Devillady n. 15

Devil Lady #15

by Go Nagai

Ryo Utsugi, accettata la proposta del capo della Setta di Dante, Yuda Hiraoka, si sottopone a un rituale che gli permette di viaggiare al di là dello spazio e del tempo, raggiungendo le porte dell'Inferno!'Nel frattempo la Human Alliance scopre il covo in cui Yuda e i suoi seguaci si nascondono e invia tutti i suoi uomini migliori a estirpare questa minaccia. Al comando dei corpi di Devilmen c'è Jun, che però è tormentata da dubbi sul proprio ruolo. In fondo qual è la differenza tra Devilmen e Devil Beast? La Human Alliance traccia il confine definendo Beast tutte le creature di natura demoniaca che si schierano contro l'umanità. Questo significa che non esiste alcuna differenza concreta tra le due specie, e che Jun e i suoi compagni sono uguali a quei mostri che hanno sempre combattuto? E cosa succederà poi una volta finito lo scontro? Sembra che il triste destino che attende i Devilmen sia quello di essere odiati ed emarginati...

Genres: Manga

Paperback

First published May 24, 2000

About the author

Kiyoshi Nagai (永井潔 Nagai Kiyoshi, born September 6, 1945 in Wajima, Ishikawa), better known by the penname Gō Nagai (永井 豪 Nagai Gō?), is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. Since 2009, he is a member of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee.

Reviews

[Killer of Dreams · Rating 2 out of 5]

Volume 15 continues with the same intensity as the previous volume. I believe Nagai is returning to his core anti-war theme that resonated in the original Devilman series.

Although it seems rushed, Jun's decision to side with the humans feels detrimental to the direction of this series. It will be interesting to see where this goes. I'm not to convinced on the subplot with Dante though. If it's going the way that it's been foreshadowed, it'll have been way to predictable.

Rating Update 4/4/2019- 4 stars to 3 stars. I may be too generous in this. I greatly enjoyed the decisive moment that Jun has to take a side and how the plot is escalating. However, Dante's journey through Hell is very boring. It takes up more than half of it. I will leave this volume at 3 stars because it's amazing in every other way, except Dante's journey.

Rating Update 29 May 2019
Three stars to two stars.
I feel that the boring scenes outweigh the four and three star content.

September 1, 2019
Update
With the adoption of my new rating system, a two star rating is befitting. The original review and rating updates conform to the new rating system. I have looked through my "Devilman Lady Abridged" folder to remind myself of this volume's content. I cannot understand how the previous sections of the review refer to the escalating plot as a positive. Looking through the volume, I can't find a reason to raise the rating from a two star-rating to a three star-rating. There's the positives of the continued creationism/gnosticism being explained in the first part of the volume, the few pages of the H.A. noting the increasing dangers in the world and Jun's leadership, but its brought down by Dante's journey through Hell and the fight scenes between the H.A. and the church. In my "Goodreads Books" excel worksheet, I had written to change the rating back to a four star-rating, but I don't understand why. Everything previously mentioned seems to lead to a two star-rating.