So new DMC animated series are coming to Netflix

[V's patron]

Seeing all this extra footage. It interests me how much of the first season will actually cover the events of DMC3 proper. There's apparently only eight episodes and so far it seems like this will just be the prologue, introducing Dante and Lady as characters and likely ending with Vergil/Arkham as a teaser for a season 2.

If so, then that will be a curious decision and I'm not sure how both newcomers and existing fans will react to that once the whole season is out.

merging the manga with the early levels of 3 felt like a good way to streamline it.

 

[berto]

The extra footage has me a bit disinterested. There is the whole thing going on in the anime where they make it clear that Vergil was antagonistic about the amulets which I can assume is a set up for him wanting the two pieces in the show. It's a blatant establishment of behavior that's rather silly. Yeah, it's all over anime and comics where they foreshadow this attitude from the start to reflect in the present. The issue was that Vergil and Dante weren't these overdone 'characters' in the original story. They were kids. The scene in DMC1 where Dante remembers when they got the amulets as a birthday present they sound like just average ass kids who want chocolate. Turning them into these overdefined characters was silly and I'm losing interest with every step.

Me and a friend had this discussion after watching Prometheus. In the original Alien the whole cast was just a bunch of people. They had defining personalities but when you got down to it they were a group of average schmucks. Nothing overblown about their characters. The most defining thing about them was their facial hair. In Prometheus, though, people were so much more of a character; some bordered on stereotypes, especially the nerd and the Irish dude. While the crew of the Nostromos looked like average people walking down the street the crew of the Prometheus looked like characters in a movie. Same here. The kids in DMC1 sounded like kids while the kids in that music video looked like over dramatized characters in an anime.

 

[DoomSlayer87_Sss]

The closer it gets to this the more uneasy i feel about it, not sure why tbh. Hopefully watching it in japanese will help, and the combat and action will hold up and it won't have bad pacing or too much filler.

 

[Lain]

Personally, I think the greatest hurdle this show faces is the same one that say the upcoming live action God of War show faces. The games are essentially a power fantasy and to remove the gameplay is to remove the biggest reason why people enjoy them. From what we've seen of the footage so far, they haven't tried to compensate this by giving a deep insight into Dante's character or anything.

I will be very curious to see what (if any) lasting impact this show has on the franchise and its fans.

 

[V's patron]

@DoomSlayer87_Sss
I feel underwhelmed. It looks fine but it feels too safe for me. As much as people hated the reboot, the debut trailer had an x factor that got me theorizing. This series doesn't have that yet.

even though I like DMC3, it feels like its just riding its coattails than really doing its own thing.

 

[DoomSlayer87_Sss]

I honestly feel like i may come back to this when it is over, and appreciate the original anime more but who knows. I genuinely hope i am wrong and it blows me away, but i have a niggling feeling that it will underwhelm and i will have a lot of facepalm and audible sigh moments.