Topic: My translation of Nocturne of Recollection (radio drama)

[VEP]

This is excellent.

[Kaori]

Thanks for posting all this. 

[Successor The Cruel]

I didn't read this... just not interested enough (really good of you to translate it, though!), but from what I know/remember of the story, that imp is pretty stellar.

[danceofgold]

This whole thing is rather corny And Maria's supremely annoying. Alucard doesn't do much here except angst, and struggle...also at one point I really wondered if he was gay with Lyudmil, lol.

[darkwzrd4]

This whole thing is rather corny And Maria's supremely annoying. Alucard doesn't do much here except angst, and struggle...also at one point I really wondered if he was gay with Lyudmil, lol.

I was wondering that too.

[Kale]

I have to say, after being interested in hearing this in english.. I'm utterly disappointed.

Oh well, can't say the story of CV has been awesome ... so I guess I shouldn't have expected much in the first place.

[danceofgold]

I was wondering that too.

Dunno if you guys have watched the movie Interview with the Vampire, or read Anne Rice's novels, but the influences are obvious. Especially considering that Interview has been adapted into manga.

Magnus is one of Rice's vampire characters. He sired the infamous Lestat -a blond, curly-haired, beautifully androgynous, aristocratic vampire, who happens to be bisexual.

Anyway...if anything, I think this should be made into an Anime. It would sound horrible in English.

[crisis]

Unfortunately the closest thing we'll get to a CV anime (excluding Vamp Hunter D) is the DoS/PoR intros =/

& we all know how that other attempt turned out

[thernz]

and the dos and por intros were more hilariously bad than any sort of good

[Successor The Cruel]

This whole thing is rather corny And Maria's supremely annoying. Alucard doesn't do much here except angst, and struggle...also at one point I really wondered if he was gay with Lyudmil, lol.

Yeah.  From what I can recall, the whole thing seems like some fan girl's lame fanfic, except without the really explicit parts.  You really have to wonder why they make things like this, and who the target audience is.  From what it seems to me, the target audience is girls who masturbate to Japanese game/anime/manga characters.  Konami really needs to do some kind of census thing and discover who the Castlevania fanbase is, because the reality of the situation is just that there aren't enough of those types of people to make doing something like this worthwhile.  Therefore, it just makes most fans go, "Uuuuuhhhhh............" and then another opportunity to do something truly interesting and worthwhile in Castlevania is foregone in favor of some kind of drivel.  

[darkwzrd4]

Yeah.  From what I can recall, the whole thing seems like some fan girl's lame fanfic, except without the really explicit parts.  You really have to wonder why they make things like this, and who the target audience is.  From what it seems to me, the target audience is girls who masturbate to Japanese game/anime/manga characters.  Konami really needs to do some kind of census thing and discover who the Castlevania fanbase is, because the reality of the situation is just that there aren't enough of those types of people to make doing something like this worthwhile.  Therefore, it just makes most fans go, "Uuuuuhhhhh............" and then another opportunity to do something truly interesting and worthwhile in Castlevania is foregone in favor of some kind of drivel.  

Agreed.

[danceofgold]

Yeah.  From what I can recall, the whole thing seems like some fan girl's lame fanfic, except without the really explicit parts.  You really have to wonder why they make things like this, and who the target audience is.  From what it seems to me, the target audience is girls who masturbate to Japanese game/anime/manga characters.  Konami really needs to do some kind of census thing and discover who the Castlevania fanbase is, because the reality of the situation is just that there aren't enough of those types of people to make doing something like this worthwhile.  Therefore, it just makes most fans go, "Uuuuuhhhhh............" and then another opportunity to do something truly interesting and worthwhile in Castlevania is foregone in favor of some kind of drivel.  

Well, maybe there ARE a considerable number of such fangirls in Japan. That's why it's released only in Japan.

Anyway, I would rather read this 50 times over than read the Twilight series.

 

Unfortunately the closest thing we'll get to a CV anime (excluding Vamp Hunter D) is the DoS/PoR intros =/

& we all know how that other attempt turned out

I wasn't really looking forward to this... I'd still prefer it if Ayami Kojima did the art.

[darkwzrd4]

Well, maybe there ARE a considerable number of such fangirls in Japan. That's why it's released only in Japan.

Anyway, I would rather read this 50 times over than read the Twilight series.

 
I wasn't really looking forward to this... I'd still prefer it if Ayami Kojima did the art.

Who wouldn't.

[thernz]

In the end, I still rather just not read both.

[Nagumo]

Castlevania seems to make weird decisions when lending itself to derivative works. Stuff like the Belmont Legacy and that canceled Castlevania III adaption were polar opposites from what was currently the direction that the game took. I mean, just compare Warren Ellis'   goat abuse and Portrait's slap slap kiss interaction between the two lead characters. Can you imagine that being part of the same series?