Johnny Yong Bosch may have been a part of the Devil May Cry franchise for nearly 20 years, but that doesn't mean he was prepared to play the half-demon hero Dante in Netflix's new anime adaptation – mostly because no one told him it existed.

"I auditioned for something that was an unnamed, or untitled, project, and the character name was David," Bosch, who also plays the bad boy Nero in the Devil May Cry games, tells me during a recent Zoom interview. "So, when I found out that I got the role and that it was Devil May Cry and Dante, I was like, 'Wait a second.' I had to pause a minute and be like, 'You guys know that I have been a part of this series before?'"

"Eventually, I was told by Adi that he’d written the role for me," Bosch continues. "So that definitely carried a different weight on my shoulders, but also intense respect and honor."

Bosch's love for Capcom's gothic, demon-hunting series is clear from the moment his unruly version of Dante opens his smirky mouth in the new Netflix anime – as we commend Bosch for in our Devil May Cry review, the younger version of the familiar character oozes the kind of confidence you'd expect from a 20-something who can't die.

But Dante's effortless appeal had to be earned, Bosch reveals. In our conversation, he tells me that he mentally prepared to switch from silver-haired Nero to daddy issues Dante by dubbing "over all of DMC 3 – the cinematics – with like, four or five different takes, first starting off doing something identical to what was done, and then just trying to find a way that I could bring a different note to [Dante], or mean something more than what he’s saying."

"You know, from the games, we have this very specific Dante, this through line," Bosch tells me. "We have hints of the things that he’s gone through, and we see glimpses of it – so we know he’s had a very dark past." However, the games don't spend as much time on Dante's hurt as they do on the glamour of his cutthroat way of life, with brilliant hack 'n' slash combat executed, essentially, by shirtless models.

Netflix's new Devil May Cry anime, which is out now, and comes from Castlevania anime creator Adi Shankar, is more willing to plunge the dark.

"What’s really neat about this series is we get to experience [Dante] going through those things and discovering who he is," Bosch continues, "and then becoming that person that we’re more familiar with."

You can learn how to watch Netflix's new anime with our Devil May Cry release schedule, or peruse our list of the best anime on Netflix.

Remember Marathon? No, not that Marathon, although props for making the throwback connection. I mean the extraction shooter reboot announced in 2023, that we've heard practically nothing about since. Well, we may be about to hear more, and possibly quite soon.

After months of silence following a message from game director Joe Ziegler, who reassured the world that work on the game is continuing but otherwise revealed nothing of note, the Marathon social media accounts fired up today to reveal, well, this:

And what exactly is this? I do not know, but it's attracting a lot of attention. The official Xbox account leapt in, as did Discord, although neither had a whole lot to say. Many Bungie followers also chimed in, most expressing excitement that maybe, finally, we'll get a proper look at the game, and a few determined to decode what they're pretty sure is a hidden message and not just 15 seconds of hype.

Assuming the post does mean an imminent update on the status of Marathon, it's long overdue. The announcement of the reboot was followed by (of course) an ARG, and that was pretty much it for nearly a year, until Bungie announced in March 2024 that Ziegler had taken over as game director.

It later came to light that longtime Bungie employee Christopher Barrett, the original director, had been fired for alleged inappropriate behavior with female employees at the studio. In December 2024, Barrett sued Sony and Bungie over claims of wrongful dismissal, a matter that's still working its way through the courts.

That dearth of information, not to mention Bungie's seemingly endless struggles with Destiny 2 and difficulties with Sony, has not inspired great confidence in the Marathon reboot. PC Gamer's Tim Clark, a man who literally ignored multiple tornado warnings so he could finish a Destiny 2 raid, wrote in 2024 that the catastrophic failure of Concord had him even more worried about Marathon—the obvious implication being that he was worried even before Concord flamed out. As he noted, the world is already filled with extraction shooters, and after taking a bath on Concord, Bungie parent Sony might not be inclined to show too much patience if Marathon doesn't come out of the gate very strong.

But that all remains to be seen. For now, gamers are just excited about the prospect of seeing something about the game. Fingers crossed it'll be good.