This was gorgeous and I honestly wish there were more scenes like this. The art is this stark black and white style with only red peering through the monochrome field similar to how a manga page would look. This scene is terrifying and honestly the best version of the battle with Jinmen I’ve seen. Simultaneously in Japan, Devilman kills Jinmen after he eats Akira’s longtime childhood friend Sachiko. I’m aware they are crazy cyborgs that believe that their mission is to destroy Earth so they may end war and rebuild the world with themselves as the ruling Gods, but I’ve never seen those episodes, so this was awesome. Now that I’ve seen this short snippet of the battle with Apollyon, I really want to see these guys in action more. Our story here starts on some sort of active volcano with a ancient Greece theme, Cyborg 009 and his comrades are battling the Mythos Cyborgs which appears to be ripping the whole area apart Frieza Vs Goku style. Sadly, Ishinomori has long since died, but this crossover lives on. It was reported in Sankei Sports that he wished to do a collaboration with Ishinomori. Apparently, this cross-over is not as random as some might believe as before Go Nagai became the author of Devilman, he worked as an assistant to Shotaro Ishinomori, drawing backgrounds for the Cyborg 009 manga. Even when Star Trek crosses over with stuff like Transformers or Planet of the Apes, I’m 100% on-board. I know cross-over stuff like this is usually silly, and makes almost no sense most of the time, as a huge fanboy I absolutely love it. NOTE: Discotek is going to re-release the show soon…YAAY! And as a bonus, I got Devilman, which at the time I had only ever seen the older film, so that was a bonus! It was not until 2015 when Netflix randomly tossed this cross-over anime onto it’s streaming service that I saw some new content with the characters. Then, Sony refused to do anything with the licence, released a single DVD and that was that – I never got to finish the show. It had a great soundtrack, awesome retro art-style, and felt different than most anime on at the time. At the time, I was oblivious to the age of the property or that it was held in the same regard in japan as something like The X-men, but I loved it. Around the time I had just started college, I fell in love with an anime on Toonami Midnight Run called Cyborg 009.
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