11/12/2023 0 Comments Tumblr devilman![]() ![]() All credit goes to / royasuka for the idea. There is a theory that’s been going around on twitter and I’m surprised I haven’t seen it being talked about here on tumblr so I’ve decided to put together a post with all the supporting evidence in one place for convenience’s sake and so that new Devilman fans can see that there is more to Ryo’s character beyond how he is portrayed in the anime. ![]() It is an important part of Nagai’s career and any fan owes it to themselves to at least *try* to read it.If you have read the Devilman manga, you might have noticed the inconsistencies between how Ryo is characterized in Crybaby versus the original manga. PS: I understand the content is not for everyone, that it can be disturbing, because it totally is, but that is no reason to blatantly lie about the work and to have other people avoid it. TL DR Devilman Lady is completely misunderstood, underappreciated, and trashed on by people who are completely unfamiliar with Nagai’s 40+ years of drawing and writing manga. It deserves at least an ounce of respect even if the content isn’t in your taste, which is weird since it’s not much more extreme than Akira raping and tearing apart Sirene in the air. Without Lady you would not have Crybaby in the form you have it now. The constant need for sex, all the sexuality and Miko’s character arc are all derived from LADY. It had a loooot of influence from character backstories and motivations to how demons act in general. Last thing, for those fans of Crybaby, you’ll be interested in knowing that Lady had more than a bit of influence on the anime. You do eventually get longer story arcs around volume 7 but the volumes preceding it are things you should read. You just have more of it because it’s 17 volumes long. These volumes develop the characters and their relationship and are no different from Akira fighting Sirene and her gang or Jinmen or Xan. Yeah, they’re episodic, but saying there’s no story in them is completely wrong. ![]() The first half of the manga is an episodic devil extermination story, Jun and Asuka are informed of there being some kind of demon and they go to investigate and exterminate said demon. Lady follows the same format as the original manga, the only difference is that things are more elaborated on. The second complaint is that Devilman Lady lacks a story, which suggests the people making these posts have never actually read it. This is expanded on more in the story later. She meets Jun and becomes bitterly jealous of her but loves her, but because of her experience she can’t and at the same time, feels hatred for her. Her experience activates the devil beast genes within her, becoming a more masculine version of herself lacking feminine traits. It haunts her every day and we see her grieve over it. She endured rape by her step father and her own mother ignored it. Nagai gives us a multi chapter story explaining why she is the way she is instead of her just being a simple villain. ![]() That’s not to say Nagai doesn’t put his fetishes in, because he totally does, but he does it in a way that it works in the story.Įxample, Jun has a longtime rival, she’s mean and constantly angry and is kind of also a murderer. Rape isn’t used for laughter, it’s to make you feel for the characters or for Nagai to draw someone receiving divine punishment in the form of Lady smashing someone’s brains out. People seem to think it’s just Nagai being a gross old pervert, but sexual abuse is never there without reason, it always has a purpose and -usually- is used to advance the story or provide motivation for the character. The first major complaint I see regarding lady, is the rape, which isn’t even an uncommon plot device in Nagai’s work. But I will tell you, Devilman Lady is a very important work that builds upon the original Devilman with a more elaborate story, fleshed out back stories, and actual time to develop a story that isn’t rushed into 5 manga volumes. Heck, nobody seems to actually be reading it except the final volumes to get to their dear shipping material. Devilman Lady being misunderstood by Devilman’s new fanbase is a vast understatement, nobody seems to understand it at all. ![]()
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