Devilman Crybaby Is Netflix’s Newest Experimental Success

Once in a while, a show hits us harder than a Dempsey Roll. A show that we thought would be great, but not this great. We’re talking about Devilman Crybaby. But first, we’d like to start off by saying that there is no number of disclaimers that we can put to accurately prepare your eyes for this show. The way that body parts are contorted and used to make other body parts is out of this world. Most of the blood and gore isn’t red because gawd damn if it were it’d be the bloodiest show ever. It’d be bloodier than Blood+ which ironically wasn’t very bloody. So after watching Devilman Crybaby two times, I realized that the show has a surprising amount of foreshadowing and fresh beats. Let’s get to it. Once again, viewer discretion is advised for this show. You know the deal. Backstory Devilman Crybaby is a Netflix original anime based on the Devilman series which you’ve probably seen in a “most gruesome moments in anime” type list and for good reason. The original Devilman anime ran 1972-1973. It was pretty tame and definitely wouldn’t prepare you for the psychedelic gorefest of Devilman Crybaby. Devilman: the Birth, an OVA in 1987 was more faithful to the original manga, and it has that gritty old school anime feel to it, blood, nudity and all that good stuff. After many more OVAs and spin-offs, we arrive at Devilman Crybaby which ups the ante on everything you can imagine.

  Plot and Themes The title Devilman Crybaby is more than just a weird combination of words. The pr…