Dante’s not done demon-hunting yet. Netflix has renewed Devil May Cry for a second season, just one week after the first season premiered. There is still a ways to go if the streaming series wants to catch up to the video-game series.

In Studio Mir’s Devil May Cry animated series, “sinister forces” attempt “to open the portal between the human and demon realms,” the logline reads. Only one man can stop this: Dante, “an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the fate of both worlds hangs around his neck.” (Ok, two men if you count showrunner Adi Shankar.)

Devil May Cry got off to a good start. In just its first four days of availability, the animated series racked up 5.3 million views (21 million hours viewed divided by its three-hour, 56-minute runtime), according to Netflix. That was good enough to rank fourth for the week of March 31, beyond only Adolescence (17.8 million...