What are some criticisms of Devilman Crybaby?
What are some criticisms of Devilman Crybaby?
Luis White
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Carson Thompson
It ended.
Noah Green
>excluding good parts of the manga
>character redesigns
>new characters
>Miki
Cooper Martin
His English is atrocious.
Lucas Nelson
>Edgy
>Stupid
>Pretentious
>Gay
>Netflix
>Gay
Jace Flores
pacing
Luke Bennett
You clearly don't watch a lot of anime.
It's not as bad as the usual Engrish we get.
Julian Ortiz
it's still the closest thing engrish came to english in years.
Jonathan Lopez
I thought the English parts were actually Western voices. Are they not?
Benjamin Morris
no it's just a jap VA trying his hardest
Carson Campbell
The English doesn't sound fluent enough to be a native speaker. It's better than some Engrish I've heard though. The Russian sounded good though. That could be a native speaker, though I'm not fluent in Russian so maybe I'm missing some small things that were off.
Jeremiah Morris
The art fucks with me hard. It looks like it was done in MS paint.
Lucas Gray
they made it too obvious that Ryo was going to betray Akira and humanity, at least OG manga Ryo feels more like a crazy dude who just wants to kill demons because they are a threat
Oliver Ramirez
it could use like 3 more layers of shading.
Josiah Richardson
It makes other adaptions seem shitty in comparison.
Henry Brown
More like Flash, but yeah.
Joseph Martin
left looked better until the last two comparisons.
Lincoln Ramirez
It was apparently made with a program that usually uses Flash animations but it was hand drawn, at least according to Wikipedia. There might be things with the software they used (especially if they used it to shade and color) that cause the effect you're thinking about.
>The Original Net Anime is made with Adobe Animate, but instead of being flash-animated, it is hand-drawn animated.
People like are obsessed with shading but Crybaby had almost no CGI (the only CGI I noticed was at the very end with the island Satan was on). If sacrificing shading is a good way to ensure no CGI I'm all for it. I actually liked the way Crybaby looked while watching it a lot more than I expected when I had seen images of it when it was coming out.
Brayden Phillips
I think it is the shading/coloring for me, as well as how they never really changed the line widths at all. It ends up feeling flat. But as you said, if that's the tradeoff for no CGI, I can live with it.
Jordan Brooks
Science Saru uses Flash to skip on the inbetweening. Keyframes are handdrawn.
Colton Rodriguez
Decent adaptation, it doesnt deviates from the source material THAT much, the animation is the greatest point of criticism to most people, its very simple and too fluid sometimes but i think its pretty stylish. The OST is god-like and the overall pacing is fine, just the ending that felt pretty rushed. 8/10, very simple story, i would give a 6/10 if i only focused on that, but it has a lot of charm and the ost elevates the whole thing that much
Joseph Butler
characters were pretty boring aside from the father.
Sebastian Clark
Hey i understand the compromise, anime of today doesn't have the same budget or manpower it used to and expecting tv anime to have the same quality of old OVAs isn't really fair, but OP asked for criticism and there's no denying that a more ideal adaptation would have utilized better shading to look less flat.
the OST was the star of the show anyway.
Carter James
Directing is super flat compared to yuasa's other work.
Parker Lopez
The manga doesn't even really have much shading either though.
Cooper Ramirez
I personally didn't like animation style, but the show still managed to have some good shots here and there.
Jayden Wright
>>excluding good parts of the manga
Mostly this. The actual apocalypse was incredibly rushed, whereas it's one of the best parts of the manga.
Then again, almost everything between this and the finale with Satan is just pointless wheel-spinning.
Caleb Myers
it's gay
Hudson Smith
Compared to his old stuff, maybe, but all his recent works leaned to more conventional direction, it's blatant when you compare Tatami and Night Is Short.
But I think that in Crybaby he wanted to emphasize the contrast between daily life scenes, which are shot really plainly, and the ones involving demons, that have the usual extreme camera angles and expressionist use of colors. The manga achieves something similar with the art going from goofy and stylized to detailed with rough linework.
Hudson Garcia
I loved the way the manga hyped up the Devils with Xenon appearing over all the cities, the fighting between human militaries and devils, the Devilman experiments but almost none of it was in the new anime.
Jonathan Hall
the fight with Xenon was grabage.
Carson Walker
The sequence of events was totally botched, the track meet was an incredibly silly way to start the apocolypse, and the visuals were dull 80% of the time.
Elijah Thomas
I don't understand why they made it a thing that Devilman existed as a manga/anime in world of Crybaby. It didn't really serve any purpose outside a couple shoutouts, and it seems really weird that none of the characters who knew about it were freaking out over all the extreme similarities between their real life and this fictional story.
Julian Collins
Someone hasn't read Devilman Lady.
Aiden Smith
it's just a little fanservice and an excuse to play youtube.com
you're not supposed to think hard about it.
Carter Thomas
>Compared to his old stuff, maybe, but all his recent works leaned to more conventional direction, it's blatant when you compare Tatami and Night Is Short.
Maybe The Night Is Short is tame compared to Tatami Galaxy, but it's direction blows Crybaby out of the water. Doesn't even feel directed by the same guy.
I really don't know what you mean when you say the scenes involving demons have the "usual extreme camera angles and expressionist use of colors." Outside of the first episode, few if not none of the scenes with demons match up with that. There's so many scenes that take place at night where you can barely tell what is going on, nor do I recall any extreme camera angles besides a few in some of the final few fights. Shit felt directed like a bog standard american film
Connor Edwards
Peak yuasa will always be cat soup
Jaxson Wright
Carson Phillips
Cat Soup wasn't even directed by him, but I agree. That OVA is a masterpiece.
Andrew Richardson
The Devilman anime has nothing to do with the original manga or Crybaby outside of the character design. It's apparently just an episodic superhero show. The characters probably (I don't remember if it was pointed out in the show) recognized the similarity between the character and Akira's demon form but I don't think there'd be anything in the show reminiscent of the sequence of events of Crybaby.
Henry Reyes
Its his best animation work for sure