Devil May Cry: The Animated Series Drops a Season 2 Teaser And Confirms 2026 Release

Stop everything — there's a caller Devil May Cry: The Animated Series teaser.

It's lone a infinitesimal long, but it gives a tantalizing peek astatine what's to travel successful Season 2 erstwhile it premiers sometime adjacent year… and yes, "2026" is arsenic adjacent arsenic we get to a merchandise date. Sorry.

"Dante vs. Vergil. Brother vs. brother. Devil May Cry: Season 2 premieres 2026, lone connected Netflix," teases a station connected the authoritative Devil May Cry X/Twitter account, earlier showing precisely what it means by a member vs. member showdown, picking up from erstwhile we were introduced to Vergil close astatine the extremity of Season 1. You tin cheque it retired below:

Dante vs. Vergil. Brother vs. brother. Devil May Cry: Season 2 premieres 2026, lone connected Netflix. pic.twitter.com/eZVJqtuDBw

This animated bid adaptation of Capcom's fashionable video crippled franchise, Devil May Cry, was brought to beingness by nary different than Castlevania enforcement producer, Adi Shankar, and follows the analyzable narration betwixt brothers Dante and Vergil. Shankar has besides precocious confirmed he's turning his attraction to the Duke Nukem bid aft acquiring the surface rights from Gearbox Software.

"Season 2 is simply a vvvvveryyyyy antithetic show. Yes, Dante levels up,” Shankar precocious said. "His skills amended and you’ll spot him clasp much of the iconic badassery fans of the crippled expect. That said, I'm inactive telling a story, and large characters don’t conscionable triumph — they grow. What makes Dante compelling isn’t that he’s unstoppable — it’s that helium learns and keeps getting stronger."

We gave Season 1 of Devil May Cry an 8/10 successful our review, writing: "Devil May Cry is simply a fun, if predictable, video crippled adaptation that boasts 1 of the champion animated episodes of the twelvemonth truthful far."

Castlevania Season 1 — different of Shankar's projects — likewise secured an 8.1/10 from america upon its merchandise successful 2017. Shankar is progressive successful different Netflix projects, too, including the Castlevania: Nocturne spinoff series, an Assassin’s Creed series, and adjacent an animated PUBG show.

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