#Castlevania: Nocture

[fredfilmsblog]

100% Average Tomatometer! Castlevania: Nocturne

FredFilms Postcard Series 3.12

Kevin Kolde and his creative teams have done it again! 

(OK, the TM probably fluctuates here and there. 100% when I printed this card, and always closer to 100% than 90%.)

Kevin’s vision has remained steady ever since we published the first, admittedly optimistic postcard for Castlevania in 2008. Early on, since the video games action spanned over centuries that the series could be a “universe” unto itself. Check! Nocturne is the second series in a continuing saga.

And, that characters only visualized in clunky pixels had room for development and growth.  

Check! Just skim the Black Nerd Problems review to read one take on the series evolution.

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100% Average Tomatometer

“A near-perfect outing made up of the kind of creative alchemy that begs for three more seasons.” –Frantz Jerome, Black Nerd Problems

Castlevania: Nocturne

Executive Producers Kevin Kolde Clive Bradley, Fred Seibert

Series 3.12 [mailed out January 27, 2024]

#FredFilms postcards #Series 3 #Castlevania: Nocture #Castlevania #Kevin Kolde #postcards #Rotten Tomatoes #Tomatometer #postcard #Netlfix

[simplysparrow14]

I just find it very neat that most of the major players in Nocturne come from countries that will or have had big revolutions in their history 👀

#castlevania nocture #richter belmont #annette #maria renard #alucard castlevania #doltra #erzebet bathory #edouard #castlevania #netflix

[dancingunderagatheringstorm]

The sheer audacity of Castlevania: Nocturne giving me Julia Belmont, an incredible vampire hunter, the highly skilled descendent of Sypha Belnades and Trevor Belmont, and killing her off less than 10 minutes into the first episode?! First Lisa Ţepeş gets murdered by the Church in the first episode of the first season to motivate Dracula's rampage, now Julia Belmont gets murdered to kick off her son's future arc. I get that Castlevania's world is bloody, and murder is very common, but this isn't a fun pattern.

(I'm only 20 minutes into the show, and based on the previous show, I'm willing to bet we'll get some great female characters later. I'm just very grumpy not to get this one.)

#and now you expect me to be excited about these teenagers?! #you gave me a fully grown adult woman #with a badass fighting style #and now you want me to get emotionally invested in a coming-of-age arc instead? #I mean #I'll do it #but I'm going to complain about it #castlevania nocturne #castlevania #castlevania spoilers #castlevania nocture spoilers #julia belmont

[dreadheadmadi]

Am I the only one who is little taken back by the fact that Richter thought Alucard was a myth and Annette didn’t know who Dracula was?

#castlevania nocture #castlevania annette #castlevania anime #alucard castlevania #castlevania dracula #richter belmont #richter castlevania

[raylios]

Why did they make the Abbot so charismatic, why tf does he sound like that???? Did they want the audience to develop a weird religious kink or something I'm seriously wondering

#Castlevania nocturne #the abbot #the abbot castlevania #Castlevania nocture episode 1

[betthe96]

Castlevania -Nocturne spoiler :

- I think Edward was great as Richter. It’s funny that he who played a vampire in the “A Discovery of Witches” became the vamp hunter. I love it.

- Richter character development. Perfecto. 👌

- Báthory Erzsébet was terrifying. I was actually freaking scared. Sick.

-Olrox. Yummi.

- I don’t know if I like Annette. I don’t dislike her but also don’t like her. She’s just meeh.

-Lacrimosa is my new theme song. Both the Mozart and the Evanescence.

-Fuck the Abbot.

-I cannot believe we had Alucard only 30 seconds. I did know he would be appear, but I’m dying on this. It’s just not enough. But it was a great cliffhanger and a super ending of the season.

- I loved how Maria stared at Alucard.

I didn’t really like any of the main characters to be honest. I loved their family dynamic, the story was exiting but just when they were together. But I also really excited about the next season and can’t wait to see Alucard again. Hopefully more than just for 30 seconds. 🥲

#alucard #castlevania #nocture #richter belmont #maria renard

[purpledragon18]

The boys still got it.

Just wanted to say I’m jumping back on The Adventure Zone wagon. I’m haven’t listened since Ethersea. Let’s see where this Dracula stuff goes.

#also want to see Castlevania: Nocture #might just be going on a vampire kick here #taz #mbmbam #mcelroys

[unreadpoppy]

THE CASTLEVANIA NOCTURE TRAILER IS OUT HOW Y'ALL FEELING

#castlevania nocture

[brotoman]

Okay. Drolta Tzuentes is cool and all, but...

#castlevania #castlevania nocture #drolta tzuentes #brotopost #polls

[camsartblog]

So… I'm alive, I apologize for my absence, but this semester has been very difficult for me, with the start of college and personal things (maybe one day I'll talk about them), so I stayed away from Tumblr, because it would bring me more anxiety

Anywa, sorry again for the absence So here it is a fanart I did of Annette from Castlevania Nocture

I absolutely adore her :3 I love the way her control over metal and earth relates to her heritage and culture and I really like the way she deals with her trauma

She's my favorite character so far c:

#annette #castlevania #castlevania nocturne #my fanart #my art #i love her so much ;u;

[deckitout]

i really liked castlevania nocture 💙

#richter belmont #castlevania #castlevania nocturne

[simplysparrow14]

the fact that Castlevania purists are crying and shitting their pants because Annette was turned from a dansel in distress to a badass WOC will forever be the biggest clowns in the entire world. We all know that they dont care about Annette from the game because Annette wasnt even a character; she was literally a plot device. She was the prise, the reward for bodying dracula after 50 hours of gameplay.

Annette in Nocture is a badass woman of color who's primary backstory evolves her escaping vampire slavery in the carribian during the 18th century french revolution. She fights alongside Richter and she's falls in love with him because of it.

Besides, we all know that the only reason castlevania purists bring up Annette not being the same is because they don't like her being black in the first place.

She's black. she's beautiful. She's kicking vampire butt and she's getting Belmont ass in the process.

go cry a river about it. 💛

#castlevania nocturne #castlevania #annette #richter #richette

[jemware]

Just rewatched Castlevania season 3 and noticed that when St. Germain is in the Infinite Corridor (in episode 6) he sees a vision of what looks like Mesoamerican architecture and people.

I don't know enough to say whether this represents Mayan, Aztec, or some other culture—but it certainly brought to mind Olrox from the new Castlevania Nocture series, who is explicitly Aztec.

#i've connected the dots #you haven't connected shit #castlevania #castlevania nocturne #olrox #castlevania olrox #st. germain

[esssteee]

explicit | oneshot | 10k | olrox/mizrak

Let’s do this again, somewhere more comfortable. And Mizrak can only obey, hounding the shadow that has befallen him, peeling one excuse after another until there is nothing left but the damning truth.

― all i know of love is hunger, a castlevania nocture fic on AO3

#castlevania #castlevania nocturne #mizrak #olrox #mizrak x olrox #my fic #dont know their portmanteau ship name if there's one #olrak? #mizrox? #who knows? #but happy goddamn #it's done #now let's hope these two will leave me alone from now on

[khagihan2000]

-Things that we enjoyed @intro-v Song: Super Trouper - ABBA List of comprehensible films, and shows (I think forgot something when edit, my braincells...): - Entergalactic - Sing 2 - Arcane - Infinity Train - I Lost My Body - Legend of Vox Machina - Central Park - Kipo Oak and The Age of Wonderbeast - Archer - Harriet the Spy - The House - The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy - Carmen Sandiego - Invincible - Mortal Kombats Legend - Inside Job - Young Justice - Seis Manos - Pantheon - Golgo 13 - Giant Robo - Getter Robo Arc - Redline - I Lost My Body - Nomad of Nowhere - Villainous - Scott Pilgrim Take Off - Twelve Forever - My Adventure with Superman - Dead End - Black Dynamite - Arlo the Alligator Boy - JJBA: Stone Ocean - X Men'97 - Captain Laserhawk - Ramshackle - Aggretsuko - Lastman - Pluto - Ballmastrz 9009 - The Ghost and Molly McGee - Hailey On It - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - The World Can't Tear Me Down - Tales of Alethrion - Dog In Space - Hilda - Smiling Friends - Cyberpunk Edgerunner - Trick Moon - Centaurworld - Emesis Blue - Hit Monkey - Harley Quinn - Invincible - Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving - Sonic Mania Adventures - OK KO - ROTMNT - Glitchtechs - Cupheads - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Legend of Vox Machina - Love Death + Robot - Amphibia - The Owl House - Regular Show - Close Enough - Futurama - Agent Elvis - Helluva Boss - Hazbin Hotel - Mystery Skulls - Nimona - Wolfwalker - The Amazing Digital Circus - Lackadaisy - Murder Drones - Bees and Puppycat - Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake - Super Mario Bros - Bad Guys - Beastar - Ramshackle - GiTS - Ranking of King - Odd Taxi - The Summit of God - Wolfboy - Big City Greens - Gumball - Metalocalypse - Venture Bros - Sonic Prime - Sonic X - Paprika - Castlevania - Castlevania Nocture - Blue Eyed Samurai - Star Trek Lower Deck - Final Space - Cleopatra in Space - Undone - City Hunter - Lupin the First - Lupin Zero - Lupin X Cat Eyes - Craig of the Creeks - Summer Camp Island - Primal - Scavenger Reign - Bob's Burger - Kid Cosmic - Unicorn: Warrior Eternals

#my post #big city greens #agent elvis #the owl house #amphibia #scavenger reign #lupin the third #my adventures with superman #invincible #the second best hospital in the galaxy #star trek lower decks #nimona #hailey on it #molly mcgee #helluva boss #hazbin hotel #murder drones #the amazing digital circus #blue eyed samurai #castlevania netflix #sonic prime #sonic x #scott pilgrim take off #pluto the series #ramshackle #the venture bros #cartoon networks #disney #arcane

[lilac-liliales]

Castlevania Nocture Thoughts

Watching Castlevania Nocture and I am plagued with Thoughts on so many things. I'm gonna ramble about things that Aren't That Deep so be warned.

First I have thoughts on them using Erzebeth Bathory as Main Bad Villain. Like not to sound as a Blood Countess Apologist but all we know about Bathory was speculated slander with no real evidence. I'll add some Wikipedia snipets to illustrate what I mean.

Considering that Castlevania's Dracula gets afforded a humane complexity that wasn't provided by either Bram Stoker's Count Dracula or his historial counterpart Vlad The Impaler, it's strange a villified figure such as the Blood Countess wasn't given the same morally-nuanced treatment.

To add, a deconstruction of the Blood Countess would have provided the perfect opportunity to establish further parallels with Maria Antonia, Olympe de Gouges, and the already referenced Joan of Arc. It would have added more perspective to the Abbot's "revolution is bad!" speech, which at the moment is depicted as fear-mongering nonsence. Even though it did get out of hand.

I suposse it was a creative decision. They wanted to make "Countess Dracula" completely different from Dracula - a bit like he's a poor little meow meow while she's evil incarnate. So they made her a sadist with delusions of grandeur and practically the face of European War Crimes. Which would be ok, if it weren't because I have Thoughts™ on that too!

Why not consider the Marquis de Sade, who lived during the French Revolution, and was the literal creator of sadism? Or if they want to draw parallels with Joan of Arc, why not Gilles de Rais? Or! If we're talking about European Colonization, Christopher Columbus is right there!! I won't make a list but it seems there are so many more suitable candidates than Bathory to play this role.

I must admit my reservations, if taken into consideration, would play a different story than the one we have now. So they're not really constructive- but at least it's out of my system now.

Anyway I really enjoyed the show, and I can't wait to see what the second season has in store!

#erzebet bathory #blood countess #castlevania nocturne #my thoughts #rant