‘Devil May Cry‘ will be back for one last round of demon-slaying chaos, as Netflix has renewed the animated adaptation for a third and final season.
The series, based on Capcom’s hugely popular video game franchise, recently returned for Season 2, which debuted in Netflix’s Global Top 10 and remains there following launch. Across its first two seasons, Netflix says ‘Devil May Cry’ has appeared in the Global Top 10 for four weeks, with Season 1 accumulating 21.7 million views in 2025, and Season 2 already picking up 6.4 million views in just two weeks.
While “third and final season” can often sound like ominous Netflix wording, this one appears to be very much by design. Showrunner Adi Shankar says the series has been building towards a three-part structure from the beginning, with the final season set to complete what he calls “The Force Edge Saga”.
“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. 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.”
That is probably the best possible version of a “final season” announcement. Rather than being a case of the show being cut short, it sounds like Shankar had the structure mapped out from the start, turning Dante’s journey into a gleefully violent, gun-toting spin on The Divine Comedy. Which, frankly, is very ‘Devil May Cry’.
The animated series follows Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire who finds himself caught in the middle as sinister forces attempt to open a portal between the human and demon realms. Unfortunately for Dante, and probably very fortunately for everyone who enjoys stylish animated carnage, the fate of both worlds hangs around his neck.
The voice cast includes Johnny Yong Bosch (Bleach, Trigun) as Dante, Robbie Daymond (Critical Role, Spider-Man) as Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween, The Runaways) as Lady. The animation comes from Studio Mir, the studio behind projects including The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and My Adventures with Superman.
Shankar, who was also behind Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’, has carved out a very specific niche in taking beloved game franchises and treating them with enough style, weirdness and sincerity that they actually feel like adaptations made by someone who understands the source material. Given how often game-to-screen projects have gone spectacularly sideways over the years, that is still worth celebrating.
‘Devil May Cry’ Seasons 1 and 2 are available now on Netflix.
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