Recently there has been some minor drama involving one of the artists for Netflixvania, Steve Stark, he’s a supervising background and concept artist for both of the shows. Well this might start some “tiny” arguments here and there but please be respectful boys and gals. There have been a few articles from bottom of the barrel sites like Niche Gamer and Bounding Into Comics, they’re almost as bad as sites like CBR but the only thing different is their political leaning. I will start with the Niche Gamer article and how it evolved into one of the artists of the series privating his Twitter account for a good while.
The Niche Gamer article which is the genesis of the whole incident is “okay”, and it’s probably the first time anyone said anything negative about the show from the mainstream side of things, while the author wasn’t disrespectful at all, the whole article amounts to a milquetoast reddit post of someone who played CV3 15 years ago and just watched the show.
While the author is okay, the whole other side of the site and the community around it is pretty annoying. You know that one guy who won’t shut up about the West destroying his anime? Yeah, that’s the whole community.
This pretty much got a lot of people who never played or even are interested in Castlevania to start tweeting with #notgonnawatch yada, yada. Which lead to people commenting on a post of Steve Stark saying that seeing people of color happy for black vampires and hunters included in media makes him happy/make his day. Which lead him break one of the biggest guidelines on the internet ever, do not feed the trolls.
While interacting and fighting with mostly people who never touched a Castlevania game in their entire lives and some game fans here and there, instead of just saying the normal thing “We’re making an original story, these are different characters who share a name” or I could give you one better, just saying nothing. He went on and on which lead to honestly one of the most stupid things to ever grace my eyes relating to Castlevania. Basically saying that Powerhouse disrespects the series/characters is wrong because Ayami Kojima made Dracula go from a “Bela Lugosi knock off” in Vampire’s Kiss to a “hot dad” in SotN and that would mean that Ayami Kojima disrespected the characters. He went on to site Richter’s Dracula X Chronicles design as an example as well, despite ya know? Him looking the same just with different clothes and shorter hair? Man legit has brain worms with his way of thinking, because Dracula, Alucard, Simon and Richter do not apply with the situation he’s and there is a decent chunk of people that hate both the Chronicles and Judgment design and that’s why they stopped using them and went back to the warrior design he had in the X68000 version.
Link to image of the Tweet:
https://i.imgur.com/QA10Znz.pngThen shitty website Bounding Into Comics got in with a best of tweet compilation of him and got even more idiots and a few people who actually know their shit until he privated his account for a while. This is a situation where I couldn’t really side with anyone, bottom of the barrel sites, idiots, racists, artists who don’t understand shit and barely anyone with a lick of knowledge about anything. Moral of the story, more people should just stay quiet sometimes, and people shouldn’t be idiots on the internet while defending their works. Also, a lot of people lack self awareness and don't know how to argue their points at all.
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