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Animated Devil May Cry Series Streams Lyric Video for Evanescence's New Song 'Afterlife'
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Netflix began streaming on Thursday a lyric video for Evanescence's new song "Afterlife" for the animated series of CAPCOM's Devil May Cry video game franchise. The video features clips from the series.
An alternate version of the song will play throughout the series.
The band's new single launches on Friday.
Johnny Yong Bosch will voice Dante in the English-dubbed version of the show. The additional English dub cast includes Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary, Hoon Lee as White Rabbit, the late Kevin Conroy as VP Baines in a posthumous role, and Chris Coppola as Enzo.
The Japanese dub cast includes:
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Dante
- Fumiko Orikasa as Lady
- Hiroaki Hirata as Vergil
Adi Shankar and Alex Larsen (Yasuke) completed writing the scripts for the first season of the series as of November 2021. Studio Mir is animating the series, which will have multiple seasons.
Johnny Yong Bosch will voice Dante in the English-dubbed version of the show.
The first season will have eight episodes and will feature the characters Dante, Vergil, and Lady. The opening sequence features Limp Bizkit's song "Rollin'."
Shankar announced his acquisition of the series in November 2018 and stated that the series "will join Castlevania in what we're now calling the bootleg multiverse."
The Devil May Cry game series previously inspired a 12-episode television anime series by Madhouse in 2007. ADV Films and later Funimation released the series on home video. Crunchyroll began streaming the anime in June 2017.
The Devil May Cry 5 game launched in March 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game received a special edition for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2020.
The game series has also inspired novels, manga, and a stage play crossover with Sengoku Basara. A Devil May Cry: The Live Hacker stage play ran in Tokyo in March 2019.
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