DMC's Epic Conclusion
Netflix Confirms Devil May Cry Animated Series Will Conclude With Third Final Season
Netflix has renewed its animated Devil May Cry series for a third and final season, with showrunner Adi Shankar reiterating that the show was conceived as a three-part story from the start. Shankar said the seasons map to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—forming “The Force Edge Saga,” which he describes as a movie trilogy disguised as television. The first two seasons are driving performance on Netflix, including a reported 21.7 million views for season 1 in 2025, and season 2 already totaling 6.4 million views in its first two weeks, while both seasons have appeared on Netflix’s Global Top 10 for four weeks combined. In the series’ story, Dante—an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire—faces escalating threats as a portal opens between the human and demon realms, and the return of Vergil forces him to confront old demons and lost family. The cast includes Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante, Robbie Daymond as Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton as Lady, with animation from Studio Mir. Season 2 launched on May 12, and the third season is expected to conclude the franchise adaptation.
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Showrunner Adi Shankar previewed the tone and character arc for Season 2 on social media, saying, “Season 2 is a vvvvveryyyyy different show,” adding that “Dante levels up” and that “great characters don’t just win — they grow.”
Netflix’s official logline emphasizes the stakes around Dante personally: “Sinister forces are at play to open the portal between the human and demon realms. 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.”
The show is based on a franchise created by Hideki Kamiya and developed primarily by Capcom, with the game series “originally” debuting in 2001 (per the article’s franchise background).
Prior to Netflix’s animated series, the franchise also had an earlier anime adaptation: Studio MADHOUSE’s series premiered in June 2007, ran for 12 episodes, and focused on Dante’s “daily life as a demon hunter.”
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