Topic: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed

[The Puritan]

Always wondered how the actual show would look like. And I'll admit it actually looks great. I wouldn't mind follow-up series (DX and SOTN especially) being done in this style.

The writing/plot is another matter. It does look like they're following Ellis' draft, and the very idea's pretty nailbiting. Let's hope the execution makes up for it, or that the script's significantly different now.

[DragonSlayr81]

I'm still erring on the cautious side for this on account of POWER/RANGERS being a bit of an edgy wank IMO.

POWER/RANGERS was made with the intention of being a joke trailer, making fun of the notion that was highly circulating entertainment during the 00s-early 2010s where every thing "re-imagined" has to be done so through a dark, gritty and "grounded" form. That trailer was poking fun at that sorta bullshit trend. Fuckin' buzzwords, I remember that time, I would search through Bloody Disgusting articles and how many reboots were being announced where the directors and producers were pushing the whole "grounded, gritty reboot" angle. Glad we've moved past that, for the most part. There's still grounded, gritty properties, but they don't go out of their way to say it, they just DO it and nuff said!

That being said, never was a fan of the LoS series, so seeing this teaser, yeah, THIS is the Castlevania I know and love. MY Castlevania!

[Shiroi Koumori]

Just 4 episodes? Oh well...
I liked the animation, so it is a must watch.

[Dracul_Belmont]

Have you seen that the crest in tbe back of Trevor looks very very similar to the LOS Belmont Crest?

[Dracula9]

That's exactly what that sigil is a reference to.

[X]

This looks okay. It's not mind-blowing in terms of animation, but it looks decent enough. although Trevor's whip should be the long chain flail as that's the true form of the weapon itself. If anything leather is only going to end up turning Dracula's crank a bit 

He's not fighting because some authority sent him or some vendetta.

Actually Grant does have a vendetta. Against Dracula because of what the vampire king did to his family, and then imprisoning him as a cursed spirit in the clocktower. Both Japanese and English games indicate this though the English version was a lot lighter in tone.

I'm glad Trevor isn't barbarian looking.

He seems to be more barbarian-looking in the trailer with all the skins he's wearing. Whereas in the CVIII game cart art he's almost wearing full-on plate mail which makes him look more like a knight then what Simon was sporting in CVI.

[Eric Roman]

In the immortal words of Val Venis:

"I came...

...I saw...

...and I came again."

(Does this mean I have to update DCTP something fierce for its 20th Anniversary on Sunday?)

[Dracula9]

I think "barbaric" in this context means more the whole Conan "no sleeves, no pants, look at these chiseled muscles wait ow why are they taking damage" thing, not necessarily that he's wearing skins.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

On the poster, Dracula looks like Dave Grohl.

[Oniros]

I am beyond pumped up for this!

Same, it looks so much better than I expected!

[Nagumo]

When I checked the Dungeon this morning and saw this thread had exploded I knew something must have been revealed.

At first, I really dreaded watching the trailer. But from what I saw, I think like they really nailed the look of how CV's world should look like in animated form. I'm honestly suprised at how animeish this looks despite the fact that before they insisted it was absolutely not going to be anime. So it's no suprise to me that this isn't actually being done anymore by Frederator.  I have never heard before of Powerhouse Animation but they seem like an excellent choice.   

Moving on to my thoughts about the character designs. I think they a really good job on Sypha. Her looks reminds of a really cool piece of fan art of her that I found years ago. Alucard is looking like Alucard, so that's fine with me. Dracula, with his longish hair, as well as the mustache and goatee, looks like a younger version of CoD incarnation. So that's neat! I'm glad they went with that character design instead of a Bela Lugosi look or something like that. Trevor looks good as well. His character design is something I could see appearing in an actual game. I couldn't see clearly if he already had his eye scar, like Plottwist said.   

So consider me relieved when it comes to the look and character designs! I guess what remains now is to wait and see how good the script will be.

[TatteredSeraph]

Wow, colour me surprised, this is looking better than I was expecting!  It's reminding me a lot visually of Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and Hellsing Ultimate, as has already been mentioned, which is actually the sort of style I'd go for.  Alucard looks amazing (aside for a small nitpick of his hair being a touch too dark a blonde, but yay for them going for the Ayami Kojma redesign), and Sypha looks fabulous.  I think Trevor's look is the one I'm least keen on, but then again, to me Trevor looks like his CoD onwards incarnation.  But I think that it works, as like with the aims for the Vampire Hunter D series,this seems to have a fusion of Western animation meets anime look to it, and Trevor's design here fits that.  The music sounds spot on as well, which also makes me very happy.  The intro bit is kind of reminding me of Baba Yaga's music box arrangement of Vampire Killer.  I'm wondering whether in this version, they'll be using the original background for Alucard being a full vampire, or whether like with his appearance use his SotN onwards backstory as a dhampir.  This was a great surprise before heading to bed for me.

[Nagumo]

If this does well, what game will they adapt into a series next? Rondo of Blood?

This might be an inpopular opinion, but I hope they don't adapt any other games. The reason adapting CV3 is interesting is because there's enough amount of material to expand on, plus there's the benefit of adding later contributions to the canon like perhaps elements from LoI and SotN. If they would adapt, say the original Castlevania, that might sound cool at first but if you think about it a little more the amount of material they would have to work with would fit on a paper napkin. It would be: "Simon goes into the castle and kills things: The Animation". CV3 has the only plot that lends itself well to adaptation.   

[EstebanT]

This might be an inpopular opinion, but I hope they don't adapt any other games. The reason adapting CV3 is interesting is because there's enough amount of material to expand on, plus there's the benefit of adding later contributions to the canon like perhaps elements from LoI and SotN. If they would adapt, say the original Castlevania, that might sound cool at first but if you think about it a little more the amount of material they would have to work with would fit on a paper napkin. It would be: "Simon goes into the castle and kills things: The Animation". CV3 has the only plot that lends itself well to adaptation.   

Other than adapting the "Dracula X" stuff i cant picture any other Castlevanias working as a tv show.
I would honestly prefer more games.

[e105beta]

This might be an inpopular opinion, but I hope they don't adapt any other games. The reason adapting CV3 is interesting is because there's enough amount of material to expand on, plus there's the benefit of adding later contributions to the canon like perhaps elements from LoI and SotN. If they would adapt, say the original Castlevania, that might sound cool at first but if you think about it a little more the amount of material they would have to work with would fit on a paper napkin. It would be: "Simon goes into the castle and kills things: The Animation". CV3 has the only plot that lends itself well to adaptation.   

I agree that the original Castlevania doesn't have a ton of plot to draw on for an adaptation, but I could see them adapting something like Rondo of Blood. You'd have the attack on Aljiba to set up Richter's quest, and then Terra, Iris, and most importantly Maria and Annette as side characters for Richter to play off of, along with Shaft and his role in resurrecting Dracula. It would also be a perfect tie-in to a potential Symphony of the Night series.