It’s been a long time coming – seven years, in fact – but Netflix‘s animated adaption of Devil Cry is almost upon us. The streaming service has announced the series premiers on 3rd April, and there’s a trailer of sorts to accompany the news.
We first heard a Devil May Cry’s animated adaptation was in the works bacon 2018, with Adi Shankar – executive producer on Netflix’s acclaimed Castlevania adaptation and 2023’s Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix – tasked with teasing it into being.
For a while it seemed like the project might have been quietly shelved, but 2023 proved otherwise, bringing a first look at the show, alongside confirmation its animation was being handled by Studio Mir – the team behind The Legend of Korra and My Adventures with Superman.
A year later, Netflix released its first proper trailer for the series, providing a glimpse of a Dante with little enthusiasm for buttoning up his shirts. That reveal also pointed to an April 2025 release, which has now been narrowed right down to 3rd April.
Netflix’s release date news is accompanied by a new trailer showcasing the Devil May Cry show’s intro sequence, complete with strikingly stylised violence and a Limp Bizkit accompaniment. Of course, as we saw previously, the actual show takes a more traditional approach.
We still don’t have any story details for this animated version of Devil May Cry yet – beyond ‘white-haired young man in red jacket loves to show off his abs – but presumably Netflix’ll have more to say about the series ahead of its arrival.