Been watching Inuyasha: The Final Act because I might as well see how this series all ends, and I noticed even more ways Devil May Cry 3 ripped that series off.
Apparently Sesshomaru's sword Tenseiga can cut through dimensions. Particularly a path to the Underworld. Kinda sounds familiar doesn't it?
Ok, so let's see the similarities now Between Inuyasha and Sesshomaru compared to Dante and Vergil.
- Both have siblings who carry demonic lineage
- One sibling is rather brash and cocky, while the other is calm and collected
- One has empathy for humans and strives to protect them, the other embraces his demonic side more and sees humans as weak
- They have swords that were forged from their father
- They inherited said swords from him based on their father's judgements
- Hell, one sword is even a lot bigger than the other
- The swords even have similar abilities. (See Tenseiga's dimensional cut above and Tetsuiga's Wind Scare/ Red form compared to Rebellion's known abilities)
- One sports a red color scheme while the other sports a more cool blue-ish scheme. (Granted this could be just Japan's thing of separating heroes and villains in general with the whole "red is the heroes color" stuff)
- They fight a lot over these differences.
- One is even manipulated by another party in some way while thinking he's only working on his own agenda (See Naraku's relationship with Sesshomaru and Vergil/Arkham)
I think that's about everything. Seriously, the relationship and details between Dante and Vergil was practically shamelessly ripped off from Inuyasha. This is way too many similarities to be just coincidence. I know Devil May Cry kind of tries to be like an anime, but come on.
I just think the biggest difference is that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are more dynamic characters that go through character arcs making them a little more complex than the coloring book depth DMC characters usually have. Probably because a series wit hundreds of episodes kinda gives them more room to, but still.
Itsuno kinda seems to not really know the difference between taking inspiration from something, and just flat out copying.