The Hidden Message of Devilman Crybaby That Everyone Missed
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2021
- Today we attempt to uncover the many layers of Devilman Crybaby.
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I think a better explanation for the devil's androgyny is simply that angels were originally portrayed as androgynous in Christian mythology, its trying to portray him as an angel, rather than some corrupted demon.
I thought they were originally portrayed as like having a million eyes and being undulating bands?
@@cryptofacts4u they are but the Bible clarifies they "don't fit in the human sexes" labeling them as non-binary/intersex/androgynous because the bible says Humans are binary beings, not only in gender but as a whole
@@cryptofacts4u different type of angel, and Noah specified "Christian mythology"
year old comment I know but the real reason he's intersex is that in the manga Ryo is romantically in love with Akira, and they get around the controversy of having a homosexual character by explaining that he can be attracted to a man because he is a hermaphrodite
@@xiChannI based what I said on Christian mythology, particularly medieval.
Devilman Crybaby really taught me especially at the end of episode 9; you don't have to be posses by a devil, to do bad things. You don't have to be a devil to do evil things like what the mob did to Hero, his homie w the katana sword, Miki and Miki(o), no one in that mob was possessed... They did all of that by themselves..
I just found it hard to believe normal people would be that evil in the anime. Putting their body in pikes really?? No normal people other than the main characters are forming groups stopping bad humans from terrorising or hunting innocent people.
@@FallenGrey Well humans used to do such things in the mediaeval times, there were even crueler punishments.
@@FallenGrey surely there are but obviously its a minority, cause what sane person would side with devils? And a brief research in history would surely stomp out your belief that normal humans wouldn't be that evil.
@@FallenGrey people used to do that all the time before modern era, people still even do things similar to that in under developed parts of the world today
Fear can leas to hatred and hatred leads to well..... 🗿🗿🗿🗿. None of those people were truly evil as they truly believed what they were doing was right, but still very fucked up.
Me beginning of the series: demons fighting demon for humans
Me end of the series: *teared up* what is life and its meaning?😭
Most of this is a pretty interesting way to view Devilman Crybaby on its own terms, though I will say that opening scene of Crybaby’s first episode shows all the angels looking similar to Satan, including the intersex bodies. This is also depicted as such in the OVAs as well as the Devilman manga. If you read the manga, Satan’s motivations and reasoning are far more explicit. The manga even seems to suggest a frame where Satan’s war against God is a righteous cause in its preservation of life unwanted by its creator while also condemning Satan’s war against humanity. The sequel manga Devilman Lady even seems to reinforce this frame while exploring Gnostic conceptions of God and Satan. The humorous parody CB Chara Go Nagai world gets meta and portrays God as the Go Nagai logo who seems to exist to torment his creations - his characters.
To me devilman hinted the unchangeable reality of how humans by doing sabbaths/night clubs to having egoistic political meetings that still lead to no solution or even worsen the problems essentially destroy themselves. We satisfy ourselves with little or big things and try to avoid the fact that we are in no control over anything. True happiness is one's happiness with themselves but that isnt enough, collectively were failing to lead and soon enough reality has to hit even the completely oblivious ones
Yeah I also feel like there is beauty in this, if we look at satan as evil itself or lets entropy, we can see how akira cant escape, beat or even control his best friend. I feel like berserk ( Im aware its overused for comparison) the mc is fighting against all odds and whether or not he wins or even the entire species wins is almost irrelevant. The world is selfish, society is selfish, no one is really who they appear to be on a surface level, but still we fight
I really loved manga, I enjoyed watching old anime from 80th ( if i clearly remember), and even if i knew the whole story, Devilman Crybaby still made me cry.
I was raised Christian, but a black sheep sorta, and sorta think myself a Jesuan now. Anyway, the whole take here sounds great. I love how the show has a half-human half-demon who defends humanity and any demons who turn from evil ways. I love also the arc for Satan having to learn how to love. Great analysis, bro!
Would you please explain what a “Jesuan” is compared to a Christian?
@@AlecEburhard I assume they want to distance themselves from Christian religious traditions (often oppressive), and instead follow in the shoes of Jesus. Yaknow, live the hippie life, love thy neighbor.
This analysis is really good, and I'm not just saying this. It has changed my perspective on the show and helped me to further enrich myself and understand it. Thank you
i think it’s also interesting that by the end, Ryo and Akira are now paralleling the relationship of Satan and God.
The fact that Ryo creates Akira in his name and Akira openly rebels but Ryo kind of invites it. I think this provides more clarity on why God doesn’t kill Satan, because it Ryo and Akira’s relationship shows their own relationship as well that Ryo hasn’t recognized yet.
Omg this is genius and unique input. I totally agree. God doesn't hate Satan, he loves him after all and that's why he makes such a bug fuss just to teach him love. Thank you for sharing.
I do enjoy how the rappers end up pretty much used as a story device to explain that humanity has become selfish and greedy in their lyrics n stuff
They are essentially a massive pivot and positive depoction of male culture. For example they start of as outcast for basically being douches but then near the end become more intune with their emotions and even though they are outcasted they actually become the good guys as their self awareness grows. This entire show really feels like berserk in the sense of how masculine toxicity is handled and can be converted into positivity. E.G the humans hugging amon or when the backwards cap guy defends miki understanding her more as a good human being opposed to how he threateningly hit on her in the first ep.
Both of your comments are underrated bid time!
Been watching your Squid Game videos and thought I'd give this one a shot. I took a long while to love this anime and enjoy seeing others interpretations about it. I found your points about love and salvation fresh.
Thx Lauren
This was an amazing video to watch❤
Thx😁😁
What an great channel!
Devilman is an old Anime and Crybaby is one of the most recent iterations. Go Nagai first gave us these now tropes in Devilman and Cutey Honey and Keko Kamen (highly recommended) With the older series diving deeper into the themes.
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really missed american Ben's view while narrating hope to see you soon again man
This video just earned you a new subscriber.
😁👍Thx man
Hi American Ben,
Thanks for the video. I recommend you watch Lucifer from 2016. It is a series that touches on the topic of spirituality and how humanity views it. It is not an anime, but I think it would be practical due to a comment you made: "He is the Devil" and what you implied through tone and the following short silence.
I think Lucifer would slightly challenge that view of spirituality and its meaning. :)
I've heard good things about it. Thx for the recommendation.
How i interpreted the story i believe that the whole plot was God's very cruel way of teaching his favorite child love and empathy.
As for the creator's intentions i believe that its: we can all be cruel but also kind no matter how we were born. As for the gender of satan, in general angels for the last 2000 years are portrait as androgynous. (The greek daemon/goddess Niki and her form influenced this depiction a lot)
It’s the only good thing Netflix has ever done other than Wednesday and birdbox .
Are you going to review the new Netflix death game drama? It's a Korean one this time, and the games and the interactions/characters are far more grounded in the realm of plausibility than Alice in Borderland was... But tbh I would only call it decent because of the disappointing conclusion. Felt like it became directionless towards the end and missed the mark. That and it's just more fun when the death games are completely bonkers.
God, now that I'm comparing the two in my head I really want to go watch Alice again lol. Anyway, thought it was worth a suggestion and a watch in any case. I didn't not enjoy it even for all those things I think could've been done better :/
Squid game
the only thing i learnt from devilman is:
you can run as fast as you want, the sniper will still win.
Terror in Resonance also known as Terror in Tokyo is the best anime I have seen.
i couldn’t get through this anime because of those scenes- but other wise- it was really good
I saw another video analyzing the opening of the show, where there was mention of a time-loop.
Now, this is referencing the source material, and I love an end that's open to interpretation, but it's still worth mentioning. God punishes Ryo by having him relive Akira's death over and over again.
I haven't heard this side of the story, but it fits with the ending showing a new Earth. God really is cruel in Devilman.
Video idea: how would modern militaries handle titans from attack on Titan.
Yeah good idea
icbms and lots of artillery
A normal m2 browning .50cal would handle the majority of "mindless" titans. The more specialized titans "the 9", could be handled by a few aerial strikes with some missiles.
Aircraft carriers and destroyers could end the war in one strike.
Most countries (U.S.A., Russia, U.K., Japan, China, Germany, France, etc.) have MBT's that are more than capable of making child's play of even the Armored Titan's durability.
Combined arms doctrine and fighting from a distance. Various troops to weaken and/or distract the titan followed by a swift critical strike to the Titans' weak-spot.
But TBH, this question was already answered by part 1 of the last season of Attack on Titan.
The world's armies in the show were beginning to adapt their military technology to supercede the threat of, and need for, titans in modern warfare. Even the Marlyean Empire has began to advance and decrease total reliance on titans, although they do still play an integral role in military operations. Acting as a special forces unit of sorts.
Drones
Audio sounds nice 👌
shame that devilman will always die by the hands of satan wished he managed to survive
I categorize Devilman Crybaby and Neon Genesis Evangelion in the same genre: “End of the World” Anime
They both also fall under the “Dementia” subgenre, which isn’t really a genre, but indicates an intensely confusing plot that has many, many interpretations. Serial Experiments Lain fits in this category too.
I have yet to watch NGE but plan on it soon. Maybe this week.
@@giygas9305 highly recommended
Love ❤️ that show
“HINTS AT ATTRACTION” MY GUY HE IS IN LOVE W AKIRA I-
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Lop I love dis great explanation I like how I not knwo the definition savage
im just nodding the whole video, also im curious what top 10 anime list you'd make
... Now find me a hidden message in Cutey Honey ( I dare you! )
Or Kekko Kamen.
Try "86-Eighty Six-"
I don't know if it's on Netflix though so if you don't mind.
The synopsis makes it sound like the usual mecha action anime which was what I thought when I started it, but it definitely isn't. Anymore I can say would spoil the impact of the show.
Not quite, Ryo is intersex at the end of the show as thats a traditional depiction of Biblical Angels. There's not really any suggestion at all that God rejects him for being "Gender Fluid", but because he "dared to stand up to God" (a direct quote).
Pay attention that the author tells is in a way it looks like his view, but he then clarifies that it's a view of the God shared by fearful hateful people. It's neither God's true nature or authors point of view.
Gods typically don’t really have genders. They are higher beings.
Okay if I'm being honest I didn't know what they were going to do or if they actually were a gang but I do know that I thought they were just going to be a good old-fashioned fight like in YuYu Hakusho
What if the story was about a new addict's spiral into hellish life and bad hallucinations, and the destruction it caused to those he loved or who cared...then the final battle was Ryo 'the addiction' which Akira defeated through death (overdose?).
Anyone tries to kick start witch hunts again I'll have them experienced the miniature version of the emperium's exterminatus
I would not mind if you all won’t agree with me on this, but it’ll be pretty cool and interesting if God of War would meet or be encountered with this loop and turn it into a series or at least just 2 games but with a particular twist to it, since God of War still has or has had a loop of sons killing their fathers or fathers killing their sons, I encourage you all to watch Jon Ford’s theory of a video that’s called “Odin betrays Thor! Kratos saves him! God of War theory”. Since God is portrayed as the bad guy in this, but instead of Odin it’s God, and instead of Thor, it’s Satan, and Kratos would technically save Satan and fight God because he doesn’t want this particular loop to continue for eternity, since he’s already been through it, or perhaps Kratos can do something else entirely in order to break the loop.
I would've loved a season 2 of this
I'm glad there wasn't a season 2 actually, the way it ended was so bittersweet and heartbreaking, another season would've totally ruined that. The way this series showed the decent into madness on only 12 episodes is so impressive and so well done. But I do agree, if I could've watched more of this I definitely would've
@@kittercatowsame ending but Ryo’s character was close to finding out what love is.
Based on the opening it looked to me like the Earth didn't have a moon originally and then this God reset the Earth giving Satan a second chance at changing and that created the first moon... With the ending of the anime, we get a second moon, showing this guy most likely gave Satan a third chance at changing
My question would be, will humanity spring forth exactly the same or different? Basically will Akira be born again?
I'd like to believe that this is a third chance. Or second... Course what was the lesson when God killed demons the first time?
If I may interject with an offering in my opinion,
Good anime (no specific order; no specific genre): Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 1.0 + 3.0 (name of the last one), End of Evangelion, NGE Death and Rebirth, Armitage III, Tenchi Muyo, The Slayers, The Slayers Next, The Slayers Try and some others, All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (OAV, not the TV series), Elf Princess Raine, Record of Lodoss War.
Decent enough anime: Cromartie High School, Bobobo bo bobobobo (or however it's spaced), I'll add more as surely they'll pop into my head later.
Also, if you haven't check out the AMV Hell series on the internet, it can lead you to a lot of gems.
add berserk vagabond and vinland to good anime
@@justjuol3703 Thanks! I'll check those out. Oh, also El-Hazard is pretty good. Especially the second series.
I loooove C-Dramas too 😍✌️
I’m spoiled and wish for a happy medium between C-dramas and K-dramas and those C-dramas could tighten up and cut down from an intimidating 50-60 episodes and K-dramas could more fully address everything and both could be like 24ish episodes.
@@SuperLadyDanger 😂👌 We should include J-Dramas as well. Their episodes are as long as anime episodes and they have 5-12 episodes per season 🤦
@@Pinky-kc8go I support that!
I'm currently making my way thru The King's Avatar... may take awhile. 😂
@@GenerationOchi I appreciate the effort 🤭
Basically the sin of mankind that shows exaggeration of people's inner demons...inner sin that we come by without no care. .
What I learned by watching this anime, the OVAs and manga was better
And that’s just your opinion. I watched a bit of the OVAs and I can’t stand how they are executed. I like how older anime have so much effort put into the animation but it falls flat if the other aspects don’t hold up.
9:36 Curiosity:"Demons" in the Bible are humanoid creatures who were tasked with punishing humans who had committed purely evil actions, so demons are morally ambiguous creatures like humans, so in fact the real question of the show is not 'Who is the real demon', who it also be a complex but moralist question to which most people respond simplistically and guided by feelings and not logic, but is "Who is good and evil" or "if an action is defined "evil" or "good" by the majority is objective "evil"/"good"?
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Humanity is the lesson from the Lord. He allows us to guide and lead ourselves to our fate. It's why understanding these emotions are so important and it's a path we choose. It's very much a story about salvation and finding love and hope no matter the darkness we have in ourselves and in our lives. I believe due to biblical verse, it says that Jesus would make a new world for him and his followers, I believe that is the ending. In the end God’s army won. Because at the end of the day, God is love, but with love comes sadness
I preferred the originals in the 90s
The original is even older actually part of Go Nagai's works.
Can you please explain squid game ?
I see the analysis about the message of fear and distrust for what is different, the problem I see is that the demons by and large have no redeeming qualities. They are monsters who want to destroy us (since we see more kindness from humans, my stance is that the demons are the real monsters, not humanity), Ryo's backstory is only hinted at so all we really see of him is a monster who seeks to destroy humanity and overthrow God. I will need a sequel giving him more focus before I EVER consider him sympathetic.
I don't think the message of "be more accepting of those who are different" has to necessarily be imposed on the demons or Satan himself. I'm not really into that idea as a Christian but I still found myself sympathizing with his existence cuz of that ending and the whole reveal that Ryo has to relive the discovering of love, the value in humans and the human will to be alive. If we base it off of real biblical events, Lucifer was cast from heaven for defying God, for wanting his job, for thinking he could do better than God at creation, etc. Ryo never saw the value in humans until it came to Akira. Akira, who cried for everyone else, who had an unwavering moral sense to save everyone, the only one that became a devilman on his own will and used his demon body to save humans, cuz he saw the human intrinsic value, he is the direct opposite of Ryo. To me, it was kinda like a message from God, a "let me show you the value of the human will, the value in my creation, the value in love" and by the end Ryo recognized his love for Akira but it was too late(Akira died and another Earth was formed and the loop began again). His punishment was love from God. And idk it may not be exactly how things have gone if you believe in Christianity, but that is such beautiful story telling regardless and I appreciate the fiction being a believer
@@rain_ypjm Your analysis kinda went off track from the point I was making about how the themes of fear and distrust don't work when the demons have almost all their humanizing traits cut out. In particular it's supposed to be horrifying when humanity starts turning on itself due to fear of demons among us, but as the end of the series showed, the demons really are the monsters humans think they are.
In particular Akira's human heart keeps him from becoming a monster while fused with a demon. Essentially it was saying a human is morally superior to a demon. Things like love and kindness are established as human ideals, demons by and large don't value them. The series tries to say humans can be as bad as demons as proof we are alike, but if that is the case, where are the demons who are as kind and compassionate as humans? Where are the demons who will gladly aid beings outside their own kind out of the goodness of their heart?
@@dragonstormx I know lol I was writing this at 3am but yeah I get what you mean now
Pin here,watch later, really sleepy right now to focus
are you watching squid game??
Yep
why do you keep saying they and them when ryo's 1 person
Devilman Crybaby was way too on the nose with its messaging for there to be any kind of "hidden message." Everything it said, it said with no nuance, and everything it tried to say has been said a million times before. The things it tried to say were impossible to miss.
Right, needs no explanation.
Agreed. It described the apocalypse in revelations perfectly. It’s exactly what’s happening right now. Why else would the elites be promoting devil worshiping and promoting agendas against gods original plan for humanity.
It’s crazy to me that this story was made in the 70s
5:03 bro on God.... these humans don't know how to communicate🤦♂.
the crazy thing is if you say, " I want sex " you'll get charged for sexual assault 😂😂😂😂. this happens even in America where there is "freedom of speech"
God, I also love how you're calling out how biased these humans are. The crazy thing is most of them are so low IQ they can't even realize what they're biased towards🤦♂. All humans have biases! It shows true intelligence to actually be able to know, admit, and fix what you're biased towards. If we don't, I believe it will just lead to the demise of humankind.
Crybaby might not seem original because it's based on a manga from 1972 that was heavily influential.
CB is more better than the original manga and makes more sense
@@Darkredeyes CB relies more on graphic violence and did too much silly changes. Like, why did they make the little brother a demon? Why? They were scared that a decapitated horrified child would get them in trouble? Made in Abyss seems fine though. Also it's not always good to overshow and overexplain. Ending manga with more melancholic and even more open end is much better. It doesn't overshow you the consequences nor it doesn't show Satan too humane or evil. He didn't want to fight Akira in the manga, he had to because Akira wouldn't stop now. The point of the manga was that God tried to kill demons because he viewed them as a plague, later Satan and demons viewed humans as a plague since they only hurt everything around them. Satan and demons weren't evil, they were afraid that humans would destroy their world and in the end Satan's punishment was being sympathetic to both sides. He now understood humanity but couldn't stop demons no more, he did so much damage to both sides he could never fix things and reverse the damage. The final moments are melancholic, Satan and Akira are finally in peace. No more demons, no more humans, no more pain and finally God's army descended to judge Satan for his sins.
@@persona3rulez bro, I know what you are talking about. However, Satan in the first place is too evil to understand human feelings and what they want, Satan is not good to be with humans, and Akira is no good to be with demons and the clash begins from this very point. It's not logic to say Satan got grinded cuz Satan was the one who started all of this sufferings, injustices and unfairness. There is no right to say god is the evil in the manga. This is why I like the CB more than manga
@@Darkredeyes Satan isn't evil, lol. Evil doesn't say "I don't want to fight you", evil doesn't say "Sorry, I'm an idiot", evil doesn't oppose God saying "all life is important". He's pretty much Chaotic Good. Evil doesn't need any reason to do cruel things, Satan had his reasons and in the end regretted being blind like God.
@@persona3rulez this is why I like crybaby more than manga, it showed Satan as an absolute evil and selfish wants everything for himself. There are must two types of readers and you are the type of readers when reading a certain type of story/manga, you want it to be finished with a good ending ignoring what happened in the middle, ignoring the origin of the villain and ignoring the lessons that should be learned from the story.... however, it's no bad to be this type it's just some people also like to end the story with this ending (CB), so, we still will not be in the same point
“…The Devil is a pure and invincible spirit of evil…”
-Quote from a Vatican exorcist with over 70,000 performed exorcisms.
We all need GOD.
Interesting how “Evil” is one letter short of “Devil.”
Interesting how “GOD” is one letter short of “GOLD.”
*correction the Vatican has over 70,000 documented exorcisms.
Why wouldn't you use "GOOD" instead of "GOLD"? Gold is evil. You're not supposed to have earthly possessions. Also, it's the author Go Nagai who is the god in Devilman, and he *is* evil for how he abuses his characters.
Ok & first 🥇. Wish for video about Gate Thus the JSDF Fought There.
Good for you
Nevermore 🤢
I love how you respect their gender identity 💕💚
....it's satan..... are you joking? Was that a joke?
Just read the HOLY BIBLE KJV and everything else in the world will start to make sense. These TV shows like this all have parts that come from the HOLY BIBLE KJV.And you will want to dive in deeper in learning.
HOLY BIBLE KJV is the only book mankind needs.
I don't know but to me the devilman crybaby is happening in mars and when akira is fighting lucifer they cute the moon in half and mars has two moons, thats one reason i belive in this
not really related to devilman, but a different show you mentioned in the video. the sweet home live action is AWFUL, the original webtoon is way better and tells the message you mentioned way better
To be honest probably the only thing that i disagree is that Ryou being androginous or having atraction to akira was a problem, yeah we only saw one angel but probably the whole race is like that as well, but i think that his complete lack of emphaty was the problem, in any case i love Ryou's character, specially becuase what makes it more interesting is that if you really think about it, his lack of humanity despite making him do horrible stuff, you could easily argue that nothing that he does comes from a place of malice, rather convenience.
Worst Anime Ever!!! The people enjoyed this sick show are evil.
Uhhh thats the point?
What does this show have to do with being gay other than the fact that the devil has tits (which makes sense he can take whatever form he wants). I really doubt the entire show’s cultivation and big reveal that once again it’s about lgbt struggles.. especially considering this story is from the 70s.. not 2021 - present. Seriously tired of LGBT people tryna make EVERYTHING lgbt related
This right here. If you watched all of this series and thought it was about homosexuality you watched it with rose tinted glasses. Near the end it was very on the nose about the series messaging and meaning but that didn't stop people
Ryo clearly loved Akira but that doesn’t automatically mean he is gay. People are f***ing stupid I swear.
@@jakob9323 No one left the show thinking it was about homosexuality. The show references the Satanic-Panic of the last century, and besides sex and drugs, queerness was also a target of it. And what does it have to do with being gay? There's straight up gay sex in the show.
This isn't trying to say "the entire show is about lgbt struggles". No one said that, other than you guys. Stop making shit up.
@@Daiwie44 I have seen but multiple people say it but thats ok keep being upset for no reason
@@jakob9323 Ok, my bad then. It's still weird to focus on, especially when that's not what the video stated. Be mindful loud minorities.