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DEVIL MAY CRY 3 MANGA
CODE 1 “DANTE”
CODE 2 “VERGIL”
Google Drive (both volumes and profile translations)
VISIONS OF V
Volume 1 interview with Hideaki Itsuno and Tomio Ogata.
Chapter 12.2 translation note. This chapter had a mistranslation that I tried to explain. I didn't translate this chapter and the line was never fixed, causing a misunderstanding about Vergil.
To me it felt strange hearing Vergil saying that line to Mattie and here's why I think that and I hope I make sense. I would appreciate your opinions!
So, I think that his quote represents his philosophy, his conviction and it just doesn't seem to impactful because I don't think he would say it so casually.
In fact, it feels strange to me that Vergil told someone he just met about what happened to him as a child even if Mattie went trough a similar situation.
Vergil wouldn't be open to someone who isn't very close to him and the only people who had that privilege were his family.
His supposed hatred for humanity shouldn't have made it so easy for him to share his past with someone he barely met.
Later on he tells Mattie that her grandfather's life was meaningless.
Man, the moment of him relating to her and showing sympathy was fucked up...Despite what he went trough, he showed that he still had the capacity to be kind towards other people, but nope, that was ruined immediately.
And because he said that kind of thing, does that mean his mother's life was meaningless too?
Speaking of his mother, wasn't he being honest when he blamed Eva for making him weak because she coddled him?
In this episode he told Mattie "I wasn't strong enough back then", like he wants us to believe that he blamed himself for not being able to save his mother and he regrets that, but he blamed Eva for the fact that he wasn't strong enough.
Going back to his line "Without strength, without power", although I'm not saying it doesn't work given the context of the adaptation, I personally think that it's less his own belief and more of what Mundus has instilled in him.
That's why Vergil's words don't feel impactful because they have become a generic statement while in DMC3, they were a declaration and he believed that his conviction was the correct one, something that he wanted his brother to understand too.
That's why I said that Vergil wouldn't say something like that to just anybody, I think they were specifically meant for Dante.
I believe that his words have been wasted, don't you think?
Let me know your opinions!
It's such a bizarre choice to have Vergil announce to every random person he meets what he feels. Almost like this show considers its audience stupid and has to spoonfeed the information at any given point. Like can this guy stop whining about his mom??
I hate that Vergil's "power obsession" has been made about Mundus now. When it was about Sparda, the fact Sparda's gift saved him and Vergil developed the obsession with power and his father's legacy. The father who was there for him and raised him and Vergil loved.
By removing Sparda, they chopped off an important part of Vergil's character. And tried to fill the hole with MUNDUS of all characters. It takes a lot of Vergil's agency away as you explained and it's so weird in general.
By removing Sparda, it also took away part of Dante's character too because him and Vergil appreciated different aspects of their father's legacy. It's disgusting how they gave the father role to Mundus, who apparently Vergil suspected that he kept him by his side to get revenge on Sparda and he also said about Mundus that he wasn't the type who would share power with anyone else. And yet he stayed with Mundus, even though he could have left any time he wanted. I speculated that Mundus must have had control over him to prevent him from leaving Makai, but he didn't. NVergil had the audacity to say at some point "as a son of Sparda" when most of the time he thanked Mundus for making him strong.
The most baffling thing about NDMC to me is that Adi seems to actually know stuff about DMC. He pulled characters from novels and comics that were made nearly 20 years ago, which, to the majority of a fan base, are niche. Meanwhile Netflix Castlevania had an opposite problem: it did not care about anything in the source material and was just doing its own thing entirely while getting names of the characters from the fandom wiki (I'm not joking).
Also, I didn't watch S2, but I saw the screen with the chair... How high is the probability that Adi just never played or even watched DMCV and thinks the chair was actually in the game?
Shankar mostly appealed to redditors. There's also an interview of him saying that he hated DMC5 because it took away his opportunity to revive the "dead franchise"....He said that it would be a faithful adaptation but its obvious who was the target audience.
Have you ever read any of the kingdom hearts novels? It's been translated officially in English for years now so I'm wondering just how accurate they are to the original Japanese novels.
Although Kingdom Hearts is has been my favorite game series for the past 20 years, I haven't read the novels so I can't tell you that. I've only read the manga adaptations.
To me it felt strange hearing Vergil saying that line to Mattie and here's why I think that and I hope I make sense. I would appreciate your opinions!
So, I think that his quote represents his philosophy, his conviction and it just doesn't seem to impactful because I don't think he would say it so casually.
In fact, it feels strange to me that Vergil told someone he just met about what happened to him as a child even if Mattie went trough a similar situation.
Vergil wouldn't be open to someone who isn't very close to him and the only people who had that privilege were his family.
His supposed hatred for humanity shouldn't have made it so easy for him to share his past with someone he barely met.
Later on he tells Mattie that her grandfather's life was meaningless.
Man, the moment of him relating to her and showing sympathy was fucked up...Despite what he went trough, he showed that he still had the capacity to be kind towards other people, but nope, that was ruined immediately.
And because he said that kind of thing, does that mean his mother's life was meaningless too?
Speaking of his mother, wasn't he being honest when he blamed Eva for making him weak because she coddled him?
In this episode he told Mattie "I wasn't strong enough back then", like he wants us to believe that he blamed himself for not being able to save his mother and he regrets that, but he blamed Eva for the fact that he wasn't strong enough.
Going back to his line "Without strength, without power", although I'm not saying it doesn't work given the context of the adaptation, I personally think that it's less his own belief and more of what Mundus has instilled in him.
That's why Vergil's words don't feel impactful because they have become a generic statement while in DMC3, they were a declaration and he believed that his conviction was the correct one, something that he wanted his brother to understand too.
That's why I said that Vergil wouldn't say something like that to just anybody, I think they were specifically meant for Dante.
I believe that his words have been wasted, don't you think?
Let me know your opinions!
To me it felt strange hearing Vergil saying that line to Mattie and here's why I think that and I hope I make sense. I would appreciate your opinions!
So, I think that his quote represents his philosophy, his conviction and it just doesn't seem to impactful because I don't think he would say it so casually.
In fact, it feels strange to me that Vergil told someone he just met about what happened to him as a child even if Mattie went trough a similar situation.
Vergil wouldn't be open to someone who isn't very close to him and the only people who had that privilege were his family.
His supposed hatred for humanity shouldn't have made it so easy for him to share his past with someone he barely met.
Later on he tells Mattie that her grandfather's life was meaningless.
Man, the moment of him relating to her and showing sympathy was fucked up...Despite what he went trough, he showed that he still had the capacity to be kind towards other people, but nope, that was ruined immediately.
And because he said that kind of thing, does that mean his mother's life was meaningless too?
Speaking of his mother, wasn't he being honest when he blamed Eva for making him weak because she coddled him?
In this episode he told Mattie "I wasn't strong enough back then", like he wants us to believe that he blamed himself for not being able to save his mother and he regrets that, but he blamed Eva for the fact that he wasn't strong enough.
Going back to his line "Without strength, without power", although I'm not saying it doesn't work given the context of the adaptation, I personally think that it's less his own belief and more of what Mundus has instilled in him.
That's why Vergil's words don't feel impactful because they have become a generic statement while in DMC3, they were a declaration and he believed that his conviction was the correct one, something that he wanted his brother to understand too.
That's why I said that Vergil wouldn't say something like that to just anybody, I think they were specifically meant for Dante.
I believe that his words have been wasted, don't you think?
Let me know your opinions!
These are the words of the psychiatrist lady that evaluates Dante and Mary.
She asks Dante to to describe what happened after he was unfrozen.
Both Dante and Mary give different accounts about the event and the art style changes for each character when they describe what happened.
Starting with Dante, the art style becomes kawaii and him and Mary become chibis.
If this is how Dante saw his reunion with Mary, I thought it was weird...
Why does he imagine her as a blushing high-school girl?
Is that what he wants? When did Mary show that side of her? I do recall her blushing when she was on top of him in one episode. Was that enough for Dante to consider that she is so cute and that she has feelings for him, so much that he believes that she acts like that?
Don't you think that the way he envisions her is telling us that he doesn't know her that well?
That's why I think their relationship is forced because they hardly got to know each other. Dante wasn't angry for what she did to him and he imagines Mary like that...
In his own words, he was drugged, trapped and imprisoned and he says that it's "their thing".
Buddy, your "thing" is the result of following orders that Mary followed until the end when she betrayed you and had no problem with that!
When it shows what really happened, Dante doesn't bring up what she did after he was taken out from the cryogenic chamber. What he could have told her, he only said it to that psychiatrist lady. Again he admits that Mary did those things to him and thinks that it's something personal between them, thinking that it's what they do as friends?
Yeah...only one thing actually happened.
From Mary's perspective the artstyle changes with a darker serious tone fits DMC. It's s weird but Mary tells her side of the story by imagining Dante saying something funny and afterwards Dante calls her out on what she did to him, but things didn't happen like that.
I could say that perhaps Mary was indeed feeling guilty about what she did and wanted him to be mad at her.
It's annoying that it addresses the shitty things that Mary did to him and most of us probably thought that Dante should be angry for the betrayal but we have seen from Dante's perspective that he doesn't mention it while Mary tells the audience that he did.
But no, what actually happened was that Dante greeted her with a smile and the only thing that was true from her account is how Dante reacted hearing that Vergil was alive and working for Mundus.
He had a pretty strong reaction but when he told his version, there was none of that. He imagined himself that he teams up with Mary as if they were superheroes... Oh and the art style changed to JoJo's Bizzare adventure...
I really don't like how in regard to Dante, they had to make him look like a dumbass who doesn't take things seriously, so much that he had to be represented with a cute art style that conveys that he's childish.
So yeah, his recount of the event pretty much, at least for me, conveyed how his relationship with Mary is badly written, so much that even fuckin Arius, the antagonist had to say
I knew that their relationship would be forced. I was expecting that NDante MUST be in a relationship because it's typical Western media cliche. The guy needs to get the girl or else he's a loser and of course there's gotta be some make out or sex scenes because how else can it be a mature production and it's something that again, it's mostly in Western animation for the modern audience?
It was obvious from the start that they would end up together but it should have happened later in my opinion because I feel they didn't have time to know each other better.
I don't care what other say, them kissing isn't a fucking "win". I thought we all agreed that the adaptation is non-canon?
Fuck, I don't say "I've won!" when I look at fanart or read fanfics of my favorite pairings who might not have kissed.
If everything Mary did to Dante and he calls it "their thing"...Well fuck, does that make him a masochist?
These are the words of the psychiatrist lady that evaluates Dante and Mary.
She asks Dante to to describe what happened after he was unfrozen.
Both Dante and Mary give different accounts about the event and the art style changes for each character when they describe what happened.
Starting with Dante, the art style becomes kawaii and him and Mary become chibis.
If this is how Dante saw his reunion with Mary, I thought it was weird...
Why does he imagine her as a blushing high-school girl?
Is that what he wants? When did Mary show that side of her? I do recall her blushing when she was on top of him in one episode. Was that enough for Dante to consider that she is so cute and that she has feelings for him, so much that he believes that she acts like that?
Don't you think that the way he envisions her is telling us that he doesn't know her that well?
That's why I think their relationship is forced because they hardly got to know each other. Dante wasn't angry for what she did to him and he imagines Mary like that...
In his own words, he was drugged, trapped and imprisoned and he says that it's "their thing".
Buddy, your "thing" is the result of following orders that Mary followed until the end when she betrayed you and had no problem with that!
When it shows what really happened, Dante doesn't bring up what she did after he was taken out from the cryogenic chamber. What he could have told her, he only said it to that psychiatrist lady. Again he admits that Mary did those things to him and thinks that it's something personal between them, thinking that it's what they do as friends?
Yeah...only one thing actually happened.
From Mary's perspective the artstyle changes with a darker serious tone fits DMC. It's s weird but Mary tells her side of the story by imagining Dante saying something funny and afterwards Dante calls her out on what she did to him, but things didn't happen like that.
I could say that perhaps Mary was indeed feeling guilty about what she did and wanted him to be mad at her.
It's annoying that it addresses the shitty things that Mary did to him and most of us probably thought that Dante should be angry for the betrayal but we have seen from Dante's perspective that he doesn't mention it while Mary tells the audience that he did.
But no, what actually happened was that Dante greeted her with a smile and the only thing that was true from her account is how Dante reacted hearing that Vergil was alive and working for Mundus.
He had a pretty strong reaction but when he told his version, there was none of that. He imagined himself that he teams up with Mary as if they were superheroes... Oh and the art style changed to JoJo's Bizzare adventure...
I really don't like how in regard to Dante, they had to make him look like a dumbass who doesn't take things seriously, so much that he had to be represented with a cute art style that conveys that he's childish.
So yeah, his recount of the event pretty much, at least for me, conveyed how his relationship with Mary is badly written, so much that even fuckin Arius, the antagonist had to say
I knew that their relationship would be forced. I was expecting that NDante MUST be in a relationship because it's typical Western media cliche. The guy needs to get the girl or else he's a loser and of course there's gotta be some make out or sex scenes because how else can it be a mature production and it's something that again, it's mostly in Western animation for the modern audience?
It was obvious from the start that they would end up together but it should have happened later in my opinion because I feel they didn't have time to know each other better.
Mary didn't even get to tell him about her traumatic event about her family but she knew about Dante's...
So yeah, I personally don't care what other say, them kissing isn't a fucking "win". I thought we all agreed that the adaptation is non-canon?
Fuck, I don't say "I've won!" when I look at fanart or read fanfics of my pairings who might not have kissed or slept together in canon.
If everything Mary did to Dante and he calls it "their thing"...Well fuck, does that make him a masochist?
Made a pretty long post that's gonna be posted soon. I didn't have much time to elaborate on some of my notes because I mentioned that I haven't been doing great...Hopefully I made sense and would like to hear your opinions.
