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Title: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: MasterAlucard on June 10, 2022, 10:50:24 AM
Here's Richter!
(https://i.imgur.com/r3wkWLq.png)

He's looking very...different. I'm not a big fan of the Netflix adaptation, but lets hope for the best.

What's your take on this?
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: whipsmemory on June 10, 2022, 10:57:36 AM
Looking good, i enjoyed the first series, i think I'm down for this one too. I'm just a bit more jealous of Richter cause he's kind of my favorite Belmont so I hope they don't take too many liberties with the character, but i'm hoping for the best. Hope it comes out soon
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: theplottwist on June 10, 2022, 10:58:18 AM
(https://www.sleepfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Eight-Health-Benefits-of-Sleep.jpg)
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: crisis on June 10, 2022, 12:03:29 PM
Richiter is looking accurate. Hopefully we’ll have a better script this time around & the voice actors put some tempo in their voices (Trevor & Alucard sounded like they were always whispering)


Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Scarlet starlet on June 10, 2022, 02:39:42 PM
Ah yes I can't wait for my dose of homoerotic sex scenes, cringe jokes and pseudo-political subversion
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: The Puritan on June 10, 2022, 05:11:42 PM
After the first series, my excitement is inversely proportional to Warren Ellis' involvement. Still gonna watch this though.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: GuyStarwind on June 10, 2022, 05:23:27 PM
Hopefully, it's good. I did not care for the other series. Is it a new team?
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Hayoam on June 10, 2022, 06:49:59 PM
Faithful to the source material, good accurate character designs and straight forward story with decent side stories relevant the Castlevnia name and era. Are we finally gonna get a a good adaptation friends?
I highly doubt it but Richter looks good so I say it's a good start although his missing the bandana.

Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on June 11, 2022, 12:59:54 AM
I'll just wait for your reviews before I decide to watch or not.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: whipsmemory on June 11, 2022, 04:24:15 AM
I call it here now, seeing the trailer again and listening to the voice lines they included to me it looks like our boy isn't doing very well. So here's my guess: they are gonna mashup Rondo and Sotn, and Richter is embarking on a quest to .. resurrect Dracula and prove himself worthy of whatever (Annette's love, the Belmont name). God i sure do hope I'm wrong
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Belmontoya on June 11, 2022, 08:32:52 AM
Ah yes I can't wait for my dose of homoerotic sex scenes, cringe jokes and pseudo-political subversion

Lol. Didn't they fire Warren Ellis?

Anyways. Jumping from CV3 to Richter-era and passing over the most iconic Belmont in the process ain't it. But I guess they gotta keep that Alucard crutch always within arms reach.

And yeah, something looks weird about Richter's face. But he looks way more accurate than they guy they called Trevor from the last one.

Still haven't watched season 3 and if this comes out around the same time as Game of Thrones house of Targaryen I'll likely be passing on it.

Maybe it's for the best though that they don't touch Simon. Maybe one day we can get a live action and better CV adaption for him. He deserves his story and his curse to be told in detail.

I think the truth is this show is only partially for the legacy CV fans and more just for the Netflix anime crowd. I often run into people who love this show and most the time they've never played the game. ????

Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Reinhart77 on June 11, 2022, 01:42:02 PM
The laugh at the end is giving me Castlevania: Dracula X password vibes.  Must be Dracula, but it's odd that I can't be sure if he's even in this show.  Love the logo animation at the end also.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: DarkLavos on June 11, 2022, 01:47:50 PM
Can't wait for more OC like trashbrand to waste time.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: The Puritan on June 11, 2022, 08:41:40 PM
I call it here now, seeing the trailer again and listening to the voice lines they included to me it looks like our boy isn't doing very well. So here's my guess: they are gonna mashup Rondo and Sotn, and Richter is embarking on a quest to .. resurrect Dracula and prove himself worthy of whatever (Annette's love, the Belmont name). God i sure do hope I'm wrong

Maybe he's going to Whitby to pick a fight with him. God I hope we're both wrong.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: zangetsu468 on June 11, 2022, 08:46:45 PM
First look?? Barely even consider this a teaser, but not loving the Spike-Esque hybrid design
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: X on June 12, 2022, 10:06:50 AM
Hopefully there won't be a stupid cop out like Alucard killing Dracula instead of Trevor. In Rondo Alucard was still asleep so they have to have Richter end Dracula at least for that segment of the show.

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Ah yes I can't wait for my dose of homoerotic sex scenes, cringe jokes and pseudo-political subversion

This is one of the few reasons I never watched the previous Netflix series. All in bad taste and Homo eroticism has since become one of the political calling cards of the WOKE movement  :P

No thanks.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Sindra on June 12, 2022, 10:38:52 AM
To answer a few questions:

- Warren Ellis is not the writer. A British writer has taken over for him.
- Adi Shankar is not involved with this sequel series; seems like he lost his lawsuit to be involved in anything beyond the original series
- This is going to cover Rondo and SotN, according to the Netflix social media, so expect Alucard in some way or another
- Richter is looking like he's meant to look like a mash-up between Trevor and Sypha's designs
- It's set during the French Revolution, which is congruent with Rondo's timeline, though we have no idea if it plays a geopolitical part in the series

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Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: GuyStarwind on June 12, 2022, 11:18:19 PM
Makes me wonder if Shaft will be more of the bad guy focus this time?
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: VladOfWallachia on June 13, 2022, 05:44:31 AM
I am optimistic because of the new writer. I have no idea what to expect from whoever takes over, but I'm excited to find out.

Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Shinobi on June 13, 2022, 03:56:50 PM
Faithful to the source material, good accurate character designs and straight forward story with decent side stories relevant the Castlevnia name and era. Are we finally gonna get a a good adaptation friends?
I highly doubt it but Richter looks good so I say it's a good start although his missing the bandana.

Well it's based from Ayami Kojima's design from Dracula X Chronicles where Richter doesn't have a bandanna, Same as Trevor.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Hayoam on June 13, 2022, 09:17:49 PM
Well it's based from Ayami Kojima's design from Dracula X Chronicles where Richter doesn't have a bandanna, Same as Trevor.

Well I'm just Saying the Bandana is Iconic.

To answer a few questions:

- Warren Ellis is not the writer. A British writer has taken over for him.
- Adi Shankar is not involved with this sequel series; seems like he lost his lawsuit to be involved in anything beyond the original series
- This is going to cover Rondo and SotN, according to the Netflix social media, so expect Alucard in some way or another
- Richter is looking like he's meant to look like a mash-up between Trevor and Sypha's designs
- It's set during the French Revolution, which is congruent with Rondo's timeline, though we have no idea if it plays a geopolitical part in the series

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The first and the second point are a huge plus to the new show lmao, these guys are idiots one is a hypocrite pc writer and the other is a fanfic hack.
As for the designs I thought it looks like a mix between Trevor and Leon but it does look like Sypha and that's because of the art style it's kinda repetitive as most characters looks like color swaps.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: angevil on June 13, 2022, 09:39:38 PM
I think it looks great! Looking forward to more CV on television, we are really lucky to be getting this. Hopefully there will be a new game coming in the near future, this animated series has introduced Castlevania to so many new people. I appreciate it very much! I would love a series with Soma later.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: whipsmemory on June 14, 2022, 02:49:54 AM
I think it looks great! Looking forward to more CV on television, we are really lucky to be getting this. Hopefully there will be a new game coming in the near future, this animated series has introduced Castlevania to so many new people. I appreciate it very much! I would love a series with Soma later.

I think if this series is successful, its almost guaranteed the next spinoff will be with Soma. It would just make so much sense.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Foffy on June 14, 2022, 07:47:45 AM
I think it looks okay, but the look of the show was probably the bit I had the least amount of issues with. It's all about the writing.

No Warren Ellis means no comic book writing packed to the gills with random profanity, but I'm not familiar with the work of the new writer to determine if he grasps the series and its tone. If it sounds like The Witcher with vampires again, it's another take that misses pretty strongly when it goes in that direction hard.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Kamirine on June 14, 2022, 11:14:44 AM
Definitely going to take a wait and see approach after fully watching the previous series.   

I wasn’t a huge fan with some of the liberties taken but having a new writer makes me cautiously optimistic for how this can turn out. I’m a bit weary though, if this ends up being a continuation of the previous storyline considering where it ended. 
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Jeepy on June 15, 2022, 06:36:06 PM
Can't wait for more GoT with vampires, tasteless edgy swearing and unfunny jokes, pointless character race swaps, political agendas, boring fillers, one-dimensional original characters with no weight on the story, terrible audio mastering and generic soundtrack, sloppy animation, and overall misunderstanding and rape of the source material.

Call me a pessimist, but even without Ellis, I have no hope of it being any good. The first 4 seasons, where everything that could go wrong went wrong, left such a bad taste in my mouth, nothing related to this shitshow can make me feel excited. I still consider Netflixvania to be the worst thing that happened to the franchise (yes, even EROTIC VIOLENCE pachislot had more class and felt like Castlevania). And people call it the best video game adaptation, jeez.

They didn't care to even write the correct game names in the description: "Symphony of Night and Blood of Rondo"? Come on!
I'll give it a watch, but no way in hell I'm giving Netflix any money for this.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on June 16, 2022, 01:30:00 PM
I want to hope. I really do. But Netflix isn't exactly a house of great repute when it comes to producing quality adaptations, and I've been hurt so much and so often by them (multiple times with this brand alone!). At this point my patience with Netflix has worn raw, and I doubt anything they promised would get me hyped because I've heard many such promises before. I want to hope and hype, but I'm simply too tired to make the attempt anymore.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: JR on June 29, 2022, 08:53:10 PM
I'll give this one a chance. I was at least entertained by the previous seasons, despite all of the flaws. I mean, it felt like it had as much to do with the already-established Castlevania lore as Lords of Shadow did, but I didn't hate it, I guess. I just didn't know Warren Ellis was that much of an edgelord. Some of his comic stuff I've read in the past, like The Authority and his run on Moon Knight, weren't really like that. And I really liked The Authority.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Reinhart77 on December 25, 2022, 10:33:09 PM
Since we've been good, we're getting a peak of Maria for Christmas.

https://www.cbr.com/castlevania-nocturne-maria-renard-netflix/ (https://www.cbr.com/castlevania-nocturne-maria-renard-netflix/)

Looks rather serious, which might fit the tone of the show better. I do hope they're not "too" serious and above using Maria for a little comic relief every now and then though.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Sindra on December 26, 2022, 06:26:52 AM
It would be nice if they did keep Maria as a bit of comedy relief and remember that she's supposed to be a 12-y/o tween during Rondo. The games made her a bit of a joke character who just happens to be a glass cannon and even made it a point to highlight how hilarious it is that a young and kind of obnoxious girl had so much raw power within her. It made her growing up a bit and being a more competent hero in SotN more impactful I think, so I'm hoping Nocturne doesn't try to mature her too much too soon. The teaser image they dropped makes her already look like she's a teen despite appearing to be wearing her DXC outfit.

Guess we'll see. I don't expect this new series to debut much before summer 2023 and they may push it to Halloween season like the original.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Gunlord on December 26, 2022, 11:22:48 PM
Since we've been good, we're getting a peak of Maria for Christmas.

https://www.cbr.com/castlevania-nocturne-maria-renard-netflix/ (https://www.cbr.com/castlevania-nocturne-maria-renard-netflix/)

Looks rather serious, which might fit the tone of the show better. I do hope they're not "too" serious and above using Maria for a little comic relief every now and then though.

I think that's straight-up her Ayami Kojima design from the PSP remake, much like Richter, so at the very least I'm glad that this Netflixvania is staying very close to the source material so far.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: AlexCalvo on December 30, 2022, 11:08:55 AM
Am I the only one who notices how specifically tied to the Playstation titles it is? Not just in the looks, but it has really heavily leaned into things from Symphony of the Night, Lament of Innocence, Curse of Darkness, and now Dracula X Chronicles. Not a complaint of any kind, just an interesting observation.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Darkmoon on December 31, 2022, 06:52:25 PM
The original Netflix run had IGA as a consulting producer, at least during the early seasons. Keeping things tied to the IGA era makes sense from an artistic standpoint. Plus, it's the most beloved era of the game for, arguably, most fans.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: The Puritan on January 02, 2023, 06:27:34 PM
I just had a possibly booze-induced daymare where Maria looked right at the screen and said
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I pray the last of such unneeded pottymouth departed with Ellis.
Title: Re: Here's our first look Castlevania: Nocturne
Post by: Abnormal Freak on January 03, 2023, 08:12:36 AM
I pray the last of such unneeded pottymouth departed with Ellis.

Either get rid of it or lean real heavily into it, Panty & Stocking dub style.