Netflix's Devil May Cry Animated Series Gets Third and Final Season
The announcement confirms that the Netflix series, which Shankar has been developing since 2018, was conceived from the start as a contained three-season arc rather than an open-ended adaptation.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Netflix announced on Thursday that its animated adaptation of Capcom's Devil May Cry video game franchise will receive a third and final season. The announcement follows the May 12 premiere of Season 2, which entered Netflix's Global Top 10 list. Showrunner Adi Shankar revealed that the series was always planned as a three-part story modeled after Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He stated that Season 1 represented Inferno, Season 2 Purgatorio, and the upcoming Season 3 will be Paradiso, together forming what he calls the "Force Edge Saga." Shankar described the project as "a movie trilogy disguised as a television series." The first season, produced by Studio Mir, debuted in April 2025 with eight episodes and accumulated 21.7 million views in 2025. Season 2 has reached 6.4 million views in its first two weeks. The English voice cast includes Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante, Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary, Hoon Lee as White Rabbit, the late Kevin Conroy as VP Baines, and Chris Coppola as Enzo. Shankar first announced his acquisition of the series in November 2018.
Shankar first secured the rights to the series in November 2018 and said at the time that the show "will join Castlevania in what we're now calling the bootleg multiverse." The staff had planned multiple seasons since 2021, according to Netflix.
Season 1, produced by Studio Mir, debuted in April 2025 with eight episodes. It entered Netflix's Global Top 10 at number four with 5.3 million views in its first three days and appeared in the top 10 in 87 countries. Season 2 premiered on May 12 and has reached 6.4 million views in its first two weeks.
The English dub cast includes Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante, Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary, Hoon Lee as White Rabbit, the late Kevin Conroy as VP Baines in a posthumous role, and Chris Coppola as Enzo. The Japanese dub cast includes Toshiyuki Morikawa as Dante, Fumiko Orikasa as Lady, and Hiroaki Hirata as Vergil.
The Devil May Cry game franchise, created by Hideki Kamiya and developed primarily by Capcom, debuted in 2001 and has six mainline entries. The series previously inspired a 12-episode anime by Madhouse in 2007, which Crunchyroll began streaming in June 2017. The franchise has also produced novels, manga, and a stage play.
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- Anime News Network News Animated Devil May Cry Show Gets 3rd, Final Season
- Anime Corner Devil May Cry Announces Final Season 3 to Conclude the Series