Devil May Cry: Season 1 | Review Thread

Draugoth

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Demon hunter Dante is at the center of the Adi Shankar animated series adaptation of the Capcom video game series of the same name.​

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Collider - 90/100
Devil May Cry isn't just one of the best new animated shows of 2025, it's one of the best shows of the year so far overall, and one that's deserving of the same level of success that Castlevania has rightly enjoyed.
RogerEbert.com - 80/100
“Devil May Cry” effectively translates the game’s kinetic pacing with a short story that takes place over 48 hours or less for its eight-episode first season. It’s a frenzied, adrenaline rush as swift as the swords Dante wields in both pacing and style, best to digest in one easy binge.
IGN - 80/100
Devil May Cry is not without flaws, including horrendous use of CG, bad jokes, and predictable characters. And yet, Adi Shankar and Studio Mir craft a fun video-game adaptation that doubles as a deranged, bonkers, and bold homage to and indictment of '00s Americana.
Looper - 70/100
It's undeniably an acquired taste, and as someone who previously wasn't familiar with the game series, I completely understand why anybody would bail after a single half hour in the presence of the irritating man-child bounty hunter Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch). However, I must confess that the show managed to trigger my post-Y2K nostalgia, so indebted to the pop culture of that decade that it made me feel reverence for a video game I've never played in my life.
The AV Club - 67/100
The dialogue sometimes reaches a little too hard to find its edge or gets too caught up in winking references, including one to Iron Man 3 in which a character shrieks about flying armor. Not that the series often gives a lot of time to dwell on these downsides. It moves with lightning peed, bouncing from one frenetic fight sequence to another.
 
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Puscifer

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Looper's review has me interested because it seems like it stands on it's own but it's better without a love of the series. I'll give it a chance, why not.
 

Atrus

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Finished episode 2 and I thought this was pretty good. Studio Mir, Kevin Conroy, M rating, filled with references from the game. Reminds me of the first Castlevania series that went on to be really well done by the end.
 
Watched half of the show (4 episodes) so far. Edit: Watched it all. They have some fun cameos, references, and hidden gems that I won't spoil, but it feels like the people who made this really dig Capcom and their style.

So far this show feels like a mixture between DMC 1, DMC 3, and DmC (Relax, I only added DmC because of the amount of cursing). The story technically takes place as a retelling of the events before and during the start of 3, so expect DMC 3-style Dante through and through.

However, the show really knows how to have a fun time whenever Dante is on screen and he steals the spotlight every time with ease.

If I were to rate this show, it would be "DBZ Anime Movie" out of 10.

If anyone here is a DBZ fan you'd know what I mean. If you had fun watching DBZ movies like Broly, Bojack, Android 13, or World's Finest, you'd know that you'd get a pretty fun, engaging, and entertaining movie yet it doesn't quite match up timeline-wise with actual canon events, and the character portrayal is very close but with a slight change here or there. There's only one episode which skirts the line of being too experimental and oddly paced, even though I get what they were trying to go for. The rest was a fun ride.
 
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yazenov

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Would it actually matter if they made character X you dont really care about gay or black?

Watched the whole things, its just as gay and black as the Devil May Cry games.

I know you're being a tiny prick as its seems to be your persona here, but yes it does if they race swap characters or put a chick in it and make her gay.

I'd bet that most people and fans of the game would like the adaptation to stick to the original source material. If you want to virtue signal and earn some EGS points, make your own damn orginal material instead.
 
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NahaNago

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It was enjoyable. The 6.9 score makes sense. I kind of wish they went with more of darker horror style. Dante's speed fluctuates quite a bit it feels like. One sec he can defeat everyone from humans to demons in the flash of an eye and the next he looks like he is struggling with people at regular speed.
 

Shockwave_Fox

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I watched the first 2 episodes and thought they were OK - the girl with the 2 different eyes is so cringe though, her character, whst she says and how she says it.....really bad.

How does Dante manage to decimate and dodge bullets through hordes of mercenaries but then cant manage to catch the rope thing.....

Might watch the rest but feel pretty meh about it already.
 
I watched the first 2 episodes and thought they were OK - the girl with the 2 different eyes is so cringe though, her character, whst she says and how she says it.....really bad.

How does Dante manage to decimate and dodge bullets through hordes of mercenaries but then cant manage to catch the rope thing.....

Might watch the rest but feel pretty meh about it already.
Isn't that girl Lady? Quite weird how Dante and Lady meet this early then don't regconize each other in DMC 3.

Btw the series is okay, I personally don't like Dante's voice and how Lady keep cursing but the action scenes are good.
 
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deriks

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Isn't that girl Lady? Quite weird how Dante and Lady meet this early then don't regconize each other in DMC 3.

Btw the series is okay, I personally don't like Dante's voice and how Lady keep cursing but the action scenes are good.
I believe that the series is not canon.
It's not

Still, stupid decision to make her "better" than he
 

near

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"Hey Capcom, what's Devil May Cry about?"
"Well, it's about an overpowered guy that likes pizza and kills really evil demons"
"Hm, I see I see. But hear me out: what if we made it about... America bad, killing innocent demon children?"
"クソアメリカの社会正義の戦士たち"
Based on the first episode, yeah, there's definitely some subtextual social and political commentary. I wasn't a fan of that, personally.
 

Toots

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I know people like them but imo every Adi Shankar animated series is horrid esthetically speaking.

Art direction is ugly and unoriginal at the same time, drawings are disproportionnated as fuck, and he only hires retarded animators (which is nice of him but seriously it is so unprofessionnal compared to "real" studio animators).

My bet is that he outsource everything in India, and that's why it all look so shitty.

EDIT : finally watched the series and i have to admit, i was talking out of my ass, and this is a long way from what i've seen of the dracula tv show. The animation is good most of the times, character design is good (still quite unoriginal). Story is very by the book and quite preachy at times but decent enough as a way to go from fight scenes to fight scenes. Still there are many plotholes or unstatifying explainations for the amount of praise this tiny hindu man with strange eyebrows gets.

Favorite episode, like a lot of people i guess, is the "origin story" episode, i wish they had the balls to make it entirely silent.

I spend 5 episodes wondering why shankar was called aoi in the credits, then remember it was the type of weird homosexual manga and thought to myself "of course, that goddam degenerate", then i remembered that it's not aoi but yaoi so i was flabbergasted.
 
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Reizo Ryuu

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Only watched one ep but it seems fun so far? fake vergil entering with "I am the storm that is approaching..." was pretty hype though lol.
 

Gojiira

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I actually kinda liked it, they actually gave hell some genuine care, its a actual realm with more than just monsters. Tbf the games have always *hinted* at the Demon realm being way more complicated than we’ve actually seen so thats a positive for the series.
The episode about Rabbits backstory was really well done, and the way they handled Dante,Sparda and the Force Edge. USA being essentially bigger cunts than the Demon Realm is also hilarious.
As for the bad…The way they handle Lady, I like that they kept her general backstory with her father, but shes arrogantly bitchy and gets way too screentime constantly getting one over on Dante,and well see what happens at the end. I dont like the aesthetics of Darkcom, they dont feel like DMC characters at all. Dantes first DT is literally just Neros Devil Bringer…On the one hand its his first transformation and its a kinda cool throwback but he gets a proper,cooler DT right after in a pretty cool sequence. But yeah he doesnt get impaled…Rebellion is irrelevant…Sigh..
Also the weird use of DMC1-4-5 bosses is kinda odd. At least they actually do something.
I will say this, at LEAST they kept the important details accurate to the games, animation is good at times, bad at others, and season 2 tease looks pretty interesting. Better interpretation than DmC: Donte Must Cry.
 
To me it already looked like shit in the reveal trailer and this confirms my suspicions. Then, again, you must not expect anything good from Netflix.

Verdict: trash.
 

dDoc

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Went in with very low expectations since it's Netflix, but this was surprisingly entertaining over all.

Gets the dDoc thumbs up, worth a watch.
 

Black_Stride

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I know you're being a tiny prick as its seems to be your persona here, but yes it does if they race swap characters or put a chick in it and make her gay.

I'd bet that most people and fans of the game would like the adaptation to stick to the original source material. If you want to virtue signal and earn some EGS points, make your own damn orginal material instead.

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Dante is on the damn poster, he is NOT Dantelle or whatever.
No ones sex life is explored so who gives a shit.

Mate, a half demon lord is going around killing demons......who gives a shit if he gets buggered when hes off camera?
Ya'll worrying about all the wrong things.

The US vice president being so overt is nothing short of hilarious.
I actually enjoyed most of his scenes cuz its such a caricature he reminds me of Senator Armstrong.
During the falling out the plane scene the cat is so calm and straight up saying god will handle it, my buddies and I were cackling and didnt want him to die just so we could keep having scenes of him being "saved"......bonus marks for the president almost certainly being gay.
 

SHAKEZ

Member
I watched it and it's meh, also the way they're portraying demons at the end is nothing short of ridiculous, straight out of orcs protecting their "families" in the LOTR series.
 

Draugoth

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Just finished watching, if you ignore the games this is a good watch, but if you area die hard DmC fan you will hate this with a passion
 
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