Castlevania: Nocturne
“I pray for you, Richter Belmont.”
As revolution sweeps France, Richter Belmont fights to uphold his family's legacy and prevent the rise of a ruthless, power-hungry vampire ruler.
Details
First Aired: 9/28/2023
Languages: English
Created by: Clive Bradley
Type: Scripted
Production
NetflixCompanies: Project 51 Productions, Powerhouse Animation Studios, Belmont Family Productions
Countries: United States of America
Where to watch · US
Seasons
Season 1
Richter Belmont joins forces with Maria and an unlikely crew of characters whose toughened exteriors bely their various tragic backstories. Bringing their formidable shape-shifting powers to bear, they seek to prevent the seemingly imminent reign of the vampire messiah. Their last-ditch battle to save humanity becomes fraught with existential questions as each vampire hunter is forced to confront their own troubled (and deeply human) traumatic past. And as the vampires threaten to leave the world in eternal darkness, there’s no time to spare — and plenty of dark drama on display.
Season 2
Aided by the legendary Alucard, Richter and his band of vampire hunters must race to stop powerful Erzsebet from plunging the world into eternal night.
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Reviews
sirdorius
"I was going to say something witty, but f*** it" I liked the first Castlevania series. While it wasn't perfect, it did grow on me and had some amazing animations and memorable characters. This new series though, fails at all that, but works as a great sleeping pill. First off, the obvious: the animations are a let down, except for maybe one fight. Gone is the gorgeous spell slinging from the first. The writing is incredibly weak. You can tell that the writers are on strike and the story was written by chatgpt prefixed with "imagine that you are a teenager with Tourette...". The review title is an actual quote from the show, I kid you not. The story is filled with cliches and there were so many deus ex machina and woman in the fridge tropes that I lost count. The French revolution should have made for an interesting background setting (and a much better story), except the show does very little with it. There's an amorphous "revolution" that apparently threatens vampires by listening to their teenage girl leader, and then running away when the fighting starts. The only saving grace is the great, creepy music, but that's nowhere near enough to save this show from mediocrity.
