I like anime, but I didn't like how DMC took that anime feel. There is anime that is really good and absolutely dominates over others, but DMC has none of this. DMC3 immediately reminded me of Inuyasha for a few reasons, and at least Inuyasha had character development and a real feel for the characters. DMC3 was just action and one liners to me. Except Lady, who didn't have really large character development. Even Vergil and Dante fit into that anime trope. Dante was a cocky, goofy, OP character who dressed like an emo J-rock singer and spit one liners that I would expect to hear from a lack luster English dub. Vergil was one dimensional with wanting power and was just so boring character wise, but was a blast to see do all this stuff and the way he carried himself. I just wished he more personality to carry that appearance.
DMC4 sh*t all over my love for DMC along for anime, and threw it in my face. It featured a cliche anime romance between the hot headed handsome male who's rebellious (Nero? Rebellious? pffft) and is a loner, and a cute, shy girl who was actually even more one dimensional then an actual love interest should be. The setting was good...till backtracking came in. The enemies were good and bad. Demons were awesome, but the main enemies:
Credo seemed like the only one with real action game development and not anime styled development. He realized that he had to rebel against his order in order to save Kyrie and Nero.
Agnus was just annoying and was jealous of Credo a lot. Pretty much that anime type that is jealous and takes everything offensive.
Sanctus was a generic old man anime enemy but had an interesting character in believing to bring evil into the world and then save them with power to make himself out as the hero.
Lady was a walking otaku's wet dream who chose tight small clothes instead of be the respectable and badass Lady that she was in 3 and the anime. She didn't do anything and was very underdeveloped in terms of doing anything.
Trish was hardly doing anything as herself, but was a panty-less regal stripper with a knife and looks like lady gaga. As Trish she was just a walking model and had no real significance to the story except giving Sanctus the Sparda, which was dumb. She served as the anime's hot and sexy female who doesn't even do much but yet still has a fanbase from her looks.
Kyrie was bland. The end. Still like her though, but she was as dull as any anime shy female. (except a few)
Nero was alright for me because he had some character and was flexible to see. But he really did remind me of Ichigo cause of the voice actor being the same, and his attitude, along with both having large swords and switching to long katanas. Just mod Nero with Ichigo's color and boom!
Plus he was also the stereotypical anime shonen protagonist since he was also very needy with Kyrie and was a bit of a whiner. Like when Agnus had Kyrie hostage in that container, after the boss fight, why didn't Nero just ignore Angus and try to get Kyrie out of there when he had the chance. Plus he piggy backs off Dante in the character he has from shooting out lines that I would expect DMC3 Dante to say if he was raised in the Order of the swords.
AND DANTE?! Oh, Lord, let me tell you about him! HE was completely clowny and was seriously in need of some sort of character development. He was nothing but cocky and OP. He had to even try harder just to look cool. He didn't stop all this before it got out of hand, and let Nero get sucked up to death. His outfit was generic anime style clothes mixed with overly tacky western appeal and if this was capcom's way of getting more people from the west to play DMC, then this was a wrong way to do it.
But that's me. I like anime, but not DMC3 and 4's description of anime.
