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........ You know what? I think I'll give Netflix's Devil May Cry Season 2 a hard pass after all.
sunday mass with the boyfriend aka the son of sparda
he's the most adorable thing ☹️
I am once again in shambles over little Vergil and Dante
I can't go through this chapter of Visions of V without crying because of it
my biggest hope for the new Devil May Cry anime is that it doesn't lose what makes DMC so cool, which is the sheer brazen uncoolness of its characters.
Dante is a middle-aged man who is semi-unemployed and constantly late on rent because his shop is in the middle of nowhere and nobody knows what he does. every time he gets a job he destroys two houses because he can't help showing off to absolutely no one. he loves his mom, pizza, and strawberry sundaes. he doesn't smoke. he doesn't drink. he doesn't curse. his place of business is decorated with posters of scantily-clad women but as far as we're aware, he has never had sex.
Vergil is Dante's older twin by a couple hours whose superiority complex originates in how he's Dante's older twin by a couple hours. he spent his childhood reading William Blake poetry but doesn't understand it. he runs around with just a katana because he considers guns to be "cowardly." he has only had sex once in his entire life. this resulted in him becoming a deadbeat dad, but not even the archetypical "cool" kind because he is somehow convinced that Nero is Dante's kid. we have actual in-canon confirmation that if he wasn't part demon, he would be a melodramatic pretentious poetry-obsessed twink. Vergil abandons his pursuit of power not jusf for the sake of Nero but because Nero is his power realized - his legacy - the ability to protect loved ones without killing them. he loves Nero but will never under any circumstances admit it because he has the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. instead he throws a journal of William Blake poems at him and jumps off a cliff.
compared to the rest of his living family, Nero is thriving. he has a job, a house, a wife, and several foster kids. when a suspicious hobo shows up on his doorstep he invites him in for dinner. he thinks Dante is his dad. Dante knows Nero is his brother's kid because he has never had sex. Nero is viewed by Dante as an incompetent child who needs guidance and protection despite Nero being a grown adult and being more mature than Dante and Vergil in every way and yet neither of them will ever acknowledge this. when Nero hears about Dante and Vergil's battle-to-the-death rivalry he decides it's stupid and shoves them apart like they're two kids in a playground brawl. he's the dad now. fuck you.
Politics? In my Devil May Cry?
Okay so here are my personal opinions on Netflix's Devil May Cry
*Spoilers ahead*
So starting off I will say that I am a casual Devil May Cry fan (and have been for many years). I am also aware that this Netflix series is non-canon and I know that they were planning to go in a different direction with their own take on the Devil May Cry story and its characters. How it all panned out though? Personally, I think I walked away from this Netflix series a little less than lukewarm on it. Now I didn't outright hate it, but it fell pretty flat for me.
But, I want to be fair and start out with the things I liked.
I really liked the White Rabbit, both as this season's villain and as a character. My favorite part of the entire show was his backstory episode. I loved the direction of the story telling and the art. It was kind of jarring watching that episode to be honest, in a good way! I felt like I was watching an entirely different (and better) show for those 10 minutes. I felt like the White Rabbit was strangely the character that we as an audience had more of a chance to connect with over the others.
I really liked JYB's performance as Dante. He did a great job, even though my brain is so used to hearing him as Nero. I think JYB was definitely going for a younger (and less experienced) Dante and I think it worked well for the show!
Cavaliere Angelo (despite being mostly glaring CGI that stood out like a sore thumb) was pretty cool.
The plasma demon was also pretty cool for a side character demon guy.
I enjoyed Enzo when he wasn't being an exposition machine and just had some opportunities to banter with Dante. I think their occasional banter was the only time in the show I chuckled (outside of the last line in the season--that had me rolling because Vergil being unironically lame always makes me cackle💙)
The action scenes were fire!!🔥
Baby Vergil and Dante!! They were so cute! 😭💖
And now onto the things that made the show fall flat for me:
Lady. I'm sorry, but I just didn't vibe with the direction they took her. Lady doesn't need to swear every other line. She also doesn't need to posture like she's compensating for something. I understand that they may have been leaning hard into her standoffishness that she had at the beginning of DMC3, but outside of a few moments of self-reflection (which really didn't amount to much in the end) that's all she really was. Seriously, it felt like the show's creators were trying WAY too hard to make her "cool". My guy, listen, there is no need for that nonsense. Lady was already cool.
I sadly didn't laugh very much during the series. I don't know, the humor just didn't tickle my funny bone for some reason. Dante's one liners in the games usually do, but it just didn't hit the same in this series.
The whole dumb southern president and the rich, evil VP who pulls all the strings and runs a secret organization of demon hunters was pretty uninspired in my opinion. And I don't know, maybe it's just that the timing was bad given all the political insanity that is happening in the world currently, or maybe the show just focused way too hard on these characters/themes, but I just didn't enjoy any of the political and social commentary parts of the story. Especially since it came at the expense of time for us to get to know and explore the characters.
Despite this show’s promotional material leading us to believe it was about Dante and his family, this season felt like it was mostly dedicated to Lady and her squad/evil boss. All of which are characters that are very blatantly tied to the show’s political message and subsequently, making me care for them far less (sorry Lady, I loved you in the games, but not here). It's not a good sign for the likability of the characters when I ended cheering when Lady's squad was taken out. "Finally!", thought I, "They can stop focusing on these randoms and give us more Dante screentime!"
Branching off of this, did anyone else feel like Dante was a secondary character in his own show? Cause it did to me.
Now my next point is that the show didn’t land emotional scenes very well (except for episode 6, the one good episode that wasn’t even trying to be dmc). For example, Enzo's act of sacrifice at the end for…seemingly no reason? It felt like it came out of nowhere. Dante was not on the brink of death when Enzo put himself in the line of fire. Hey Enzo, did you forget that this man can survive a literal bomb to the face? It honestly was so forced and so nonsensical and the "emotional" scene that it was trying to build ended up falling totally flat.
Final point: Vergil is Mundus’ lapdog now? Willingly? That’s quite off course for his character in the games. But I’ll keep an open mind to see where they go with his character. I’m sad to say given what they did with Lady, I’m not very optimistic.
Final, final point: Vergil’s devil trigger/Nelo Angelo design looks like it was still in the first draft phase. 😬
That's about all of my initial thoughts. Overall, I respect the show for trying to do its own thing and I'm glad that some folks had a great time watching it! For me personally though, this show was more of a miss than a hit. Maybe season 2 will be a bit more up my alley.
⚠️Netflix's Devil May Cry Spoilers ahead!!
How bout that ending huh?
"The sapiens and their armies, unaware of the storm they ride into. I am that storm."
*BURY THE LIGHT INTENSIFIES*
Wow. Nintendo's greed truly knows no bounds.
To be fair though, most video game companies have been flushing consumer friendliness and accessibility to their games (both past and present) down the toilet for years now. And let me tell you, nothing takes the wind out of my sails more than these gaming companies that want to bleed you absolutely dry just for a base (and sometimes even limited) experience of their games. Shame on the lot of them.
my need to draw stupid DMC shit lately has been…a mood
DID SOMEONE SAY BURY THE LIGHT?!!!
the reveal that vergil used to wear sweater vests,,,, it checks out
The villagers in Fields of Mistria have so much personality and lots to say! For instance, they each have interesting comments about the donations you make to the museum and will also comment on festivals and events. However, I do wish that they had some more unique comments during extreme weather like thunderstorms (maybe we will get typhoons and blizzards in future updates?). I'd love the villagers and LIs in Fields of Mistria to have unique reactions whenever they see the farmer out in bad weather.
It would be so funny to see LIs like March and Juniper scold the farmer for being out in the storm (while begrudgingly offering them shelter), or Hayden and Celine shocked to see the farmer outside during a borderline hurricane and telling them to come in so they can fix them up something warm. Balor is used to traveling through bad weather, so he'd be less worried but offer the farmer one of his trusty cloaks to help keep them dry.
LADY GAGA ✝ ABRACADABRA (2025)
Birdwatching is great because you get to be in touch with nature and learn something about your surroundings, but I also love it because birds make me laugh. Look at these goofballs! I am sure I will go through all these emotions this week too 😆
"Live and suffer." Is the intention of that phrase meant to be a direct contrast to Vash's catchphrase "Love and Peace"?
Listen, I don't play Love and Deepspace (barely know anything about it tbh), but you're telling me that this dating sim has combat with giant space monsters, a plethora of otome tropes galore, gambling, clingy otome yandere men, AND A PERIOD TRACKER???
Shut up, that's genius.
I HAD TO GUYS IM SORRY IM SO HYPED
TRIGUN NATION HOW WE FEELIN!!!!
the tagline of trigun going from stampede's "ready, steady, roll!!" to stargaze's "live and suffer" oh we're really in it now lads
*SCREAMING*
AAAAA @drunkenlion look at him!! 😍💞
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Something something when your dragon boyfriend sheds his immortal state to save you from an evil scroll
obsessed with the idea that the farmer and Caldarus are like,, lovers through different lifetimes, OBSESSED