{"id":47070,"date":"2025-04-15T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47070"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:00:26","slug":"devil-may-cry-netflix-series-creator-expresses-interest-in-blazblue-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/devil-may-cry-netflix-series-creator-expresses-interest-in-blazblue-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil May Cry Netflix series creator expresses interest in BlazBlue franchise\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the commercial success of the Devil May Cry Netflix series and its season 2 announcement, executive producer Adi Shankar has expressed interest in the <strong>BlazBlue<\/strong> fighting game series. Shankar\u2019s X post showing an image of the Blazblue logo has fans both excited and worried should he adapt the beloved Arc System Works franchise into a series.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VduYWzmq5V\">pic.twitter.com\/VduYWzmq5V<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adishankarbrand\/status\/1911682416059494495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoatsauceLMAO\/status\/1911775399249432870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Some veteran fans and people unfamiliar with Castlevania, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, and Devil May Cry<\/a> like Shankar\u2019s animated series. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/altairgasti\/status\/1911809364395950479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Others are more critical of his work<\/a>, saying they do not do justice to their source material.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the debate regarding the quality of Shankar\u2019s work remains open, certain people just want to see the producer adapt their favorite video game franchise into an animated series. There have already been requests (some honest, some ironic) for adaptations of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Starthedeity\/status\/1911806632402833468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metal Gear Solid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/2dJazz\/status\/1911781599987081542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guilty Gear<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yungsakii_\/status\/1911838605019951230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tales<\/a> franchise, and many more, though Shankar has yet to respond to any of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I WILL bring my visionary genius to BLAZBLU!!! I have a lot of notes on how to make this franchise great. BUT, I will have to change a lot of things to do this. <br><br>Take Ragna for instance &#8230; <br><br>Ragna has a cool coat. A cool sword. A rage meter. But, he\u2019s an edgy shell built from\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lYb5AVzdDX\">pic.twitter.com\/lYb5AVzdDX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adishankarbrand\/status\/1911972714874806522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Those eager for a BlazBlue animated series might want to hold off on reacting, though. Ankar\u2019s recent string of X posts has him ranting (most likely trolling) about how he would drastically change certain aspects of BlazBlue, such as its main protagonist, Ragna the Bloodedge. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adishankarbrand\/status\/1911975035402891553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another post<\/a> has Shankar asking fans for their enemy\u2019s name and favorite IP, presumably under the context of creating a bad animated series.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then again, perhaps Shankar is just expressing his love for BlazBlue and nothing more. Video game developers like <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-is-tired-of-people-assuming-he-possesses-secret-nintendo-knowledge-no-matter-what-he-says-on-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Masahiro Sakurai<\/a> have been known to post about their interests with no hidden meanings behind them, and the same can be said for executive producers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adi Shankar, creator of Netflix&#8217;s Devil May Cry series adaptation, is taunting BlazBlue fans with a string of posts on his personal X account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":47071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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