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My totally normal crashout on Discord about the new Devil May Cry Netflix series. I’m fine-

Also, I will stand on the fact that Dante uses humor as to cope, and acts stupid to cope too-

Also, Dante’s VA being Nero’s VA isn’t that bad. Even Nero’s VA was like ‘holy shit, this is a huge honor’, so like shush for a moment. Rewatch it. See the Easter eggs for you fans that have played all the games. (I will watch play through. That is my plan tomorrow and the other days this weekend.) And also, realize that it’s been 20+ years since the games first started. Things will change.

Anyways it’s midnight, my rant might be done-

Edit- Also, I wanna add on I love and respect my mother. That does not stop me from making ‘Your Mom’ jokes. She’s made your mom jokes.

Dante pfp for my friend <3 @cheese22106

I sketched out my drawing yesterday and then I just imported it into my drawing app and jumped through hoops and Bounds what coloring and drawing it but it looks decent I guess here's White Rabbit my beautiful beloved rabbit man with a sad backstory

LET'S ROCK 🔥

just finished this series and OH BOY

Dante that fine son of a gun ..I NEED this man.. into the fictional crushes list you go… 😳

also I didn’t play DMC yet. Never heard of it until the anime was out. Might consider playing it

the plot and character designs are so good i don’t understand how it’s bad

And Mr rabbit and lady (mary) are interesting characters. Different views and different fates … My babies 🥹

Mr mayor you f-cker . When I catch you mayor . Mayor when I catch you.

those 8 episode had me in roller coaster of emotion. Worth watching. Can’t wait for season 2 to release. 😙

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Netflix’s Devil May Cry animated series will premiere on April 3, 2025.

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Netflix Devil May Cry review

I've taken a break from the overall discourse and replayed Devil May Cry 3 to get the bad taste out of my mouth and I've come to a realization, there are aspects of this show that could have been used to make a great Devil May Cry story...for Nero.

(Breathes in)

The Terrible Shit.

God there is so much stuff in this show that was flatly terrible to include from the outset and I'm gonna need to clear that out from discussion to move forward so...here goes.

The deliberate and blatant allegories for the Iraq War and immigration were terrible ideas and it's pretty clear that they were written by someone who was trying to be "neutral" on immigration and superficially against the Iraq War...let me explain

Immigration

The show presents the idea that many of the demons in the demon world are weak humanoids who can barely breathe the air there due to "pollution" of some kind. It also posits that all demons are descended from humans who were trapped in the demon world thousands of years ago so they are practically just cute monster people being oppressed by Mundus and the ugly and monstrous demons who are also seemingly also descended from humans too...I guess. Anyway, to get into the allegory issues, this presents an explicit scenario where some pitiable "demons" try to escape into earth for a better life and some monstrous "demons" try to sneak into earth, seemingly just to kill and maim people...I can't be the only one here who sees how fucked this is as an allegory right. To top it all off there is a scene where the barrier between the human world and the demon world is taken down and it results in a near apocalyptic massacre, which would be fine in a story that just about fighting demons but this is also a story where demons are mutants trying to escape to a better life so the allegory also becomes "open borders will result in white genocide". It's a bad allegory done badly and I couldn't stop thinking about how bad it is. ONTO THE NEXT TERRIBLE ALLEGORY

Operation Iraqi Demonic Makaian Freedom

So beyond the terrible immigration allegory they also threw in some War on Terror comparisons too....yippee. It is never subtle about this, the first episode has the president of the United States get briefed on Terrorist Demons while he complains that the last guy only had to complain about Saddam, There is a scene where the US military engages in mass murder of innocent demonic men, women, and children with machine guns and portable crematoriums, and it ends with the US military invading the demon world, killing everyone indiscriminately, and establishing private resource mining operations to the tune of American Idiot by Green Day.... and I have to be honest, it feels like all of that was justify having a scene where the US military does atrocities to the tune of American Idiot rather than to make any kind of coherent statement about anything. U.S. Military Bad may be a correct statement but what does any of this have to do with Devil May Cry?

The Bad Shit.

Dante feels like a MacGuffin in this story. He does get some of the better fight scenes but he is also constantly getting knocked out and tied up somewhere 4 times in this 8 episode season. This leaves him separated from the rest of the plot and he mostly just has cool action scenes, but little character development or connections to the themes that the story is (poorly) exploring. I also hate to sound like one of the usual suspects but he shows Quicksilver level speed early on in the story but Lady keeps being able to get the drop on him over and over and over to the point that it's just stupid.

The White Rabbit is a fun and well acted villain who is genuinely unique as far as Devil May Cry antagonists go...until he is revealed to be a human with the most bog standard "I am an ally/member of [DISCRIMINATED GROUP] but I was victimized and driven insane by the actions of [DISCRIMINATING GROUP] so now I will kill them all no matter how many [DISCRIMINATED GROUP] I have to kill along the way" type villains. He even gets a massive power boost and becomes a generic hulk monster. There was so much potential with him but he just ends up boring and standard.

They turned Lady into an IDF Soldier...I don't want her to get a redemption arc, I want Dante to knock her out and leave her in a crematorium truck for the rest of the next season.

Changing all the magic into "quantum physics" is boring as all hell. And it isn't even humans trying to use science to explain demonic magic, the demons explicitly say it's quantum physics as well. The games always had some magitek around but it was never explained and mostly just added to the mystique of the locations, making it explicit science ruins that. It's also just boring on its own, makes everything feel less special.

The CGI demons were distracting, they contrasted way too much from the admittedly excellent 2D animation for me to stop noticing it.

I personally found the decision to make all the "innocent" demons into humans with weird bits and all the "evil" demons into monstrous creatures offensive and cowardly for what should be obvious reasons. The only "monstrous" demon that has redeeming qualities is the one that can shape shift into a human.

They overstuff the ending of the season in such a way that I can't see a good and coherent season 2 that can juggle ALL of the plot threads that they create at the last minute. We have:

The US military invading Hell and doing war crimes

Arius and the Oroborous company strip mining hell, likely connecting to Lucia's (whitewashed) cameo in episode one

Vergil either working for Mundus willingly or being brainwashed and creating demonic ISIS

Dante needing to escape DARKCOM's custody and acquire Ebony and Ivory

Lady's redemption arc

Dante and Vergil's rivalry

It's just gonna be a mess.

Nitpicks and fan rage

The demons get offended when their homeworld is called hell or the demon world. Instead they call it Makai....which is Japanese for Demon World. That's just lazy.

Agni & Rudra are objectively worse than they are in the games, being just generic dumb monsters wielding swords rather than being cordial sentient swords wielding bodies.

I don't mind cursing but holy shit does Lady curse too much in this show, to a very distracting degree.

If Dante ever gets serious in this show then I only hear Nero. Sorry, Johnny Yong Bosch is just too iconic for me not to hear it.

Vergil says that he is the storm and then he approaches all over them.....we get that Bury the Light is a fucking magnificent theme but that was fucking ridiculous.

The licensed soundtrack was honestly distracting at times but that's gonna be hot or miss for people.

The Good Shit

The IDEA of there being a larger number of good or benign demons in the demon world is actually an interesting one, and the idea that many would want to go to earth so that they could escape the oppression that they experience in the demon world is something worthy of exploring in Devil May Cry. I can even see an argument that Sparda sealing off the realms did effectively prevent many demons from "waking up to justice" the same way he did. There is even plenty of support for benign and friendly demons in the games and 2007 anime. Cerberus, Agni & Rudri, and arguably Nevan from Devil May Cry 3 are fairly cordial and honorable, they just oppose Dante because it's their duty and willingly join up with him after they are defeated. Brad from the 2007 Anime was summoned to bring his monstrous master into the world but changed his ways after experiencing both love for another as well as the joy and freedom of life on earth. Modeus was a student of Sparda who chose to become a pacifist, seemingly having been on earth long enough to gain preferences about strawberry sundaes. And then there are Trish and Lucia, one only needing a single act of kindness from Dante to completely turn on Mundus and the other being a full demon raised by humans. My main issue with the way the show handled is that it reeks of cowardice and "shitty magneto writing"

The 2D animation is genuinely great giving us fun visuals and great action scenes.

The first few episodes had a lot of fun and energy to them but the severe vibe changes in Episode 5 are gonna make or break the series for a lot of people.

Episode 6 was honestly pretty good even though it felt somewhat out of place in the story, serving primarily to compare and contrast Lady and the White Rabbit's back stories until they finally collide in tragedy. Its biggest drawbacks are that it doesn't feel like a proper part of the show while also being the primary source that confirms that Lady is indeed party to war crimes. They started gunning down civilians before the portal even opened.

Theoretical alternative show that would have fucking rocked

If you already have Johnny Yong Bosch you should at least look into having him play the character he already plays and Nero would have actually been a really good character for some of this plot...as long as they got rid of the overt Americanization of the story.

Nero is a part demon orphan who was raised by a loving, human, foster family who lost his foster parents to a demon attack. This and other demon related tragedies eventually result in him embracing his demonic side so that he can use that power to protect his family and others. During the events of Devil May Cry 4 he learns that the local Sparda worshiping cult has been transforming humans into demonic hybrids and that he is related to Sparda by blood somehow. After taking down the corrupt church and accepting his demonic power he settles down as a demon hunter and eventually becomes a foster father to a group of children who were orphaned during the events of Devil May Cry 4.

The White Rabbit is a human orphan who was rejected by his human foster family before finding his way into the demon world before being adopted a kind family of weaker demons. The loss of his adopted sister to the cruelty and harshness of the demon realm inspires him to find a way to bring his foster family and other weaker demons to the human realm where they can be safe. However, an organized group of human demon hunters slaughter everyone he was trying to save, leading him to inject himself with demon blood and make an alliance with demon lords for revenge against them, regardless of how many of those he once tried to save will die in the process.

The parallels are RIGHT FUCKING THERE Come On.

By primarily replacing Lady and Dante with Nero you could focus the story on a single person's journey and reactions to everything going on, especially if you are going to stick to an 8 episode format. Instead of retreading DMC 3 they could create a more original story and show how Nero resolves problems without Dante or Vergil around. (you can also have him stop the mass murder in episode 5 cause that was gratuitous and just...not something I wanted to see in a Devil May cry show)

Anyway, way too long rant over. Have fun.

THIS

This is The Problem with new dmc anime. All other stuff can be overlooked. But not this shit. They made a such grand mistake taking out the literal soul of the gameverse. Everything else doesn't work as it should without this conflict done right.

And it's done completely wrong. Who's idea was it to poorly disguise USA politics and racism problems as "demons", "slavery" and "hell".

Dmc explored the union of human and demon parts, questioned what they are, what they represent. With main themes as love, power and survival, explored through different concepts of family. It was always there in different forms that evolved and layered over each other with each new game and manga.

So the most noticeable outcome of those? We got intimate family melodrama with brutal and unstoppable action. Which is a receipt for success!

In the new anime we get boring "save the world, save them all" in a grand plot because "they're just like us" and Dante who has NO IDEA that he's a halfdemon and what was his family. Unless they play the amnesia card which would be ridiculous ngl but also even worse. So he's basically left without conflict AT ALL.

He's just a guy.

When the whole premise of dmc is that this "just a guy" is not in fact "just a guy".

I'm almost crying, send help

I think part of what makes the Netflix show so frustrating is the fact that there's definitely blind spots in the original lore that could allow for a deeper discussion on a demon's capability for love and goodness, but the show itself just did not seem interested in actually exploring those ideas.

I've seen some posts going around about how demons not being inherently evil was already established in the games, and I think that is true. The gameverse has a bit of a strange philosophy when it comes to demons and their capacity for good. On one hand, the original two games act as though the only way for a demon to be good is to actively distance themselves from their demonic heritage.

Dante telling Trish and Lucia that "devil's never cry" actually feeds into the idea that demons are inherently evil and that they aren't actually demons because they are capable of goodness. In those games, this is played straight. However, in later entries, they seem to recognise this for what it actually is - the rhetoric of a man who is projecting his own self loathing in regard to his demonic half onto the people in his life who are dealing with similar problems.

Vergil and his core beliefs around demonic power being the only thing to keep him safe when human fragility failed him is the first time Dante is forced to confront a flaw in his worldview. Vergil is technically correct in that their heritage is what has kept the two of them alive up until that point and that in order for Dante to stop his brother and Arkham, he'd need to embrace that power too. Dante seems to internalise this as the idea that his power needs to be used as a force for good - "with great power comes great responsibility," style, but still retains that he is good in spite of his demonic power.

Power in DMC is not inherently evil, the folly of the villains in the series is that they seek it to fill a hole that should have been filled with love instead. On some level, Dante recognises this, but is often too burdened by his self loathing that he has a hard time excepting and seeking out love himself.

In contrast, Nero is able to acknowledge what is truly important to him, allowing himself to be vulnerable when he gives and receives love, while also fully embracing his demonic side and the power it gives him. V also has a similar revelation, although his is just as much about learning to love life itself and rediscovering passions so he can have a better coping mechanism that isn't more power.

These core character arcs clearly indicate that the reason humanity is seen as morally superior in the games is their willingness to love and willingly give. To gain more out of life than just power (it's also what makes the power hungry human villains so evil, they want to throw away what makes them human for the chance at being powerful). Whereas demonic power means that demons live in a perpetually dog-eat-dog world where there is no incentive to love or create, you can only ever take. But when demons like Trish are given the chance to grow from that, they are just as capable of love as any human.

This then opens up for the line of questioning, well, if environmental factors are what's making demons so power hungry, then wouldn't exploring how being shut off from the opportunity to grow in the human world be an actually valid idea for the Netflix adaptation to explore? It could have been! Genuinely!

However, the writers were not interested in exploring that concept, not really. The need to fit established DMC lore into the shape of a narrative about how the Iraq war and the US government intensionally otherised Arabic people meant that those ideas couldn't be expanded upon because of how that would have impacted the portrayal of a very direct analogue of a real life group of people.

This is often the problem central to the fantasy racism trope, because it's a direct reference to a real group of people who's only actual differences from any other ethnic group is appearance and culture, any discussion of how physiological differences may impact the way they live and experience the world very quickly become a minefield.

The demons in the games are often one of a kind or a species with entirely alien biological incentives, trying to make them seem like their way of life would be no different from the average human is actively contradictory and just plain boring. It's part of why the demons that were taken from the game look so out of place compared to their more human shaped counterparts.

There is the potential in examining a demon's ability to love in the gameverse version of the lore, and it wouldn't have been a problem for the anime to explore that. That sort of exploration would have had to focus on how love can come in many forms, how a fundamentally different way of perceiving the world around you doesn't mean your perspective isn't valid. However, because demons are an exact reference to a real life group of people now, making them out to be anything other than just like any other human is risking a lot.

So that's the crux of the issue for me. I think trying to force the demons from the game lore into an Arabic shaped hole is kinda a bad idea. Hell, if they were desperate to make the US government into the big bad then there would have been precedent for it. DMC2 and DMC4 both concern powerful groups in society abusing demonic power for personal gain, the idea that a government would do the same isn't too dissimilar in my opinion.

To be honest, I feel a lot of the criticism of the anime has only been scratching at the surface of the actual problems so far. I'd appreciate it if the pre-existing fandom could recognise where problems existed in the source material before jumping to complaining about the adaptation, even though there is a lot to complain about...

netflix anime or summ

drew this stoned happy 420 i think the animation team really really miss voltron ld

........ You know what? I think I'll give Netflix's Devil May Cry Season 2 a hard pass after all.

Politics? In my Devil May Cry?

Okay so here are my personal opinions on Netflix's Devil May Cry

*Spoilers ahead*

So starting off I will say that I am a casual Devil May Cry fan (and have been for many years). I am also aware that this Netflix series is non-canon and I know that they were planning to go in a different direction with their own take on the Devil May Cry story and its characters. How it all panned out though? Personally, I think I walked away from this Netflix series a little less than lukewarm on it. Now I didn't outright hate it, but it fell pretty flat for me.

But, I want to be fair and start out with the things I liked.

I really liked the White Rabbit, both as this season's villain and as a character. My favorite part of the entire show was his backstory episode. I loved the direction of the story telling and the art. It was kind of jarring watching that episode to be honest, in a good way! I felt like I was watching an entirely different (and better) show for those 10 minutes. I felt like the White Rabbit was strangely the character that we as an audience had more of a chance to connect with over the others.

I really liked JYB's performance as Dante. He did a great job, even though my brain is so used to hearing him as Nero. I think JYB was definitely going for a younger (and less experienced) Dante and I think it worked well for the show!

Cavaliere Angelo (despite being mostly glaring CGI that stood out like a sore thumb) was pretty cool.

The plasma demon was also pretty cool for a side character demon guy.

I enjoyed Enzo when he wasn't being an exposition machine and just had some opportunities to banter with Dante. I think their occasional banter was the only time in the show I chuckled (outside of the last line in the season--that had me rolling because Vergil being unironically lame always makes me cackle💙)

The action scenes were fire!!🔥

Baby Vergil and Dante!! They were so cute! 😭💖

And now onto the things that made the show fall flat for me:

Lady. I'm sorry, but I just didn't vibe with the direction they took her. Lady doesn't need to swear every other line. She also doesn't need to posture like she's compensating for something. I understand that they may have been leaning hard into her standoffishness that she had at the beginning of DMC3, but outside of a few moments of self-reflection (which really didn't amount to much in the end) that's all she really was. Seriously, it felt like the show's creators were trying WAY too hard to make her "cool". My guy, listen, there is no need for that nonsense. Lady was already cool.

I sadly didn't laugh very much during the series. I don't know, the humor just didn't tickle my funny bone for some reason. Dante's one liners in the games usually do, but it just didn't hit the same in this series.

The whole dumb southern president and the rich, evil VP who pulls all the strings and runs a secret organization of demon hunters was pretty uninspired in my opinion. And I don't know, maybe it's just that the timing was bad given all the political insanity that is happening in the world currently, or maybe the show just focused way too hard on these characters/themes, but I just didn't enjoy any of the political and social commentary parts of the story. Especially since it came at the expense of time for us to get to know and explore the characters.

Despite this show’s promotional material leading us to believe it was about Dante and his family, this season felt like it was mostly dedicated to Lady and her squad/evil boss. All of which are characters that are very blatantly tied to the show’s political message and subsequently, making me care for them far less (sorry Lady, I loved you in the games, but not here). It's not a good sign for the likability of the characters when I ended cheering when Lady's squad was taken out. "Finally!", thought I, "They can stop focusing on these randoms and give us more Dante screentime!"

Branching off of this, did anyone else feel like Dante was a secondary character in his own show? Cause it did to me.

Now my next point is that the show didn’t land emotional scenes very well (except for episode 6, the one good episode that wasn’t even trying to be dmc). For example, Enzo's act of sacrifice at the end for…seemingly no reason? It felt like it came out of nowhere. Dante was not on the brink of death when Enzo put himself in the line of fire. Hey Enzo, did you forget that this man can survive a literal bomb to the face? It honestly was so forced and so nonsensical and the "emotional" scene that it was trying to build ended up falling totally flat.

Final point: Vergil is Mundus’ lapdog now? Willingly? That’s quite off course for his character in the games. But I’ll keep an open mind to see where they go with his character. I’m sad to say given what they did with Lady, I’m not very optimistic.

Final, final point: Vergil’s devil trigger/Nelo Angelo design looks like it was still in the first draft phase. 😬

That's about all of my initial thoughts. Overall, I respect the show for trying to do its own thing and I'm glad that some folks had a great time watching it! For me personally though, this show was more of a miss than a hit. Maybe season 2 will be a bit more up my alley.

⚠️Netflix's Devil May Cry Spoilers ahead!!

How bout that ending huh?

"The sapiens and their armies, unaware of the storm they ride into. I am that storm."

*BURY THE LIGHT INTENSIFIES*

DID SOMEONE SAY BURY THE LIGHT?!!!

the reveal that vergil used to wear sweater vests,,,, it checks out

This made me chuckle, but I must wail and bemoan the missed alliteration opportunity. Could have went with something like, "Anger Against the Apparatus"

God damn, didn't have to wait long, did I?

Apologizing in advance for how feral I'm going to be once I see Vergil in the Devil May Cry Netflix show

Apologizing in advance for how feral I'm going to be once I see Vergil in the Devil May Cry Netflix show

I always welcome any anti-American propaganda, but it wasn't necessary for demons to be a metaphor for refugees to do so.Also, was it necessary to use demons as a metaphor for refugees???

Maybe the reason the dmc reboot and Adi Shankar's show cannot seem to get Sparda right or show him the respect he deserves is because they are ultimately too mean-spirited and cynical to ever understand Sparda. Think about it, Sparda woke up to justice and stopped an invasive empire because he found love and compassion. His journey is that of redemption and nobility. He is an unambiguously good person whose heroism sets the foundation of Devil May Cry.

Adi Shankar and Ninja Theory made works that are far too void of love and compassion to understand that. That's why they couldn't get Sparda or even DMC as a whole right.

Taking an evolutionary anthropology class has made me hate Netflix DMC's use of demons as a metaphor for different races even more

RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT! DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL FEATURES ACROSS DIFFERENT POPULATIONS VARIES WIDELY EVEN WITHIN ONE ETHNIC GROUP, AND THEY ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO SPECIFIC PEOPLES! HOW WE CLASSIFY RACE IN ONE COUNTRY ISN'T GOING TO BE THE SAME IN ANOTHER!

BY TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT DEMONS ARE A SUBSPECIES OF HUMAN, YOU END UP REINFORCING THE IDEA THAT DIFFERENT RACES ARE INFACT BIOLOGICALLY DESTINED TO BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY TO THE "DEFAULT"! YOU CANNOT MAKE AN ANTI-RACISM METAPHOR USING AN IDEA THAT HAS BEEN USED TO ENFORCE RACISM

Master splinter be looking kind of different :0 lol can't believe he used to voice 2012 splinter haha

so uh devil may cry

well uh was not expecting this but devil may cry is coming to Netflix on April 3 so uh well am gonna be excited an watch it