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## Summary

The DHTM series is mainly about a young fighter named Dante who joins a demon slaying guild and participates in a tournament to defeat an evil sorcerer named Rujinra Kazumura. At first, the story is basically a cliche' hero story, but throughout the series, it becomes more of Dante being an anti-hero at best. The story itself takes somewhat a dark turn as it slowly focuses on him getting rid of ancient curse plagued on him by Kazumi Hiroshima, Kiyomi Tokiyama's forbidden magic using mother. Dante at some point becomes the antagonist (or at least, in the eyes of the other characters), but overall, Dante defeats the greater threat with the supernatural powers given to him.

## Black Dragon Curse

The black dragon curse is actually an evil spirit of a dragon king named Midnight Salazar possessing Dante throughout the series. It's made known by the 5th movie, though the signs were shown since near the end of the first movie and second. The movie 3 revealed what it was. In the movie 8, the origins of the black dragon curse trace back to the ancient times of the sacred realm. A holy warrior named Yordo Yumizaki had this ordeal, because of the grand wizard Khan Li attempted to control him, but was stopped by Momiji. Both Momiji and Yordo perished in their showdown after defeating Khan Li. The great sacred dragons Kuyo and Midnight are the black dragon kings who fought against each other to see who is the supreme dragon, but the world would suffer in the crossfire of this, which is why Momiji sealed the beasts inside the ancient gem known as the ruby of evolution.

## Dante's Role:

Dante's role in the series is very random as a cliche hero who defeats Rujinra in the first movie, and is able to return home. In the movie 1, Dante plans to go out of town for the summer, but his plans were thwarted as he receives an invitation to a tournament in a fantasy like world known as the sacred realm. He joins a demon slaying guild called the slayer squad and enters the tournament to defeat Rujinra, which in the end he does. The movie 2 is where the story slowly begins to take its dark turn. Dante returns to the sacred realm to find a way get rid himself of this "thing" that's bothering him. Eventually, he meets Kazumi again and questions what she did to him. However, Kazumi wasn't able to reverse the spell. In fact, she's broken the ancient seal of Midnight Salazar unknowingly. To stop Dante's rampage, Kazumi used black magic to resurrect Taimugoshi, a grand executioner, but Dante decapitates him and was knocked unconscious by Jai Rei. The movie 3 is where the black dragon curse is revealed to Rujinra. Dante awakens from a three year coma and destroys the underground facility. Rujinra returns to get revenge against the slayers, but is unaware of Dante's supernatural abilities until their fight. This is where the positions of role are reversed. Rujinra hosts a tournament in the movie 1 to lure out the sacred realm kingdom, but Dante is basically reprising Rujinra's role as he announces a tournament to lure the slayer squad out, which Rujinra catches wind of. He starts an independent elite guild called Urban Legend Unit to challenge them. To his surprise, Dante faces off against Kiyomi and then Rujinra, instantly defeating him with his newly profound powers. However, he was exiled from the sacred realm because of his actions, until the great portal was somehow opened and demons ran rampant. This takes place in the fourth movie, where Dante was given a chance of redemption. The deal was to have him find a way to get rid of the black dragon curse or find a way to control for good in order for him to stay. He defeats Raiji at the mystical tower and gave the blades to the guardians to have them destroyed, believing this could help him get rid of that evil power. Unfortunately, it didn't work. The movie 5 & 6 is where Dante's chances of redemption were getting smaller as he was being hunted by King Forest and the sacred realm kingdom, because Rujinra instigated a war and shifted the blame on Midnight. To the kingdom and the world's surprise, Dante morphed into Midnight, provoking the public's distrust for Dante, but a holy warrior by the name of Farles Jurgo saved Dante from Midnight's evil influence and warned him about what's to come. Kazumi exposed the truth about Rujinra's intentions to Queen Sharon before she was killed by Rujinra. Queen Sharon tells King Forest about what's going on, but still the remainder of Rujinra's forces were around to make a final decision. Before he forced Jai Rei to permanently disband his guild, King Forest and the sacred realm kingdom fought the rest of Rujinra's minions.

Unfortunately, the sacred realm were still cynical about Dante being a hero of the sacred realm kingdom. Their opinion were further provoked as Midnight disguises himself as Dante causing chaos. In the movie 7, Dante is on the other side of the world, but returns home in the movie 8 to find out what's going on. He meets his doppleganger who tells him that he needs to defeat Midnight, but the doppleganger is Yordo Yumizaki, the resurrected warrior who possessed by Midnight. Dante defeats Midnight and saves the world from annihilation. In the canonical spin-off Tale of Setsuna, Dante and Kiyomi have a daughter named Setsuna who has no memory of them. 15 years prior, Dante is defeated by the beast king Ayono Miroka and was sealed away in a sword called Raikiri, until the finale of season 1 when he learns that his old arch-nemesis Rujinra Kazumura is targeting his daughter.

The upcoming film Dante Hinton The Movie 9 takes place moments after the canonical spin-off. In fact before its release, there will be an ova episode released for Tale Of Setsuna.