Although it's not done like an anthology of separate stories like Halo Legends and Batman: Gotham Knight several anime studies worked on Dante's Inferno with each group having a second of hell to work with. As Dante traverses though hell to save his beloved Beatrice from becoming the next bride of Lucifer the animation style changes some times for the better and some times for the worse. Two great animation studios worked on this Manglobe (Samurai Champloo) and Production I.G. however some just shoddy hack talents also worked on it. Most notably the people responsible for Dead Space...yeah. So the bad or just acceptable animation sadly outweighed the good. I'm not saying that it made Dante's Inferno unwatchable it's just if one of the really good animation studios did the whole thing well damn than it would have been an epic anime adaption of the story, instead we're just left with an OK anime.
The good thing is that even with the questionable animation quality at least the story is fast and bloody as we follow Dante and his Spirit Guide though the nine circles of Hell so that he can save his beloved Beatrice who's sole was stolen by Lucifer. Hack and slash and boss battles galore followed with story development by way of flash backs and explanations by the spirit guide. Dante battles his way though the nine levels of Hell in a rush to keep Beatrice from becoming another bride for Lucifer.
Of course when Beatrice finds out about Dante's miss deeds while a "good" Christian solder she is all to happy to marry Lucifer and become his bride. Lucky for Dante though he's able to save his beloved Beatrice by....showing her the cross that she gave him before he left....WHAT! He saves her but because of what has happened she'll be stuck in Purgatory which only leaves Dante to the task of getting his own ass out of Hell. That means confronting Lucifer once and for all in a frozen wasteland at the end of the ninth circle. Wait....wut, frozen wasteland? Yes, anyways, Dante finally confronts Lucifer only to find out that Lucifer is more tricky than he had thought and everything was all a trick to get Dante to that point so that he could free Lucifer from his immortal body's bindings. which of course he did...D'oh! Well it is Lucifer after all and he's had a lot of time to plot about his escape. Dante of course fixes it by condemning his own soul to Purgatory in order to keep Lucifer's body bound to Hell forever. Which leaves him to hang out with his lovely Beatrice in Purgatory and Lucifer to sulk off as a snake.
Violence, nudity (there is a bit of fanservice by the way) and religion all wrapped up in an interesting tail of the search for love and redemption...yup. I liked it well enough and you might to if you don't go into it thinking you'll get something really epic and cool. I did try to find some interesting pictures of Beatrice as the Hell bride but so far nothing has turned up.
Trailer for Dante's Inferno:
