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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #540 on: August 19, 2018, 11:02:21 PM »
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Slogra and Gaibon are shown in the season 2 trailer

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« Reply #541 on: August 20, 2018, 06:34:15 AM »
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« Reply #543 on: August 27, 2018, 07:55:07 PM »
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A vampire with ties to norse mythos.

I know two Dungeonites who will go ballistic over this.
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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #544 on: August 28, 2018, 12:02:43 AM »
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Redhead vampire called Godbrand
https://twitter.com/seewhatsnext/status/1034212900385112064

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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #545 on: August 30, 2018, 06:17:47 AM »
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New poster revealed, it references the japanese dracula's curse cover.
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« Reply #546 on: August 31, 2018, 04:45:27 PM »
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Redhead vampire called Godbrand
https://twitter.com/seewhatsnext/status/1034212900385112064
Thank god(brand) its not Cornell. Leave the LoS Cornell in the LoS universe. Classic Cornell's a prettyboy and lives in the 1800s!

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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #547 on: August 31, 2018, 05:46:38 PM »
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i wonder if the chinese vampiress will be Da Ji. I know she's a whole different kind of demon but still

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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #548 on: September 01, 2018, 12:13:40 AM »
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i wonder if the chinese vampiress will be Da Ji. I know she's a whole different kind of demon but still

OH! That would be lovely!
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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #549 on: September 01, 2018, 04:17:47 AM »
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i wonder if the chinese vampiress will be Da Ji. I know she's a whole different kind of demon but still

if it's the one i'm thinking of, it does only show her from the neck up

unlikely as all hell, but a penanggalan would definitely fit in the regional context of asia


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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #550 on: September 02, 2018, 04:17:36 AM »
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Now that I think about it, that poster might lend some more credence to my theory about Grant having a significantly reduced role. If he was part of the team, you just know they would have milked that for fanservice points.

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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #551 on: September 02, 2018, 07:49:00 PM »
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Now that I think about it, that poster might lend some more credence to my theory about Grant having a significantly reduced role. If he was part of the team, you just know they would have milked that for fanservice points.
Regardless of what they are doing with Grant they certainly want to keep it under wraps until the series drops or some big reveal.  Adi Shankar in particular is loving fan anxiety over this.  I doubt he would just show up on a random poster reveal.
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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #552 on: September 02, 2018, 08:20:02 PM »
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I have never ever understood this incredibly strong desire to see Grant show up.

I get the desire to have the whole team together from a completionist's standpoint, but really, it's not like his absence has ever been keenly felt before. He's the single least frequently chosen playable character in Castlevania 3 by most numbers I've seen. To me, it's odd that most players opt for Sypha or Alucard as the backup to Trevor, but when an adaptation or a reference gets made, everyone seems to angst over the missing Land Pirate Spider-man.

Who, by the way, of the four has the least speaking lines across the entire series. I mean, until Judgment came along, he basically had his 3 or 4 lines in Castlevania 3 and that was really... all they wrote. Ever. And then his lines in Judgment were horrible. He has never been a compelling character because he's essentially never stuck around long enough to become one, and when finally given the opportunity to become one, didn't even get far enough to flub at the finish line.

I angsted more about Hammer not being playable in Dawn's Julius Mode than I've ever gone "whatever shall we do without Land Pirate Spider-man?".

I guess I just don't get Grant's obvious charismatic machismo and eight-pack-abs sex appeal.
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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #553 on: September 02, 2018, 10:08:40 PM »
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He's the single least frequently chosen playable character in Castlevania 3 by most numbers I've seen.

Yes, let's pull statistics out of our asses.  That'll sure help the argument.

It's not about least picked or least popular.  It's about the fact that he existed and was part of the game and now isn't mentioned at all, without an actual reason.  I suppose it'd be the same if they made he series and didn't add Sypha or Alucard.  It'd just be weird, regardless or how popular or unpopular they were.

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Re: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed
« Reply #554 on: September 03, 2018, 11:05:21 AM »
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I'm going to ignore the part you said about macho and abs because I think you're being silly.

Because I was. ;)

Yes, let's pull statistics out of our asses.  That'll sure help the argument.

To be fair I haven't exactly gone looking for this kind of data -- there's no way I care about Grant that much to subject myself to that kind of homework. But going all the way back to my early days on the Castlevania Anti-Chapel forums, I can't ever recall Grant being popular or even talked about all that much until they made the animated series. And the reason I bring that up is because it represents, to me at least, a discrepancy.

Here's a character fans were largely happy to forget until very suddenly, they weren't.

And I don't get it.

I suppose it'd be the same if they made he series and didn't add Sypha or Alucard.

But this is measurably not the case.

Sypha and Alucard have huge effects on the post-game story. Sypha goes off with Trevor and continues the Belmont and Belnades lineage -- essentially none of the post-Trevor Belmonts exist without her, and depending on exact lineage, Yoko might not either. Alucard later reawakens in Symphony of the Night and becomes a major mover and shaker of the plot. These characters are hugely important -- there's a distinct "before" and "after" in the chronology with them, and cutting either of them produces massive internal inconsistencies in the plot of the series.

Grant... kind of vanishes. Neither he or his descendants really have any major role to play after 1476. Maybe the plots of a light novel here or there could possibly be affected, but nothing in the main series changes with or without him. I mean, the only time he's even referenced in dialog is when Trevor comments to Hector that, yes he killed Dracula "but I did not do so alone." That's not exactly the legacy of a super-important character.

So cutting him is not really the same as cutting Sypha or Alucard.

I definitely hope to see him too, or at least his boss fight and resultant healing from Dracula's Curse, but I think the idea of

Regardless of what they are doing with Grant they certainly want to keep it under wraps until the series drops or some big reveal.

really just isn't actually the case. I think Grant's overall role has simply been reduced to the lowest amount permissible under canon to achieve focus balance between the main characters because Season 2 is still rather short at only 4-ish hours and we already have three protagonists. If the series has any plans to show what Hector was doing in this period in detail (and let's be fully honest, it very well may not), that would push things to 3 main protagonists and 1 secondary protagonist in four hours of runtime without Grant being there, and already we begin losing the gift of pacing and focus. So I can't imagine Warren Ellis putting any more focus on Grant than is strictly required.

Which is a shame, but again, Grant is kind of the illegitimate son of Castlevania 3 -- he's there and should be acknowledged, but he's gonna be left out of the family pedigree the moment push comes to shove.

And I still don't understand all this anticipatory squirming of "OOH I WONDER WHY THEY'RE KEEPING GRANT SECRET?!"
« Last Edit: September 03, 2018, 11:11:39 AM by Lumi Kløvstad »
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