Dante is coming back for a last hurrah. Netflix announced that the animated series Devil May Cry will be returning for a third and final season. In a press release, showrunner Adi Shankar had the following to say:
“For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time. 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.”
Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra, X-Men ’97) will return to handle animation duties. The existing cast will reprise their roles with Johnny Yong Bosch (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War) as Dante, Robbie Daymond (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) as Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton (The Runaways) as Lady.
Based on Capcom’s series of over-the-top action games, the show follows the orphaned demon-hunter Dante as he attempts to stop a portal from being opened between the human and demon realms. There are also a lot of thinly veiled metaphors regarding Bush-era “War on Terror” politics (mostly arguing that they were, and still are, very bad). The series has received generally positive reviews from critics, while fans have been more divided due to departures from the source material. Regardless, it has attracted a large audience, with the first season accumulating 21.7 million views in 2025and the recently released season 2 receiving 6.4 million views since its debutin May. Capcom credited the animated show with helping Devil May Cry 5 surpass 10 million in sales.
Beyond debates over Devil May Cry’s quality, showrunner Adi Shankar’s comments have proven just as controversial and/or confusing. After it became clear that a character in the show was inspired by the right-wing streamer Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt (who was banned from Twitch for saying that Palestinians are part of an “inferior culture”), Shankar took to X to (maybe?) praise the content creator.
Shankar replied to Asmongold, “They laughed at you and worshipped the late-night talk show puppets who were built to distract them from the truth. Now the terrorist demons from hell are here!!! Keep spitting facts — truth has a resonance.” While that certainly sounds like a compliment, he later called Dextero “fake news” for allegedly misinterpreting his words as positive, meaning it’s possible he was being sarcastic or trolling. Similarly, Shankar has condemned Trumpism in the past, while also attending the president’s 2025 inauguration. While this wouldn’t be the first time an artist’s work didn’t match their actual political beliefs, Shankar is a perplexing figure.
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