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DEVILMAN - REVIEW

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Created by prolific manga mastermind Go Nagai, the man responsible for the likes of Grendizer and Violence Jack , Devilman was a popular 70's anime which, in 2004, saw itself get made into a full-blown live-action adventure. On paper, this sounded like it could have gone either way: either the film was going to be ludicrous and cartoonish or a dark, Casshern -style epic. The result, strangely, was a bit of both. The film opens much like a typically emo high school drama where a couple of friends are dealing with clichéd groups of bullies, until we realise that demons exist and one of them inhabits our lead character Akira (Hisato Izaki). As it turns out, his weirdo friend Ryo (Yusuke Izaki) was already a demon himself and a demonic take-over is underway by all sorts of winged ghouls. Then, the film goes insane and turns into an apocalyptic disaster movie in which demons are invading and turning the Earth inside out. Obviously, the weight of all of this ends up resting on Aki