Forum - View topicNEWS: Animated Devil May Cry Show Gets 3rd, Final Season
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AiddonValentine
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Could barely last half as long as Castlevania has. Definitely proving Shanka wasn't the reason Castlevania was good
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Beatdigga
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Three too many as far as I’m concerned. It doesn’t help that the storytelling really feels muddled in the worst way.
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Nobody14
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So close to freedom. So close…
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tintor2
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There was a bit of a tease about Nero appearing in season 3 but I don't know if Shankar might make a timeskip to have appear as at least a teenager. I think the games never explained who was Nero's mother while the novel of 4 instead had Nero being bullied for having a mother who might have sold her body.
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residentgrigo
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Castlevania has 32 episodes and they are a bit shorter. DMC will have 24, so the basic length is pretty much the same. What DMC needs is a 2-season Nero spinoff in a few years, just like Castlevania got, as the rest of DMC 3 and all of 1 easily fit into one season. Dante is already wearing the DMC 1 costume in the new key art. There simply isn´t all that much to the IP to make it a case of the week work. The sleeping pill that was the Madhouse anime proved that.
The coming soon remark by Netflix and the fast turnaround between S1 and S2 are signs that this was always a packaged deal. Shankar simply made the mistake of announcing this show the moment he got the rights. The Ubisoft show flopped, this one seemingly ran its course, on the other hand. Gaming shows rarely chart in the WW Top 10. Both seasons did it twice, but S2 saw a viewship drop in S2, so there is that. Last edited by residentgrigo on Thu Jun 04, 2026 1:19 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Scion Drake
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So that means spoiler[Jester], Vergil, and Mundus has to be resolved in 10 episodes, assuming the season doesn't add any other elements.
Thats a lot to do. |
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EmeraldSaucer
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Someone should tell Adi Shankar that if your epic allusion to the Divine Comedy amounts to just some episode names and it doesn't reflect within the actual narrative (which it doesn't), it just makes you look like a pretentious tool trying to make your 3 season Netflix deal (that hasn't been renewed for more because it hasn't been successful enough) seem more than it is
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residentgrigo
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DMC was making hacky allusions to classic literature since 2001. That and Resident Evil. Only the political angle is new but not really. The reboot already had you fighting a Fox News anchor. One of its better bosses.
This show is what it is, reasonably successful and well-received, but every time I hear people bringing up the sacred Capcom lore, I can only see the We Demand to be Taken Seriously meme in front of me. Bayonetta: Bloody Fate proves that a 1-to-1 adaptation would have led to snooze town. Even the doomed reboot is one of the better-written entries and it wasn´t well written, let me tell you that. |
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Slop Slop no Mi
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Seeing Netflixvania fans really trying to flex over Netflix May Cry fans as if their show was any better of an adaption is funny |
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AiddonValentine
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Nah, the doomed reboot (and the show) is actually written worse because it tries to be serious but fails. The originals always had a sense of humor and done in a tongue in cheek manner. They were basically taking subject matter that was on its face dark and moody and then inserting a two-fisted wiseass into things to take the piss out of the proceedings. You have all these villains speaking operatically and Dante is driving them nuts by treating everything like a game. Not surprised as the series began as an RE4 reboot so it was coming out of the era of survival horror. |
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SrkSano
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Just pointing out that Ian James Corlett took over this season as VP Baines from Kevin Conroy. Ian James Corlett would probably be best known to most here as Son Goku's former dub actor on Dragon Ball Z. But he was also Mega Man and Rush in the 90s Mega Man cartoon, and before that he was Doctor Wily on Captain N The Game Master. So it's kind of like Capcom's first English animated villain, Doctor Wily, came back as another Capcom villain (well not a character in the games, but still) with Baines. I thought that was pretty cool.
Oh and you know the Toei cat, Pero that appears at the beginning of every One Piece episode? Pero did appear on Captain N The Game Master, voiced by Ian James Corlett, using the same voice Mega Man and Son Goku would have pretty much. Just a fun bit of dub trivia lol! On the series itself, I like the animation, but I like season 1 more than season 2. Season 2 had way too many changes to the lore for me. Sure season 1 had a lot of changes too, but they pulled stuff from the Devil May Cry novels, the older anime, Devil May Cry 3 manga and other Capcom games so it was a lot of fun for me. There was much less of that in season 2. It's almost like the same issue I had with Castlevania. Season one stayed close to the lore and then after that... they just did whatever. I realize that with adaptations you have to change something, but here have been so many people that have done this better than the Adi Shakar machine has. Street Fighter II The Animated Movie, the Sengoku Basara anime, Dragon Quest Legend of the Hero Abel, all of the Fatal Fury anime, the Super Mario Bros. Illumination movies, even the Sonic The Hedgehog live action movies, I could go on and on. Ah well it is what it is. Bring on season 3 I guess. They are set up to have a ten year gap and do something like Devil May Cry 1, but they won't. I'm sure it will really be about the Strait of Hormuz or something. Yay? |
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GoGoGoFalco
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"3rd and final season"
Promise? No take backs? At least it wont bother us as long as Castlevania did. Now I wonder what the next Netflix video game adaption to completely butcher the source material will be. |
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