Merely days ahead of Devil May Cry's thrilling second season debut on Netflix, there have been understandably some detractors, a predictable issue with game adaptations. While the series can reasonably be critiqued for elements of its writing and hilariously excessive edginess, misguided outrage is being directed at the harmless, if cheeky, social media bio for the show's creator, Adi Shankar. But beyond an Instagram post in which he declares himself as creator of Devil May Cry on Netflix, which is factually true, some have resorted to trying to rope the original game's director and creator Hideki Kamiya into the "controversy".
Much like with netizens of yesteryear trying to recruit 4chan users to join their social media flame wars, disgruntled Devil May Cry fans found themselves going nowhere quick by trying to engage Kamiya via his X (formerly Twitter) account. What started as a call to essentially tell off Shankar for what is effectively just promoting the series he's putting on Netflix, was promptly dismissed in predictable fashion by the veteran video game designer. All it took for Kamiya to respond to this was five brutally efficient words, "I'm not your damn mom," to set the tone for just how much...
