So new DMC animated series are coming to Netflix

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Cosmefulanito94 said:
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Adi talking about the cringe joke and apparently it was with a intentional to be bad and out of character to show an evolution from his Dante to the Dante of DMC3 (I don't understand does he try to look it to be canon to games?)
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Ah, so we've reached the popular "it's meant to be bad" defence before the product has even come out, that must be a new record. Perhaps someone should tell Shankar that if he wants people to respond more positively to his work, perhaps he should put the bits that are meant to be good in the advertisement instead? A bold strategy Cotton, I know. :p
 
Lain said:
Perhaps someone should tell Shankar that if he wants people to respond more positively to his work, perhaps he should put the bits that are meant to be good in the advertisement instead?
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Be that as it may, he's going about it the right way here. There are a lot of creators who'd react with a defensive attitude and maybe even attack the comment and poster. To take a friendly approach and an 'I hear you' attitude is at the very least commendable and the right move in this situation. Best would be to not engage but if you want to maintain a rapport with the online community taking this route is the best way.
 
Someone offline said to me the other day that since JYB is voicing the main character, maybe it would have been better to just have had Nero be the protagonist. Thinking about it, adapting DMC4 instead of 3 would have been preferable to me as I was never enamored with the plot of 3 even with all the additions that the manga tried to crowbar in, and 4 is basically the most anime-esque of the games anyway. If you just make some tweaks to adapt it better to screen, such as adding in how Nero got the Devil Bringer and showing more of Nero's relationship with Credo and the Order to emphasise how terrible their betrayal hits, it could have worked quite well IMO.
 
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Hearing Last Resort by Papa Roach was rather eery for me since that was a song I suggested would be fitting for the show:LOL:.
 
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Okay combat looks a lot better, and i still can't get behind bosch as dante but he is mild compared to the trainwreck choice for vergil

ironclad now, watching it in japanese
 
-It looks fun.
- I don't mind Daymond as Vergil but I'd need to hear more in order to really judge his performance.
 
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I'm still digesting my thoughts and will give a detailed response to the trailer later, but it is absolutely wild to me that Kevin Conroy is in this. Just goes to show how long ago they must have recorded the audio since he died back in 2022.
 
I wonder if Vergil is the White Rabbit in this incarnation. It's a thought I had while rewatching the trailer. That clip of the White Rabbit fighting reminded me of Vergil's swordplay.
 
I just can't bring myself to get exited. That song was the go to for every movie/tv show/character in the 00's who wore a trench coat, and that was most of them. If it wasn't in the trailer or movie itself someone made a fan video with it. It was also the song for every trailer for god knows how many years, I think even a few romcoms used it. At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they used Bodies by Drowning Pool in either another trailer of the show itself.

It's not all bad. There's some stuff I like, but there's just as much I'm so disinterested with. I like whoever they got as Lady. She actually sounds like the VA from DMC3. I don't like the voice of Vergil. He just seems to lack Dan Southworth's poise and bravado. I like the actual fights they showed. That was what I didn't realize was bothering me about the clip they released. It wasn't that he had no sword but that he, being a martial artist, didn't use a single move to show off his skills as one, just shot at the enemy. I don't like the general tone. That line when he hits the A&R cameos and one of them says 'he's just so cool' is the perfect example (that didn't sound right, either, so I'm thinking it's a line from a different scene added in for the trailer). Everyone just says DMC is this silly, fun and goofy thing. I don't subscribe to that, at all. Both DMC1 and 3 had a very serious story, they might've had silly moments, especially 3, but they were fairly grim games, especially 1. The more time passes the less serious it seems. With every iteration Dante becomes less and less interesting to me. They keep thinking he's this goofball and they just compound on that. Those are the versions of Dante I dislike the most, which is, basically everything after 4.

I'm definitely going to watch it, mostly out of obligation, while trying to keep in mind that this is a high budget fanfic so it's not really going to impact anything outside of itself.

V's patron said:
I wonder if Vergil is the White Rabbit in this incarnation. It's a thought I had while rewatching the trailer. That clip of the White Rabbit fighting reminded me of Vergil's swordplay.
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That's been my guess as well since they released the opening animation. All the hints point to that.
 
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I'm still mulling things over, but something that is really bothering me is the continuous depiction of Dante. Between his cringe one-liner attempts in the teaser and now in this trailer referring to himself as a heartthrob and Agni/Rudra saying the "he's so cool" line - it's really rubbing me the wrong way. It feels like this show is too insecure about Dante being seen as cool and feels the need to keep reminding you in various scenes.
 
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Lain said:
It feels like this show is too insecure about Dante being seen as cool and feels the need to keep reminding you in various scenes.
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I once mentioned this to a friend of mine about why I don't like the way they've handle Dante. The approach seems to be that Dante is cool so they write him with that mentality. I find that to be a very flawed approach to writing a cool character. You don't write a character with the intention of being cool because that'll just make it all come off as phony and obvious. Dante was originally written to be stylish, as someone who never panicked and always had a smile on his face (but occasionally took things seriously). That's what made him cool. It was a side effect, not the goal.
 
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Lain said:
I'm still mulling things over, but something that is really bothering me is the continuous depiction of Dante. Between his cringe one-liner attempts in the teaser and now in this trailer referring to himself as a heartthrob and Agni/Rudra saying the "he's so cool" line - it's really rubbing me the wrong way. It feels like this show is too insecure about Dante being seen as cool and feels the need to keep reminding you in various scenes.
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So basically the work is emulating the fandom because the inmates are running the asylum.

The discourse for the past 10-20 years around Dante's character is every dumb*ss and a half taking great pains to remind us that the series isn't a series without him, he HAS to be in every installment, he's automatically better than every new character that will ever be introduced, also 3 is the Best Game Ever In The Series simply for not being DMC2, also Uncle Dante from 4 is Also Great because he's Not Nero nor his reboot self also DMC5 is Even Greater A Game because it has him in it even if he does look like an ugly hobo and all his worst traits are amplified (can't pay bills, gets harassed by women, obsessed with Vergil at the expense of everything else about his character development), and A True Entry in The DMC Series is any game or media henceforth that retreads DMC3's Greatest Hits.

In other words this is exactly what the fandom deserves.
 
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