The color scheme lightens into a baby blue as it meets the edge of the ocean. The night sky is colored a deep blue with stars speckled throughout. SettingĪs the Apocalypse finishes in Devilman Crybaby, the audience is shown the scenery. Although, she has four wings on either side, compared to Ryo’s five. When Rei becomes Lilith, her physical form changes. Rei merges with a being named Lilith, who is the personification of the seed of life. She is vital to the start of the apocalypse known as Third Impact.Īs opposed to being a heavenly creature like Ryo, Rei becomes one. Rei Ayanami is a central character of The End of Evangelion. He has four outstretched wings coming from his upper body with a wing from each of the ankles. When he takes on his Satan form to commence the apocalypse, Ryo is pure white with his wings glowing. He describes his presence on earth as punishment for being exiled from heaven. Rei as Lillithīy episode ten of Devilman Crybaby, it is revealed that Ryo is Satan incarnate.
With Devilman Crybaby taking inspiration from The End of Evangelion for visuals, framing, and color schemes, we’ve come full circle on who inspired who. This would mean that The End of Evangelion is a by-product of its influence from Devilman. They wanted to create something that was on a huge scale and thusly, it was very reminiscent of Devilman. In an interview with Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, a character designer for Eva and The End of Eva, Sadamoto described that NGE was heavily inspired by Go Nagai’s Devilman manga. However, what I found was much more intriguing. I admit that I felt a sense of prioritizing The End of Evangelion’s creativity knowing that it was released so much earlier than Crybaby. In my head, I was uncomfortable by the uncanny visuals that I described earlier in this piece that I found myself googling “ Devilman Crybaby & The End of Evangelion.” I needed to wrap my head around why the similarities were so on the nose.
As I watched the horrors of Devilman’s climax unfold, I was awestruck by all the similarities both visually and thematically it had to the aforementioned film. As I watched Devilman Crybaby, which came out in the winter of 2018, I didn’t think about any similarities to The End of Evangelion until I reached episode ten.
I watched The End of Evangelion first and that film was released in the summer of 1997.
The first image in each of these series is from end of Evangelion and the second is from Devilman Crybaby (2018).
However, a closer look reveals that between themes and visuals, there are many cinematic parallels between both properties endings. On the surface level, Devilman Crybaby (2018) and End of Evangelion don’t have much in common. Shinji and Asuka fend for their lives to protect humanity from an impending apocalypse. This film offers a look into what occurs after the end of episode 24 of the anime. The End of Evangelion is an alternate ending film to coveted anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion. The show explores the relationship between Ryo and Akira and the themes of good vs. However, in the short run time, it packs a heavy emotional punch. The Netflix show is a mere ten episodes long. This article contains heavy spoilers for Devilman Crybaby (2018) and The End of Evangelionĭevilman Crybaby (2018) is a modernized adaptation of Go Nagi’s manga, Devilman.