Devil May Cry

Huh then I have indeed heard good things from all of them.

Though I’ve also heard MAPPA’s adaptation of Kakegurui had issues.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 30th 2018 at 7:18:39 AM

For a new animated series, would you guys be okay with new voice actors for Dante and Nero (as long as they were good) or should Langdon and Bosch stay?

Oh they need to stay. New voice actors wouldn't work. Reuben Langdon was one of the best parts of the anime.

Reuben Langdon is Dante as far as I'm concerned. Replacing him would be as silly as replacing David Hayter as Solid Snake. Cough.

Personally, I think the issue was less that they replaced Hayter and more who they replaced him with and why.

If (And that's a big if) I were to replace Langdon, I'd go with Crispin Freeman. He's an experienced voice actor and has already portrayed a gun wielding monster hunter in a red coat.

Edited by windleopard on Oct 31st 2018 at 12:43:59 PM

Back in the early 2010's me and my brother used to play a game called "Time until Crispin" where we would take bets as to how long it would take Crispin Freeman to show up in whichever anime or video game we where watching or playing at the time. This is because he showed up in literally every anime and video game we where playing at the time. Transformers: War for Cybertron, Naruto, Durarara, Rogue Galaxy, Metal Gear Rising... you name it. It eventually got surreal because we literally could not simultaneously enjoy anything without Crispin Freeman somehow being involved in it. He was a strange unifying factor. (I think Burst Angel was the one exception. He wasn't in Burst Angel right?)

Edited by ShirowShirow on Oct 31st 2018 at 6:18:45 AM

Well I don’t blame ya.

He is a fantastic actor who makes anything better just by his appearance alone.

So DMC V apparently has limited "ultimate editions" that come with replicas of the jackets of the three main characters along with the games. Nero's costs about $7000, V's costs about $5700, and Dante's costs about $8600. No, I'm not forgetting any decimal points.

BTW, the games in these "ultimate" editions apparently aren't the Deluxe versions that come with the "extras" like the 100,000 red orbs.

Probably for the best these are only available in Japan.

‘Devil May Cry 5’ Ultimate Edition Comes With Dante’s Jacket and a Super High Price

The news is a few weeks old, but I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned earlier in this thread.

Edited by M84 on Nov 10th 2018 at 1:09:09 AM

Fools and their money

I don't own any one thing that expensive. Crazy.

I bet they're, like, really low quality leather too.

They look pretty good. Just not “thousands of dollars” good.

What gets me is that these so-called ultimate editions supposedly will not include the deluxe edition stuff. They are just the regular game and the jacket.

Edited by M84 on Nov 10th 2018 at 12:32:53 AM

There are "Collector's Editions" of games nowadays that do not, in fact, include the game itself. Just a fancy case and some swag.

You need a flowchart to keep track of what's in what edition of what game. And they keep having to find new words to attach to each edition to make them sound more impressive.

Itsuno shows off the game's training mode.

actual news on December huh?

Did this series always have a training mode?

I know a lot of people don't exactly like the anime (including me) but the episode I did like were the 2 brothers that were Sparda's apprentice & Dante's childhood friend. It didn't do much but it was nice to expand more about Sparda's background even if were a little bit. The episode about Dante's friend did a lot (for me personally) to expand Dante's character. That episode gave me the idea that Dante is somewhat a Sad Clown. Actually if I'm go on about what episode I like then might as well add Trish VS Lady & the final episode.

Edited by agent-trunks on Nov 10th 2018 at 5:10:18 AM

Not until DmC.

For a new DMC anime...

• Screenwriter: Bingo Morihashi and Yasuko Kobayashi. Morihashi given that he knows the material, having worked on the series since DMC3. Yasuko Kobayashi is practically a genius on how she sets the plot up, as well very good character development and growth (see her work in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, Kamen Rider Den-O, Kamen Rider OOO, and the Witchblade anime).
• Director: Someone who understands stylish action as well slow pace moments. I've heard that Shin Itagaki wasn't/isn't a really good director, hence the reason why the anime wasn't completely good. I've seen posts of others pointing to how he handled the Berserk (2016) anime as the primary example.
• Animation studio: The ones I tend to think of quality animation runs into Studio BONES (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, My Hero Academia), ufotable (some of the Fate titles and anime sequences for some of the later Tales), MAPPA if the second trailer for the 2019 Dororo is to believe, maybe Kyoto Animation (the line count on Violet Evergarden!), Wit Studio (The Ancient Magus' Bride), or Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion). I mean, Madhouse did phenomenally with Season 1 of One-Punch Man. So as long they've got a good animation team, enough time, and a generous budget. The one thing that'd get me would be the Cheeky Mouths...
• Soundtrack: Yuki Kajiura (Kara No Kyoukai, Fate Zero), Hiroyuki Sawano (Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress), Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop), Yoko Shimomura (the Kingdom Hearts titles, Super Mario RPG).
• Voices: The current cast used so far at most. Reuben Langdon and Toshiyuki Morikawa as Dante, Johnny Yong Bosch and Kaito Ishikawa as Nero, and Dan Southworth and Hiroaki Hirata as Vergil, no sbustitutes. Having Lady be voiced by Kari Wahlgren for English again would be terrific.

On the flip side, doing it like how windleopard suggested sounds quite good, a'la the Netflix Castlevania run.

Edited by eagle108 on Nov 11th 2018 at 11:37:13 AM

I'll always suppose any decision to have Sawano make more music. I'm also surprised that you decided to list that as an example of his work when he's worked on things that are far more popular. For example, Kill la Kill, Attack on Titan, and Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Wanted to give the not-as-super-popular title a chance, to give a bit of variety. Although Yoko Kanno I feel could probably pull it off far better, given the sheer range of styles she's worked with over the years, like jazz and the blues for Cowboy Bebop, so I can see her working with metal and rock easily.

So I admit, I wasn't a fan of the idea of them making a new Devil May Cry series that's done in the same vein as Castlevania Netflix. I mainly thought they wouldn't get the style right, and I didn't want EVERYTHING to be the Castlevania Netflix mould.

And then this happened.

Oh and the kicker? Adi Shaknar is calling it a "Bootleg Multiverse". What that might mean is that this would cross over with Castlevania.

Edited by Emperordaein on Nov 16th 2018 at 8:09:52 PM

Holy fuck we are getting a DMC show & by the Castlevania show guys!

Oh shit the fight scenes in this are gonna be so lit.

Vergil when?

if this bootleg multiverse doesn't eventually result in a nocturne adaptation then there's no point tbh

Adi is on a fucking roll. "What we’re now calling the bootleg multiverse” is a hilarious self-aware statement too.

Edited by UltraWanker on Nov 16th 2018 at 1:35:41 AM

Hoping that Langdon doesn't get the boot for this series since Castlevania was weird with Role Reprisal, his voice is way too iconic now