Devil May Cry 3 Dante's Awakening: The prequel to the series.
On Dante's side, it shows him on a job where he needs to find a missing girl named Alice, who was kidnapped by a demon.
Devil May Cry 3 Manga: A year before DMC3, it shows Dante's and Vergil's paths before their first encounter in years, how Vergil met Arkham and how they revived the Temen-ni-gru.
This novel was removed from the canon, but with Before The Nightmare, it came back with some small details being different to fit in the timeline.
Devil May Cry Volume 1: Set a few years before DMC3, the novel shows Dante when he was still using his alias "Tony Redgrave", when he fights an Angelo named Gilver.
Games of the original series (in chronological order of its events) The plot of Devil May Cry follows the Demon Hunter Dante, the son of a legendary demon who sealed off the demon world named Sparda and a human named Eva.
1.1 Games of the original series (in chronological order of its events).