Devil May Cry

Can you name a single video game that was turned into a movie that wasn't an extremely terrible film that failed in all regards? Now can you name a good videogame that was turned into an anime that wasn't terrible? Alright...you can probably name a whole bunch, alot from the choose-your-own-adventure genres. However Devil May Cry is more like a terrible video game movie. If you've ever played, or seen someone play, Devil May Cry then you know the style of the game quite well. The quality and feel of the anime is nothing like that of the original videogame.

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.

At the time of my writing this review, I have attempted to watch past the first episode of the Devil May Cry anime four times. After I completerd the first episode I decided to leave it for a while, hoping that one day I would be in the mood for a stylish but brainless anime. Months later... I have realised this will not happen.

The story - or lack thereof - is disgusting. Fair enough, the DMC series never was known for its plot lines, but there is a huge difference between playing and watching (which is highlighted particularly by this anime). I actually had ... to force myself to finish the first episode. There was a basic 'transport this girl to this place' thing going on... punctuated by a bunch of demons popping up and almost killing someone, before Dante appeared out of nowhere and killed them EVERY SINGLE TIME. There was no character development either... just a stereotypically cool Dante doing all the stylish stuff we could make him do in the games. The sound was predictable and boring - Dante listens to hard rock because he's awesome; we get it.

The one thing this anime does have going for it is the art. It is relatively well-presented and ultra-stylish. That really doesn't make up for how remarkably poor every other aspect of it is.

In all honesty, I wish that I had discovered this anime somewhere in the middle of puberty, when I might actually have been content to kill brain cells by watching a guy shoot monsters over and over and over again. This is the only anime that I have abandoned to date. Steer clear.

I'm not surprised one bit. No, really I'm not. It's a video game to anime/movie translation. Normally, these types of projects are horrible anyway. I'm sure many people know that this is based on the game of the same name, as it followed Dante completing missions by exterminating demons in some very stylish ways. Unfortunately, although the demon killing is present in the series. The greatness that was found in the games is completely lost. Those out there who sat through the Street Fighter Alpha series, Fatal Fury movies, or heaven forbid Art of Fighting. More than likely shouldn't be surprised and already have an ... idea on just how often the mark is missed. The only thing surprising to me is that the fans didn't outright obliterate this bullshit on release date like they did Street Fighter: Generations.

Video game to anime are mainly meant for one particular fan base, and that is fans of the games. However, as a fan of the game myself. I can tell you that this series doesn't do the game any justice at all, and as an anime, Devil May Cry is pretty much unwatchable. Devil May Cry has almost nothing to offer.

There's a dumpster load of reasons to hate this series. Right from the very beginning, I knew this series was going to be bad because Dante was given a chibi character named Patty to baby sit. This character along with many others serves absolutely no purpose, except to provide small repeated comedy relief which was never funny to begin with, and this is among the cliches that are present in this series.

The characters are incredibly bland, and the secondary characters make appearances for no reason other than to squeeze in popular faces from the video game. Outside of the way they fight, the viewer can forget about learning anything about them. The secondary characters who make their appearances are Trish and Lady: two female fighters that aren't even slightly developed, with only very small hints about them thrown out there.

Dante is a decent character sort of yet he's very lame as well. He deals out death packing his usual two pistols with a large sword, but his full abilities are never fully displayed. Even fans of the game should come away disappointed here. Try to imagine Ryu from Street Fighter never using his ultimate attack, which would be the "Hadoken", and you will get the picture. In addition, I find nothing cool about a character whom fights demons, but loses to children and everybody in grown up games. Plus, has a love for cherry sundaes? It just comes off weird to me. Instead, he should be drinking beer, some fuckin' robust, full bodied, imperial stouts or some shit.

The direction is atrocious. The series utilizes an episodic format which happens to become quite repetitive and very predictable. Clients would appear to Dante requesting his services, and each episode ends with some type of battle with a demon. Hints at a greater plot are mentioned very early. Only to be completely dropped and never mentioned again.

Giving a tad bit of credit where it's due. Some of the villains are somewhat interesting with decent abilities, but every last one of them are poorly used in delivering good battles. The action sequences are very boring and lack a lot of imagination. Many of the fight scenes either consist of off screen and unseen action, or are decided in one move victories. This also includes demons that are heavily hyped in to being real threats. The battles are colossal disappointments, and they are cut too short for an action oriented fan whom has binged on a lot of action anime to really be pleased. There are too many action titles out there that very far surpasses this, and I'm talking titles that pre-date this at least a decade. The ending is every bit as unsatisfying, bland, and nonsensical, as every thing that came before it. This series is almost a bigger waste of time than Hell Girl, and that's saying a lot.

Devil May Cry at least stands out with its production values. It definitely looks pretty, and it smoothly blends in 3-D with CG. The artwork brings the Madhouse flavor with scantily clad chicks almost baring it all, and the character designs are very faithful to their video game counterparts. I didn't find any of the designs for the demons to be impressive. Only passable at the very best.

The soundtrack contains a real good opening theme, which is titled "d.m.c.", and quite honestly displays the best animation in the series. Plus, the ending theme is a nice song performed by Rin Oikawa called "I'll Be Your Home", but it's not worth sitting through 20+ minutes of bad anime to hear it. The voice work from the English cast was fine to me. Dante at times delivered some profanity filled lines, which were kind of funny. I can't comment on the Japanese cast, because I would never sit through this more than once.

Devil May Cry is a nightmare for the anime vet and non fans of the game; but as a fan of the game, all this series does is make me want to play through the games for two reasons. Number one: to remind me that Devil May Cry really is a cool and entertaining franchise. Number two: to cleanse my mind of the vacuous tripe I've wasted my time on. I would say avoid this shit, but since it has a high rating I'm probably wasting my time.

Have you guys ever heard that video game base on movie are just merely a product? Well, i remember some crappy video game base on movie game like Transformers, or ET. But maybe some game like Lord of the Ring or maybe the recent Wolverine game for the PC is good. Speaking of game, now i going comment a anime that was base from one of the best game from Capcom call 'Devil May Cry' (wahhhhh.....), and how that i think about it; well, let's find out!

DMC, when it say it going to become an anime; i like any other DMC player are jump for ... joy for it adaption. But after going through all the 12 episode of DMC, i like any other DMC player are down with sorrow and anger that what the hell the director has done on DMC.

The story in this anime are all episodic, each episode are stand alone story until episode 9 or 10 where the real plot has finally started. And each episode are all the same:

1,there is a demon case
2,Dante sitting around and do nothing (or maybe try to annoy Patty stupid problem) until Morrison say 'get your ass up! We got work to do, blah blah blah....'
3,He goes to work, have some help from Lady and Trish
4,He blew the work, mission accomplish and his debt is increase. The End!

That it! Nothing new, no plot that connected to other plot, zero! Until episode 9 or 10.

Sure you have character like Dante, Lady, and Trish to be animated here, and you do have character only for this anime, like Patty, she has been on the series since episode only has 'finally' been serve as a important character on episode 9 or 10, for the rest of the episode she just serve as a annoying brat! And Morrison, Dante agent always try to bring him a good job but end getting mess up by Dante.

For Dante, Lady, and Trish (i still want make a comment on them!), Dante still Dante, like pizza and strawberry, and weild Ebony & Ivory and Rebellion to fight off demon. And the funny thing is, he use his gun more than his sword! Even the director finally let him use it, the sword battle are just temporary! But Trish and Lady still play their role where they supposed to be, to support Dante and take Dante credit!

Animation is good, no less. The shading and everything was good. Even the bike scene in episode 2 are well done. Plus the OP of the series was nice, able to blend in the series as well. But the ED (though i didn't listen that often) was smooth and relax.

What is the credit for us finishing DMC anime? Zero!
What is the credit for them finishing DMC anime?Promoting DMC4!
What is the credit for us buying DMC anime DVD?More DMC4 bonus!

And in my opinion, this bonus are come to nothing and pointless after the real thing is out. The anime just bring down Dante good point and completely destroy the DMC atmosphere. And DMC is not the only one being anime, other like 'Tales of...', '.Hack' did make the series well and on going. And heck, even the live action Resident Evil movie was better than this!

That why product movie, animation, comic or anything that is base on something are mostly not a good thing!

imo devil may cry the anime would be lot better if they stick to the video game story ,i loved the video game however the anime was a huge disappointment ,every episode has the same concept ,sth comes up dante goes out and slashes sth then he saves the day,so if you want some mindless unconnected entertainment it could be a decent anime for you ,but it wasn't my kind of an anime

I am a fan of the game series except dmc 2 of course
I can't understand how capcom didn't sue madhouse due to the poor execution
and how could a studio such madhouse play cheap when it gets to something as the great devil may cry series, they should be ashamed
oh my let's start with the opening, if madhouse took divine hate or taste your blood and made amv quality job I would be happy, but no they settled not only on still images but they added the most annoying guitar I heard in my life
Moving on to the battles, how hard is it to animate most ... of the battles, seriously 60% of the time they shoot the sky or other characters and play stabbing noses or don't even bother animating the whole battle
if somehow they do that they keep dragging it with dialogue like in trish vs lady.

Dante is still cynical which is good and I don't bother if he gives cliche lines from time to time but where did his insults to enemies go.
I mean the animation in the beggining of episode 3 is self explanatory of how cheap and low the production was

I went into DMC with the expectation that the show will be just as good as the games. Boy oh boy was I in for a doozy! It was exactly like the time I watched fate zero where in the end I curse the studio not for making a literal shit-show of a show but making it look promising to lure you in and scalp you like an Italian con artist. So let's get on it shall we before the hoards of fate zero fanatics lynch me for my comment

Essentially DMC has a lot in common with hellsing ultimate in terms of visuals. But ... that is all there is to it. In fact the only good thing one can say about the show Is that its got great visuals. Detailed characterization
, profound character development, superb far reaching storyline, riveting action scenes and intense music that hits you right to the core, all the things that made Hellsing Ultimate so much more than a run of the mill action show? If you hate those than this is the show for you

First off its got exactly zero plot.The first 9 episodes have almost no connection with each other and only pretends to be furthering the plot. The characters are a huge disappointment. Dante is cool just because he's Dante and that's really all there is to him. He's stupidity overpowered, so much so that you'd think an asteroid could hit the earth and it wouldn't even ruffle his ultra stylish attire. He's got more superpowers than Superman including but not limited to coming back from the dead, crossing through separate worlds without help, being the coolest guy to ever inhabit the earth and of course being so above anyone and everyone that you question the fact why Dante isn't president prime minster admiral general Dante of earth. You have lady who's a badass though not on Dantes level Couse well because he's Dante. Trish who doesn't get any screentime, patty the quintisential loli and Morrison a gruff agent who's character is better developed that Dantes to be frank.
So here's the catch. DMC takes a plethora of great characters and totally wastes them.

But that only the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid Couse you're probably saying what do we need character development for in an action anime!!, Some good fight scenes and popcorn is what I'm looking for not the bloody "Paradise lost " you pseudo intellectual ass. But therein my friends lays the greatest disappointment. There's absolutely no bloody action. In fact Dante is so stupidly overpowered that even the climactic season finale battle has only about a minute's worth of fighting most of which is surprise surprise Dante being cool. There is no fight scene that requires Dante swing his sword more that thrice.It makes you think it'll get good right after this and before you know it you've wasted 6 hours of your life. An alternative title to the show could be "cool dude is so cool nothing and no one else matters.

Watching this anime does nothing but make me ask why. Why is dante babysitting a little girl the whole time? Why is the little girl constantly nagging dante? Why does dante complain about everything? Why are all the action scenes off screen? Why is the soundtrack way too exciting for this? Why do characters walking look like cardboard being dragged across the screen? And: HOW IS THIS AN ACCEPTABLE PRODUCT?

I know it was intended to be a lazy cash-in, but this is an insult to lazy cash-ins. You're better off buying green lantern the game than buying a DVD of this. Street fighter movies had ... more effort than this.

Really the only people I can recommend this to are people who want to find some good music.you won't be disappointed. The soundtrack is simply incredible. The opening song hypes you up so much, anyone can stay awake through a show a boring as this.

You've all heard about the horrors of video game movies: They're ludicrous messes of distorted, mismatched plot elements that show no respect for the source material. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is not necessarily limited to Western games. In Japan, prominent games are regularly made into anime series, and more often than not, they end up just as convoluted as their western equivalents. Devil May Cry, as most of you readers probably already know, is a fairly successful video game franchise developed by Japanese publisher Capcom. It was only a matter of time until someone decided to make an anime out of it. Well, nothing can possibly ... go wrong here, can it?

The anime series in question is Devil May Cry: The Animated Series. It follows the misadventures of Dante, a tall, half-demon man that fights other demons with automatic pistols and a nine-foot-long sword. There are other characters, too, but none of them are particularly interesting, nor do any of them stand out as unique or dynamic. Dante is the owner of "Devil May Cry," a business that investigates demons... or something. That's about as far as the plot gets before it decides to throw storytelling out the window. Who are these demons? Why are they attacking? What do they want? Why is Dante hunting them? Well, the writers didn't seem to think any of these questions were very important, because they didn't bother to answer them. I guess they couldn't cut a few minutes out of the fight scenes to make room.

Oh yes, the fight scenes. So very many mindless fight scenes, complete with copious levels of gore. Let me put it this way: The title for this show would probably be more accurate if it were "Dante Stabs Demons in the Face." Now, don't get me wrong, I like fight scenes, and I can see why an anime based on an action game would want to have a lot of fight scenes. But when the fight scenes preclude any form of storytelling, as they do in Devil May Cry, then I can't see the justification in making an anime series at all. The only story elements that are given any time are those that set up the given episode's action sequences. Anything else is apparently not worth the time - including things like, say, concluding the episode.

For example, in the first episode, Dante is tasked with guarding a young girl named Patty, who is apparently the illegitimate heir of a local rich man who just passed away. Okay, that's simple enough. Then, as the climax of the episode draws near, another woman shows up at the man's mansion to claim the inheritance, claiming that she is actually the heir and the girl was a decoy. Except she's in her twenties and the man (presumably) wasn't that old. So who's the real heir? The "epic" fight scene of the episode ensues, but in the aftermath, the issue is promptly dropped without any explanation. To boot, the woman who claimed she was the real heir asks to help take care of Patty, completely out of the blue. What's the history behind these two characters? No matter, the credits abruptly roll, and then we never see her again. Thanks, Devil May Cry, I guess concluding your own stories isn't important after all.

I do have to give credit where credit is due, though. Despite all of its many faults, Devil May Cry is very well animated. The fight scenes and action sequences, countless as they are, are all fluidly animated. The backgrounds are crisp and clear, and provide a good contrast to the characters that inhabit them. Devil May Cry just looks good, and if there's one thing I can say about the series as a whole, it's that it definitely had a big budget.

But at the same time, when you realize the work that went into this show, it's distressing that the writing managed to come out so badly. Did they just hire a hundred animators and one writer? Didn't anyone see a problem with leaving entire episodes' worth of story hanging without any sort of conclusion? Perhaps it's better not to analyze it so closely; no matter how much you pick apart and examine a train wreck, it's still a train wreck.

Devil May Cry



I have no knowledge of the game series or any other diverse information regarding the DMC franchise. Accordingly, I can only rate this anime without any insider knowledge.



This title starts out pretty incoherently. The protagonist named Dante accepts an assignment and has to fight his way through demons for several episodes. And then he takes the next one and so on. On the way to the goal, there are more and more demons, there is shooting, there is blood, and then comes the finale and ... big demons and even more blood and action.

Maybe there is some comedy in the middle ... and one or the other noteworthy conversation. For the most part, however, this remains very sluggish and meaningless work. As a game, this would certainly be more than enough, provided the gameplay is good. But as a 12 episode anime, this was way weaker than expected.


Story:

There are practically none. Most of the characters in the series should apparently already be known practically, not really introduced. The missions are quite linear and practically nothing happens up to XP 10.


Animations / Pictures:

Mostly average. Usually, there are only still images, but the representation of the surroundings, as well as the battles, is quite solid.


Characters:

The protagonist is pretty empty and has hardly any personality, at least in the anime adaptation. Apart from the fact that he's a badass, out of luck, and always in debt, nothing is known about him.

The remaining characters are the same or even emptier.

Music:

The intro is solid and recognizable. The Osts are also quite pleasant and go very well with the work. Some really get stuck in your ears.


Conclusion


I can hardly say if I would enjoy this work more if I knew the game series. However, I can only experience this in the future. The work itself, however, is quite average and hardly offers anything special.