“Oh, this? It’s laced with drugs.”
Two stills from a forgotten animation classic: Ralph Bakshi’s 1976 animated adaptation of Go Nagai’s Devilman.
Panned by critics as “borderline inscrutable” and “painfully goofy”, the feature nevertheless broke ground by not only being the first manga to be animated by a Western studio, but also having an animated film soundtrack scored by avant-garde jazz pioneer Sun Ra and his Arkestra. The master print was lost in a fire, and ongoing trans-Pacific copyright squabbles have prevented this gem from seeing any sort of wide release.
(Props to Puppytube.)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IAN THIS IS SO PERFECT I AM GRABBING MY FACE
seriously though guys, why couldn’t this have been a thing. perfect collaboration.
[12:07:53 AM] Zeiss Manifold: holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
[12:10:24 AM] Zeiss Manifold: yes this needs to happen
[12:11:05 AM] PUPPY TUBE: i have literally been thinking about it since i thought about it
[12:11:33 AM] PUPPY TUBE: just cacaphonous scenes that go nowhere where ryo and akira barfight with bakshi demons to meandering improv jazz
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