DragonMaster2010
Don't Let the Fall of America be Your Fall
Let me drop some knowlege about the manga:
What we have here is the Tokyo Pop published translation, but before TP released the manga our friend in Devil's Lair scanlated the manga with a much less liberal take on the script. TP took alot of liberaties with the dialougue (eg. That line about wanting a smaler d!ck was actually a simple 'no, thank you'). That version is a little harder to find but it's out there.
If that was the case then that must be what most people in the west prefer to hear then the hum drum anime stereotypical lines. Such is what DmC Dante represents; The demographic section of DMC fans who have grown wiery of old Dante's comical lines that were, in my opinion, stale as a cracker on a hot summer day.
I felt his lines in the manga compared to the anime were a bit brute and immature at times, and would more prefer his game lines since it was more comical on purpose. However when I want Dante to actually act as an edgy character and speak in an urban vocabulary, I'll definitely be going to new Dante.
But that's just how I see it.