Showrunner for Netflix’s “Devil May Cry” Anime Offers Bold Words Ahead Of Final Season

Fans of Netflix’s “Devil May Cry” anime were welcomed with bittersweet news when it was announced that the series would be renewed for a third and final season.

First premiering on Netflix on April 3, 2025, the animated adaptation of Capcom’s beloved video game franchise stars Johnny Young Bosch as Dante, Scout Taylor-Compton as Lady, and Robbie Daymond as Vergil. With Adi Shakar acting as showrunner and Studio Mir handling the animation, the show has proven to be a hit success for the streaming service, drawing over 5 million views during its debut week.

News of the renewal and conclusion comes following the release of Season 2, which has continued to hold its place in Netflix’s Global Top 10.

Why is Netflix’s “Devil May Cry” Anime Only Three Seasons

With the base material producing five games, a 2007 canon anime adaptation, and a tie-in novel, many fans were surprised to hear that Netflix’s run with the franchise will come to an end after only three seasons.

Showrunner Adi Shakar explains his decision to end the show after its third season via his social media account on X.

“For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time,” showrunner Adi Shankar said. “This was always Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was ‘Inferno.’ Season 2 was ‘Purgatorio.’ Season 3 will be ‘Paradiso.’ These three seasons make up ‘The Force Edge Saga.’ Since inception, ‘The Force Edge Saga’ was designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series.”

Considering that even in the games, the story of Dante’s emotional arc with his brother and the legacy of their father takes center stage in three out of the five games, Shankar’s decision to complete his vision of the story in a trilogy has merit.

He goes on to drop one final tease about the final season as well.

“One last thing … ‘3’ is not going to be a normal third ‘season’ of a TV show. With ‘Season 3,’ I am doing something very different. I am crafting a blueprint for how this game is won. See You all in ‘Paradise,'” he concluded.”

Shakar Makes Bold Statements Regarding the Anime’s Success

Along with the reveal of the upcoming final season, the showrunner does make abundantly clear that this retelling of the popular Capcom series is indeed “his” version and take on the property, and he does not mince words about it.

“I am a generational talent in the measurable sense. In the ‘Adi Shankar can take a globally beloved video game franchise, metabolize twenty-plus years of iconography, preserve its soul, re-arrange its body, expand its audience, trigger its purists, convert its skeptics, and still make the algorithm bend the knee’ sense.”

Shankar goes on to explain his vision and goals when he decided to helm this successful project.

“I set out to make American animation cool. I set out to expand the footprint of Devil May Cry by orders of magnitude so that there can be more of it. I set out to prove that video game adaptations do not have to be flavorless corporate sludge assembled in a content factory by emotionally vacant brand managers who secretly loathe the source material.”

If anything can be seen for certain from his comments, it is his take on Devil May Cry and his involvement in the Netflix Castlevania adaptations display Shakar’s passion for the projects that he is placed in charge of.

While the final season of Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime doesn’t have an official release date yet, fans can catch all the episodes from seasons 1 and 2 on Netflix.