>>3082059It's even more blatant a homage since guts is basically his Devilman, they're childhood friends, griffith looks like a woman, all the demons know him for who he really is despite his not knowing that. Griffith also spitefull, jealous and pulls a dead Miki kinda thing, reincarnated as an angel, does the whole ride naked on a beast like satan and ends up alone for everything he's done.
He's obviously a homage, just that he's less nice, hasn't tried to make amends for what he's done. Kaworu probably monopolized all of Satans nicer traits.