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[Draugoth]

 

[Zacfoldor]

I loved season 1. Even Lady who was a mary sue girlboss was a fun character, lol.

I've given it a lot of thought and I can definitely fix her.

 

[Moondoggy]

 

[Generic]

Nice, first season was good.

 

[Zephyranthes]

First season was a mixed bag, and I don't have a lot of confidence in Adi Shankar's willingness or ability to address the writing problems. Lady having far less screen time would be an automatic improvement.

 

[March Climber]

Ended up binging this season due to it being an overall much better, more focused season than the first. The last season felt like a random DMC OVA, this one feels more 'proper' in many ways, almost like an apology tour for some who didn't quite like it enough last season.

However as a PSA, if you're the type to nitpick at extreme levels because things aren't 1:1 with the games, you may not like the changes in lore this season either, specifically with DMC 2.

Overall I'd give it a good B

Positives and Negatives:

+Animation much better
+Much better fight scenes
+Much more focus on DMC story than anything original
+They utilize the larger points of DMC2's (the game) plot setup to make a better, more fleshed out, more entertaining version of it that takes place earlier in the timeline
+DMC2 lore is expanded upon and connects much better with this DMC as a whole
+Arius is a fun villain with cool powers
+He has the Lucia 'dolls' (clones) like the game
+Him and his Uruboros company are used as the reason for the government's obsession with 'invading hell' in season 1
+This means there are rival demon factions (Argosax/Uruboros faction and Mundus faction)
+Also means important human figures from part 1 were simply pawns
+DMC 3 Jester
+Sparda vs Mundus flashback
+Giant demon clash (won't spoil)
+Vergil
+Vergil and Mundus inclusion elevated the whole story overall
+JYB gives Dante a slightly different inflection in voice to not sound so much like Nero
+Dante is somewhere in between DMC 1 and DMC 3 Dante in personality (50:50 Fun:Serious)
+Easter Egg of a younger flashback Dante wearing DmC Dante's outfit
+Lady gets a variation of her white DMC 4 outfit
+Addition of Keith David
+Fun use of bosses and enemy types from DMC 1-3.
+Good addition of music from the games including some good licensed music

-Arius looks a bit too much like Dracula
-Loss of Kevin Conroy
-A few music tracks are misplaced
-Matilda wasn't made a necessary-enough original character (thankfully she doesn't have much screen time)
-Other original character (blonde guard guy) same issue
-A sideplot is kind of wasted
-Dante/Lady few romantic scenes feel as undercooked as the games
-A few instances of 'Netflix-speak' where characters will repeat through dialogue what you just saw on screen.
-Dante feels more Nero-esque in his naivety around certain situations (the small positive here is that it makes him feel a bit more human and relatable in other situations than the video games)
-Arius motivation/backstory a bit weak
-Lucia herself (the good one from DMC2) oddly missing

Overall this season left me very curious about a season 3, which is a good thing.

 

[Ellis]

Wasn't a fan of this myself. Netflix Castlevania fucking nailed it, but DMC was a major disappointment.

 

[Seyken]

Enjoyed season 2 quite a bit. But in retrospect they really screwed up making Dante so fragile in season 1, it would've been cooler and would have had more gravitas if he was styling on everyone in season 1 and now in season 2 he was getting his butt handed to him. Would really sell how powerful Vergil and company really are and would sell the fall of the hero arc way better.

The way it was done makes it feel like Dante is a jobber.

 

[Fbh]

Ended up binging this season due to it being an overall much better, more focused season than the first. The last season felt like a random DMC OVA, this one feels more 'proper' in many ways, almost like an apology tour for some who didn't quite like it enough last season.

However as a PSA, if you're the type to nitpick at extreme levels because things aren't 1:1 with the games, you may not like the changes in lore this season either, specifically with DMC 2.

Overall I'd give it a good B

Positives and Negatives:

+Animation much better
+Much better fight scenes
+Much more focus on DMC story than anything original
+They utilize the larger points of DMC2's (the game) plot setup to make a better, more fleshed out, more entertaining version of it that takes place earlier in the timeline
+DMC2 lore is expanded upon and connects much better with this DMC as a whole
+Arius is a fun villain with cool powers
+He has the Lucia 'dolls' (clones) like the game
+Him and his Uruboros company are used as the reason for the government's obsession with 'invading hell' in season 1
+This means there are rival demon factions (Argosax/Uruboros faction and Mundus faction)
+Also means important human figures from part 1 were simply pawns
+DMC 3 Jester
+Sparda vs Mundus flashback
+Giant demon clash (won't spoil)
+Vergil
+Vergil and Mundus inclusion elevated the whole story overall
+JYB gives Dante a slightly different inflection in voice to not sound so much like Nero
+Dante is somewhere in between DMC 1 and DMC 3 Dante in personality (50:50 Fun:Serious)
+Easter Egg of a younger flashback Dante wearing DmC Dante's outfit
+Addition of Keith David
+Fun use of bosses and enemy types from DMC 1-3.
+Good addition of music from the games including some good licensed music

-Arius looks a bit too much like Dracula
-Loss of Kevin Conroy
-A few music tracks are misplaced
-Matilda wasn't made a necessary-enough original character (thankfully she doesn't have much screen time)
-Other original character (blonde guard guy) same issue
-A sideplot is kind of wasted
-Dante/Lady few romantic scenes feel as undercooked as the games
-A few instances of 'Netflix-speak' where characters will repeat through dialogue what you just saw on screen.
-Dante feels more Nero-esque in his naivety around certain situations (the small positive here is that it makes him feel a bit more human and relatable in other situations than the video games)
-Arius motivation/backstory a bit weak
-Lucia herself (the good one from DMC2) oddly missing

Overall this season left me very curious about a season 3, which is a good thing.

So I take it Dante actually feels more like the proper main character now?
Or is it still "The Lady Show: featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series"?

 

[Danjin44]

No thank you.

I'm more hype for this…

 

[Seyken]

So I take it Dante actually feels more like the proper main character now?
Or is it still "The Lady Show: featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series"?

I would say it's been 2 seasons of setting him up to become the character you know from the games. This still feels a bit like Dante - Year One. Vergil takes a lot of the "aura farming" moments this season, although Dante gets to do some cool stuff. But still, he's not the badass mofo who styles on everyone you know from the games yet.

 

[March Climber]

So I take it Dante actually feels more like the proper main character now?
Or is it still "The Lady Show: featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series"?

The screen time between Lady, Dante, and Vergil are about equal, with Lady taking a slight hit in screen time for more Vergil.

Lady was also nerfed (due to the higher class demons showing themselves this season). You'll see what I mean.

 

[Zephyranthes]

Two episodes in; so far not much has changed. Shankar still fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of the property he's working with. Lady is slightly more likable but somehow even more stupid, so it's kind of a wash. The only part I kind of liked was all of the different animation styles explaining Dante and Lady's reunion.

 

[drotahorror]

I seen a pic of dante in a dress from this show. Why? Why would they do that?

 

[rm082e]

My son and I enjoyed the first season. It was fun camp. I appreciated the continuity from episode to episode more than the one-off approach the previous series took.

In for season 2.

 

[drotahorror]

Just in case I missed it

 

[Zephyranthes]

Finished up the rest of the season. I'll give it this much: if I totally remove myself from looking at this thing as Devil May Cry, and look at it solely as a piece of television entertainment, then I do think it is an improvement on season 1. Lady isn't quite as insufferable, Shankar's tract on American politics mostly fades into the background about halfway through, and the storytelling is more cohesive overall.

There are still moments of narrative strangeness, such as why Arius makes a bunch of anti-Vergil bullets but only gives them to one soldier for the ambush, or why Mundus just kind of stands there and watches Dante and Vergil fight while the portal to Earth is wide open for him. Also the Dante/Lady romance is really undercooked and out-of-place; I laughed when they have their big kiss with My Immortal blasting in the background....it's like something out of Schlock Fanfiction 101.

I seen a pic of dante in a dress from this show. Why? Why would they do that?

That one actually does make sense in context. Dante and Lady go to a guy for help at one point, and to pass the time while he does his thing they end up hanging out with the guy's granddaughter, who is adorable and shanghai's them into playing dress-up with her.