Hey, Adi Shankar, were politics and science really necessary?? (Netflix Anime spoilers)

I just wanna start off by saying that I actually kinda like the anime for what it is. I knew from the trailers that this wasn't going to be a 1:1 retelling of the games, novels, manga, whatnot, and that’s perfectly fine.

That said, I'm not too fond of the forced injection of politics and science. Demons feel more like aliens, even their designs are more like just alien mutations than actual Demons. The whole bit with there being innocent demons who are subjugated by bigger evil Demons was also kinda weird IMO. And them trying to explain demonic power with science and all that jazz about "demon technology" was just... Ugh...

And then there's the politics. Good ol' "government is bad, right wing is bad, they're all just war mongers" blah blah blah, yeah, we know, we see it on the news every day, real world sucks, government sucks. But do we really need to focus on that in Devil May Cry?

I originally thought that Adi simply wanted to put more focus on humans so that we get a sense of the world that Dante is fighting to protect. But holy hell, what exactly is Dante even fighting for? Like at this point I'm actually rooting for Vergil and Mundus to destroy humanity cause all we're really shown is the ugly side of it.

This is something that the original DMC Anime is thoroughly superior, in that it didn't focus on the government and political agenda, it focused on humans, good and bad, and kept the simple nature of the world. DMC isn't about how the world functions politically and socially, it's about a wacky wooho pizza man fighting demons.

And it's a shame because the action is really cool, Dante's design has really grown on me, his Devil Trigger looks amazing, and White Rabbit was a fantastic villain, but did we REALLY have to end it with "the real villains were humans this whole time"?? Like, at the end of the day White Rabbit was practically right about everything. Is that what the message was supposed to be?? Like what's even gonna happen in Season 2? Vergil breaks Dante out of containment and the two of them go to war against the US Government??

Idk, I've got mixed feelings about this, mostly about the ending. Like, the series started out great IMO, but it’s like with every episode it got a little worse and then the ending was just fuck all, the only good part about the ending was the Vergil reveal. Dante feels like a side character cause we gotta focus on Lady's tag-alongs who all get killed off eventually, hell I'd say Lady was more of a main character than Dante was.

I understand that it's an adaptation and they wanted to do their own thing, I get that. I'm just not sure what they went for was the best choice.