Capcom’s Dino Crisis Almost Found a Way to Becoming an Anime

Next spring, Netflix is releasing an anime based on Capcom’s famous Devil May Cry series. The show is headed up by Adi Shankar, who also helped get Castlevania and Captain Laserhawk off the ground—and according to him, he initially had his eyes set on adapting a different Capcom IP for the streamer.

On Twitter, Shankar recently revealed that he’d initially approached Capcom in 2017 about the possibility of making a Dino Crisis series. Instead, the studio countered with Devil May Cry, which he “didn’t even think would be on the table,” and the rest is history. If you haven’t played Dino Crisis, players take on the role of special operatives who fight dinosaurs who’ve been brought to the present thanks to time travel shenanigans. The series was pretty short-lived, with just three main games a light gun spinoff to its name, but it’s got a passionate fanbase. You can definitely count Shankar among them: he heaped praise onto the first two games and considered it his mission to revive the series after 2003’s Dino Crisis 3 “took the franchise off Earth, but left behind the suspense.”

1. Dino Crisis 1 nailed the survival horror vibe, blending the tension of Resident Evil with the sheer terror of being hunted by dinosaurs—perfect.
2.Dino Crisis 2 took it up a notch with fast-paced action & incredible level design.
3.Sadly, Dino Crisis 3 lost that magic—it took… pic.twitter.com/0pOZReOdkf

— Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) November 6, 2024

Capcom has never appeared to never put any thought into continuing Dino Crisis, even with so much as a remaster or putting the games on Steam. (Surprisingly, the soundtracks for the first two games are on there.) It’s been a frustrating experience for fans, especially after early trailers for last year’s multiplayer game Exoprimal—which has players don hi-tech mech suits to fight hordes of dinosaurs—sparked interest that it was a secret revival before Capcom shut those hopes down. If that weren’t bad enough, creator Shinji Mikami believes the series ran its course, and that the Monster Hunter games more than sate any players’ needs to kill dinos and other nasty beasts.

But while Capcom’s taken a meteor to the franchise, Shankar still hopes to get a Dino Crisis show into the world someday, so never say never. For the moment, though, he’s fully focused on Devil May Cry, which hits Netflix next April.

[via IGN]

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