Talk:Ilia Amitola/@comment-4141313-20180209091041/@comment-4141313-20180209181406

Miko, to my knowledge, does not have a counterpart in the original manga. However, people have noted she may be a Decomposite Character for for Mikoko Kawamoto, A Devilman Akira saves in the Manga and recruits, but still appears at the end of crybaby. Some think she may also have been based on Aoi Kurosaki from Devilman Lady.

Regardless, Miko is an original character, and one appearently well beloved by the fans, even saying the author should have put her in the original manga long ago.

Crybaby actually has quite a few differences compared to the original. Spoilers by the way. A lot of plot points from the original manga are removed, such as the enviromentalist themes.

Ryo's forces and the Devilmen all get wiped out by God, and God decides to reset the world to a certain point, implying he's trapped Ryo in a timeloop as punishment for rebelling against him. This has only been implied in certain spinoffs like Amon, but here it is explicitely shown that God is a dick and is doing this to punish a single rebel, fucking over humans and demons alike to do so.

Miki is a lot kinder about Akira's being emotional but still very tough, even sorta fighting back against the mob that chased her.

Jinmen's origins are different. He possesses Akira's father this time around, and devours Akira's mother to get to him.

A Rapper Gang is one of the main supporting groups and friends with both Akira and Miko, the author confirming they are meant to be a more modernized/less deliquent version of the Dosu-Roku Gang, though the similarities sorta end at that.

Whereas Miki's family is simply killed by the mob in the manga, here Taro is turned into a Devilman, and his mom runs away with him to a shelter, afraid of how his dad and Miki will react. He can't control his hunger however, and eats her. When his dad showed up, while at first he doesn't consider Taro his son and points a gun at him, he can't bring himself to hurt Taro and goes to stop the soldiers from shooting him, but the both of them are unfortunately gunned down.