Netflix has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Studio MIR-produced Devil May Cry animated series. An April 2025 premiere window was also revealed.
Amidst all the teaser’s destruction, swordplay, and shooting is an over-the-top sequence of protagonist Dante running along the falling debris of a recently exploded airplane. The devilish-looking White Rabbit also makes an appearance.
Devil May Cry is inspired by CAPCOM’s popular and stylish hack-and-slash game series of the same name. The animation’s showrunner/executive producer/creator Adi Shankar (Castlevania executive producer) told IGN in 2018 that it “will join Castlevania in what we’re now calling the bootleg multiverse.”
The logline for the eight-episode series reads:
In this animated adaptation of the popular Capcom game, 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 first Devil May Cry game was originally released in 2001 as a PS2 title (it has since been ported to other platforms). The most recent entry was 2019’s Devil May Cry 5, which was released for PS4, Xbox One, and Steam (a Special Edition was later released for current-gen consoles in 2020). In addition to the numbered entries, a reboot by Ninja Theory was released in 2013.
The Devil May Cry games previously inspired a 2007 TV anime produced by Madhouse and directed by Shin Itagaki (Black Cat; So I’m a Spider, So What?).
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Source: Press release
