Alucard And Richter Create A Symphony In New 'Castlevania: Nocturne' Trailer

The first season of Nocturne was an underrated gem. Really hype for this next season!

i have loved all the castlevania anime series..

About time I heen very eager to watch the next season
So far all castlevania series have been excellent.😀
Only down side I was hoping it would be here for Halloween 🦇🎃
Ow well we'll I'm waiting I might watch them all again over halloween🦇🕸️👻😀😁

Symphony of the Night for switch, when?

Finally! I loved the first season quite a lot and the first series is absolutely fantastic.

I thought they cancelled that?

A Nintendo Life newspost with "Castlevania" and "Symphony" in the headline is admittedly one way to generate momentary wrong assumptions.😅

I could not care less about this show. I'm not even cheering for it to fail and I'll quickly forget about Nocturne after this comment.

I have enjoyed all the Castlevania animation though some of it is a bit crackers. Ha. Looking forward to season 2 of this particularly one.

@Noxide yet you remembered and cared enough to leave this comment about how little you care

Was really hoping this was gonna be it for Halloween. Ah well, guess I'll keep playing the classics

@Noxide k

Love this show. Can't wait.

Saw Alucard, assumed immediately a port of SOTN had been announced before registering a single word in the headline xD

@Noxide you must be a blast at parties… yikes.

You mean, a new Symphony ooof theee Niiiight?

Phantom of the Opera theme intensifies

This show is an example where amazing animation, voice acting and production value cannot overcome bad storytelling and a lack of faithfulness to the source material.

The first CV anime started out strong and didn't quite stick the landing. This one just started poorly.

Really wish I enjoyed these shows. The music is great and the art style is awesome. But I can't stand how they drew so heavily from III as a base and made it into an overdramatic angst filled bloodfest. The old games and III especially were tributes to the classic hammer horror films and instead of embracing the cheese theyre playing it like serious business. I couldn't imagine a more cringy depiction of Dracula. It's basically the same thing that happened with the new voice acting on Symphony of the Night from Requiem. People who don't really understand what made the series great are in charge. Which is why I'd never buy that if it is ported to Switch along with the terrible unchangable audio levels.

@nhSnork EVERY. TIME.

No but seriously I love Castlevania in general, and the Classic/Advance/Dominus collections are wonderful, but...

I still keep going back to play Symphony of the Night on my PS5, time and time again. It really is the best one, and Konami is sleeping on a fortune by not porting it to Switch.

This show and the previous are pretty solid. I don't watch too much anime but these are good. Netflix has a handful or good ones, blue eyed samurai, and in the same style/look of castlevania blood of zeus was ok.

@Chocobo_Shepherd how do you stick to the source material of a NES game? You must always fill in the blanks for interesting storytelling, so it was an incredible feat to pull of for the first series.

@Yoshi3 Easy. You place the main character in a castle with zero dialogue and watch him move left, right, up, down for 30 mins an episode till he reaches Dracula.

100% like the games!

@DripDropCop146 lol, I can’t wait for that Zelda movie then….

this isn't an adaptation. the first season was a new story, Richter wasn't even the main character. it was Annette's story. if they are planning on making season 2 about someone else, thats fine, just be upfront about it, don't play bait and switch again, and definitely don't crap on the the series favorites in favor of the new characters.

I'm curious is this drawn by like American artists trying to mimic the Japanese artists from the original games and instruction manuals and such?

"Die, Monster! You don't belong in our world!"

@Yoshi3 That's a fair point, but instead of filling in blanks (which implies making things up out of thin air) I would think of it more like "fleshing things out." In other words, taking what was already there and following that in logical directions. Instead, they changed aspects of characters without narrative reason for doing so.

Despite loving the first Castlevania anime I slept on this one until like a month ago. Oh boy, what an unexpected treat that was. Absolutely loved it and can’t wait for this. Can’t understand anyone who thinks this is remotely unfaithful to the spirit of the games. Keeps so much of the good stuff and then adds a bunch of compelling new characters and a much more detailed plot. Heck, even the art style is clearly more aimed at Ayami Kojima’s art this time around. The Elizabeth Bathory influenced big bad is a great move too. Just hope we get a tease of Dracula himself after the story concludes.

I find nocturne (so far) is so much better than the original series, which started off really strong in a tight first season. Later seasons however dragged so bad. Especially the overwritten characters, each trying to sound more smug and self righteous than the other, it became too insufferable for me.
Nocturnes in its first season feels like it was getting back to the basics with likable characters.

Finally! Wasn't very keen on some of the character changes, particularly for Annette and Olrox, but I enjoyed the series nonetheless as a long-time Castlevania fan.

Hoping to see more nods to Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night.

Did you know if you spell that name backwards you get Rethcir?!?!

I know! Blew my mind too!