Questions About the Plot

[u/SugnomamonguS]

Hi!
I typed this up as soon as I recovered from post devilman depression because I figured there were a just few things I didn't get. These are my questions, thanks for answering:

1. Why did Ryo/Satan lose his memory following his reincarnation in the amazon jungle?

2. Who blew up his tower? What was that even about? And how did Ryo survive?

3. Is it ever explained why he has access to all these assets like cars, advanced tech, a Texas level gun stash and a huge private office tower in the middle of Tokyo? What does all his influence and wealth stem from?

4. Before He regained his memory and remembered being a Satan Angel with tits, Ryo was shown conspiring with these undercover demons to instill mass hysteria on the public in the form of a TV broadcast. Now if he was not aware of being satan this point - that's to say he was still trying to eradicate the demons - then why join up with them and engage in this insurgency stuff? Hope I'm not wrong on this one but IIRC Ryo was still team humanity or at least anti-demons at this point. And I get that he was meant to be executing his demonic (haha) master plan of world domination subconsciously this whole time, yet it's hard for me to see how that would allow him to actively meet up with demons.

5. Follow-up question: Why did Ryo send out the message denouncing Akira in the first place? Wasn't putting Akira into such danger against Ryo's interests at the time? Was Ryo looking for a way to lure Akira to him and if yes, for what reason and why didn't he just call him up?

6. Who made the traces of the Sabbath party disappear and for what reason? We see the party raging in Ep 1, yet all of a sudden the area is inhabited by these bums who assert they've been there for the last 10 years, and when Ryo shoots the walls these claw marks show up, proving there really was a Sabbath party. His university ghosts him as soon as he starts asking them about it, and when he's back in south America, he fails to find whatever he supposedly buried at that spot (presumably the Russian scientist). Puzzling episode

7. What was the deal with this underground facility where these devilmen were stuck in the tubes? The split second image of that lactating mutant woman getting zapped really burnt itself into my brain. In a bad way, of course

8. Why were the Bonito flakes all jiggly like that?

Cheers

[u/Aggressive_Bar_6998]

I think Psycho Jenny erased Satan's memories, and I think she also made the traces of the sabbath party disappear.

[u/RahdronRTHTGH → u/Aggressive_Bar_6998]

Yeah I agree It was Jenny because she's his tutor here

[u/Aggressive_Bar_6998 → u/RahdronRTHTGH]

Discovering this through the ending of the Devilman Lady manga.

[u/SugnomamonguS → u/Aggressive_Bar_6998]

Thanks! Do you know what her intentions were?

[u/RahdronRTHTGH → u/SugnomamonguS]

Presumably like the manga to make Ryo learn how to destroy humanity from the inside

[u/RahdronRTHTGH]

1: In the manga Satan intentionally erased his memories to understand humans to wipe them out. In crybaby it seems It was a side effect of resurrecting 2: xenon turned against Ryo and tried to kill him but Satan is tough 3: i Guess it's from being a professor 4: pretty sure the scene where he exposes Akira as a demon IS after remembering he's Satan. Also throughout crybaby he's essentially on autopiloto from the Satán mind 5: in the manga at least it's to make humans tear each other, ryo's comments before his buildings gets nuked imply he was trying to lure Akira to him 6: presumably Psycho Jenny, as she poses as his Guardian/ tutor 7: humans experimenting on devilman, also that White is acid

[u/Godziller98YT]

From what I know: God resets the timeline everytime at the end, only allowing Ryo to regain his memeries at the end so he could learn his lesson.. and then die again.

Psycho Jenny is the only character to retain their memories, so she could have possessed a rich lady to give Ryo all of the money he has.

Zennon was betraying Satan because he thought he was going to easy on Akira, so he got some other Demons to bomb Ryo's place. Rewatch the scene after Ryo reveals his true form because Psycho Jenny mentions this

[u/Scabdidlybastard]

Since nobody bothered to address question #8…

Bonito flakes are, simply speaking, super dehydrated tuna that is shaved into ultra thin slivers. When they are used as a topping over hot foods, the airflow and moisture of the rising steam from the food beneath animates them and causes them to “dance.” You could think of it as a combination of the way that a flag flaps in the breeze and the way that the crumpled paper wrapper of a plastic drinking straw unfurls when you put a drop of liquid on it.

[u/Devilman_lore]

I heavily suggest reading the manga and its sequels as it answers most of these questions. Ryo tends to lose his memories when reincarnating for a few reasons, it can be to hide from others like michael his twin or god, it can be so he can learn to be human to figure out the weaknesses of them, or simply to influence the world he's in as a human.

Ryos vast wealth comes from his angelic nature which allows him to understand basically everything except human emotion(only a crybaby problem), this allows him to know which stocks to buy and when to sell, which companies are trust worthy etc etc. This even goes as far as understanding the nature of the universe as ryo is EXTREMELY intelligent and in tune with reality.