They were in Chinese.
They have glossy nice covers.
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A GIRLY-FIED VERSION OF DANTE!!!!! >__________<
I was definitely enraged at the audacity of whichever stupid IDIOT Chinese writer/publisher to DARES to modify, of ALL people, DANTE into some fucking redhead and claiming it as the HEROINE of the stupid book.
And although I don't read Chinese, the English translation beneath the Chinese title is SIGIL SWORD.
FIRST, YOU RIP DANTE AND UGLYFIED HIM INTO A GIRL. THEN YOU ROB FFX'S SIGNATURE TRADEMARK OF SIGILS. WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?
On the other books, the pictures have suggestives postures, but they are all CG characters. For my entire reading life, I have not come across a storybook that uses 3D COMPUTER-GENERATED CHARACTERS for a cover. None, so far. But the other covers, despite different faces, they did look awfully familiar, I just can't place it from which game(s), but only the Dante rip-off is pretty much screaming off the cover to be noticed, hence I care more for this than the other books...
Now, here's the original version of that Dante. It's a wallpaper, so practically anyone can have it.
Now, HERE's the rip-off-and-girlyfied version of him:
As I've said, friggin' book's cover is glossy, BUT the image is still there. The. Fucking. Uglyfied. Girlified. Version.Of. All People. DANTE.
*starts rant*
YOU FUCKING IDIOT WHO TRIES TO PLAGIARISE DANTE FROM CAPCOM, YOU ARE ASKING FOR A DEATH SENTENCE. JUST BECAUSE THE GAME IS JUST A FEW YEARS OLD AND NOBODY MENTION MUCH ABOUT IT, IT IS NONETHELESS, CAPCOM'S TRADEMARK GAME AFTER RESIDENT EVIL, HENCE IF YOU THINK YOU CAN FOOL YOU READERS TO THINKING IT'S YOUR FREAKING ORIGINAL CHARACTER, FORGET IT!!!
EVERY GAMER OUT THERE KNOWS WHO IS DANTE (OR AT LEAST HEARD OF DEVIL MAY CRY SINCE IT'S CAPCOM'S 2ND BEST-SELLING GAME AFTER RESIDENT EVIL) AND IF YOU THINK YOUR CHINESE READERS DON'T KNOW HIM, THINK AGAIN!! CAPCOM HAS MADE A CHINESE VERSION OF DMC3 FOR BOTH THE PC AND PS2, SO WE CHINESE READERS/GAMERS ARE NOT AS STUPID AS YOU'D THINK WHO THINKS THAT YOUR STUPID CHARACTER IS YOURS!! YOU JUST RIPPED DANTE FROM DMC3 AND OF ALL ACTIONS TAKEN, YOU GIRLY-FIED HIM INTO A GIRL!!!!!!
A GIRL!!! DANTE, THE STAR OF THE DMC SERIES WHO CAN MAKE THE DEVIL CRY IS MADE INTO A GIRL!!
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?!
CAN'T YOUR FREAKING PUBLISHER MAKE HIS OWN DESIGNS??? MUST YOU RIP A RESPECTABLE BELOVED CHARACTER AND UGLYFIED HIM TO CATER TO YOUR STUPID STORIES?!?! OF ALL PEOPLE, DANTE!! CAN'T YOU MAKE YOUR OWN!! AREN'T DESIGNERS SUPPOSED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL?!? WELL, YOU CAN FIRE YOUR STUPID ILLUSTRATOR!!! HE CAN GO TO HELL AND DIE FOR ALL I CARE!!
I REALLY HOPE CAPCOM KNOWS ABOUT YOUR STUPID LITTLE PLAGIARISM-AND-DESTRUCTION OF THEIR BELOVED GAME CHARACTER!! IF CAPCOM EVER FINDS OUT, YOU WILL BE SUED UNTIL YOU DIE YOU STUPID CHEATING BASTARD!!!
GGGGRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!
*ends rant*
So yeap. Anyone out there who loves Dante as much as I do, spread the word around. Boycott this idiot's books. If you can read Chinese and know the author/publisher, even better, go and report him to Capcom. Let Capcom handle this idiots who TRIES to uglyfied Dante. They WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. >____<
-Lammy-
