Whether you’re an unironic fan of the show or hate-watch it, you can either take comfort in or be afflicted by the news that Netflix’s anime adaptation of Capcom’s Devil May Cry series will end with its third and final season.
As if referencing Vergil’s tagline as the Alpha and the Omega in Devil May Cry 5, Netflix’s announcement that the Adi Shankar show would be coming to an end came in tandem with the announcement that it’d been greenlit for a third season. Included in the press release, with quotes from trades that reviewed its second season favorably, was a quote from Shankar. Ever the showman, Shankar hyped up the show’s journey to its third and final season as a part of his grand plan from its inception.
“For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time,” Shankar wrote in the press release. “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.”
More Dante, more Vergil. DEVIL MAY CRY will return for its third and final season, coming soon to Netflix. pic.twitter.com/yhsANSYQnw
— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) June 4, 2026
The success of “Devil May Cry” Season 1 and Season 2 has clarified something that most people suspected, some people feared, and a few trolls are still emotionally negotiating with: Adi Shankar is a generational talent.
I am a generational talent in the measurable sense. In… pic.twitter.com/xwji8Zq7Pv
— Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) June 4, 2026
While we’ll leave it to readers to call BS on whether Shankar’s wrestling-promoter-esque delivery of his grand plans for DMC is convincing, what’s indisputable about Netflix’s anime adaptation of Devil May Cry is that the Studio Mir-animated show got folks watching. The press release goes on to mention, as a humble brag, that the show debuted and currently sits on Netflix’s Global Top 10 Shows List. Granted, as of this writing, Devil May Cry isn’t on that list. The only animated content on Netflix’s Global Top 10 appears on the Top 10 Movies list, with Swapped, Goat, and KPop Demon Hunters, which are ranked at three, four, and five, respectively, but we digress.
In io9’s review for Devil May Cry season two, we said we weren’t sure if the show was an elaborate prank or not, writing, “If you can tilt your head to the side and accept that this farce of an adaptation is actually a really good abridged parody series—like, TeamFourStar-level parody—you too can join me in this deranged corner of enjoyment. But if you’re holding out hope for Shankar’s DMC Netflix series to come back in its second season as a faithful video game adaptation, you’re not getting it. Not in a million years.”
With any luck, the movie trilogy disguised as a television show will go out smokin’ sexy style.
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