Netflix has renewed its Devil May Cry animated series, an adaptation of the Capcom video games, for a third season. It will be the show’s last — showrunner Adi Shankar (Castlevania, The Grey) says that was always the intention.
“For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time. This was always Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was Inferno. Season 2 was Purgatorio. Season 3 will be Paradiso,” Shankar said. “These three seasons make up ‘The Force Edge Saga.’ Since inception, ‘The Force Edge Saga’ was designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series.”
Congrats to those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I suppose. Or really, to those on Reddit.
In Devil May Cry, “sinister forces are at play to open the portal between the human and demon realms,” Netflix’s synopsis reads. “In the middle of it all is Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the fate of both worlds hangs around his neck.”
Season two of Devil May Cry, animated by Studio Mir, premiered on May 12. Season one appeared on Netflix’s Global Top 10 for four weeks, and accumulated 21.7 million views in 2025. Season two got off to a good start, but fell off the chart after its second week.
Johnny Yong Bosch voices Dante, Robbie Daymond is Dante’s nephew Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton voices Lady on the TV series.
Devil May Cry the video game launched in 2001 on PlayStation 2. Sequels followed in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2019. A standalone reboot, DmC: Devil May Cry, was released in 2013. Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening, was actually a prequel to its predecessors. It is considered the best of the series — respective to generation, at least.
