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Woe, MS paint diagram of the retroactive Komaedification of N be upon ye

#pokemon #danganronpa #sdr2 #n #nagito komaeda #ryo expies #okay now the way i tag shit since i think tumblr only uses the first 5 tags still #dr #komaeda nagito #nagisa kaworu #zoroark #mine #devilman influence #<- if you dont understand why im tagging that look in the tag on my blog #AS ALWAYS if anyone has anything to add on please do #also yes believe me i know all 3 have appeared in so many other things too im just marking their earliest release date #for the sake of showing that n came before komaeda and then got komaedified after the fact #i possibly should have also circled the rib markings on h. zoroark cause komaeda is also canonically underweight from being so sickly #edit: n DOES actually start his battle sprite gif with his arms crossed which i missed before #but still. its extremely brief and i do feel like the pokemas crossed arms more resembles the komaeda sprite than the original n sprite #his original is more like... crossed over the chest?#anyways. i find it very funny that komaeda came out after but the devs were like oh fuck he suits n too well and we need to use that #expy shit

Being haunted by this currently

#saw an artist post this screenshot and immediately was like. motherfucker #after watching a video i dont think hilberts other sprites line up with hinatas outside of kinda vaguely talking with his hands a lot #which probably many characters do #not like how ns just exudes komaeda and kaworu #but this one...#the artist in question posts almost exclusively isshushipping and komahina btw which i run into hilariously often #they werent posting it to make this comparison i just have brain worms sorry #also thinking about zekrom 'ideals and hope' and my fave isshushipping poster putting hinata on his chart of #his hilberts characterization inspirations #oshiete oshiete yo #akira expies #pokemon #unova #black #dr #hinata hajime #also god hilberts pokemas model is so. who gave him danganronpa short torso proportions #were they like... trying to make him look younger than the bw art does?#since pokemon has kinda backpedaled from gens 5-6's more teenage looking protagonists back to younger ones?#devilman influence #expy shit

Wow both ibuprofen and ryoakira in one page

Losing my absolute fucking mind realizing they did this with N when Ghetsis tries to kill him in generations. While he's voiced by Akira Ishida

#normally i would save saying anything for the full post but i was like. i saw someone post a screenshot of the second and went #wait a fucking second #how did i miss that... but also i had only learned his voice was in fact akira ishida here and not someone emulating his voice after #when i watched these so i had been meaning to go back and watch this ep again anyways #pokemon #n #unova #ryo expies #oshiete oshiete yo #this whole short is also insane like. nate doesnt exist instead lets have ghetsis try to kill n and have hilbert save him #do you think this is what n wished had happened...#devilman influence #expy shit

The idea of Ryo expies has been interesting to me lately (as in there is very silly possibilities for them.) I was wondering if the similarities just…come to you over time, or is there just an official Documentation ™️ of all of them?

Once you know to look for them, they start coming to you, but they've somehow managed to stay as kinda under the surface as anime lore and don't have any kind of wiki that I know of. The closest that there is to a widespread concept of them afaik is the idea of 'Komaedas'/the Komaeda checklist, which is like... similar concept but without the awareness that there is actually a legitimate link here between a lot of the "major" ones

I was actually working on a wiki for them, but I ended up putting it on hiatus because I figured there'd be more interest in a decent translation of gekiman lol (which I have,, also had to put on hiatus because of school, but I'll get back to it soon). It's something I do want to get around to though

The first time I saw any concept of it was from this tweet (which appears to be a repost of a pic from here), but it did give me the idea to try and organize them by lineages, so here's some similar maps I tried to make for Ryos/Akiras/Mikis/Amons with a few friends a while ago. This is the closest to a list that I know of existing, and I know these are definitely still missing a bunch. I don't think I've posted these before? So here I guess, incomplete or not

(Ignore the colour coding; it was kinda an attempt to organize how confirmed of an expy characters are (confirmed influence on character/confirmed influence on series/speculation of varying degrees of insanity) but a lot of it is guesswork since we didn't really go digging through interviews for every creator.)

We also kinda had an attempt running at creating our own checklist based off some ideas from the above linked map, the Komaeda checklist, and this chart, but I honestly haven't looked at it in a few years so I should review it before posting it. Input/criticism on any of this is very welcomed of course

My DMs are also always open if you wanna hang out and talk about any of this. It made me embarrassingly happy to get this ask and I was struggling not to prioritize answering it over like... homework

#asks #devilman influence #ryo expies #akira expies #miki expies #amon expies #mine #expy shit

@147cookies it's actually surprisingly direct! There's been general admissions of devilman being an influence on death note (the crybaby hand poster, Satan fanart, how using Christian imagery in shounen generally traces back to devilman, etc), but Obata mentions being inspired by Akira when designing L, which makes Light's position as a Ryo more viable as his opponent, all things considered

From L's page on the death note wiki:

When Obata's editor told him that he wanted L to have a face "looking cool based on the angle," Obata added black "bags" under L's eyes, and he cited Devilman's Akira Fudou when expressing his belief that black bags "looked cool."

[Say what you will about the sanity of considering under-eye bags cool lmao. Extremely funny to think about Akira's lower lashes as eye bags though]

I don't know if O&O have ever directly commented on whether Light was intended to take anything from Ryo, but he gets some Lucifer imagery especially in the first OP. I mean, there's a lot of Christian allusions made in death note (I think across the series Light alone is likened to Judas, Adam, Jesus, and Lucifer), but still:

-name: Light → Lightbringer → Lucifer

-the final shot of Light in the first OP being him in front of what appears to be a painting of Lucifer falling from Heaven

As well as arguably following a number of other Ryo-isms (part of a dark haired + light(er) haired homoerotic narrative foil/adversary duo, morally questionable (or flat out wrong) actions for what he believes will make the world a better place, unusually talented/has special abilities, conventionally attractive young man, etc). Tbh I didn't think about it either until I saw him and L on that one venn diagram of gay ships that were all ryoakira-derived and then narumitsu hgshdj

So, yeah, I don't think he's as much of an undeniable Ryo expy as say Kaworu or Joshua or whatnot, but I think he does have some of the Ryo genes in him. They're just a bit harder to spot since afaik he's the only time the Ryo has been the protagonist and the Akira is the antagonist instead. It also makes it way funnier imo that O&O (or at least Obata?) HATE that people think Light and L are kinda gay, cause like... you at least partly used ryoakira as a base, what did you expect to happen

#ryo expies #death note #yagami light #l lawliet #replies #kinda?#not as funny as kodaka using kawoshin and joshneku as a base for komahina #and then getting really mad that komahina became a popular ship and people interpreted hinata as reciprocating #LIKE. ESPECIALLY WITH KAWOSHIN... DUDE...#devilman influence #akira expies #expy shit

Full Works List: Devilman Genealogy Hand

Due to a certain shitpost of mine getting some attention on twitter, I figured I’d transcribe the names of the series from the hand of Devilman works + works influenced by it that was released during crybaby (found here):