#Devilman Lady

[darkstalker-elise]

Jun x Kazumi [Devilman Lady]

#jun fudo #kazumi takiura #devilman lady #devilman #yuri

[mikasaysehe]

When the man you have a crush on wants you to look for his ex boyfriend who is also Satan…

#devilman lady #devilman #devilman ryo #ryo asuka #akira fudo #devilman akira #jun fudo #devil lady #go nagai #devilman satan #manga #fanart #shitpost #ever dream this man

[csarracenian]

Sudden hellish urge to (semi-)revive this format again.

Devilman Lady (the anime one), or Devil Lady hits pretty Hard, recommended for all who want to watch the journeys of The Most Suffering Woman Ever in Maximum Women's Toxicity Hours.  

#devil lady #devilman lady #jun fudo #devilman #90s anime #go nagai

[cereal-bunny]

#im not forgetting the devilman fandom #this goes out to you #go nagai #cb go nagai world #devilman #devilman crybaby #dvmn #devilman shitpost #ryokira #ryo asuka #akira fudo #ran asuka #jun fudo #devilman lady #mazingerz #greatmazinger #cutie honey

[floatingcatacombs]

Go Nagai was insane for this one

12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 8

I like to always have manga of dubious quality on tap for when I’m having trouble sleeping. Ideally, reading a few chapters will distract me, but I won’t want to stay up late shotgunning volumes. Devilman Lady was the ideal manga for this, and this is maybe the last time anyone will ever describe Devilman Lady as "ideal".

An extremely brief introduction is in order. If Osamu Tezuka is the godfather of manga, then Go Nagai is manga’s weird horny uncle. He’s arguably just as influential, the two of them just moved in different circles, each reifying entire genres. Nagai is more or less responsible for magical girls, super robot, and ecchi, and also spent a lot of time in the sphere of supernatural and post-apocalyptic manga. These are fundamentally genres of extremity and ridiculousness, and Nagai dials every one of his works up to 11 by the end, one way or another. Devilman is probably his most famous work over here, and it’s a stone-cold classic for a reason. Nagai has kept revisiting it over the years, with side stories, alternate universes, manga cameos, and even entirely new series that function as stealth sequels such as Violence Jack. But his most notable attempt is Devilman Lady, which is far more than a simple gender-swap of the original.

Devilman Lady is about swimming deep in filth. It’s easily the most disgust-provoking manga I’ve read, with pretty much every content warning under the sun applicable. This is a truly rotten and conspiratorial world that Nagai is depicting. Societal decay manifests in countless forms, including rape, child abuse, homophobia, militarism, and hatred towards immigrants. Anything that could be potentially understood as fanservice is placed right next to or directly within the atrocities at hand, and it's genuinely unclear how much Nagai intended that as commentary. His intentions throughout this whole manga are a bit of an enigma, but what's clear that he is firing on all cylinders.

This is an extremely zeitgeisty 90’s work, with intelligent design debates, the mapping of the human genome, new age paranoia, religious zealotry, and anxiety over pollution all playing out on the pages. Where it breaks from many of its contemporaries is a decisive rejection of the end of history. This is the kind of thing you write when you’re still reeling from the subway sarin gas attacks and your country's role in the Gulf War and subsequent militarization. It’s the perfect manga for capturing a time period when ten to twenty percent of Japan’s population were estimated to have belonged to a new religious movement.

The punchline to all of this is that he doesn’t know how to draw women.

By the back half of Devilman Lady, Nagai’s depictions of hellscapes and grotesque monsters reach near-Berserk levels of detail and technical competency. And yet his female protagonists are still drawn in a drastically simpler 70's style, only now with giant spheres grafted to their chests. Either humans and the infernal are two completely different skillsets, or this was a deliberate artistic decision, and both are difficult to swallow. Either way, we just have to accept the juxtapositions.

one of my favorite pages to show people devoid of context

The finale is just nuts. Go Nagai makes textual the homoeroticism and gender deviance of the original Devilman manga, as the world burns in both nuclear warfare and demonic hellfire. The story starts accelerating at an unfathomable pace, the most inscrutable double mobius reacharound yaoiyuri occurs, and the universe resets once or twice. It makes the endings of Jojo Part 6 and 7 look tame by comparison. There is no way to parse this like a normal manga with a plot and narrative. It is raw id.

This has been a year where I’ve tried to deliberately broaden my comfort zone by engaging with more potentially upsetting works if I think they'll have something interesting to say. This was like jumping into the deep end. Devilman Lady may very well be Go Nagai’s magnum opus. It’s not nearly as tight as the original manga, but it’s a glorious mess, just as radical to its own time as Devilman must have been in the 70s. It made for spectacular insomnia reading. And there’s no way in hell I can ever recommend it.

At age 19, Nagai went through a bout of diarrhea so bad that he convinced himself it was colon cancer, and that he was at death's door. He vowed to leave something behind for the world to remember him by, and began laboring away on manga. And for the last 60 years of his career, he’s written and drawn with the fervor of a man who’s about to shit himself to death. Maybe that’s the real secret.

#12 days of anime #devilman #devilman lady

[coralsunspear]

Every Devilman loop

#akira fudo #ryokira #ryo asuka #Devilman #devilman crybaby #Devilman Lady #Lan Asuka #Ran Asuka #Neo Devilman #Go Nagai

[sandmandaddy69]

#devilman #devilman lady

[omercifulheaves]

The Psychic World of Go Nagai magazine ad

#manga #go nagai #devilman #devilman lady

[penebui]

Devilman Lady if she was HOT!!!

#devilman #devilman lady #jun fudo #go nagai #my art #my main goal was to give her more hair and armpit hair cause im not a coward

[favmangapanels]

devilman lady

#manga cap #devilman lady #go nagai #devilman lady manga #asuka ryo #jun fudo

[natsukashii-naa]

1998 anime

#1998 #cowboy bebop #serial experiments lain #trigun #chousoku spinner #initial d #lost universe #outlaw star #cardcaptor sakura #majutsushi orphen #devilman lady #yu gi oh #master keaton #retro anime #old anime #classic anime #90s anime #nostalgia #anime #natsukashii

[darkstalker-elise]

Jun x Kazumi

#devilman #devilman lady #jun fudo

[mikasaysehe]

I drew this one Pinterest reference as a joke, then saw this panel one hour later LMAO unintentionally redraw😭

#devilman lady #devil lady #jun fudo #lan asuka #junlan #manga #go nagai #fanart

[retrocatastrophy]

Hold on.

My boy Akira was still alive during Ryo's monologue. He heard everything he said.

And then there's this...

#And he states that he wants to understand ryo better #My boy even admits he still likes/loves ryo even if he was the reason for all that transpired #Devilman #Devilman lady #akira fudo #Ryo Asuka #jun fudo #ryokira

[angelic-wasp]

#devilman #devilman crybaby #devilman lady #ryo asuka #lan asuka #satan devilman #this morally dubious woman is trans change my mind #it's literally canon in Devilman Lady #as for the Crybaby version I have no idea about their gender #I mainly care about the manga ngl #even if Devilman Lady has a lot of problems otherwise #We can acknowledge that a problematic piece of media has trans rep right?

[madnesssanguinarea]

I've seen posts paralleling the relationship between a black-haired boy and the blonde boy, so here's my version. I put devilman manga because many people put the crybaby and in a scene where he is independent of the crybaby and very uncomfortable, it doesn't show what Akira and Ryo's relationship is really like.

#ryokira #mikayuu #devilman #owari no seraph #i hate dmcb #sherliam #sherlock x william #sherlock x moriarty #ryo asuka #akira x ryo #devilman lady #akiryo #jun fudo