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Smoking Crow posted:they're called normies I'm pretty sure watching Devilman, while not enough to destroy casual status, does rather disqualify you from most descriptors derived from "normal".
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MonsterEnvy posted:Kukun seemed much less interested. He seemed to take Miko cause she wanted to go. We actually see him refusing a pill. And Miko (correctly, as it turned out) thought that she could run faster if she attended. Finally got around to watching through this. Yep, you all were right. It was good and brutal, even if the last episode was kinda a mess. I think the ending's interesting, though, in the ways it felt (leaving out the whole time loops multiverse all Devilmans happened stuff) more... optimistic, than the original version of the story. The two main things that come to mind have probably been discussed, but... 1) Akira kept his humanity. Miki's death hurt him, but he still declares that he has a human heart when he confronts Ryo. What he lost was "just" his crybaby tendencies, the absurd level of empathy that let him reach out to the mob in episode 9 and work a small miracle. It can be argued that he was doomed to lose from the start without it, but he hadn't lost yet. The relay race imagery reinforces the idea. He still picked up the baton from Miki, still ran his part. It was Ryo who refused to take it to the end. 2) God (again, sticking with Crybaby on its own) comes across as less of a douche. He intervenes twice, once taking out the pacific fleet that would allow demons an uncontested victory, and at the end, when Satan is the only living thing left on Earth. In other words, protecting humans from outside destruction, but not from themselves. (As for the prehistoric demons... yeah. From what we see, that wasn't an innocent target.) Yes, Satan says he's cold, but Satan also denies that demons are capable of love and declares himself void of emotion. He's not exactly a reliable narrator when it comes to people's motives. (Honestly, the last scene of Satan reminds me of a bit in Screwtape, with God's response to Satan wanting to know the real secret of disinterested love.) Crybaby is a tragedy, but it feels like it believes there could be a better world, even if it might never come. Definitely an interesting show.
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