you are right and you should say it! every time we see dante, we also see his ghosts, and one of them is alcohol. there's an ever-increasing amount of empty bottles in his office, across every single cutscene where we see it, in pretty much every single game.
this post compelled me so much i went and gathered some evidence!
peruse under cut - dante's drinking problem, illustrated edition:
let's start at the beginning, first time we see dante. actually, a second before we see him, the camera pans over his dinner - pizza, and three bottles of unspecified alcohol.
two more by trish's feet a moment later. possibly the same ones knocked there in the chaos. either way, it's right there on the screen.
in Devil May Cry 2, there's only one cutscene with dante's office, at the end of lucia's half of the game, and either there was no time to add clutter, or someone must have cleaned. my bet is, since the game is set soon after the 2007 anime, that it was Patty.
the earliest part of the timeline. maybe at least at nineteen he wasn't imbibing as much yet?
again, observe the opening cutscene. some of these appear to be wine and some whiskey, but it's a little hard to see...
...so i booted up the game and went into the first mission to look closer. yep, a whole squadron of whiskey stationed across that half of the office, even on the stairs.
it may appear dante is in a better state during that game, and i am not here to argue that point. i am here to point out that even a single screenshot shows the bottle army is growing in numbers.
the ladies may have contributed, but i struggle to believe they can account for all of this + whatever's in that overflowing trash can.
i have five words for you: it does not get better.
in addition to beer bottles scattered around, we get some wine on the fridge, and the side table, and a whole mini bar, and-
Bonus - Devil May Cry 2007
since the anime is the part of canon where we see the most of dante's day-to-day life, it makes sense that's where we see most of his drinking.
for example, every single episode's outro (except episode 11, where he's busy being crucified), dante sits with a bottle of whiskey (side note: dack janiels, lmao)
he is casually polishing off a bottle of wine, alone, in the middle of the day, when lady drops by in episode 4.
shares a beer with morrison (and later, a client) in episode 8. (note the clutter in the background, and some more clutter from episode 6).
and, of course, in episodes 11 and 12, there is the beer can battalion.
(side note - budweinier, hehe)
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