Devilman: The Demon Bird

Devilman: The Demon Bird is a 1990 OVA film based on Yasutaka Nagai's novelization of his brother Go Nagai's manga Devilman. It was directed by Umanosuke Iida and a sequel to his previous Devilman adaption Devilman: The Birth from 1987. Although the events in this OVA are based off of the second volume of the manga it also features the fight with Jinmen as a prologue sequence. The OVA was followed by a non canon spin-off, CB Chara Nagai Go World, in 1991 and later in 2000 an OVA based on the Amon manga was released, namely The Apocalypse of Devilman. It is written to follow the same series of the Iida films but takes place long after.

Story
One night at the Makimura residence, Akira Fudo receives an ominous phone call from his deceased mother and a demon who challenges him to a fight. Akira makes his way to the rendezvous point, an abandoned, rundown and partly flooded subway station, where he confronts the demon turtle Jinmen. Jinmen had been present at the murder of Akira's parents in the Himalayas, and had devoured his mother, thus causing her face to appear on the back of his shell, alongside those of other previously eaten humans. Enraged by the demon's sadistic actions, Akira turns into Devilman and fights Jinmen. At first, Jinmen gets the upper-hand since Akira is reluctant to attack because he would accidentally injure his mother in the process. However, Akira's mother encourages him to murder Jinmen by killing her as well, since she could never be human again and that she was no longer truly alive after having been eaten. Without a doubt in his mind Akira promptly murders Jinmen by bashing a hole in his shell, straight through his mother's face. With the fight over Akira turns back into his human form and laments over the event...

Director
- Umanosuke Iida
Writer
- Umanosuke Iida

Release date: February 25, 1990

Studio
- Oh! Production
- Kodansha