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The story settles down when Akira is introduced. Akira is your typical schoolkid until his childhood best friend Ryo shows up and pulls him into a web of demons and deceit. As Ryo explains, Dante talks about demons frozen in the ice in The Divine Comedy, and now global warming is melting that ice, freeing them. Akira and Ryo decide to team up and save the world. Devilman is chock full of bizarre explanations about demon existence and behavior, demon-on-demon violence, and a little gratuitous nudity. The best reason to watch it is for all the bizarre explanations, which are too weird not to be entertaining. --Andy Spletzer
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Tsutomu Iida |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 April, 1991 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Manga Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Anime, Anime / Japanimation, Cartoons & Animation, Japanese Animation Video, Japanimation, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 660200405021 |
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Customer Reviews of Devilman - The Birth/Demon Bird (Vol. 1 & 2)
Sloppy Effort Devil Man isn't the best anime you'll find. The story starts very slowly and it clumsily lumbers along. The characters are all unlikable and/or uninteresting, and the voice acting is questionable. The hero's love interest is slapped into the tale as an afterthought, and serves as little more than the obligatory damsel in distress to be rescued late in the story. The animation is anything but breath-taking, with characters speaking complete sentences at times without their lips moving. The ending is very unsatisfying and anti-climatic. This is watchable if you're a big fan of the genre, but there is a lot of better stuff to be explored.
Devilman ROCKS!!!
Once in a LOOOOOONG while a group of japanese animators, producers, directors, and voice actors, will get together to try and, as faithfully as possible, re-interpret a popular manga (or Japanese comic book). This animated version is a tiny masterpiece, flaws and all. Unfortunately, it is rare that every important nuance in a particular manga is manifested into anime. With this particular crew of artists it would have been AWESOME if they would have made a longer series of more than just two episodes, hence this "tiny" masterpiece. So, in comparison to the manga, since lots of story is skipped, you may feel something missing if you don't know Go Nagai's story very well. Go Nagai is Japan's master of comic book macabre. Not only is he a great story man he is also a wicked artist. He has his own tweaked take on traditional style anime. Look at the eyes of his main characters. They always have this almost Egyptian eyeliner look. VERY cool. BUT! And I do capitalize BUT, here, this doesn't really matter. We're all intelligent enough manga/anime fans, here, to get the gist of this weird, dark, gross-out, erotic, action packed, horror/fantasy. Hell is rising back to the surface after being dormant for millions, maybe billions, of years. Demons are LITERALLY oozing out of your car parts, doorknobs, bathwater, and the only person who could save us is Akira who sacrifices his body and soul to be possessed by the most powerful of all the demons to become half man, half demon, hence DEVILMAN! Pretty twisted. The most horrifying and disturbing scene is the underground "party/club" scene in the first episode. I've seen it several times and it never fails to freak me out. Ultra-violent stuff. The second episode is like Spiderman/Daredevil meets Evil Dead. You get lots more action and still get the creeps. I remember, WAY back in the day, when I had to buy bootlegs on VHS, most of the times with no subtitles, just to be able to see cutting edge anime. This was back in the 80s when the market for anime here was ZILCH. Now its everywhere and most of it is GARBAGE. But, like I said, once in a while you'll come across a little gem like DEVILMAN! Unfortunately, the anime version of DEVILMAN LADY is absolute crap. It is nothing like the manga which is even MORE wicked than DEVILMAN. I don't blame 'em, though. The anime version of DEVILMAN LADY would have been rated XXX. It's truly amazing how Go Nagai can make something so violent and sexual into such good horror genre.
what a rip!!
i have the old VHS copies of this and it has japanese language with subtitles. the dubbed voices on this DVD are CRAP!!!
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>don't waste your money on this at all. find the VHS copies of the LA Hero series on ebay if you want to see this the way it should be done. the description says japanese language but it is dead WRONG!!! who are these voice actors on this DVD??? c'mon really... it's pathetic.
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>i could do better in my basement with a bunch of drunk homeless hippies.