Netflix dropped all eight episodes of Devil May Cry season 2 on May 12, ending the seven-year gap since the franchise’s last animated outing. Studio Mir is back animating, and the show is doing what season 1 only gestured at: Dante and Vergil in the same story, with Vergil’s cold deliberate combat playing directly off Dante’s reckless ferocity.
The numbers say the audience showed up. The series debuted in the Netflix global Top 10 with 5.3 million views in three days. The critical read is genuinely split. Collider went 9 out of 10 and called it one of the highest-quality video game anime adaptations ever made. IGN settled at an 8. Other reviewers pushed back on pacing and on a visual style that, by their reading, threatens to drown the character work.
Our take: Studio Mir is the reason this works. The fight choreography carries scenes that on paper read as fan service, and the Vergil introduction lands harder than season 1’s setup earned. If you bounced off the first season, this one is a different show.