My plan was for a actual series running seasonally, 13-22 episodes like we have in the states. I wasn't thinking of an OVA or miniseries but I'm not against it.
Well the first season was supposed to revamped retelling of DMC4 just to clue everybody in on what happened. There are gonna be people who are watching this for the first time so we want to make it easy for them to jump onto.
Not a bad idea, but this will also mean a retelling of the game.
To kill two birds with one stone, our version of DMC4 wouldn't completely match up to the game. We all know that DMC4's story could have been much better than it was and we can right that wrong now. We definitely start off on a stronger foot and it provide more incentive for fans of the series to actually watch the show.
I don't see that working cause fans who hated DMC4 will really not want to go through it again, even if it is done better then the game.
That gives us more incentive to answer the game's unanswered questions so by the end of the season you would know what the deal is with Nero's arm and how he relates to Dante.
I think this should be explained in a game. This info seems like something that's canon to the DMC storyline.
Dante, Lady and Trish all have supporting roles in the season with Trish and Lady having a lengthy subplot where they try and counsel a Order soldier who is trying to remain human and a good person after he becomes a demon. It is also revealed that Arkham emigrated to America from Fortuna so Lady is interested in how her father grew up.
This seems like a fanfiction-type story. Maybe it should be the ghost of Arkham, haunting Lady.
The show will attempt to sort out the timeline thru dialogue and since Nero is new to DMC, that gives us a chance to definitely go back and explore old stories like the novels/games etc or tell new moments shown off-screen. They wont be that soon since these people arent storytellers nor that trusting right off the bat.
I'm just gonna have Nero be either Dante or vergil's kid to keep it simple and clean. I'm not bogging the viewer down with the intricacies of cloning or any of that. Plus we barely know anything of Dante or vergil's life and it could humanize them.
After the 2010TGS DmC trailer, the last thing fans want is for Dante and Vergil to be "humanized" down.^_^
I have a couple different ways the series can go after season 1 and I'm unsure if DMC2 should happen before or after 4 so I'll leave it up to a vote.
There are two ways it can go-
Happy ending-
-Season 1 ends similar to the game with Fortuna and its people relatively safe and Dante gives his blessing for Nero to watch over Yamato.
- Season 2 starts out with Fortuna trying to rebuild and figure out how to live their lives without the order providing a direction for them.
- There are a lot of factions rising up with different ideologies about what to do next. Nero is trying to stay out of all that but eventually he is gonna have to back a side.
-Things get more complicated as the order's experiments are getting out of control. The town has to deal with the fact that not all of them has lost their marbles and rehabilitiaon is possible. Plus some demons are not evil.
_ In this scenario, Vergil is nero's father and Nero's mom was a powerful witch. His mom is still alive and one of the seasons will deal with that.
-This all happens before DMC2.
Seems pretty good.
Tragic ending-
-Season 1 ends with Fortuna going busted up pretty badly and most of the people dying. The rest that are still alive decide to leave and go their own seperate ways. Since Nero's only family, Credo and Kyrie are dead, he has got nowhere to go so when Dante offers him room and a job at DMC HQ, he takes it.
I would like to se this.
- Nero is about 16-17 so Morrison and Dante decides to enroll him in the local high school to give him some semblance of a normal life.
That sounds stero-typical, yet very understanding.
- Most of the episodes job's come from Nero taking a job dante refuses or cant do and there is a running gag of Nero getting a better reputation as a hunter than Dante.
I would like to see this one as well. As long as a plot is created along with it.
- Nero also does his own vigilant gigs on the side since unlike Dante he doesnt need to wait for the fight to come to him.
That's sounds like DmC Dante.
- In this timeline he is Dante's kid being the product of a relationship Dante had with a Fortuna human immigrant.
So Dante would have to have had sex at fifteen or something. Not the youngest age I've seen kids do it. (Don't ask)
- This ends up happening 5-7 years after the other anime so patty is about the same age as Nero and tends to be his partner when he does a gig. Trish taught her how to use her sorceress abilities and Lady taught her how to fight so she is less annoying than before.
I think Patty should not be a sorceress and just be the same as she was in the anime, just less annoying and more funny. Plus I also think Patty should have a crush on Nero but act all Tsundere about it.
-In a couple of seasons, we will do a shoutout to the reboot with nero fighting Limbo city after leaving DMC HQ to find his own home.
Then where would new Dante be if Nero's in Limbo? and would that mean new Dante and Old Dante could meet? Questions, questions~
it would be funny if Studio pierrot animated this since they animate bleach and naruto but their main problem is that they dont know how to do their own plots in addition to adapting the source material, hence the low quality of fillers they produce.
I prefer the studio behind Hellsing. Only natural, but I guess the Bleach studio would be good too.
Studio BONES who did FMA, FMA brotherhood, Baccanno, Darker than black and Ao no exorsist is my prefered choices as they know what they are doing.
