Following the success of the Netflix's animated Castlevania series, a new series based on Capcom's action-RPG Dragon's Dogma will soon be coming to the streaming platform. To get you in the mood for release in a fortnight's time, the company has released a character showcase trailer introducing the cast of the series.
Featuring a visual style very similar to its stablemate anime series, the above trailer gives us a glimpse of the resurrected Ethan, as well as Hannah, Olivia, Louis, Salai and, of course, the Dragon. Here's a snippet from the video's description on YouTube:
Fighting to protect his beloved family from the Dragon, Ethan is robbed of his heart by the nightmarish beast. Although thought to have perished, Ethan is resurrected as the "Arisen." Reawakened, Ethan meets a follower of the Arisen, a Pawn named Hannah. Together, the two set out on a quest to retrieve Ethan's stolen heart.
Meet for the first time the people Ethan and Hannah encounter on their journey of vengeance against the Dragon who robbed Ethan of his heart.
The series will be debuting on Thursday 17th September, so there's not long to wait to see if this matches the quality of the three existing seasons of the Castlevania adaptation.
It seems that Netflix's relationship with Capcom has bloomed into a very productive partnership, with a live action Resident Evil series and season four of Castlevania also in production.
Are you looking forward to Dragon's Dogma (the series)? Think it can live up to the greatness of Dragon's Dogma (the game)? Let us know in the usual place.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Never played the games, but will watch it probably
An anime with no big ti**ies? What absurdity is this 😂
Seriously though looks good, been waiting for a serious anime for a while
Love the artstyle and character designs, looks a lot like the cutscenes for the 3ds Fire Emblem games, which after seeing this I really wish would get the anime treatment now...
Will give it a go!
Why did they just call him Dragon? In the game his name is clearly Grigori.
Wasn’t your original pawn some dude with a bowl haircut in the game?
Looks really good. The characters look really well animated. Like, this is how you do 3D with a 2D animé look!
This is what Castlevania should've looked like. That one looks SO choppy compared to this. I couldn't watch that one, unfortunately.
Berserk is another Netflix title that did this style of animation, and they did a poorer job, but it's also a few years old now, so can't really blame them.
My only gripe is the monsters have a different style of shading and look a lot more 3D opposed to the faux 2D look of the human characters.
Buit all in all, promising start.
And @playstation_king - I know right? About time. Some animés that had really cool premises where completely butchered because of stupid boob and panty shot situations. I hate that.
@-Green- yup, but I've heard that this story takes place in a different time or something so not really related to the game as far as the cast goes. The Dragons itself isnt Grigori from the game
@ThatNyteDaez It should be a different dragon, not Grigori. My guess is we'll learn its name in the show
@Daniel36 yeah can't think of many that don't include some kind of fan service, attack on titan is one, maybe Psycho pass and goblin slayer
Also I think this is a cgi anime and not drawn like traditional animes are to begin with
@playstation_king The big breasted wizard woman in Goblin Slayer was straddling the line but yeah, GS was passable.
@AJWolfTill Psss Nintendo. You know how Netflix did just to Castlevania and now Dragon's Dogma... maybe it be cool if we could get Fire Emblem anime from them? Maybe?
@Daniel36 Berserk 2016 was not done by Netflix. That was by GEMBA and Millepensee. It was rather awful! The Golden Age films by Studio 4C were nice... shame they never did the stuff following the Golden Age.
EDIT Though Castlevania Netflix producer Adi Shankar has expressed interest in adapting Berserk. Granted he is just a producer, but he was one of the key figures getting the Castlevania adaptation right. So, maybe Netflix might do Berserk at some point, but the 2016 adaptation they had nothing to do with.
@Daniel36 @playstation_king
Yeah, I consider myself an anime fan but loathe gratuitous fan service.
Violet Evergarden and Mushishi are both exceptional shows that I can 100% recommend if you haven't already.
@AJWolfTill I don't mind some fan service, especially seeing as most anime games on ps4/switch contain it. Just don't like it when animes or games are all fan service no stop like senran kagura or monster monsume.
Ive watched mushishi but haven't got round to Violet Evergarden yet, heard its a tearjerker
Castlevania is Konami, not Capcom.
@Wexter Let me rephrase. Berserk is another title one can watch on Netflix...
I thought it was okay. Not great, but okay.
"It seems that Netflix's relationship with Capcom has bloomed into a very productive partnership, with a live action Resident Evil series and season four of Castlevania also in production."
This is a bit confusing because it implies Castlevania is a Capcom property--it is a Konami property.
What is an anime?
In my eyes this and castlevania has artstyle more similar to western animations than an Anime..
P.s : I'm not saying its one is better than the other.. Its just weird calling those 2 titles as anime..
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