2/24/2022 0 Comments Amon devilman mangaIn the first OVA she’s around for a few minutes before Ryo shows up and tells her to fuck off in the second she’s basically demon bait who spends most of her time naked and unconscious here she’s just straight up murdered ten minutes in, and then a little later she’s murdered again in one of Akira’s nightmares. Miki definitely gets the short straw in this series. I can only imagine seeing this for the first time knowing even less about Devilman than I already do and not having a fucking clue what is happening or who any of these people are. Unfortunately, an angry fire-and-pitchforks type mob show up at her house, murder and dismember her child brother, and then kill her too before torching her house. Akira tells his fellow Devilmen to go round up the Devilman army, which apparently is a thing, while he goes to check on his girlfriend Miki. After showing footage of Devilman’s birth that he somehow shot with multiple cameras and edited really tightly, which also contains the breast eating shot I mentioned earlier, the people, already paranoid owing to the increase in frequency of attacks carried out by demons in human form, start to riot. AMON DEVILMAN MANGA TVThe life of a Devilman is always intense.Īs the Devilmen emerge from the alley victorious, who should appear on a giant TV screen that dominates the city skyline but our old buddy Ryo, who tells people that they have to be extremely wary of demonic presences in their midst. After punching it and bouncing it all around the alley like some daftly Lovecraftian game of NBA Street, he disposes of the demon by sucking it into his fist. While at first it seems like acid breast milk will win the day, the unfortunate truth is that these Devilmen ain’t really cut out for the big time, and Akira Fudo has to come to their rescue. Say whaaaaaat? That’s right, you heard right, there’s more than one now, for some reason, and they come in all shapes and sizes! The little Devilman is in fact luring the demon into a trap, for lying in wait is yet another Devilman, an adult female who pulls down her top and exposes her breasts, which are cannons that shoot acid… or something. ![]() In fact, it’s a demon chasing a small child who is also a Devilman down an alley. In fact, it’s a demon chasing a small child down an alley. The first scene of Amon consists of what looks like a paedophile chasing a small child down an alley. Yes, that’s right, I am saying that Amon in the original Japanese is less subtle than “let’s take a swing at the motherfuckers!”, and you might think that impossible, but with Amon the sky really is the limit in terms of bullshit. I suspect this has something to do with budgetary concerns, but even so, this addition to the series, if it can be called a series, seems much more leeringly exploitative and far less subtle than its predecessors, while also being quite squeamish, somehow. One the one hand it is extremely violent and graphic, seeming to take a kind of Violence Jack level of glee in such things as child murder on the other hand it is surprisingly tame, cutting away from things that are pretty much standard fare, like decapitation or limb severance and generic mass carnage, and lingering on stuff like Devilman ripping a demon’s breasts off and eating them. Dubs and subs aside, Amon is probably the weirdest of the Devilman stuff I’ve seen so far. I later discovered another, official sub, which I skipped through to confirm certain things, but it would be fair to say that plot is not really a big deal here. AMON DEVILMAN MANGA MOVIEUnfortunately I couldn’t find an English dub, so I had to suffer instead through a really bad fansub made with what appears to be Windows Movie Maker that you can find on YouTube. Not only is it adapting a completely different arc of the manga, it is done in a much different style. While it is usually grouped together with The Birth and The Demon Bird, really it is its own thing. Amon is the third Devilman OVA, released in 2000. ![]() AMON DEVILMAN MANGA SERIESApparently this is a series I’m doing now? Sure, why not.
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