Having waited for a year for the next season, fans of the Netflix adaptation of the wildly popular Devil May Cry games are in for a chrome-plated treat and a little extra when it returns. The animated series (from the same studio as the successful My Adventures With Superman) has a pretty even share of fans and detractors, all boiling down to the fact that it’s a pretty radical reinvention of the game’s narrative, which features half-human/half-demon bounty hunter Dante protecting humanity from demonic hordes and also healing his Shakespearean dysfunctional relationship with his twin brother Vergil. The Netflix show remixed the game’s canon greatly, introducing the fictional paramilitary organization Dark Realm Command (aka DARKCOM) and reinterpreting the human-demon conflict as an allegory for post-9/11 paranoia.
Even with the varied reactions to the show’s many changes, Devil May Cry was more than enough of a success to receive a second season with a relatively quick turnaround. Now that the show’s return is a little more than 3 months out, Netflix has given us a glimpse of the familiar additions to Dante’s arsenal he’ll be using as humanity wages a holy crusade on the demon realm.
