My First Devilman Figure

I lived in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, for six months starting in September of 2013 and ending Valentine's Day of 2014. While there I went shopping with my friends a lot. There are so many fun places to shop in Japan! One of them is the Don Quijote store. What the store has depends on the city it is in. The one in Hikone was mainly electronics and home appliances, but it also had other areas, including a resale section. There were lots of anime figures, which my friends and I spent a long time enjoying. One in particular caught my eye, partly because it only cost 500 yen (about $5). My friends agreed that it was a cool figure; it was purely green and translucent with a neat pose: Devilman standing stoically, looking at his hand as though thinking about what he has done. I ended up buying it.

That was not the first time I had seen a Devilman figure in a resale shop, so my friend and I looked up the Wikipedia page. It ended up being one of the most entertaining reads of my life. We read it out loud to each other and it was so strange, off the wall, and crazy that I knew I had to read the manga. It was written in the 1970's and was only 5 volumes long.

Devilman

And a love was born!