I haven't watched or read Devilman, but when Crybaby came out I went to Wikipedia to spoil myself since I'm too much of a pussy to watch it but I wanted to understand the memes. After I read the synopsis of the series, ending and all, it all sounded extremely familiar and couldn't put my finger on it. Half an hour or so later, "wait, it's CLAMPish. wait, wasn't this one of the manga they made doujinshi of? wait, all that weird angels/demons art on their artbooks was Devilman fanart?!" (1/2)
(2/2) Then I sat down for 15 more minutes in shock, shower thoughts style, because suddenly I understood EVERYTHING. I had hit the motherload, I had seen the abyss. This was the true origin of Classic CLAMP Era's biggest fetishes concentrated in one series and I can't unsee it anymore. Jesus fucking Christ, I can't believe we have someone to blame and it's the Mazinger Z man from all people.
LOL yes, Devilman is very much the cauldron from which a ton of CLAMP’s delightful bullshit was birthed. angel/demon ships and tragic romances ending in Bad Ends, gender fuckery, apocalypse stuff...everyone points to X/Tokyo Babylon as their Devilman fanfic but imo the real Devilman fanfic is Wish/Drug&Drop.
“...these two secondary characters that are married look EXACTLY like Akira and Ryo. One’s a demon and one’s an angel. And in Drug&Drop they even act exactly the same--”
“DUNNO WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT LALALALALA”