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Yeah it's like this weird ass combo of everything Ubisoft has made all in one coked out world. I think it ended on a sequel hook but good luck getting that made when ubi is being bought out by the Chinese
Devil May Cry to get an animated series from creator of Castlevania Netflix series - Bootleg Multiverse
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I got a mild chuckle out of Rayman eating sushi off a naked cowgirl and by cowgirl I mean a humanoid cow.
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I got a mild chuckle out of Rayman eating sushi off a naked cowgirl and by cowgirl I mean a humanoid cow.
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I finished watching this last night and it was fucking shit. That fucking elite demon slayer squad leader bitch was insufferable. Not enough Dante. Is Castlevania any good?
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It's quality varies. Season 1 is good, season 2 is my least favorite for the odd pacing and the Dracula fight feeling like something out of superman. Season 3 is decent and I thought 4 was excellent but there's a pointless alucard rape scene in 3 that was allegedly put in by Neil to fuck with Adi. There's no character as egregious as lady, although there is some swearing here and there
Apparently adi disavows much involvement with seasons 3 and 4 which isn't exactly a plus in my book. Definitely puts his quality level at an uneven point.
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Wait he's at the helm of Castlevania as well? Fuck me.
I'll check it out tonight. Or just watch GquuuuX or Baki.
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Also the demon refugees "sub"plot was tone-deaf and too political. I know they're setting up for V and Big M, but that was out of left field and obviously current day servicing. The animation scenes with the elite squad were too polished and looked uncanny. The most interesting character, the bunny demon, was ruined by inserting his sympathetic backstory as well.
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lol, no
The first show had all 4 seasons written by Warren Ellis, who went on to brag multiple times about how he doesn't care about the source material and how he thinks it's stupid, so besides season 1 (which was produced for over 10 years and still had Koji Igarashi's input) and a bit of season 2 it's all him trying to write his own Game of Thrones with a bit of easter eggs put in so that the soyed out twins Sam and Adam Deats can claim the show respects the games despite literally raping the games' cast. Just like with DMC the shills claim it's all ok, because it was all based on a videogame series with "little to no story". This could make you wonder about the author's talent, and why every bit of this "small" established lore gets completely rewritten instead of being built upon, but why think about that when you can just clap when the characters say 'fuck' and explosions appear on screen in the epic fight scene that happens after the rest of the episode is just sitting in one place and talking about Dracula?
And if you hate shallow political messaging, you're in for a ride because they made a sequel called Castlevania Nocturne where the writer - who's a literal who socialist behind some bland British crime series - noticed the games take place in 1792 and just decided to write a show about the French revolution because doing as much as looking up the original game's plot synopsis is too hard and writer's don't get paid enough for their work. They also put the most focus on Annette from Rondo of Blood who's actually a Haitian negress now, and she also inherits powers from Egyptian gods because the only people who still watch this are self-hating whites, fag hags, and niggers who are easily amused by flashing lights.
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Thanks, I hate it. You saved me time.
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Quality varies dramatically. Season 1 is goddamn solid, heavily following the events of some of the Castlevania Mangas (including the one for Curse of Darkness) and covering the leadup to the events of CV3. The voice talent and the storyline heavily reference the original works the series was built on (for the unfamiliar, in the original work it was heavily implied that Lisa being falsely accused by the church, much the Belmont family being excommunicated, were heavily implied in the manga to be due to the actions of Death, who was none too pleased that Lisa effectively brought that tiny spark of Drac's humanity back). The story does a good job of capturing some of the more tragic elements of Drac's characterization and his conflict with his son, and the interactions of Alucard, Sypha, and Trevor are pretty damn entertaining. The two main sticking points are the complete lack of Grant (who I don't even know how you'd fit into the plot were he actually included) and how changed Isaac is - the latter, despite being a clear case of god damn it, Netflix, generally getting a pass because the new Isaac is actually pretty goddamn well written compared to the original being basically a deranged pretty boy that gets used by Death repeatedly (I love Curse of Darkness, but any fan of it can tell you Isaac is underused).
If you're watching it just for season 1 you won't be disappointed.
Things get awkward going into season 2. Some really cool shit happens but they diverge hard and you start seeing shit that was clearly intended because they wanted to have cool stuff happen without regard to the consequences. Using Malcolm MacDowell as Death and having him be the antagonist is inspired, but his dialogue is bipolar and jocular, which comes across as awkward as fuck when you pair it with his better dialogue in the same season. Characters start to diverge hard from their origins. Alucard engages in gay sex which I don't think anyone would have given a damn about had Reddit not creamed their briefs over it. Hector gets absolutely misused and effectively gets locked in the cuck shed for the season. Good writing gets paired with terrible writing. It's fucking weird and the show starts to feel like it needs to take Ritalin. A lot of "sympathy for the devil" shit starts to pop up here, which is expected but they do at least a few interesting things with it.
It's okay at best and frustrating at worst.
Nocturne has given up on even trying to follow the story of the games. Richter is completely changed for no reason, Annette is black and basically a different character, we spend more time farting around with the studio's OCs than main characters, and the few times we do get genuinely cool scenes from the core series (Juste coming back is neat) it's never worth the bullshit we put up with to get there.
It's got good visuals and that's about it.
TL;DR: Imagine a graph with a more-or-less 45 degree downward decline with periodic peaks after the initial batch and you have the right idea.
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I just remembered, there is a fowl mouthed character like lady in season 4, but he's the main villain and voiced by the great Malcom McDowell. He sold it and came across as genuinely vile and demoralizing
I humored nocturne season 1 and enjoyed it despite or probably because of how stupid it is. ( The French revolution literally has no build up or explanation) The problem was it got so mean spirited in season 2 to Christianity I couldn't even try to watch it. Adi in pretty sure had no involvement however.
@Jaimas. The alucard sex bit is a bit more complicated. basically a lonely and naive alucard gets seduced by a sister/brother pair before they try to murder him. After he kills them he was based enough to then stake their corpses outside his property and leave them to rot. Now that I think about it, they probably were aiming for parallels to the whole vlad the impaler raped by Turks in prison thing. Alucard wasn't too fond of the experience and immediately hooks up with a chick afterwards.
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It's worse.
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Maybe my memory isn't the best, but I don't recall it ever being stated that the Church was behind Lisa's execution in the canon. It was simply carried out by an angry mob accusing her of witchcraft (living with an undead alchemist is pretty suspicious), and in Castlevania: Judgement Sypha's story revolved around punishing Carmilla for manipulating men against witches (though you should take anything related to Judgement with a pinch of salt). There's also no mention of Belmonts getting excommunicated. They were banished from villages because their habitants didn't trust their superhuman powers, but banishment≠excommunication. Ellis added in the excommunication either because he can't differentiate the two, or (what's more likely) because he wanted to do include a cliché "faith is ok, but i hate organized religion, which is evil and hypocrytical!!!" plot element (see also: his blue demon OC which sent every redditor to awe).
As for season 3 and 4, it shouldn't have happened at all. The castle is a creature of chaos, and without Dracula it cannot stand, so having a full season where Alucard does nothing and invites random strangers in indicates complete disregard of both the castle as a narrative device and Alucard's personality among other problems, such as the fact that you're making a filler season that gets all episodes released at once.
Anyways, we have two Castlevania threads on this website where I could sperg about netflix's abomination, so let's stay on topic. Are the demons in Netflix May Cry compared to muslims because Adi Shankar is a pajeet (devoid of creativity, can only copy) who wanted to feature a 'shocking' subversive spin on the plot of the games, or are demons compared to muslims because Adi Shankar is a pajeet who hates Pakistanis with every fibre of his being?
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It was made very clear in the manga, it's only implied in Curse and Symphony and left on the table to collect dust in the show.
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Can we agree this was better or more entertaining then the original anime? At least with Netflix I didn't have to watch Dante constantly bitch about finances and hang out with an annoying little girl all the time.
The whole thing literally goes downhill after the first episode and doesn't deliver the DMC experience. There's no devil trigger, there's no Virgil and fights barely last half the length of a victory cutscene.
Incredible opening though.
The whole thing literally goes downhill after the first episode and doesn't deliver the DMC experience. There's no devil trigger, there's no Virgil and fights barely last half the length of a victory cutscene.
Incredible opening though.
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Season 1 and 2 are good, 3 is filler and 4 is meh. Nocturne is all shit.
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No, we can't.
Because while I will openly acknowledge it's very flawed, I'll take Reuben Langden and having fun with the setting in a way that doesn't go out of its way to ruin anything over the horseshit that is the Adi May Cry. You might see it as an improvement, as it incompetently scores self-owns, but you are effectively arguing that a work that at least was done by the original series creator and at least links up with it thematically is an inferior product to one created by someone who does not give a single solitary fuck about the franchise and whose audience enables sneering fucking contempt for people who cared about the source material.
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Yes. yes I am arguing that this is better then the creatives own work. because no matter how thematically it links up to Dante's personality after DMC 1 it's not fun to watch Reuben Langden whine and bitch about his daily life.
It's literally "Dantes boring day to day life the series", and the final villain sucks. You cannot tell me that the final villain was better then the white rabbit. Some sniveling runt of a demon that Dante inexplicably let's live until the end? Get outta here. I think the contempt generated from the new series is overrated aside from the leftist anti chud demographic, and their all retards anyway who will turn on Adi on a dime.
I don't see it, I don't see the contempt from adi. I see ignorance sure, But not contempt. I see an edgy Indian trying to make re-create something out of the early 2000s and getting too close to the sun in an attempt to match up with that time frame.
And another thing just to stirr up the pot some more. DMC 4 came out around the same time as the old anime and I HATED nero in that. Absolutely hated him as a character and as a player. That era of DMC was the worst writing in my opinion. 3 was the best and I hated them making Dante perpetually in debt and unable to get money.
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Dude, enjoy what you want, I'm sure as shit not going to judge you for it.
I reviewed fucking Extreme Meatpunks Forever, Adi May Cry could be so bad as to literally hospitalize people and it wouldn't be as a bad as some of the shit I've reviewed for JPATG.
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Season 2 leak.
Dante has longer hair and looks a bit better. Gets Ebony and Ivory from Goldstein. Lady apparently let him out of the icebox.
Dante has longer hair and looks a bit better. Gets Ebony and Ivory from Goldstein. Lady apparently let him out of the icebox.