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How can a major animation studio make a possible Castlevania
Animated Tv Series ?
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In Reply To #1
Anime? In a heartbeat. Studio IG would make a CastleVania anime you couldn't shake a whip at.
American? Much harder. Depends on who makes it- If it's a company like whoever made Wolverine and the X-Men, then sure. If it's a company like 4Kids, then it'll be dead before it ever hits the air. Unless the kiddies are stupider than I give them credit for...
Now, I think a live-action CastleVania TV show could be very interesting, depending on who it's following. If it covers the 1999 battle with young Julius, We'd have a hit IMHO.
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How can a major animation studio make a possible Castlevania
Animated Tv Series ?
Castlevania is far too epic to fit the framework of your typical animated series --a feature film would make much more sense, but I don't know if any of Hollywood's writers, directors, or producers are fit for the job. I wouldn't mind animation per se, but I think it would be marvelous to see a big-budget live-action flick if the right kind of people were put in charge.
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In Reply To #3
I think Guillermo Del Toro is capable of doing a cv movie justice..
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In Reply To #4
I agree. Either that or get Sam Rami and do it ala Army of Darkness.
As far as a show its perfectly doable look what fuckin Joss Whedon did with a write off movie like Buffy. I wasnt a particular fan of it but it cant be denied it was one hell of a show that launched a quite successful spin off.
In the hands of someone that knows what theyre doin anythin can be done well and be a success.
As for how Id do it... Id expound on the idea of CV2 and have the whole of transylvania with multiple locations etc for an epic quest to either stop drac from bein rezzed which of course fails and then a season or 2 could deal with that or gatherin the relics to rez him and kill him "for good" It wouldnt be Simon itd have to be a totally new cast but itd HAVE to be a Belmont. I wouldnt really want it animated Id prefer live action and Id really want it western made instead of some random anime shit japan spits out constantly
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In Reply To #5
You say that like there's no good anime in Japan... -_-;;
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A Castlevania Japanese Anime show would make me sad. I'd say go live action, but the special effects of a TV show would be too bad for Castlevania. It really would require a movie.
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I don't see why everyone hates the idea of a Castlevania anime so much. I mean, I understand to a degree with DoS and PoR, but Rondo was done in an Anime style as well, and it was one of the best in the series.
Honestly, I think if it's not something aimed at children like Naruto, it could be pretty good. Hellsing-style Castlevania would rock.
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In Reply To #7
Well, then, you have your wish, its supposedly in the works!
You make me sad.
Anime is all good by me. But my ideal Castlevania tv series would definitely be non-existent.
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I would make an anime. I would divide it into various short seasons (one for each cannon game) and add some filler content in an attempt to give the series some more substance and fill in some of the gaps in the story as well as make it a little more coherant so that there aren't that many plot holes. The only problem is that new games are always being added in between other games as well as on both ends of the series. Thus, everytime a new game comes out, a new potential plot hole would appear in an tv show that exists. and there in lies the problem. So, if a tv show is ever made, it should not be made until the videogame series is over and no more games are going to be made. Otherwise, there would be way too many plot holes and thus the series could potentially be completely in coherent.
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I would make an anime.
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A live-action Castlevania series would probably suck. It would most likely end up really dorky and crappy like.. Robin Hood or Xena the Warrior Princess.
Personally I like the acting and the cut-scenes from Curse of Darkness so my suggestion would be for Konami to animate it. Though I would prefer a movie instead of a tv-series. Or perhaps a triology.
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Animated would definitely be the way to go. Yoshiaki Kawajiri would be my top pick for production director at least in charge the first season which would of course be focused on the beginning of the Belmont's struggle against the man who would become the lord of darkness. i.e. Lament of Innocence. A full season of episodes could finally flesh out characters like Sarah Tarantoul, Mathias Cronqvist, hell maybe even Joachim. With Kawajiri spearheading the project, at the very least the mood and atmosphere of the games will be realized beautifully. Not to mention the drama between the characters would be expertly handled and also balanced out nicely with the action setpieces.
The first season would be a lead-in to follow up series, each taken up by a selection of other directors and production houses. But I would definitely say let Kawajiri return to helm both Curse of Darkness and Symphony of the Night. I would even go so far as to make the two stand-alone anime films released between their various interlinking story arcs in the series. For example, have an epic CV III season to lead into the Curse movie, and likewise a Dracula X season to lead into Symphony. Hell, keep the seasons up with enough enthusiasm from both fans and anime studios, we might even see some truly worthy gaiden adaptations of Circle of the Moon, Legacy of Darkness, Order of Ecclesia maybe a proper vehicle for Sonia to finally make her voice heard. I would draw the line at the 1999 battle though... Whether it was done or not, be it the final end-all season or a movie, I'd still opt for the door to be left open to the future of Castlevania and not touch the Sorrow titles.
....Although, if they had to be done, I would say package them as a 2-in-1 DVD movie, maybe with a third part added to show the final tragic outcome in the struggle to contain the spirit of the dark lord within Soma Cruz.
At any rate, those are my thoughts on the subject. Apart from that, refrain from cheesy or overly dramatic dialogue and keep any romantic subplots between existing characters to a minimum. Include recognizable monsters, locations, weapons, abilities, and evil servants from the games and pay tribute to the more recognizable themes from CV's rich musical catalogue. And if dubbing must be done, please let either Sony or ADV handle the English voice casting. - At least get some unknowns who put some serious effort into their roles, will ya'?
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I would make it a family sitcom, call it "The Munsters" and then cancel it because it is unfunny and a cheap knock-off of the Addams Family.
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A live-action Castlevania series would probably suck. It would most likely end up really dorky and crappy like.. Robin Hood or Xena the Warrior Princess.
Well, if they make it like Supernatural, then a Live Action Castlevania could work...
Personally I like the acting and the cut-scenes from Curse of Darkness so my suggestion would be for Konami to animate it. Though I would prefer a movie instead of a tv-series. Or perhaps a triology.
For the time being, I think it'd be a good idea to avoid a Castlevania movie. Let's wait until Paul Anderson and Uwe Boll retire/die/are thrown in prison for massacring beloved video game franchises.
In Reply To #13
If they don't get ADV or Sony, they should at least get Johnny Bosch or Chris Patton to do the leads, considering they've actually got skill voice acting. Fuck Brad Swaile, he's a one-trick pony who always sounds the same.
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In Reply To #15
I've never seen Supernatural :P
The thing about live-action is that I think it'd be hard to find actors that'd be able to make a good impression. This is my opinion mostly because I'm very fond of the Kojima style characters and personally I find it very rare for western actors to look femenine in that kind of way. Typical american/european male actors wouldn't suit in such kind of appearance. The Kojima styled characters are like.. anime characters. In other words; very hard to put into real life.
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In Reply To #16
*Coughs and points to Leonardo DiCaprio*
He's not feminine enough?
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In Reply To #17
Hm.. good point XD He is femenine. I doubt they'd get him to star in a Castlevania movie though. I'm not saying finding suitable actors is impossible, but I'm pretty sure it'd be hard. A Castlevania movie would probably have a very low budget, so finding actors that both have enough acting skill and the right type of appearence is probably very hard. I just think it'd be a lot easier (and cost less money) if they made it animated.
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#Necrobump
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two or three short movies (40 minutes each) based on akumajou densetsu in a late 80's anime style. that's what i'd go for
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aalluuccaarrdd. you need to read the rules again since reviving a post so old like this is against them.
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Yeah, Lelygax is right--necroposting is frowned upon. Still, the rules also say the mods have discretion to look at necroing on a case by case basis, and aaaalucard did post a good, thought-out contribution, so I'll let it slide for today. Just be more careful next time, and if you see a thread that hasn't been posted in for more than a year, make a new one, alright? :)
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i would put at least one epic boss battle in each episode.
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Dedicate an entire season to 1 game in the series.
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Get a great art team to handle the graphics and you must never forget the epic music the series must have.
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I've been watching some old 80s cartoons, obscure ones that get overshadowed but I barely remembered from my youth and just recently re-discovered. There are a few shows from Sunbow Entertainment that have a VERY strong Castlevania feel to them. Sunbow is the same company responsible for the G.I. Joe, Transformers, and My Little Pony American-Japanese animes from the 80s. The shows:
Inhumanoids (1986) : Really bizarre show, about ancient evil demons living in the center of the Earth that have been awakened and battle a team of scientists over 13 episodes of toy-selling monster mayhem. One of the main monsters is named D'Compose, who is a giant anthropomorphic dinosaur with an exposed ribcage who can turn people into his personal army of giant undead zombies at the touch of his claw. Near the center of the earth is the village/castle keep called Skellweb, which is populated by his army of skeleton warriors. This is a really well done show, and pretty silly, but at the same time very dark and gruesome and full of bizarre and horrific monsters.
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987) : Taking place sometime in the far future, a post-apocalyptic world where science has gone away and magic is the way of the world once again. One of the lead characters uses a whip, and a wizard has granted all of the Knights with the ability to transform into an animal ie. SOTN. The landscapes are pretty incredible, medieval towns and castles but drawn with magenta hues and weird sci-fi touches. This show is a bit sillier than the previous one, mostly about bumbling evil Knights vs. archetypal and one-dimensional good Knights, but the ambiguous wizards and other supernatual elements keep it interesting. Like Inhumanoids it also lasted 13 episodes and can be easily found via google searches!
Heh, I've actually been doing the same thing this past week...it was because I couldn't remember the name of this toy line that had the main hero who was reversible: one side he was normal, and the other side he was blue and kind of evil-looking (it ended up being Power Lords).
It's amazing how many cool ideas came out of those 80's franchises. So many good intros on YouTube: Silverhawks, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, MASK, etc. I really want to check out some Spiral Zone episodes now.
But if CV ever went to TV, I'd love to see a darker, Hellsing-esque anime for it. They could do at least several episodes each for Simon, Trevor, Richter, etc. It could be pretty awesome to see how each Belmont's confrontation with Dracula would be different, what each incarnation of the castle would look like, etc. Would never see something like that in a million years, though.
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just bought the mortal kombat conquest live action tv series today. other than star trek, it was the only show whose episodes i watched as they came out when in college in 1998, and it finally, finally came out on dvd. it had great dark tones to it and i enjoyed the martial arts and character interactions. closest thing to a castlevania tv series for me back then anyways.
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I could see a Castlevania anime done in the art-style of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Carmilla's castle is gorgeously over the top and gothic, right up Castlevania's street. The beautiful art style, with a mix of beautiful men at times (D, Meier), and grotesque monsters would fit well with taking inspiration from Ayami Kojima's designs. I'd like to see either a movie, or a tv series. Something based on CV3 could work nicely, as it's got a good range of main characters, or Lament of Innocence (it would be interesting to see a prelude to Sara being kidnapped). Lords of Shadow, with the modern parts of LoS2 tweaked, and the gaps in between MoF and 2, would also work really nicely. Definitely dark, and mature in tone I'd say, beautiful and gothic, and not afraid of gore in the right places. I suppose that a live-action version could also work well, but the cg and physical sfx for the monsters, and environments, could be tricky to pull off well without a really good budget.
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I would prefer a animated series or movie over live action. Some animated series aren't good simply because they are rushed, if you take time and do it with care it can be good.
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I would prefer a animated series or movie over live action. Some animated series aren't good simply because they are rushed, if you take time and do it with care it can be good.
A great example of this is the Avatar series. The last couple of episodes, and The Tales of Ba Sing Se, in particular, had me in tears. Avatar was incredible, and a perfect example of doing an animated series *right*, and pitching it for aults and kids alike. I'm nto entirely surprised that Nickolodeon didn't know what to do with it.
Hellsing Ultimate is also a superb series, with great animation, where each episode wasn't rushed or anything, and it shows.
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Anime style like Vampire Hunter D was done. Live action would be just too hokey and the movie attempts so far have failed even before they got a chance to succeed (that's no-doubt a good thing considering what we've heard about them so-far). I'd also make sure there are no stupid love triangles or silly rivalries that have no solid purpose except to lengthen the series :P F**k all that nonsense. I would stick with the basics and enhance them while remaining true to Castlevania's lore. And I would damned-well make sure that there are no plotholes, contradictions, and generally lazy writing in the scripts either. I'd have writers and editors who know what the hell they're doing. And I would also make sure that they are all well versed in Castlevania before they begin to work on a script.
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And I would also make sure that they are all well versed in Castlevania before they begin to work on a script.
In a job interview...
"So, what is your most hated enemy in the series?" or "What is a man?"
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In a job interview...
"So, what is your most hated enemy in the series?" or "What is a man?"
Hahaha. Those are very good questions that a non-fan cannot answer unless they googled it.
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If it was an Anime? let David production animate it i mean have you seen David production's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime? they would nail it by giving each non-Belmont their own Story Arcs! e.x.: Soma Cruz adventures during Dawn of Sorrow, Alucard during Symphony of the night, Shanoa during Order of Ecclesia and Nathan Graves during Circle of the Moon and after the end of their stories someone is messing with the time Stream and then Soma, Alucard, Shanoa and Nathan can team-up to fix time itself so they can resume their own timelines!
Now tell me with all honesty: How Awesome Would That Be?!
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A series of live action Netflix mini series. I think that would be the best way to go, each series covering a different era in the timeline. I've actually been writing something like this since I was in the university studying writing.
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I'd make it into an anime series. Since it would be a gothic horror series the animation would need to be a bit darkner than usual without being grimderpy. When looking at the style in which the characters would be animated, I think something like Arslan Senki or Claymore would be fine. I would especially pay attention to the atmosphere in order to make it nice and spooky. There's this anime called Dusk Maiden of Amnesia which I think -despite not liking the story itself very much- had wondefully atmospheric backgrounds. I especially like how they used the colors green and purple to evoke creepiness. Unfortunately, I couldn't find better pictures:
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So it would probably add in a lot of surreal lightning like that and combine this with the series gothic imaginery. Silver Link is the name of the studio that produced Dusk Maiden so maybe I would choose them to be the animators.
As for what it would be about, I would base it around Dracula's Curse but also about the events leading up to it. It would my time introducing all the characters and moving them in place for when the story reaches its climax (which would be the events of the game itself). For example, maybe a special flashback episode that is about how Dracula and Lisa met. For what I'm thinking of, 12 episodes would probably be too short so I think you could fill perhaps 20 episodes with lots of interesting content without padding it with fights that take several episodes or something.
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I'm surprised I haven't posted in this thread years ago.
The serious route, I'd go anime mini-series, but everybody and their moms are choosing that route, so I'll go with something a little more silly.
A toon series with that 80s/90s art style seen in shows like Visionaries, G.I Joe, Bionic Six and Exosquad. Set it in modern times where Dracula has risen and is searching the world the 13 Artifacts of Chaos, and our hero, Jason Belmont, and his friends Elsie Belnades(holy sorceress), Marco Lecarde(warrior nobleman), Alucard(son of Dracula) and Ishmael(Doctor Frankenstein's "failed first experiment" and monster with a "heart of gold") battle against Dracula, Elizabeth Bartley, Doctor Frankenstein and his improved Creature(Isaac, no relation to the Devil Forgemaster), Death, Akmodan(the Mummy), Medusa and Claude Talbot(the Werewolf). In a race across the world and facing strange and evil creatures from the darkness shadows of the seven continents, our heroes must obtain stop Dracula's forces from obtaining the artifacts or else the world, as we know it, is doomed.
And now you, too, can have adventures saving the world from Dracula with the Castlevania action figure line. Each figure comes with a accessories and super COOL powers(Jason Belmont's "Power Whippin' Action"). And now, where toys are sold, you can buy Dracula's Castle and the Belmont Lodge Base(figures not included).
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I'm surprised I haven't posted in this thread years ago.
The serious route, I'd go anime mini-series, but everybody and their moms are choosing that route, so I'll go with something a little more silly.
A toon series with that 80s/90s art style seen in shows like Visionaries, G.I Joe, Bionic Six and Exosquad. Set it in modern times where Dracula has risen and is searching the world the 13 Artifacts of Chaos, and our hero, Jason Belmont, and his friends Elsie Belnades(holy sorceress), Marco Lecarde(warrior nobleman), Alucard(son of Dracula) and Ishmael(Doctor Frankenstein's "failed first experiment" and monster with a "heart of gold") battle against Dracula, Elizabeth Bartley, Doctor Frankenstein and his improved Creature(Isaac, no relation to the Devil Forgemaster), Death, Akmodan(the Mummy), Medusa and Claude Talbot(the Werewolf). In a race across the world and facing strange and evil creatures from the darkness shadows of the seven continents, our heroes must obtain stop Dracula's forces from obtaining the artifacts or else the world, as we know it, is doomed.
And now you, too, can have adventures saving the world from Dracula with the Castlevania action figure line. Each figure comes with a accessories and super COOL powers(Jason Belmont's "Power Whippin' Action"). And now, where toys are sold, you can buy Dracula's Castle and the Belmont Lodge Base(figures not included).
Wait Jason Belmont? that's stramge i happen to have an OC with the same name! it's a small world really!