Is The Devil May Cry Anime As Good As You Remember? Devil May Cry The Animated Series Retrospective 

1:43 For anyone who doesn’t know or hasn’t kept up to date with the timeline, prior to 5’s release Capcom retconned the timeline order. It used to be 3142. Now it’s 3, 1, anime, 2, 4 and 5. It would explain why Dante wasn’t his usual self in the anime and 2, he’s a post DMC1 Dante still coming to terms with losing Vergil not once but twice at that point in the story. Since 4 he’s back to his old self due to still having family (Nero)

I still enjoy the anime very much. Hope the new anime is just as good.

Underrated show nice slice of life about Dante and awesome soundtrack I love the mermaid rock song and the ending song. People that say the show is boring and Dante is too serious don’t understand that Dante is pretty depressed since he still dealing with the lost of Vergil and having no family left

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I love the music in this anime especially the opening theme song

It's pretty Shocking that the 2007 DMC Anime was Directed by the same Guy that would make the Awful CGI Berserk 2016/2017 Anime.

I liked the different take on Dante this anime had Not my favourite but was very good regardless

Hyped for the New anime Button 👍 Edit: Dante looks so sick in the old as well as new anime 🔥

Can we talk about how Rebellion wouldn't fit in a guitar case at all? Unless it's a magical case that shrinks the sword like in the Zelda cartoon. Or maybe it's a bass case? :-P

I loved 2007 Anime, and I rather would have liked that Madhouse takes this over again. I don't believe that the Netflix adaptation, with Adi Shankar, can even get close to the dmc anime masterpiece.

Funny enough, the Anime was what got me into DMC. I also hated the English dub voice since I started with the thick, confident Japanese voice. My opinion only change when I got into DMC 3

I don't think I ever considered The DMC animated series to be good at all when it came to the story. Felt like a lot of wasted potential that we fans have been waiting to see. However, the main reason I stuck around was because of the smooth crispy animation, the badass music/opening, and of course the main reason, Daddy Dante. Whenever this man took off his coat and it was the vest with the black sleeves, I just wanted to load DMC 3 again just to use that fit!

HEAVY TLDR BIG FEELINGS⚠️ I really think anyone reading this should realize, as a fan, I'm after quality and fairly criticizing EVERYTHING. .. This anime has good things going but so much wasted potential. In short it always looked like the creators have no idea what to settle for in terms of pace, tone and consistency. The story could've been salvageable if it isn't so obvious the creators have not narrowed down the right vision for this anime. It's obvious the DMC anime is a mix of a slice of life and gothic-noir genre, with the Monster of the Day gimmick. But the approach to it was lifeless and boring. The action scenes are literally them transitioning to a cut-to-black scene, which means there is barely any fight scenes at all. And of course, this is just a nitpick, but the umm....Morrison's racial change....👀 I have a feeling that had something to do with either a color diversity "quota" OR, my personal theory, is that they made Morrison black because they have to match it with Phineas from DmC: Devil May Cry...he's black-coded and Phineas is Dante's informant in the reboot. But that's just my game theory. I have nothing against black characters. But Morrison's changes was unnecessary. The best parts are that we do get glimpses of Dante's everyday life...although I have to say there's barely anything about it. 99% of it is him lounging around and doing nothing. I wish we have introspective thoughts or flashbacks from Dante. Or we get to spend more personal times with him, where he goes to places that reminds him of what's important or anything. Anything at all! The other characters, particularly Patty, are truly the ones carrying the show. Which is a bummer. This anime is Devil May Cry, it's supposed to be about Dante, but instead he sometimes feels like deadweight😤 Oh well, at least him, Trish and Lady are hot.

I know what Studio Reuben is referring to in the podcast. It was ADV... I was there during ADV's downfall. One of their last releases was the first two volumes of the Devil May Cry Anime, but the third and final volume would get a Funimation release years later after their properties were sold to multiple anime publishers. And ADV by reputation are a mixed bag when it came to their Dubs. During the 90's they owned the Evangelion license, but they also had some underrated gems such as Gunsmith Cats and my guilty pleasure being the 90's Tekken Anime.

i played them for the first time now and yes they are amazing maybe except second one dmc 1 8/10 dmc 2 5.5/10 dmc3 9.5/10 dmc4 7/10 i might change to 7.5 for dmc4 because playing as vergil is super fun

One thing that everyone can agree on, the opening theme fucking slaps‼️

I think you are the first person I've seen mention the race change for Morrison and expressing how weird of a change it was.

Short answer: Yes, it's as good as I'd remembered it

I love opening them song for devil may cry anime it was really awesome and badass.

"Desperado" is a great movie, and I do believe they put some moves from it in the Gunslinger style. I liked the anime and the "demon of the week" pacing... the Abigail plot was a little disappointing, I expected more. As a standalone anime, I think it works fine; it's entertaining and in line with short animes released at the same time, nothing too ambitious.

Commenting before watching the video, but I just got started with the franchise 5 months ago, played the games 3,1,2, watched all the DMC4 cutscenes, and 5 Anime was a fun watch, but the animation was super janky, fights had no choreography and the ends of the episodes always felt rushed, like all the budget was gone about 17 minutes in. And the main demon's name is Abigail smh. That's more than likely a translation issue of some sort, because aint NO WAY the writers thought that was a good name lol (also prefer black Morrison to white. Only time blackwashing is justified ever lol)

Short answer: Hell no. Sadly, Toshiki Inoue was not the right person to be headwriter. But people love overusing him because he saved Super Sentai back in the day, and been writing numerous Kamen Rider projects and anime.

I liked the music the story, music, and art style/animation of the 2007 anime but the action is a bit lacking(he just sticks with Rebellion and E&I I don't even think he uses Coyote A/the shotgun). The newer Netflix series trailer seems to be ramping up the action(I say everything but the CGI motorcycle looked good). Also feels weird that Reuben isn't voicing Dante in the new show. Best of luck to Johnny.

My favorite was the poker episode

It's a good Anime, but it does have it's draw backs. Episode 4 is my favorite episode.

I watched it a few weaks ago and ik that it has it's bad sides like the lack of action but I just love it it was so fun to watch

Future in my hands is the best song I listened too in the past decade 🥰💕 in the mermaid rock episode

This and Adi's version are both great. No need for comparison.

Okay but real question. Why do you look like a lost brother of Brandon Routh?

"As good as you remember?" is a little too generous of a title, innit?

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did I just glimpse you placed DMC1 on C tier? You are not worthy of that name, sir. Remove it at once!

Super excited for it!

Great video

2024 + 2025

I would say it was alright but Devil may cry shouldn’t 😂have a supernatural /Smallville approach meaning having episodic stuff then the last episodes the story kicks in. Now this Netflix show has the chance to have better action and hopefully a continuous story instead of an Episodic Cowboy bebop /supernatural thing going on. The op is still amazing the characters designs are great the dub has the precious Reuben but it was just decent . This new show seems to be a amalgamation of material kinda like they did wit Castlevania on Netflix so we got enemies from 3,4 , 1,2, reference to DMC 5 when u log into Netflix you see Dante with a cowboy hat etc . Hopefully Enzo is in this new show hopefully we get a look at Vergil and lady in the new show . Since we combining stuff might as well throw Trish in there I guess

Awsome job dude. Love the video. Also, love the fact that you went back to watch the anime. This is a hidden gem, and i loved watching it during my freshmen year. Nice video man. Keep up the awsome work man!

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Finally a reason to have netflix Can't wait for it

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I just finished the show over a week ago, they just made Dante so weak and depressed and he didn’t even fight that much (best episode has to be the one where he goes to prison)

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