Netflix’s latest animated series adapts Capcom’s Devil May Cry, rebooting its narrative while retaining nostalgic elements from the early 2000s. The show embraces its roots, featuring music and styles reminiscent of the franchise's origins, appealing to both longtime fans and beginners. The eight-episode run centers around a younger version of Dante, who faces a demonic uprising while navigating the complexities of family and agency conflicts. Despite its modern take, the series deeply channels the spirit of the original games with playful homages to its past.
Though Capcom's game franchise has spanned decades and arguably received its best entry ever in 2019's Devil May Cry 5, the Netflix series' eight-episode run feels very much of the games' original early-2000s era.
Watching the opening set to Limp Bizkit's 2000 nu metal banger "Rollin'" made me say "Oh, this show is for the divorced dads," before I slowly realized that...the things you listen to, watch, and play as a kid become "divorced dad core."
Most of the important parts of Devil May Cry are here. A younger, spryer version of Dante...finds himself in the crosshairs of two factions: a demon uprising led by a dapper White Rabbit and a demon-hunting government agency.
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