In defense of the Netflix anime

  • Welcome to the Devil May Cry Community Forum!

    We're a group of fans who are passionate about the Devil May Cry series and video gaming.

    Register Log in

devil_inside123

devil_inside123

The devil in the dark
Feb 17, 2015
430
123
2,955
I keep seeing everyone hate on it but why? It's clear from the jump its remixing the canon but genuinely feels like it's made with love and respect to the series. A big complaint I'm seeing is they "nerfed" Dante but his power level is wildly inconsistent even in the games, he can fight demons and survive stabbings but a metal gate in DMC1 or 3 are enough to totally block his path. He can teleport and fly but doesn't just head straight to his objective everytime. Idk. I'm just willing to look past small story inconsistencies like I am the game inconsistencies
 
  • Like
Reactions: berto
It is moreso to do with the drastically different lady we got, dante is the one thing most people unhappy with the show are okay with or accepting of. It is the supporting cast, story decisions and changes to lore that a lot of people are perplexed by or not happy with myself included. Dante and the action were the highlights of the show for me, it was everything else i either did not like or understand the change in, or was just confused by the decision.
 
*SPOILERS* I just finished watching the Netflix series and here’s what I noticed

Dante: Is voiced by Nero and the trope where he gets angry gives him more power doesn’t work anymore

Lady: Doesn’t cry that she killed her father and isn’t important to the blood ritual in closing Hell with Spardas Sword

Vergil: He doesn’t survive the attack on his home then meet Dante later like in Manga or DMC3 but instead is captured, then he is groomed by Mundas to be his new knight and take Spardas place, Nelo Angelo is also his Devil trigger?
 
Handsome Devil Sparda said:
*SPOILERS* I just finished watching the Netflix series and here’s what I noticed

Dante: Is voiced by Nero and the trope where he gets angry gives him more power doesn’t work anymore

Lady: Doesn’t cry that she killed her father and isn’t important to the blood ritual in closing Hell with Spardas Sword

Vergil: He doesn’t survive the attack on his home then meet Dante later like in Manga or DMC3 but instead is captured, then he is groomed by Mundas to be his new knight and take Spardas place, Nelo Angelo is also his Devil trigger?
Click to expand...
Dante never was the one who got stronger with anger that was only ever neros sorta shtick, Dante only ever did it at the end of one and even then they do it MORE in the anime. That's how he even unlocked DT instead of getting stabbed.
As for lady although I can understand people's problems with the excessive swearing it did always feel VERY coincidental that Arkham married the woman who's the ancestor of the woman who sparda sacraficed
 
devil_inside123 said:
Dante never was the one who got stronger with anger that was only ever neros sorta shtick, Dante only ever did it at the end of one and even then they do it MORE in the anime. That's how he even unlocked DT instead of getting stabbed.
As for lady although I can understand people's problems with the excessive swearing it did always feel VERY coincidental that Arkham married the woman who's the ancestor of the woman who sparda sacraficed
Click to expand...
I know I was talking about Nero as Dante and how if her blood wasn’t used for the ritual in fact that’s how Arkham was able to become half demon successfully in canon since in the Netflix series he dies oh SPOILERS
 
devil_inside123 said:
I keep seeing everyone hate on it but why? It's clear from the jump its remixing the canon but genuinely feels like it's made with love and respect to the series. A big complaint I'm seeing is they "nerfed" Dante but his power level is wildly inconsistent even in the games, he can fight demons and survive stabbings but a metal gate in DMC1 or 3 are enough to totally block his path. He can teleport and fly but doesn't just head straight to his objective everytime. Idk. I'm just willing to look past small story inconsistencies like I am the game inconsistencies
Click to expand...
"Remixing the canon" Yeah, so Adi Shankar has an excuse to throwing a bunch of references in to try and appeal to consooooomers. They emasculated Dante time and time again, made the only Christian a villain, replaced Holy Water with greed liquid, most characters are hideous to look at, Lady has more screen time than Dante, and dialog is worse than DmC.

Adi Shankar is a joke.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SSShcum, LegendaryDarkKnightSparda, Cosmefulanito94 and 1 other person
I think the netflix show fails to capture the vibes anr aesthetic of the series. (Saying this as a very new fan). So after watching the show first and trying out some of the games, I was surprised.
 
ultimately its in the same as the NT reboot. Its a different take on the source material and fans didnt like the changes for what they are.

Even someone who likes this take is unsure about Lady's new backstory ,the scifi elements to the demons ,how the amulets work, the political satire etc.

i like this show more than the recent games, previous anime and NT reboot but wished they made a different decisions on some of its choices.
 
Last edited:
V's patron said:
ultimately its in the same as the NT reboot. Its a different take on the source material and fans didnt like the changes for what they are.

Even someone who likes this take is unsure about Lady's new backstory ,the scifi elements to the demons how the amulets work, the political satire etc.

i like this show more than the recent games, previous anime and NT reboot but wished they made a different decisions on some of its choices.
Click to expand...
At least they they used the mansion from NJ and DmC actually gave you skins and white hair, I just didn’t like that Vergil was the Younger Brother in it
 
V's patron said:
ultimately its in the same as the NT reboot. Its a different take on the source material and fans didnt like the changes for what they are.
Click to expand...
I would argue it is a tad different as DmC was always presented as an alternate take, but despite Shankar's references to this being his "Bootleg Universe" or whatever, people still went into an animated adaptation of Devil May Cry expecting an animated adaptation of Devil May Cry and not...whatever that was.

I suspect this has a lot to do with why the backlash seems so much severe than anything else we have seen previously. :unsure:
 
  • Like
Reactions: LegendaryDarkKnightSparda
Lain said:
I would argue it is a tad different as DmC was always presented as an alternate take, but despite Shankar's references to this being his "Bootleg Universe" or whatever, people still went into an animated adaptation of Devil May Cry expecting an animated adaptation of Devil May Cry and not...whatever that was.

I suspect this has a lot to do with why the backlash seems so much severe than anything else we have seen previously. :unsure:
Click to expand...
is it that bad because i remember the initial outrage over DmC to be worse.

after a while all outrage just blends together in the current era so maybe im just desensitized to it. lol.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: LegendaryDarkKnightSparda
shankar-dmc-1636126548803.jpg
DsJywvNV4AEjwMd-600x900.jpg
adi-shankar-was-present-at-raw-last-night-acknowledging-his-v0-48wuie5iljte1.jpeg
See exactly what I was talking about, these guys ruin my series because they want their ego stroked
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom