Truly great moment was Ryo fresh out the hospital jumping out of his car and sucker punching this poor guy to steal his motorcycle. Imagine having to file that police report about how you got knocked the fuck out and your shit stolen by some shirtless blond severely injured 17 year old freak. I would just let it go. Thankfully that guy didn’t have to live with the shame for much longer though considering how the story goes
So Nate and I stumbled upon a tokusatsu series called Moonlight Mask, which is a super influential franchise from the 1950s that's inspired pretty much everything, but also there's a 1972 anime adaptation that has this guy in the first episode:
And he's. Uh well. Pretty directly an inspiration for Toei's take on Devilman
Moonlight Mask's first episode aired six months before Devilman's premiere, and, most importantly, Go Nagai wrote a whole parody manga of MM, so it's not like he was somehow completely unaware of it. This isn't like a brand-new discovery, obviously, but it's a weird bit of trivia for sure
something that really confuses me is the fact that akira in dmcb was born in 1994, but he's still 16 despite the events of the series happening in 2018. he should be in his 20's already.
me and a friend of mine tried to explain it, saying that actually dmcb starts somewhere around the last months of 2011 and ends around the beggining of 2012, since people said that the world was going to end in 2012. It's plausible, but still, that doesn't make much sense to me.
one of the things that make me suspicious of that is the fact that Trump is already president in dmcb. and akira has what seems to be an iPhone 7/8, which was only released in 2018.
I'm pretty confused. does anyone have an explanation for it? /genq