Netflix has dropped some good and bad news for fans of its Devil May Cry animated adaptation, as it has confirmed that the show will be back for a third and final season. Showrunner Adi Shankar also addressed how the third season will bring the first–and only–arc of Devil May Cry to a close, and it represents the culmination of the story he aimed to tell. But with one season left to go, he hinted at how he’s planning to do something different.
“This was always Dante’s Divine Comedy with guns and a red coat,” Shankar wrote. Season 1 was Inferno. Season 2 was Purgatorio. Season 3 will be Paradiso. These three seasons make up The Force Edge Saga. Since its inception, The Force Edge Saga has been designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series. 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.’
Shankar also wrote about how both seasons of Devil May Cry have punched above their weight and “wiped the floor” with AAA IP adaptations with “millions of dollars” in marketing. According to the showrunner, he set out to make American animation cool, expand Devil May Cry’s footprint across the world, and become a “ratings god” in the process. “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,” Shankar added.
The second season of Devil May Cry recently landed on Netflix, and it picks up shortly after the events of the first season. With Vergil joining the cast, the show found its trinity of characters to focus the story on, and reviews have been generally positive for Season 2. Several lingering plot threads still remain unresolved, but as Shankar has teased, he’s looking to end the show on a high note when it returns.
