Yep it isIsn't it just an anagram for Vergil? :ermm:
Isn't it just an anagram for Vergil? :ermm:
Vergil is using Gilver as the secret name in the DMC books.It's so he can get close to Dante without being discovered. As Gilver he also hides his face with bandages.
Where do the books fit into the timeline?
capcom doesn't consider the dmc1 novel canon for contradicting the game with things like nelo angelo talking, the manga is canon though
Controversy EditThe novel in no way contradicts DMC1, and was directly referenced in the anime. It's canon still.
Controversy Edit
After the release of Devil May Cry 3, contradictions between the game and this novel forced much of the story of the novel out of canon. Of particular concern is Gilver's fate and actions. Because of the events of Devil May Cry 3, the community generally accepts that Vergil cannot be Gilver, and thus, the sequences of the novel involving him are non-canon.
made an effortSorry I usually agree with you even if you decide to go about such mini-rants but the communities ideals are not part of the series, only the creators and those who work along side the creators decide what is part of it and what is not. In all decency what the fans perceive does seem to become the outcome in those matters but if we are getting technical it is still part of the series without tarnishing the original sotry. SPOILER~ Dante does basically kill Gilver(Vergil) in a twisted reality similar to what you could say limbo is but even then there i still much for debate because he is never confirmed dead in the first book. The second book is still a bit of a mystery to me and I cannot comment on it quite yet without possibly being wrong on many aspects.
that tooThe first DMC novel was written a bit after DMC1 came out, with direct input from Kamiya. If anything, it's probably all supposed to fit together, but because DMC has changed hands and writers so many times, it's gotten all jiggered in some places.
Really the novel would be since it's how Tony remembered he was Dante, got Ebony and Ivory, and kicked off the feud between him and Vergil. So the rough timeline order of media would beAnd, regarding the series as a whole, are the DMC3 Manga the "first chapter" of the whole DMC "Saga"?
How are people saying the novel fits before DMC3?
Gilver killed Dante's mother figure, his partner, his partner's daughter, and basically everyone in the town that had the misfortune of knowing him. Dante completely fails to mention any of that in the manga, and one would think he'd be less cavalier about teaming up with Vergil at any point later on no matter who they're up against. He still killed everyone Dante knew. He didn't even do it for any good reason or to prove that "might controls everything". He just wanted a fight and went straight for the kill. Vergil is amoral. Gilver is straight-up evil.