Big Cartoon DataBase Home

 

Search BCDB
  

Detailed Search


     Animation DVD
     Animation Video
     DVDs
     Videos
     Main Store
     BCDB
     Forum
     Calendar


Studios

     Columbia Pictures
     Disney Studios
     Famous Studios
     Filmation
     Fleischer Studios
     Fox
     Hanna-Barbera
     MGM
     Other Studios
     Paramount Pictures
     Universal Studios
     Warner Bros.




Link to The Big Comic Book DataBase

Link to The Cartoon Factory Animation Art Gallery

The Big Cartoon DataBase Forum
  
Devilman - The Birth/Demon Bird (Vol. 1 & 2)
starring: Takeshi Aono, Laura Kelly (VI), David Collins (IV), Shô Hayami, Adam Matalon
directed by: Tsutomu Iida

Price: $225.69
Prices subject to change.


Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days



Average Rating:  out of 5 stars


Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Part of the charm of anime is the fractured storytelling, the disjointed style, which is often a result of trying to fit everything from the manga (Japanese comic book) into the movie. Devilman, for example, opens in a wooded paradise where beautiful and naked fairy women fly about and are then attacked by dinosaurs and demons, until a six-armed fairy warrior shoots down explosive balls of light at the demons. Cut to explorers in the caves of Antarctica, not quite surviving a cave-in and the appearance of a demon. Dissolve to rabbits in a hutch that have been killed. What's going on? It's hard to say, but it sure is interesting.

The story settles down when Akira is introduced. Akira is your typical schoolkid until his childhood best friend Ryo shows up and pulls him into a web of demons and deceit. As Ryo explains, Dante talks about demons frozen in the ice in The Divine Comedy, and now global warming is melting that ice, freeing them. Akira and Ryo decide to team up and save the world. Devilman is chock full of bizarre explanations about demon existence and behavior, demon-on-demon violence, and a little gratuitous nudity. The best reason to watch it is for all the bizarre explanations, which are too weird not to be entertaining. --Andy Spletzer



Related Items:

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0660200405021
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Manga Video
Languages: EnglishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Manga Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Manga Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 25, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Manga Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1991

Customer Reviews

Sloppy Effort 3 out of 5 stars
Devil Man isn't the best anime you'll find. The story starts very slowly and it clumsily lumbers along. The characters are all unlikable and/or uninteresting, and the voice acting is questionable. The hero's love interest is slapped into the tale as an afterthought, and serves as little more than the obligatory damsel in distress to be rescued late in the story. The animation is anything but breath-taking, with characters speaking complete sentences at times without their lips moving. The ending ... Read More


 







© 1998-2010 bcdb.com
   All Rights Reserved
Characters, trademarks, brands are property of their respective owners.

Web Privacy

Amazon Associate



DVD's | Videos | Animation DVD's | Animation VHS | Main Store | BCDB | Forum