The low ranking demons look like beasts and animals

>The low ranking demons look like beasts and animals.
>The higher the rank, the more human they look.
>Demon kings and queens are almost identical to humans.

Possible reasons why?

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Humans are the true evil?

They have the power to surpass the gods. So long as there is a nonzero chance of mankind usurping or killing the gods, the Gods are trying to find ways to wipe them out.

Because God gave man dominion over beasts, putting humans above all animals. Demons are below humans on the divine scale, so become less human the weaker they are, with the weakest being a slug and the greatest being almost human. Angels surpass man on the divine scale, so the lower choirs are more human, and become drastically less human as you go up.

Humans are traditionally higher up the great chain of being than demons while animals are lower on the chain.
Therefore, transitioning from animal form to human form signifies moving closer to the form of god.

Interbreeding proving to be an alloy stronger than either metal on its own. This is why tieflings and cambions are such a big deal: the upper echelons of demon royalty all have mortal blood. They combine mortal potential and go-get-it attitude with demon power and immortality. Some even lack common demon weaknesses, like Blade.

So the implication is that, to get to this point, at some point in the past mortals were really into fucking hellhounds and shit

This.

The best angels make men go mad just merely witnessing their divine glory

we assign our desire to sin to animalistic roots, while the further you go the more obvious it becomes that's it's not the instinctiveness that makes the action sinful but rather the very conscious aspect of twisting or forsaking the moral drives.

it just so happens that we associate consciousness as more of a human quality than a bestial one.

Because Evil is a choice. When a predator kills, does it consider the consequences of its actions? Will a Bear that kills a Hunter wonder about the people relying on the game the Hunter would bring to feed them? No, the Bear acts on instinct.

A murderer though, they know what they do. Many know it is wrong, but many more will agree that that doesn't matter, and that it feels good to them. This applies to Demons too. Lower beasts of the Circles of Hell are mindless embodiments of the many facets of wickedness and wrongdoing. The higher they go, the more in-common they start to find with the dregs of Humanity. They start to enjoy their wickedness.

The lowest ranking demons are the grunts and the fighters, the ones sent to do all the dirty work and manual labour in demonic society.

The higher in rank, as the demons become more human, their duties become less physical. Demons have their own healers, doctors, even teachers to cater to the needs of lower demonic ranks as they get injured or seek to learn new abilities. Above those you have demons responsible for media and entertainment, succubi and incubi able to shift between beastly lower demons and more elegant human demons, who provide entertainment to the masses through art, song, and physical beauty and carnal skill.

The highest echelons of demonic elites, the most human of them all, are almost purely administrators, lawyers, diplomats, and politicians. Overseeing and organizing the masses of lesser zombies, they are the ones who use charisma and wit to buy souls from humans by offering them power, prestige, and fame through the work of the lesser demons.

Demonic society as a whole is highly capitalistic, and, in actuality, the human shift toward capitalism was purely engineered by by the demons to make it easier for them to spread their influence.

> in actuality, the human shift toward capitalism was purely engineered by by the demons to make it easier for them to spread their influence.

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YES, I KNOW ABOUT BIBLICAL ANGELS, but by that reasoning, why would high-ranked angels have animal heads and wings? Wouldn't they be inhuman in the other direction?

We call this the “Bishounen Line”

This cliche is also fueled by several out-of-universe factors. One, for example, is the law of perception: you can only add so much horrid detail to a monstrous creature before the design becomes busy and adding extra eyes, putrid tentacles, etc. just does not make that much of a visual impact any more. The only possible way left to get the audience's attention and signal "major change" is, paradoxically, to take all the monstrous features away. Also, drawing or rendering an ever-expanding monster is taxing in terms of resources; this is a particularly important consideration in animation or sequential art, where the same thing must be drawn over and over again — so much so that in those mediums, you can probably expect the humanoid form to appear in more episodes than the monstrous form.

A series of battles with a hulking, bulky, super giant just isn’t as exciting or stylish as 1v1 between two humanoids. Don’t get me wrong, big monstrous fuckers are fun to HUNT and TAKE DOWN, but not “fight”.

Fictional badguys become more hideous/monstrous the stronger they get, and then SHARPLY become handsome/beautiful when they’ve come close to their final form.

A villain who suddenly turns very monstrous will actually become overall weaker aside from maybe a temporary broken gimmick.

This bothers me to no fucking end. It only really works for motherfuckers that are already established as bugfuck powerful and humanoid from the get go. To continue the /a/ trend let's use frieza as an example for this; motherucker is already established as one of the guys in the galaxy that you REALLY don't want to step to and barring his third form he remains largely humanoid. In his final form he looks more human than ever but still has a few key features that make you go " that ain't one of my species". He looks like a Ken doll that got left with H.R. Ginger but was thankfully removed before the dicks could be applied. And then he looks at you and your organs are splattered against a wall behind you. Going humaNOID is perfectly find so long as you keep a few features that remind you that you're not looking at a human, something off putting like having fully functioning finger bones for teeth. Human that looks like they could've just glued on some horns or a tail or popped in a pair of slitted pupil contacts is just lazy.

Demons are nothing more than a distillation of the worst parts of humanity. The weaker, more bestial forms are limited to acts of brute rage, aggression, and lust; they're too animalistic to be proper threats to an organized society, at most only threats to someone within range of their teeth and claws. It takes higher intellect (still evil and malicious) to be a true greater demon, and with that comes a more human mind, and a more human everything else.

That, or some hellhounds were really into fucking mortals.

Someone already pointed out exactly why already.

This also applies to Chinese demons and biblical demons.

Does that mean that the most powerful things in anime should look like this?

because demons are human souls. The lower they are the less human they are

Very true

>Angels surpass man on the divine scale

What? That's not true at all.

waterbears are super easy to kill by predators which include other water bears. they're really only equipped to deal with stuff they would seldomly encounter.

>Possible reasons why?

Anthropocentrism

Demons by definition are spirits. Spirits are what makes things alive or to use latin animated (from anima, soul). There are vegetative spirits, sensual spirits and rational spirits. Vegetative spirits are ones that bacterias and plants have, for they do anything but vegetate. Sensual spirits are those of animals for they have senses. And rational spirits are those of higher races like humans for they have reason, ratio, and thefore can judge good and evil. Each higher spirit contains powers of lesser ones.
And thus we can conclude that less powerful demons are those whoes rational powers faded and sensusal, beast-like part of spirit are dominant. The absolute shit-tier demons are like plants.
"He made humans little less than angels"
t. prophet

Demons are corrupted by their own infernal natures, which mutates them into mindless creatures that exist only to destroy. The more powerful the demon, the more able it is to resist this and retain its original self. So a weak demon might be a hulking mass of spikes and muscle that can barely retain some animal cunning, while a strong demon can still retain most of its form and goals, just twisted.

>They have the power to surpass the gods. So long as there is a nonzero chance of mankind usurping or killing the gods, the Gods are trying to find ways to wipe them out.
Interesting. So divine worship among mortals is less a power source/nice bonus for the gods and more a smokescreen to make humans think that gods are the biggest fish in the pool, rather than being the other way around.

Do you know what the most evil creature in the universe is user?

Turns out it's man.

Humans are super easy to kill by predators, which include other humans.

That, and to keep stuff like researching gunpowder and the printing press from being researched, since it’s heretical. Of course, since someone’s going to invent it eventually, and be really successful, society still manages to advance, (like how banking was hereitical, but eventually the Catholic Church legalized it because it made war too much money) necessitating repeated demon invasions to kneecap mankind while they are week.

Demons feed on souls. Lower ranks have to consume common souls from animals, and higher ranks can afford a "diet" with more souls of humanoids.
Kings and queens are fed exclusively on humanoid souls.

>Possible reasons why?
Lower evil consists of entirely beastly urges, of rage and lust. The lowest evil is a man chasing after his dick or punching his wife to death in a fit of anger. The more complex and truly malevolent evil is more willing, more intentional, more machiavellian... more human. It is the kind of evil where a company moves to a third world country because property prices and labor costs are cheaper there, and uses the one water well a backwards village has for the production of its goods.

>(like how banking was hereitical, but eventually the Catholic Church legalized it because it made war too much money)
Yeah, they had some silly loopholes around it since at least the Templars. It wasn't usury because no individual Templar benefited from it, just the order as a whole. Also it wasn't banking, they were just "safekeeping" money for pilgrims. If it's not called usury God won't notice it, right?

Because most animals are demons. Humans are demonic race. We only treat other demons as beastlike demons because they are later way of migration. The ''old inhabitants'' of the world, ''normal'' animals and ''humans'', are exiled demons that got their astral bodies cut as a punishment for losing a battle of some demon lord. The grand council decided to forget this story, so their grand children don't live under constant humiliation of their history. Instead, they made up a noble mythos, gods and history so the kids can grow up as decent beings. Many thousands of years have passed since then, and now their descendants think of demons as aliens that need to be purged, and they are divine creations made for this sole purpose.

The point being, if it’s really successful, either you’ll find those loopholes, or your society will be overtaken by those who don’t have such qualms.

Why post Raime?

In the Abrahamic religions, Man was made in God's image, even if the angels and demons predated them. As demons become more powerful and self-aware they simply attempt to emulate God's image.

The resemblance to humans is simply convergent evolution.

Why post?

I imagine that at some point on the demon power rankings ladder to continue ascending you have to fuck with mortals. Be a lot easier to manipulate humans and such if you look more like one of them and less like a giant worm made of lava spurting penises.