Story: Lame. That single, bland word perfectly describes the storyline of this anime. I wonder sometimes what the storywriters were thinking when they sat down to write this anime. They clearly didn't put any heart or soul into this, and I hope that they had other projects that they deemed more important than this. The real storyline begins in about episode 4-5. When you have 12 episodes to tell a story in, and you spend the first third of the anime doing self contained episodes you know that you're off to a terrible start. Even the story that they decide to throw in is terrible and quickly forgettable.
Art: Some people praise the art, I however find it terrible to anything it tries to do. The art is very clunky, the people seem to be squares and triangles and circles thrown together, the fluidity of the people is nonexistant. Anyone who's seen the game knows what Dante looks like, and in the anime version he loses everything that makes him so cool in the game. I got a very generic feeling from the art, it didn't seem that they were taking any risks, they were just doing the same old things over and over and the art seemed really stale.
Sound: The sound is good, the effects are good, the music is good. I believe with almost absolute certainty that they took a lot of the music from the game itself and I found it was the single thing that I was connecting with as I watched with.
Character: On the outside Dante is a badass. A pizza-eating, Strawberry Sundae drinking badass. And on the inside? Well...he's a badass. And he's lazy. He will beat up anyone, especially demons, because they piss him off. And while he's exorcising the demons and doing whatever it is he does he doesn't seem to care at all. Cause nothing is more badass than killing bad guys while not seeming to care about it at all. Now....as the writers sat down they must have thought "hmm...how exactly do we make a better anime when the main character is a rude, pizza-eating badass?" and some guy went "OH! MY! GOD! We add....a CUTE LITTLE GIRL! Who talks a lot and is a central part of the storyline so basically Dante is forced to stick beside her...people will LOVE IT!" However...it doesn't work because it's been done a thousand times before, and it was original 10 years ago....and it was fresh then too. But now it's not. They also throw in characters from the games, but it feels forced and is quite annoying for anyone who's played the games.
Enjoyment: Honestly, after episode 4 I stopped paying attention at all. I really, really didn't care after episode 6. After episode 8 I could barely sit through each episode. So I can honestly say that I didn't enjoy this anime at all. At all.
I wouldn't really recommend this to anyone who enjoys the game series. It's such a huge disappointment if you're expecting it to be the game. However some people might really enjoy this anime, however I've never met anyone who enjoyed it. The only good point is that it's only 12 episodes, so even if you hate it it's only 4 hours of your life....that you'll never get back.
