Topic: "New" Animated Dracula's Curse Series In the Works

[beingthehero]

and be America’s first animated series for adults.

They might be a little late to the game with that one.

[Inccubus]

I didn't like the line about including heavy metal music "like the early games".
What early games before SotN had heavy metal?
Can't count RoB since it didn't come out in the west until years later even counting early emulation.
I don't like that kind of talk because it almost always means that the people behind have more of "hey I remember Castlevania being pretty cool, let's make a rad thing based on my memories of" sort of attitude as opposed to thinking more like "I love Castlevania, so let's make a cool thing based on it that all the fans will love as much as the games".
So far it sounds more like Vampire Hunter D with a fresh coat of Castlevania mythos.

[VladCT]

Wait, it's the same guy behind the kinda-lulzy grimderp Power Rangers short? Hmm...

[beingthehero]

I didn't like the line about including heavy metal music "like the early games".
What early games before SotN had heavy metal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9zNhBCVxk Well, you have Thrashard in the Cave. But yeah, the NES games didn't have heavy metal whatsoever. He could just mean everything pre-LoS.

[DragonSlayr81]

I didn't like the line about including heavy metal music "like the early games".
What early games before SotN had heavy metal?
Can't count RoB since it didn't come out in the west until years later even counting early emulation.
I don't like that kind of talk because it almost always means that the people behind have more of "hey I remember Castlevania being pretty cool, let's make a rad thing based on my memories of" sort of attitude as opposed to thinking more like "I love Castlevania, so let's make a cool thing based on it that all the fans will love as much as the games".
So far it sounds more like Vampire Hunter D with a fresh coat of Castlevania mythos.

I'm guessing when he mentions "metal" he's one of those people that envisioned the early CV's bit-tunes music to be represented as "rock" or "metal" sounding songs if played with real instruments. A part of me can relate to that. A lot of them do sound great played in the metal style(they do have the rock-arranged CD, and it sounds fantastic), but a lot of the songs also sound great done in a more progressive rock and baroque style, as well.

Though, I kinda think he means less modern metal and more stuff like Ozzy's "Mr. Crowley":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVLMS_Yhe4

Oddly enough, from an old interview I remember seeing back in the day, I think David Jaffe originally wanted God of War to feature a pure 80s-styled metal soundtrack. I think he originally envisioned that game(Kratos battling violently against monsters and gods, having sex with hot maidens) as some sort of old school ode to metal and classic heavy metal album covers(and it makes sense). Eventually he went with the orchestral score instead, but a part of me would love that "old school" take, maybe with a new game series(we need some badass knight fighting monsters, witches, demons in medieval/Conan-esque setting with a mixture of both 70s-mid-80s heavy metal and some Progressive rock as the music). Oddly enough, I edited the first LoS2 trailer with Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon" and it came out pretty cool.

[TheTextGuy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9zNhBCVxk Well, you have Thrashard in the Cave. But yeah, the NES games didn't have heavy metal whatsoever. He could just mean everything pre-LoS.

Even then, the music post-SoTN drew from a variety of genres.  The majority of the songs there weren't metal.

[Nagumo]

"hey I remember Castlevania being pretty cool, let's make a rad thing based on my memories of"

I think this kind of attitude is used to basically mold "the older games" (which is already a very unspecific and ill-defined term) into whatever that person wants it to be. Sometimes I hear people talk about the series in such a way and it makes me wonder if my copies of the games are even the same as theirs.

[son_the_vampire]

I'm a little on the fence about all this;
Part of me wants to believe that we can see the story re-told in a darker light (accompanied by the promised "super-violent" nature).
I'm all for that and whatnot, but the music I feel is what will make or break this series. I cant think of one game that used only one genre of music. The different locations, bosses etc. had music to compliment and this series should be no exception.

Normally im a bit more optimistic, and should they take the Spawn animated series route, I'd have no complaints. I don't want this to translate how the Dragonball evolution did (apples to oranges) and completely ruin the chances of a sequel being done.

[uzo]

Plus with IGA gone, who is going to supervise it?

Let's be honest, most video game adaptations are not supervised by anyone from the IP holder except the lawyers and accountants.

[Super Waffle]

The goal is to bring hard hitting anime to the America and be America’s first animated series for adults.

Spawn says hi.

[Maedhros]

Frederator being involved is great news for me.

I'm optimistic for this. Better than nothing.

[Crying Freeman]

I'm excited for this news because they're clearly embracing the old school, and I love how it's ultraviolent as 99% of my animes are 80s and 90s ultraviolent OVAs or films, but I hope they don't go so over the top unless there's a certain weight to the violence thats being shown. Instead of dumb violence for the hell of it, it should be one of the disgusting and dark parts of what the characters have to do in their quest. It should be harsh, not mindless(something a lot of ultra violent directors and artists miss if they want emotion).

[Reinhart77]

Oh yeah.  Nice seeing the franchise still has life blood in it in the west.  He mentions a "decade of propoganda", so I would think that this has something at least tangentially related to Warren Ellis's works.  Although, perhaps simply switching "who is going to do the Dracula's Curse animation" behind the scenes is sufficient to link the two projects.

I'm a big fan of Ninja Scroll (though I prefer the television series over the original ones) and Vampire Hunter D.  So anything that brings back that feeling you get when watching those series is good for me.  Ghost in the Shell too, Akira, not so much.  I just hope its satisfyingly violent but not gory like Akira could be.  Also, its probably a good thing he didn't say it was going to be erotically violent.  Though I'm sure there'll be at least one scene that proves it's not a show kids should be watching.

New art please.  Show it.

EDIT:  Aw crap, I reread the article and saw that it will indeed have lots of gore.  Hope it's the kind I can handle.

[Flame]

Shankar is perfect for this. He's incredibly edgy, and Dredd was a fantastic adaptation, so i have the utmost confidence in him.

It's frederator that worries me. I just can't envision them doing anything remotely anime styled

[Dremn]

Exciting stuff! Is Konami officially backing this? Maybe they have plans to keep the IP alive after all.