I like a very notable detail when Dracula gets angry his eyes would turn red and make the Moon red too as for Carmila even tho she's probably the strongest female Vampire her eyes turning red doesn't turn the Moon. Putting an emphasis on how Dracula is the big deal.
The strongest female is a stretch...yes she's powerful in this show but we don't know if she was the strongest of all female vamps. She certainly wasn't strong enough to defeat a human and some night creatures.
You could technically say that Lisa is the only one that “Dracula” loved. You could consider Mathias and Dracula two different people and once his first wife died, so did Mathias (in a symbolic sense since this started his decent into darkness)
I think the biggest thing I'm excited to find out while watching Nocturne is if A. Dracula turned Lisa into a vampire after they were resurrected. And B. If Alucard knows that at least is father is alive or will eventually discover he's still alive during the series. That was always my biggest hope because could you imagine the tension between those two after Alucard had to kill him. It would be so thick.
That's your personal interpretation. Dracula and Matthias were the same, he didn't lose his memories or something. Infact he only snapped when his beloved was killed for the second time. For a being as godly as him, he sure was patient for long
@@adriantepes4355 you are right. It's just my interpretation. We as humans, don't experience transmutation. Heck, we don't even experience metamorphosis. No sentient being does so we don't know how transforming into a different species feels like. My reasoning is just a way to make Konami make sense, because Dracula's motivations have varied across time and the games.
@@sergioalejandrobricenostap9016 Dracula's goals were never different at any point. His motive was clear, destroy everything that was made by God. At first he only became the dark lord because he wanted to be against god but later on his madness made him think of even more destruction.
Castlevania is a great animated series. The artwork is gorgeous, movement, characters and stories are very interesting. I hope NETFLIX will keep making the series for a long time.
It's not only a great adaptation. As a standalone it is even one of the most blanaced shows in terms of maturity, humor, character developement and behavior. It is absolutely refreshing not to be annoyed about a show these days but rather genuinely looking forward to its continuation in Nocturne Season 2.
@@ctsperformance1755 True that it was not as good as it could have been. And asking for a high writing standard is a must if we as the audiance want to make sure we, as well as future generations, don't take part in writers and us getting more and more stupid over time :D And also, compared to most shows we get, this was not as terrible as it's currently common. Adding the mentioned points above and it's, subjectively, much better that most even.
I want to see the series focus on Simon. The only Belmont who took on Dracula alone, twice. Not only fighting and killing him in the first game but resurrecting him, to cure his curse, just to kill him again in the second game.
Tbh it wouldn't be as fun to watch if the show was a solo act. The team-ups makes for very good and varied combat and even tension and combos sometimes. Solo works well for the games. Not cinema.
@@finnmchugh99 Which way do you mean? Because even though the English word Sigil is pronounced with the g like a "j," for some reason the lore is dumb and says it's pronounced "siggle."
I still like to think Erzsebet Bathory could still somehow be related or distantly related to Dracula. (Like how originally in the games she was Dracula’s niece.) Maybe they will touch upon this in season 2 as it manages to connect to the series’ main antagonist. (She could be one of Vlad’s ancestors for all I know given the liberties this show takes!)
Honestly same. She could still be Dracula’s niece like in Bloodlines, or if they want to go with the real historical route, she could be Dracula’s distant cousin like how Maria is a distant cousin of Richter. Im just really glad they included Erzsebet in this video because not many videos acknowledge her familial ties to Dracula. I believe that’s why the directors chose Erzsebet as the main antagonist after Dracula because Dracula’s story already concluded at the end of the first series.
@@RealOriginalJ There is the issue of blood ties between the 2 which is difficult to defend since one's from Transilvania while the other... i'm not so sure. For Erzsebet to be Dracula's relative she must have been a young woman around the times of the Crusades which is the time videogame Dracula became a vampire.
@@javiervasquez625 I just searched and Dracula’s castle: Poenari Castle and Erzsebet’s castle: Cachtice Castle are actually 587 miles away from each other (about an 11 hour drive). Romania and Slovakia are actually neighboring countries so Dracula and Erzsebet being cousins or uncle/niece doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
@@RealOriginalJ I see i imagine Mathias must have turned her right after Lament of Innocence at which point they went their seperate ways until she got killed and was later revived by Drolta Tzuentes leading to her wanting to revive her uncle/close relative. Season 2 might just be a surprise for og series fans if Dracula gets to reunite with his long lost cousin.
I love how Dracula just wanted to be with his wife but life got in the way every time. Funny how he became immortal but when he finally got his would-be reincarnate wife, Lisa, she got executed by "God" then all he wanted was to die but he's immortal. I can see why Mathias vowed to curse God since things keep happening like that to him.
I know it was "all for plot", but; Lisa stopping Alucard from saving her was among the most idiotic decisions I can imagine. Lol. Still love this series, though.
The very best. I was enthralled, captivated, couldn’t put it down once I began watching, this is the kind of series that needs backing up and investment and I know I’m not alone in these feelings and in how much I LOVED IT!
She seems extremely strong to be fair but I think people are forgetting that Dracula wasn't really trying when we saw him fight and hadn't been feeding for a whole year at that point.
i think one thing the show missed the chance was to make castlevania the castle a thing. as metion by alucard in symphony of the night the castle is creature of chaos that takes many incarnations. which is the reason why the layout changes from game to game lol. also you forgot to mention the fake identity of alucard during the events of aria of sorrow genya arikado so in igarashi time line only alucard remains of the tepes line.
I wish the _true_ villain of Castlevania had been teased in the first series to foreshadow the Aria of Sorrow series which according to Sam Deats has already been greenlit despite making no sense with Dracula's arc in the original series. Hopefully we'll see this character hinted at in Season 2 as a way to bridge the current series with the later ones.
Every bone in my body wanted Erzebet to turn out to be a delusional joke or at least a clever charlatan. Imagine my shock and surprise that she actually lives up to her own hype.
I dont know about the real life connection between Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory will be a thing in the Castlevania universe. But if Sekhmet is the progenitor of the vampire race and is a direct or indirect ancestor to Dracula. Then that would explain why he and his son Adrian are extremely powerful.
@@adriantepes4355 I know. What I am getting at is to where this source of power came from. And what better way than to have Dracula, and thus Adrian, be descendants of the possible progenitor of the Vampire race. To have a direct link with Sekhmet who the show is making out to be the origin of Vampirism.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl every creature of hell is fueled by Dracula's own power while Dracula himself is directly connected to Chaos (in a sense, Chaos is Dracula's soul). Adrian got his powers, or rather inherited Dracula's chaos powers as his son which is why he too can use Soul steal however unlike Dracula he can't control the soul(s) he consumes.
As for Chaos, he doesn't have any source. He is a primordial concept that is supposed to be embody everything chaotic such as death, destruction, evilness, cruelty, etc. Just like how God exists in Castlevania verse to create Chaos and hence Dracula exists to destroy what he creates
Nocturne isn't a spin-off, its a sequel to the original animated series. To anyone saying it's not because it doesn't follow the events of the games, well neither does half the original series. Season 1 and 2 followed Castlevania 3 pretty closely for the most part but season 3 and 4 went off to do their own thing entirely (some of it is extremely loosely based on Curse of Darkness but much of it is not). Nocturne is a sequel to that original series, happening several hundred years later. It isn't supposed to follow the events of Rondo and SOTN, though I assume some story elements from those games will end up being worked into the plot somehow. In fact it may even serve as a kind of prequel to those games, we'll see.
Agreed, but if you change something to a great story. You better make sure it's equal or better when doing these changes. Which is what the original got correct. Hence, it's popularity. Nocturne, on the other hand, did not make it better with the changes nor equal. Which is why most people did not like it. It is obvious it no longer has the high praise and popularity as the original one. All numbers set for the current one from money to views were less compared to the original.
Nostalgic and depressing. Those are the 2 words I personally expressed about this Netflix franchise series. I played the game in the 80''s more than Mario Bros. Now, watching the main characters on Netflix made me go back in time to realize how much money I spent trying to defeat Dracula and his reincarnation.
I think Lisa being Elizabeth’s reincarnation would make sense. She seemed to have an intrinsic drive to be a doctor and heal people, which could be because she died of a severe illness in her past life?
@@jbgaming3221 If you've played the non canon multiplayer Metroidvania "Harmony of Despair" you would know Soma IS quite popular within the fandom both due to story as well as gameplay reasons which makes him one of the fandom's most favourite protagonists within the series's cast. The reason he's been ignored in current conversation is simply because the Netflix series has yet brought him into the spotlight as everyone is solely focused on the Richter bandwagon until the series moves on into the next storyline.
@@javiervasquez625 But he will be added, if this series does well enough. Adi Shanker, the producer of the show wants to go to the Aria and Dawn of Sorrow games, so he will get his own series probably after Nocturne. Given that they adapted a lot, I think they will make changes to him as well and his backstory, maybe he will be the son of a Vampire Dictator who started a whole world war in 1999 or from Dhampires...Personally I think the biggest changes would be his ethnicity, since the devs made him deliberately as non-japanese as possible and it would allow for a more elaborate and interesting backstory than a simple transfer student. So kinda like Rayman in Captian Laserhawk, he will probably face discrimination due to being a foreigner and that might stir him to the side of Vampires and only Mina Hakuba can help him see the error of his ways.
I wish, oh i really wish, that Dracula shows up and goes "What is this bullshit?" And just eliminates erzabeth in a snap of a finger. Would be so satisfying.
I honestly wasn’t expecting for the main antagonist in Nocturne to be related to Dracula, but it makes sense with the level of power she wields Wonder if Nocturne will continue and she will attempt to bring back Dracula to its setting, Dracula’s power is so vast that even in a new era his influence is still felt through the series
Hmmm…the ebony stone granted the possessor invulnerability and the ability to shroud their domain in perpetual night? Could be that Erzabeth Batory found a way to recreate the ebony stone. Would explain a lot.
From what I know ebony and crimson stones were two of the vampire Lord's treasures, one made the possessor invulnerable while the other shrouded the place where the possessor was in, in eternal darkness. Matthias used the crimson stone to somehow not only gain invincibility but also become the lord of darkness and Chaos's manifestation
Ehhh, it’s more like the actual way the IRL person was named. In Hungarian it was “Báthori Erzsébet” and in Slovak it was “Alžbeta Bátoriová” The Japanese name was likely a 1:1 katakana of the Hungarian name and then through translation was anglicized back into English’s “Elizabeth” 💀 “Bartley” is also distinctly Bri’ish sounding so maybe that was intentional
I'm probably being nitpicky but I don't like that Nocturne was called a spinoff when it's a sequel, Rondo of Blood is a sequel and it still follows the Belmont bloodline it isn't a side story. Obviously the series was phenomenal but that just stood out to me and made me feel like I was thinking about the wrong game and time-line even though I've played them all
The reason why it was called a spin-off is because the director & the writer are not the same for Nocturne and the first animated series. The story behind it is that the director Adi Shankar for the first animated series actually wanted to directing the sequel and the story will actually focus on Simon Belmont, but due to allegedly sexual coersion case by the writer Warren Ellis caused the final season of the first animated series to be rushed and concluded as soon as possible to avoid IP damage. It is unknown what would happen to Warren Ellis, but Adi Shankar moved on to work on Devil May Cry Netflix animated adaptation.
0:56 new fan bc of the show :) played SOTN on my phone to start and the next game i have access to is Curse of Darkness thanks to a friend letting me borrow his PS2 and the disc/memory card
I personally looooooooved both. I have not and dont plan on reading the books, Ijust enjoy good vamp anime cartoons. The dialogue is somewhat foreign to me. Its interesting how you all know your stuff from CastleVania to the Nocturne. I think its great. But i know ill never know it like this. Im just ready for more. 🤗💯🤗
Man, what is up with all the Erzebet copium on the internet? So far she's had to drink the blood of a god and obtain the obsidian orb just to do a few of the things a starving, suicidal Dracula could already do natively.
We haven't seen her at full power yet. But the few tricks she could do she completely decimated the protagonists. And we've only seen Dracula at his weakest and I don't think he has the Crimson Stone in this universe. Therefore its hard to tell whose more powerful but it would be interesting to have Ezrabeth be on par with Dracula. And even if he does win it wouldn't be an easy battle. Would really up the stakes for the protagonists.
Wasent a fan of how Nocturne changed things like core characters, settings, pretty much got rid of the rondo of blood storyline so we can know the writers thoughts on politics and how how much better the oc he created is then the main character, the animation took a huge dive at this point why did it even need to use the name Castlevania
Imagine this. God creates Lisa to return Dracula to the light. Then his own worshippers kill her in his name. Imagine the godly facepalm, and the ensuing salt.
To be fair. It was Anette who said that, and she is from Haiti. She might not be up on vampire lords that lived 300 years ago. It was pretty clear Ritcher knew who Alucard was (as a myth) and he certainly is aware of Dracula. My guess is that Dracula is still alive in Nocturne, albeit Lisa is dead. But Dracula is probably living in that fishing village with her grave nearby, having found some measure of happiness and at peace with humanity. Hopefully we see him fight Bathory in the strongest Vampire cage match at the 11th hour.
Nice video but you keep getting wrong the idea that Lisa was imploring Alucard not to harm the human race. She was imploring to Dracula not to Alucard.
You also forgot that the other japanese name you mentioned, the other dude that helped him as a guide and mentor? That was actually alucard under a different identity.
*What a great video! I also made some videos about Castlevania games, one of them is Castlevania order of Ecclesia Boss Rush only with Catwoman! Just copy paste that term and you will find it!*
Alucard and Leon Belmont gave almost the same response to Dracula, they wanted to fulfill the last wish of their mother and wife respectively. Dracula had the opposite: he rebelled at having his desire denied.
This is definitely a nitpick to bring up, but Lisa was not crucified; she was burned at the stake. These are completely different forms of execution that were carried out at different points in history.
I mean best franchise based on a video game ever. I dunno if it could be done justice, but I would like to see the legacy of Kain games turned into a series.
Absolutely agree this was THE BEST video game anime adaptation of a series to date. If we cant get another season of the original story then i think Netflix should do a Legend of Zelda as graphic as Castlevania was 😎👍
If we go by videogame Lore he's just a guy who got pissed at God for forcing him to kill/impale to defend his land only to loose his wife to illness while he was away. To forever troll God he became a vampire and the closest thing to Satan as revenge for God's "betrayal".
@@panoctic Gabriel is just a fusion between Leon and Mathias if you haven't noticed with one loosing his beloved and then saved the world while the other became corrupted and filled with hatred for God. LoS is just fusion of Leon and Mathias's backstory all mixed up together.
Idc what other say but this Anime is so fucking insane for everyone who like Vamp etc… Believe on them or not I would say that they are very proud of it 🤭
I was wondering if vampires can produce offsprings with humans and those offsprings can resist sunlights why didnt they do it all the time, I mean sleeping with your food isnt the weirdest thing
Well, I wouldn't say the first Netflix series was a "flawless" adaptation. Season Four definitely rushes to tie up a bunch of plots that Season Three left open, without really taking the time to let those plots breathe, and as a result the series conclusion feels very sloppy, like there was a whole season's worth of story that got skipped over because oops, the studio decided they weren't going to give the creatives enough episodes to wrap it all up... ...But it is a very, very good show, yes.
Is this lore from the games or the series? I get the feeling that the series is alot different as I would imagine Dracula is much older that he was in the games.
In the games and in real life they were related she’s his niece in the game and in real life in a historical context they were distantly related like how most European nobility are or were now whether or not they mention that in the show is still up to debate
She isn't stronger than Dracula. She might be stronger than the Dracula they fought, but that's because that dracula hadn't fed for a whole year, he was visibly weak as we'd mostly see him sitting down. Also he could he couldn't bring himself to killing his son and he just wanted to die as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and what he was doing was just history's longest suicide
She isn't stronger than Dracula. She might be stronger than the Dracula they fought, but that's because that dracula hadn't fed for a whole year, he was visibly weak as we'd mostly see him sitting down. Also he could he couldn't bring himself to killing his son and he just wanted to die as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and what he was doing was just history's longest suicide
@@Im_Vergil I understand most studios swap series after finishing one... Have they came out and said they will step away from Castlevania once Nocturne is finished?
But it shows Dracula alive in the ending of the original Castlevania series so it’s not quite to the same as the original story line, I hope we see Dracula fight along side is son and the young Belmont in the new series Castlevania Nocturne.
I like a very notable detail when Dracula gets angry his eyes would turn red and make the Moon red too as for Carmila even tho she's probably the strongest female Vampire her eyes turning red doesn't turn the Moon.
Putting an emphasis on how Dracula is the big deal.
He is the king of vampire's
Vlad was a real person
❤i thought no one else noticed! He also btw there are lots of details
The strongest female is a stretch...yes she's powerful in this show but we don't know if she was the strongest of all female vamps. She certainly wasn't strong enough to defeat a human and some night creatures.
You could technically say that Lisa is the only one that “Dracula” loved. You could consider Mathias and Dracula two different people and once his first wife died, so did Mathias (in a symbolic sense since this started his decent into darkness)
The implication is Lisa is elizabetha reincarnated. I think Mina hakuba is also another reincarnation of elizabetha
Yeah Lament of Innocence went hard that was my first Castlevania game as a kid. That and SOTN are my shining heroes of the game series
Not a separate person, the same person, albeit one lost almost everything
I think the biggest thing I'm excited to find out while watching Nocturne is if A. Dracula turned Lisa into a vampire after they were resurrected. And B. If Alucard knows that at least is father is alive or will eventually discover he's still alive during the series. That was always my biggest hope because could you imagine the tension between those two after Alucard had to kill him. It would be so thick.
I hope they make Dracula into a Mexican or some other brown skinned person... OMG the amount of whine n cry and tears would sustain me for many years!
or or LOL yaaaeah.. make the Belmont's, Arab. alaikum salam, Dracula.
@@owellorge1868 you seem to have some issues to sort out dude
@@yourdad5799 i need more whine n cry from white ppl
Why is the guy who typed the first comment having a mental breakdown?
There is no confict. Elizabetha is the only woman Mathias loved and Lisa is the only woman Dracula loved.
That's your personal interpretation. Dracula and Matthias were the same, he didn't lose his memories or something. Infact he only snapped when his beloved was killed for the second time.
For a being as godly as him, he sure was patient for long
@@adriantepes4355 you are right. It's just my interpretation. We as humans, don't experience transmutation. Heck, we don't even experience metamorphosis. No sentient being does so we don't know how transforming into a different species feels like. My reasoning is just a way to make Konami make sense, because Dracula's motivations have varied across time and the games.
@@sergioalejandrobricenostap9016 Dracula's goals were never different at any point. His motive was clear, destroy everything that was made by God. At first he only became the dark lord because he wanted to be against god but later on his madness made him think of even more destruction.
Dracula and Matthias were hence one and the same. Their goals were never different
@@adriantepes4355 well, that's your interpretation. I will leave it at that.
Castlevania is a great animated series. The artwork is gorgeous, movement, characters and stories are very interesting. I hope NETFLIX will keep making the series for a long time.
It's not only a great adaptation.
As a standalone it is even one of the most blanaced shows in terms of maturity, humor, character developement and behavior. It is absolutely refreshing not to be annoyed about a show these days but rather genuinely looking forward to its continuation in Nocturne Season 2.
Nocturne was amateurishly written, sry.
@@ctsperformance1755 True that it was not as good as it could have been. And asking for a high writing standard is a must if we as the audiance want to make sure we, as well as future generations, don't take part in writers and us getting more and more stupid over time :D
And also, compared to most shows we get, this was not as terrible as it's currently common. Adding the mentioned points above and it's, subjectively, much better that most even.
@ctsperformance1755 how?
I want to see the series focus on Simon. The only Belmont who took on Dracula alone, twice. Not only fighting and killing him in the first game but resurrecting him, to cure his curse, just to kill him again in the second game.
Simon is the Belmont amongst Belmonts.
that would be a good plot to see animated also a castlevania : belmont / van helsing spinoff would be good too .
To over powered lol we need struggle that guy was the hulk
I agree, it's sad they glossed over him for Richter
Tbh it wouldn't be as fun to watch if the show was a solo act. The team-ups makes for very good and varied combat and even tension and combos sometimes.
Solo works well for the games. Not cinema.
Lisa is actually shown in symphony of the night when Alucard sees a hallucination of her death, it turns out to be a succubus imitating Lisa but still
Never played the games and literally just watched the show for the first time a few days ago and was surprised by how good it was
Watch the first one before Nocturne. Although Nocturne isn’t a direct continuation it still helps to know Richter’s ancestors and source of his powers
Nocture is incredible
eh..@@Simon-Sax
@@Simon-Sax *terrible
@@ctsperformance1755 Explain because you are 100% wrong. Sorry
Dracula is strongest, he changed the sky and turned it red while the new villain or "queen" needed other powers.
Thats why hes original and i love it
The way you pronounced Drolta's last name was absolutely criminal
Like in DnD now people pronouncing the city of Sigil wrong
@@finnmchugh99 Which way do you mean? Because even though the English word Sigil is pronounced with the g like a "j," for some reason the lore is dumb and says it's pronounced "siggle."
The pronunciation of many many words in this video concurs
I still like to think Erzsebet Bathory could still somehow be related or distantly related to Dracula. (Like how originally in the games she was Dracula’s niece.)
Maybe they will touch upon this in season 2 as it manages to connect to the series’ main antagonist. (She could be one of Vlad’s ancestors for all I know given the liberties this show takes!)
Honestly same. She could still be Dracula’s niece like in Bloodlines, or if they want to go with the real historical route, she could be Dracula’s distant cousin like how Maria is a distant cousin of Richter. Im just really glad they included Erzsebet in this video because not many videos acknowledge her familial ties to Dracula. I believe that’s why the directors chose Erzsebet as the main antagonist after Dracula because Dracula’s story already concluded at the end of the first series.
@@RealOriginalJ There is the issue of blood ties between the 2 which is difficult to defend since one's from Transilvania while the other... i'm not so sure. For Erzsebet to be Dracula's relative she must have been a young woman around the times of the Crusades which is the time videogame Dracula became a vampire.
@@javiervasquez625 I just searched and Dracula’s castle: Poenari Castle and Erzsebet’s castle: Cachtice Castle are actually 587 miles away from each other (about an 11 hour drive).
Romania and Slovakia are actually neighboring countries so Dracula and Erzsebet being cousins or uncle/niece doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
@@RealOriginalJ I see i imagine Mathias must have turned her right after Lament of Innocence at which point they went their seperate ways until she got killed and was later revived by Drolta Tzuentes leading to her wanting to revive her uncle/close relative. Season 2 might just be a surprise for og series fans if Dracula gets to reunite with his long lost cousin.
That would be amazing honestly!
I love how Dracula just wanted to be with his wife but life got in the way every time. Funny how he became immortal but when he finally got his would-be reincarnate wife, Lisa, she got executed by "God" then all he wanted was to die but he's immortal. I can see why Mathias vowed to curse God since things keep happening like that to him.
He's a really tragic character when you actually take a minute to sit in his perspective.
I want to see Lords of Shadows done up as a series. Not exactly canon, but certainly an interesting take on the game series.
I think LOS 1 and 2 were OUTSTANDING games! It would be incredible to see them as a series, but only after they make Symphony of the Night!
Fuck yeah! I'd love to see a screen adaptation of Gabriel Belmont with the nice plot twist.
I know it was "all for plot", but; Lisa stopping Alucard from saving her was among the most idiotic decisions I can imagine. Lol.
Still love this series, though.
The very best. I was enthralled, captivated, couldn’t put it down once I began watching, this is the kind of series that needs backing up and investment and I know I’m not alone in these feelings and in how much I LOVED IT!
Since Nocturne release I been seeing a lot of people saying Erzsebet is way stronger than Dracula, which is hilarious to me. 🤣
Lol why would they think random non noble vampire be stronger than Dracula
She seems extremely strong to be fair but I think people are forgetting that Dracula wasn't really trying when we saw him fight and hadn't been feeding for a whole year at that point.
@@Chris-hz8lj Oh she’s strong no doubt, but exactly he wasn’t even trying and wasn’t even at full power.
@@kenshin391as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and the war was just history's longest suicide.
@@kenshin391as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and the war was just history's longest suicide.
i think one thing the show missed the chance was to make castlevania the castle a thing. as metion by alucard in symphony of the night the castle is creature of chaos that takes many incarnations. which is the reason why the layout changes from game to game lol. also you forgot to mention the fake identity of alucard during the events of aria of sorrow genya arikado so in igarashi time line only alucard remains of the tepes line.
I wish the _true_ villain of Castlevania had been teased in the first series to foreshadow the Aria of Sorrow series which according to Sam Deats has already been greenlit despite making no sense with Dracula's arc in the original series. Hopefully we'll see this character hinted at in Season 2 as a way to bridge the current series with the later ones.
Every bone in my body wanted Erzebet to turn out to be a delusional joke or at least a clever charlatan.
Imagine my shock and surprise that she actually lives up to her own hype.
Same HAHAHAHAHA i thought she was a joke 😂
same until I did research on her character
and I FIND OUT SHE IS THE COUSING OF ALUCARD
Childhood: Hotel Transylvania
Early Adulthood: Castlevania
I dont know about the real life connection between Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory will be a thing in the Castlevania universe. But if Sekhmet is the progenitor of the vampire race and is a direct or indirect ancestor to Dracula. Then that would explain why he and his son Adrian are extremely powerful.
Adrian is powerful because he's the prince of hell. Dracula is powerful because he is what you'd call the counterforce to god
@@adriantepes4355 I know. What I am getting at is to where this source of power came from. And what better way than to have Dracula, and thus Adrian, be descendants of the possible progenitor of the Vampire race. To have a direct link with Sekhmet who the show is making out to be the origin of Vampirism.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl every creature of hell is fueled by Dracula's own power while Dracula himself is directly connected to Chaos (in a sense, Chaos is Dracula's soul). Adrian got his powers, or rather inherited Dracula's chaos powers as his son which is why he too can use Soul steal however unlike Dracula he can't control the soul(s) he consumes.
As for Chaos, he doesn't have any source. He is a primordial concept that is supposed to be embody everything chaotic such as death, destruction, evilness, cruelty, etc. Just like how God exists in Castlevania verse to create Chaos and hence Dracula exists to destroy what he creates
Idk if the series would cover up that part though, chaos's concept is fairly well known but the show writers probably don't know much about it
Lisa was the only woman DRACULA ever loved. Elizabetha was the woman that Mathias loved
There. Timeline anomaly solved
Nocturne isn't a spin-off, its a sequel to the original animated series. To anyone saying it's not because it doesn't follow the events of the games, well neither does half the original series. Season 1 and 2 followed Castlevania 3 pretty closely for the most part but season 3 and 4 went off to do their own thing entirely (some of it is extremely loosely based on Curse of Darkness but much of it is not). Nocturne is a sequel to that original series, happening several hundred years later. It isn't supposed to follow the events of Rondo and SOTN, though I assume some story elements from those games will end up being worked into the plot somehow. In fact it may even serve as a kind of prequel to those games, we'll see.
Agreed, but if you change something to a great story. You better make sure it's equal or better when doing these changes. Which is what the original got correct. Hence, it's popularity. Nocturne, on the other hand, did not make it better with the changes nor equal. Which is why most people did not like it. It is obvious it no longer has the high praise and popularity as the original one. All numbers set for the current one from money to views were less compared to the original.
I think Dracula is going to be the surprise hero of the spinoff
Nostalgic and depressing. Those are the 2 words I personally expressed about this Netflix franchise series. I played the game in the 80''s more than Mario Bros. Now, watching the main characters on Netflix made me go back in time to realize how much money I spent trying to defeat Dracula and his reincarnation.
It was money well spent. You enjoyed youtself.
I think Lisa being Elizabeth’s reincarnation would make sense. She seemed to have an intrinsic drive to be a doctor and heal people, which could be because she died of a severe illness in her past life?
she is the reincarnation, it's confirmed in the tie-in manga for Curse of Darkness
I wonder if Alucard's parents ever visited him
Yes .....
Me too
I would highly recommend playing castlevania lords of shadow 1 , 2 as you get to play as Gabriel Belmont if you haven’t already
Don't forget Mirror of fate... the sequel to LoS 1 and predecessor to LoS2.
Also that trilogy is the gateway to castlevania for me XD
Dracula was so cold he had DEATH working for him
I WONDER OF TERA WOULD BECOME A POWERFUL AND MORE SPECIAL VAMPIRE SEEING THAT SHE TURNED ON A ECLIPS
1:03 *I couldn’t believe how long I went not watching this show!*
It’s one of my favorites and I binged it like 2-5 times 😂😂
You missed Mina Hakuba, the love interest of Soma Cruz. She's said to be the reincarnation of Lisa Tepes.
Or E - *lisa* - betta as well.
I never hear people talk much of soma Cruz. Did people not like him or something or is he just not popular enough?
@@jbgaming3221 If you've played the non canon multiplayer Metroidvania "Harmony of Despair" you would know Soma IS quite popular within the fandom both due to story as well as gameplay reasons which makes him one of the fandom's most favourite protagonists within the series's cast. The reason he's been ignored in current conversation is simply because the Netflix series has yet brought him into the spotlight as everyone is solely focused on the Richter bandwagon until the series moves on into the next storyline.
@@jbgaming3221 Soma is absolutely amazing. It's also heavily implied that he's the strongest character out there.
@@javiervasquez625 But he will be added, if this series does well enough. Adi Shanker, the producer of the show wants to go to the Aria and Dawn of Sorrow games, so he will get his own series probably after Nocturne. Given that they adapted a lot, I think they will make changes to him as well and his backstory, maybe he will be the son of a Vampire Dictator who started a whole world war in 1999 or from Dhampires...Personally I think the biggest changes would be his ethnicity, since the devs made him deliberately as non-japanese as possible and it would allow for a more elaborate and interesting backstory than a simple transfer student. So kinda like Rayman in Captian Laserhawk, he will probably face discrimination due to being a foreigner and that might stir him to the side of Vampires and only Mina Hakuba can help him see the error of his ways.
I wish, oh i really wish, that Dracula shows up and goes "What is this bullshit?" And just eliminates erzabeth in a snap of a finger. Would be so satisfying.
I mean... now there is Edgerunners and Arcane. But when Castlevania came out. It was probably true that it was the best Video Game adaptation ever.
Dracula really said
"I REJECT MY HUMANITY, LEON!!"
Well,
Phantom Blood came out like a year after the first Castlevania, so...
I honestly wasn’t expecting for the main antagonist in Nocturne to be related to Dracula, but it makes sense with the level of power she wields
Wonder if Nocturne will continue and she will attempt to bring back Dracula to its setting, Dracula’s power is so vast that even in a new era his influence is still felt through the series
"Waltuh..... give me the stone Waltuh"
Hmmm…the ebony stone granted the possessor invulnerability and the ability to shroud their domain in perpetual night? Could be that Erzabeth Batory found a way to recreate the ebony stone. Would explain a lot.
I dont think you can recreate ebony stone. It was a treasure of Walter.
The ebony and crimson stones are faulty versions of the philosopher's stone, an attempt to make it so it's not impossible to make another of these two
@@motivation7982 where was that stated?
From what I know ebony and crimson stones were two of the vampire Lord's treasures, one made the possessor invulnerable while the other shrouded the place where the possessor was in, in eternal darkness. Matthias used the crimson stone to somehow not only gain invincibility but also become the lord of darkness and Chaos's manifestation
@@adriantepes4355 lament of innocence
I just realized Erzsebet is just Elizabeth with a Japanese accent
Ehhh, it’s more like the actual way the IRL person was named. In Hungarian it was “Báthori Erzsébet” and in Slovak it was “Alžbeta Bátoriová”
The Japanese name was likely a 1:1 katakana of the Hungarian name and then through translation was anglicized back into English’s “Elizabeth” 💀 “Bartley” is also distinctly Bri’ish sounding so maybe that was intentional
Isnt the name pronounced Erizabesu
It's because she is based from Countess Elizabeth Bathory of hungry,
Ive always liked to compare Alucard to being the Rebis (in a way) thats talked about in the show.
I'm probably being nitpicky but I don't like that Nocturne was called a spinoff when it's a sequel, Rondo of Blood is a sequel and it still follows the Belmont bloodline it isn't a side story. Obviously the series was phenomenal but that just stood out to me and made me feel like I was thinking about the wrong game and time-line even though I've played them all
The reason why it was called a spin-off is because the director & the writer are not the same for Nocturne and the first animated series.
The story behind it is that the director Adi Shankar for the first animated series actually wanted to directing the sequel and the story will actually focus on Simon Belmont, but due to allegedly sexual coersion case by the writer Warren Ellis caused the final season of the first animated series to be rushed and concluded as soon as possible to avoid IP damage. It is unknown what would happen to Warren Ellis, but Adi Shankar moved on to work on Devil May Cry Netflix animated adaptation.
0:56 new fan bc of the show :)
played SOTN on my phone to start and the next game i have access to is Curse of Darkness thanks to a friend letting me borrow his PS2 and the disc/memory card
I personally looooooooved both. I have not and dont plan on reading the books, Ijust enjoy good vamp anime cartoons. The dialogue is somewhat foreign to me. Its interesting how you all know your stuff from CastleVania to the Nocturne. I think its great. But i know ill never know it like this. Im just ready for more. 🤗💯🤗
I think Dracula did the right thing to wipe those bastards who killed his wife for their so-called reasons.
wait a minute, you're saying that the main antagonist of Castlevania Nocturn is the niece of count Dracula?!
Man, what is up with all the Erzebet copium on the internet? So far she's had to drink the blood of a god and obtain the obsidian orb just to do a few of the things a starving, suicidal Dracula could already do natively.
We haven't seen her at full power yet. But the few tricks she could do she completely decimated the protagonists. And we've only seen Dracula at his weakest and I don't think he has the Crimson Stone in this universe. Therefore its hard to tell whose more powerful but it would be interesting to have Ezrabeth be on par with Dracula. And even if he does win it wouldn't be an easy battle.
Would really up the stakes for the protagonists.
_...my favorite vampire is: Drolta Tzuentes...i❤the voice actress Elarica Johnson..._ 🦇🖤...
Never played the games, but from watching the series, I'm dying to play if they make a new castlevania for next gen consoles.
Dracula is very strong! Imagine he fought the trio famished. 😮
I am the Prince of Darkness... I am and will be, forever, a thorn in His side! That... is my vengeance!
Wasent a fan of how Nocturne changed things like core characters, settings, pretty much got rid of the rondo of blood storyline so we can know the writers thoughts on politics and how how much better the oc he created is then the main character, the animation took a huge dive at this point why did it even need to use the name Castlevania
Imagine this.
God creates Lisa to return Dracula to the light. Then his own worshippers kill her in his name.
Imagine the godly facepalm, and the ensuing salt.
The fact that they said Dracula and nobody knew who he was is disgusting
I absolutely hated that.
To be fair. It was Anette who said that, and she is from Haiti. She might not be up on vampire lords that lived 300 years ago.
It was pretty clear Ritcher knew who Alucard was (as a myth) and he certainly is aware of Dracula.
My guess is that Dracula is still alive in Nocturne, albeit Lisa is dead. But Dracula is probably living in that fishing village with her grave nearby, having found some measure of happiness and at peace with humanity. Hopefully we see him fight Bathory in the strongest Vampire cage match at the 11th hour.
@@Amann0407 Dracula vs Ezrebth 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Dracula REDEMPTION
I don't care! Alucard is gay, Maria is Lesbian
can you do one over Drolta? Ive tried finding lore about her and its like it doesnt exist. is she an OC tied specifically to Nocturne?
are we not gonna talk about how alucard's middle name is literally FAHRENHEIT?? like what were vlad and lisa thinking
I had a feeling Erzsebeth was related to Dracula
I wonder why Erzabeth didn’t claim the world when Dracula died I loveeeeed Carmilla but i don’t see how she would of allowed her to take the world
Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, what a middle name lol
But who is Mathias Cronqvist aka Dracula’s father and mother they never mentioned or talked about his parents
Nice video but you keep getting wrong the idea that Lisa was imploring Alucard not to harm the human race. She was imploring to Dracula not to Alucard.
Lisa was shown in SotN, but briefly, well a doppelgänger of her, it was actually a succubus trying to trap Alucard.
You also forgot that the other japanese name you mentioned, the other dude that helped him as a guide and mentor? That was actually alucard under a different identity.
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*What a great video! I also made some videos about Castlevania games, one of them is Castlevania order of Ecclesia Boss Rush only with Catwoman! Just copy paste that term and you will find it!*
Alucard and Leon Belmont gave almost the same response to Dracula, they wanted to fulfill the last wish of their mother and wife respectively. Dracula had the opposite: he rebelled at having his desire denied.
At 15:25 which animated adaptation is that on display for Soma Cruz?
Belmont Clan ain't nothing to mess with!
I'm actually okay with nocturne getting a second season. Maybe it'll be different
To lose two wives like that, it's messed up
I was today years old when I learned Alucard is Dracula backwards 😂😂
So this is probably a dumb question but would Erzsebet have any chance against Dracula even in her final form?
I dont think so
Nah. Dracula is too powerful.
Yes she is a God if what she claims is true but her transformation and feats align this to be the case.
@@notshockwavedemon7543 Dracula ain't a God.
@@TheCourtsOfLove Yeah
But he defies God and the belief of one
Sure she could claim to be a Goddess but man Dracula can wield the powers of Chaos.
This is definitely a nitpick to bring up, but Lisa was not crucified; she was burned at the stake. These are completely different forms of execution that were carried out at different points in history.
I mean best franchise based on a video game ever. I dunno if it could be done justice, but I would like to see the legacy of Kain games turned into a series.
Same genre
Absolutely agree this was THE BEST video game anime adaptation of a series to date. If we cant get another season of the original story then i think Netflix should do a Legend of Zelda as graphic as Castlevania was 😎👍
You kept telling the same story over and dragging this video for no reason.
Isn’t Dracula the 1st vampire?
no, that goes to cain well depending of the myhtos.
If we go by videogame Lore he's just a guy who got pissed at God for forcing him to kill/impale to defend his land only to loose his wife to illness while he was away. To forever troll God he became a vampire and the closest thing to Satan as revenge for God's "betrayal".
@@javiervasquez625 Lord of Shadows lol just replace Mathias with Gabriel Belmont
@@panoctic Gabriel is just a fusion between Leon and Mathias if you haven't noticed with one loosing his beloved and then saved the world while the other became corrupted and filled with hatred for God. LoS is just fusion of Leon and Mathias's backstory all mixed up together.
Apparently No but he’s the most powerful one for some reason.
Is that the Crumson Behelit? 3:13
I honesty wouldn’t mind seeing alucard in love >>>>❤
Idc what other say but this Anime is so fucking insane for everyone who like Vamp etc… Believe on them or not I would say that they are very proud of it 🤭
I was wondering if vampires can produce offsprings with humans and those offsprings can resist sunlights why didnt they do it all the time, I mean sleeping with your food isnt the weirdest thing
Depends if you find the food attractive or not before sleeping with it?
Damn now I want a prequel
I would like to see how Cassidy look on PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X see how Dracula look the Belmont Clan looks and everything
Well, I wouldn't say the first Netflix series was a "flawless" adaptation. Season Four definitely rushes to tie up a bunch of plots that Season Three left open, without really taking the time to let those plots breathe, and as a result the series conclusion feels very sloppy, like there was a whole season's worth of story that got skipped over because oops, the studio decided they weren't going to give the creatives enough episodes to wrap it all up...
...But it is a very, very good show, yes.
Is this lore from the games or the series? I get the feeling that the series is alot different as I would imagine Dracula is much older that he was in the games.
This varient kf dracula is somewhat like gilles de rais (minus certain aspects) where the loss of his love broke him, turning him against god.
Who would have ever foresaw Indian Dracula arc
Now you’re lying. Trevor beat Alucard. Then after he explained himself they joined together.
How was this found out? The game? Is there comic books?
I like it using Haiti 🇭🇹 is pretty original first free black country
Still can’t beat castlevania on the DS and I literally go back to it every couple months 😭 that shit actually starting to piss me off😂
Well…. Arcane is amazing as well.
So the main bad in nocturn is draculas niece?
As far as we know she isn’t.
In the games and in real life they were related she’s his niece in the game and in real life in a historical context they were distantly related like how most European nobility are or were now whether or not they mention that in the show is still up to debate
@@christopherwilliams8229 but I thought she was some goddesses incarnated
I don't think alucard will kill erzsebet bathory because she seems stronger than dracula himself, alucard will have a hard time to defeat erzsebet
She isn't stronger than Dracula. She might be stronger than the Dracula they fought, but that's because that dracula hadn't fed for a whole year, he was visibly weak as we'd mostly see him sitting down. Also he could he couldn't bring himself to killing his son and he just wanted to die as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and what he was doing was just history's longest suicide
She isn't stronger than Dracula. She might be stronger than the Dracula they fought, but that's because that dracula hadn't fed for a whole year, he was visibly weak as we'd mostly see him sitting down. Also he could he couldn't bring himself to killing his son and he just wanted to die as Alucard said, Dracula died the day his wife died and what he was doing was just history's longest suicide
@@user-myraklejnr She is if she's truly a God that she claims.
@@TheCourtsOfLove
But we never saw full powered dracula so you still couldn't compare.
@@user-myraklejnr We can the fact he was weakened in the first-place...meanwhile she's a LITERAL GOD
Thanks for the video. What about "D" son of Dracula and Mina.
Not a big Castlevania fan but this fills in a lot of gaps. Thanks.
Wish the makers of castlevania would do a Diablo show
How much those castlevania have to do with Vrising???
After Nocturne is finished will they have a series with Simon?
Nope, we'll have devil may cry
@@Im_Vergil I understand most studios swap series after finishing one... Have they came out and said they will step away from Castlevania once Nocturne is finished?
But it shows Dracula alive in the ending of the original Castlevania series so it’s not quite to the same as the original story line, I hope we see Dracula fight along side is son and the young Belmont in the new series Castlevania Nocturne.
Simple, he wasnt dracula when he loved elizabetha
O.D from ritual of the night is literally alucard and dio fused with the potara ear rings