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-Okay, Vergil’s casual acceptance of Mundus’ manipulation did catch me off guard. Just a whole vibe of “I was planning on killing Mundus anyway, but thanks for the further motivation!” It’s pretty funny, but I’m not completely sure how I feel about it.

-I am a bit disappointed that the Arius/Argosax fusion doesn’t maintain the golden color ascetic. Just feels like it’s slowly moving away from the original game design the more he grows in power.

-Dante, I love that you are just fully on board with being in a relationship with Lady, but now is not the time.

-YO, DANTE RIDING THE ROCKET LIKE A SKATEBOARD, GOTTA LOVE IT!!!

-Tom, I love you dude, but you do not belong here. I accept that he’s a natural part of the plot of the episode and that Lady likely wouldn’t have made it to the roof without him, but I’m gonna be honest, I think I would’ve preferred if he just dipped after releasing Lady in the previous episode. Dude has gone through too much.

-I love how the entire fight with Arius/Argosax is a bit of a callback to Dante and Vergil’s fight against Arkham in DMC 3. We don’t exactly get any of the lines from those iconic cutscenes, but the vibes are there nonetheless.

-Okay, the Nelo Angelo form being a “restrained” Devil Trigger in a sense is actually fascinating as a concept. See, THIS is what I wanted if you’re gonna expand the power system of DMC, not what Episode 5 tried to do.

-DANTE SHOOTING THE JUKEBOX TO PLAY THE MUSIC FROM THAT ICONIC OPENING FIGHT FROM DMC 3, YES, HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE-

-Okay, Lady telling Mattie not to curse “as bad” was freaking hilarious, not gonna lie. On a more serious note, I am at least curious as to what’s going to happen with Mattie from here on; whether she takes Lady’s warning to heart or if she follows Vergil’s ideology.

-Speaking of though, after watching a few cutscenes from DMC 2, I learned that Lucia’s name that Arius gave her was Chi… the same name as the head clone from this season. I genuinely hope that doesn’t mean anything and that the actual Lucia shows up later on down the line, because if that’s her and they did her like THIS, that gonna be something I’m genuinely upset about. Just because 97% of DMC 2 was terrible doesn’t give you the excuse to ruin the remaining 3%.

-Dante proposing the Godzilla Protocol to get Mundus and Argosax to fight each other is freaking epic as a concept, not gonna lie.

-Okay, Vergil not saying Jackpot along with Dante was a tad disappointing. I know that they were harkening back more to DMC 5 with that dialogue (which is fine, don’t get me wrong), but the pose was clearly referencing DMC 3, much like the majority of the fight. A small thing, but still.

-Lady’s not making it to that diner, is she? From what other characters have been saying, combined with her very obvious self-esteem issues, I’m expecting a heavy amount of angst because “yippee, more abandonment issues!”

-More of Lady’s early days is always appreciated.

-Huh, so I was right, Vergil does get to interact with Mattie, and it’s basically everything I imagined it being in the short time I had that idea. Them interacting in the boss rush area from DMC 3 was unexpected though, so that’s cool.

-Seeing how Arius came to be is at least fairly interesting. I just assumed he was a Vandal Savage situation where he was just given eternal life, but endless reincarnation was also a really neat angle to go with it.

-Okay, so I had to look up Trismagia after hearing about it in Episode 4, and apparently it was that weird three headed boss in DMC 2? One of the more annoying bosses in the game, plus they decided to replace his elemental powers with illusory powers for some reason? Surely there’s gotta be some other demon in this series with more similar powers to that that they could have used, right? I understand wanting to mostly stick with DMC 2, but still.

-Baines is definitely… a character that was placed in this show. As a Christian myself, dude was always incredibly off-putting, a weird depiction of the hyper-extreme religious dude who didn’t seem to have a character outside of it. So color me surprised when they decided to NOT focus on it for a split second to focus on his and Lady’s relationship, and it’s infinitely more interesting that, even though Lady has turned on him, their years of history still affect him as much to at least question Arius.

-I was gonna complain that Arius accomplished his whole “succeeding over several lifetimes plan” in a really dumb and cliche way, but Dante did it for me!

-Okay, Vergil passing down his “might means everything” (he said the line, guys!!) ideology to Mattie was unexpected but infinitely more interesting than the usual “little girl breaks down the tough guy’s walls” trope that’s everywhere. Nice to see the trope reversed.

-I was not expecting this random football player from the first episode to be a semi-recurring character, but you know what? Good on him for having the self-awareness to realize he’s completely out of his depth, decides to do basically the only thing he can do to help, and just ducks out. You go, man.

-Rest in… well, not peace, but at least Baines didn’t die 100% a dick.

-The hero is always late to the party! And yeah, Dante immediately rescuing Lady, cute.