Their mission was to kill Devilman but they go out of their way to traumatize Tare and instill a phobia of disembodied eyes in him.
Lafleur
Faim
Aguilar
Mermane
- Knight of Cerebus: Not because of anything she does but Miki gets injured during her episode which leads directly into Devilman's final battle with Zannin.
Ebain
An armless centaurian demon who can travel through mirrors and take control of other people’s arms.
- Mirror Monster: She usually shows herself to her victims by appearing in a mirror they are looking into.
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Her preferred method of killing, if you look at her she can gain control of your arms and make you strangle yourself to death.
- Pocket Dimension: She can travel to the mirror world at will and when she uses the key that Muzan gave her she can bring others into it.
Psycho Jenny
A demoness who takes the form of a disembodied head with fangs, she tried to use her mind control powers to force the children to commit a mass suicide.
- Adaptational Villainy: she doesn’t have the same Affably Evil charm of her manga counterpart.
- Adaptational Wimp: Unlike her Manga Counterpart who, while rarely engaging in fights herself, was able to trap her opponents in powerful illusions, this version of Jenny could only use her psychic powers to influence sleeping minds.
- Demoted to Extra: In the manga she was one of the Big Bad’s Dragons here she’s just a monster of the week.
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Attempted this on all of the children in town.
Dagon
Meg
- Love Potion: Her slime trail makes any man who steps in it fall in love with her.
- Hate Plague: It also makes them willing to fight to the death with anyone else who’s fallen for her.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She’s afraid of frogs.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: In her human form. She even managed to turn Devilman's head briefly.
Adal
A spider demon who used department store mannequins as puppets to do his bidding.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He doesn't appear until episode 19 of the anime, in contrast the Hiruta tie in manga has him appear in the fourth chapter.
- Kick the Dog: He spends most of his episode tricking Tare into thinking he accidentally killed his sister and trying to get him run over by a train. Since most of the rest of his puppets were disguised as influential figures he was really going out of his way to torment one kid.
- Marionette Master: He reshaped discarded mannequins into puppets which he would then use to further the Demon Tribe's influence.
- Sneaky Spider: He's a spider demon who's using puppets to infiltrate humanity.
- This Was His True Form: Once he stops controlling them, his puppets turn back into featureless mannequins.
Drango
Draw
A powerful and gluttonous slime demon tasked by Muzan to kill Devilman.
- Asteroids Monster: When Devilman attacked him using the Devil Cutter, it only made more of him.
- Blob Monster
- From a Single Cell: Devilman had to throw him into volcano to make sure he stayed dead.
- Kill It with Fire: Literally the only way to harm him.
Mugaruu
- Death Faked for You: He kidnaps Miki and then casts illusions to make people think that Akira killed her after she rebuffed his advances.
- Spear Counterpart: Possibly one to and of the female demon Texsch from the manga.
Bela
A bird demon sent out to expand the Demon Tribe's territory by using her power to resurrect the dead to attack a small village in Tibet.
- Harping on About Harpies: She has a very traditional harpy appearance.
- No Ontological Inertia: Once Devilman kills her her zombies crumble to dust.
- Organic Bra: a large patch of red feathers covering her breasts.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Her powers allow her to completely reconstitute a body, even one that's rotted away and had its bones picked clean by condors.
- Would Hurt a Child: She used her zombies to kill everyone in the village, including the children, and was going to have them kill the Makimura family too.
Jacon
A purple feline demon who specializes in granting the wishes of humans in exchange for their souls.
- Our Souls Are Different: They are purple and shaped like the person they belong to, once Jacon devours them the victim is left in a comatose or vegetative state.
- Sold His Soul for a Donut: His victims had some rather small desires; Hairo wanted to go ice skating with his friends when he was stuck home studying, Alphonse wanted to drive fast while he was stuck in a traffic jam, the only one who had an understandable goal was Chaco who wanted to kill Alphonse after his reckless driving caused a car accident that injured Hairo.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Once he fills his end of the bargain he devours his victims’ soul.
Dodo
Jewel
Miniyon
Kentos
Vaiser
A wraith like demon who’s shadow can awaken darkness within human hearts causing them to act without restraint.
- Affably Evil: He’s very apologetic to Alphonse when he’s about to kill him.
- Apologises a Lot: He even apologizes to Devilman for dying.
Kilski
Aurora
Weathers
Arlon
Magdora
A fire-breathing dragon demon, who also possesses the power to manipulate the Earth's magma, creating geological phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
- Knight of Cerebus: His killing Lala set the mood for the darker tone of the last few episodes.
Wuduu
Dremoon
One of the strongest members of the Demon Tribe, Dremoon is a humanoid demon with the ability to use the miniature black hole in his chest to pull objects as large as the Earth and the Moon towards each other.
- Colony Drop: His goal is to destroy or otherwise devastate the Earth by dragging it into the Moon.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Devilman defeats Dremoon by sneaking up behind him, causing the latter to panic and accidentally suck his own body into his black hole.
- Hidden Villain: Spends the majority of his episode in orbit around the Moon, hiding behind a satellite to carry out his schemes unseen. This tactic almost works, as Devilman spends a great deal of time searching for Dremoon on Earth, and is almost out of time by the time he finally finds out where he is.
- Knight of Cerebus: Even when compared to the other demons that make up the series’ final few antagonists, Dremoon stands out from them in how apocalyptic his plan was, intending to destroy the Earth by bringing it and the Moon together into a catastrophic collision.
- Unrealistic Black Hole: Dremoon’s black hole is of the ‘cosmic vacuum cleaner’ variety, visibly exerting suction on objects as if there was air. He even describes black holes as ‘super vacuums’ during his initial monologue when Devilman finally finds him!
God
- Antagonist Abilities: He can use his ’miracle’ abilities to create storms, summon dinosaurs, manifest sharks in fresh water and cause giant living Sphinxes to wander the streets of Tokyo.
- The Dragon: The Captain of Zenon’s Demon Guard, and his strongest servant.
- Dub Name Change: The Italian Dub changed his name to Godman, to better underline that he is and Evil Counterpart to Devilman.
- Evil Counterpart: He looks looks like a scarier version of Devilman.
- Final Boss: The last demon Devilman faces in the show.
Others
Mr. and Mrs. Makimura
Alphonse
Akira and Miki’s home room teacher.
- Butt-Monkey
- Cloud Cuckoolander
- Dirty Old Man: Especially towards Miki.
Hairo Todaiji
A classmate and friend of Akira and Miki’s and the chairman of the school’s student council.
- Beta Couple: He and Chaco are this to Akira and Miki.
- Education Mama: His mother puts a lot of pressure on him to get good grades, justified because she's stated that she doesn’t want him to turn out like his dead beat father.
- Go Through Me: Throws himself between Muzan’s minions and Chaco so that she can escape. He accepted that he would probably die, but he still went through with it hoping that it would mean Chaco’s survival, and asked his parents forgiveness for dying before them.
Michiru
Tare’s teacher, a former lady wrestler, very stern with both her students and fellow faculty.
- Wrestler in All of Us: She first demonstrates her skills when she performs a pile driver on a possessed Tare.
