173-478: Devil May Cry is an urban fantasy action-adventure game franchise created by Hideki Kamiya . It is primarily developed and published by Capcom . The series centers on the demon hunter Dante and his efforts to thwart various demon invasions of Earth. Its gameplay consists of combat scenarios in which the player must attempt to extend long chains of attacks, avoiding damage and exhibiting stylized combat by varying their attacks; this combat, along with time and
346-597: A PlayStation 2 installment of the Resident Evil series began by Team Little Devil under the direction of Hideki Kamiya . Early research and development included a trip to Spain to examine castles as a basis for the game's environments. Its prototype, however, was a radical departure from the Resident Evil formula and the survival horror genre. Kamiya rewrote the story and changed its premise, drawing from Italian poet Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy for Devil May Cry . Strider , another Capcom franchise,
519-428: A video-game designer and developed by his employer Capcom and Clover Studio . The series' success has led to comic books , novelizations , two anime series, guides, collectibles and a variety of action figures . The first game focuses on devil hunter Dante 's mission to avenge the death of his mother, Eva, by exterminating demons. In the process he encounters his long-lost twin brother, Vergil , with whom he has
692-487: A "harpy", a birdlike demon of light). Character designer Daigo Ikeno stated that the team aimed for a contrast between Lucia and Trish, making them look as though they were from different races. Lucia is a member of Protectorate, a clan of guardians in the Vie de Marli with the blood of devils. She invites Dante to her island so her adoptive mother, Matier, can ask him to help them defeat Arius (a man who has turned their land into
865-401: A Teenage Werewolf , combining supernatural characters with the mundane popular post WW2 teen-culture. In 1959, the fantasy/sci-fi TV anthology The Twilight Zone began, after the success of its pilot "The Time Element" appeared as a 1958 episode of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse . In 1962, Ray Bradbury published the dark novel Something Wicked This Way Comes , which has been cited as
1038-703: A US tour, then played in London for several years. It was released as a film of the same name in 1958. The 1954 best-selling novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant details a Faustian deal with the devil in major-league professional baseball; it was made into the successful 1957 Broadway musical Damn Yankees (subsequently revived several times), and then into a 1958 Hollywood film. That same year, Irish-American Leonard Wibberley published Mrs Searwood's Secret Weapon, about an elderly British widow haunted by
1211-402: A bigger role during the game's development. As he had no experience planning, he was given the role of writing the scenario. The game's main character, Dante, was given a different characterization than in the first Devil May Cry because his original creator, Hideki Kamiya , was not going to be involved with the project. While feeling his own take on the character did not equal the popularity of
1384-532: A child should never kill their parent. Morihashi wanted this scene in the final product, along with Dante defeating Vergil, as themes of the game. To balance this, Morihashi wrote a scene leading up to Arkham's death, where Lady said that Arkham was her responsibility. Sanctus is the primary antagonist in Devil May Cry ;4 . The proclaimed Vicar of Sparda and general of the Holy Knights, he
1557-430: A clerk for a big New York City company - but suddenly one morning he can speak with and understand animals. In the magical stories of Edward Eager , groups of children are granted wishes or transported through time by invoking spells. This makes the stories a variety of low-fantasy . Possibly the best-known urban fantasy series for children are P. L. Travers ' low-fantasy Mary Poppins stories, set in London between
1730-502: A contrast to other demons in the game. Yoshikawa noted that several main characters were somewhat difficult to design, but Nero was one of the greatest challenges of his career since the character would have to be accepted by the public and fit in the series' universe. With regard to Devil May Cry 5 , because the game's narrative was focused on Dante, Nero and V, Lady and Trish could not appear as playable characters again. In addition, Capcom's Matt Walker claimed Vergil would not be
1903-920: A deal between Capcom and Atlus , Megami Tensei character designer Kazuma Kaneko created Dante and Vergil's demonic forms in Devil May Cry 3 . In return, Atlus included Dante in his Devil May Cry 2 costume as a character in an enhanced release of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne ( Maniax in Japan). The English localization of Nocturne was based on the game's Maniax edition. Dante and Trish are playable characters in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds , and Vergil, Dante, and Trish are playable characters in its Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 update. Dante and Vergil retain their Kazuma Kaneko-designed Devil Trigger forms since they are based on
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#17327728729182076-478: A demon. A failed attempt by sacrificing his wife Kalina Ann resulted in the left side of his face being scarred but gave him some power. Arkham tricks Vergil into helping him while assuming the guise of the lunatic Jester ( ジェスター , Jesutā ) to lead Dante through Temen-ni-gru. He plays the brothers against each other along with exploiting Lady's attempts to avenge her mother, to bring all the factors of unsealing Temen-ni-gru into place. Arkham then travels through
2249-636: A demonic version of himself). As he begins to lose, he mutates into a giant creature. Argosax the Chaos was a cruel demonic deity who once rivaled Mundus and was the final antagonist of Devil May Cry 2 . Like his sovereign, Argosax was imprisoned in the void of the Underworld by Sparda when the rebellious knight came to the aide of the clan of Dumary Island. Using the Arcanas—sacred relics used to exorcise Argosax centuries prior—Arius intended to absorb
2422-565: A devil and are sent back in time to Japan's Warring States period ; there, they meet Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura, and other characters from the Sengoku Basara franchise. The play ran at the AiiA 2.5 Theater in Tokyo for 18 performances. Masanari Ujigawa wrote and directed the play, and Hideaki Itsuno and Izaki Matsuno collaborated on the scenery. Kazushi Miyakoda and Tetsuya Yamaura were
2595-432: A devils' paradise). Dante accepts, and he and Lucia begin their quests. The player later learns that Lucia is actually Chi, a devil bred by Arius but abandoned as defective. When she reaches Arius, Dante has already defeated him and rides his motorcycle to the demon world to stop an ancient demon. After Dante leaves, Arius (now a monster) rises from the ruins and attacks Lucia; she defeats him, and awaits Dante's return. Lucia
2768-500: A different world or time. Such elements may exist secretly in the world or may occur openly. Fantastic components may be magic , paranormal beings, recognizable mythic or folk-tale plots, or thematic tropes (such as a quest, or a battle of good and evil). Authors may use current urban myths , borrow fictional technologies, or even invent occult practices, as well as using established supernatural characters and events from folklore, literature, film, or comics. The urban component
2941-425: A dysfunctional relationship. As the story progresses, Dante encounter his father's nemesis, a demon emperor, Mundus , who is found to be responsible for the murder of Dante's mother. Years after the first game, Capcom developed new Devil May Cry games with new characters. In Devil May Cry 2 , an older Dante aids a woman named Lucia in freeing a town from the demons. In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening ,
3114-442: A fantasy equivalent of Campbell's successful Astounding science fiction magazine; its stories often took place in the present and many had a thoughtful "science-fictional" approach. Writers such as Fritz Leiber ( "Smoke Ghost" , published in 1941), Jack Williamson with " Darker Than You Think " (originally published 1940), H. L. Gold (with his "Trouble with Water" , published in 1939) and L. Sprague de Camp 's " Nothing in
3287-482: A fifth installment. It was originally thought that Itsuno intended for the series to go on hiatus or end if Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition was not a commercial success, but he said in a GameSpot interview that the series' future did not depend on Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition 's sales. He alleviated fears that DmC: Devil May Cry 's sales would kill the series, confirming that Capcom was satisfied with them. In mid-January 2016, Itsuno tweeted that he had begun work on
3460-527: A fighter. Her role was to motivate Nero and the player as the story progresses. Nicoletta Goldstein, nicknamed Nico, is a weapons designer introduced in Devil May Cry 5 who acts as Nero's tech support. She is the daughter of Agnus, whom she speaks of with great disdain, and the granddaughter of Nell Goldstein, the gunsmith proprietor of ".45 Caliber Works" who made Dante's signature handguns, "Ebony & Ivory". She considers her weapons works of art, having developed Nero's Devil Breaker prosthetic arms. Nico
3633-576: A full Demon. Urizen proceeds to plant a Qliphoth Tree in Red Grave City so he can acquire its fruit to become the undisputed ruler of the Underworld, only to be defeated by Dante and absorbed by his other half V. Urizen is voiced by Daniel Southworth in the English version and Shunsuke Sakuya in the Japanese version. Urizen was meant to remind players of Mundus, the original Demon King from
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#17327728729183806-482: A gamecritics.com reviewer, the story was overly short and the characters underdeveloped. Dante's cockiness was noted as largely absent from Devil May Cry 2 . Devil May Cry 3 and its relationships among the cast in the narrative were found to be superior to Kamiya's original version. Dante's dynamic with Nero in the following game was praised, with critics saying that neither overshadowed the other. Devil May Cry 5 ' s handling of its characters and their connections
3979-558: A giant robot to overcome their foe, and wanted to create similar moments. He wanted to convey the style of a Hollywood movie such as Marvel 's Avengers series. In November 2017, Kamiya expressed interest in making a remake of the first installment and a crossover game with Dante and Bayonetta . The series has several print adaptations. Two Devil May Cry light novels , written by Shinya Goikeda and illustrated by Shirow Miwa , were published in Japan in 2002 and translated and published in
4152-430: A girl who gains special abilities after recovering from an accident, and also grows close to a mysterious new boy at her school. Love triangles also play a prominent part in these and several other urban-fantasy novels. Coming-of-age themes and teen 'voices' also often distinguish young-adult urban fantasy from adult books in the genre. Bruce Coville and Jane Yolen collaborated on Armageddon Summer which places
4325-472: A group of teens with paranormal talents go on the run while fleeing from a persistent band of scientists. Gone , by Michael Grant, follows an isolated town in which adults have mysteriously disappeared, leaving a society of super-powered children behind. In Unearthly , by Cynthia Hand, a girl discovers that she is part angel and gifted with superhuman abilities, leading her to seek out her purpose on Earth. The Immortals series, by Alyson Noël , follows
4498-433: A hundred thousand drugstores, news-stands, 5-&-10s, cigar stores, groceries, and diners. By doing this, he established a market - not for copies of Shakespeare or Jane Austen - but for collections and book-length versions of popular magazine fiction. In 1899, Harper's Weekly editor John Kendrick Bangs altered fantasy parameters with The Enchanted Type-Writer (a series of humorous short-stories supposedly typed by
4671-417: A living teenager for Devil May Cry 3 . As a result, the game was designed as a prequel to the series, set several years before the events of the first game. Development of Devil May Cry 4 began shortly after its predecessor's success. The development team had 80 members. A new protagonist was discussed many times at Capcom, but was not approved until producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said that Dante had to be in
4844-996: A market for adventure that was post-apocalyptic , and dystopian . The same timeline introduced popular mail-delivered periodicals in Europe and the Americas ( The Saturday Evening Post (1821), Godey's Lady's Book (1830), and Harper's Weekly (1857)). The success of general-interest magazines led to others targeted at specific readerships: Boys' Own Magazine (1855), and Argosy (1882) among them. All of these magazines published short and serialized fiction features, as well as reportage, instructional articles, illustration, and opinion. Before WW1, fantasy vied for magazine space with westerns, romance, mysteries, military adventure, comedies, and horror. Writers often published stories in multiple genres - among them Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert E. Howard , Isaac Asimov , and Elmore Leonard . A sought-after hallmark for many of these writers
5017-678: A mental construct of Sanctus, Nero. He completely destroys him by using the Devil Bringer on the Savior. The character is voiced by Liam O'Brien in English with O'Brien also doing the motion capture for Sanctus, and Ikuya Sawaki in the Japanese version of Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition . Yoshikawa designed him to become intimidating across the storyline. Agnus is the Order of Sparda's chief technology researcher and alchemist in Devil May Cry 4 , developing demon-killing weapons for
5190-448: A mobile branch of Dante's Devil May Cry business. He befriends Nico, a weapons artist and descendant of the gunsmith who crafted Dante's Ebony and Ivory handguns. Nero's Devil Bringer arm from Devil May Cry 4 is stolen; armed with a prosthetic Devil Breaker created by Nico, he leaves with Dante and the demon hunter V to face their "strongest foe yet". Although the series' timeline had placed Devil May Cry 4 before Devil May Cry 2 , it
5363-493: A mysterious academy, where a romantic bond develops between a girl born to vampires, and a boy who hunts them. Fallen , by Lauren Kate , revolves around a student named Luce who finds herself drawn to a boy named Daniel, unaware that he is a fallen angel who shares a history with her. Other series, such as Carrie Jones 's Need , have characters moving to new locations but attending public schools while discovering mysterious occurrences elsewhere in their towns. A helping of
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5536-466: A new project. Reuben Langdon and Johnny Yong Bosch, who had done voice acting and motion capture for Dante and Nero in Devil May Cry 4 , took pictures of themselves in motion-capture gear in March 2016; this led to speculation that a new Devil May Cry game was in development. According to Capcom Vancouver, "It's not a game that [they] announced that [they are] working on at [their] studio". On May 17, 2018,
5709-490: A particular influence by writers Stephen King , R. L. Stine , and Neil Gaiman . The highly successful TV fantasy series Bewitched began its 8-year run in 1964, with its rival I Dream of Jeannie and a less-successful fantasy show My Mother the Car appearing a year later; The Addams Family based on Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons also debuted in 1964. Chester Anderson 's psychedelic adventure The Butterfly Kid
5882-578: A playable character in the game, leaving "a bitter taste" in fans mouths. Itsuno explained the development team aimed for a " photo-realistic " graphics style. The returning characters' designs involved slight alterations to their Devil May Cry 4 iterations to fit their personalities. However, while few of the ideas for Dante and Nero were scrapped, V underwent nearly twenty redesigns. The new designs were also inspired by Carol Christian Poell as well as Daniel Craig and Benedict Cumberbatch . Capcom used an older incarnation of Nero, so he would be "at
6055-518: A police officer faces while trying to balance her paranormal cases with life as a single mother ). In addition to books which present largely independent characters, certain stories feature men and women who are regularly partnered on adventures—often with an underlying romantic element. The Jaz Parks series , by Jennifer Rardin , follows the titular Central Intelligence Agency operative and her vampire boss as they combat supernatural threats to national security. Jocelynn Drake's Dark Days novels follow
6228-524: A ritual to obtain demonic power, an act which drove Mary to psychosis and obsessive vengeance. Lady first appears in Devil May Cry 3 , when she refuses to identify herself to Dante; he replies, "Whatever, lady!" Lady formalizes her name in the game's denouement when she shoots Arkham, telling him that "Mary" is dead. Although she is not a villain, her role in Devil May Cry 3 is that of an antagonist, as she seeks to deter Dante and even fights him twice before finally coming to terms with him. Sparda
6401-411: A romantic relationship between two characters. Paranormal romance focuses on a romantic relationship between two characters and how outside forces affect that relationship. The best litmus test to determine if a story is urban fantasy or paranormal romance is to ask the following question: 'If the romance between Character A and Character B were removed, would the plot still stand as a viable storyline?' If
6574-469: A sequel in 2002). In the cinema, the re-write of Dan Aykroyd 's original 1982 science fiction comedy script for Ghostbusters by Harold Ramis replaced the futuristic setting for present day New York City . This effectively enabled the film to be made, and introduced to the mainstream the idea of fantastical events taking place in a real-world setting. Two years later, Gremlins brought another batch of supernatural beings into our everyday world. At
6747-516: A series in the waning years of the 1980s with Burning Water , exploring the life of a contemporary American witch. The Vampire Files [1] by P.N. Elrod featured a vampire detective that begins the series by him solving his own murder. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, the 12-book series pioneered the vampire investigator role. P.N. Elrod has authored more than 25 books and edited many anthologies. She has won numerous awards for her work in establishing
6920-575: A standard teen romance in the middle of an imagined apocalyptic cult. Boarding schools are a common setting in teen urban fantasy. Rampant , by Diana Peterfreund , follows a group of young women at a cloisters as they train to fight killer unicorns. The House of Night series, by P. C. and Kristin Cast , presents a school where future vampires are disciplined while on the path to transformation, during which several romantic conflicts and other clashes ensue. Claudia Gray 's Evernight novels center on
7093-575: A subgenre called elfpunk on the basis that "Elfpunk is pretty much full of elves and fairies and traditional shit [...] Urban fantasy, though, can have some totally made-up fucked-up creatures." During the late Romantic era, writers of sensational fiction (including Mary Shelley , Dickens , Hoffmann , Le Fanu , Hugo , Poe , Wilkie Collins , Stoker , &c.) wrote melodramas that explored social anxieties induced by new technology, alienation resulting from population shifts to industrial centers, and fear of 'foreign' immigration. Re-imagining
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7266-567: A subgenre of "extreme combat" action games, which focus on powerful heroes fighting hordes of foes with stylized action. It has been described as the first game that "successfully captured the twitch-based, relentlessly free-flowing gameplay style of so many classic 2D action games". The series is the standard against which other 3D hack and slash action games are measured, with comparisons in reviews of games such as God of War , Chaos Legion , and Blood Will Tell . Devil May Cry 5 has three protagonists with distinctive abilities, increasing
7439-575: A substantial and influential work of the genre. Kim Harrison 's Rachel Morgan novels, also regarded as inspirational works, feature a bounty-hunting "witch-born" demon who battles numerous supernatural foes. Multi-genre offerings combine urban fantasy with other established forms (e.g.: police procedurals, as presented in the Peter Grant stories of Ben Aaronovitch , or the Charlie Madigan series , by Kelly Gay , which explores challenges
7612-624: A trap which reveals that Trish is the demon's agent; he saves her, however, because she resembles his mother. Trish saves Dante from Mundus, and Dante realizes his father's power. Dante defeats Mundus when Trish helps him return Mundus to the Demon World. Dante and Trish escape as the island collapses and work together in the Devil Never Cry shop. In the Devil May Cry: The Animated Series anime, Trish
7785-723: A vampire named Mira and a vampire hunter named Danaus, who work together to protect their people from a mutual enemy. Night Huntress , a series by Jeaniene Frost , centers on a half-vampire named Catherine and a vampire bounty hunter called Bones, who gradually become lovers while battling the undead. In contrast to the "professional heroes" found in adult urban-fantasy novels, many novels aimed at young adult audiences follow inexperienced protagonists who are unexpectedly drawn into paranormal struggles. Amidst these conflicts, characters often gain allies, find romance, and, in some cases, develop or discover supernatural abilities of their own. In Kelley Armstrong 's The Darkest Powers series,
7958-436: A video game". 1UP.com noted that the enemies shared visual elements with the military personnel of actual religions: "Considering the visual nature of the heavily-armored, winged, angelic warriors scattered around the various missions, it'd be easy to confuse these characters with crusaders of Christian origin." Dante's dynamic with Nero in the following game garnered positive responses as critics found none of them overshadowed
8131-673: A younger Dante awakens his demonic powers when confronting his brother and matures upon seeing Lady , a woman struggling to redeem her family. Devil May Cry 4 and Devil May Cry 5 focus on a young demon hunter named Nero who is related to Dante, as well as V , a young man from 5 who wishes somebody would defeat the demon king Urizen . Ninja Theory also created a reboot titled DmC: Devil May Cry that follows an alternate version of Dante as he learns of his heritage while confronting demons controlling Limbo. Nero and several characters in Devil May Cry ;2 and
8304-411: Is Devil May Cry 5 , released on March 8, 2019. The series has been successful; the main entries has sold 32 million copies worldwide and received Capcom's Platinum Title award. The success of the video-game series has led to comic books, novelizations , two animated series, guides, collectibles, publications, and a variety of action figures. The series begins two millennia before the first game with
8477-623: Is Dante's closest friend and broker. He finds Dante jobs, acts as a handyman to keep Devil May Cry functioning, and offers him advice on how to be a better person. Morrison returns in Devil May Cry 5 , having been heavily redesigned from his previous appearance. Following the game's events, Morrison becomes the new owner of the Devil May Cry office. In English, Morrison is voiced by Rob Mungle in The Animated Series and Joey Camen in Devil May Cry 5 . In Japanese, he
8650-429: Is a demon hunter; Dante is the bodyguard of Patty, a young heiress who becomes obsessed with him. Patty's mother is descended from a sorcerer who sealed the power of Abigail, an ancient devil lord. Patty is targeted by Sid, a demon seeking Abigail's power. Lady and Trish fight demons summoned by Sid, and Dante kills him. Dante is invited by Lucia in Devil May Cry 2 to meet her mother, Matier . Dante learns that Arius
8823-547: Is a rival character. On June 28, 2021, it was announced that a Mii costume based on Dante would appear in the crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , as a set for the Mii Sword fighter character with clothing inspired by his design from the original Devil May Cry game. The set was released the following day alongside the game's new DLC fighter, Kazuya Mishima from the Tekken series. By September 30, 2022,
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#17327728729188996-427: Is able to use energy and projectile attacks with its wings as well as teleport and shapeshift its arms into swords in its male form, and whips in its female form, as its main weapons. After another long confrontation, the demon's wings shatter from exhaustion and Dante finally destroys the disgraced lord with a lighting-infused gunshot from Ivory. However, with the portal having sealed behind him during their battle, Dante
9169-433: Is cited as a vital influence on the Devil May Cry games and their action, particularly in their inclusion of the "boss rush". Despite the success of the original game, its sequel was not created by Kamiya or Team Little Devils. Although an unidentified director was placed in charge of the project, Capcom was dissatisfied with their work and assigned Hideaki Itsuno "with only 4 to 5 months remaining in development" to steer
9342-515: Is collecting artifacts (Arcana) to summon the demon lord Argosax . Dante flips a coin, and decides to help. Lucia confronts Arius, who reveals that he created her. Lucia gives Dante the last of the Arcana before facing Arius alone. Dante encounters Matier, who asks him to take the Arcana to save Lucia from Arius. Lucia attacks Arius, but he captures her. Dante arrives, trades the Arcana for Lucia, and attacks Arius (who escapes). A stream of energy strikes
9515-477: Is destroyed, after which she is reunited with her birth mother. Patty makes a voice-only cameo appearance in Devil May Cry 5 , repeatedly attempting to invite Dante to her 18th birthday party. In English, Patty is voiced by Hilary Haag in The Animated Series and Haviland Stillwell in Devil May Cry 5 . In Japanese, she is voiced by Misato Fukuen in the anime and Yū Shimamura in Devil May Cry 5 . First appearing in The Animated Series , Morrison
9688-400: Is first claimed that Matier is Lucia's mother, it is later revealed that Lucia was created by Arius (who planned to dispose of her when Matier found and raised her). The character is voiced by Flo DiRe. Credo, captain of hundreds of Holy Knights, is a strict, just man who is admired for his prowess on the battlefield. Kyrie's older brother, he sees Nero as family, but finds him unreliable. He
9861-429: Is his own favorite. Retrospective reviews of King's work note that he "brought reality to genre novels", and have remarked that "Jerusalem's Lot is the main character here, a warm-up for what King would later do with his beloved fictional towns of Derry and Castle Rock. We're given a vivid description, details and foibles, before the town is populated with a cast of characters..." Anne Rice published Interview with
10034-472: Is motion-captured and voiced by Faye Kingslee in English, and is voiced by Lynn in Japanese. Nico was created to be a contrasting heroine to Nero's girlfriend, Kyrie; Nico is more used to fighting. In addition to the games, anime and manga, Devil May Cry characters have appeared in merchandise including novels, comic books, a skin variety on the PlayStation Portable, a special edition of
10207-564: Is obsessed with gaining power. He is the primary antagonist in Devil May Cry 3 and a playable character in the game's special edition, ending up as Mundus's servant Nelo Angelo in the first Devil May Cry game. While appearing in Devil May Cry 4 and playable in its special edition to hint at his relation to Nero, fragments of Nelo Angelo's form were used as the basis for the Angelo-type demons developed by Agnus for Sanctus's use. Vergil returns in Devil May Cry 5 where he
10380-635: Is regarded as a seminal work of the genre. Certain staples of urban fantasy novels are also present in television shows. The concept of peaceful coexistence with paranormal beings is explored in the 1996 series Kindred: The Embraced , which focuses on secret vampire clans in San Francisco. Works such as Witchblade present the more common matter of a protagonist attempting to protect citizens. While urban-fantasy novels are often centered on heroines, television programs have regularly featured both genders in leading roles. Shows such as Beauty and
10553-553: Is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual leaders of the Order of the Sword. Sanctus was apparently killed by Dante at the beginning of the game, but in reality, Sanctus survived as he had himself infused with demonic essence in an ascension ceremony. Sanctus originally planned to use Dante to give life to the Savior, a colossus in Sparda's image housing collected demon essence. But he decides to use Nero after his righthand, Angus, revealed
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#173277287291810726-464: Is revealed to be Nero's father while stealing the Yamato back for his use. Later, Dante's and Vergil's rivalry is a friendly one. Vergil also appears as a playable character in the crossover fighting game, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 . In English, Vergil is voiced by Daniel Southworth ; Nelo Angelo is voiced by David Kelley in Devil May Cry . In Japanese, he is voiced by Hiroaki Hirata . Mundus
10899-478: Is skilled in acrobatics and armed close quarters combat . Lady has black hair, eyes of different colors and a signature weapon, the Kalina-Ann (a customized missile launcher, similar to MANPADS ). When fighting, she uses a CZ75 pistol with a compensator and a VZ61 submachine gun with a bayonet attached to it. She was named Mary by her father, Arkham, but she renounced the name when he murdered her mother in
11072-492: Is the Emperor of the Underworld and the overarching antagonist of the series, starting with his role as the main antagonist of the original Devil May Cry . He is portrayed as a semi-amorphous creature with three orb-like eyes who takes the form of a white-skinned seraph with a third eye on his forehead and a scar on his chest. Millennia ago, Mundus led the demons under his command in a long and brutal war with humanity, until he
11245-517: Is the demonic knight who rebelled for humanity's sake 2,000 years before the events of Vergil's Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition . He defeated many demons and their emperor, Mundus, before sealing the gateway between the demonic and human worlds. Sparda's heroism made him legendary in the human world, and he is known as "the Legendary Dark Knight". In Devil May Cry and its successors, Sparda left his power in his sword (known as
11418-456: Is unaware of an entire universe of wizards and magical creatures; and intersections of these domains provide plot material and character dimensionality for the action taking place primarily in the magic universe - and so being a type of high-fantasy . On the other hand, magical charm stories operate mostly in the mundane universe, but where a spell or token provides plot-interest. The protagonist of Robert Lawson 's 1945 Mr. Wilmer works as
11591-399: Is usually found in the setting—typically a large or small city—or even a suburban community in a metropolitan area. Use of contemporary technology (such as automotive vehicles or communications) and everyday community and social institutions (such as libraries, schools/universities, or markets) establish a familiar context. The period in which the action occurs may be the fairly recent past or
11764-519: Is usually given the Order's "special assignments". He is the son of Vergil, which also makes him the nephew of Dante and the grandson of Sparda. The character is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch in English, and by Kaito Ishikawa in Japanese. Nero returns as one of the primary protagonists in Devil May Cry 5 . Lucia, along with Dante, is one of the two protagonists in Devil May Cry 2 . An agile fighter, she uses two ornately carved curved daggers. Like Dante, she can Devil Trigger (transform into
11937-416: Is voiced and motion-captured by Adam D Clark. Arkham's name was intended to be Hyne (pronounced "Hai-neh"), but Reuben Langdon (who voices Dante) thought it would be inappropriate in English and convinced Capcom to change it. Jester's name was intended to be "Joker". One of the key themes of Devil May Cry 3 is familial conflict. Itsuno said he did not like the idea of Lady killing Arkham, as he believed
12110-545: Is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka . Matier, a supporting character in Devil May Cry 2 , is an old woman and (like Lucia) part of the Protectorate clan. When she was younger, she and her clan fought the demons with Sparda. Matier is cheerful and optimistic, certain of Dante's eventual victory. She guides Lucia to reunite the Arcanas (mystical relics) and lure Dante (whom she calls "Son of Sparda") to their island. Although it
12283-428: Is voiced by Françoise Gralewski. V is one of the protagonists of Devil May Cry 5 , a mysterious figure who hires Dante to come with him to Red Grave City to subdue Urizen. He is ultimately revealed to be the discarded humanity of Vergil seeking to merge back with Urizen to their original form. In battle, V uses three demon familiars created from trace memories of Nelo Angelo to weaken his opponents so he can land
12456-534: The Devil May Cry series has sold 27 million units worldwide; each installment is a Capcom Platinum Title, selling over a million units. As of June 30, 2023, Devil May Cry 5 is the best-selling game in the series having sold 7.20 million units worldwide. The series has received generally positive reviews. In 2010, IGN ranked Devil May Cry number 42 and Devil May Cry 3 number 18 on its "Top 100 PlayStation 2 Games" list. The series' gameplay has been praised as innovative. Devil May Cry has been cited as beginning
12629-661: The Devil May Cry series, due to worries that the products would sell poorly. As a means of testing the market, Capcom decided to ask for pre-release sales. Devil May Cry characters appear in the PlayStation versions of the Viewtiful Joe games, another Capcom series created by Hideki Kamiya; Dante is a playable character in the PlayStation 2 port of the first Viewtiful Joe . The PSP version of Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble also includes Dante and costumes based on Vergil, Trish, Sparda, Marionette, and Plasma. In
12802-491: The Devil May Cry series. Kyle Ward was hired to write the screenplay for the film (based on DmC: Devil May Cry ), which would be Dante's origin story. No news has emerged about the project's status. Capcom produced Sengoku Basara vs. Devil May Cry a staged amalgam of the Devil May Cry and Sengoku Basara series, in August 2015. In the play, Dante, Lady, Trish, and Vergil encounter mysterious historical ruins while chasing
12975-496: The Ouroboros tower, and a portal to the demon world opens. Dante and Lucia argue about who will enter, and Dante determines that he will go. After Dante leaves, Arius returns to the human world and Lucia defeats him. In Devil May Cry 4 , Dante and Trish discover foul play within the Order of the Sword and investigate while learning its religious leader's scheme to conquer the world using demonic power. Dante seemingly assassinates
13148-439: The PlayStation 3 console and several soundtracks. Capcom has made other merchandise available including concept art for The Animated Series , T-shirts, rings, collars and handbags. The series' popularity led to a line of action figures produced by Toycom; Kaiyodo produced a similar line for Devil May Cry 2 and a Devil May Cry Dante action figure. Kotobukiya produced statues (including Vergil and Dante) based on
13321-448: The cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction . Sweet Silver Blues a 1987 novel by fantasy author Glen Cook began his Garrett P.I. series. These tales chronicled adventures of a hardboiled detective in a contemporary fantasy world, and were among the earliest to use a fantastic "underworld" in place of the criminals and thugs of Dashiell Hammett , Raymond Chandler , and their followers. Prolific author Mercedes Lackey started
13494-402: The 1940s -are credited by many current authors for bringing contemporary characters and American settings into the fantasy and horror genres. These early tales, however, differ from current urban fantasy - they present supernatural beings and acts as unnatural, aberrant, and a possible danger to ordinary citizens. Unknown magazine (1939–1943) was conceived by its editor John W. Campbell as
13667-568: The 1942 comic cinema romance I Married a Witch by Rene Clair . Writer Charles G. Finney 's celebrated 1935 experimental novel The Circus of Dr. Lao placed mythical creatures in a contemporary setting to examine the society in a small Arizona town. Gruesome cartoons by Charles Addams began exploring the humorous side of horror in the New Yorker magazine around the same time. Occult detective stories, such as Manly Wade Wellman 's John Thunstone stories - written originally during
13840-531: The 1972 horror movie The Night Stalker . Isaac Asimov 's Azazel stories about a tiny demon (less than an inch tall), most of which were written in the 1980s, take some of their urban character of his mystery stories initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . Dorothy Gilman , a writer known for her genre-merging Mrs. Pollifax "cozy-spy" action novels, wrote The Clairvoyant Countess in 1975 which featured various forms of ESP (and wrote
14013-561: The 1980s and early 1990s. This development is apparent in the increased use of the term in contemporary reviews. Terri Windling 's shared Borderlands universe, made up of a number of anthologies and novels, launched with the eponymous paperback original anthology, Borderland in 1986, followed up by Bordertown , also in 1986. The series was later touted by Neil Gaiman as "one of the most important places where Urban Fantasy began". An article in Tor.com has stated that "some say, Urban Fantasy
14186-496: The 2001 Devil May Cry game. Itsuno said, "Urizen is definitely the strongest enemy of the entire Devil May Cry saga ... the most powerful. You've seen it: every time he appears, he sits on his throne and, maybe sometimes, he moves a little, but that's it. We want to make people understand how a fight against him can be completely crazy." Trish is a demon created by Mundus who strangely resembles Dante's mother, Eva. She has enhanced strength and agility, accelerated healing and
14359-524: The Beast , The Dresden Files , Forever Knight , Grimm , Moonlight , and Supernatural are based around male protagonists, while other programs, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Charmed , and Witchblade , focus largely on female protagonists. Characters of Devil May Cry#Lucia Devil May Cry is a series of video games set in the present, created by Hideki Kamiya ,
14532-651: The Force Edge or the Sparda) in the demonic realm. To seal the gateway between the worlds Sparda sacrificed his blood and that of a mortal priestess, using two complementary amulets as a key which he brought into the human world. To work, the amulets must be joined. Near the end of his life Sparda took a human wife (Eva) and fathered twin sons (Dante and Vergil). He gave the amulets to Eva, who passed them on to their sons. Sparda also gave his sons enchanted swords with opposing powers: Dante's broadsword Rebellion that allows
14705-406: The Japanese manga-hosting site Line Manga (LINE マンガ). The manga's prologue was published before the serialization began. Illustrated by Tomio Ogata, the manga (only available in Japan) would update every other Sunday beginning on April 27. An anime series, Devil May Cry: The Animated Series , premiered on Japan's Wowow TV network on June 12, 2007. The 12-episode series, produced by Madhouse ,
14878-513: The Knights. An introverted workaholic with a habit of stuttering when stressed, Agnus rarely appears outside his office and very few in the cult know about him. It is later learned that he has been experimenting with the broken Yamato and created demon-based weapons like the Angelos, even turning himself into the insect-like Agnus Angelo before being killed by Dante when he attempts to keep him from
15051-520: The Oaks ), the economics of the market favor series characters, and genre-crossing allows sales along multiple lines. Many urban-fantasy novels are told via a first-person narrative , and often feature mythological beings, romance , and female protagonists who are involved in law enforcement or vigilantism. Laurell K. Hamilton 's Anita Blake series—which follows the investigations of a supernatural Federal Marshal during paranormal cases—has been called
15224-409: The Order for using his sister as a tool and tries to help Nero save her. He is mortally wounded by Sanctus while trying to save Nero from capture, and Nero is absorbed into the Savior. Dying, Credo asks Dante to save Nero and Kyrie as his body dissipates into light. He is voiced by TJ Rotolo in English, and Rikiya Koyama in the Japanese version of Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition . His devil form
15397-466: The Rules " (1939) presented ghosts , lycanthropes , gnomes , mermaids , demons and more, in a modern setting, with horrific and/or humorous results. The prolific de Camp and his writing partner, war game inventor Fletcher Pratt , also explored urban material with their stories of Harold Shea in the 1940s and Gavagan's Bar stories in the 1950s. The 1940s saw a number of comic ghost-movies; some of
15570-541: The Sanctus, only to face a young holy knight named Nero, who awakened his demonic forces as a descendant of Sparda. Nero quests to capture Dante while gaining Yamato, only to learn the Order's dark secrets before being captured by Sanctus through his girlfriend. Dante manages to cripple Sanctus's plans before freeing Nero to finish the job. The two part ways on good terms with Nero allowed keeping Yamato. In Devil May Cry 5 , set several years after Devil May Cry 4 , Nero runs
15743-590: The UF genre. Shadowrun , a tabletop RPG with a similar concept to the Borderlands universe appeared. Like those earlier books, Shadowrun took place in a future Earth setting (specifically 2050, in the first edition), after the reappearance of supernatural powers and beings. Players could play humans ( cybernetically enhanced or otherwise), elves , dwarves or orcs , all in a dark high tech setting. The more definitely cyberpunk approach (jaundiced and gritty) of
15916-511: The United States in 2006. The first, Devil May Cry Volume 1 , was published in Japan in conjunction with the release of the first game and explored Dante in an adventure set before the game's events. The second, entitled Devil May Cry Volume 2 in the US, was published in Japan to coincide with the second game's release and is set after the first game's events. Tokyopop published the books in
16089-523: The United States in June and November 2006, respectively. Bingo Morihashi wrote a Devil May Cry 4 novel entitled Devil May Cry 4 Deadly Fortune . The two-volume novel, published in Japan in 2009, has a number of scenes which were not included in the original game due to time constraints. A prequel novel by Morihashi titled Before the Nightmare , set before Devil May Cry 5 and leading to the beginning of
16262-555: The Vampire (a re-working of her own late-60s short story) in 1976 to strikingly mixed critical reviews. Incorporating many genres (horror, eroticism, fantasy, romance, historical fiction), it and its sequels established a new audience for fantasy characters in a real world. Recognizing its potential Alfred A. Knopf editor Victoria Wilson recommended a very substantial advance; later, the paperback rights cost Ballantine Books $ 700,000. The 1974 TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker
16435-514: The World Wars. As well as eight books, there have been several film and stage adaptations. The high-fantasy Harry Potter phenomenon may soon be in position to overtake Poppins in sales, but not longevity. In an online commentary, author Jeannie Holmes described differences between urban fantasy and paranormal romance : The two share 90% of their genre DNA. However, the main differences are this: Urban fantasy focuses on an issue outside of
16608-417: The Yamato. He is indirectly mentioned with contempt by his surviving daughter Nico in Devil May Cry 5 . The character is voiced by T. J. Storm in English, and Yūya Uchida in Japanese version of Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition . Urizen, the primary antagonist in Devil May Cry 5 , is the demonic half of Vergil that came into being when Vergil used the Yamato to purge his humanity to become
16781-413: The ability to use lightning . In English, Trish is voiced by Sarah Lafleur in Devil May Cry , and Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble , Danielle Burgio in Devil May Cry 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 / Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , Wendee Lee in Devil May Cry 5 , and Luci Christian in The Animated Series . In Japanese, she is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka . Lady is a freelance demon hunter. A human, she
16954-762: The answer is 'yes,' chances are good it's urban fantasy. If the answer is 'no,' it's most likely paranormal romance. Use of other forms of media has become a common part of the creation and promotion of urban-fantasy works. "Sometimes the songs influence the book and sometimes it's the other way around, but either way the playlist eventually comes to epitomize the feeling of the book to me." —Christina Henry Several urban-fantasy authors cite music as an inspiration. Certain writers recommend songs or playlists on their official websites, including Courtney Allison Moulton, Jaye Wells, and Sarah J. Maas , who couple their recommendations with links to music-providing services. Publishers have also used music for book trailers, including
17127-594: The best-known today include The Canterville Ghost (a re-making of the original story by Oscar Wilde , Blithe Spirit (based on Noël Coward 's hit London and Broadway play), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (based on an R.A. Dick novel), as well as series-fare Topper Returns , Gildersleeve's Ghost , The Smiling Ghost , plus cartoons and offerings from The Three Stooges , Olsen and Johnson , Walt Disney Productions and Looney Tunes . Bell, Book and Candle opened on Broadway in 1950, playing 233 performances before it went on
17300-443: The character later reveals he does not want Nero to face Vergil because of their connection. Several critics focused on the increased number of moves available to the three protagonists. The Daily Telegraph praised the characters' mechanics, most notably V's for how differently he plays in contrast to Nero and Dante while still remaining entertaining. While IGN felt Dante was similar to his presentation in previous games, they noted
17473-626: The characters after the release of The Animated Series and Devil May Cry 4 , and other merchandise includes posters and framed stamps for the series' 10th anniversary. When Devil May Cry was released Dante's personality was praised, with IGN describing the character as a "maverick head-hunter", "believable" and "awesome". His confident, fearless attitude has made him popular; the character ranked seventh on GameCrush 's Top 10: Most Badass Video Game Characters list and third on ScrewAttack ' s Top Ten Coolest Video Game Characters list. The original game's demonic enemies were "ferocious",
17646-464: The completed gate to retrieves the Force Edge, combining its power with the restored halves of Eva's amulet to absorb Sparda's power. Though he becomes a demon resembling Sparda, Arkham's body is unable to compensate for the power as he mutates into an amorphous abomination that Dante and Vergil defeat together. Arkham is reverted to his original state as he ends up back in the human world where Lady kills him. The character, in his normal and Jester forms,
17819-434: The contemporary universe by manipulating one or more social/technical realities exploded with highly-popular works by Jules Verne , and Doyle's Professor Challenger stories. Jack London 's 1908 dystopian novel The Iron Heel preceded by a year H. G. Wells ' novel The Sleeper Awakes . Karel Čapek , Aldous Huxley , and even Sinclair Lewis (in his novel It Can't Happen Here ) all wrote along this axis, exploiting
17992-436: The deathblow. Following Vergil's restoration, now fully independent beings, the hawk-like Griffon leads the panther-like Shadow and the golem Nightmare to attack Dante of their own free will, and all three die fighting him. V is motion captured by Owen Hamze and voiced by Brian Hanford in English, and is voiced by Kōki Uchiyama in the Japanese version. Dante's older identical twin brother, Vergil embraces his demonic side and
18165-505: The demon Sparda, the Black Knight, defeating Demon World ruler Mundus . Sparda stops Mundus from conquering the human world by sealing several Hellgates and Temen-Ni-Gru (the last portal) with a ritual requiring his blood and the aid of a human priestess. Sparda meets Eva, who gives birth to his twin sons Dante and Vergil. The plot begins with Devil May Cry 3 , a year after Dante has a falling-out with Vergil. A large tower erupts from
18338-492: The demon deity like his father before him. When he first appears, his native form—the Despair Embodied, a fiery horned hermaphrodite with angelic wings—is gestating inside of a chrysalis composed of the reanimated corpses of assorted bosses from games 1 and 2 . He's capable of channeling their power while in this form. Emerging from the destroyed mass after a lengthy battle, the Despair Embodied challenges Dante. It
18511-460: The demon's power to achieve apotheosis. Instead, as Dante had switched the Medaglia coin with his own, the ritual was incomplete and caused Arius to become possessed upon dying. Despite its faulty execution, the ritual was enough to create a portal to the devil's prison—enough to enable Argosax to escape if given time. Seeking to put an end to this scheme, Dante elects to enter the gateway and face
18684-519: The design doesn't come from just one person, it is necessary to take the history of the series and the feelings of the fans into consideration." Before designing the characters in Devil May Cry 4 , Yoshikawa consulted staff members who had previously worked on the series to familiarize himself with previous elements. The characters were designed to emphasize their motion, and some demonic antagonists in Devil May Cry 4 resemble angels. These characters were designed to be attractive, while providing
18857-529: The domain name "DevilMayCry5.com" was registered under Capcom's Onamae domain register. Devil May Cry 5 , featuring the return of Dante and Nero, was confirmed at E3 2018 for release the following year. Most of the team had worked on the recently released Resident Evil 7 , and were experienced with the game engine ; Itsuno was influenced by his work in Monster Hunter: World to provide content appealing to new gamers but also felt that making
19030-482: The fantastic is often an element in children's literature, but the two major strands of urban fantasy are well-represented in particular. The hidden-world focuses on stories and characters taking place in a fully-realized domain which operates secretly but simultaneously to the world with which we are familiar. An outstanding example are the Harry Potter books of J. K. Rowling - where our own ( muggle ) world
19203-432: The first when Nero lost the Devil Bringer and the second in renewing his resolve to end the animosity between Dante and Vergil. The character is voiced by Stephanie Sheh in the English versions and Saori Hayami in the Japanese versions, and motion-captured by Laura Napoli . Itsuno was responsible for most of Kyrie's elements. She was envisioned as an "ordinary, cute heroine" who had a big impact on Nero despite not being
19376-493: The game challenging would appeal to long-time fans. Other members of the staff had worked on the reboot game DmC: Devil May Cry , but the Osaka team was more willing to make a sequel to the fourth installment of the main series. The team listened to fan opinions about previous games to ensure that the new game appealed to them; an "auto" mode facilitated combos. Itsuno was moved to tears by a film in which three robots combined into
19549-495: The game's protagonist Dante (named after Dante Alighieri ) and other characters like Vergil ( Virgil ) and Trish ( Beatrice Portinari ). Dante and Lucia dressed in Diesel fashions appealed to the developers. Shortly after the release of Devil May Cry 2 , Hideaki Itsuno decided Capcom's staff should develop a new video game, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening . Morihashi was once again employed, but this time took on
19722-408: The game's release that he wanted to make Dante appear more powerful than the other protagonist, Nero, to contrast the strength of a "veteran" with that of a "rookie". The series' storyline also required Dante to demonstrate his power after the first game and its prequel, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening . Kobayashi said, "When creating a sequel, you don't want to make a character weak again from
19895-538: The game's universe exerted its own influence. Anthologist and professor. Dr. Martin H. Greenberg sparked growth in urban fantasy by commissioning established authors to write stories for his many fantasy anthologies (among them Wizards , Witches , Devils , and Faeries ). The commissioned work was juxtaposed with older fiction; it frequently used supernatural elements in contemporary urban settings. Several publications and writers have cited authors Laurell K. Hamilton and Kim Harrison as notable contributors to
20068-494: The game, was published on March 1, 2019. Three issues of a comic adaptation of the first game were published by the Canadian Dreamwave Productions in 2004, but the series was left unfinished when the company went bankrupt the following year. On July 25, 2008, WildStorm (a DC Comics imprint ) and Capcom announced that they would collaborate on a Devil May Cry comic-book series. Details about
20241-420: The game. Kobashi said before the game's release that they wanted to make Dante seem significantly more powerful than Nero, to create an obvious difference between the strength of a "veteran" compared to a "rookie". Writer Morihashi collaborated with film director Yuji Shimomura, who worked on the earlier games. Morihashi left Capcom at one point, but returned at Itsuno's request. It took him a year to finish writing
20414-473: The game; he had difficulty with the characterization of Nero, the new protagonist. Dante returned as a supporting character. Although the fourth game was a commercial and critical success, the staff considered rebooting the series because other game series had better sales. They chose Ninja Theory, impressed with their work on Heavenly Sword (which the staff thought would work with a Devil May Cry game). However, in 2013 Itsuno expressed interest in developing
20587-466: The games, although this was initially subtle. Ninja Theory made a more direct reference to the way religion is portrayed in gaming while showing the parallels between the identical twins. On the other hand, the cast from the first Devil May Cry were felt to be underdeveloped. In its review of Devil May Cry 2 , GameSpot said that the characters lacked personality (based on the removal of Dante's distinctive traits). It also felt that Lucia's role
20760-501: The genre. Entertainment Weekly , USA Today , and Time have recognized the longevity and influence of Hamilton's stories, while The New York Times and Amazon.com have noted the work of Kim Harrison. Author Courtney Allison Moulton has cited Hamilton's early works among her inspirations. Kelly Gay has noted Hamilton, Harrison, and Emma Bull as primary influences. Jim Butcher 's The Dresden Files series have been described by Barnes and Noble as "the gold standard" for
20933-419: The genre; one of the books from the series was nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award . N. K. Jemisin 's The City We Became features major cities acquiring sentience through human avatars; it won the 2020 BSFA Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2021 Hugo and 2020 Nebula Awards. While adult urban fantasy novels may stand-alone (like Mulengro by Charles de Lint or Emma Bull 's War for
21106-403: The ghost of 18th century writer James Boswell ) - introducing a benign revenant in a contemporary setting. Thorne Smith was successful in 1920s-30s, especially his two " Topper " farces about a middle-aged banker's adventures with a couple of ghosts (subsequently made into films, radio plays, and a 1950s television series); Smith's posthumously-released novel The Passionate Witch was made into
21279-515: The ghost of a Powhatan warrior during the London Blitz. British spy-novel writers Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles (under the pseudonym Francis Gaites, but published in the United States as by Manning Coles ) produced a series of humorous novels from 1954 to 1958 placing ghostly revenants of Franco-Prussian War era into 1950s Paris and Como. Herman Cohen 's teen-horror films for American International Pictures commenced in 1957 with I Was
21452-514: The ground near the shop, and Dante interprets it as a challenge from Vergil. Dante is defeated in Temen-Ni-Gru by Vergil, who takes his locket and leaves with Arkham. Dante's dormant devil power revives him, and he resumes pursuing his brother. Vergil wants to use the pendants their mother gave them in a ritual to create a portal to the Demon World. The battle is joined by Lady , who wants to avenge her mother's death by Arkham; Arkham manipulated
21625-524: The handling of the narrative. Series creator Hideki Kamiya said that the title character from the manga series Cobra , by Buichi Terasawa , was the basis for Dante. Dante wears a red cloak to make the character's actions more eye-catching; red is the traditional Japanese color for a hero. The game is very loosely based on the Italian poem the Divine Comedy by its use of allusions, including
21798-413: The human world, she coins the phrase "devil may cry"; Dante uses it for the shop. Dante is confronted in Devil May Cry by Trish , who reveals that Mundus is planning to return and only a descendant of Sparda can defeat him. He explores Mallet Island (where Mundus is set to return), encountering demons which include Mundus' general: the undead Vergil, Nelo Angelo. As Dante approaches Mundus, he falls into
21971-632: The island, watching as he defeated his servants one by one and even stepping in to personally murder his servant Griffon when he begs Mundus for more power. Finally, when even Trish proved unable to stop Dante, Mundus tried to strike him down with his magic, but Trish took the attack instead, leaving her close to death. Dante's anger transformed him into the form of his father Sparda, and he defeated Mundus in personal combat. Despite this, Mundus crossed over, and tried to crush Dante with his decomposing body. Trish then combined her own magic with Dante's weapons, allowing him to seal Mundus' powers once again. Before he
22144-500: The later games were conceived by several staff members, most notably Bingo Morihashi with designers Daigo Ikeno and Tatsuya Yoshikawa, taking over. While each game changes the cast's designs, the RE Engine was used for Devil May Cry 5 to give them a more realistic look. Dante's characterization and role in the games was well received by game journalists with the recurring cast being praised since Devil May Cry 3 because of
22317-421: The legacy of his father, Sparda. Dante, the series' primary protagonist , is a mercenary specializing in the paranormal and the main playable character in the first three Devil May Cry games. He is one of the twin sons of Sparda, a demon knight who sided with humanity and drove back an invasion of the human world by demons about 2,000 years before the series' events. The character was voiced by Drew Coombs in
22490-489: The legendary Arcana, artifacts which would allow him to raise Argosax from the demonic realm and use his power to control the world. Human at the beginning of the game, Arius has access to powerful magic (which enables him to fight demon hunters like Dante) and can create his own demons. Near the end of the game, in Lucia's scenario, Arius survives his battle with Dante. Infused with the power of Argosax, he attacks Lucia (first as
22663-438: The movies (and later on TV). The genre's current publishing popularity began in 1980s North America, as writers and publishers were encouraged by the success of Stephen King and Anne Rice . Urban fantasy combines imaginary/unrealistic elements of plot, character, theme, or setting with a largely-familiar world —combining the familiar and the strange. The world does not have to imitate the real world, but can instead be set in
22836-556: The near future, but will typically require merely only casual historical or other special knowledge from the reader. The city-setting is a tool; used to establish a tone, to help move the plot, and may even be acknowledged as a character itself. Urban fantasy is most often a sub-genre of low fantasy (where magical events intrude on an otherwise-normal world) and/or hard fantasy (treating magic as something understandable and explainable), and works may be found mixing with sub-genres of, for example, horror , occult detective fiction , or
23009-412: The next game like the more critically successful Devil May Cry . Gameplay elements, such as environment size and battle engine, were reconsidered. In the original game, Vergil was killed by demons early and his soul was controlled by Mundus; Bingo Morihashi wanted to create an alternate universe in which Vergil was alive. However, Kamiya gave Morihashi the freedom to rework Vergil's backstory and make him
23182-403: The number of items collected and used, are considered in grading the player's performance. The series alludes to Italian poet Dante 's Divine Comedy . Hideki Kamiya created Devil May Cry after a failed attempt to develop a Resident Evil game with the first game originally being conceived as Resident Evil 4 . Kamiya wanted to create a game with more action features, which Capcom felt
23355-422: The number of moves available. According to Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the team's work on Devil May Cry 4 influenced Capcom's Dragon's Dogma . Response to the series' narrative has been mixed, despite Dante's increased popularity. The series' popularity led to a line of Devil May Cry action figures produced by Toycom, and Kaiyodo produced a Devil May Cry 2 and Devil May Cry 3 Dante action figure. According to
23528-549: The original Devil May Cry and Matthew Kaminsky in Devil May Cry 2 . Reuben Langdon voiced Dante in all subsequent appearances. Dante's Japanese voice is provided by Toshiyuki Morikawa . Nero is the secondary protagonist of the franchise, introduced in Devil May Cry 4 . An orphan adopted by the Sparda-worshipping Order of the Sword, Nero grew up to become a Holy Knight of the Order. He does not get along well with others and prefers to work alone, so he
23701-494: The original one, Bingo Morihashi enjoyed Dante's role in the game. Morihashi felt challenged creating the character of Vergil since he had no prior design experience yet he had to come up with an entire new one for the artists. Dante and Vergi's Devil Trigger forms were designed by Kazuma Kaneko of Atlus . The Capcom staff was impressed with Kaneko's work, and Daigo Ikeno felt that it was not difficult to model. Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said before
23874-442: The other even if Dante's fans had to wait for the game's second half to control him while enjoying the older characterization. Devil May Cry 5 ' s narrative was well received due to the handling of the characters and their connections. Despite liking Dante's relationship with Nero to the point of comparing them like father and son, USGamer found Dante's treatment of the younger demon hunter mean-spirited even though
24047-508: The player controls Vergil in Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition added "an all-new and unique play style". Being able to play his story arc was "such a blast that Capcom could probably have released his modes separately for $ 19.99 and gotten away with it" according to one reviewer. The characters in Devil May Cry 4 were said to resemble a "legion of seraphim the likes of which gamers have never seen before, and it puts an interesting spin on what all of our preconceptions of 'good' are in
24220-465: The producers, supervised by Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Makoto Yamamoto. Devil May Cry: The Live Hacker , a musical, ran for 13 performances in March 2019 at Zepp DiverCity in Tokyo. Jun Yoriko wrote and directed the musical and its video, and a DVD was released in late August of that year. The Devil May Cry series has seen the release of seven separate soundtracks. Initially, Capcom was very reluctant to release an officially sanctioned soundtrack for
24393-433: The project back on course. Despite Itsuno's limited time on the project, he is the only person credited as director in the final version of the game. According to producer Tsuyoshi Tanaka, the design aim was to make Devil May Cry 2 bigger than its predecessor; Tanaka estimated that the game's environments were about nine times larger than the first. After Devil May Cry 2 's mixed reception, Capcom decided to develop
24566-419: The same time another low-budget supernatural comedy success, Teen Wolf was popular enough to generate a television show, an animated cartoon, and a cinema sequel. Before its run was finished, another general-audience teen comedy with supernatural elements, Buffy the Vampire Slayer , was in production. The term began to come into its present use in the late 1970s; however, its meaning kept shifting during
24739-445: The second Devil May Cry novel in a parallel universe, where he is confronted by Dante and Nelo Angelo's forces. An alternate version of Mundus appears as the main antagonist of DmC: Devil May Cry , this time portrayed as a powerful demon in human form who secretly rules over humanity. Arius, the primary antagonist in Devil May Cry 2 , is an insane, wealthy businessman who owns an international company, Uroboros. He wants to find
24912-444: The series did not need. The games were directed by Hideaki Itsuno and writer Bingo Morihashi . Capcom announced a new game, DmC: Devil May Cry (developed by Ninja Theory and supervised by Capcom), during the 2010 Tokyo Game Show . A high-definition remastering of the three PlayStation 2 titles was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, and in 2018 for the PlayStation 4 , Windows , and Xbox One . The latest game
25085-472: The series were planned to be announced at a later date, but no new information has been provided. Two volumes of a planned three-part Devil May Cry 3 manga series have been published in Japan and the United States. Set a year before the events of Devil May Cry 3 , the manga describes how the characters come to be at the beginning of the game. On March 7, 2019, Capcom announced that a tie-in manga entitled Devil May Cry 5 Visions of V would be serialized on
25258-476: The show's first season will have 8 episodes. He also have plans for a connected "multi-season arc", like what he did with Castlevania , and that fan-favorite characters will make their debut throughout the series. In September 2024, Netflix announced that the series will premiere in April 2025. On February 28, 2011, Screen Gems (which made Resident Evil into a film series ) had purchased feature-film rights to
25431-421: The start for no good reason. Everyone wanted to see Dante be just as powerful as they remembered him," emphasizing that playing as Dante without his previous abilities would otherwise feel "very strange". Both main characters' capabilities were part of the series' early development. Several weapons in the series are character-specific. Character designer Tatsuya Yoshikawa said, "When working on this sort of game,
25604-507: The sub-bosses "incredibly tough" and the bosses (particularly Vergil) "very tough", providing many of the game's challenges. Eurogamer called the demons "some of the most bizarre-looking creatures you will find this side of American McGee's Alice " and the bosses "vast", with their battles requiring a variety of strategies (although the fight with Nightmare was considered repetitive). Because Dante and Vergil are half demon and half human, they were noted as bringing in religious overtones to
25777-469: The tales to be adapted are Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson stories, and Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely . Works of urban fantasy have been adapted to or have originated in film and television. Aside from popular ghost and horror films from the 1930s-60s, well-known examples include the 1992 series Highlander and the TV adaptation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , which
25950-697: The third game of the Devil May Cry series. Dante is also a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite . The DmC: Devil May Cry version of Dante is a playable character in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale , and he is a playable character in Project X Zone for the Nintendo 3DS as half of a pair with Darkstalkers ' Demitri Maximoff ; Lady is a separate character. Dante returns in its sequel, Project X Zone 2 , with Vergil; Vergil's future self, Nelo Angelo,
26123-404: The three into completing the ritual, which would allow him to acquire Sparda's sword: the Force Edge. Dante and Vergil defeat him, and resume battling each other. The portal begins to close, and Vergil approaches it. Dante pleads with his brother not to go, but Vergil leaps into the Demon World before the portal closes. Vergil is tested and encounters Mundus, his mother's killer. When Lady returns to
26296-461: The top of his game in body and mind". Because the game's graphics are meant to be as realistic as possible, each character is modeled after an actor. The staff wanted to generate a major emotional scene when Vergil reappears in the climax confronting his brother. As a result, Nero stops the brothers' feud and awakens his demonic powers to face his father. Itsuno said that Dante has a more mature personality and still wishes to protect humanity and honor
26469-574: The trailer for Carrie Jones's Captivate , which features the work of songwriter Derek Daisey. Original music is also produced. In 2010, musicians Alexandra Monir, Michael Bearden, and Heather Holley (a songwriter for Christina Aguilera 's Stripped ) collaborated to create songs for Monir's debut novel, Timeless . Book trailers are often used to promote urban-fantasy novels. Publishers such as HarperCollins also produce regular video interviews with debuting authors. Adaptations of urban-fantasy novels have appeared in comic books and manga . Among
26642-468: The truth of the Order's actions. Sanctus takes matters into his own hands by having Agnus kidnap Kyrie to have the Savior absorb her so it can assimilate Nero. Sanctus than uses the Yamato to open the artificial Hellgates before merging into Savior to commence his plan to wipe out all demons and rule the world while projecting himself through an animated suit of armor. Dante manages to sabotage Sanctus's scheme before freeing Nero to rescue Kyrie while defeating
26815-479: The user to absorb anything, and Vergil's katana Yamato that can split one's being or open a link to the Demon World. It is unknown how Sparda died, and Dante believed that there was a lot of confusion surrounding his father and his legacy. Eva is Sparda's human wife and the mother of Dante and Vergil, giving her sons each half of Sparda's amulet as a birthday gift. Eva was murdered in her home in Red Grave City by demons sent by Mundus. She safely hid Dante away, but
26988-468: The various "punk" genres. Common themes include coexistence or conflict between humans and other beings, and the changes such characters and events bring to local life. Many authors, publishers, and readers particularly distinguish urban fantasy from works of paranormal romance , which use similar characters and settings, but focus on the romantic relationships between characters. The YA author Scott Westerfeld distinguished between urban fantasy and
27161-410: The writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual characters—without demanding the creation of an entire imaginary world. Precursors of urban fantasy are found in popular fiction of the 19th century - and the present use of the term dates back to the 1970s - but much of its audience was established in the 1930s-50s with the success of light supernatural fare in
27334-530: The young man into the first of the Angelo demons. As the primary antagonist in Devil May Cry , Mundus is shown to have spent centuries posing as a statue on the forbidding Mallet Island, steadily corrupting the inhabitants and using his powers to remake the island in his own image. He then crafts a demon named Trish, making her look identical to Eva, and sending her to hire Dante to kill him so he can be destroyed. Mundus carefully monitored Dante's progress throughout
27507-459: Was retconned with the release of Devil May Cry 5 . DmC: Devil May Cry , developed by Ninja Theory , is not part of the timeline and takes place in an alternate universe from the main series. Along with a very different looking Dante, it moves away from the gothic look of the previous games to a more contemporary setting with some social commentary on mass media and culture. After the completion of Resident Evil 2 in 1998, preliminary work on
27680-479: Was " realism " - although the stories were outrageously fantastic. Dime novels also arrived before the Civil War ; some of the earliest re-printing serials from magazines. Commonly associated with Western adventure, they also encompassed romance and crime-fiction. Robert deGraff founded Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books in 1939, he distributed not only to the 2,800 US bookstores, but also in more than
27853-420: Was an occult detective series featuring a Chicago newspaper reporter uncovering and battling supernatural creatures (e.g. vampires and zombies) in an urban environment. He was unbelieved and unappreciated, considered by his boss, colleagues, the police and the public as something between a crackpot or an insane murderer as he struggles with both real and metaphorical demons in each episode. This series spun off from
28026-647: Was banished back to his realm, Mundus vowed to one day take his revenge on Dante and conquer all of the human world. A statue of Mundus can be seen briefly in Devil May Cry 2 . He is also referenced in Devil May Cry 5 as having eaten the fruit of the Qliphoth to become ruler of the Underworld. In Dante's storyline in the PlayStation ;2 version of Viewtiful Joe , he possesses Captain Blue to take revenge on Dante and Trish. Mundus also appears in
28199-402: Was betrayed and defeated by the strongest of his knights, Sparda, who sealed his powers and imprisoned him in his own realm. After Sparda's death due to the loss of his immortality, Mundus took revenge by sending his minions to murder Dante's mother, Eva, and seemingly killing his brother Vergil as well. In the aftermath of Devil May Cry 3 , Mundus captured Vergil when he challenged him and turned
28372-482: Was born in Bordertown," which provided "young, beginning writers like Charles de Lint and Emma Bull " with a platform. Emma Bull's 1987 urban fantasy War for the Oaks , where fairy factions battle in present-day Minneapolis , also received interest and attention. Both Bull's novel and the Borderlands books emphasized young, poor, hip protagonists. In this, they had much in common with the usual protagonist of
28545-454: Was designed with key motifs representing his job, which Yoshikawa found fun to create. He orders Nero to capture Dante for Sanctus' "assassination", but is part of Sanctus' plan to bring about the Order's "Savior". Credo tries to arrest Nero after he learns about the latter's demonic power, and transforms into a winged creature he believes is angelic. When Kyrie is kidnapped to be used by the Order for Sanctus's grand plan, Credo loses his faith in
28718-521: Was directed by Shin Itagaki. Bingo Morihashi, a writer of the third and fourth games, was one of its writers. In November 2018, Adi Shankar announced that he had acquired the rights to produce a Devil May Cry animated series for Netflix . Shankar, who has been completing a similar animated series for Konami's Castlevania franchise, said that he considered both series part of a shared "Bootleg Multiverse". In November 2021, Shankar revealed that
28891-404: Was held hostage by Agnus under orders of Sanctus to lure Nero to the Savior. He arrives too late however, as she had already fused with the Savior. Her fusion causes Credo to defect from the Order after recognizing Santus' evil scheme. When Dante frees Nero from captivity in the Savior, Nero can free Kyrie as she begins her new life with him. She makes two off-screen cameos in Devil May Cry 5 ,
29064-490: Was killed while she was looking for Vergil. Mundus later created Trish with Eva's appearance in a failed attempt to lure Dante to his death. In Devil May Cry 5 , like Trish, Eva is voiced by Wendee Lee in English and Atsuko Tanaka in Japanese. First appearing in The Animated Series , Patty is a young girl, descended from a powerful sorcerer who imprisoned the demon known as Abigail. After Dante protects her from some demons, she lives with him at Devil May Cry until Abigail
29237-457: Was meant to contrast Nero's and Dante's due to how he looks like a heroic person when he still looks like a demon. Kyrie is a supporting character introduced in Devil May Cry 4 . She was born and raised in Fortuna and works as a singer for the Order of the Sword. She is Credo's sister, and Nero's childhood friend and love interest. After being misled into thinking that Nero is evil, Kyrie
29410-577: Was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. Also in 1968, the English translation of Italo Calvino 's short-story collection " Le cosmicomiche " made his fantastic tales built around minor scientific details available to the Anglo-American audience that was interested in urban fantasy. After the success of Stephen King 's contemporary horror-story Carrie in 1973, the author introduced supernatural characters (vampires) into his next book, 'Salem's Lot (1976), which he has claimed
29583-428: Was now trapped in the demonic realm. Arkham ( アーカム , Ākamu ) is the secondary antagonist in Devil May Cry 3 , which takes place before the events of the first Devil May Cry game, and the estranged father of Lady. In the game, he is a scholar in the demonology and the supernatural who sought to break the seal Sparda made to prevent Temen-ni-gru tower from serving as a Hell Gate. Arkham also desired to become
29756-427: Was too small, not allowing the character time to develop. The website called the game's enemies "mindless", noting that most characters (including the bosses) could be defeated with the default attacks. Dante's younger persona in Devil May Cry 3 and the relationships he goes through in the narrative were also given a major focus by reviewers and found to be superior to Kamiya's original take. The missions where
29929-480: Was well received. Although well received by most critics, DmC: Devil May Cry was highly controversial with many long time fans due to the dramatic change in Dante's appearance and the move away from the series' iconic gothic style to a modern urban setting. Urban fantasy Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy , placing supernatural elements in a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides
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