After the announcement of Armageddon is when we get to the thematic core of DevilmanвЂ™s narrative and the reason why I see this manga as one go the most seminal works that the medium has to offer. This puts humanity on a state of hysteria, killing anyone that has some kind of connection with demons and the subsequent discovery that demons can possess humans adopting a human form didnвЂ™t help either. I wonвЂ™t spoil the outcome of the fight because is something that needs to be experienced.ДЄfter the fight against Serene the existence of Demons is revealed to the public, the second in command demon Zenon reveals himself to the public announcing the Armageddon. The fight itself is one of the best and more violent fights that IвЂ™ve seen in a manga and for how old the manga is thatвЂ™s something impressive, in the fight AkiraвЂ™s perceptions of Demons drastically changes, at first Akira saw Demons as this cartoonishly evil creatures that just wanted to make people suffer for the sake of it, but while fighting Serene he saw that Demons can be just as if not more humans than actual humans, Serene didnвЂ™t want to kill Akira just for the sake of it, she wanted her loved one to be free. Serene was the partner of the Demon Amon, the one that fused with Akira and because of this Serene just wants to kill Akira in order the release her loved one from AkiraвЂ™s body.

What I expected coming to this story was to read a male power fantasy of the same fashion of Phantom Blood and Fist of the North Star and in the beginning it kind of was.ДЄt the midpoint of the manga the story takes a turn for the psychological with new Demons that start to fuck with Akira at a personal level and with a more human side to them, with the biggest example been the Demon Serene. After merging with the demon Amon, the same Demon that killed AkiraвЂ™s parents he becomes Devilman. One day one of AkiraвЂ™s friends Ryo Asuka came to visit him, Ryo start to describe the discovering of Demons in this earth and the need of fighting them, he also explains that he father knew that the only effective way to fight a Demon was to merge with one, RyoвЂ™s father died after failing to fuse with one discovering that only people with a pure hearth was able to successfully merge with a Demon, thatвЂ™s why Akira must do it. Akira is a kind a gentle and kind boy but a very coward one to say the least and his friend Mikki often has to defend him against bullies.

The story begins with Akira Fudo going back to school with his childhood friend Mikki Makimura, he stays with her family after his parent died in an exploration in the arctic. Humans cannot handle terror and they will kill each other just because of their fear, so when something bad happen do we deserve it? Do we deserve death just for the simple fact of being humans? These are the questions that Deviman ask you as a reader after finishing the story and the nihilistic nature of the manga becomes more and more apparent as the story goes on. Humans are just the worst we kill each other and destroy our planet without any kind of awareness. The story of Devilman is the story of Akira Fudo and in order to get Devilman in a deeper level we need to understand Akira as a character and the world in which he lives in. Go Nagai was a person that pushed for getting more mature content in the pages of manga, because while Devilman was been released it found a strong opposition to the manga due to the themes that I previously mentioned, manga at that time was saw as something for kids despite the amount of manga for adults and the subsequent success of Devilman created the need for categorizing stories by demographic, making the foundations of what eventually will be seinen manga.Д®ver since Dragon Ball the stories featured in manga are about (mostly) the adventures and stories of a large group of characters, in older manga that wasnвЂ™t the case and it was the main character that most of the time solely carried the story, and the story of Devilman is no exception. Despite what the other manga made by Go Nagai may lead you to believe he was a very smart man, his work is often criticized for the amount of adult elements incorporated in them but even the most shallow manga made by Go Nagai had some interesting idea that eventually was incorporated as one of the many tropes associated with modern anime and manga. Before riding into the explorations of the themes of the story we need to understand the context in which Go Nagai found himself at that time and how those events were able to be incorporated in the story.

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