Holy shit! 377 pages and waaay over 5000 replies!
I'm not that impressed by the new character designs. If you want big men for your heroes, then they should give the series over to someone in China. Chinese culture was all about the bigger the man physically, the more powerful he was physically and spiritually.
Their bodies are okay. I don't mind those strong arms and rock-hard thighs. But who the hell has heads that small compared to the rest of their body? It's almost like looking at old samurai ukio-e. The proportion is just not there. Even the military that come through my store don't have heads that small. I don't mind a gay artist designing the Castlevania characters, but at least learn head-to-torso proportion. (Same with hentai by straight guys, they need to learn proportion with breasts and phalli). The Belmonts look like they pigged out until they were 500 pounds as kids then burned off off the calories doing bench presses and squats and then had a plastic surgeon vacuum pump the excess from their guts.
But the clothing is nice. Very regal. Not that Belmonts were necessarily regal, but whatever.