Netflix’s Devil May Cry Anime Hits the Jackpot in 2025

Another year, different Netflix lawsuit with glimpses of future shows and movies. Last twelvemonth saw the expansive uncover of the upcoming anime adaptation for Devil May Cry, and we got different trailer during Netflix Geeked Week, but with a twist: we present cognize it’s yet coming successful April 2025.

This caller peek astatine the series—which hails from Castlevania producer Adi Shankar and animation by X-Men ’97’s Studio Mir—offers up a amended thought of what it’s going for, and the bid pb Dante. The Devil Hunter definite looks and moves similar helium does successful the games, but there’s a spot of twist to things. In the anime, he’s voiced by Power Rangers alum Johnny Young Bosch, who also plays the franchise’s benignant of co-lead, Nero. (Oh, and he’s Dante’s nephew, arsenic we officially learned in Devil May Cry 5 back successful 2019.) In the games, Dante’s been voiced by Reuben Langdon, but this iteration of the quality is connected the younger end, truthful what’s the woody there?

Franchise fans noted the bid mightiness beryllium borrowing elements from Tokyopop’s manga for Devil May Cry 3. In that, Dante takes connected a declaration to find a miss named Alice who was a kidnapped by a demon possessing her puerility doll. Said demon goes by “White Rabbit,” and definite enough, this trailer ends with a humanoid achromatic rabbit, sipping beverage and sitting adjacent to a artifact doll. The manga was divided into 3 parts (with lone 2 really getting released), and speech from that tease, the anime different seems to beryllium its ain thing. It’s inactive not afloat wide if this is meant to nexus up with the games oregon beryllium successful its ain abstracted canon, but we’ll find retired person to Devil May Cry dropping successful April.

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