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Devilman Crybaby · Season 1 · Netflix

Devilman Crybaby Season 1

Devilman Crybaby Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.4/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 5 January 2018.

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BollyMeter8.4/10RT 89% from 9 critics and the 3rd Crunchyroll Anime Awards Anime of the Year title confirm a genuine critical event; Yuasa's Science Saru animation and the unsparing finale are the franchise's definitive artistic statement.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Devilman Crybaby dropped on Netflix on January 5, 2018 - a global simultaneous release that became one of anime's first major streaming events. Director Masaaki Yuasa (Ping Pong the Animation, Lu Over the Wall) brought Science Saru's fluid, expressionist animation to Go Nagai's 1970s source material, stripping it down to ten tightly coiled episodes. Critics at Rotten Tomatoes approved at 89 percent, with the consensus clustering around Yuasa's visual invention, the visceral confrontation with violence and empathy, and an apocalyptic final act that earned genuine shock reactions. The IMDb audience score of 7.6 reflects viewers divided between those exhilarated by the nihilism and those who found the gratuitousness unearned. The Crunchyroll Anime of the Year win is the cleaner signal: industry recognition for work that rewrote what a Netflix anime could be.

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  • “A viscerally artistic achievement unlike anything else airing this season.”
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1I Need More Power8.0

    The premiere establishes the world and its central friendship with speed and visual flair. Yuasa's camera refuses stillness - every scene is in motion, a formal choice that mirrors the story's premise of bodies in transformation. The opening act's party sequence is already unlike any anime premiere of the decade.

    The moment: The transformation sequence: Science Saru's animation stretching the human form past its limits, making the merger between boy and demon feel genuinely terrifying.

    Full review of E1 →
  2. E10Crybaby9.2

    The finale that critics and audiences could not stop arguing about. Devilman Crybaby does not flinch from its source material's conclusion - and the decision to honour Nagai's bleakest vision rather than soften it for a streaming audience is what separates the series from safe adaptations. Harrowing and essential.

    The moment: The final revelation about Ryo and its implications for everything that preceded it - the shot that turned the entire series into elegy.

    Full review of E10 →