Devil May Cry Anime Producer Confirms Kevin Conroy Was Recorded Before He Passed Away: ‘No AI Used’

This week, a caller trailer for Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime revealed the legendary precocious dependable histrion Kevin Conroy volition posthumously prima successful the video crippled adaptation. This led immoderate to wonderment whether AI had been utilized to recreate Conroy’s iconic voice. Not so, the anime’s shaper has confirmed.

In a tweet, shaper Adi Shankar said Conroy was recorded earlier helium passed distant successful November 2022, and confirmed “no AI used.”

“Mr. Conroy gave it [sic] amazingly nuanced performance,” Shankar continued. “It was some a pleasance and an grant to enactment with him.”

Conroy, who is champion known and celebrated arsenic the longtime dependable of Bruce Wayne and Batman successful the galore animated films and TV shows that person focused connected the quality implicit the years, stars successful the Devil May Cry anime arsenic VP Baines, a caller quality that tin beryllium heard successful voiceover astatine the opening of the trailer, below.

Dante dependable histrion Johnny Yong Bosch, who played Nero successful the video games, added: "It was an grant to enactment alongside Kevin Conroy for the upcoming DMC series. A existent legend. Batman: The Animated Series redefined cartoons for me. For those wondering, our signaling sessions took spot a fewer years agone — animation takes rather immoderate clip to complete."

Back successful July 2024, Conroy was praised for his posthumous dependable show successful Justice League: Crisis connected Infinite Earths: Part 3. Now, fans person different accidental to acquisition his enactment aft his untimely passing two-and-a-half years agone astatine the property of 66.

According to the authoritative synopsis provided by Netflix, “Sinister forces are astatine play to unfastened the portal betwixt the quality and demon realms. In the mediate of it each is Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the destiny of some worlds hangs astir his neck.”

Shankar besides serves arsenic showrunner for the series. He is known for his enactment arsenic enforcement shaper connected the 2012 Judge Dredd reboot movie Dredd, processing the much-loved Castlevania anime, and creating Netflix bid specified arsenic The Guardians of Justice and Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon. He is besides slated to enforcement nutrient an adaptation of Assassin’s Creed.

Kevin Conroy successful 2021. Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images.

Studio Mir, a well-established South Korean workplace known for their enactment connected fashionable projects similar The Legend of Korra and X-Men ‘97, volition service arsenic the main accumulation workplace connected this caller series. Devil May Cry volition beryllium released connected Netflix connected April 3, 2025.

Generative AI is 1 of the hottest topics wrong the video crippled and amusement industries, which person some suffered monolithic layoffs successful caller years. Generative AI frankincense acold has drawn disapproval from fans and creators owed to a premix of ethical issues, rights issues, and AI’s struggles to nutrient contented audiences really enjoy.

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