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Amon: The Darkside of The Devilman #3
Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman
Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing.
215 pages, Paperback
First published October 7, 2005
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October 22, 2020
Really not that great of a manga series, everything is really crappy with this especially the story but the art keeps it interesting 😴😁👌
January 13, 2020
This is a hot mess. I didn’t realize the implications that the boy’s merging with Amon had until I began to read this volume.
Is Amon possessing the boy or is the boy possessing Amon? There’s so much evidence for either direction. I couldn’t really deduce that which was frustrating to have to ignore since much of the origin stories that Satan reveals deals with Amon.
I find it disappointing that Amon/the boy is a piece of Satan since Ryo’s (Satan’s) love for Akira could possibly be only motivated because Akira possessed Amon/the boy who is part of Satan. It does make sense though, if this is the case, as to why Satan loves Akira and possibly a foreshadowing to how the combined powers of Akira and Ryo could topple down God. It’s not even fully explained if the boy was a piece of Satan or if Amon is. I’m sure that the central cause of all this confusion is the boy not having a name.
And how does this transition from the second volume? Amon wants to go to where God is but he ends up going straight in search of Silene. Again, this comes back to the conflict of whether Amon is possessing the boy or the other way around, since Amon stated he was selfish and he doesn’t seem like the type to rescue Silene.
There also seems to be something missing as to how Silene was in love with Amon since that’s gone over in the original series. Amon, in this series, is a demon that appears out of nowhere and took the form of Silene’s companion, the boy. Instead it feels that at the end of this volume, Silene abhors Amon. But is she abhorring Amon or the boy or both of them? Either way, no love has formed yet between Amon and Silene and I don’t see how it can in the next three volumes.
Other plot holes include the placement of this timeline, why there is a Revelations verse citing with no relation to the events in this volume, who abducted Silene, where Silene was taken, why Atai is in the place that Silene was, why angels appear, what the angels are trying to do, where the illusion came from, and whether the boy posses Amon or Amon posseses the boy.
Perhaps all these plot holes will be answered in the next volume but seeing that each volume seems to introduce new characters and plots and only answer questions regarding Amon and Satan’s origin, I can’t see how the volume would mend all the non-essential questions that I found in the form of plot holes.
In trying to come up with a rating for this volume, I’ve had to ignore the fan service and focus on a volume muddled with plot holes and few scenes compared with the previous volume. I’m feeling a solid 3. Probably would be a 2 if there weren’t so many panels with Silene.
Rating Update 27 May 2019
Three stars to two stars. Here are the individual chapter ratings:
Chapter One: two stars
Chapter Two: two stars
Chapter Three: two stars
Chapter Four: three stars
Chapter Five: two stars
Chapter Six: two stars
The cumulative rating for the volume is 2.17, which lowers the volume's rating to two stars.
September 1, 2019
Update
With the adoption of my new rating system, a two star rating is befitting. The original review and rating update conform to the new rating system. I have skimmed through the third volume of "Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman" to remind myself of this volume's content. I cannot discern if the chapter ratings in the rating update from May 27, 2019, include or exclude fan service interference. For now, I will rate the volume at two stars for its mostly boring sub-plot, hitting one star at some moments, against the fan-service. A two star-rating seems like a balance between the positives and negatives.
January 13, 2020
Update
I have skimmed through the volume and found that the chapter ratings in the rating update from May 27, 2019, to be correct. Only the fan service is most pronounced in the fourth chapter to sway it to three stars. This skim reading has allowed me to appreciate this volume more, possibly to the lengths of a three star-rating. I assume that an actual reread would be a biased interpretation or would rekindle my previous criticisms.
Is Amon possessing the boy or is the boy possessing Amon? There’s so much evidence for either direction. I couldn’t really deduce that which was frustrating to have to ignore since much of the origin stories that Satan reveals deals with Amon.
I find it disappointing that Amon/the boy is a piece of Satan since Ryo’s (Satan’s) love for Akira could possibly be only motivated because Akira possessed Amon/the boy who is part of Satan. It does make sense though, if this is the case, as to why Satan loves Akira and possibly a foreshadowing to how the combined powers of Akira and Ryo could topple down God. It’s not even fully explained if the boy was a piece of Satan or if Amon is. I’m sure that the central cause of all this confusion is the boy not having a name.
And how does this transition from the second volume? Amon wants to go to where God is but he ends up going straight in search of Silene. Again, this comes back to the conflict of whether Amon is possessing the boy or the other way around, since Amon stated he was selfish and he doesn’t seem like the type to rescue Silene.
There also seems to be something missing as to how Silene was in love with Amon since that’s gone over in the original series. Amon, in this series, is a demon that appears out of nowhere and took the form of Silene’s companion, the boy. Instead it feels that at the end of this volume, Silene abhors Amon. But is she abhorring Amon or the boy or both of them? Either way, no love has formed yet between Amon and Silene and I don’t see how it can in the next three volumes.
Other plot holes include the placement of this timeline, why there is a Revelations verse citing with no relation to the events in this volume, who abducted Silene, where Silene was taken, why Atai is in the place that Silene was, why angels appear, what the angels are trying to do, where the illusion came from, and whether the boy posses Amon or Amon posseses the boy.
Perhaps all these plot holes will be answered in the next volume but seeing that each volume seems to introduce new characters and plots and only answer questions regarding Amon and Satan’s origin, I can’t see how the volume would mend all the non-essential questions that I found in the form of plot holes.
In trying to come up with a rating for this volume, I’ve had to ignore the fan service and focus on a volume muddled with plot holes and few scenes compared with the previous volume. I’m feeling a solid 3. Probably would be a 2 if there weren’t so many panels with Silene.
Rating Update 27 May 2019
Three stars to two stars. Here are the individual chapter ratings:
Chapter One: two stars
Chapter Two: two stars
Chapter Three: two stars
Chapter Four: three stars
Chapter Five: two stars
Chapter Six: two stars
The cumulative rating for the volume is 2.17, which lowers the volume's rating to two stars.
September 1, 2019
Update
With the adoption of my new rating system, a two star rating is befitting. The original review and rating update conform to the new rating system. I have skimmed through the third volume of "Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman" to remind myself of this volume's content. I cannot discern if the chapter ratings in the rating update from May 27, 2019, include or exclude fan service interference. For now, I will rate the volume at two stars for its mostly boring sub-plot, hitting one star at some moments, against the fan-service. A two star-rating seems like a balance between the positives and negatives.
January 13, 2020
Update
I have skimmed through the volume and found that the chapter ratings in the rating update from May 27, 2019, to be correct. Only the fan service is most pronounced in the fourth chapter to sway it to three stars. This skim reading has allowed me to appreciate this volume more, possibly to the lengths of a three star-rating. I assume that an actual reread would be a biased interpretation or would rekindle my previous criticisms.
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