Here's Your First Look At Netflix's New Castlevania Series

Is the story loop still going to be quips, unsettling violence then more quips followed up by petty arguing?

Considering how amazing the first Castlevania was, I'm excited for this.
Though I'm curious if this is going to full 3D animation which will be a bit disappointing.

Still mad we never got Simon

@SalvorHardin Mr Creepy is no longer doing it so it probably won’t have the same early 00s ‘adult’ comics tone.

I wish it was Simon story but ill take Richer

First story arc was incredible. Some of the best fight sequences I’ve ever seen. Sypha is so badass. I wasn’t aware of any behind the scenes or scandal stuff cause I never looked the show up beyond just watching it on Netflix. Fingers crossed this series is just as good

FINALLY I was getting tired of Trevor tbh and dropped it middle of season 3, but I won't miss this one for the world!

I really enjoyed the Castlevania series (all seasons) on Netflix. I am looking forward to this!

I still need to get caught up. But I'm glad to see fans are getting more Castlevania anime.

@Fizza
The original series was a loose adaptation of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and Curse of Darkness, so Nocturne will almost certainly be adapting Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night and be within the same canon.

I've yet to catch up with the first arc, but I welcome them advancing to the Rondo adaptation. At this rate, SotN and the Sorrow dilogy may also be within the realm of possibility.

Honestly, I just wonder where this is going to go. Are we going to get SOTN, or just Rondo? If we do get both, how are they going to handle Maria, since, in SOTN, Saturn Maria and PSP Maria play completely differently, inevitably leading to two different interpretations of the character? Considering that the first series did change up a lot within CV3's story, will the other girls from Rondo actually remain relevant going into SOTN?

And after that, if we get a third series, what will it be? Will it go back and cover Simon or one of the other, older Belmonts? Will we go into the non-Belmont era? If we do, will we get Order of Ecclesia (please let this happen, I want more Shanoa in my life), the Morris duology, or will we just skip straight to Aria, since those are the popular ones? I'd love to see them do something weird with the Morris games, since those have the most room for adding characters (maybe, just maybe, re-imagine Sonia Belmont and put her in here, since we have no idea what the Belmonts were doing during this time period. God, I'd love that.). There are so many possibilities here, and I want to see where they go with it.

PS: Is it just me, or does Richter look a lot like Sypha did in the first series? It might just be the angle that the screenshot is at, but there's a very clear resemblance.

How about an actual new Castlevania GAME? Hello...Konami?

I look forward to Castlevania Noctowl

Hopefully a Soma Cruz show is still in the cards in the future.

I'm always down for another Castlevania show. The first was fantastic.

Tried getting into it multiple times but just did nothing for me unfortunately.

Just give me Arcane: LoL season 2 Netflix! That show is pure brilliance.

@SteamEngenius I loved Arcane as well.

The first show was bad imo but with the change of directors maybe this will be better.

I wish they would do a live action Castlevania. With Simon as the main guy. That would be perfect.

@nessisonett So this new show isn't going too be as nihilistic or ultra edgy as the original series?

I'm so tired of the modern day trope of "bad guy misunderstood, is actually good if he still does terrible things and religion bad."

We need more shows with at least an ounce of optimism in this sea of so many shows being so cynical.

I just hope all of the bad guys are brutally tough, and then 12 year old Maria comes along, doing flips and obliterates them all whilst throwing pidgeons at them.

If it's as a bad as the first one it's a hard pass. It started promising but became repetitive, predictable and boring very quickly.

@Pat_trick I liked the designs, animation and art but the writing was too much of the level of "I'm 14 and I think this is deep/edgy."

All in all not the worst series one could get based on a video game so I am curious about this new series I hope it focuses more on character building rather than profanity.
(not a prude but this level of profanity is not part of Castlevani imo, titilation sure, I mean look at a lot of designs in the game but all the swearing an cursing and such, nah)

@khululy I didn't care as much about the swearing, but I think you hit the nail in the head with the teenage trying to be edgy thing.
It was trying so hard to be mature that as a consequence it looked very immature.

Seems kinda weird that Simon gets skipped over. Canonically speaking, if we were to start this at 3’s timeline then Christopher would be next, followed by Simon, Juste, and then Richter. I’m still excited to watch this, but I also want to see both Simon and Christopher get explored. Hopefully the Infinite Corridor will be used more in this season.

Since Dracula X and its connection to Symphony of the Night are basically my favorite Castlevania content, I’m so excited for a show based on and involving Richter.
EDIT: forgot to add that I am very happy that the creeper is gone and not involved.

@Damo Castlevania 3 (with Trevor/Sypha/Alucard) are closest linked to Symphony of the Night/Rondo of Blood because Alucard has the whole immortality thing going.

@Pat_trick I mean I don't mind profanity perse but in this case it just didn't fit in Castlevania in the way it was present in the show.

You know what would interest me more than this?

Netflix on the Switch.