The Devil May Cry franchise has a lot of incredible things to offer, but its lore has never been its strong suit. Character action games in general tend to work on a scale and tone that simply doesn’t fit within the context of a typical story. Details change on a dime, characters resemble larger-than-life mythic figures, and almost everything boils down to an excuse to fight more demons. This issue becomes far more pointed when the franchise takes on a medium without the benefits of gameplay, as they will again in the Netflix anime. The show will be most fans’ first introduction to the White Rabbit, a minor manga character many fans expect to be hiding much more.
