Save your tears, Devil May Cry fans, for Netflix has renewed the series for a second season. News came out today that the adult animated series will return for a follow-up installment just one week after it celebrated its debut on the streamer. In its few days out in the world, the production has become a huge hit, garnering positive reviews from critics and fans alike. While it may be a challenge to appease a video game fanbase when crossing into television or film territory, series creator, Adi Shankar (The Guardians of Justice), had the experience needed to solidify a hit for the game’s massive following.
Following in the footsteps of the Capcom game that it spawned from, Devil May Cry centers around Dante. Dante is the kind of guy you’d want on your side if the forces of hell were after you, but it’s a career and not a hobby, so don’t expect to get out of it without shelling out some coin. Along his journeys, Dante comes face-to-face with his biggest adversary yet — a sinister entity known as the White Rabbit who has his eyes set on world domination. If the villainous demon gets his way, the world of man and demon will merge together. Snapping into action, Dante uses his skills to save humanity from the ultimate threat.
Gathering only the best of the best for the voice cast of Devil May Cry, Shankar and his team assembled an impressive lineup of familiar vocal tones for those in the know. After already joining the Devil May Cry family in the fourth and fifth games as the voice of Nero, Johnny Yong Bosch takes on all the demons that hell can muster as Dante in the animated series. In a posthumous release, the caped crusader himself, Kevin Conroy of Batman: The Animated Series fame, joins as the Vice President of the United States and head of DARKCOM, William Baines. Filling out the rest of the ensemble is a lineup that includes Hoon Lee (Warrior) as White Rabbit, Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween) as Mary Ann Arkham, and Chris Coppola (Shadow) as Enzo Ferino.
‘Devil May Cry’s Speedy Netflix Takeover
When taking a quick look at the numbers, it’s easy to understand why the announcement for Devil May Cry’s second season wailed out just one week after the Season 1 release. On Rotten Tomatoes, the title has a 95% critics’ approval rating, while audiences were a little bit harsher, hitting it with 62%. Still, some, like Collider’s Aidan Kelley, are thrilled to see the game finally gaining larger recognition and have high hopes for its continuation, which it has now fully secured.
Devil May Cry Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
via Collider