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number8
01-09-2018, 03:58 PM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPMA97tUEAAesMc.jpg:orig

number8
01-09-2018, 03:59 PM
Um, this show is a masterpiece.

Dukefrukem
01-09-2018, 04:09 PM
Oh shit. I forgot about this. Didn't realize it was live.

Skitch
01-09-2018, 04:27 PM
I watched the first episode last night and it melted my brain. Holy shit is it demented.

8 have you watched any previous Devilman shows? Worth checking out?

D_Davis
01-09-2018, 04:29 PM
Awesome! Love Devilman. Had no idea about this. Looks fantastic.

D_Davis
01-09-2018, 04:34 PM
I fucking love Go Nagai, especially his influence on the '70s revival/pastiche anime with stuff like Mazinkaiser, Shin Getter Robo and Giant Robo.

number8
01-09-2018, 04:44 PM
8 have you watched any previous Devilman shows? Worth checking out?

My entire familiarity of Devilman is from reading the manga. I've seen some of the original anime here and there, but I never paid attention to any of the adaptations, really. I tend to not care much about the super faithful series adaptations (I avoided watching the Death Note anime for the longest time because I'd read the comic). I only checked this out because it looks like it's taking a way trippier approach than any of the previous ones. Glad I did.

Sycophant
01-09-2018, 05:53 PM
There are parts of this that are very hard to stomach. I'm surprised I was able to make it through it and I don't know that if I'd known exactly what would be in it before diving in that I'd have watched it.

It's a hell of an achievement, though. Yuasa and Choi are incredible.

D_Davis
01-10-2018, 02:00 AM
Good lord. I can't believe Netflix put their name on this! That first episode is something else.

D_Davis
01-10-2018, 05:24 PM
Yuasa's fluid take on the human body is absolutely perfect for this kind of grotesque body horror.

number8
01-10-2018, 05:30 PM
I like the staccato storytelling, too. It's full of non-sequitur sequences and the dialogue tends to just jump ahead to the big moments rather than flowing like conversations. A couple of times it had montages that don't bother with context. Really adds to the weirdness of the thing so that it's not just the freaky kind of weird.

Dukefrukem
01-10-2018, 05:35 PM
I really dislike the storytelling. I'm too OCD for non-sequitur stuff.

D_Davis
01-10-2018, 06:27 PM
I love the rapping kids.

Dukefrukem
01-10-2018, 06:35 PM
I love the rapping kids.

What language was that? Not Japanese. Not English. Sounded South African.

number8
01-10-2018, 06:52 PM
Curious that you don't think it sounded Japanese, because it is. They're voiced by Japanese rappers Ken the 390 and Young Dais.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxeRP9ytMw

Skitch
01-10-2018, 06:54 PM
Sounds like Japanese to me. Really damn fast Japanese.

Sycophant
01-10-2018, 06:57 PM
Can vouch that even though they make the English translations rhyme, they're somehow really good translations of Japanese rap.

Sycophant
01-10-2018, 06:59 PM
Having only watched a little bit of the (very different) 70s TV anime and not having read Nagai's manga, do the rapping kids have an analogue in the source?

Sycophant
01-10-2018, 06:59 PM
This series does really cool stuff with the idea of textual adaptation.

number8
01-10-2018, 07:05 PM
Can vouch that even though they make the English translations rhyme, they're somehow really good translations of Japanese rap.

So I've been watching the English track, and they left the rapping kids in Japanese, so I was really surprised when in Ep 4 we suddenly got an English language rap, and it's far from half-assed. They put in a lot of work in releasing this for the English market. Which I guess makes sense since Netflix commissioned this to be a worldwide release.

Sycophant
01-10-2018, 07:08 PM
The same studio that funded and released new VeggieTales funded and released Devilman Crybaby. What a world.

number8
01-10-2018, 07:09 PM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSgV4sZVoAE3_9i.jpg

Skitch
01-10-2018, 07:10 PM
The same studio that funded and released new VeggieTales funded and released Devilman Crybaby. What a world.

LOL! Gamblers of Canto Bight.

Dukefrukem
01-10-2018, 07:50 PM
Curious that you don't think it sounded Japanese, because it is. They're voiced by Japanese rappers Ken the 390 and Young Dais.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxeRP9ytMw

HA!

I guess it's the same when I listen to the Beatles they don't sound British.

Dunno. SMH.

D_Davis
01-10-2018, 07:53 PM
I have to wonder if anyone at Netflix even saw this before it was released. This shit is straight up nasty.

Russ
01-10-2018, 11:21 PM
Imma watch this asap.

Skitch
01-12-2018, 07:33 PM
On ep9. Man the back half of this season gets even more nuts! Looking forward to seeing how it wraps up (to see if it goes the way I want it to lol). Also really digging the electronic music score.

D_Davis
01-12-2018, 07:52 PM
The scene where the dude starts free-style rapping to the chick watering the flowers is fantastic. I've never seen anything like that in another anime.

Skitch
01-12-2018, 08:26 PM
Finished. Well that didn't go the way I expected it to.

It was better.

Philip J. Fry
01-14-2018, 09:51 AM
Man, this show was something. Probably the most mind-melting anime I've seen since Serial Experiments Lain.

Philip J. Fry
01-16-2018, 11:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKs3rbtgAs

Philip J. Fry
07-28-2018, 05:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YEw0smzzp0