Devilman Lady

Devilman Lady (also called The Devil Lady in the United States) is an anime and manga about a woman named Jun Fudo. She lives in a city terrorized with beastlike humans and is secretly recruited by a mysterious woman named Lan Asuka to rid the city of them. It is a creation of Go Nagai's and is a reimagining of the Devilman manga and anime, but features a female protagonist, rather than a male one.

The series is known within the yuri fandom for the heavily subtexted relationships between the protagonist and several female characters. Of course, the only openly lesbian character in the whole series turns out to be a psychotic monster.

The series is distributed by ADV Films, and was directed by Toshiki Hirano.


 * The Alliance: The Human Alliance
 * All Myths Are True: Stories of demons, monsters, ogres, and the like were probably Devil Men or Beasts who existed in the past.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: In one arc, an entire village is made of Devil Beasts who are all descended from the same couple. Though these D.B. resemble insects with their compound eyes and armored bodies. The entire village is wiped out (women and children included) when an investigative trip by Jun and Asuka reveals the villagers want to expand out and give into their needs more.
 * Anyone Can Die:
 * Asshole Victim:
 * Any of the evil Devil Beasts or humans who get killed off or meet their end at the conclusion of their arc.
 * Barbie Doll Anatomy: Kind of. Women have nipples in the manga, but their crotches are either covered in hair or shadowed. Devil Beast woman will have nipples as well, but again, only their upper body is shown nude. Male genitals are shown shadowed or whited out, but won't necessarily be shown attached to the character, for censorship reasons. This is usually done to show the men are about to 'get down to business'. The anime plays this trope straight though.
 * The anime is actually somewhat odd about this. Humans  tend to be shown accurately whilst nude. But Devil Beasts like Jun, Aoi, Hitomi and   are drawn with primary and secondary sexual characteristics missing, whether transformed or not.
 * Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me:
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Beneath the Mask: Devil Beasts may continue to act like they did before their transformation, but they now secretly enjoy killing, eating, and raping people.
 * One of Jun's fellow teachers uses his students as part of a prostitute ring and helps himself to the girls when he is in the mood. When he is revealed to be a Devil Beast, Jun is shocked that such a 'nice' teacher could be one. Asuka knows better thanks to her mind reading ability and points out he has always been evil.
 * Break the Cutie: Life really sucks for Kazumi.
 * In the manga?
 * Bring Out Your Gay Dead:
 * Brother-Sister Incest: Or is that Sister-Sister Incest?
 * But Not Too Foreign: Jun is half Japanese and half American. Asuka is American, but takes a Japanese name while in Japan.
 * Cartwright Curse
 * Cannibalism Superpower: Jinmen devours people whole and gains power from how many people are in his body. When they are freed, he loses his accumulated power and shrinks to the size of a regular snapping turtle.
 * Chickification: In the manga, Jun is a former Olympic athlete who regularly lifts weights and swims. While she is at first horrified at the reveal of Devil Beasts and that she is a Devil Man, she quickly becomes accustomed to her role as a monster killer. She reacts like a regular person would in her situation. In the anime, Jun is a shy, timid model who has a hard time adjusting to being a Devil Man and doesn't want anything to do with hunting the Devil Beasts. She is a push-over compared to her manga counterpart and only displays a strong will and ferocity as Devilman Lady.
 * Tropes Are Not Bad in this case as the anime has a vastly different tone and storyline than the manga, and the duality between Jun and her Devil Beast self is a major plot element.
 * Clothing Damage: Jun's clothes do not agree with her transformations into Lady - pretty much every change leaves her in the nude and her clothing in shreds.
 * Contagious Powers: Quite literally!
 * Creepy Child: Satoru in the anime and a few in the manga.
 * Cursed with Awesome: Jun is horrified of her badass Devil Beast form.
 * Cyborg:
 * Demonic Possession:
 * Distaff Counterpart: Jun is this for the original Devilman Akira.
 * Does Not Like Men: Aoi Kurosaki.
 * The Dog Bites Back: Ogawa's student Kimishima
 * Enemy Within:
 * Enemy Without:
 * Evil-Detecting Dog: The hunter mentioned below owns one. It helps him find disguised Devil Beasts, observes fights,
 * Evilutionary Biologist
 * Evolutionary Levels
 * Eye Scream: One of the monsters of the week is made of them.
 * Extreme Doormat: Jun, through most of the series, due to her horrible self-esteem.
 * Eyes of Gold: Jun, in her Devil Beast form
 * Face Heel Turn: Any Devil Beast could be considered as making one, due to their beliefs and actions.
 * Facial Markings
 * Fantastic Drug: Two unrelated arcs in the manga deal with this trope. One is about a man producing a drug to trigger Devil Beast transformations. It is for people who can't consciously transform yet. He sells it to rival gangs and watches the results from the sidelines. Turns out not everyone who ingests the pills will transform. The other arc deals with jewel thieves who trigger a transformation in a school girl so she can break into buildings and steal for them. She gets her drug via injection.
 * Fantastic Racism: Devil Beasts (and some Devil Men) think they are superior to humans, are the next inheritors of the Earth, and have a right to eat humans freely as well as engage in their hedonistic lifestyle. The humans who are aware of the Devil Beasts, like the Human Alliance, aren't as out spoken about it. They employ Devil Men as operatives  They will however deem Devil Beasts who eat humans as evil and brand them for death.
 * Genre Savvy: The Human Alliance (in cooperation with world governments) keeps the general public in the dark about the Devil Beasts. This is because the Alliance fears that the resulting chaos and panic would be far more devastating than the Beasts themselves. Considering what happened in Devilman, their fear is justified.
 * A God Am I:
 * Hide Your Lesbians
 * Hot Amazon: Both Jason and Asuka are attracted to Jun because of her badass demon side. Jun is also a former athlete and regularly works out in the manga. In fact, she is probably the opposite of her character in the anime. Aoi Kurosaki could be considered one as well. Go Nagai uses this trope frequently.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: Jun seems to avert this trope. She is picky about who she faces and wants to be certain that the Devil Beasts she fights are in fact evil or beyond redemption. Other Devil Men the Human Alliance employ are eager to fight and kill their opponents. They have no second thoughts like Jun and just kill anyone deemed an enemy.
 * Horny Devils: The devilbeasts in the manga are noted as having particularly active sex drives, and a number of them take to raping their victims in addition to the usual killing and eating.
 * Hunter of His Own Kind: The Devil Man who work for the Human Alliance. Jun gets called out on this fact to her face a few times. Though Devil Beasts retain their memories and form as humans, so the argument can go both ways if you think about it. I think Jun actually makes latter point to Devil Beasts as a counter argument.
 * I Am a Humanitarian: Devil Beasts, who were human, eat humans. They are alternately called a new species or the next stage in human evolution.
 * I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!:
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Jun
 * Important Haircut: Jun gets one before the climax
 * Infant Immortality: Subverted
 * Irony: In the anime, there a is a chameleon Devil Beast. However, a different Devil Beast lizard is the one who is a true shape-shifter.
 * Though the chameleon can really only blend into backgrounds, like the animal.
 * Lady Macbeth:
 * Light Is Not Good:
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Jun
 * Magic Pants: Totally averted. Jun needs new clothes every time she turns back to human; Asuka remarks that she's going to have to remember to pack some in future missions.
 * In the manga, Jun once wears a cape during a mission. She is naked underneath it, but it doesn't get torn apart like everything else she wears. She opens it when she transforms and covers herself again once she changes back to a human after defeating the enemy.
 * Jun will undress herself before a mission or a fight that is about to happen to have clothes to change into later. Though Jun isn't caught off guard or in the middle of fighting at these moments. She also does have clothes handy at school since there are locker rooms.
 * Monster of the Week
 * Mythology Gag: An Expy of Devilman proper appears late into the series.
 * Naked on Revival:
 * Naughty Tentacles: All over the place, more so in the manga.
 * Noodle Incident: In the manga, Jun and Aoi only discuss the event that made them rivals, how Aoi surpassed the older Jun in swimming ability on their team. Aoi wasn't forced to quit from an injury (like in the anime) and is most likely retired or just working at the pool as a side job. We see flashbacks from Aoi's perspective on they first met, how she developed her attraction to Jun, and their friendly introductions to each other but that's it.
 * Older Alter Ego: One Devil Beast is a high school girl. She's easily Devilman Lady's size as a beast, but as a human, she's very small. Any Devil Beast really that is a child or teenager doesn't look their age while they are transformed.
 * Ominous Latin Chanting
 * One-Winged Angel: It would be easier to list the characters who don't go through this!
 * Our Centaurs Are Different:
 * People Puppets:
 * Psycho Lesbian: Aoi
 * Rage Against the Mentor: A few Devil Beasts have turned out to be students in Jun's school. One is a boy in her class and another is a girl on the swim team. The latter plays this straight, as she feels Jun should be self-loathing like herself and should act like a Beast since she looks like one.
 * Rape as Drama:
 * All the frigging time in the manga.
 * Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male:
 * Really 700 Years Old:
 * Regularly-Scheduled Evil:
 * Red Herring: One of the teachers at Jun's school is always hitting on her or making creepy faces at her or other woman. A few times it has been hinted at him being a Devil Beast. So far it was either a different teacher or a Devil Beast shape-shifter using him as a disguise to get into the school.
 * Religion of Evil:
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: In the manga there is at least a snake, a turtle, a crocodilian, and an amphibian (yes, that's not really a reptile, but he never transforms all the way and has traits of both animals). The anime has a few generic reptiles and then specifically a chameleon, a DIFFERENT snake beast (cobra to be specific), and a lizard that can shape shift.
 * Jinmen is a bastard who likes to taunt opponents if they have loved ones trapped in his shell. He has no problems using them as a shield (obviously) or manipulating his victims into saying hateful words at his foes/their loved ones. The crocodilian is a girl who needs to constantly eat fresh meat, be it human or animal. She decides to eat her mother (who was sheltering her, making excuses for her change, and new eating habits) because she can't wait between meals. She shows no remorse to her father when he comes home.
 * All the frigging time in the manga.
 * Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male:
 * Really 700 Years Old:
 * Regularly-Scheduled Evil:
 * Red Herring: One of the teachers at Jun's school is always hitting on her or making creepy faces at her or other woman. A few times it has been hinted at him being a Devil Beast. So far it was either a different teacher or a Devil Beast shape-shifter using him as a disguise to get into the school.
 * Religion of Evil:
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: In the manga there is at least a snake, a turtle, a crocodilian, and an amphibian (yes, that's not really a reptile, but he never transforms all the way and has traits of both animals). The anime has a few generic reptiles and then specifically a chameleon, a DIFFERENT snake beast (cobra to be specific), and a lizard that can shape shift.
 * Jinmen is a bastard who likes to taunt opponents if they have loved ones trapped in his shell. He has no problems using them as a shield (obviously) or manipulating his victims into saying hateful words at his foes/their loved ones. The crocodilian is a girl who needs to constantly eat fresh meat, be it human or animal. She decides to eat her mother (who was sheltering her, making excuses for her change, and new eating habits) because she can't wait between meals. She shows no remorse to her father when he comes home.


 * Re-Power:
 * The Rival: Aoi Kurosaki for Jun in the manga and anime. In the manga Jun even dreams about Aoi besting her and outright refers to Aoi as her rival when discussing their relationship to Asuka. Though Aoi is the rival that Jun wants to surpass. Aoi returns the animosity that Jun gives her, but she would like to change their relationship
 * Rival Turned Evil: Aoi Kurosaki could be considered a member of this trope. She is Jun's swim rival from her Olympic training days. She comes off as arrogant due to being triumphant the last time they met. She is revealed to be a Devil Beast who eats other swimmers.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians: So many...
 * Senseless Sacrifice:
 * Self-Made Orphan:
 * Sirens Are Mermaids: Discussed and averted. In the manga, there is a discussion between a home-schooled idol and her teacher on The Odyssey. They are talking about the sirens in the epic poem and how sirens were originally bird themed and then became popularized as fish themed, becoming related to mermaids in modern fiction. The idol expresses her like for the bird themed sirens more, as she adores birds. She later becomes a bird themed Devil Beast.
 * Sizeshifter: In the anime, most Devil Beasts will grow in size as a last resort or as a super form.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: Jun and Jason Langer are at each other's throats after Langer kills a teenager Devil Beast. At a later meeting, Jun and Jason are in human form, with Jason saying he is not himself as Liger. He helps himself to an abrupt kiss to Jun before leaving the room.
 * Sorting Algorithm of Evil: The Devil Beasts start out as humans who transform into mindless monsters. While some are intelligent in both forms, it's out right stated that instincts and high emotions can dominate their monster form, limiting or removing their reasoning.
 * Split Personality: Some Devil Beasts and Devil Men seem to act like this, acting almost like a different person in human or D.B. form.
 * Stealth Pun:
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In the manga, there is an American Devil Man named Jason Langer/Devilman Liger. In the anime, there is an American Scientist, and DM, Dr. Jason Bateman.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side:
 * Taken for Granite:
 * Inner Dialogue:
 * Temporary Love Interest: Occasionally combined with Monster of the Week.
 * Tomato in the Mirror:
 * Too Dumb to Live
 * Transsexualism:
 * Unwanted Harem: Jun is very popular with both men and women
 * Vagina Dentata:
 * What Beautiful Eyes!: Asuka remarks that it's the spark in Jun's eyes when she's being photographed that hints at her having the devil gene.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Aoi Kurosaki
 * When Trees Attack: Gender Flip from manga to anime. A male Devil Beast gives women plants he produces from his body so he can paralyze them and use them to create a race of tree people. In the anime, a woman Devil Beast is obsessed with getting pregnant and she begins absorbing people into her body in the hope of producing children.
 * Winged Humanoid
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
 * Would Hurt a Child: Jun doesn't like it, but she has been forced to attack and even kill teenage Devil Beasts. As mentioned earlier, a few turn out to be students at her school. While she feels horrible about it and may apologize to her opponent, she knows she has to do the deed to protect others and stop the rampaging Beast. The other Devil Men aren't as nice as Jun and have no qualms against killing any target they have, including children or teenagers, like Devilman Noir and Devilman Kids. Jason Langer/ Devilman Liger kills a young girl Devil Beast that Jun was hoping she could save or reason with.
 * Word Salad Title
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: What Jun wants to be and look like. Unfortunately, she never gets her wish.
 * You Are What You Hate:
 * You Need to Get Laid: In the manga, Jun goes through this trope twice. Once to relieve some stress, so to speak.
 * Jun doesn't seem attracted to anyone in particular and she refuses most people's advances. Part of her issues is not giving into her Beast desires/instincts and that competitive sports can only satisfy some of her urges. This reasoning does make her one of the more moral Devil Men, but she ends up bottling her instincts to the point that she appears as a different person when she becomes Devilman Lady: enjoying battle, calling foes 'her prey', and becoming one a Horny Devil, excuse the pun.
 * Yuri Genre: Moves into this genre in the later episodes
 * You Are What You Hate:
 * You Need to Get Laid: In the manga, Jun goes through this trope twice. Once to relieve some stress, so to speak.
 * Jun doesn't seem attracted to anyone in particular and she refuses most people's advances. Part of her issues is not giving into her Beast desires/instincts and that competitive sports can only satisfy some of her urges. This reasoning does make her one of the more moral Devil Men, but she ends up bottling her instincts to the point that she appears as a different person when she becomes Devilman Lady: enjoying battle, calling foes 'her prey', and becoming one a Horny Devil, excuse the pun.
 * Yuri Genre: Moves into this genre in the later episodes
 * Yuri Genre: Moves into this genre in the later episodes