Netflix’s new Splinter Cell animated series kicks off in October

The Splinter Cell: Deathwatch animated series finally has a release date and a proper trailer, but Netflix already wants you to start thinking about what else it has coming down the pipeline. During this year’s Anime NYC convention, Netflix announced that Deathwatch is slated to debut on October 14th, and the series has added The Sandman’s Kirby Howell-Baptiste to its cast. Howell-Baptiste will voice Zinnia McKenna, an agent working alongside Sam Fisher (Liev Schrieber) as they’re hunted by squads of trained killers. Though it’s brief, Deathwatch’s new trailer gives you a pretty solid sense of the series’ slick and brutal action. You can also see that, tonally, the series is going to be a rather serious video game adaptation. But things are going to be a bit different for the next season of Netflix’s take on Devil May Cry. [Media: https://youtu.be/eRLbZNiC70M?feature=shared] Due out some time in 2026, Devil May Cry’s second season will see Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) and Vergil (Robbie Daymond) reuniting for a battle to the death. In a teaser for the new season, the two brothers actually seem to be having a ball shooting and slashing at each other while humans and demons get caught in the crossfire. It will be interesting to see if the new season really ups its action set pieces when it returns. [Media: https://youtu.be/wuGj4XgbDKg?feature=shared] That seems to be the plan for Blue Eye Samurai’s next season. Along with a scene from Blue Eye Samurai season 2 focused on Mizu (Maya Erskine) storming a stronghold, Netflix shared a behind-the-scenes featurette where series co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, and executive producer Jane Wu, tease some of what we can expect to see. It looks like Mizu’s quest for revenge will take her all the way to London and involve at least a couple of seemingly-dead characters making unexpected returns. Season 2 is still in production and doesn’t have a firm release date just yet. But you can see from the featurette that the creative team is cooking, especially when it comes to choreographing the show’s action sequences. Netflix also shared new trailers for the second half of Sakamoto Days’ first season, which is currently streaming, and for the third season of Record of Ragnarok, which premiers this December. The big takeaway is that Netflix isn’t easing up on its animated projects. It might be a while before we actually get to see a lot of this new stuff, but hopefully it will be worth the wait.