One other 12 months, one other Netflix occasion with glimpses of future shows and films. Final 12 months noticed the grand reveal of the upcoming anime adaptation for Devil May Cry, and we acquired one other trailer throughout Netflix Geeked Week, however with a twist: we now realize it’s lastly coming in April 2025.
This new peek on the sequence—which hails from Castlevania producer Adi Shankar and animation by X-Males ’97’s Studio Mir—presents up a greater thought of what it’s going for, and the sequence lead Dante. The Satan Hunter certain appears and strikes like he does within the video games, however there’s a little bit of twist to issues. Within the anime, he’s voiced by Energy Rangers alum Johnny Young Bosch, who additionally performs the franchise’s type of co-lead, Nero. (Oh, and he’s Dante’s nephew, as we formally realized in Satan Might Cry 5 again in 2019.) Within the video games, Dante’s been voiced by Reuben Langdon, however this iteration of the character is on the youthful finish, so what’s the deal there?
Franchise followers famous the sequence may be borrowing components from Tokyopop’s manga for Satan Might Cry 3. In that, Dante takes on a contract to discover a lady named Alice who was a kidnapped by a demon possessing her childhood doll. Stated demon goes by “White Rabbit,” and certain sufficient, this trailer ends with a humanoid white rabbit, sipping tea and sitting subsequent to a toy doll. The manga was cut up into three elements (with solely two really getting launched), and except for that tease, the anime in any other case appears to be its personal factor. It’s nonetheless not totally clear if that is meant to hyperlink up with the video games or exist in its personal separate canon, however we’ll discover out nearer to Satan Might Cry dropping in April.
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