Second Season Of The Castlevania Netflix Series Arrives “Later This Year”

Can't wait

Great, more choppy animation and retconning of Trevor as a nihilistic oaf. Netflix was a mistake.

@Gauchorino Tell me who went peepee in your Captain Crunch. I'll deal with them.

I don't have a problem with mature content if it is handled correctly. My biggest complaint is that much of the gory stuff wasn't for enhancing the story line, it was for shock value.

Just because you can add edgy stuff doesn't mean you should do it everywhere. In fact, it is better to be more conservative with it to add more weight to some scenes.

I thought this was confirmed for Summer..?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/castlevanias_second_season_airs_on_netflix_this_summer

@Therad One thing I can tell you about Warren Ellis, he's a pretty smart guy who does not write things for shock value alone. If he wrote it, there was a point to it. The man is not some random Netflix hack, he's a rather gifted comic book writer.

Not trying to say Castlevania is the Moby Dick of our times, mind you, just that I really doubt all the gore and "edgy stuff" was just thrown in there for shock effect.

@Tim_Vreeland Oh dear, did I just criticise your favourite show?

Wait, wasn't it suppose to be 12 episodes?

Well, I waited this long. I can wait longer!

I can wait a bit longer. I still need to watch the new season of Voltron.

@JasmineDragon he might be smart, but they definitely had gratuitous gore that was just cringe worthy in how misplaced it was.

@TossedLlama yes. his soul is actually a woman. lmao

The first season was worth watching so bring it on.

Nice.

Cool, I'm catching up with voltron now. I'll end my binge with castlevania.

I'm absolutely thrilled this new season will have 8 episodes, can't wait...time to re-watch season1

@TossedLlama
enough talk....HAVE AT YOU!

Looking forward to it. Season 1 was great

@Zuljaras

Its not gore and cussing, that is a problem, but the fact that it feels forced rather then natural. A little cussing and some gore is expected.

Tbh I kinda enjoy it. The animation is gorgeous and the writing can be pretty smart sometimes. I am crossing fingers for a future boxset.

But the man tries too hard to make this whole thing edgy, so that in some cases, the dialogue comes off like a 12 year old's first fanfic.

@Zuljaras The point they're making is that the great amount of vulgarity used in this series is often unnecessarily forced (seemingly as a low-effort attempt to make up for its banal and "un-Castlevania-like" plot and characters). Criticisms like this are not dependent on the series' popularity.

@Gauchorino after reading your comments i went and saw the show again and still enjoyed it. I think you are thinking too much into it that you fail to see the little things that make it castlevania. But hey to each his own. I do hope season 2 does better for you.

Me on the other hand cannot wait to see the continuation. Some parts bring back memories of the old games and thats why i like it.

Like the scene where he entered the town thru the sewer and he was jumping from rock to rock i was clapping my hands going "hahaha i used to do that!"

Castlevania is perfection for me. I’ll turn in my coffin a bit longer while season 2 develops. Until then...

https://youtu.be/K82RkU6cd5E

Would love if they make a game with the same graphics as the Animation... something like OnePiece World Seeker.

@gatorboi352 Yeah! I was surprised how much I enjoyed Season 1.

@up-up-down-down That's perfectly fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Despite the criticisms I gave it for its undeserved praise, I still found many of its elements entertaining.

But it is still only superficially Castlevania, which is the most disappointing part of the matter. It fundamentally changed the "good vs. evil" plot of Castlevania III to resemble a relativistic struggle to revise (straw man) Western ideals and replaces the virtuous zeal of the main characters with humanistic apathy, which is taking "artistic license" far too far in this regard. I chalk it up to this version being developed by a 21st century, self-hating Westerner rather than the usual respectful and admirative Japanese designers. Also, again, the animation is very poor during several action scenes (though I do like the unique character designs) and the various vulgarities it uses are often awkwardly out-of-place and forced, which is not representative of canonical Castlevania.

Now I only need Netflix on Switch, to have Castlevania on a Nintendo console

Still not sure how I feel about this show. I dislike how Trevor is portrayed, there's no actual CV music present, and honestly I don't get a CV vibe from it at all. No Grant isn't helping things.

Kinda agree with @Gauchorino in that it's only Castlevania on a superficial level. I've been a CV fan since I was a kid, played every game, etc... Never really felt like this show had much in common with any of the material I played, let alone CV3.

The animation is not gorgeous, but still quite enjoyable
I think it resumes well the actual show : enjoyable

I thought the show did a fine job of adding depth to the Castlevania mythos. Without something more than "Belmont hunt Dracula", it could be left feeling as simplistic as the plot of a Zelda game (which is one of my favorite game series but not from a narrative perspective). I like my heroes flawed but skilled, and Trevor fits the bill there. I'm looking forward to seeing the series continue...

But a season is not four mere episodes and I need them to stop saying that. Haha.

No longer releasing in the summer?? Nooo!

I wonder why people complain that this isn't a real Castlevania as it doesn't have the exact same story. If it had the same story and such the characters would just be walking whipping a bad guy constantly until they got to the boss and repeat.
That doesn't sound entertaining for a TV show.

@superGear You're making a false dichotomy. Hyperbolic reduction to the mean isn't necessary to stay faithful to source material, as you're suggesting. See Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie for an example of an adaptation that didn't radically alter its source's characters' identities or plot and was still critically acclaimed.

@Gauchorino Yeah... Someone definitely peed in your breakfast cereal.

Nah mate, this isn't my favorite show. I watched it once when it originally aired.

It's just getting really old seeing people over react online because something from their past is brought back in a new way. It was a comical trend. Now it's just becoming sad seeing adults crying every 5 minutes someone took their toys.

@Tim_Vreeland Something you should be aware of about adults: they can inconveniently give and withstand criticism. Perhaps you also will understand that, someday.

@Gauchorino Ok. Update me when you start criticizing like an adult, rather than complaining like a whiny spoiled kid.

"Great, more choppy animation and retconning of Trevor as a nihilistic oaf. Netflix was a mistake."

@Tim_Vreeland Maybe when you're older, sweet chap.