Castlevania TV Series - Season 2 (Official Thread)

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I vaguely remember Castlevania: Symphony of The Night (though I loved the game). I went and checked the wiki page on the game. Besides the resurrection, and the addition of Trevor Belmont in the TV series, it seems major elements of Symphony of the Night are in season 2 of Castlevania? It'll be interesting to see how they handle the adaption, if they go with that story line. because their will need to diverge from the game's story to make it feel fresh.

I still would like Trevor Belmont in season 3 too.
 

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dope season...I think 8 was actually a pretty good amount of eps.

Issac got hands :krs:

Eps 6/7 were my favorite...when they enter the castle and drop bloody tears...:ohlawd:

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Sypha reminded me of Maria/Charlotte with the magic

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Episode 7. That’s all I’m a say breh. :lolbron:

you weren't kidding :banderas:
 

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I vaguely remember Castlevania: Symphony of The Night (though I loved the game). I went and checked the wiki page on the game. Besides the resurrection, and the addition of Trevor Belmont in the TV series, it seems major elements of Symphony of the Night are in season 2 of Castlevania? It'll be interesting to see how they handle the adaption, if they go with that story line. because their will need to diverge from the game's story to make it feel fresh.

I still would like Trevor Belmont in season 3 too.
Some things like the way Alucard fights, and the way be greieves his mother, were inspired by SOTN but the plot is a retelling of Castlevania II, down to Trevor, Alucard, and Sypha travelling together.

I would love to see a retelling of Symphony of the Night with Richter Belmont, Death, and all the other classic bosses down the road. There’s a LOT of source material for this game t draw insiration from in the future.
 
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It's a low bar to begin with, but season 2 is the best video game adaptation to date. Its set the standard. Warren Ellis himself has stated that this season may be a bit polarizing due to the pacing, but I didn't have a problem with it at all. In fact, I was hoping that the additional (compared to S1's four) four episodes would allow the show to breathe more and have more in-depth characterization, and that's exactly what happened. I do wish that the other generals spoke up a bit...or at all. I think Carmilla and Godbrand were the only ones who did. My one major complaint with this series though is the animation quality. Other than the fight scenes (and even then in some instances), shyt looks really low frame rate, you know what I'm saying? They need to tighten this shyt up going forward.
 
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed both seasons of this, but I wanted the Vampire Hunter D series to get exposure first. Dracula and his son have more God like powers in that one.
 

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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed both seasons of this, but I wanted the Vampire Hunter D series to get exposure first. Dracula and his son have more God like powers in that one.
After loving Hellsing Ultimate and VHD: Bloodlust this was just ok to me. I liked they had Carmilla in this one also. I kept thinking of a way they could merge the stories (Bloodlust and this) and get a D cameo.
 
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After loving Hellsing Ultimate and VHD: Bloodlust this was just ok to me. I liked they had Carmilla in this one also. I kept thinking of a way they could merge the stories (Bloodlust and this) and get a D cameo.

Vampire Hunter D: Resurrection (TV Series) - IMDb

I was actually referring to this project that was suppose to launch a couple years back. You know it takes years for these Japanese writers to get going sometimes.

Hopefully Castlevania keeps getting more and more shine though.
 
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I watched Season one particularly because I'm a fan of Warren Ellis and he produced it. I like the slant of Dracula being more of a scientist than the Spook of spooks we've come to know (not surprised Ellis went that route). The over-superstitious nature of the clergy kind of felt excessive but I let it rock. I'm watching season two as we speak.

Edit: I do appreciate that they chose to emulate Kojima's style from SOTN and other titles. Her artwork is simply beautiful, but not overly flowery like some yaoi comic or some shyt.
 

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Some things like the way Alucard fights, and the way be greieves his mother, were inspired by SOTN but the plot is a retelling of Castlevania II, down to Trevor, Alucard, and Sypha travelling together.

I would love to see a retelling of Symphony of the Night with Richter Belmont, Death, and all the other classic bosses down the road. There’s a LOT of source material for this game t draw insiration from in the future.
I thought when i saw dracula calling for war that his generals woulda been death and madusa and shyt.

Obviously now i think shaft will be a relative of issacs down the line. I dont know about those others games. I could be wrong but the lords of shadows games makes alucard a different person altogether so if they combined all these characters together they can take some liberties with the story to suprise us.

Just wondering if they really will time jump to all new characters every couple seasons.
 
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I'm only on episode 3, but all these episodes feel like they're 15 minutes long at the most. CAUSE ITS THAT GOOD. :dwillhuh:

Even when there's no action it's like the time just zooms by.

This Trevor/Alucard buddy cop shyt just works. Sylpha as the sidekick just works.

Dracula as the Monster Who Turned Human Who Had The Last of His Humanity Destroyed (and no humanity ain't shyt this is well documented)

The politics of his War Council

Carmilla doing what Carmillas do

And animation quality aside, it feels STOOPIDLY rare that we get serious action serial western animation of this quality. What we got, DCAU, Avatar/Korra, Clone Wars/Rebels, Gargoyles, that short lived Avengers shyt, CyberSix (which not much of america has seen)?

This is the first time I've said it outside the comics thread, but Warren Ellis is GOAT :banderas:

#MeToo be damned, cause I'm about to start forcing this series on folk :steviej:
 

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Dracula in this has one of the best personalities and literally my favorite portrayal of the character like Kevin Conroy is Batman. The hero trio is amazingly well acted you could feel them all as real people, Isaac is incredibly well done and threatening, Carmella is devious, god brand was a lovable reckless fukk


But Dracula is special. He truly feels like something Godlike. He can be sensitive, vulnerable, kind, philosophical, and terrifying when he gets angry, he can seem apathetic one moment and acted with intense conviction the next. Whoever the voice actor is killed it brehs he absolutely killed. And y'all know how Castlevania do my man is definitely setting up that comeback :demonic:
 
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