Adi Shankar will serve as showrunner and executive producer for Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime, in partnership with Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno and Studio Mir’s Seung Wook Lee. The series will be penned by Alex Larsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“I\u2019m honored that Netflix and Capcom have entrusted me to shepherd the Devil May Cry franchise. Alex Larsen and I love these characters, we are part of the fandom, and vow to surpass the exceptionally high bar we set for ourselves.”<\/p>\nAdi Shankar<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is bringing the popular video game franchise “Devil May Cry” to life in the form of an anime series. With around 30 million copies sold worldwide, the “Devil May Cry” games have enthralled gamers with their stylish demon-slaying action. Now, Netflix is teaming up with Adi Shankar, the creator behind the successful “Castlevania” series, […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,13,11],"tags":[6445,6449,57,6448,6444,302,2486,6447,6443,1294,1607,1444,1519,91,960,1608,6442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21466,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348\/revisions\/21466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}