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"Back in 2015, we reported that voice of the digital generation (and Dredd executive producer) Adi Shankar was developing a “super violent” animated series based on Konami’s Castlevania video game series. (For younger readers, Konami used to be a company that made video games before it started dedicating all of its time to being generally shitty.) Shankar said he was working with Adventure Time and Fairly OddParents animation house Frederator Studios, which happens to own the adaptation rights to Castlevania.

Now, it sounds like Frederator has cagily confirmed that this Castlevania cartoon is really happening. Speaking with Nickelodeon’s official Nick Animation Podcast (via Bleeding Cool), Fred Seibert (the “Fred” in Frederator) explained that his team is working on an “unnamed” project based on “one of the most world-famous video games of the last 30 years.” He said they’ve had the rights to this unnamed game for 12 years and haven’t been able to work on it, but—perhaps due to the upcoming end of Adventure Time—they’re now able to get it going.

He doesn’t specifically say he’s talking about Castlevania, but the series did just have its 30th birthday in September, so that does fit."
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What kind of violence/gore can you show?
 
Shankar: There will be a lot.  The goal is to bring hard hitting anime to the America and be America’s first animated series for adults.
 
What animated stuff would you say influences the look and feel of your series?
 
Shankar: Akira, Ghost in [the] Shell, Ninja Scroll, Young Justice aka the best series ever and it shouldn’t have been canceled wtf.
http://collider.com/castlevania-animated-series-adi-shankar/

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We should pray for it success, may it make the brand strong enough for a gaming return. The Adventure Time/Fairy oddparents studio making it should excite us too. Guys are great imo.

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It being from Fredator worries me a bit. Fairly Oddparents and ChalkZone were quality cartoons, but their art-style makes me feel like it's gonna be a really gimmicky hyper-active cartoon. Topped off with the "ultra-violence", and I feel like it's going to fit in well with a lot of the other trash that Adult Swim is known for putting out.

Not to mention they made that god awful Ape Escape cartoon in 2009 and completely bastardized anything good about the series.

On a side note, I'm 100% sure that image of Trevor and co. you added was from that Castlevania movie series that was being worked on, not from the ultra-violent project that disappeared. Were those not two different projects?
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"Super violent"

This makes me cringe. These guys don't seem to understand that the violence is not exactly the main attraction of Castlevania.

I've expressed this before, but it seems (SEEMS) to me that these guys are not taking Castlevania seriously at all, thinking we will swallow any gorefest they throw at us because its edgy and has a lot of blood and "vampires like blood, right? RIGHT?".

Think Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. It had violence in it, but it wasn't the focus of the work.

And, for the love of Dracula, no goat-fucking jokes. Like... If, while thinking "Castlevania jokes", goat-fucking is something that occurs on your head, then... try avoiding jokes altogether, please. I can whip up a number of Castlevania jokes just from sitting here thinking 5 seconds, and goats have nothing to do with any of them.
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People are worrying about the quality of the finished product already?

Trend analysis of Castlevania media projects suggests we won't even get a finished project at all. So I'm not worried. I'll freak out if something actually releases, but going by every other time someone has said "we're making a Castlevania movie/series" it's completely died before we got more than a script leak and maybe some concept art, so seriously guys, calm yo tits.

Also, every proposed Castlevania multimedia project has sounded terrible, and this pretty much sounds like the rest that have come before.

So, they'll talk a big game for a month or two, and then we'll get to the stage where we go years without an update, and then a decade from now we'll have completely forgotten this entirely except for a few minutes of "I wonder what happened to that project..." at random moments, just like the Dracula's Curse anime, Paul W.S Anderson's script treatment, and James Wan's proposed film.
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I can whip up a number of Castlevania jokes just from sitting here thinking 5 seconds, and goats have nothing to do with any of them.

You already did it right there.

People are worrying about the quality of the finished product already?

Regardless if it does happen or not, it's not like it's nonsensical to be worried about it. This is Frederator Studios we're talking about here. They've got like... one project that nobody cares that they did. If this should be finished and released, remember that these are the guys who did Fairly Oddparents and Adventure Time. Their next project will no doubt be something that gets a lot of attention, particularly with fans of their other works.

How they choose to present Castlevania will be how its come to be known to a lot of people. And when their only video game adaptation is freakin' Ape Escape, which was less good and more an absolute damn travesty, of course we'll be worried about it.

Their Ape Escape cartoon capture absolutely nothing that made the game series and even the original anime so magical. It completely missed the mark and no actual Ape Escape fan enjoyed the cartoon. So when they think of Castlevania and what they think of is "super-violent" even though Castlevania has never been particularly violent, it's really worrisome.

Disclaimer: I'm aware CV has quite a bit of violence in it. It's all stuff that could be considered PG-13 though, and not "super-violent".
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I was so sure this was dead

Well, we'll see it whenever it happens. Frederator is such an odd choice for a studio to make a Castlevania series


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Their Ape Escape cartoon capture absolutely nothing that made the game series and even the original anime so magical. It completely missed the mark and no actual Ape Escape fan enjoyed the cartoon. So when they think of Castlevania and what they think of is "super-violent" even though Castlevania has never been particularly violent, it's really worrisome.

Disclaimer: I'm aware CV has quite a bit of violence in it. It's all stuff that could be considered PG-13 though, and not "super-violent".

An interesting point. Castlevania has violent acts in it, but is not itself really violent. A completely faithful adaptation of most of the games in the series would have enemies suddenly disappear when killed, not explode into gore. The series in spirit is much closer to Hammer Horror, or even 1931's Dracula (where you never even see Drac with fangs) than it is to Hellsing. And if I want an over-the-top violent take on Dracula, I'll just re-read or re-watch Hellsing.

If they're planning on playing over the top violence for straight comedy, wouldn't that come off as kind of a one note Rick and Morty ripoff? (I ask because I'm not that familiar with R&M but what I have seen has played violence for laughs.) In any case I'm not worried because I doubt this'll get made. Sadly the adult swim crowd of 20 and 30 somethings is probably the only demographic where Castlevania as a brand has any value, which is a damn shame considering how many games in the series deserve recognition as classics right up there with your Mario's and Zelda's.

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It has been sitting in the back burner for 12 years....
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Why do this now, though? Back when they got the license Castlevania already was a very niche series. After Lords of Shadow turned out to be reasonably successful they could have announced this project, yet they didn't. Who is going to care at this point? I believe the audience they were going for were 30+ year-olds, so it seems they're aiming at people who used to play CVIII when they were kids. But that game obviously wasn't about ultra-violence, foul language, and "adult humor". It seems Adi Shankar and Fredator want to make something that appeals to edge lords with the Castlevania brand slapped on top of it. If you're going down the gore route, base it on Lords of Shadow then! At least that would make some sense content-wise and timing-wise. Plus, then I don't have to care if it's any good or not.
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But that game obviously wasn't about ultra-violence, foul language, and "adult humor". It seems Adi Shankar and Fredator want to make something that appeals to edge lords with the Castlevania brand slapped on top of it.

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Well the director is the definition of Edgelord, but I love the series they name as inspirations. Ghost in the Shell? Sign me in. I hope the studio brings out their A game. I'm expecting a Samurai Jack type of cartoon.

For those who doubt it will happen, you gotta remember that the studio have nothing in their pipeline after Adventure Time, neither does Cartoon Network. This is their next project, the "replacement" of the most succesuful cartoon series of the decade. Honestly, the studio tackling Castlevania next is huge imo. If done well it could push the series into the mainstream, in the most weird manner of course, but it could.

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Never imagined CV getting an animated treatment. I'm not into anime and cartoons, so yeah, I would have prefered a live-action series.

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If you're going down the gore route, base it on Lords of Shadow then! At least that would make some sense content-wise and timing-wise. Plus, then I don't have to care if it's any good or not.

See, this would make the most sense with the whole "super-violent" thing, because yeah, the LoS games were legitimately super-violent.

For those who doubt it will happen, you gotta remember that the studio have nothing in their pipeline after Adventure Time, neither does Cartoon Network. This is their next project, the "replacement" of the most succesuful cartoon series of the decade. Honestly, the studio tackling Castlevania next is huge imo. If done well it could push the series into the mainstream, in the most weird manner of course, but it could.

This is why I'm worrying. Whatever they do with it, it will no doubt be how Castlevania is seen from here on by the general public. And seeing what they did to Ape Escape, I'm really not looking forward to this.
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