So new DMC animated series are coming to Netflix

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

To steer us back on topic, according to Shankar via X, the only part of DmC that was used in his cartoon was the reboot's redesign of the Amulet.

An odd choice of things to take methinks.

That is weird since the mainline amulets combine with the force edge, and the reboot amulets don't.

So visually if they cover dmc1 events, it will look odd combining them.

 

[V's patron]

i guess they might still have the amulets combine if they adapt DMC1, even with the different designs.

its not the most interesting thing to bring over from the reboot but its something...

ironically DmC Vergil is the closest Vergil has been to being an antihero. The Downfall dlc completes his negative change arc so im hoping the series does something similar but better paced.

 

[Morgan]

@Morgan I have missed your takes on these games writing, much as I do enjoy the games myself.

Interestingly, I recently read a retrospective on the games which that claims Lady killing Arkham was something Morihashi had to argue in favor of.

Don't know how much truth there is to this but if it is true, it does put that scene of Lady telling Nero he will regret killing Vergil in a new light.

To go back on topic, I don't think we'll have any of these issues in the Netflix show.

Itsuno is a weirdo and two-faced coward who expects people to have a memory under a decade old.

Nobody @ me to argue about it, it's true.

Itsuno: "it’d be cool to hang out with a girl who is that sassy, smokes all the time, points out your flaws, and gives you crap when you need it. There is something cool about being around that kind of person. That’s where Nico comes from."

Except,

Bingo: "We originally planned to have [Lady] be older than Dante; [...] My original proposal was a cigarette-smoking demon hunter who could act like a mentor to Dante, but Itsuno-san's response was, 'No way. The only way she'll be popular with the Japanese audience is if she looks like a high-schooler.'"

So, he rejected Bingo's original concept, concern-trolling about appealing to the Japanese fanbase and how they don't want "blonde" or "swarthy" girls and that Lady "needed" to be a high-school girl to appeal to their demographic, only to have "blonde" and "swarthy" in DMC4 and 5 anyway (Trish, Gloria, Nico) and reuse that concept of Nico in particular because it was his fetish at the time.

We could've had an older, bossy Lady which would be a change from the previous heroines. Trish is younger than Dante (chronologically, anyway) and at the end of DMC1 she gained "innocence"/humanity, with Dante taking a role as her mentor as she learned about herself and the world. Lucia is clearly younger than DMC2 Dante. DMC3 Lady would've been a change if Itsuno wasn't a coward but instead we got a "little girl" who has to learn lessons from Dante again.

So if anything, I believe that story, that Bingo had to argue in favor of Lady killing Arkham only for Itsuno to overturn it at the earliest convenience in the next installment he could do it in.

We can maybe expect some basic consistency out of the anime in this regard and not have these characters flip personalities between one end of the season and the other. I hope.

 

[CaitNíSé_D_Huntress]

Am i the only one worried that this anime version of dante will have a foul mouth, rather than the playful dante from 3?.

I also can't picture nero's voice actor pulling off said playful side properly.

 

[V's patron]

Am i the only one worried that this anime version of dante will have a foul mouth, rather than the playful dante from 3?.

I also can't picture nero's voice actor pulling off said playful side properly.

castlevania netflix were pretty heavy with swears so a foul mouth is expected.

im just hoping the swears are used better and are less cringe.

 

[Benny]

I had an ick when they first gave snippets of anime already had a scene mentioned a girl gave her number written on napkin to Dante and he used the napkin to wipe his mouth instead. Show isn't even on yet and character already has attitude, not a good sign. Sure maybe he can have some development later but jeez pick better scenes to advertise

 

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

Maybe that is why johnny young bosch was cast, who better to portray punk attitude

 

[V's patron]

id have Vergil fight the doppelganger instead of Dante. It gives him something to do before he teams up with his brother against Arkham.

 

[berto]

@Morgan
Yeah, I'm not going to read all that. I'm serious that I'm not going to get into it anymore. Your point of views on the events and characters are so illogical they cross into irrational and even antagonistic towards the characters. You are free to have them, of course, but I not only don't share them, I am in all but absolute contradiction of them. I'll leave it at that and since I'm not going to go through all of that for the sake of discussion I'm also not going to go through it in general so I'm trusting you to obey the rules. Keep the swearing to TV levels, be civil, be respectful, blah blah blah. I don't think I've ever seen you do anything to break the rules so this is just as a general statement of 'please remember to...'

 

[V's patron]

they could use Nell and Gru as Dante's mentors when he's starting out.

which makes their inevitable deaths in the novel hit harder.

ideally you would adapt it before 3 but after 3 works better with the games we currently have.

 

[windleopard]

I had an ick when they first gave snippets of anime already had a scene mentioned a girl gave her number written on napkin to Dante and he used the napkin to wipe his mouth instead. Show isn't even on yet and character already has attitude, not a good sign. Sure maybe he can have some development later but jeez pick better scenes to advertise

...Dante having attitude is a bad sign?

 

[Lain]

...Dante having attitude is a bad sign?

When it comes to trailers, what you want to do is make your characters seem appealing in order to get people who aren't already fans of the IP to tune into your show/film. Having a "bad attitude" in your protagonist is a tricky thing to manage as what might come across as cool and rebel to some might be seen as rude and contemptible to others - case in point how Benny perceives a scene with Dante handling a girl trying to give him her phone number. Therefore I don't think its unreasonable for Benny to be worried about how they handle Dante's characterisation and I would certainly agree that the reveal trailer they showed was not the best put together piece of advertisement I have ever seen.

 

[V's patron]

@windleopard
there is a fine line between being cool/funny and being cringe.

DMC has been both over the years ie 3 and 4 are pretty funny while 5 and reboot are pretty cringe.

i liked Castlevania but its use of swears can be jarring at first.