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Animated Devil May Cry Series; Witch Watch, Moonrise Anime Stream in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Netflix is listing the following anime titles in India for release alongside their Japanese debut:
- The upcoming animated series of CAPCOM's Devil May Cry video game franchise will stream on April 3.
- The television anime of Kenta Shinohara's Witch Watch manga will stream on April 6.
- Wit Studio and author Tow Ubukata's Moonrise project will stream on April 10.
The streaming service will also add Detective Conan the movie: The Last Wizard of the Century (Case Closed: The Last Magician of the Century) on April 4.
Trailers for Devil May Cry and Moonrise are streaming on the platform with an English dub and in Japanese. The trailer for Witch Watch is streaming in Japanese with English subtitles.
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'." Rock band Evanescence are performing a new song "Afterlife" for the series.
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.
YOASOBI will perform the opening theme song "Watch Me!," which YOASOBI specifically wrote for the series. Pop-rock band Aooo will perform the ending theme song "Mahō Spice" (Magic Spice).
Viz Media and MANGA Plus are both publishing Witch Watch in English. Viz Media describes the first volume:
Morihito Otogi's family is descended from a long line of ogre familiars, and he has the inhuman strength to prove it. One day, his father comes to him with the life-changing news that he is to become the familiar of his childhood friend, the teenage witch Nico. He is to live under the same roof with her and protect her from anything and anyone that may attempt to harm her. Meanwhile, Nico is excited to get to live with the love of her life, even if her crush is one-sided—Morihito is so serious about his duties to protect her that any romance is going to be an uphill battle. But he has every reason to be serious, as Nico has a prophecy of doom hanging over her head!
Shinohara (Astra Lost in Space, Sket Dance) launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2021. Shueisha will publish the manga's 21st compiled book volume on April 4.
The anime will star Chiaki Kobayashi as Jacob Shadow and Yūto Uemura as Phil Ash.
Aina The End will perform the show's theme song "Daijōbu" (It's All Right).
Netflix describes the anime:
What happens when Earth's peaceful existence clashes with the Moon's fight for independence?
The anime was previously slated for 2024.
Ubukata (Mardock Scramble original creator, script for Ghost in the Shell Arise, Heroic Age, Fafner) released a prologue novel for free in English on Amazon in December 2018, also titled Moonrise. Matt Treyvaud translated the novel.
