Netflix's Satan Could Cry Anime Hits the Jackpot in 2025

One other yr, one other Netflix occasion with glimpses of future exhibits and flicks. Final yr noticed the grand reveal of the upcoming anime adaptation for Satan Could 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 sequence—which hails from Castlevania producer Adi Shankar and animation by X-Males ’97’s Studio Mir—gives up a greater thought of what it’s going for, and the sequence lead Dante. The Satan Hunter positive 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 Young 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 Could 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 sequence could be borrowing parts from Tokyopop’s manga for Satan Could Cry 3. In that, Dante takes on a contract to discover a woman named Alice who was a kidnapped by a demon possessing her childhood doll. Mentioned demon goes by “White Rabbit,” and positive sufficient, this trailer ends with a humanoid white rabbit, sipping tea and sitting subsequent to a toy doll. The manga was break 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 Could Cry dropping in April.

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