It’s been over twenty years since Hideki Kamiya directed the very first Satan Could Cry recreation, and his newest tweets are hinting that he may make a long-awaited return to the franchise.
Kamiya’s X/Twitter account is a goldmine. When he’s not clapping again at trolls or blocking followers for tweeting at him in English, he’s gushing about Gunpla and sometimes offering insights on his initiatives, each previous and current.
Whereas he usually blocks followers who ask him questions on franchises he’s now not concerned with (Resident Evil, Satan Could Cry), he really opened up about his work with DMC in a uncommon second of goodwill — and it’s sending gamers right into a frenzy.
On August 9, 2026, a fan requested him a lore-specific query concerning the ultimate boss within the first Satan Could Cry recreation, innocently tagging Kamiya and tempting destiny that the director would make his typical liberal use of the block button.
“I am enjoying via DMC1 proper now and all the time questioned: What’s the lore behind the DT dragon within the struggle towards Mundus? Is it the identical as Vergil creating swords along with his aura, or is it a well-known? One thing else? Are you able to elaborate on this, please?” the fan requested.
Surprisingly, Kamiya gave them a legit reply — one which shed some long-awaited gentle on the potential way forward for the franchise.
僕が再びDMCシリーズを作る時に明らかになるでしょう… https://t.co/H3cu0bgqWf
— 神谷英樹🍀 Hideki Kamiya🍀 (@HidekiKamiya_X) August 9, 2026
“It can turn into clear after I make the DMC sequence once more…” he mentioned, merely and mysteriously. He hasn’t provided any substantial follow-ups to this remark (solely hitting again at a critic for explaining his personal recreation to him), leaving the door broad open for hypothesis that he may return to Satan Could Cry within the close to future.
In fact, followers have wasted no time taking his put up and operating with it, sparking an countless flood of memes and excited, all-caps quote-retweets. (My private favourite must be the meme of Dante getting injected with an enormous syringe filled with Hopium, however the one in every of Kratos pleading with Ares can be fairly good.)
https://t.co/hz0qK7n29y pic.twitter.com/VIC21B84hD
— 🐮 yutaliban 🐮 (@nappingbitch) August 9, 2026
https://t.co/M0h3oR0ULs pic.twitter.com/sK3kLku8ST
— SRM | Le’Mon (@EJ_The_Lemon) August 9, 2026
“He mentioned, ‘After I return to doing DMC,’ as a substitute of, ‘If I return to doing DMC,’’ one fan speculated. “Kamiya is aware of one thing, however I am unable to show it… So long as he comes again for nothing greater than a purely hypothetical Remake of DMC1, there isn’t any downside.”
“Kamiya is actually speaking about DMC1!? So he hasn’t fully forgotten about his license in spite of everything,” one other wrote.
“Bro didn’t say ‘If,’ he mentioned ‘When!’” one other identified.
As beforehand talked about, Kamiya is usually combative when followers ask him questions on his earlier works which are now not beneath his purview. Resident Evil and Satan Could Cry belong to Capcom, in spite of everything, an organization he hasn’t labored for in over a decade. Nevertheless, he has struck up a partnership with them once more for the forthcoming Okami sequel, as informed in our unique interview with him in February 2025.
For now, the way forward for Satan Could Cry is trying just a bit bit brighter. This, mixed with the Netflix present getting renewed for a third and last season (leading to a big increase in recreation gross sales), followers are extra hopeful than ever that the lengthy DMC drought will quickly be over.
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