The scenes that are meant to be detailed look fantastic, but the miscellaneous scenes with them talking and the regular character models look weird sometimes.
The art, done by author Go Nagai of Mazinger and Cutie Honey fame, is somewhat mixed. However, she didn’t have much screentime (or…pagetime?) so she’s also a bit up in the air. (End spoiler) Here, she seems to be a fairly nice girl who can stick up for herself when needed.
It’s hard to get a real read on him.ĭosuroku is sadly nothing but an asshole thug here, and I don’t know how long it takes him to become a good guy.Īnother character we finally learn of is Miki who (spoiler alert) is seen dead at the very beginning of Amon, leaving us with no clue as to her character. Ryo seems like a very intelligent and tough person, but he also has his moments where he seems like a stoic punk and even a few where he seems like a complete psychopath. I’m not even really sure why someone like him is friends with someone like Akira. Ryo as a character is also pretty confusing. It’s not until he finally has merged with Amon before he starts kicking some ass, but it’s a good buildup and pretty believable given his personality. However, he is very noble in that he willingly accepts this deal with Ryo to merge with devils both to help save the world and to prevent Ryo from suffering alone. Even when the demons start attacking, he has no real courage to fight them. She’s the one who has to tell them off and Asuka is the one who has to make them leave. Akira is a pretty big wuss and he seems like a pacifist to the point where he won’t try to fight thugs who are trying to sexually assault Miki. Now that I’ve gotten to know Akira more as a character, I feel like he’s very believable but also slightly confusing. I knew his backstory, that he was in love with Miki and he was a nice guy with good friends, but that was about it. It is an insane scene that makes up for all of the waiting though the previous chapters.Ī problem I had in going through the first chapter of Amon was that I really didn’t know much about Akira throughout the entire thing. It’s not until the Black Sabbath scene where things really get crazy, intense and just awesome. Even when the devils first start attacking it didn’t seem horribly exciting. It’s a pretty good story, but it kinda drags due to the fact that a character is merely telling us about it instead of allowing us to see it as it went on. It was just page after page after page after page of Ryo telling us what happened prior to him picking up Akira. This first volume does have a pretty big problem, though, and that’s that most of it is a gigantic exposition dump. In Devilman, the devils around him keep trying to call out to Amon, but Akira proclaims that he is not Amon and that he is a being made of Akira and a demon, making him Devilman.
#DEVILMAN MANGA VOL 1 FULL#
In Amon, people keep calling him Akira and there’s a big buildup to him saying that his name is Amon, showing that Akira is either dead or sleeping within him and now the demon has full control.
I also got to understand the weight of a particular line from the first volume of Amon. In particular, Akira is needed to merge with a demon due his kind nature and will to fight the demons hopefully allowing him to overcome the influence of the devil within him to become Devilman!īreakdown: Well I certainly am glad I went back to read this series, because it explains a hell of a lot that I was missing in the first volume of Amon. Now they’re steadily coming back, and Akira and Ryo are the only ones who have any hope of saving the world from their reign. He explains that demons used to rule the earth yet vanished long ago. Plot: Akira Fudou is rather cowardly yet kindhearted person who suddenly gets dragged away by his best friend, Ryo Asuka, who claims his father recently committed suicide and he wants to talk with Akira about his inheritance.
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