VoV chapter 25 note

blackened-angel:

Dante had a line in this chapter which he said twice, but I did not translate it the same each time. Sometimes I would do this, sometimes not. That’s why I make notes :)

The reason why I wanted to write about this line is that it tells something about their relationship, from Dante’s perspective.

Alright, so Dante said this phrase: そうこなくっちゃ (sou konakucha) and  in my translation of the chapter I gave two interpretations: “I thought so…” (on the 3rd page where Dante said the first time), and for the one in this image, I wrote “Now you’re talking!” So, this phrase that he used can be interpreted in the ways mentioned above or another common translation is “That’s the spirit” or “That’s what I wanted to hear”, “That’s more like it” there are quite a few ways to interpret.

Thus, we saw in the chapter that Dante was happy that his expectation was met when Vergil took a strike at him, thus believing he conceded to play with him.
(“Ha, I knew you were gonna play!” [Hehe, I thought so…]

It’s used to express excitement about the actions or suggestions of another individual (often living up to their expectation).

And here is the other time when Dante said that phrase, again being pleased that his big bro apparently wanted to engage in a sparring match with him, most likely thinking along the lines of “You wanted to have a sword fight as much as I wanted to, I knew you were gonna yield!”

For me at least, this phrase said by Dante expresses how he enjoys that Vergil would play with him and that even though Vergil would show reluctance sometimes, he would still meet Dante’s expectations eventually, because Dante knows that his brother enjoys to spar just as much as Dante does.

Dante might have been bratty, annoying Vergil to play with him and perhaps a lot of times not taking into consideration what Vergil wanted to do (can’t blame him if he was exasperated sometimes by Dante), seemingly having this “I got my big brother wrapped around my little finger” attitude, but he was just a kid then and not having other friends, they were each other’s best friend, and for Dante to want Vergil’s companionship most of the time shows just how he loved him, that he looked up to his big brother.

(Just also wanna make a note that this is why I’m so disappointed with how their interaction in the DMC3 manga was handled and why I consider it semi-canon for certain aspects, like they found out they were alive but none of them seemed very shocked…They lost each other as kids, thinking the other was dead, but we didn’t get any  “Where have you been? What happened that day?”

Also, I wonder why they put another writer for the manga  instead of having Bingo Morihashi. 
Perhaps if he had been in charge, things would have been different for that “1 year” before the game)