devil man

[davemerrill]

This is another manga that needs to get reprinted, or printed and distributed properly, in North America - Go Nagai is shamelessly under-represented here and dammit, that's a crime.



D-d-d-d-DEVILMAN! He could team up with Hot Stuff.

It's from the new Let's Anime column, the last of the year! Enjoy! http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2011/12/devilman-saves-christmas.html

I honestly think that the 1972 Devilman manga is in complete harmony with pop culture at the time, both here and in Japan - this grungy, biker, smack-addled sleazy grindhouse longhair post-hippie death culture that possessed us all once we learned Nixon got his second term and that the space aliens weren't really going to save us from eco-destruction. Once the drugs and the hippie wore off. You can see it in the movies, you can see it on the record jackets, a real nihilistic worldview that Devilman would have fit right into - can you imagine this being sold in head shops next to SLOW DEATH FUNNIES? We could have had a manga invasion then, not 30 years later. On the other hand I imagine Jack Chick and Vincent Bugliosi would have had a freaking FIELD DAY. "Look at what they're trying to sell our children now = "Devilman"? SATAN IS ALIVE AND WELL ON PLANET EARTH!!!!!!

Comments

[footyfoot.livejournal.com]

I, for one, could have used WAYYY LESS Checkered Demon and way more Devilman :P Unlike so many of the other 70's post-hippie death culture (I'm gonna have to steal that phrase, it pretty much encapsulates what us kids got to see happening around us) exponents, Go actually had talent.