Leylore

Happy 4/13 everyone, have the strilonde siblings making music together!

(SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE SHOW)

I enjoyed it like i enjoyed the DmC reboot. As part of the DMC franchise i hate it but as it’s own separate timeline thing it’s ok.

The DMC anime is literally any super hero netflix show ever: main character against the governement also it’s set in new york now and it has lots of futuristic cyberpunk-ish elements because it’s the trend (why are they trying to explain everything with science like demons, portals or Dante’s amulet).

There was so much unecessary exposition and everytime something happened on screen someone re explained what we just saw. The whole villain explaining their plan out loud or “haha i figured your plan, it’s [insert plan]” and the rabbit is like “yes you figured it out”. Show don’t tell. The people watching aren’t stupid.

Episode 6 was the best because characters weren’t talking and they show us what we need to understand without saying it out loud. Also Rabbit's backstory was nice.

I know the anime is supposed to be set in a different timeline but the whole humans are evil and demons are mostly good is spitting in the face of all of DMC. The whole point of DMC is Vergil will never be as strong as Dante because he rejects his humanity, but now humanity is really bad and demons kinda good. They changed hell to be just kind of another country with pretty much regular people when it’s supposed to be hell with demons.

Episode 1

-Too much exposition

-Why is there politicians in my demon hunting show

-When you're happy we're finally getting a Dante centered thing because it's been a while and they hit you with random politicians talking for 30 minutes and 2 to 3 minutes of dante

-Loving my 2 minutes of Dante though

-He's great

-TOO MUCH EXPOSITION

-Why did they name drop New York, where is my time and place blurry world building, like every place we saw in the games/novels where based on real places but weren't real places like Mallet island, Dumary Island, Fortuna, Red Grave. Also not every show has to be set in New York ok netflix

-Again who put these politicians in my demon hunting show and why are they talking about irrelevent things like demon dna and the quantum physics of opening portals to hell i don't want science i want dante

-Vergil introduced way too fast where is the mystery netflix? We don't need answers right away mystery is not a crime i beg of you stop over explaining all the lore in the very first episode

Note: meta joke in the governement file's data on Dante it states "Dante go on his mission like he's playing a video game" for those who didn't catch that

Episode 2:

-Cool that they introduced Dante's mercenary past from the novel

-Jet pack boots thingy Lady??? (She looks really cool tho)

-The dialogues are very netflix show coded, not insufferable but it can get annoying at time

-Why are they introducing so many random characters can we see Dante for more than 2 minutes per episode

-Enzo you little rat (very in character tho)

-After another painful 10 minutes of politicians we are allowed a minute of dante, how lucky, now let's wait another 20 minutes before seeing him again

-I don't really see Dante telling Enzo some demon attacked him looking like his brother or mentioning personal stuff like that in general to anyone

-Ok a Dante scene longer than 2 minutes WE ARE SO BACKK

-Dante's backstory in episode 2, again, a bit of mystery won't kill us netflix

-Classic billiards fighting scene yess that's what we want to see, Dante and his over the top "never let them know your next move" fighting style

-"who are we shooting at" ok that was actually funny

-Why is lady swearing so much and acting like an angsty teenager (i guess she IS an angsty teenager but still)

-She said shit and fuck so much that's very netflix animated show coded and i'm not a big fan of that brand of edgy writing

-There's a bunch of random people introduced like i wouldn't mind 1 or 2 new people but this show doesn't even focus on the main character. Can't we have 1 DMC media centered around dante (that's not 2 decades old)

-Nooo Dante is not stupid, even if he didn't know his dad was a demon he'd still know he's part demon like come on, insane regenerative power/super strenght/etc..., he can put 2 and 2 together

-Cyber jetpack boots and now hologram traps, netflix you listen, not every show has to be cyperpunk

Anyways despite all my minor complaints the show is pretty fun and it's not canon anyway, Dante's great (they made him a tiny bit too dumb for me tho), so far i'd give it a 7/10 (could have been an 8 if there wasn't so much exposition and again ??politicians???)