Castlevania animated series on Netflix?!

Full edit: I bypassed that article about the super violent, dark Castlevania adaptation... twice. I guess I lacked sleep then.
That's pretty strange for two articles to describe it all differently, between one talking about kids'-targeted venture and one maybe risking censorship for going too far... Konami's pulling a Capcom on us all and tries to capitalize on Castlevania some more because they saw how popular Bloodstained has been in its backing.

Ah, the power of $_$...
What is hype? *Glass crash noise* A miserable little pile of collective excitement!
But enough talk, have at you!

Season 1, Part 1? 

Yeah. Hopefully they are an hour each. Season 2 sounds solidly confirmed by Adi.

Considering we have naked demons (Succubus, Lilith), vampires having children or turning other's people's children into vampires (Brauner, Stella, Loretta, Dracula itself with Lisa), Dracula's plaything (Carmilla), etc. Castlevania, specially since IGA came in, has quite a lot of sexual imagery. Vampires are seductive creatures by nature on most of these works. 
If they are aiming for an adult audience, i quite expect to find sex, naked people and maybe erotic violence too.


Consider Konami gave green light for the horrid (in my opinion) Castlevania: Lords of Shadow franchise...


Actually, talking from the perspective of someone that read the Walking Dead Comics since before the series existed, they actually toned down half of the violence from the comics. They pratically only got it 100% right on Walking Dead Season 7. But the shock value happened because TV public is way different than comics public. Several things on comics doesn't work well when on TV. And that's one of the examples, i think.

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About the adaptation itself, the news are spread out and confusing. I remember too, the whole talk about the animation back in the day. Animation, lots of violence, adult-themed, Castlevania 3... Hard to tell. We need to grab all the info and mix all together to see what comes out of it.

Yeah, the mention of Warren Ellis makes me think this is the adaptation of CV3 that he was already kicking around LITERALLY a decade ago. Of course, back then it was planned for a trilogy of films and Grant would NOT be in the first one (Ellis said he couldn't stand the name as is, but had no objection making him more historically accurate and depicting him as a Dănești, though most likely spelled DiNesti). Since they've said Warren Ellis wrote the first two seasons and Ellis himself described the length of the planned first film as 80 minutes, I'm guessing the first two seasons are indeed a form of the planned film trilogy in serialized form (2 seasons, 4 episodes each, 30 minutes each = 240 minutes of screentime = 3 direct-to-DVD films of 80 minutes each).

A few people have expressed concern about Shankar saying he intends for this thing to satirize vampire fiction. I'm not as worried personally since, as I said, this idea's been kicking around for a while and Shankar mentioned satirizing RECENT vampire tropes. My guess...he's gonna skewer Twilight and the like with this series. It's not an unfair direction to take, after all. Castlevania DOES heavily integrate the aspect of Love Makes You Evil into Dracula's story, after all. That could certainly make a good counter to recent vampire fiction, and - if you'll pardon the pun - give it some fangs again. Between the companies involved and its presence on Netflix, I have hopes that, despite the smattering of "for kids" going around, this thing is appropriately dark and gothic. It doesn't need to have parodic superviolence, but it can be mature. Something along the lines of Justice League Dark's R rating with some of the horror of Stranger Things and a healthy dose of action (like, say, the decent parts of Van Helsing) could work quite well.

EDIT: Also, The Escapist's coverage about this is moronic. They simultaneously name-drop Simon, acting like he's in it, as well as mention it's adapting Dracula's Curse...which is TREVOR (or Ralph if you're pedantic).

Oh, and if anyone's interested in how things looked for this back in the day and doesn't mind potential synopsis spoilers, there's a slide deck on Scribd back from the old Film Roman/Project 51 days to check out.

No offense Pure Miriam but IGN isn't the most credible of sites to get news from. I'd take the info if it came from a more reliable site/group but I'll remain skeptic until then.

The Concept art for this ( at least the original version of it ) was awesome which I guess is why I'm pumped because it's clearly not a kiddy dumb take of Castlevania -

No. I'm saying that until I get the same info from another site or source, I will not take anything at face value.

EDIT: NVM. Found another site.

collider.com/castlevania-animated-series-netflix-adi-shankar/#dredd-2-sequel

I can accept the info now.

I get people that don't want shock violence but this is a series where when you're killed in SOTN you spin as your body turns into blood. In the DS games when you slash zombies body parts rip off, and there's goofy elements as well which I'm sure they will keep. I guess what I'm saying is if I had the rights to Castlevania and I looked at the games for inspiration to make a cartoon I'd probably realize there's a lot of gore here, a lot of violence, and a lot of exotic natured things it's only hidden well because it's presented in a 2D pixel driven way.

A reminder -



Shock violence has always been around technically