Turn Your Brain Off and Enjoy: ‘Devil May Cry’ Season Two Review

Devil Might Cry Devil May Cry was a genre-changing game, heavy on the stylistic hack and slash of it all. Full on Japanese tongue in cheek married to American smash-mouth. On paper, it never should have worked. But it did. A cult classic that came out of nowhere. The animated series had the same trajectory. Season one came out of the box swinging for the fences and never looked back. It should have looked back a little. Season two attempts to deepen the lore and set audiences up for what should be a match made in Netflix heaven. Can show creator Adi Shankar build a franchise on the back of a series that the core fandom didn’t enjoy? Story So Far At the conclusion of season one, we learn that the demon big bad, White Rabbit, is really a human who was forced to grow up in Hell (aka Makai in the manga). The Rabbit has taken up the cause of those suffering in Makai and is seeking revenge on Earth. After partnering with Lady (aka Mary) to take down the White Rabbit, Mary turns on Dante and betrays him by putting him on ice, a la Han Solo in carbonite. Oh yeah, Dante is half-demon, and his dad (Sparda) made a barrier between Makai and Earth. Also, the first season ended with the reveal that his (iconic) brother, Virgil, is alive. This Time, On DMC Given that the game series’ story felt paper-thin most times, this piece of animation really tries to fill in the gaps. In its attempt to flesh out the story, it further loses the plot of the characterization. Dante is once again used as …