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  "id": "devil-may-cry",
  "title": "Devil May Cry",
  "description": "Dante’s family history, licensed fiction and three distinct versions of the demon hunter.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "main",
      "label": "Capcom game continuity",
      "note": "Current main-game order is 3 → 1 → 2 → 4 → 5; the 2007 anime belongs after 1. No unverified calendar years are imposed on this sequence. Licensed disputed fiction remains included."
    },
    {
      "id": "reboot",
      "label": "DmC reboot",
      "note": "Ninja Theory’s Dante and Vergil inhabit a separate reboot. The Chronicles of Vergil is a prequel; Vergil’s Downfall follows the game."
    },
    {
      "id": "netflix",
      "label": "Netflix animated continuity",
      "note": "Adi Shankar’s series is an alternate adaptation. It is not a missing chapter between the numbered games."
    },
    {
      "id": "crossovers",
      "label": "Licensed crossovers",
      "note": "Stories in crossover games belong to those settings. Playable skins and roster additions without new narrative are coverage notes."
    }
  ],
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      "title": "Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. age 19 for Dante; Relative game chronology; calendar year not established",
      "order": 3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "Dante and Vergil’s conflict at Temen-ni-gru.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the manga age and near-one-year reunion interval suggest about nineteen. Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events.",
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      "railLabel": "est. age 19",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VBVQDI",
      "productName": "Devil May Cry HD Collection — PlayStation 3",
      "productMatch": "Contains the corresponding numbered game (1, 2 or 3). This is a PS3 disc, not a PS4/PS5 edition.",
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry",
      "title": "Devil May Cry",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. age 28–29 for Dante; Relative game chronology; calendar year not established",
      "order": 4,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2001",
      "description": "Dante investigates Mallet Island and Mundus.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the family tragedy is twenty years earlier in Trish’s dialogue; a childhood age around eight gives about twenty-eight. Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VBVQDI",
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      "storyGroup": "dmc1",
      "ageBaseNote": "Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events."
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-2",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 2",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. early-to-mid 30s for Dante; Relative game chronology; calendar year not established",
      "order": 6,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "Dante and Lucia confront Arius on Vie de Marli.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the established position between earlier and later adventures gives a broad age range, not a confirmed numbered age. Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events.",
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        "age-dialogue",
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        "graphic-art-age"
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-4",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 4",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. age 38–40 for Dante; Relative game chronology; calendar year not established",
      "order": 7,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Nero’s confrontation with the Order of the Sword.",
      "note": "Yoshikawa’s official-artbook design account is reported as around forty. Thirty-eight is a plausible reconstruction, not a verified exact canon age. Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.devilmaycry.com/4se/",
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      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
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      "storyGroup": "dmc4",
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      "id": "devil-may-cry-5",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 5",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. about age 40–45 for Dante; May–June; calendar year not established",
      "order": 9,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019",
      "description": "Nero, Dante and V face the Qliphoth crisis.",
      "note": "Later age remains disputed: older design-age / Nero reconstructions and the Patty anime-to-game interval yield different numbers. Do not present 43 or another single birthday as exact. Ordered by the current story sequence. Original, HD and Special Edition releases occupy the same story position; bonus playable campaigns are not automatically separate events.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DJX3XJS",
      "productName": "Devil May Cry 5 — PS4",
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-volume-1-shinya-goikeda",
      "title": "Devil May Cry, volume 1 — Shinya Goikeda",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. late teens for Dante; Before Dante’s first-game adventure; pre-3 material retconned",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2002 (Japan); 2006 (English)",
      "description": "Dante’s Tony Redgrave period and the gunsmith Nell Goldstein.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the established position between earlier and later adventures gives a broad age range, not a confirmed numbered age. Later material reuses elements, but the Gilver / Vergil relationship was revised. Keep this licensed story visible with disputed details rather than claim every scene is compatible.",
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      "railLabel": "est. late teens",
      "segment": false,
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      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_(novels)",
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      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Find official edition",
      "ageBaseNote": "Later material reuses elements, but the Gilver / Vergil relationship was revised. Keep this licensed story visible with disputed details rather than claim every scene is compatible."
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-3-code-1-dante-code-2-vergil",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 3: Code 1—Dante & Code 2—Vergil",
      "type": "Manga",
      "date": "Est. age 18 for Dante; Before Devil May Cry 3; est. one year earlier",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2005–2006",
      "description": "The twins’ paths converge before the tower’s return.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the manga’s eighteen-year-old Dante precedes the game by nearly a year. Two published volumes form one unfinished prequel run. No Code 3: Lady was released. Full interiors need a date / contradiction audit.",
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      ],
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-dreamwave-1-3",
      "title": "Devil May Cry (Dreamwave) #1–3",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Est. age 28–29 for Dante; First-game adaptation; unfinished",
      "order": 4,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2004",
      "description": "A licensed comic version of Dante’s Mallet Island adventure.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the family tragedy is twenty years earlier in Trish’s dialogue; a childhood age around eight gives about twenty-eight. Same story position as the first game, with adaptation differences. Three issues were published; the planned fourth is not counted.",
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        "graphic-art-age"
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://my.comics.org/series/59004/",
      "productName": "View issue / edition index",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
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      "storyGroup": "dmc1",
      "ageBaseNote": "Same story position as the first game, with adaptation differences. Three issues were published; the planned fourth is not counted."
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-the-animated-series-episodes-1-12",
      "title": "Devil May Cry: The Animated Series — episodes 1–12",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "Est. late 20s–early 30s for Dante; After Devil May Cry 1; before Devil May Cry 2",
      "order": 5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Patty Lowell and Morrison enter Dante’s working life.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the established position between earlier and later adventures gives a broad age range, not a confirmed numbered age. One season grouped as a run. Earlier memories stay within their episodes; no broadcast-year story date asserted. Episodes 11–12 close the season’s continuing Sid plot.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dmc-tv.com/",
      "productName": "View official series / editions",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official series / editions",
      "ageBaseNote": "One season grouped as a run. Earlier memories stay within their episodes; no broadcast-year story date asserted. Episodes 11–12 close the season’s continuing Sid plot."
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-tv-animation-drama-cd-volume-1",
      "title": "Devil May Cry TV-Animation Drama CD, volume 1",
      "type": "Audio drama",
      "date": "Est. late 20s–early 30s for Dante; 2007-anime period; exact episode placement unresolved",
      "order": 5.1,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2007-12-21",
      "description": "A licensed audio story featuring the anime cast.",
      "note": "Age-based placement: the established position between earlier and later adventures gives a broad age range, not a confirmed numbered age. Source verifies a narrative drama CD rather than soundtrack. Listening to the full Japanese script is needed before assigning a position relative to individual episodes.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dmc-tv.com/goods/",
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      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-tv-animation-drama-cd-volume-2",
      "title": "Devil May Cry TV-Animation Drama CD, volume 2",
      "type": "Audio drama",
      "date": "Est. late 20s–early 30s for Dante; 2007-anime period; exact episode placement unresolved",
      "order": 5.1,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2008",
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      "note": "Age-based placement: the established position between earlier and later adventures gives a broad age range, not a confirmed numbered age. Source verifies a narrative drama CD rather than soundtrack. Listening to the full Japanese script is needed before assigning a position relative to individual episodes.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-volume-2-shinya-goikeda",
      "title": "Devil May Cry, volume 2 — Shinya Goikeda",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. early 30s for Dante; After the first game; before Devil May Cry 2",
      "order": 5.5,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2002 (Japan); 2006 (English)",
      "description": "Dante and Beryl investigate a demonic artifact.",
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    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-4-deadly-fortune-volume-1",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 4: Deadly Fortune, volume 1",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. age 38–40 for Dante; The Devil May Cry 4 story; earlier memories included",
      "order": 7,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2009",
      "description": "An expanded prose rendition of Nero and Dante’s Fortuna story.",
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      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4044192235",
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      "title": "Devil May Cry 4: Deadly Fortune, volume 2",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. age 38–40 for Dante; The Devil May Cry 4 story; earlier memories included",
      "order": 7,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2009",
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      "title": "Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. about age 40–45 for Dante; Several years after 4; immediately before 5",
      "order": 8,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019-03-01",
      "description": "Nico’s meeting with Nero and V’s approach to Dante.",
      "note": "Later age remains disputed: older design-age / Nero reconstructions and the Patty anime-to-game interval yield different numbers. Do not present 43 or another single birthday as exact. Publisher explicitly identifies this as a prequel by the game’s scenario writer. Earlier life histories span additional periods.",
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      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4041080924",
      "productName": "Before the Nightmare — Japanese paperback",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
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      "id": "devil-may-cry-5-visions-of-v-volumes-1-5",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 5: Visions of V — volumes 1–5",
      "type": "Manga",
      "date": "Est. about age 40–45 for Dante; V’s emergence immediately before 5; then overlapping the game",
      "order": 8.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019–2022",
      "description": "V’s origin and perspective on the Red Grave events.",
      "note": "Later age remains disputed: older design-age / Nero reconstructions and the Patty anime-to-game interval yield different numbers. Do not present 43 or another single birthday as exact. Complementary viewpoint, not an exact novelization. Grouped serial run; early childhood memories are embedded flashbacks. Volume-specific access remains a product-verification task.",
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      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
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      "id": "devil-may-cry-peak-of-combat",
      "title": "Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Young-Dante setting; exact fit with 3 / 1 unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2024 (global)",
      "description": "A licensed mobile adventure drawing on Dante’s early design and cast.",
      "note": "Official license does not prove that every mobile scenario happened in the main-game chronology. Campaign and event-script audit remains open.",
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      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
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    {
      "id": "dmc-devil-may-cry-the-chronicles-of-vergil-1-2",
      "title": "DmC: Devil May Cry — The Chronicles of Vergil #1–2",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Before DmC: Devil May Cry",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Vergil and Kat’s pre-game encounter.",
      "note": "Two-issue reboot prequel. Published after the game, but placed before it by its narrative premise.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "vergil"
      ],
      "continuity": "reboot",
      "railLabel": "Prequel",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dmc-devil-may-cry-the-chronicles-of-vergil/4050-56191/",
      "productName": "Find comic edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Find comic edition"
    },
    {
      "id": "dmc-devil-may-cry",
      "title": "DmC: Devil May Cry",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Reboot main adventure; no verified calendar year",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "A different Dante takes on Mundus’s modern-world control.",
      "note": "Reboot character history prevents merging with the numbered Capcom continuity. Definitive Edition retells this adventure.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "capcom"
      ],
      "continuity": "reboot",
      "railLabel": "DmC",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/220440/DmC_Devil_May_Cry/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "dmc-vergil-s-downfall",
      "title": "DmC: Vergil’s Downfall",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "Immediately after DmC’s ending",
      "order": 3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Vergil’s post-defeat journey.",
      "note": "Story expansion, not the generic Vergil playable mode from another game.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "capcom"
      ],
      "continuity": "reboot",
      "railLabel": "After DmC",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/228950/DmC_Devil_May_Cry_Vergils_Downfall/",
      "productName": "View official DLC",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official DLC"
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-netflix-season-1-episodes-1-8",
      "title": "Devil May Cry (Netflix) — season 1, episodes 1–8",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "Alternate modern setting; year unverified",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025-04-03",
      "description": "Dante, Mary and the White Rabbit’s conflict.",
      "note": "Each season is a separate run. Episode-level flashback / time-jump audit remains open; Netflix’s 2025 / 2026 labels are release years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "nf"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Season 1",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81506915",
      "productName": "Watch on Netflix",
      "productMatch": "The corresponding full series, subject to region and subscription. No unrelated Blu-ray substitution.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Netflix"
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-netflix-season-2-episodes-1-8",
      "title": "Devil May Cry (Netflix) — season 2, episodes 1–8",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "After season 1; earlier family-history flashbacks",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-05-12",
      "description": "Dante and Vergil’s confrontation continues the adaptation.",
      "note": "Each season is a separate run. Episode-level flashback / time-jump audit remains open; Netflix’s 2025 / 2026 labels are release years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "nf",
        "nf2"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Season 2",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81506915",
      "productName": "Watch on Netflix",
      "productMatch": "The corresponding full series, subject to region and subscription. No unrelated Blu-ray substitution.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Netflix"
    },
    {
      "id": "shin-megami-tensei-iii-nocturne-maniax-dante-content",
      "title": "Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne — Maniax / Dante content",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2004; HD Dante DLC 2021",
      "description": "Dante appears in the Vortex World adventure.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "smt"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.atlus.com/smt3/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "marvel-vs-capcom-3-ultimate",
      "title": "Marvel vs. Capcom 3 / Ultimate",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "Dante joins the crossover conflict; endings are hypothetical variants.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "mvc"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.marvelvscapcom.com/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "marvel-vs-capcom-infinite",
      "title": "Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2017",
      "description": "Dante joins the merged-world story.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "mvc"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.marvelvscapcom.com/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "project-x-zone",
      "title": "Project X Zone",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2012",
      "description": "Dante participates in the dimensional crossover adventure.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "pxz"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Zone",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "project-x-zone-2",
      "title": "Project X Zone 2",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2015",
      "description": "Dante and Vergil participate in another crossover story.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "pxz"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Zone_2",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "teppen-dmc-character-stories-and-narrative-expansions",
      "title": "TEPPEN — DMC character stories and narrative expansions",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Crossover setting; no numbered-game calendar placement",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2019–ongoing",
      "description": "Card-set fiction uses Capcom characters in an alternate world.",
      "note": "Narrative license / participation is indexed. It does not connect all participating franchises’ home continuities.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "teppen"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://teppenthegame.com/en/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "sengoku-basara-vs-devil-may-cry",
      "title": "Sengoku BASARA vs. Devil May Cry",
      "type": "Stage drama",
      "date": "Time-travel crossover; home-game position unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2015-08",
      "description": "Dante and Vergil encounter the Sengoku BASARA setting.",
      "note": "Separate licensed crossover. A historical-looking stage does not supply a date in Dante’s world.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "stage2015"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/annual/2016/annual_2016_01.pdf",
      "productName": "View licensed production record",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View licensed production record"
    },
    {
      "id": "devil-may-cry-the-live-hacker",
      "title": "Devil May Cry: The Live Hacker",
      "type": "Stage musical",
      "date": "Original stage scenario; main-game fit / calendar unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2019-03",
      "description": "Dante encounters Noah in an original musical stage story.",
      "note": "Production credits verify the license. The full script needs comparison before a bridge between numbered games can be asserted.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "livehacker",
        "graphic-art-publisher",
        "graphic-art-age"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.famitsu.com/news/201901/18170679.html",
      "productName": "Find licensed production / editions",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Find licensed production / editions",
      "ageBaseNote": "Production credits verify the license. The full script needs comparison before a bridge between numbered games can be asserted."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "capcom",
      "title": "Capcom: Devil May Cry portal",
      "url": "https://www.devilmaycry.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "order",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 2: current chronology and retcon",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_2",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Cross-check for the current position before 4; the older post-4 position is not used. The games’ History of DMC is the primary chronology lead."
    },
    {
      "id": "novels",
      "title": "Devil May Cry prose bibliography",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_(novels)",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "manga3",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 3: published two-volume prequel",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_3_(manga)",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "dreamwave",
      "title": "Grand Comics Database: Dreamwave’s three published issues",
      "url": "https://my.comics.org/series/59004/",
      "kind": "Secondary issue index",
      "note": "Dreamwave, not WildStorm. Planned fourth issue is excluded."
    },
    {
      "id": "anime",
      "title": "2007 anime: original production website",
      "url": "https://www.dmc-tv.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "cd",
      "title": "2007 anime: official drama-CD catalogue",
      "url": "https://www.dmc-tv.com/goods/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "FCCM-0214 and FCCM-0215 verify two story CDs. Soundtrack albums are not counted as audio dramas."
    },
    {
      "id": "pre5",
      "title": "KADOKAWA: Before the Nightmare",
      "url": "https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321812000519/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "fortune",
      "title": "Deadly Fortune volume-one publication record",
      "url": "https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784044192235",
      "kind": "Publisher-supplied bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "v",
      "title": "LINE manga: Visions of V volume five",
      "url": "https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784866972718",
      "kind": "Publisher-supplied bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "vstory",
      "title": "Visions of V: collected-volume / story inventory",
      "url": "https://devilmaycry.fandom.com/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_5:_Visions_of_V",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "V’s origin and game-overlapping material; interior caption audit remains open."
    },
    {
      "id": "vergil",
      "title": "The Chronicles of Vergil: two published issues",
      "url": "https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dmc-devil-may-cry-the-chronicles-of-vergil/4050-56191/",
      "kind": "Secondary issue index",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "nf",
      "title": "Netflix: Devil May Cry",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81506915",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Two seasons shown at audit date. Season-one episode metadata checked; calendar years are not release years."
    },
    {
      "id": "nf2",
      "title": "Netflix: season-two launch announcement",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbZYa3bWnVw",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Netflix announcement: May 12, 2026. Trailer is evidence, not a full-episode viewing link."
    },
    {
      "id": "peak",
      "title": "Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat — licensed mobile game",
      "url": "https://www.dmcpeakofcombat.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "hd",
      "title": "Amazon HD Collection product cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.cheapassgamer.com/threads/devil-may-cry-hd-collection-18-xx-at-amazon-ps3-360.295533/",
      "kind": "Retail link cross-check",
      "note": "B005VBVQDI is the PS3 edition containing 1, 2 and 3; no historical price reproduced."
    },
    {
      "id": "smt",
      "title": "Atlus: Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD",
      "url": "https://www.atlus.com/smt3/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "mvc",
      "title": "Capcom: Marvel vs. Capcom collection / crossover catalogue",
      "url": "https://www.marvelvscapcom.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "pxz",
      "title": "Project X Zone licensed crossover inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Zone",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "teppen",
      "title": "TEPPEN: official card-story world",
      "url": "https://teppenthegame.com/en/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage2015",
      "title": "Capcom annual report: Sengoku BASARA vs Devil May Cry",
      "url": "https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/annual/2016/annual_2016_01.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary company bibliography",
      "note": "Licensed August 2015 stage crossover. Fictional time-travel setting is not its production date."
    },
    {
      "id": "livehacker",
      "title": "Live Hacker: production announcement / official credits",
      "url": "https://www.famitsu.com/news/201901/18170679.html",
      "kind": "Production announcement carried by press",
      "note": "March 1–10, 2019 production, based on Capcom’s series. Original full script / official recording remains uninspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "fiveproduct",
      "title": "Devil May Cry 5 PS4 edition identifier",
      "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-4/devil-may-cry-5",
      "kind": "Retail edition cross-check",
      "note": "B07DJX3XJS is the corresponding PS4 base game."
    },
    {
      "id": "age-dialogue",
      "title": "DMC age reconstruction: manga and game-dialogue references",
      "url": "https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/241018-devil-may-cry-5/77365126?page=2",
      "kind": "Secondary discussion citing narrative dialogue",
      "note": "DMC3 manga gives eighteen; game refers to nearly a year since the twins met. Trish’s original-game dialogue supplies twenty years since the family tragedy. Later ages are wider estimates."
    },
    {
      "id": "graphic-art-publisher",
      "title": "Capcom: official 3142 Graphic Arts publication / legal sample pages",
      "url": "https://news.capcomusa.com/2015/09/17/udons-new-devil-may-cry-book-is-incredible/",
      "kind": "Primary publisher",
      "note": "Establishes the official artbook and creator interviews. Its linked sample images did not supply a readable complete Dante-age interview during this check."
    },
    {
      "id": "graphic-art-age",
      "title": "Dante design: Yoshikawa’s age account in 3142 Graphic Arts",
      "url": "https://capcom.fandom.com/wiki/Dante",
      "kind": "Secondary quotation of official creator interview",
      "note": "Attributes an approximate age around forty in DMC4 to Tatsuya Yoshikawa. This is a design-age account, not an exact numbered birthday."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Special Editions, HD collections, ports and extra playable modes",
      "type": "Editions",
      "status": "Grouped with corresponding story",
      "note": "A remaster is not a second historical event. DMC4 Vergil bonus scenes are early-life flashbacks; new scenes require scene-specific placement before expansion.",
      "sources": [
        "capcom"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Pachislot, event scripts, stage adaptations and mobile collaborations",
      "type": "Coverage audit",
      "status": "Open inventory / narrative inspection",
      "note": "Licensed machines or collaborations may contain original sequences. They must be individually checked before claiming exhaustive promotional coverage.",
      "sources": [
        "capcom",
        "peak",
        "teppen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Numbered games follow the revised position of 2 before 4; calendar years are not invented.",
      "2007 anime, two official drama CDs, five novels / novel volumes, two DMC3 volumes, Dreamwave #1–3 and Visions of V inventoried.",
      "DmC and Netflix are separate selectable continuities; season two is released by the audit date.",
      "Continuous serial runs are compact; different formats retain separate edition links at a shared story position.",
      "Two licensed stage stories added individually; cancelled film announcements are not counted as released films.",
      "Pre-build table reviewed for duplicate titles, continuity conflicts, unsupported release-year dates and product / collection mismatches. Open coverage and inaccessible interiors remain listed.",
      "Dante age estimates added to the main sequence and corresponding formats; broad later ranges distinguish inference from stated intervals. No calendar dates fabricated from release years.",
      "Rechecked 29 / 34 / 38 age claims: no current exact numbered canon ages verified. DMC1 remains estimated 28–29, DMC2 broadly early-to-mid thirties, DMC4 estimated 38–40 with the attributed approximate creator account; DMC5 carries a wider 40–45 range and the conflicting calculations."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full manga / comic interiors and Japanese audio scripts remain uninspected; no claim that missing calendar dates are absent from the works.",
      "Volume-specific Amazon matches for Visions of V and several out-of-print editions remain open.",
      "Mobile events, TEPPEN sets and licensed promotional fiction require a deeper story-by-story inventory."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}