A new anime based on Go Nagai’s Devilman manga will premiere as a Netflix Original Series in early spring of 2018, Netflix confirmed this morning. The anime, titled Devilman crybaby, will be available in 190 countries or territories, with nine spoken languages and 25 subtitle languages.
Masaaki Yuasa (Ping Pong the Animation, Mind Game) directed the anime, with Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Valvrave the Liberator) behind the script and Eunyoung Choi serving as animation producer. Aniplex and Dynamic Planning are producing the project.
Here’s the official teaser for the 10-episode season:
The protagonist Akira Fudo (Koki Uchiyama) learns from his best friend, Ryo Asuka (Ayumu Murase), that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryo tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself. Akira succeeds in transforming into Devilman, who possesses both the powers of a demon and the soul of a human. The battle of Devilman and Akira Fudo begins.
Nobody knows the real Devil.