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Description
Babo is a minor but memorable character in Devilman Crybaby, best known as a member of a five-person group of young rappers that includes Wamu, Gabi, Kukun, and Hie. He is a tall and lanky teenager with a long face, round gray eyes, and brown hair cut to ear-length. His appearance is distinguished by a notch in his left eyebrow, a panama hat, hoop earrings, and a tattoo wrapped around his left forearm. Throughout the story, Babo almost never speaks outside of the context of rapping alongside his friends, and his personality is largely defined by his role within this tight-knit crew.
In the early part of the series, Babo is primarily seen performing rap music with his friends, representing a carefree and artistic subculture. Their initial involvement in the main plot occurs when they search for their missing friend Kukun, who had disappeared after attending a Sabbath party. During this search, the group is briefly held at gunpoint in a clothing store following a false accusation, an incident resolved by the intervention of Miki Makimura.
As the story progresses and society collapses due to widespread panic over demons, Babo and his fellow rappers are offered shelter at the Makimura household. In this setting, they are initially shown as allies. However, when the protagonist Akira Fudo is publicly exposed as a Devilman, the atmosphere of fear and paranoia corrupts them. In a pivotal act of betrayal, Babo and Hie join an armed mob and drive a car to the Makimura residence to attack it. In one of the series' most tragic sequences, Babo approaches his friend Gabi, who is trying to defend the property. As Gabi offers no resistance, Babo fatally stabs him in the chest, afterward standing with a dazed expression while the mob laughs and drives more knives into his former friend.
This act represents a complete moral collapse for the character. Having succumbed to the mob mentality and the fear that demons could be anyone, Babo transforms from a loyal friend into a perpetrator of horrific violence. After the mob successfully kills Wamu, Gabi, Miko, and Miki Makimura, Babo is later seen celebrating with the other attackers, waving the dismembered remains of his victims impaled on sticks in front of the burning Makimura home. His role in the narrative ends when Akira arrives on the scene and, in a fit of grief and rage, incinerates Babo and the entire mob. Babo does not possess any supernatural abilities or demonic powers; his character serves as a stark illustration of how ordinary human beings can be driven to commit monstrous acts of betrayal and violence by the fear and chaos of an apocalyptic event. His primary relationships are with his fellow rappers, making his decision to murder Gabi a particularly poignant and damning moment for his character. He undergoes no positive development, instead embodying a tragic descent into savagery.
In the early part of the series, Babo is primarily seen performing rap music with his friends, representing a carefree and artistic subculture. Their initial involvement in the main plot occurs when they search for their missing friend Kukun, who had disappeared after attending a Sabbath party. During this search, the group is briefly held at gunpoint in a clothing store following a false accusation, an incident resolved by the intervention of Miki Makimura.
As the story progresses and society collapses due to widespread panic over demons, Babo and his fellow rappers are offered shelter at the Makimura household. In this setting, they are initially shown as allies. However, when the protagonist Akira Fudo is publicly exposed as a Devilman, the atmosphere of fear and paranoia corrupts them. In a pivotal act of betrayal, Babo and Hie join an armed mob and drive a car to the Makimura residence to attack it. In one of the series' most tragic sequences, Babo approaches his friend Gabi, who is trying to defend the property. As Gabi offers no resistance, Babo fatally stabs him in the chest, afterward standing with a dazed expression while the mob laughs and drives more knives into his former friend.
This act represents a complete moral collapse for the character. Having succumbed to the mob mentality and the fear that demons could be anyone, Babo transforms from a loyal friend into a perpetrator of horrific violence. After the mob successfully kills Wamu, Gabi, Miko, and Miki Makimura, Babo is later seen celebrating with the other attackers, waving the dismembered remains of his victims impaled on sticks in front of the burning Makimura home. His role in the narrative ends when Akira arrives on the scene and, in a fit of grief and rage, incinerates Babo and the entire mob. Babo does not possess any supernatural abilities or demonic powers; his character serves as a stark illustration of how ordinary human beings can be driven to commit monstrous acts of betrayal and violence by the fear and chaos of an apocalyptic event. His primary relationships are with his fellow rappers, making his decision to murder Gabi a particularly poignant and damning moment for his character. He undergoes no positive development, instead embodying a tragic descent into savagery.