Devil May Cry anime review
I’m a huge fan of the Devil May Cry video games (minus the horribly neutered Devil May Cry 2). Just before Devil May Cry 4 was released, I was likely at the point where I would have had a child-like obsession with anything stamped with the Devil May Cry logo: If there was a cereal, I would buy it; if there was DMC t-shirts, I’d wear it; if there were condoms that read ‘Force Edge’ on the side, I would endorse them; and if there was a movie or show, I would watch it.
The latter of which actually came true. Surfing the net to feed my horribly obsessive compulsive nature, I stumbled across news that a Devil May Cry anime was in the works. Most of you know that I have a great deal of prejudice against anime; however, being a fan of the ultra violent and demonic series ‘Hellsing’, I was actually looking forward to a stylish, bad-ass show chalked to the brim with gore, language, and all sorts of nasty monsters.
My first impression of the Devil May Cry anime was overwhelmingly positive, based on the few trailers that had been leaked on sites like YouTube and others. Hell, just look at the opening sequence, it’s incomprehensibly badass in every frame. From viewing montages of action clips, I knew that I would have to buy the DVDs, no questions asked. I expedited an order from Amazon.com (because publicly purchasing an anime would make me feel like a deviant buying volumes of midget-clown porn at Wal-Mart), I cut out of work a little early and watched all of the episodes back-to-back the remainder of the night.
At about midnight, I felt just as violated and unclean as though what I had indeed watched a string of twisted fetish videos that was nothing like I had anticipated.
I was sitting on my couch, pondering in a surreal cloud of thought over what I had seen and how starkly it contrasted my own expectations. The best comparison for my feelings is the equivalent of preparing to tear up carpet in a house because there is a nice hardwood floor underneath: You pull up a corner and it looks good, so then you start slicing and dicing strips of carpet, and halfway through you see that the carpet was hiding deep scratches and water damage. The end result is so underwhelming that you can’t help but be pissed by it.
Devil May Cry Anime in a nutshell:
Dante eating strawberry sundaes.
That’s it… The minute that running gag took hold, my entire perception of everything cool about Devil May Cry shattered around me and blew away like dust in the wind. Dante, the half-demon, monster slaying, crazy-bitch pimping hero of the series eats pretty pink strawberry sundaes like it’s no tomorrow. Also the fact that Dante and his friend, Morrison, are living out a gay fantasy involving adopting a little girl together just tops the cake and makes me question the underlying tones of the series.
Click here to read the Devil May Cry anime reviews by ONOE and LaughingMan.
4 Responses to “Devil May Cry anime review”
Say, you got that Lady&Trish pic in fullsize?
Andways, I’ve never watched the Anime series, and for that I’m glad.
hey u do know they r making another game right it is called DMC and not devil may cry 5 and in this game dante looks younger with black hair with a patch of white hair if you want to see the trailer here type this in the search bar Devil May Cry 5 – TGS 2010 Announcement Trailer my bad mis spelled dante
I did! And I’ll have to wait until I see more before I can get too excited about it. So from what I hear “DMC” is a prequel to “Devil May Cry 3″?
The Devil May Cry series is honestly awesome in my opinion, and as far as the games go they have been slowly getting worst since the second. Devil May Cry 5, with the new, black haired, scrawny, emo-kid, Dante realllly pisses me off. It’s not that it wouldve been a terrible game or anything, but it is not part of what Devil May Cry is and they shouldnt have tried to make it be.
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