The series takes an episodic approach at first and the story mainly consists of stand alone monster of the week stories with a new demon as the bad guy. It’s not the most complex of stories in the beginning. From there, Ryo and Akira fight demons to save humanity. That’s exactly what happens and Akira becomes Devilman, the demon with a human heart. Ryo manages to convince Akira that demons are real, and that in order to defeat them, they need to fuse with a demon, but still retain their humanity. The manga is about Akira Fudo and his friend Ryo Asuka as they deal with the incoming threat of demons, beings that can fuse with other forms of life to become stronger. There are going to be light spoilers for the summary, but only because the premise takes a while to set itself up. Thankfully, Devilman still holds up, though maybe not as well as it once did.
Any series needs to be able to stand on its own merits. Whether Akira ever returned his feelings might not have mattered to Ryo so long as he survived the wrath of God that Satan was baiting the entire time.Devilman is a classic manga series by Go Nagai that has inspired many modern classics like Berserk and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Why else track Akira down after disappearing from his life for over a decade? Why entrust Akira with the secret of demons, especially so quickly? Why purposely make Akira a Devilman, specifically summoning Amon, who is a supremely powerful demon whose possession puts a target on Akira's back? It's because he subconsciously wanted to make Akira into a worthy partner for himself in his personal rebellion against God. When you're talking about someone as psychotic and socially isolated as Ryo any love is ultimate love. In the end it doesn't matter where you draw the line on different kinds of love. I think that Ryo's willingness to shoot at and murder people who aren't Akira speaks volumes to his love for his only friend. Whether he loved Akira platonically or romantically barely matters if he's literally the only person he has ever cared about, period. So its all these side things that imply it further that makes people sure thats the intention of the author, and since the author confirmed it theres no question left about itįor someone who has only ever known one person's love the distinction might not exist. I was too dumb to understand what in the world was going on in the first chapter but it ended on a very queer note :PĪnd then of course perhaps my favourite is that CB chara world anime from years ago with the funnier salty clearly jealous depiction of Ryo lol There's Neo Devilman which is a bunch of random spin off stories not all written by Go Nagai but I believe at least approved by him. There's the implications in Devilman Lady which I wont spoil for you if you havent read that one, but if you wanna know then i can message you Theres a side manga called "Summer Days" by Go Nagai himself, a short story with Akira and Miki playing at the beach and imo Ryo seemed very obviously jealous in that one xD once again you could say its just a strong friendship, but love is love and i took it as a strong implication for him being in love with akiraĪs for other medias, a bunch of spin offs and side series of the devilman franchise are more explicit of it. I felt the implication lay mostly in his words when he said "there is no love, therefore there is no sorrow, thats what i thought." in my opinion I think this is pretty much an outright confession that he now admits love exists but it was already too late. I'm currently reading whatever content I can find, but still havent finished most of it including the original manga.Īs far as crybaby is concerned, there is definitely a strong bond there, considering the only reason he made akira a devil was so he could live on with him, but I can see how that can be taken to mean many things.
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