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Teaser for Netflix's Castlevania (July 7, animation, written by Warren Ellis)

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Curt Baboon

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Not only is Warren Ellis one of my all-time favorite writers, but he's also an alternate-timeline version of Tom Hardy:

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ZoddGutts

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Cool this is happening, shame it's only 4 eps, maybe it's more of a pilot to see if it's popular enough to further continue it? Also wonder what happened to that Vampire Hunter D series by Digital Frontier (Resident Evil CG movies and Gantz:O CG movie), they were shopping the project hoping a TV network or a on-demand provided would pick it up late last year. Hope we hear something has come out of that.
 
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JonnyDBrit

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ZoddGutts said:
Cool this is happening, shame it's only 4 eps, maybe it's more of a pilot to see if it's popular enough to further continue it? Also wonder what happened to that Vampire Hunter D series by Digital Frontier (Resident Evil CG movies and Gantz:O CG movie), they were shopping the project hoping a TV network or a on-demand provided would pick it up.
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It's two parts for 8 eps total.

I suspect Netflix may be experimenting with their model a little here, since after all they're a streaming service who don't need to provide weekly updates. So if Ellis felt the best story he could tell was eight episodes long, they gave it to him.
 
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Easy_D

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JonnyDBrit said:
It's two parts for 8 eps total.

I suspect Netflix may be experimenting with their model a little here, since after all they're a streaming service who don't need to provide weekly updates. So if Ellis felt the best story he could tell was eight episodes long, they gave it to him.
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Each episode is apparently 30 minutes too, so we're pretty much getting two 2-hour long Castlevania movies :D

Edit: Just noticed, the scene where he gets the scar is in the teaser, you see his face all bloodied up from a slash across his eye
 
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Ashodin

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I got SUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER Vampire Hunter D vibes from watching the trailer. ANyone who's an old school 90s anime fan will love this.
 
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Crocodile

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I'm impressed. This looks way much better than I expected :O

Hopefully they nail the proverbial landing

HawksWinStanley said:
Anime style? That's a shame.
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Putting aside that "anime style" can mean a million different things, did you watch the teaser? I don't know how even the most seasoned "anime hater" still doesn't seem something to like here"?
 
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JonnyDBrit

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EdibleKnife said:
Really? Someone at Konami fucking up?
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brandonh83 said:
I mean, that's what they've been doing like professionals for years now.
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Yeah, admittedly not getting my hopes up too much there.

Easy_D said:
Each episode is apparently 30 minutes too, so we're pretty much getting two 2-hour long Castlevania movies :D

Edit: Just noticed, the scene where he gets the scar is in the teaser, you see his face all bloodied up from a slash across his eye
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Oh, that's another possibility - they basically are two movies (or to go with animation covention, potentially two OVAs) that Netflix have just split up for viewing purposes.
 
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Nether!

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Cool!
A few people in the thread have said the animation doesn't look good, what does that mean? It looks fine to me.
 
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Instro

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Looks great. Last I heard they are using a original Belmont character even though they are doing CV3 storywise which is a bit of a bummer. Oh well.
 
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7DollarHagane

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Probably a good idea to have it be short. There isn't a ton to do with Castlevania lore. Unless you start getting into the future Dracula of dawn of sorrow/aria.

Might actually be a good idea to do short seasons focused on a generation of the belmonts.
 
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Dark Ninja

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Nether! said:
Cool!
A few people in the thread have said the animation doesn't look good, what does that mean? It looks fine to me.
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Compared to other anime and animated productions it looks to have a moderate to low budget. Considering its also only 4 episodes with another 4 episodes airing at a later time also proves that point. For only 4 episodes it should look 10 times better. The coffin scene looked particularly bad to me but ill wait till the final thing is out.
 
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Retro

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HStallion said:
Fuck me. This is hitting all the right buttons for me.

If this first season covers Castlevania 3 does that me we could see a season based on Symphony of the Night?
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I mean, eventually. Following the games exactly would give you Christopher (CV Adventure 1 & 2), then Simon (CV1 & 2), then Richter (Rondo and SotN). They'd probably skip the Gameboy titles though. That also doesn't include non-Belmont games like Curse of Darkness, Harmony of Dissonance, etc.

Edit: Harmony of Dissonance is Juste Belmont, I forgot that. Juste like everything else about that piece of shit game.
 
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Xe4

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Retro

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blazenumb1 said:
This may be a dumb question but didn't see it. Will the main character be a Belmont(if so which one) or Alucard?
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It's based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, so that'd be Trevor Belmont. Alucard is definitely in it though, along with Sypha and Grant.
 
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blazenumb1

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Xe4 said:
I like it. If I have one complaint about the artstyle, it's that it is trying too hard to look like '90's TV anime. Everything else is pretty on point.

It's going to follow a different Belmont than Simon, Trevor or any other in a game already.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/cas...lix-in-2017-from-warren-ellis-and-adi-shankar
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Retro said:
It's based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, so that'd be Trevor Belmont. Alucard is definitely in it though, along with Sypha and Grant.
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Thanks. Was definitely hoping but for a symphony of the night storyline but castlevania III isn't bad either.
 
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JCG

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I hope Warren Ellis did more for this than what he did for the various Marvel Anime series from a few years back.
 
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