Netflix’s Devil May Cry adaptation will end with its third and final season, creator Adi Shankar has confirmed.
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Based on the hit video game series, Adi Shankar’s animated Devil May Cry adaptation first hit Netflix back in 2025 while a second season followed earlier this year.
A third season was greenlit shortly before season two premiered but last night (June 4) Shankar confirmed that the next batch of episodes will wrap up his Devil May Cry story.
“Season 3 was an inevitability,” he wrote 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. This was always Dante’s Divine Comedy with guns and a red coat,” with season one telling the story of the Inferno poem and season two exploring “purgatorio”. Season three, according to Shankar, is about paradise. “These three seasons make up The Force Edge Saga. Since inception, it was designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series.”
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.
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— Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) June 4, 2026
He went on to explain that Devil May Cry season three is not going to be what you’d typically expect from a third season. “I am doing something very different. I am crafting a blueprint for how this game is won,” he wrote.
Reflecting on his Devil May Cry adaptation, Shankar said: “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 flavourless corporate sludge assembled in a content factory by emotionally vacant brand managers who secretly loathe the source material – Mission accomplished.”
Earlier this year it was reported that a remake of the original Devil May Cry game is in the works, alongside more Resident Evil remakes.
In other news, the Nintendo Switch 2 edition of Elden Ring will finally launch this summer.
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