Devil May Cry 5: Visions of V

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I just finished reading it and I really loved it. The truth is that I saw this manga as necessary to deepen V's character more since I felt he was a bit short in the game. I think that we should give more opportunity to the DMC mangas/novels.
I feel like we saw more aspects of him,scenes that aren´t in the game and learned more about Dante and Vergil's past

Anyways 100% recommended if you have already played DMC 5, read it and give it a chance because even the artwork is pretty cool so any fan of Devil may cry series would enjoy this

Great companion piece to Devil May Cry 5. Added a lot of insight to the new character, V, and how things got to be where without feeling like being told a bunch of obvious things. Same for telling us more about how the Sparda twins came to be orphans as that's been sort of vague.

The art and style is fantastic, suits the world of DmC perfectly. If they ever decide to do any future manga spin offs I hope they keep using the same artist. They've got some great other DmC art in their portfolio and familiarity to a series is always helpful.

This manga is interesting if you care about Vergil's character. It offered almost no new information about lore than expanding a bit on what you already knew by playing game, you may be disappointed if you read Visions of V for that reason.
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The pacing is pretty rushed. It was okay at the beginning when V was making contract with the familiars but thing just went faster around the part when V met Dante. V and the dynamic with his familiars were quite boring. V talked too little, Griffon talked too much, Shadow is an animal with magic and Nightmare... blob. How this whole familiar intelligence worked??? Like this one can talk like human but other can't because??? Sucks to be these creatures, they're pretty much worthless to Vergil, V even killed off one of them himself in manga and it surely posed no negative consequence long-term since they're literally manifestations of Vergil's nightmares. Killing your nightmare = good I guess.

The best thing and worst thing about this manga is how it focused only on V's character. For the concept about separating humanity and demon apart, manga didn't give a sht for any of Urizen's pov, despite the fact ERGIL was essential other half of Vergil. Other DMC characters more or less suffered the same issue, especially Dante who was supposed to be Vergil's main motivation to be a mega a**hole in DMC5. I found V to be incredibly self-absorbed. He was somewhat self-aware of his flaws and introspected a lot sure, but when it got the point he saw others not as their own individuals but as some sort of uh... symbolism? metaphor? related to his problems then I can safely say he was too far up his own a**. V(ergil) seriously needs to learn to be more objective, which I don't think he did in the whole manga. He didn't express sympathy for his mother losing her life to find him but he sure grieved about poor little him without mommy saving him. You little...

I'm sorry for getting too personal here. One "error" I thought to be really unforgivable was in chapter 25.2, the day Sparda family got attacked by demons. Vergil saw his house burning when he was about to run back to warn Dante and his mother of demons. After fighting off those demons, he finally made it back. I expected Vergil to enter the house to search for Dante and Eva, he could do that, he's a half-demon and tougher than normal people, why can't Vergil withstand a little fire if it's for saving his family? But he didn't, he just... left. I'm baffled at how stupidly pessimistic kid Vergil was, NO SCENE in manga made it clear if Vergil assumed his mother and brother already died in the house, HE JUST F*CKING LEFT! He didn't think maybe Dante was still alive, he's half-demon too, he couldn't have died that easy. He left Dante alone inside the house to burn along with his mother's corpse and he had the gall to moan about having to survive by himself. Yeah yeah I know Dante escaped later but I'm talking about Vergil's action. But when I calmed down, I suspect the detail about Vergil kinda "forgot" to find Dante was just a writing error than intentional, because that detail was never brought up/addressed again.