#LAST PAGES OF DEVILMAN MANGA TV#
This incident is replayed on a TV newscast and Akira watches it and declares, "That's cool!" to the horror of Miki and her family. In another episode, a possessed boy attacks his mother as she's driving and she crashes the car, killing them both. He puts an airline pilot doll's head into a flame and then we see the actual pilot burning up in his cockpit and crashing the plane. A puppet master demon creates voodoo-like dolls of actual people and then does horrible things to the dolls, which then affect the real people. A giant monster attacks a baseball stadium during a big game, leaving dead fans all over the place. A demon-generated whirlwind attacks buses, planes and trains and removes 3000 passengers, never to be seen again.
#LAST PAGES OF DEVILMAN MANGA SERIES#
The series raises eyebrows with its extraordinary infusions of death, bloodshed and mass destruction in every episode. There is quite a lot of action and it's generally well handled, as Akira/Devilman takes on different demon warriors in each episode. The background art is particularly innovative, especially in scenes where the demons are on the attack and we see Devilman take to the skies against hellish red overcast skies. It's all done in a comparatively crude animation style, with cartoonish character designs and awkward character animation, but designed in an imaginatively stark fashion, with bold lines, bright colors, and truly eccentric demon designs. Miki is the daughter of the family friends Akira lives with after his parents' death in the Himalayas during the incident witnessed in the series' opening scene which unleashes the ancient demons. However, the affection shown Akira by his pretty friend Miki-chan leads Devilman to turn against the demons and defend the humans. Japan!) and pave the way for a full-blown demon invasion.
Based on a comic by celebrated manga artist Go Nagai (one of the first to push Japanese comics in more adult directions), it follows the exploits of a high school boy named Akira who is possessed by the spirit of an ancient demon named Devilman (pronounced that way in English on the Japanese soundtrack), ostensibly to wreak havoc in the human world (i.e. "Devilman" is a Japanese animated TV series from 1972 that contains so many harsh elements that even by today's standards it would never make it to American television.
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