David Bridges
One other 12 months, one other Netflix occasion with glimpses of future exhibits and films. Final 12 months noticed the grand reveal of the upcoming anime adaptation for Satan Might Cry, and we received one other trailer throughout Netflix Geeked Week, however with a twist: we now understand it’s lastly coming in April 2025.
This new peek on the collection—which hails from Castlevania producer Adi Shankar and animation by X-Males ’97’s Studio Mir—presents up a greater thought of what it’s going for, and the collection lead Dante. The Satan Hunter certain appears and strikes like he does within the video games, however there’s a little bit of twist to issues. Within the anime, he’s voiced by Energy Rangers alum Johnny Younger Bosch, who additionally performs the franchise’s kind of co-lead, Nero. (Oh, and he’s Dante’s nephew, as we formally realized in Satan Might Cry 5 again in 2019.) Within the video games, Dante’s been voiced by Reuben Langdon, however this iteration of the character is on the youthful finish, so what’s the deal there?
Franchise followers famous the collection is likely to be borrowing parts from Tokyopop’s manga for Satan Might Cry 3. In that, Dante takes on a contract to discover a lady named Alice who was a kidnapped by a demon possessing her childhood doll. Mentioned demon goes by “White Rabbit,” and certain sufficient, this trailer ends with a humanoid white rabbit, sipping tea and sitting subsequent to a toy doll. The manga was cut up into three elements (with solely two truly getting launched), and other than that tease, the anime in any other case appears to be its personal factor. It’s nonetheless not absolutely clear if that is meant to hyperlink up with the video games or exist in its personal separate canon, however we’ll discover out nearer to Satan Might Cry dropping in April.
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