Summary
- Devil May Cry anime debuts at #4 on Netflix's Top 10 with 5.3M views in 3 days.
- Second season of Devil May Cry anime confirmed with teaser visual.
- Details on Devil May Cry season 2 remain unknown at this time.
Castlevania showrunner Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry anime project, produced alongside Studio MIR, has only been out a week, and it is making waves, debuting at #4 on Netflix's Top 10 and garnering a whopping 5.3 million views in the first three days since its release. The series' success is the perfect springboard for the streaming platform to announce that a second season of the 2025 Devil May Cry anime is already in the works, with a brand-new teaser visual released along with the news.
Dante voice actor Johnny Yong Bosch took to Instagram to express his excitement about the upcoming second season of Devil May Cry, sharing an animated version of the second season teaser visual. Further details regarding Devil May Cry season 2 remain unknown at this point in time.
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About Devil May Cry [2025]
Off To A Great Start
The first season of Devil May Cry [2025] was released on April 3, and in the week since its premiere, it has featured in Netflix's Top 10, ranking fourth at its debut. The series managed to crack Netflix's Top 10 in a whopping 87 territories, which is indicative of its rousing success. As mentioned previously, the 2025 Devil May Cry anime is a project by Castlevania showrunner Adi Shankar, with animation production by Seoul-based Studio MIR, which has been behind a number of highly successful animated projects from the US, Korea and Japan, including The Boondocks and the anime adaptation of Park Tae Joon's LOOKISM.
The Devil May Cry anime is based on the video games of the same name developed by Capcom, and in this anime, the story follows the demon-hunter-for-hire Dante as he is caught in the middle of a sinister plot to rip open the portal between the human world and the demon realm, with a terrorist known simply as "The White Rabbit" looking to exact revenge on humanity. The series' cast includes:
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante
- Chris Coppola as Enzo
- Fryda Wolff as Ninja
- Hoon Lee as White Rabbit
- Ian James Corlett as V.P. Baines (episodes 3, 8)
- Kari Wahlgren as Echidna, Eva
- Kevin Conroy as V.P. Baines
- Leilani Barrett as Patriot
- Robbie Daymond as Vergil
- Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary
- Sunkrish Bala as King
- Tina Majorino as Sentry
Devil May Cry [2025] is available on Netflix. A release date for the upcoming second season has not yet been revealed.
Source: Crunchyroll