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REVIEW: Devil May Cry Animated Series Review

Meh, second season it's already done, this is one of those cute "It's done but we split it in 2" BSs Netflix likes doing lately, in the Evanescence video there is even scenes of Dante using spoiler[Ebony and Ivory].

Anyways, this thing its a 6/10 entertaining series with a 1/10 "We are USA and we are the main character of the world" ending.

As a side note: if you wanna know why so many fans are mad at the idea of humanizing demons:

The core message of DMC its the superiority of the human heart over over Demonic power, what makes Dante strong it's not his demon blood, but his human heart.

Whole name of the series itself its a reference at Demons not being able to cry, but Dante can, the Devil who may Cry is Dante himself.

But if demons also have a heart... then there is no message outside of "Bad things are bad, avoid doing bad things" and you feel like the series is treating you like an idiot who can't take a hint.

The core message of DMC its the superiority of the human heart over over Demonic power, what makes Dante strong it's not his demon blood, but his human heart.

Whole name of the series itself its a reference at Demons not being able to cry, but Dante can, the Devil who may Cry is Dante himself.

But if demons also have a heart... then there is no message outside of "Bad things are bad, avoid doing bad things" and you feel like the series is treating you like an idiot who can't take a hint.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

The core message of DMC its the superiority of the human heart over over Demonic power, what makes Dante strong it's not his demon blood, but his human heart.

100% agree on this.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

Whole name of the series itself its a reference at Demons not being able to cry, but Dante can, the Devil who may Cry is Dante himself. But if demons also have a heart... then there is no message outside of "Bad things are bad, avoid doing bad things" and you feel like the series is treating you like an idiot who can't take a hint.

This is where I start to disagree. At least in the first game, "The Devil Who May Cry" (as you so eloquently put it) is not Dante, it's Trish. Unlike Dante, she is 100% demon, created by Mundus. However, at the end of the first game, she cries--in doing so showing that even demons can develop human hearts.

Because of this, I am okay with the idea that other demons could also do the same--even up-to-and-including an entire oppressed class of demons. However, I can also understand how it might be a bridge too far for some.

Nop, the origin of the name "Devil May Cry" comes from this conversation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcQTu570k0c

After this, the final cutscene shows Dante setting the "Devil May Cry" sign out of his office.

Whole name of the series itself its a reference at Demons not being able to cry, but Dante can, the Devil who may Cry is Dante himself.

I recall seeing a lot of complaints from fans about the writing, especially on how heavy handed the social-political commentary was and the theme being too different from the games (the whole superiority of human heart/caring of the games Vs the oppressive corruption of humans per the series).

That said, they do admit one silver lining is that the Netflix series might end up drawing in more casual fans to get the games. Apparently the viewing numbers are very very good, and with the games getting an increase in sales it sends a clear message to Capcom that there's still demand for more DMC games.

I think people are just tired of the modern American writing phenomenon of trying to humanize inherently evil races, let alone portray them as the true victims in the world and it's the humans who are wrong for not wanting to be eaten. Rings of Power and a few other fantasy media did the same thing with Orcs as well. I don't know if Netflix did the same thing with vampires in Castlevania as I dipped out of that show pretty quickly. I feel the existence of one or two outliers does not disprove the rule and if anything usually showcases the necessity when even one of their own views their own race as so vile and needing to be destroyed or sealed off from everyone else like Sparda did who even sealed himself away as he feared his own power would be used for evil.

Also narrative wise it just snowballs into an Order 66 situation which is where it turns out so many Jedi ended up surviving the purge as more media comes out you realize just how ineffective and pointless it was and roll your eyes every time you see another story about a Jedi who managed to survive the purge. Suddenly when you have so many demons or whatever who are good or neutral then the existence of a good demon loses it's entire impact. Suddenly Sparda being the one demon who grew a heart makes him seem less unique or interesting when you try to say demons inherently are no different than humans and the evil ones like Mundus are the real outliers.