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Devilman (デビルマン)

Volume 1 (1972)

♧ authorized reprint for tumblr // artist:     Samプリンス   /    デビルマンlog

like i know manga ryo is not exactly the most consistently written character and his backstory is hilariously confusingly structured but having his Big Realization at the end be 'omg i love akira' rather than manga ryo who knew and acknowledged his love for akira but knowing he had no choice but to fight him because there's no other way to resolve it... and how he acknowledges at the very end atop that cliff in that whole monologue about how he basically acted the same way as the god he hated... it's so much more

the scene with xenon in the manga was Ok Awkward about the satan reveal but the internal conflict he was struggling with was so raw it was AWESOME also shoutout to this scene. the layers