Jun's transformation into something inhuman happens in real time, and the show refuses to let her, or you, pretend it's just a power she can control. Asuka Ran doesn't recruit a hero; he recruits a woman watching herself become the monster she has to kill. The psychological horror lives in that gap between her face and what's under her skin, a gap that never closes.

Jun lives a glamorous life as a celebrated supermodel, adored by a large following. Her world shatters when she learns she carries hidden genes tying her to the beastlike superhumans now terrorizing the city, genes that mark the next stage of human evolution. Unlike the others who share this blood, Jun manages to hold on to her humanity, if only barely. Asuka Ran, a mysterious member of a secret government organization devoted to containing or wiping out these rampaging creatures, recruits her. As Devilman Lady, Jun must now destroy beings who share her own blood, in a role she never asked for, and the question becomes how long her sanity can last.