The show creates a contrast of emotion inside me when I think of it. The story was quick and enjoyable but at the same time very rushed with little context given. Characters seemed to be intriguing at the beginning to later turn into caricatures of themselves. Dynamics between Ryo and Akira were profound but also superficial with no sustenance. Artwork is sloppy and lazy but also intriguing and powerful.
Overall I feel like the story was quite sloppy. I've enjoyed the first couple of episodes with great pleasure, slowly getting more and more confused and lost when the story progressed towards the end. The ending itself got me overwhelmed. What pulled the story for me to a solid 4 was Ryo Asuka himself. The art style of Ryo is amazing, it is easy to fall in love with his angelic light appearance and his diabolic dark character, making the fall even harder once you realize that he is literally an angel and a demon. He is Lucifer himself. A fallen angel that lost everything to humans. Yet here he is, falling in love with a human boy, realizing his affection only once literally everything around him has been destroyed, including Akira himself, as only half of his body remains by Ryo's side. The love that Ryo felt for Akira is subtle, since Lucifer was not made to have feelings for anybody. Once everything has literally when to shits, only then we see the emotional side of Ryo and his desperate desire to be with Akira.
Akira himself is half a character. Literally (at the very end) and metaphorically. He is empty, just another typical good character that bounds on the journey to save the world with the purest of intentions while also screwing everything on his way. Empty, uninteresting, even irritating to death. His feelings for Miki felt empty and bland, his desire to save humanity was distasteful, and yet again he was saved by his appearance once he merged with a demon.
Something that I wish was discussed more in depth is feeling that Miko had for Miki. Jealousy ate her throughout the story, she lost her own identity to the other girl. But with the story's progression, the feelings that she had for Miki became more and more evident. She was ready to fight for her until her last breath with the last wish that one day they would be able to just run together again: free and happy. Miko felt more real than Akira ever did.
Overall, the show was a fresh change of aesthetics and narrative. It could have been extended a little to discuss in depth the feelings and emotion of the characters, the progression of their growth. I wish Ryo to achieve his happiness but his destiny has an ugly side; he is destined to destroy the world for Akira again and again as he is not familiar with human sympathy and Akira will always fight on the side of the humans, unable to sacrifice his own humanity for Ryo.
Akira gets turned on by power imbalance, when the partner has dominance over him. He easily gives in when he gets praised and sweet-talked but hates when it is exaggerated or not honest. The worst turn off for Akira is clinginess since he needs a lot of time to spend on his own.
Akira takes very little time to cum as he completely loses himself in the sensations.
Akira's most sensitive part of the body is his neck.
Akira does not get seduced very easily as he keeps his cool very well. The easiest way for Akira is to be overpowered as he loves the feeling of being dominated and cornered. However, it is important for him to know his partner closely and trust them fully.
Akira does not masturbate very often as he does not find it to be as pleasurable as the experience with an actual partner. He masturbates once a week out of physical necessity but, if he has a constant partner, it becomes even less frequent.
Akira loves to be bent over and taken from behind but his ultimate preference is seeing the partner face to face, no matter what position it is, from missionary to cowgirl.
Akira lost his virginity at the age of 16 to a guy from his school.
He does not have a favorite place to have sex as long as it is not in a public space where he can be easily seen.
Akira fears the humiliation of being caught while having sex, so far it has not happened to him.
Akira is naturally loud in the bed but is highly embarrassed by that so he forces himself to be quiet.
No toys.
He prefers receiving.
Akira's sexual drive is very low and he does not need to have sex very often. If he has an active sexual partner, Akira is able to compromise to have sex three times a week.
Ultimate sexual desire is a rape fantasy.
Uncertain.
4'5 inches (11 cm).
Akira builds his ideal version of a partner to masturbate to.
Homosexual.
Akira loves "forced" sex. He likes being tied down, being blindfolded, feeling physically overwhelmed by his partner, as if there was no escape.
There haven't been weird places that Akira has had sex in. However, there have been instances, however, when Akira felt highly uncomfortable, like a bathroom of a friend during a party.
Akira loves to be kissed on his forehead as he finds this spot to be the most intimate and romantic. During sex, however, he loves to be kissed (and bitten) on his neck.
His worst sex experience has been with a classmate from the college. It has been a drunken sex after a party. The guy has obviously been drunk, as well as Akira, and the overall experience has been negative on both sides. Sex has been very distant, a little bit painful, and overall sloppy and uninteresting.
Yes, he has. Akira is capable of orgasming more than once during the same sex session. His first sexual experience has been one of those times.
Not very often. Akira is overall uninterested in sex when he is not having it.
Akira does not care much about his body image. He is very uncomfortable about his height as he dreams to be a bit taller than he is. However, he is overall satisfied with his body and doesn't notice any small details of it.
Akira does not last very long and does not enjoy long sessions of sex. That is also the reason why he does not like prolonged orgasm denial. However, every sex has its differences. It can take him 5 minutes to be satisfied with a quickie, or he can take about 30 minutes.
He is very serious. He does not have a very laughable personality overall. It is hard to see him laugh in his normal laugh, it would be almost impossible to see him laugh during sex.
Fatherland is a 1992 alternative history detective novel by English writer and journalist Robert Harris. Set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II, the story's protagonist is an officer of the Kripo, the criminal police, who is investigating the murder of a Nazi government official who participated at the Wannsee Conference. A plot is thus discovered to eliminate all of those who attended the conference to help improve German relations with the United States.
The novel inverts some of the conventions of the detective novel. It begins with a murder and diligent police detective investigating and eventually solving it. However, since the murderer is highly placed in a tyrannical regime, solving the mystery does not result in the detective pursuing and arresting the murderer. The contrary occurs in the novel: the murderer pursuing and arresting the detective.
Devilman: Crybaby
4/5
The show creates a contrast of emotion inside me when I think of it. The story was quick and enjoyable but at the same time very rushed with little context given. Characters seemed to be intriguing at the beginning to later turn into caricatures of themselves. Dynamics between Ryo and Akira were profound but also superficial with no sustenance. Artwork is sloppy and lazy but also intriguing and powerful.
Overall I feel like the story was quite sloppy. I've enjoyed the first couple of episodes with great pleasure, slowly getting more and more confused and lost when the story progressed towards the end. The ending itself got me overwhelmed. What pulled the story for me to a solid 4 was Ryo Asuka himself. The art style of Ryo is amazing, it is easy to fall in love with his angelic light appearance and his diabolic dark character, making the fall even harder once you realize that he is literally an angel and a demon. He is Lucifer himself. A fallen angel that lost everything to humans. Yet here he is, falling in love with a human boy, realizing his affection only once literally everything around him has been destroyed, including Akira himself, as only half of his body remains by Ryo's side. The love that Ryo felt for Akira is subtle, since Lucifer was not made to have feelings for anybody. Once everything has literally when to shits, only then we see the emotional side of Ryo and his desperate desire to be with Akira.
Akira himself is half a character. Literally (at the very end) and metaphorically. He is empty, just another typical good character that bounds on the journey to save the world with the purest of intentions while also screwing everything on his way. Empty, uninteresting, even irritating to death. His feelings for Miki felt empty and bland, his desire to save humanity was distasteful, and yet again he was saved by his appearance once he merged with a demon.
Something that I wish was discussed more in depth is feeling that Miko had for Miki. Jealousy ate her throughout the story, she lost her own identity to the other girl. But with the story's progression, the feelings that she had for Miki became more and more evident. She was ready to fight for her until her last breath with the last wish that one day they would be able to just run together again: free and happy. Miko felt more real than Akira ever did.
Overall, the show was a fresh change of aesthetics and narrative. It could have been extended a little to discuss in depth the feelings and emotion of the characters, the progression of their growth. I wish Ryo to achieve his happiness but his destiny has an ugly side; he is destined to destroy the world for Akira again and again as he is not familiar with human sympathy and Akira will always fight on the side of the humans, unable to sacrifice his own humanity for Ryo.