Amon: Devilman -

Amon: The Darkside of Devilman is not a retelling. It is a corpse-autopsy of a shonen protagonist. The manga opens one year after the original series’ devastating finale. Satan, having slaughtered humanity, now wanders a silent, ruined Earth, haunted by the memory of the friend he was forced to kill. But resurrection is not salvation. Miki Makimura—Akira’s childhood friend and symbolic heart of the original story—is brought back to life by a cabal of terrified psychics.

When Miki finds the creature, it is not Akira in anguish. It is —pure, unfiltered demonic id. Amon remembers Akira’s hatred of evil, but without Akira’s humanity, that hatred becomes omnicidal. He does not fight out of love; he fights out of a predator’s instinct. The result is some of the most graphically violent artwork in the Devilman lineage—bodies are not just killed but unmade , torn into ribbons of viscera with a cold, reptilian efficiency. amon: devilman

Their hope: that Miki can reach the “Akira” still buried inside the demonic form that now rampages across the wasteland. Amon: The Darkside of Devilman is not a retelling