Netflix Reveals Legendary Batman Voice Actor Kevin Conroy's Posthumous Role in Devil May Cry Anime With New Trailer

Let the demon hunting begin. Netflix is giving Devil May Cry the anime attraction — and we yet person a sensation of what it has successful store with a marque caller trailer the streamer conscionable dropped. But what mightiness beryllium adjacent much breathtaking is that the legendary precocious dependable histrion Kevin Conroy volition posthumously prima successful the caller crippled adaptation.

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 bid arsenic VP Baines, a caller quality that tin beryllium heard successful voiceover astatine the opening of the sneak peek.

Back successful July 2024, Conroy was praised for his posthumous dependable show successful Justice League: Crisis connected Infinite Earths: Part 3, truthful it’s awesome that fans volition person different accidental to acquisition his artistry aft his untimely passing successful November 2022 astatine the property of 66. Rounding retired the formed alongside the precocious histrion is Scout Taylor-Compton arsenic Mary, Hoon Lee arsenic White Rabbit, Chris Coppola arsenic Enzo, and Johnny Yong Bosch arsenic Dante himself.

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.”

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

Producer Adi Shankar volition service arsenic showrunner for the series. He is known for his enactment arsenic enforcement shaper connected the 2012 Judge Dredd reboot movie Dredd, arsenic good arsenic the Brad Pitt prima conveyance Killing Them Softly from the aforesaid year, and 2014’s Ryan Reynolds conveyance The Voices. He is besides slated to enforcement nutrient an adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, but considering it was announced successful 2017 and inactive has yet to spot the airy of day, who knows if that bid volition ever really get made? Fingers crossed, though.

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.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.