Devil Lady (Season 1)

Devil Lady (1998) is a dark sci-fi anime series you can watch online on iFILM — a horror-tinged action drama drawn from Go Nagai's cult manga. Jun Fudo is a successful supermodel sinking into anxiety and dread, until a cold stranger named Lan Asuka knocks on her door.

Asuka shoves Jun face-to-face with a werewolf-like devil beast, and the monster sleeping inside the model wakes up. Jun can shift into a beast too — the next rung of human evolution. What sets her apart is that she keeps her mind and her conscience, and that is exactly what condemns her: a government anti-beast squad wants to leash her and turn her against her own kind. Hunting the very creatures she nearly became.

Hitoyuki Matsui and Hideaki Oba directed the twenty-six episodes, with Junko Iwao voicing Jun. The mood runs heavier than the usual superheroine fantasy — the body as a curse, isolation, the blurred line between human and monster. It rewards anyone after grim late-nineties anime that refuses a happy ending. Stream every episode of Devil Lady online on iFILM.