After what feels like years of waiting Netflix has finally dropped all eight episodes of one of the most underrated animated shows currently out. This is a show that to be frank i've been eagerly awaiting so much so that I did a tie in review for this whole new season and well then new season is finally here and well you just knew that I had to check out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the season that features alot of really good rock songs in it with the show in question being called simply just "Devil May Cry" enjoy.
The plot of this season is sometime after the events of the first season Dante is thawed out and along with Lady and his brother Virgil have to stop a demon from resurrecting the ;iteral devil himself. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. The seasons plot is one that does more then uphold the already high bar set by that of the first season just due to the fact that's not a copy and paste of the first seasons plot with the plot of this season being one that is alot more darker and more mature then we got in the first season. This is something that does work to the seasons advantage as this show on the whole is meant be an adult show and therefore it does have permission to go deeper into the characters backstories then what a kids animated series could do for example and while there are times where it does feel like that this seasons plot is a bit all over the place it then does something that ties it all together in ways that actually make sense and with the season being a tight eight episodes long it does mean that all of the show episodes are about advancing the seasons plot forward with this being something that does make the plot of this season feel like a really strong and well thought out plot albeit one with a few minor issues here and there with the plot of this season also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this season is Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante and Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary Ann Arkham / Lady. Also starring in this season is Kue Lawrence as young Dante , Ian James Corlett as William Baines , Robbie Daymond as Vergil , Marcel Nahapetian as young Vergil , Graham McTavish as Arius Von Erenburg , Quinn Eakins as young Arius , Ray Chase as Mundus and Jester , Tony Todd as Beowulf , James C. Mathis III as Beowulf , Salli Saffioti as Chi , Tara Strong as Nell Goldstein , Jim Conroy as Stan Sullivan , Andrew Morgado as Argosax , Rick D. Wasserman as Trismagia , Keith David as Lucan and Paris Johnson as Mattie.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. The fact that this season has as good acting as it has is something that is not really all that surprising as all you need do is look at how is in this season to see that the quality of acting is going to be really high , much like with the previous season where we had two actors playing Baines we are sadly in that same situation again this season with both Tony Todd and James C. Mathis III playing Beowulf and sadly its for the exact same reason however unlike with Baines where you really couldn't tell who was playing the character in what episode here you can sort of tell just because of the fact that Tony Todd had such a distinctive voice with James's acting still being really good. With the best actor in this season being Scout Taylor-Compton as while she was good in the previous season here in these eight episodes its like she really did up her game as an actor and this is something that does make alot of sense as she is reprising the role and therefor she would of course have more knowledge on how best to perform this character but to compare her performance this to that of what she did with the same character in the last season its night and day. With the acting in this season really being helped by the fact that this seasons scripts where just so good that all this seasons actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very season.
Doing the animation for this season is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. Much like with the seasons acting the fact that we got good animation all throughout this season is something that's not really all that surprising due to the fact that the animation in the last season was also really good. With the things that made the animation in this season stand out being the fat that instead of just using hand drawn animation which was they mostly used in the first season here they blend it with 3D CGI animation as well with alot of the demons being done in this method. The other thing that does make this season animation stand out being the fact that unlike the first season where we were mainly stuck on earth which did lead to some really boring looking backgrounds here since we spend alot of time on both earth and the demon world it does mean that we get a vast majority of backgrounds that all look different from each other with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show took great care into giving us both worlds there own unique look to them as the human world mainly has very muted colors with there being lots of brown being used with the inside of the main villains base being mostly white and yet when we get to the demon world as to expected its all mainly red with this being something that does help to distinguish the two worlds from one another.
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There is no way to do a full on review of this season and not talk about Lady as she is pretty much the only character from the first season that gets some major love in this one. As we see how she was deeply effected by not only the events of the first season but also the first season finale as well as she does believe that she is terrible person due to the choices that she's made in that first season with being Dante himself being the one to basically tell her that she had to do what she thought was right at the time and given the fact that she had just seen her while team wiped out in the blink of an eye she had to make a call that whilst it didn't work out well for anyone as it ended with the human race going to war with demons and Dante being put on ice it was still a call that did lead to Dante's brother making himself known again. While Dante and Virgil were very much the focus of the teaser at the end of the first season here it is very much Lady and this is something that does feel like a copy and paste of the first season as it's revealed in the tease for the next season that Lady's dad is not only alive and well but that he's also someone that we've been seeing all throughout the season in the demon world as it's revealed that her father transformed himself into Jester. This is something that does feel like a copy and paste from the end of the first season where it was revealed that Virgil is alive and well and while it worked there it was due to the fact that it was something that was genuinely surprising where as here it doesn't work quite as well due to the fact we've just seen that tease but done in a much better way with the only thing that makes it kind of work here is the fact that we've seen this character alot this season we just never knew just how big of a character that he is for one of the shows main characters and while the tease could have been done better it is still something that does still work in its own right.
Much like with the first season this season also has a killer soundtrack with there being remixed songs of both "Afterlife" ad "My Immortal" both from Evanescence. With there being songs by Papa Roach (Getting Away With Murder) , Casey Edwards &Amira Elfeky (Bazooka) , Avril Lavigne (Sk8ter Boi) Bryce Vine (Street Punks On A Freight Train) Capcom (Dante's Office) , Gunship (The Gates Of Disorder , Power Glove Featuring Gunship (Shall Never Surrener) and Drowning Pool (Bodies) this is just a good song list. Whilst they do ditch Rollin by Limb Bizkit for the shows opening theme and instead replace it with a more generic rock track by the band Powerglove with the theme song being called "Jackpot" nothing is ever going to top just how hyped you would get hearing Rollin every time an the intro for the season played. To give this season its flowers it does know how to use it's music with alot of the songs mentioned being played over fight scenes which is just such a good way to get you hyped for the fight scene but then occasionally they would have a more emotional song play over a more sad scene and again it is something that does work really well although to be fair alot of the time it does feel like that this shows creator and co-producer Adi Shankar was just using songs that he likes rather then songs that would benefit the show on the whole as while alot of these songs do help to fit in with the show and do give it a more frantic energy alot more of the time they do feel out place and they take you out of the scene because of the fact that alot of them are from well known bands and that is something that could be a bit distracting.
Villain wise this season we do technically have two different villains as we have both Arius and Mundus with Argosax not really being a villain as he only appears in the final two episodes. Arius and Mundus tho are who we spend alot more time with with both of them wanting to reign over the demon world with the only thing that sets them apart being the fact that Arius also wants to rule the human world and is more then willing to use both Dante and Virgil to get what he wants as we see him trying to manipulate Dante in a later episode of the season as Dante knows full well that in his human form he can't beat him let alone land a single hit on him yet he still try to do something to do some damage to him whereas with Virgil because of the fact that he was manipulated by Mundus when he was young he is more easily manipulated by Arius although Virgil does know that Arius is playing him and does help to form a plan to get him and Mundus to fight each other in the demon world. Out of the two villains in this season the more effective one is easily Arius due to the fact that we do see him physically over power all of our heroes at one point or another this season and that's without the use of Argosax and yet when Argosax does come into play then he's basically Godzilla in that he's unbeatable and that s something that does force our heroes to better themselves and to think out side of the box whereas with Mundus due to the fact that the season does spend alot of time on earth we don't get to see just how effective that he is a villain as we know from the final fight of the season that he is a physically strong character but what we don't know is if Dante and Virgil could beat him in a fight and to be fair to this show we don't need to know that just yet as the main purpose of this season was to get Argosax and Arius to fight and that's it.
Now then this season / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then forty minuets with the longest episode being episode one which has a grand total running time of thirty nine minuets and twenty nine seconds and the shortest episode this season was episode three which was thirty minuets and fifty one seconds. The very fact that the makers of this show have episodes that are alot closer to forty minuets then what they were last season is something that does tell you that they took the story this season very seriously as by giving all of the episodes these more longer running times it does allow not only each episodes plot but also the plot of the season to breathe alot more with the season having more then plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place. However tho this season really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as while the episodes are indeed alot longer this season they don't really take the time to fully develop the seasons plot with this being something that could have been fixed if they did two things the first of which being if they stopped playing a song every few minuets as that makes it the show look like an advertisement for the soundtrack and the second of which being if they had two or three more episodes to the episode count as that would then allow for there be scenes where the plot does get alot more development. The show does however take great strides in giving its characters some character development as we do see Lady and Dante first form a bond as friends something which they were close to being by the end of the first season and then to possible love interests and with Virgil we see him go from someone who believes that only people with power can be strong to someone who has just had enough with people controlling him and heck even Baines gets some character development as learns just how evil he has truly been but I really will admit that this season really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is aa action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in thus very season was in all honesty really good. This is something that was to expected as anything that has Adi Shankar involved in it be it animated or live action does have some really cool action in it and the same thing is true for this season as all of this seasons action scenes are filled to the brim with really cool moments be it Dante shooting a rocket launcher and then riding the rocket down the ground just to get closer to an opponent or or Lady killing a bunch of demons bottom line if you love action and you love action with cool moments in them then this season has you covered. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode actually being all the way back in episode one of the season as when Virgil first arrives on earth he finds himself surrounded by Arius taskforce and yet without hesitation he whips his sword out and starts cutting of there heads and limbs all while "Bodies" by Drowning Pool plays this is such cool action scene as while we did have other action scenes in that episode alot of them were either two long or two short for us to fully take them in where as here with this action scene it lasts the right amount of time with this also giving us a good look at just what Virgil can do in an action scene and while the lyrics to the song playing might be bit on the nose for what's happening n screen one can't help but get excited because of how good of a song that it is in the first place with the reason of seasons action scenes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall if you haven't watched this new season of the show yet then what are you waiting for go ahead and do exactly that there's a reason why this new season has been getting rave reviews from people online and all of that praise is totally justified as this new season is just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his very season in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very season really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very season that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very season with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.