Topic: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed

[EstebanT]

Adi Shankar: The first thing I thought about was music and how we needed to avoid the traditional sword-and-sandal orchestra cliche and use the heavy metal electro guitar vibe found in the early games.

[Nagumo]

I watched the first two episodes and I thought it was absolutely terrible. The dialogue is just embarrassing. It's even worse than I imagined it would be.

[aensland]

wow
Are they going to fix all the animation botches in the BDs?

GOAT-FUCKING SCENE CONFIRMED

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My native language dub gave those guys whiny voices and it was way funnier than it should, sorry it's hard to be 14 years old ;_;

[Dracula9]

Somehow I find it immensely entertaining that

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Trevor is a drunk.

Don't ask me why. I just find it strangely fitting, after a fashion.

[Ahasverus]

I love that this is a thing that exists.

Could have used more marketing though.

[DragonSlayr81]

I gotta admit, this was fuckin' BADASS!! Binged all four episodes and LOVED THEM! Can't wait for season 2, and hope that after they finish the CV3 saga, they think about adapting another saga (Christopher or Simon's stories).

[EstebanT]

The cyclops battle with Auto Description on is beautiful

[affinity]

in the new season they could introduce Grant as a thief.  doesn't have to be a pirate.

they already took some creative liberties with CVIII not in the original. 

 they could have Grant at least in one episode be badass, and killed off if they don't want to juggle more characters than they can handle, would be proper respect to one of Castlevania III's essential and canon characters. the animated series is incomplete due to their narrow minded opinion about Grant, if their occupation doesn't fit the location, then change them to thief.   simple.  and he's dressed like a thief, even uses a knife.

Order of Ecclesia would be interesting for a animated series, though they already have their hands full with the current one.

[Dremn]

http://deadline.com/2017/07/castlevania-animated-series-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202125024/

Season 2 confirmed by Netflix

[TatteredSeraph]

http://deadline.com/2017/07/castlevania-animated-series-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202125024/

Season 2 confirmed by Netflix

*Rubs hands in glee*  Excellent news!    Let's hope that this new bit of fresh blood for the series helps as much as we hope that it does.  I certainly want to see more.

[le052383]

I watched it all in one setting.  It was okay and wasn't surprised that the infamous "goat fucking" scene was present.  I did find it odd that Alucard was only sleeping under the town for a year rather than decades or centuries.  However, that is an issue with the actual Castlevania timeline (according to the wiki, Lisa Tepes was alive until around the 1470s and the events of CVII takes place in 1476.  Would have been great if Ellis did some liberties with the timeline. 

Other than that, I love how the water fountain from Alcuard's fight with the succubus is in the animated show as it shows that the creators were being faithful to the game.  I also thought that the daark shards Dracula was using in building up his army was a homage to the save room with RPG dice-looking thingy in SOTN.

[The Puritan]

THE HYPE WAS REAL

[Belmontoya]

I really liked it!

The animation, voices, were all great.

I don't really like the swearing. Not because I'm offended (I'm not), I just don't think it fits at all.

The violence was nothing worth mentioning.

The music was good but it didnt embrace Castlevania's identity the way it should have. If I were composing it I would've worked harder to incorporate Castlevania traditions. The music feels empty to me like the MOF soundtrack.

My only other complaint is the overusage of falling through floors. I feel like everywhere Trevor went he was falling through the floors.

Other than those gripes I thought it was great.

It's the best CV thing to come around in a long time.

[Aiddon]

I watched it all in one setting.  It was okay and wasn't surprised that the infamous "goat fucking" scene was present.  I did find it odd that Alucard was only sleeping under the town for a year rather than decades or centuries.  However, that is an issue with the actual Castlevania timeline (according to the wiki, Lisa Tepes was alive until around the 1470s and the events of CVII takes place in 1476.  Would have been great if Ellis did some liberties with the timeline. 

Other than that, I love how the water fountain from Alcuard's fight with the succubus is in the animated show as it shows that the creators were being faithful to the game.  I also thought that the daark shards Dracula was using in building up his army was a homage to the save room with RPG dice-looking thingy in SOTN.

The thing is they do address Alucard's weird circular prophecy in that the Speakers  get prophecies from the future. That might be a reference to Saint Germain, the mysterious time traveler from Curse of Darkness. The idea is that the information about the warrior was true...but the warrior wouldn't appear until Alucard took rest in his coffin.

Anyway, having watched it I have this to say: they nailed it. They finally made a good video game adaptation in the West. Hats off to Ellis and Shankar for seeing it through and for performances of the cast, even if MacTavish and Callis had little screen time. The series really drips with the kind of atmosphere I'd expect out of the series, giving that Gothic horror, dark fantasy oppression straight out of Vampire Hunter D or Berserk. Definitely looking forward to Season 2.

[Reinhart77]

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Ok, every time Trevor got hit in his crotch, I thought "oh no, Simon and all the others might never get born!"