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As The Cuphead Show! celebrates its first anniversary on Netflix (and trending once more on Twitter, not for the primary time), chances are you’ll wonder if The Cuphead Show will return for a fourth season. Unfortunately, because it stands, the reply seems to be to be no, however its future might very a lot be modified.
First debuting in February 2022, The Cuphead Show! is certainly one of Netflix’s best-animated sequence in its historical past. The present went on to launch three seasons all through the course of 2022 with the last season dropping in November 2022.
Based on the online game, the sequence follows the adventures of Cuphead and his brother Mugman.
Will The Cuphead Show! Return for Season 4 at Netflix?
Official Renewal Status: Pending
Netflix has but to formally announce the way forward for The Cuphead Show!
Given Netflix’s historical past within the animation house, nonetheless, it’s uncertain we’ll see The Cuphead Show! return for a season 4.
For extra animated titles, Netflix typically offers an upfront order of x variety of episodes. In the case of The Cuphead Show!, that upfront order was for three seasons of 36 episodes, all of which have now been delivered all through 2022.
As a consequence, any future episodes would must be a part of a season renewal, and there’s been no official phrase of that occuring so in the intervening time, season 3 is taken into account the ultimate season of the present.
Netflix, nonetheless, by no means formally labeled season 3 as the ultimate season, so the door is doubtlessly open, however there’s no precedent based mostly on Netflix’s observe historical past, sadly.
In November 2022, we spoke to Deeki Deke (head author on The Cuphead Show!) across the time his animated film The Soccer Football Movie was being launched on Netflix globally.
When we requested in regards to the potential future past season 3, the response was as follows:
“There better be more – I have too many episode ideas! I’m hopeful there’s a renewal or a continuation in some form, but we’ll see.”
We also needs to observe Deke’s LinkedIn profile lists January 2021 as the tip of their position as Head Writer.
Indeed, most individuals we discovered on LinkedIn who had been concerned with the present have now moved onto new initiatives.
The Campaign to Renew The Cuphead Show
On Twitter, followers are nonetheless hoping to get the present a brand new season. You can discover their ideas and marketing campaign by looking out the hashtag “#RENEWTHECUPHEADSHOW“.
1 12 months in the past at present, ‘THE CUPHEAD SHOW!’ premiered on Netflix.
Retweet when you would watch one other season of the sequence.#RENEWTHECUPHEADSHOW pic.twitter.com/A7gsDISp5u
— Cartoon News Network (@CCNCartoonNews) February 18, 2023
If you want extra The Cuphead Show in your life within the meantime, the video games that the present relies on nonetheless exist, plus a e book launched by Dark Horse Books in late 2022.
Titled, The Art of The Cuphead Show, the e book is a hardcover quantity the place you’ll get “transported back to the golden age of 1930s animation with an art book celebrating the acclaimed run & gun game, Cuphead!”
Would you want The Cuphead Show to return again for a fourth season on Netflix?