THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR DEVILMAN LADY AND DEVILMAN CRYBABY I watched Devilman crybaby back in 2018 and was immensely impressed. Oozing with style and substance it ended up becoming a favorite of mine. So recently I decided to watch its spinoff. However it kind of left me with mixed feelings. I know that Lady predates Crybaby by two decades. But since its a faithful adaptation of the original 1972 manga so Ill be using it as a reference for my comparisions. Visuals The dark 90s aesthetic looks pretty good and maintains an atmosphere fitting for a show of its nature. The artstyle looks nice too. Lacks in the animation department. Its pretty standard and the fight scenes dont look all that great. Another problem being that a lot of scenes are way too dark and you can barely understand whats going on. Story This is where the real problem lies: It more or less is the exact same narrative as the original series with a few changes here and there. The protagonist Jun Fudo This series version of Akira Fudo awakens her latent devilbeast gene after being attacked to become a devilman and goes around killing other beasts in a monsteroftheweek fashion under the orders of Lan Asuka This series version of Ryo Asuka. The first half of the anime was the more enjoyable one despite it all. The second half then focuses on the main plot which is thematically weak. It reuses the idea of devilbeasts becoming public knowledge and everything going into chaos. The primary idea here is the evolution of mankind to devilbeasts and how cruel humans can be under dire circumstances. The series doesnt really do anything unique with this idea. Characters Jun Fudo was a solid protagonist even better than Akira to a certain extent. Her psychological struggle with walking the line between her human and devil self was portrayed nicely. The visuals are at their best when showing this. Lan Asuka was alright but like I said was more or less just Ryo save for the fact that shes the child of god instead of being Satan. Satoru was a typical bad guy who just wants to kill humans. Kazumi was Juns primary love interest. Something that came off as weird to me as initially as she was introduced as someone who thinks of Jun as her older sister so I am not sure what kind of dynamic were they going at here. Which brings me to another problem: At least half the cast was in love or obsessed with Jun in some way. I counted like 7 of these people. And thats what most of them were: mere love interests with no real depth to them. Sound Openings okay OST is okay. The first ending was good but the second one was whatever. Enjoyment Setting my complains with the writing aside I had fun watching this. The first half was fun and the second half had a few good moments here and there. Jun was also an interesting character and I liked watching about her. Overall You can watch it if youre craving more Devilman content but otherwise its not great enough to recommend.