

Throughout the 12 episodes of the Devil May Cry anime, Dante never (or never
clearly) activated his devil trigger where he turns into his more powerful
devil forms. We can tell that the Anime takes place after the events of the
1st and 3rd Devil May Cry games since Dante is already acquainted with Lady
and Trish, so Dante should have already long been able to activate his Devil
Trigger. In the anime, it seemed there was barely ever a need for Dante to use
his devil trigger as most of his enemies were able to be defeated with his
fighting skills even as a human. In the last episode though as the final blow
was being dealt to the hosted Demon Abigail we get a closeup of Dante's eye as
a flash of red light/energy fills the screen.

[![Dante's
Eyes](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Vbwf.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Vbwf.png)

Similarly in video games, a flash of red light appears as Devil Trigger
activates. However, Dante's physical features should completely change into a
more demonic appearance such his skin turning black and eyes glow a yellow
color. Dante's sword **Rebellion** is _able_ to create waves of red energy so
it's possible it could be just this. So did Dante really activate his Devil
Trigger in the final episode of the anime?

[![Devil Trigger in the
games](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAeJI.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAeJI.png)


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Did Dante ever activate his devil trigger in the anime?


I know this is a bit of a necropost, but since nobody answered:

I do recall that in DMC 1, when you activate Devil Trigger at first, you don't
gain the form but rather you get an aura around you, at least until you
attack. It may be related to that?


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