#devilman the birth

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Y’all fw Devilman?

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Srry for the dump wwwuuahh I LOVE DEVILMAN

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Respite

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Devilman: The Birth (1987) /// Devilman Crybaby (2018)

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I loved Crybaby when it came out but i never had the chance to look at the ovas nor read the manga and. Im obsessed now

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[ 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗶 x 𝗔𝗸𝗶𝗿𝗮 ]

𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞 Devilman: The Birth • デビルマン 誕生編 (1987) 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 Gō Nagai 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 Oh! Production 𝐝𝐢𝐫. Umanosuke Iida 𝐜𝐡𝐫. 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 Kazuo Komatsubara

𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦: 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

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Nothing says "bad bitch" like an expensive fully white outfit but 1987 Ryo was also doing everything right.

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 11 Ryokira

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

For day eleven is fave pairing or duo and wellllllll, you all know that I have a lot of ships for Devilman so I decided to draw out five different pictures of each of my ships, Ryokira, Akira/Miki/Ryo, Satan/Zennon, Ryo/Miki and Akira/Miki and as I've said before I had gotten sick around the time I was working on the first of the pictures for this prompt and it really delayed things a lot and not to mention I was challenging myself a lot with these pieces, I want to really craft some good backgrounds like the old masters and while I don't think I've quite captured their ability to do those backgrounds I am pleased that I did go the extra mile for these pieces, I learned a lot making these especially since I was so limited in working in only black and white, so making sure the values were good was extremely important here!

So the second picture is of Ryokira and the first picture I had worked on when it came to this prompt! Akira and Ryo are sharing a passionate moment together under a tree. I referenced this William Blake illustration of the moment in Paradise Lost by John Milton of Eve falling into temptation by Satan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-The_Temptation_and_Fall_of_Eve(Illustration_to_Milton%27s_%22Paradise_Lost%22)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg and I wanted to do a more romantic take on it for Ryokira, because while Ryo/Satan had been a huge temptation to Akira in a lot of ways, he does truly love him. This was a little bit challenging to do as I wanted the background and the poses to look good, drawing Akira in Eve's pose was tricky and I wanted to make sure Ryo's pose kept that wrapping snake like quality the Satan snake had in the original William Blake illustration.

Now on to explaining what I love about Ryokira so much! They are the grandfather of all doomed by the narrative yaoi ship trope so many love! And its all thanks to Akira's and Ryo's love and hate for each other!

I'm gonna copy and paste what I had wrote about Ryokira on tumblr months back because it sums up my feelings about the ship perfectly.

Akira and Ryo were friends before everything went wrong and trusted each other so deeply, even to the point of being willing to go down to hell to together. They understand each other like no other, and would do anything for each other and that’s what damns and saves them(in Violence Jack and Devilman Lady tho XD)

Akira willingly went through the Sabbath and became Devilman for Ryo (as well to save humanity but as we see later in the story humanity to Akira really includes the people he personally knows and loves) and Ryo/Satan has Amon merge with Akira to save him from the human apocalypse since Akira was the only human he could ever love. They both make the same mistakes in some ways, when Ryo/Satan fell in love with Akira he couldn’t look outside of his hatred of humanity to consider that maybe if Akira was lovable to him then maybe not all of humanity is so bad. When Akira lost Miki and her family to the mob he couldn’t look outside his hatred to see that maybe there were other humans that were like Miki who needed to be saved.

I honestly think Ryo fell in love with Akira because Akira was not only a kindred spirit but also showed him that he could live in peace, even if Satan didn’t realise it at the time and that’s why he is regretful at what he had done to Akira by merging with Amon. In a way he had started the progress that will make Akira mirror him in so many ways.

Despite their differences they understand each other even if they don’t want to admit it and in a way they enable each other cause of it. Akira in my mind did come to hate humanity once he saw the evils they committed towards the devilmen and their own fellow humans in order to save themselves and that’s why he was considering Ryo/Satan’s offer to join him, because a part of him did a agree with Ryo on some level, but hated to ever admit it especially after Miki died. Like even tho Ryo was messy as fuck in trying to give his offer for Akira to join his side, the fact he thought it would work says a lot to me about how much he knew how Akira actually felt about humanity.

And despite all of the anger and hatred Akira had felt for Ryo towards the end of the manga in the sequels he still strives to either save Ryo(Violence Jack) or understand him, because he still loves him.(Devilman Lady manga)

And Ryo/Satan wants to understand/love humanity better through Akira’s POV either by loving Miki like Akira had(Violence Jack) or taking on his role as Jun(Devilman Lady manga) And in my opinion in both Violence Jack and Devilman Lady they both save each other even if the journey is really rough and messy! XD

like I’ve said before their love damns and saves them in so many ways, they make each other both better and worse and the world(s) is never the same cause of it. Through love or hate they are drawn together and have a hard time being apart.

The fandom plays around this ship a lot and the best ways I’ve seen it be done is when its both a character and a relationship study where they understand how they can go towards war or peace together…

So yeah after all that waxing poetically again, they are very much OTP but I really like to ship them as a OT3 with Miki cause honestly I feel she is what is able to keep them together or break them apart…

So yeah, thank you so much for the ask on Ryokira, they always give me a lot to think about and I’ll always have feels about them

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Akira and Ryo dressing up as one another!

Drawing I did for a friend around a year ago.

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Role model

Under cut sketch

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