There was a scene in the first season, where Trevor like puts his finger on his whip to change its trajectory mid swing, and it sold me that they put thought into how a unpowered human could fight these demonic and vampiric hordes
"Unpowered"?... You mean the descendant of a hyper trained family dedicated to fight monsters with a whip that kill anything dark? Oh, sorry, I was talking about Castlevania, you about this Saturday morning cartoon of same name.
@Mr BadAccent I consider the Vampire women, Isaac, Taka, Sumi, and the Judge to be the antagonists, to a lesser extent the cult as well though they were being manipulated by a demon, so not as much. Considering Hector's role in Curse of Darkness and his position throughout the season, I would not consider him an antagonist despite being a forgemaster that is fraternizing with the sisters. Isaac is still pretty clearly an Antagonist, an understandable and dynamic one (not unlike Dracula himself) but his goals are too problematic still and he wants to kill Hector who is pretty clearly a protagonist. The Judge died but he still had the last laugh and died happy with his apple tree trap. Taka and Sumi died too, but left Alucard literally scarred after he showed them almost nothing but kindness and transparency after revealing he also killed the person they came to hunt. Vampire sisters won out full stop and got more than what they were even planning for. The cult members died but still pulled off their ritual and the town ended up dead. Isaac got his city of undead people, etc. Trevor, Sypha, Hector, and Alucard had victories but no reason to celebrate and things look bleaker for them all. Each of them has a kind of poisoned and hopeless mindset going forward. Trevor and Sypha no longer think what they're doing is actually helping since they couldn't save anyone, Alucard had to kill 2 people he considered his friends and must bear being alone again while being more resistant to letting others into his life. While Hector is in a more comfortable place, he now has no free will, can't stop the coming human culling he betrayed Dracula to prevent in the first place, and had his emotions betrayed by yet another vampire that sold him on the idea that she had his best interest at heart. San Germaine got most of what he wanted contently, but he is still shrouded in mystery, and is more of a side character good guy than a fully fledged protagonist to me.
@Mr BadAccent you see because Issac was a Slave he is just in his actions that he wants to end humanity because they were evil to him but everyone who shows just some kindness he just melts and goes of course I won't kill you Issac just wants some human kindness.
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Honestly, the whole time I saw this new season, I was hoping Trevor and Sypha would visit Alucard and check up on him. But, the season definitely ends with a moment where I fully expect Sypha to say something like "We need a break... let's go see Alucard." then Trevor "Yeah, ok."
DaedricTV It wouldn’t surprise me if it did though. Maybe an event so catastrophic that Trevor and Sypha need to enlist Alucard’s help again? I mean the soon to happen war between Carmilla and Issac is bound to cause enough of a stur.
@@cheeseclover but Sypha doesn't manipulate the elements, it's friggin magic, she can use lightning, fire, ice, water, wind, light, darkness, etc, she in't the avatar and shit, she is a real mage that can do everything aang does and more.
1. Same about Alucard's arc here. Very sad yes, but didn't do much. Just made me hurt for the guy. 2. Loooove the captain! Hope he comes back and doesn't die ;w; 3. Best of luck to Hector and Issac ;w;
Uhmm Alucard's arc was fantastic and totally necessary wdym. Thats the whole point to see him starting to distrust humans and become more like his father.
Hot take, Trevor and Syphers story was good. A good RPG is about about living in a fluid world. Not every quest is the "main" mission. What we got was a major side quest that help darken the overall mood from last seasons "ride into the sunset ending." This is Castlevania, it's a gothic horror and Sypher has been reminded that the world is a dark place with unhappy endings. Their side story was important to bring the audience back into the thick of terror and knowing that the good guys might not win, just survive.
The importance of the Trevor/Sypha arc was really that even if Isaac is disconnected from the rest of the world, his army can act on it's own. It adds more weight to Isaac's army than them just being jobbers to be slain by Trevor and the like and that he needs to be stopped or things will spiral out of control.
Saint Germain is easily the best char in S3. His name rang bells on my head so I googled him, and he's a real guy, tied to mysticism and magic lore and even his triangle shaped book is real, its entirely written in code. He is an actual prince to Transylvania....so....naturally...I spent the whole season thinking he was Dracula in disguise....only to be proven wrong in the end.
As GiantButterKnife said, he is a time traveler the Curse of Darkness the same game from which both Issac and Hector originate. He is slightly different, but the clothes he wears beneath that green/grey cloak and hat does resemble his outfit from that game. If you want possible spoilers check out the game, if not avoid it I leave this option for all those who are curious.
@@SovereignAure that's cool and thanks for the information. I never played the game so I have no idea what's going to happen but hopefully they can handle the time travel story well.
@@hbudiman14 I've been begging for it since the start. They could just remake Lord Of The Clans on Netflix and it would have the exact same tone and appeal as Castlevania without having to change the source material one bit.
Fun fact about why Castlevania is SUCH A GOOD ADAPTATION: Warren Ellis (the writer) hasn't played a single Castlevania game. However, the producer Adi Shankar and the lead animators Sam and Adam Deats are HUGE Castlevania fans. So you have a writer who is focused only on story (he's done a TON of research but has 0 plans to play a single Castlevania game, and never has before) based on interesting tidbits he finds in the lore that he reads about extensively. And then he leaves details and moments, such as fight scenes, for the huge fan animation leads to design, with their sensibility + their love of Castlevania forming imagery video game fans can relate to. That balance + the skill of all involved is the reason it works so well. If they were all just fans, the chances of alienating new audiences is way, way higher. If none of them were, you'd remove the spirit of the original franchise.
Aneki Samurai something tells me that if they made a heroic atheist a Christian, you wouldn’t have a problem. Also, it is cannon that the Belmont’s were excommunicated from the church and have a long rocky history with it. Alucard did sleep in coffin for hundreds of years after killing Dracula, even if there is no canon reason
If there's one thing I learned from Castlevania, it's that if shit's going down, sex is the last thing you wanna be having. And if anyone offers it, you need to fucking RUN.
Season three was frigging insane dude, I loved every moment of it. Quick fun fact: the designs of a lot of the first creatures and characters came from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
8:44 its because they where raised as slaves to a vampire that they have that mentality they know to act pleasant and play along to keep their 'master' happy, but are untrusting underneath that mask that and as they hinted, they probably got their thrust repeatedly thrown in their faces in their trip through europe. Though I do feel it could have been foreshadowed a bit more.
The moment they were introduced I recognized them as throw-away characters, but the criticism towards them lies in their own reasoning. They have this mentality to not trust anybody but themselves, which is all fair and good. But the issue lies in how they seem justified in their mistrust, when Alucard has been shown to be nothing but giving. He was honest about why he couldn't move the castle. He showed them a wealth of monster slaying knowledge and promised to teach them magic; a promise the twins latch onto, which they later use as justification to try and kill Alucard when he hasn't taught them any. From that, you almost get the impression that it's been months since Alucard made that promise, but if we're to assume that this story coincides with Trevor and Sypha's story, it's only been a couple of days. It's fair to say that they can't trust Alucard regarding the castle, but it really seems like two days passed where Alucard didn't teach them magic, so they decide he's useless to them and they have to kill him. Even the writers seemingly think this makes sense, that the twins are justified, by giving Alucard this dumb line about "I never lied to you... but I never said I didn't have a magic sword, either!" but it honestly just comes off as idiotic and forced to have some sort of a conflict in Alucard's story. This would all honestly be fine if they DID show a long passage of time. If they showed the twins being impatient or distrustful before that point, alongside Alucard at least being somewhat reluctant to teach them magic. Then they would at least have SOME reason to come to the conclusion that they did without it seeming totally out of left field to an ignorant audience.
I feel like another reason why they didn't trust him was because or what Cypha said in season 2, "He just feels like a cold spot in the room." Sure he is nice and all but he gives off an aura of untrust that he may not be intentionally doing.
Lenore would say the word "cummies" unironically and you can't change my mind. If I had to come to this horrible realization after hearing her say "walkies", then so does everyone else.
@@CountOfMonteCristo_ I'm like the town-crier of god-awful takes. I go from site to site, comment section to comment section, ringing a bell shouting "hear-ye, hear-ye".
I really like how Alucard’s arc started and ended but the rest of his arc was so weak compared to everyone else’s. Even if Trevor and cypha’s arc wasn’t super important it was endearing none the less while very little was interesting in alucard’s
It felt like this season was trying to make a statement about how the world they live in is really messed up. And _SPOILER ALERT_ for the very final scene. The last scene of Trevor and Cypha is exactly what clarified this to me. The "He found his little pleasures" demonstrates exactly why this season had to exist. Even though the last two seasons weren't light hearted, they weren't... Dark. This season wanted to take everything light about the series, and engulf it in darkness. Taking a generally righteous character like the Judge, and showing his most despicable and ugly side. And even though you'd have known the moment Sala fell into that pit that it belonged to The Judge. Or even the moment The Judge said "I killed Sala." Trevor reaffirming the disdain you should feel towards him shows how dark the series will now proceed with.
@@magiv4205 I was thinking the same thing. That was definitely a scene of paeudo-consensual sex turning into a very clear rape circumstance. Honestly hit me really fucking hard being a survivor myself, like I knew the show was obviously infinitely darker this season but damn.
@@magiv4205 Taken advantage of? Yes. Raped....eh. I don't think so. I hear a lot of discourse around that scene and I've rewatched it and dude seemed like an active participant (touching back and stuff) Not that what they did was right, but I don't think it's rape.
7:55 Alucard's arc in this season is basically going through what every young man does when he enters his thirties and realize that he is turning into his father.
I have to agree with the point about the japanese duo, their turn at the end was not properly setup at all. I mean, they knew this guy for 3 days and turned on him because he wasn't 100% upfront about everything right away with a pair of strangers?
actually,the more i think about it, alcuard`s arc is alot more complex than people believe it is.the twins didn`t try to kill alucard because they were simply impatience. was because they felt like they were being take advantage of. many people believe that the twins were planning on betraying alucard from the very beginning because of the eye contact they exchange to one another. but that`s not actually it. when they first did that,they had a smile on their face. given what sumi said about " you wont help us. nobody has help us ". that scene tells us they felt relieve.that alcuard can give them what they were looking that that other didn`t. but soon,their expression began to change when they exchange eye contact is when alucard didn`t show them the rest of the castle. this is when they began to question if alucard was really going to help them. this happen many time. but this wasn`t what drove them to kill alucard, it`s when they think back about what he said about his father. this is when they had serious doubt that alucard was gonna help them. they were aware they he was lonely and they believe he was just doing what he can to keep them around. and to them,that felt like they were being held captive again and they wanted out.( and that`s not even the only reason ) sure, they could have just left, but they were on a mission to save their country and they were never close from achieving it because no one out there help them in their cause. they were desperate, so they thought that this was the only chance they had left. the other thing reason is that they even felt his pain for killing his father and they thought by killing him will relieve him of that pain. they thought they were doing him a favor. the one thing i got right is that is that they were kept in captivity for soo long, but what i got wrong was the meaning behind it. give the fact they were only train to just get slaughter when they reach a certain rank. it`c clear that they were never taught the ways from right or wrong. but you would think by being raise by vampires would mean that they would turn out like hector and isaac. its the fact they were force to watch people who climb up the ranks everytime just to be annihilated by cho in the worst ways possible is the reason why they even have a shred of humanity in them. with all of that, it actually makes their motives justified. and then theres alucard. just like the twins,alucard thought they were taking advantage of him. that they were only pretending to be nice to him just to get what they want. this in turn destroy alucard and made him loses a bit of his humanity after he kill them and impale them in stick. this also made him have a better understanding of his father as well. the arc is about two sides who miss judge each other thought they were being use.its not only just a set up for him to turn out like his father. if you ask me, this makes alucard arc one of the best written ones in the entire series. it one of the reason why i prefer this season to
Between the expressions exchanged behind Alucard's back. Their constant insistence on asking Alucard things they asked before as if they didn't believe him, and their backstory. My reaction to them trying top kill him was an audible "There it is!" I would have been more shocked if it didn't happen.
Same. It left me disgusted and heartbroken, i had a hunch they were going to betray him, but nothing could have prepared me for the extent of their cruelty. I did love his story arc, and my visceral reaction is proof that it was well done, but I desperately need him to have some happiness in s4. More than anything, I want to give him a big hug and never let him go. He has been through enough, please don't let him be hurt more.
I’m really, _really_ hoping Alucard doesn’t become a full-blown villain. That’d be a direct rejection of everything Alucard is, and would be too drastic a license to take. He wouldn’t be Alucard at that point.
Alucard likely won't turn out to be a villain, but I could see him raising conflict with Trevor and Sypha, if albeit a minor point of bringing up the problems that a Non-Human has living in a Human's world. If anything I'm sure it'll serve the narrative in the long run.
Well, he has--what--three hundred years, give or take a few before the moment of truth (the events of Symphony of the Night)? a lot can happen in that time.
Alucard's story is good on paper, but in execution its SUPER rushed, and the climax (heh) for his arc doesn't feel earned. Also they could honestly go to like 10-15 seasons even if they only adapt like a quarter of the games.
Isaac's was definitely my favorite story arc, his dialogues with the side characters were interesting as he faced questions that challenged his character and led to his development. I felt like Allucard's story as well as Trevor/Sypha had slow buildups, until the last 2 episodes. Prediction/Spoilers: I believe Lenore at some point will end up betraying her sisters, since the show plays her off as being a manipulator. As she gives the rings to her sisters she explains the plan of loyalty that lies behind the magic of the rings that could possibly come with a catch( not too sure about this but will be interesting if it happens). The magic book she gives Hector might become useful later in the show, if he finds a way to break hold of the spell. Overall, the season was great and left the audience to come up with many outcomes that could occur in the next one.
Issac had the best arc imo. When he was on the port and said "When you ask why I worked with Dracula to wipe out all the people I'll say, it's because you're all so FUCKING RUDE" agh it gives me chills. Best part, his lines are so quotable to me and I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH
It is important to note, that since this series is somewhat trying to mirror the Castlevania chronology, most characters are on their down beats: Alucard is becoming weary as a guardian and disillusioned toward humanity and will eventually go back into a long sleep until eventually reawoken in the late 18th century; Trevor and Sypha have for the most part finished their journey and will possibly be slowly phased out so they can refound the Belmont clans which will eventually lead to later characters such as Christopher, Simon, Juste, and Richter;while Issac and Hector are slowly building toward an alternate version of Curse of Darkness, with Dracula being replaced by Camilla it seems. I love how this series is going and the occasional nods to monsters, minor characters, and moments make me giggle like a child everytime they happen. I hope they don't write themselves into stasis by trying to continue the passing years continually; the great thing about vampire characters and a clan of hunters is you can jump forward a literal generation or two at a time to continue the story. Hell, this has become the literal modus operandi of not only the castlevania games, though never in any kind of chronological order, but also the series Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. Anyway, that went on way to long, the review was great, glad to hear you talk about this often overlooked series.
I don't think they're done with this list of characters. Alucard is probably going to have a crisis of conscience and start to really lose his way. Trevor and Sypha will either manage pull Alucard back from the edge and face off against a new big villain together. Or will have a conflict between themselves. Sypha and Trevor are a big part of the show's success. Character and animation wise. I don't see them getting glossed over any time soon. I don't think the show will run long enough to tell stories about the next few generations of Belmont. What's been set up now could take 1 or 2 seasons to sufficiently tie off. And I I can't see this going beyond 5 seasons. Also, Dracula is too different from his video game counterpart. If he gets resurrected he's not going to immediately take up the battle against humanity again. He saw that he'd gone mad before alucard and Trevor finished him off. Plus he's been with his wife since. She'd have scolded the fuck out of him for what he did. If he comes back it'll be as a voice of reason.
Agree on all points, except I wouldn't be surprised if they either try to keep Trevor and Sypha around for a while longer or try to compress the timeline into Trevor and Sypha's lifetimes and forego the other Belmonts.
SovereignAure I agree strongly with the cycle of a new Belmont similar to JoJo. As much as I love Trevor and Sypha, I can see the writers jumping a few centuries to introduce new characters like Richter and Maria and potentially start their own take on the Symphony of the Night storyline since it’s the most popular.
I don't think he's gullible, he's just desperate for some kind of human connection and companionship. You have to consider he might well be the only one of his kind. He's lonely on a level that none of us could probably ever understand. And the lesson I think is less "don't trust humans" and more "don't trust just anyone who says they're your friend, because there are people out there who would only use you for their own ends." I just hope that Trevor and Sypha find their way back to him before he falls too far.
I don't know if you just worded it weirdly or if you really think that, but still I have to say it: If you think that rape is an appropriate way to teach someone a lesson, then please don't say anything more. Don't disregard his trauma (and a trauma that is sadly way too common for way too many people) like that by handwaving it away with "Well, he should have known humans can't be trusted". That's just victim blaming, which is horrible. The shitstains emotionally manipulated him and exploited his loneliness in the cruelest way possible, and you're here talking like he deserved this. Nobody deserves this. Of course he has now lost trust in humans, but it's not a lesson he needed to be taught! Especially since the theme of the show is that humanity is a giant grey area and people can be equally kind and cruel. He wasn't taught a lesson, he was betrayed and (literally) scarred for life. Again, maybe you just worded it weirdly, but it really irked me so I had to say it. Cheers!
@@magiv4205 alucard never said no. I agree on what you said about rape. But that scene wasn't it. The plan was to seduce him so he'd let down his guard then strike. Raping him would have been entirely a different scene.
@@samreddig8819 Ok, maybe given the circumstances, rape is not the most accurate word. But it's not entirely wrong either. It was at the very least coersion, and either way, it sure as hell wasn't consensual. Hell, he cried during the whole thing, if that's not a red flag I don't know what is. Also, let's not forget that he is literally a teenager in an adults body, which makes it even more disturbing.
Ok, I finished it just a minute ago and here is the upload. The timing is perfect! The last episode was an absolute punch in the gut! I honestly felt like someone ripped a part of me out. Especially the Alucard's arch. The last scene, when he walks back to the castle, made my cry...
Somehow this show is like Game of Throne: Sex, violence and surprises but more beautifully shown. Also, there is not too much different characters maybe :D The animation is just the best thing in this show
@@patrickripleyiii134 the post but clarity was real in that room. Gotta love how the ring is pretty much just a wedding ring. Haha Poor guy says some things mid fuck rattle and now he's being controlled by a ring on his finger. He'll surely get some much needed revenge soon.
I did feel the Alucard and vampire sisters story line did feel very 'damm your sudden but inevitable betrayal' also twist in the town story line was wtf. But overall an awesome show.
I was a little disappointed in Hector. SPOILERS: You would think, having known two vampires and being deceived by both of them, that he would have put up his guard just a little bit with Lenore. It feels like he hasn't learned anything.
@@DoubleADwarf both of the forge masters actions leave a little to be desired. Hector had to know the outcome but I think he was looking for someone to tell him what to do while salving his conscience by going I have no choice and his offsider is as bad claiming he wanted no trouble while basically doing everything possible to pick a fight.
I dont think Alucard story is weak. I think it more breaks our hearts because he is a hero. Was. Then two people who wormed their way into his heart while he was lonely. Then they tried to kill him. It broke him because he craves human contact. I think it was telling us more and maybe evening telling us that Alucard will be turned into the next big show down.
I disagree, he didn't impale them for no reason, he impaled them so people wouldn't come to the castle anymore. Furthermore, the impalement was a torture method. He didn't use it to torture them.
Best girl:Sypha Best boy:Alucard(sorry Trevor) Best couple:SyphaXTrevor(holy shit what a cute couple they are in season 3!) Most hated characters:Sumi and Taka(God I hope Dracula has some “fun” with them in hell) Most relatable character:Trevor(I only hope to one day find a spunky redheaded GF one day)
Imagine going to hell after failing to kill the son of the most powerful and evil vampire that ever existed, those two are not going to have fun down there.
Lessons we've learned from Castlevania Lore: Whips & Magic rock Sex equals betrayal( sometimes) Don't trust towns folk If someone calls u a bastard, they're your friend. Churches( of this era) equal excommunication, cults, hiding secrets or don't liked to questioned under penalty of death.
Yea I gotta say the two japanese characters felt so outta place like damn they traveled all the way from japan to Europe on foot? I guess castlevania is a japanese IP so you gotta include japanese people at some point.
not so fresh I assumed that because of Aria of Sorrow, and Dawn of Sorrow that he would train them??? Then go to Japan???? Idk it was weird, I genuinely hated how they hurt him like that. But the whole situation with the twins took the same time as Trevor and Sypha, and it would’ve felt easier if it was a longer period of time.
later alucard will go to japan and dress a modern suit with black hair, i thought this was the build up to that but the awful twist for the sake of shock value ruined that.
My thoughts on season 3 SPOILERS AHEAD: I liked this season, but I thought the sex scenes at the end were a little gratuitous. The battles at the end of the season were so much fun to watch, and then it would switch to one of the unnecessary (to show) sex scenes and kinda ruined the pacing of both those scenes. I love Alucard, he's a good boy, but man, they really made what felt like a pointless side plot. Like, I get the character development he got, but the execution felt so... Flat. The threesome felt completely random and came from out of nowhere and then the end of that felt like I got whiplash? Like, I was seeing Alucard in that relationship as more of an older brother to them, and that plot could have been left to stew longer for more impact. The back to back sex scenes felt predictably monotonous, Lenore was obvious, and the weird out of no-whereness of the threesome made it seem more sinister. On the other hand, I loved whenever Trevor and Sypha were on screen, even if their plot wasn't as important. Their chemistry and dialogue was golden and an absolute breath of fresh air. They don't pull that wishy-washy crap where they almost get together, but then something happens garbage, they aren't shitty to each other, and they don't get into any relationship drama. They're just in a relationship and it doesn't effect how badass they are (thank the gods they didn't make Sypha a damsel or I'd have lost it). Gods, they were in fact weirdly cute together, and I wanted to see more of them. Those two were the shining beacon of positivity that season 3 needed, and the only healthy relationship so far. I really liked the Isaac plot too, the philosophy and the strangers who kindly made him think about what his motivations made him way more relatable as a character compared to the first two seasons. It was nice to see him have actually amicable interactions with humans instead of just Hector. Speaking of Hector, man, that sure was a thing that happened. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, Hector's plot felt a little slow at points, especially with the Styria ladies feeling a little on the inactive side. I liked Saint Germain, he kinda stole the season for me overall with his quick witty banter and mysterious backstory. All in all, I felt like that one vine: "Are you guys fucking? Are you serious?! Right in front of MY salad (high stakes, high tension, beautifully animated fight scenes)?!"
Sexual climax and violence climax are equal. Alucard's threesome was pretty null, their deaths could be done any other way, violent or betrayal or just them leaving, the sexual action wasnt major, except for Alucard being lonely and possibly even more lonely now. But hector's betrayal could have only been though sexual and emotional desire. Its *the* plan. Its *the* climax. Its equal in importance, to Trevor and Sypha's fighting though demons to actually learn of Hell's portal.. which now changes a metric fuckton of shit that can happen. Sexual tension is equal in both though, I dont know how you missed that. Lenorar literally puts on every battey eye fucktoy tease there is in the book, it's so obvious that shes interested in fucking him, to get him cooperative. And the twins are just as playful and flirty, both of them tease and flirt with alucard softly, asking for him to cook and carry them, physically close and affectionate. While the sex scene itself wasnt great, their betrayals though sex to get close, was wasted. But Hector and Lenora was appropriate, it couldn't have work any other way, cuz fucking obviously, vampires mistress and slave boy was the deal to start with. And ultimate exactly what hector was betrayed with.
@@TheKiroshi I get what you're saying, but what I'm saying is the sex scenes where needlessly explicit and lengthy and ruined the flow of the amazing battle. Just because you can "cleverly" say both sets of scenes where climaxes both literally and figuratively, doesn't mean they fit well together. It was kind of a mess. The Lenora Hector scene was obviously coming. I never said I couldn't see her being flirty, that part was obvious. Again their scene was just needlessly explicit and groan inducing whenever the really well done action scenes cut to one of the two scenes of either party just hardcore fuckin'. Alucard scene was questionable at best, cooking for someone and touching don't necessarily have to be sexual. Alucard and the twins(?) didn't read completely as romantic or sexual to me, for numerous reasons. The cooking could be seen as him just taking care of his guests, the touching because them both being touch starved from living alone with few other people. At last they could relax knowing they were safe. It absolutely didn't have to be sexual. Again, I liked season three a lot, it just had to cram almost 4 different stories into one season in 10 episodes and ruined what would have otherwise been an incredible climax. It felt kind of Game of Thrones-y and I personally wouldn't consider that a good thing. The sex scenes are too distracting, long, and explicit than necessary. I can rewatch the first two seasons and have fun, I can rewatch half of season 3 and have fun, but I don't think I could get through that scene again and that's a real fuckin' shame because that animation in the fight scene was gorgeous.
The threesome was so fucking weird and out of nowhere like i saw the twins and alucard's relationship as sibling/family-like I can't get over how forced and random it was. Guess it's what they would call "fan service"???
Lmao I was watching it with someone and he said. "Yo, wouldn't it be funny if.... Oh my god... It was a joke! STOPSTOPSTOP" and I was laughing my ass off which was what helped me take my mind off of the sex scenes lol
@Danny Stuivenberg I don't disagree with the animation industry needing to take nudity seriously as when used with the right contexts, it can make for a very powerful storytelling device as it was earlier in the the season (Hector being naked in the cell showed how much the vampires think of him as 'just an animal' and I thought that was a good use). *However*, I can't agree with the rest of your statement. The first two seasons of this show never set a precedent that they'd have gratuitous on screen sex scenes and throwing those into the show in the middle of an important fight scene made them needlessly distracting. The level of violence was clear from the first 5 minutes of this show, so you can be prepared for the intensity you're about to watch throughout the rest of the show and if you can't, you can click something else. Also, there's nothing wrong with people being squicked by watching hardcore sex scenes, especially if it wasn't something they signed on to do with this show, and calling them prude is dismissing those feelings. I might not like Game of Thrones at all, but at the very least, they established early on in the series that you should expect hardcore, on screen sex in the show alongside the violence. I would be saying the opposite if the show set the standards of gratuitous sex scenes in the first two seasons, but shoved the intense violence in the last season at random, but that wasn't the case.
Honestly, I have a problem with season 3. I agree that Alcuard's arc was weird and weak but moreover I didn't enjoy them jumping rapidly between the four arcs as they reached their climax in the second to last episode. It's a common technique to build excitement in movies but it just felt distracting, especially when some are exciting battles and other are manipulation and others are just sex. They didn't coalesce; I would have been much happier seeing each of the stories play out to their conclusion in longer chunks, as in earlier episodes.
Yeah, I found all the cutting about distracting too, especially the cutting to the two seemingly-random sex scenes during the climactic fight. The thing is, those scenes *were* actually big climactic scenes for each of their arcs, but for some reason the writers decided to only reveal that *after* the fact. So for the audience, with no way of knowing that, all cutting to those scenes did was ruin the tension, rather than actually build on it.
I think that Alucard's arc could've been good if they didn't just seemingly get rid of the trainees with that out of nowhere scene at the end. Also in my opinion it seemed like they swore a little too much but that's just a little thing, overall I thought the season was pretty good
Needless to say, Netflix struck GOLD with this one And considering the director for the series is working on a DMC anime and is trying to get the rights to Berserk the future looks BRIGHT
I think the director was also going to do an Assassin's Creed adaption as well. IGN had an interesting video suggesting they could be trying to establish a loosely interconnected animated universe spanning different video game adaptions using St. Germain and time travel/alternate reality travel through the Infinite Corridor as the connective tissue between series.
As much as I loved season 3, I really wish they would have used it to wrap up the story behind Trevor's second game. Other than that all the different plots really caught my attention and made me feel for the characters
@Orga777 guess we will have to wait and see. The plot of Curse of Darkness is Hector swearing to kill Isaac after Isaac murdered his wife. So something tells me Hectors wife from the game is being replaced by Lenore for the Netflix cartoon. Chances are she may not survi e long into season 4
Season 3 felt like a set up to Curse of Darkness, which primarily focuses on Hector's quest against Isaac. This season felt stalled compared to the other two season but on the other hand they have set the groundwork for future events, Dracula's cult chief among them. It'd be interesting to see if they stay in this time line or move on to the others. Seeing Ritcher and Alucard team up would be amazing.
This seems like a weird place to leave Trevor and Sypha. Felt more like an act 2 ending. Unless they i tend to heavily compress the timeline and stick to using Trevor and Sypha exclusively and forego the future Belmonts altogether. I can see them trying to do games set in the future within the lifetimes of Trevor and Sypha. If they don't compress the timeline, we probably need one more season to satisfactorily wrap up Trevor and Sypha's arcs.
"I've played Aria of Sorrow" Huzzah! A man of culture! I liked this season, aside from episode 9. I didn't have a good time and neither did the characters, lol.
It feels like trevor sypha and alucard, the ones who killed Dracula to end his genocidal quest against humanity are seeing how humans can be bad and the negative traits they have and what Dracula could have seen while isaac who was on the same genocidal quest is seeing the more positive traits of humanity
The twins were EXPENDABLE that's why they weren't cohesive in n motivation and however you felt. And of course sypha and Trevor are gonna be side characters this go around! We have a bunch of new ppl to watch for... It makes sense
Cats12SomthingOrAnother cats Technically everyone participating in those sex scenes are voluntarily doing so in as much as seduction is ever voluntary. So not really rape scenes there is not extreme coercion physically, mentally, or chemically, just a few people making stupid decisions based on faulty emotions.
Ok phew I wasnt the only that thought alucards moments was flat. I liked his position in the story and where it was going with the 2 vampire hunters, but we barely got any of him and them interacting or glimpses into why they wanted the castle to move so damn badly. It was just info dump at the end. And the sex scene was just weird. And no not for the fact of the 3some with another guy, but for the fact it was just random. Like no lead up no alucard saying anything or even a brief relief after for him to take it all in and be happy with his situation. They just sprung the trap and and info dumped us saying alucard was hiding things like what??? But the turn for where alucard may be going and turning into his father is nice and I cant wait to see that or what they do with that. All in all, loved the season but that near the end of it was just woah
VIZE KUN if the writer really wants him to become bad or whatever he at least needs to earn it. It’s bad enough that’s even something that might happen but if they do a danerys and just make him decide to go insane the show will have disappointed me.
@Zach Bartolo it wouldve been fine if they wouldve stuck with hector's sex scene and then dedicated alucards to the last episode to really nail it on the head
@@MissMatched see even I saw it like that afterwards cause in a way it was them stealing his innocence but especially his humanity. And I like that somewhat because it gives reason to h ik m leading down his fathers path but at the same time I wanted to play out differently.
I just gotta disagree with the opening words, Castlevania is more of its own thing that an adaptation, think of an spin-off. It's good on it's own merit, but some events and characters show that they do NOT really know Castlevania, just superficially. Still, it's not entirely a demerit, Castlevania isn't known for plot, it's known for gameplay.
@@Raxyz_0 Uh, no, this is an adaptation of Castlevania 3, and it kept the basic structure of Castlevania 3. You could make an argument for season 3 being a spin-off, but like it or not the first 2 are direct re-tellings of C3. They might've changed a metric shitton of stuff, but they're still re-tellings. Not to mention, for my money literally all of the changed made it better.
@@Peasham Season 3 is mostly a bridge to lead into the Curse of Darkness era (with 1 and 2 being the Dracula's Curse era), which is Trevor's final arc before things move on the next generation of Belmonts, as well as trying to come up with a fitting reason for Alucard to get so despondent he just decides to seal himself away forever (or ~300 years as it turned out being). Realizing he's on the verge of taking the same path his father did would be reasonable justification for him deciding that it's better to simply seal himself away since there simply isn't enough love for the human world to stay in it (even if he does like Trevor/Sypha that simply isn't enough to sustain him) but doesn't want to go down Dracula's path as to not tarnish his mother's memory either. The 8-bit ending sort of implied he felt he was a monster that didn't deserve to remain in the world and chose to seal himself "forever" as a result, but this isn't an 8-bit plot anime, so it does need a bit more build up to justify the why he does it.
I thought their "reward" was to give Alucard the most pleasant and painless death they could give him. The distrust angle while sad in hindsight just seemed out of the blue.
8:30 I had trouble swallowing that too. Like he let them look around the castle as much as they liked. They said it themselves they thought he was just lonely and, because of that loneliness, teaching them slowly so he'd have company a bit longer. They decide they're going to give him a "reward" for keeping it together all this time to convince him to give them a shot and hurry things along but then out of nowhere it's like the writers just forgot and decided they wanted to murder him????????
Whether or not it was well justified is a different story, but they do explain why in the middle of the weird kink stuff. They had their own agenda (intending to use the castle as an armory and to teleport back home), and they said that they didn't believe him to be honest with them about magic or whether or not the castle could still teleport. They assumed he was being dishonest and taking advantage of them like they claim happened to them throughout their journey. Alucard is a dhampir, sp why would he be any different than any of the humans or vampires they knew who inevitably abused them? The logic is sound. It's just not very well executed in order to make the betrayal a shock and surprise to the viewer.
the twins didn`t try to kill alucard because they were simply impatience. was because they felt like they were being take advantage of. many people believe that the twins were planning on betraying alucard from the very beginning because of the eye contact they exchange to one another. but that`s not actually it. when they first did that,they had a smile on their face. given what sumi said about " you wont help us. nobody has help us ". that scene tells us they felt relieve.that alcuard can give them what they were looking that that other didn`t. but soon,their expression began to change when they exchange eye contact is when alucard didn`t show them the rest of the castle. this is when they began to question if alucard was really going to help them. this happen many time. but this wasn`t what drove them to kill alucard, it`s when they think back about what he said about his father. this is when they had serious doubt that alucard was gonna help them. they were aware they he was lonely and they believe he was just doing what he can to keep them around. and to them,that felt like they were being held captive again and they wanted out.( and that`s not even the only reason ) sure, they could have just left, but they were on a mission to save their country and they were never close from achieving it because no one out there help them in their cause. they were desperate, so they thought that this was the only chance they had left. the other thing reason is that they even felt his pain for killing his father and they thought by killing him will relieve him of that pain. they thought they were doing him a favor. the one thing i got right is that is that they were kept in captivity for soo long, but what i got wrong was the meaning behind it. give the fact they were only train to just get slaughter when they reach a certain rank. it`c clear that they were never taught the ways from right or wrong. but you would think by being raise by vampires would mean that they would turn out like hector and isaac. its the fact they were force to watch people who climb up the ranks everytime just to be annihilated by cho in the worst ways possible is the reason why they even have a shred of humanity in them. with all of that, it actually makes their motives justified. and then theres alucard. just like the twins,alucard thought they were taking advantage of him. that they were only pretending to be nice to him just to get what they want. this in turn destroy alucard and made him loses a bit of his humanity after he kill them and impale them in stick. this also made him have a better understanding of his father as well. the arc is about two sides who miss judge each other thought they were being use.its not only just a set up for him to turn out like his father. if you ask me, this makes alucard arc one of the best written ones in the entire series. it one of the reason why i prefer this season to
@@gutsonthemic5261 y'all have a MAJOR reading problem. I'm not saying they didn't give a reason when they tried to kill him, I'm saying they literally told us they were going to try getting him to warm up to them first by rewarding him for staying strong during that month of being alone. They were enacting that plan... and it seemed to be working... but then they just switch to plan B for no fucking reason.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid this was what they were planning to do. they didn`t make love to him just to convince him to see more of the castle. they needed him to lower his guard so they can kill him to take the castle. hell, they even had sword prepare. this was their plan
@@gutsonthemic5261 Still bad at reading I see. That "plan" only comes out after they betray him. The last time we see them talking alone to each other they have a different plan and reasoning though. It's JUST bad writing.
it’s wild to watch a show and not really know who you want to cheer on the most. every character has their own personal goals and struggles and flaws. you almost want everyone to succeed but each goal intertwines with another, not everyone can win
being honest i really disliked this season... the animation is good as always but man do things draaaaaag since the story is mostly carmela just being like "mmm yes look at the plot im plotting my plot that is gonna be soooooo great my plot i am plotting, yeah my plot is gonna so world changing and insane my plot look at my other vampire sister who are also plotting yes! we plot plots that are so complex and perfect that plotplotplotplotplotplotplotplot" im tired of her, and isaac being like "hey humans bad even tho im meeting good humans FUCK ALL HUUUUMANS" and just repeating his backstory we learned about in season 2 and he just keeps talking about how he met some asshole who was an asshole and thats why he wants to kill a lot of humans
Aaaaand you're the first person to accurately represent the frustrations I have with this season. None of it was awful. But it felt like exposition dumping for the next season, isaac is really not any more complex than he already was, alucard is more bitter but the arc that got him there felt forced and badly crafted, trevor and Sypha were the best this season but their storyline took far too long. Build up is necessary, but when your build up is boring and largely tension less, that's a huge problem. Attack on titan season 3 part 1 was a lot of build up to the climax, but it knew how to be interesting, suspenseful and fun.
@@HORSESNDOGS9 Indeed and TBH trevor and sypha side of the story was the only thing that i enjoyed but then it ruined everything at the end with the sudden reveal that the judge was an evil child murderer!!... that was so sudden, out of nowhere and the only reason for that happened is to force trevor and sypha into being sad and angry for next season
@thadedede in my opinion... the writer wanted an edgy/shocking moment with alucard and was like "Sh*t where do i even slap this on? the season is almost done!" And just force it at the end with a BS excuse
@@TheGameDomeGuy yeah it did come as a shock, but I thought of it more as even the people you think are good are hiding something, or are capable of terrible things in the name of "good". Either way, it had more foreshadowing and set up than that lame twist in Alucard's arc. All the more reason the village arc could've been a better two parter story and the portal thing could've been attached to a different story
thank you for making this video!!! i feel like i don’t hear much about castlevania and that it’s underrated. i am completely blown away at how absolutely stunning this show is. every single thing about it is just perfection in my eyes. i truly appreciate you taking the time to talk about it and showing it a lot of love!!!
this show is the hypest shit ever, I found out the new season dropped in the evening and was up till 4;30 binging it cuz I couldn;'t stop, I could talk it up to no end, everyone please watch it, I'll pobably watch the whole show over again before we get season 4
I really loved this season but the twins were mostly filler to have Alucard do something instead of twiddling his thumbs in the castle for a dozen episodes, and I hope they aren't making him turn against his humanity because of them But Isaac is becoming my favorite story line, they are really fleshing out his character
Didn't really like how Alucard's arc was handled (mainly because the two new characters felt like plot devices instead of actual people), and I wish the different stories tied together in some way. I felt like there were too many separate stories happening which detached me from the story at especially at the end where this becomes more apparent.
@@WhiteScorpio2 He had a female love interest in a game, but never anything *official* like Trevor and Sypha. So technically there's no solid confirmation he was straight/bi/gay/etc in the games.
2:45 Did you ever watch any of the DC Animated Movie? The series has more common with them rather than anime. I advise you to broaden your horizon in the western animation department.
the ending was percfet because *SPOILERS* when they tried to ressuract dracula i was 100% sure that the season will end with him coming back to life and that's it. the percfet thing about this was that i was actually right. because this season ended with alucard deciding to seal himself from the world (and humans even more) and thus sending himself on the path to becoming the new dracula who lives in solitude and hate humanity with all his heart they teased dracula coming back to life. and he really did, but not in the way we expected. and it is absolutly genuis.
I would love to see a review of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated! The characters are actually interesting and has a great art style! If he had to review just one episode, for fetish purposes he should review s2 e19 “The Devouring” since it involves two characters gaining a massive amount of weight. It would probably be better to review the show overall and mention spoilers.
@@RyuSaarva well it does relate some connection. It finally explain whos St Germain and the infinite corridor now while the game just show up without explaination.
he is a completely different person in the game, he is like a distant past version of himself who only cares about his personal objective instead of working towards something greater.
i feel so bad for alucard. honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if alucard turned out like dracula at this point.
I wish he had better story arc this season.
Well you saw what he did in the last episode saying “it worked for dad”
Me too, I want to hug him when he started crying
@@imgone1360 hhh yes :( he's such a good boy, he doesn't need all this
Tesla-Effect true I realized that too but it kept most people away and there may be semblance to that sene when Trevor returns
My favourite thing about season 3 is probably Alucard's dolls.
I’m sad to say I feel like he’s gonna be the climax
Alucard- Dear God...I believe I've lost my mind...
*SPOILERS* (but why are you here without watching it first)
Which dolls? The ones inside the castle or the ones pitched outside?
@@eth3189 the former. Didn't much care for the latter.
@@eth3189 Bruh 😂
There was a scene in the first season, where Trevor like puts his finger on his whip to change its trajectory mid swing, and it sold me that they put thought into how a unpowered human could fight these demonic and vampiric hordes
Makes literally no physical sense, but it's ridiculously cool, so I'll let it slide.
Well he has it easy. Apparently just touching the whip end against a demon's skin makes it EXPLODE. LOL what is with that.
The power up during the finale makes no sense but it looked too damn cool.
Chad Serrant well twice the whip twice the damage, increased his dps by alot
"Unpowered"?...
You mean the descendant of a hyper trained family dedicated to fight monsters with a whip that kill anything dark?
Oh, sorry, I was talking about Castlevania, you about this Saturday morning cartoon of same name.
Season 3 protagonists: "Why do I even bother?..."
Season 3 antagonists: *Crash Bandicoot dancing*
@Mr BadAccent I consider the Vampire women, Isaac, Taka, Sumi, and the Judge to be the antagonists, to a lesser extent the cult as well though they were being manipulated by a demon, so not as much. Considering Hector's role in Curse of Darkness and his position throughout the season, I would not consider him an antagonist despite being a forgemaster that is fraternizing with the sisters. Isaac is still pretty clearly an Antagonist, an understandable and dynamic one (not unlike Dracula himself) but his goals are too problematic still and he wants to kill Hector who is pretty clearly a protagonist.
The Judge died but he still had the last laugh and died happy with his apple tree trap. Taka and Sumi died too, but left Alucard literally scarred after he showed them almost nothing but kindness and transparency after revealing he also killed the person they came to hunt. Vampire sisters won out full stop and got more than what they were even planning for. The cult members died but still pulled off their ritual and the town ended up dead. Isaac got his city of undead people, etc.
Trevor, Sypha, Hector, and Alucard had victories but no reason to celebrate and things look bleaker for them all. Each of them has a kind of poisoned and hopeless mindset going forward. Trevor and Sypha no longer think what they're doing is actually helping since they couldn't save anyone, Alucard had to kill 2 people he considered his friends and must bear being alone again while being more resistant to letting others into his life. While Hector is in a more comfortable place, he now has no free will, can't stop the coming human culling he betrayed Dracula to prevent in the first place, and had his emotions betrayed by yet another vampire that sold him on the idea that she had his best interest at heart. San Germaine got most of what he wanted contently, but he is still shrouded in mystery, and is more of a side character good guy than a fully fledged protagonist to me.
@@PANICBLADE oof, that's a long read.
Also, "CRASH BANDICOOOOT, CRASH BANDICOOOT! DUH DA DA DUN! CRASH CRASH A BANDICOOT!"
@@PANICBLADE I consider the demon with all the eyes the main big bad of this season, even if it doesn't speak a word
@@MrKaiju-sr8wu Or um... Have a name of its own apparently.
@Mr BadAccent you see because Issac was a Slave he is just in his actions that he wants to end humanity because they were evil to him but everyone who shows just some kindness he just melts and goes of course I won't kill you Issac just wants some human kindness.
Everybody gangsta until they watch EP 9-10
The episodes that breaks you or gives you an insane adrenaline boost.
That is so true
I was SCREAMING in those last two episodes, a lot of shit happened that I did not expect haha
Episode 9 was that shift from 15% "oh shit" To 100% "oh shit"
The animation and music selection in those fight scenes was so goddamn beautiful and gave me goosebumps
It honestly feels like Isaac was the only one with a happy ending.
GAGAGAGAGAAGAG this is wonderful! PRANK! It is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. GAGAGAGAG! But I am happy again because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I make cool YT videos with them! Good evening, love and peace, dear gear
@@AxxLAfriku What's with the "GAGAGA" thing?
Well I mean Hector got some fucc, sure it didnt end well but, still got some fucc
yeah, the situation with alucard broke my fucking heart, Isaac was the only one who got even a sliver of happiness
He was the only one with a character arc.
Honestly, the whole time I saw this new season, I was hoping Trevor and Sypha would visit Alucard and check up on him. But, the season definitely ends with a moment where I fully expect Sypha to say something like "We need a break... let's go see Alucard." then Trevor "Yeah, ok."
Dakuu75 That said though I am curious about what’ll happen when they Alucard after what happened to the poor guy...
Same. I was watching this on my phone wishing the would visit him since I saw him talking to Doll Trevor and Doll Sypha
I want that to happen but I doubt it, they never mentioned him in this season
DaedricTV It wouldn’t surprise me if it did though. Maybe an event so catastrophic that Trevor and Sypha need to enlist Alucard’s help again? I mean the soon to happen war between Carmilla and Issac is bound to cause enough of a stur.
DaedricTV they mentioned him they were comparing him to saint Germaine and lonely he was
Sypha attempting and using electric-magic, adding to her arsenal of magic spells was a fantastic part of that battle.
YES!! people need to start talking about how strong her elemental manipulation is!!
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She's basically an underpowered Avatar...
@@dubbymazlo because Avatar is one-of-a-kind the Chosen one demigod of a bender while Sypha is your run-of-the-mill sorceress?
@@cheeseclover but Sypha doesn't manipulate the elements, it's friggin magic, she can use lightning, fire, ice, water, wind, light, darkness, etc, she in't the avatar and shit, she is a real mage that can do everything aang does and more.
This season also made me distrust anyone offering me apples from their apple tree.
Span especially ones that are near the crossroads
I knew as soon as he talked to that boy, he's was doing some henious shit. But I thought he was diddling kiddies but I don't know what's worse
It has its little pleasures...
whahahaha
as soon as I see more than one pair shoes in someones room.
imma head out
Although it's a little obvious for anyone expecting it, your comment could count as a really heavy spoiler.
1. Same about Alucard's arc here. Very sad yes, but didn't do much. Just made me hurt for the guy.
2. Loooove the captain! Hope he comes back and doesn't die ;w;
3. Best of luck to Hector and Issac ;w;
If they follow some of the story to Castlevania Curse of Darkness it won't end well for Issac, and Hector will live and leave.
@Mauricio Aguilera even if he did, he wouldn`t rely too heavy on it because warren tends to be original
The alucard sex scene was just so unessasary and uncomfortable to watch
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Uhmm Alucard's arc was fantastic and totally necessary wdym. Thats the whole point to see him starting to distrust humans and become more like his father.
Alucards story was weak, but the pay off at the end of the cycle repeating was payoff enough. Such a great season.
Didn't expect to see you here, Chris. Nice job with the Snark Tank. 10/10
Lol second commenter when he has such a large subscriberbase
Hot take,
Trevor and Syphers story was good.
A good RPG is about about living in a fluid world. Not every quest is the "main" mission. What we got was a major side quest that help darken the overall mood from last seasons "ride into the sunset ending." This is Castlevania, it's a gothic horror and Sypher has been reminded that the world is a dark place with unhappy endings.
Their side story was important to bring the audience back into the thick of terror and knowing that the good guys might not win, just survive.
The importance of the Trevor/Sypha arc was really that even if Isaac is disconnected from the rest of the world, his army can act on it's own.
It adds more weight to Isaac's army than them just being jobbers to be slain by Trevor and the like and that he needs to be stopped or things will spiral out of control.
And the thing is, it _could've_ been a main mission.
If it had succeeded for the vampires, we would've had season 2 2, electric boogaloo for season 4.
Sypher lol
Castlevania season 3: Hector is still profoundly stupid
He may be, but I still feel sorry for his high levels of stupidness
And lucky! He got hot vampire wife complete with the wedding ring which binds them!
My poor baby is a bag of dumbness and it hurts
He simpin for leanor now
Me during episode 9: "Jesus fuck why are you so horny!!! Stop being so stupid and horny!!!"
Saint Germain is easily the best char in S3. His name rang bells on my head so I googled him, and he's a real guy, tied to mysticism and magic lore and even his triangle shaped book is real, its entirely written in code. He is an actual prince to Transylvania....so....naturally...I spent the whole season thinking he was Dracula in disguise....only to be proven wrong in the end.
He's also in the one of the Castlevania games as a time traveler.
As GiantButterKnife said, he is a time traveler the Curse of Darkness the same game from which both Issac and Hector originate. He is slightly different, but the clothes he wears beneath that green/grey cloak and hat does resemble his outfit from that game. If you want possible spoilers check out the game, if not avoid it I leave this option for all those who are curious.
@@SovereignAure Wait, is that why he knows about toilet paper, lol.
killer501224
Yes and why he originally had a coin from the wrong era and location.
@@SovereignAure that's cool and thanks for the information. I never played the game so I have no idea what's going to happen but hopefully they can handle the time travel story well.
Warcraft: "Making a videogame adaptation is impossible."
Castlevania: "Pathetic."
If they made Warcraft a series. Maybe it could work.
What ? The Warcraft movie was great.
Bullshit
Warcraft has made many great videogame adaptations.
Just not a Netflix one.
@@hbudiman14 I've been begging for it since the start. They could just remake Lord Of The Clans on Netflix and it would have the exact same tone and appeal as Castlevania without having to change the source material one bit.
Warcraft movie was great!
Fun fact about why Castlevania is SUCH A GOOD ADAPTATION: Warren Ellis (the writer) hasn't played a single Castlevania game. However, the producer Adi Shankar and the lead animators Sam and Adam Deats are HUGE Castlevania fans.
So you have a writer who is focused only on story (he's done a TON of research but has 0 plans to play a single Castlevania game, and never has before) based on interesting tidbits he finds in the lore that he reads about extensively. And then he leaves details and moments, such as fight scenes, for the huge fan animation leads to design, with their sensibility + their love of Castlevania forming imagery video game fans can relate to.
That balance + the skill of all involved is the reason it works so well. If they were all just fans, the chances of alienating new audiences is way, way higher. If none of them were, you'd remove the spirit of the original franchise.
@@anekisamurai6492 wow people still be calling bisexual people degenerates in 2020
@@serdarsdnc That's what they are,abnormality is what they practice.
@@anekisamurai6492 stfu subhuman
@@ZXbolterZX Says the one who dwells in sodomy,people like you are why i'm a firm believer that the AXIS should have won WW2 instead of the Allies.
Aneki Samurai something tells me that if they made a heroic atheist a Christian, you wouldn’t have a problem.
Also, it is cannon that the Belmont’s were excommunicated from the church and have a long rocky history with it. Alucard did sleep in coffin for hundreds of years after killing Dracula, even if there is no canon reason
If there's one thing I've learned from Castlevania, it's that if you aren't in a climactic battle you better be having sex.
If there's one thing I learned from Castlevania, it's that if shit's going down, sex is the last thing you wanna be having. And if anyone offers it, you need to fucking RUN.
I can do both
For those attempting climax during the climax, they only reached anti-climax.
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“Season 3 raised the stakes”
*sees what Alucard did in the last scene*
Oh yeah it definitely raised some stakes
This season " is better than sex."
But not better than beer.
Especially when Alucard gets a threesome
Telltale font: Sypha will remember this
I loved Alucard's story! I feel bad for him.
Me: *Yanks on shirt collar*
Season three was frigging insane dude, I loved every moment of it.
Quick fun fact: the designs of a lot of the first creatures and characters came from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Frost-Bite bro I loved that all of monsters were literally the game monsters
I am upset how the minotaur went out NGL. I was expecting some badass tag team action with the werewolf.
They even had Chtul- I mean, Malachi
But I wonder if they’ll stick to the general storyline for the games, cause Trevor and Sypha die lol, but they do have Simon
DoUbLeKnOtOnThIcCyEeZyS they don’t die in a game, just of old age.
8:44 its because they where raised as slaves to a vampire that they have that mentality
they know to act pleasant and play along to keep their 'master' happy, but are untrusting underneath that mask
that and as they hinted, they probably got their thrust repeatedly thrown in their faces in their trip through europe.
Though I do feel it could have been foreshadowed a bit more.
The moment they were introduced I recognized them as throw-away characters, but the criticism towards them lies in their own reasoning.
They have this mentality to not trust anybody but themselves, which is all fair and good. But the issue lies in how they seem justified in their mistrust, when Alucard has been shown to be nothing but giving. He was honest about why he couldn't move the castle. He showed them a wealth of monster slaying knowledge and promised to teach them magic; a promise the twins latch onto, which they later use as justification to try and kill Alucard when he hasn't taught them any.
From that, you almost get the impression that it's been months since Alucard made that promise, but if we're to assume that this story coincides with Trevor and Sypha's story, it's only been a couple of days. It's fair to say that they can't trust Alucard regarding the castle, but it really seems like two days passed where Alucard didn't teach them magic, so they decide he's useless to them and they have to kill him.
Even the writers seemingly think this makes sense, that the twins are justified, by giving Alucard this dumb line about "I never lied to you... but I never said I didn't have a magic sword, either!" but it honestly just comes off as idiotic and forced to have some sort of a conflict in Alucard's story.
This would all honestly be fine if they DID show a long passage of time. If they showed the twins being impatient or distrustful before that point, alongside Alucard at least being somewhat reluctant to teach them magic. Then they would at least have SOME reason to come to the conclusion that they did without it seeming totally out of left field to an ignorant audience.
Season 3 was about Trust and Betrayal, Taki & Sumi lost the ability to trust and it cost them. Alucard's trust cost him, too.
@@NordicNer
Same when I first saw them I made a bet with myself to see how long they live and I was right.
I feel like another reason why they didn't trust him was because or what Cypha said in season 2, "He just feels like a cold spot in the room." Sure he is nice and all but he gives off an aura of untrust that he may not be intentionally doing.
Yeah but damn couldn’t they have given him a month at least? It felt like gave him 3 days before throwing it all away
Lenore would say the word "cummies" unironically and you can't change my mind. If I had to come to this horrible realization after hearing her say "walkies", then so does everyone else.
Peter Wojewodzki weren’t you on another Season 3 Castlevania video? And why are you so obsessed with her saying that word??
@@CountOfMonteCristo_ I'm like the town-crier of god-awful takes. I go from site to site, comment section to comment section, ringing a bell shouting "hear-ye, hear-ye".
Oh, God. I need a mug.
I'll have coins in a minute.
Oh my god
Peter Wojewodzki CASTLEVANIA SEASON 3 PLOTTWIST😳😳😳youtu.be/kDcZsDxGz
I really like how Alucard’s arc started and ended but the rest of his arc was so weak compared to everyone else’s. Even if Trevor and cypha’s arc wasn’t super important it was endearing none the less while very little was interesting in alucard’s
It felt like this season was trying to make a statement about how the world they live in is really messed up.
And _SPOILER ALERT_ for the very final scene.
The last scene of Trevor and Cypha is exactly what clarified this to me. The "He found his little pleasures" demonstrates exactly why this season had to exist. Even though the last two seasons weren't light hearted, they weren't... Dark. This season wanted to take everything light about the series, and engulf it in darkness. Taking a generally righteous character like the Judge, and showing his most despicable and ugly side. And even though you'd have known the moment Sala fell into that pit that it belonged to The Judge. Or even the moment The Judge said "I killed Sala." Trevor reaffirming the disdain you should feel towards him shows how dark the series will now proceed with.
@@ebbandfloatzel Yeah the world is really fucked. Alucard got dicked down and didnt even get to finish.
@@nikostyleonyomamacoochie8513 Oh shut up. He was fucking raped, don't joke about that.
@@magiv4205 I was thinking the same thing. That was definitely a scene of paeudo-consensual sex turning into a very clear rape circumstance. Honestly hit me really fucking hard being a survivor myself, like I knew the show was obviously infinitely darker this season but damn.
@@magiv4205 Taken advantage of? Yes. Raped....eh. I don't think so. I hear a lot of discourse around that scene and I've rewatched it and dude seemed like an active participant (touching back and stuff) Not that what they did was right, but I don't think it's rape.
I hope i am not the only one that also enjoys your non-furry content
I like both
Were all here to cyberbully him for being a furry
As a furry, I can say I appreciate all of his content
Even the normal stuff
@@foxxbreath
Yeah me too.
I prefer the non-furry stuff, because being a furry is kinda weird. Furries are people who have sex in animal costumes, right?
7:55 Alucard's arc in this season is basically going through what every young man does when he enters his thirties and realize that he is turning into his father.
I literally watched all 10 episodes the day they came out
Same
I watched them all in a row, I didn't even stop to pee. I didn't mean to, I was just gripped
I too, and regretted the complete waste of time it was.
Swift Nimblefoot how is it a waste of time?
Swift Nimblefoot Sorry it wasn’t your cup of tea.
I have to agree with the point about the japanese duo, their turn at the end was not properly setup at all. I mean, they knew this guy for 3 days and turned on him because he wasn't 100% upfront about everything right away with a pair of strangers?
If they were loyal servants of that Japanese vampire lady, it would've been more believable.
actually,the more i think about it, alcuard`s arc is alot more complex than people believe it is.the twins didn`t try to kill alucard because they were simply impatience. was because they felt like they were being take advantage of. many people believe that the twins were planning on betraying alucard from the very beginning because of the eye contact they exchange to one another. but that`s not actually it. when they first did that,they had a smile on their face. given what sumi said about " you wont help us. nobody has help us ". that scene tells us they felt relieve.that alcuard can give them what they were looking that that other didn`t. but soon,their expression began to change when they exchange eye contact is when alucard didn`t show them the rest of the castle. this is when they began to question if alucard was really going to help them. this happen many time. but this wasn`t what drove them to kill alucard, it`s when they think back about what he said about his father. this is when they had serious doubt that alucard was gonna help them. they were aware they he was lonely and they believe he was just doing what he can to keep them around. and to them,that felt like they were being held captive again and they wanted out.( and that`s not even the only reason ) sure, they could have just left, but they were on a mission to save their country and they were never close from achieving it because no one out there help them in their cause. they were desperate, so they thought that this was the only chance they had left. the other thing reason is that they even felt his pain for killing his father and they thought by killing him will relieve him of that pain. they thought they were doing him a favor. the one thing i got right is that is that they were kept in captivity for soo long, but what i got wrong was the meaning behind it. give the fact they were only train to just get slaughter when they reach a certain rank. it`c clear that they were never taught the ways from right or wrong. but you would think by being raise by vampires would mean that they would turn out like hector and isaac. its the fact they were force to watch people who climb up the ranks everytime just to be annihilated by cho in the worst ways possible is the reason why they even have a shred of humanity in them. with all of that, it actually makes their motives justified. and then theres alucard. just like the twins,alucard thought they were taking advantage of him. that they were only pretending to be nice to him just to get what they want. this in turn destroy alucard and made him loses a bit of his humanity after he kill them and impale them in stick. this also made him have a better understanding of his father as well. the arc is about two sides who miss judge each other thought they were being use.its not only just a set up for him to turn out like his father. if you ask me, this makes alucard arc one of the best written ones in the entire series. it one of the reason why i prefer this season to
They got what they deserved IMO
That Alucard ending was bonkers honestly, it left me confused, shocked, and not in a good way...
Between the expressions exchanged behind Alucard's back. Their constant insistence on asking Alucard things they asked before as if they didn't believe him, and their backstory.
My reaction to them trying top kill him was an audible "There it is!"
I would have been more shocked if it didn't happen.
Same. It left me disgusted and heartbroken, i had a hunch they were going to betray him, but nothing could have prepared me for the extent of their cruelty. I did love his story arc, and my visceral reaction is proof that it was well done, but I desperately need him to have some happiness in s4. More than anything, I want to give him a big hug and never let him go. He has been through enough, please don't let him be hurt more.
Yeah it came out of nowhere, I hoped that their training would go on further and in season 4 would finally complete their quest.
CASTLEVANIA SEASON 3 PLOTTWIST😳😳😳th-cam.com/video/kDcZsDxGzU/w-d-xo.html
@@user-wm7kp8fk7n shut up.
I’m really, _really_ hoping Alucard doesn’t become a full-blown villain. That’d be a direct rejection of everything Alucard is, and would be too drastic a license to take. He wouldn’t be Alucard at that point.
Alucard likely won't turn out to be a villain, but I could see him raising conflict with Trevor and Sypha, if albeit a minor point of bringing up the problems that a Non-Human has living in a Human's world. If anything I'm sure it'll serve the narrative in the long run.
you ever play the games?
@@Adam-ir7gh Many but not all of them. I do know he was an antagonist at some point.
Well, he has--what--three hundred years, give or take a few before the moment of truth (the events of Symphony of the Night)? a lot can happen in that time.
JoeMavro I assume theres gonna be a time skip at some point in the show. Possibly
Alucard's story is good on paper, but in execution its SUPER rushed, and the climax (heh) for his arc doesn't feel earned. Also they could honestly go to like 10-15 seasons even if they only adapt like a quarter of the games.
Isaac's was definitely my favorite story arc, his dialogues with the side characters were interesting as he faced questions that challenged his character and led to his development. I felt like Allucard's story as well as Trevor/Sypha had slow buildups, until the last 2 episodes.
Prediction/Spoilers: I believe Lenore at some point will end up betraying her sisters, since the show plays her off as being a manipulator. As she gives the rings to her sisters she explains the plan of loyalty that lies behind the magic of the rings that could possibly come with a catch( not too sure about this but will be interesting if it happens). The magic book she gives Hector might become useful later in the show, if he finds a way to break hold of the spell. Overall, the season was great and left the audience to come up with many outcomes that could occur in the next one.
Issac had the best arc imo. When he was on the port and said "When you ask why I worked with Dracula to wipe out all the people I'll say, it's because you're all so FUCKING RUDE" agh it gives me chills. Best part, his lines are so quotable to me and I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH
agreed
Me;*starts watching season 3*
Me; * runs out of episodes*
*Netflix, we have a problem*
*pulls out chainsaw canon
@@felixargyle1285 WE RIDE AT DAWN BITCHES
@@dr.jackbright963 DAMN STRAIGHT release 682
They did everyone dirty in season 3 and it hurts
Except Isaac. He was very happy with his demon army.
@@geardog24 true
And I love it. BRING ON ALL THE PAIN AND DRAMA
@@geardog24 well people are still being fucking rude to him
Lol hector is a fool just saying
Seriously, who doesn't want to give Alucard a big warm hug after what happened in season 3?
I don't think he'll trust a hug ever again...
It is important to note, that since this series is somewhat trying to mirror the Castlevania chronology, most characters are on their down beats: Alucard is becoming weary as a guardian and disillusioned toward humanity and will eventually go back into a long sleep until eventually reawoken in the late 18th century; Trevor and Sypha have for the most part finished their journey and will possibly be slowly phased out so they can refound the Belmont clans which will eventually lead to later characters such as Christopher, Simon, Juste, and Richter;while Issac and Hector are slowly building toward an alternate version of Curse of Darkness, with Dracula being replaced by Camilla it seems. I love how this series is going and the occasional nods to monsters, minor characters, and moments make me giggle like a child everytime they happen. I hope they don't write themselves into stasis by trying to continue the passing years continually; the great thing about vampire characters and a clan of hunters is you can jump forward a literal generation or two at a time to continue the story. Hell, this has become the literal modus operandi of not only the castlevania games, though never in any kind of chronological order, but also the series Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
Anyway, that went on way to long, the review was great, glad to hear you talk about this often overlooked series.
I don't think they're done with this list of characters. Alucard is probably going to have a crisis of conscience and start to really lose his way. Trevor and Sypha will either manage pull Alucard back from the edge and face off against a new big villain together. Or will have a conflict between themselves.
Sypha and Trevor are a big part of the show's success. Character and animation wise. I don't see them getting glossed over any time soon.
I don't think the show will run long enough to tell stories about the next few generations of Belmont.
What's been set up now could take 1 or 2 seasons to sufficiently tie off. And I I can't see this going beyond 5 seasons.
Also, Dracula is too different from his video game counterpart. If he gets resurrected he's not going to immediately take up the battle against humanity again. He saw that he'd gone mad before alucard and Trevor finished him off. Plus he's been with his wife since. She'd have scolded the fuck out of him for what he did.
If he comes back it'll be as a voice of reason.
Agree on all points, except I wouldn't be surprised if they either try to keep Trevor and Sypha around for a while longer or try to compress the timeline into Trevor and Sypha's lifetimes and forego the other Belmonts.
SovereignAure I agree strongly with the cycle of a new Belmont similar to JoJo. As much as I love Trevor and Sypha, I can see the writers jumping a few centuries to introduce new characters like Richter and Maria and potentially start their own take on the Symphony of the Night storyline since it’s the most popular.
Issac was a beast this season. I also liked the philosophical talks he had with various other new characters.
Hector: SHOES!!
Yeah, my go-to would have probably been pants, a shirt or coat, but shoes work...
The twins in the alucard arc just showed how gullible he is in trusting humans and a lesson to him.
I don't think he's gullible, he's just desperate for some kind of human connection and companionship.
You have to consider he might well be the only one of his kind. He's lonely on a level that none of us could probably ever understand.
And the lesson I think is less "don't trust humans" and more "don't trust just anyone who says they're your friend, because there are people out there who would only use you for their own ends."
I just hope that Trevor and Sypha find their way back to him before he falls too far.
I don't know if you just worded it weirdly or if you really think that, but still I have to say it: If you think that rape is an appropriate way to teach someone a lesson, then please don't say anything more. Don't disregard his trauma (and a trauma that is sadly way too common for way too many people) like that by handwaving it away with "Well, he should have known humans can't be trusted". That's just victim blaming, which is horrible. The shitstains emotionally manipulated him and exploited his loneliness in the cruelest way possible, and you're here talking like he deserved this. Nobody deserves this. Of course he has now lost trust in humans, but it's not a lesson he needed to be taught! Especially since the theme of the show is that humanity is a giant grey area and people can be equally kind and cruel. He wasn't taught a lesson, he was betrayed and (literally) scarred for life.
Again, maybe you just worded it weirdly, but it really irked me so I had to say it. Cheers!
@@magiv4205 alucard never said no. I agree on what you said about rape. But that scene wasn't it. The plan was to seduce him so he'd let down his guard then strike. Raping him would have been entirely a different scene.
@@samreddig8819 Ok, maybe given the circumstances, rape is not the most accurate word. But it's not entirely wrong either. It was at the very least coersion, and either way, it sure as hell wasn't consensual. Hell, he cried during the whole thing, if that's not a red flag I don't know what is. Also, let's not forget that he is literally a teenager in an adults body, which makes it even more disturbing.
Taka and Sumi are NOT twins. They're not related at all. This has been confirmed on Samuel Deats' twitter.
Ok, I finished it just a minute ago and here is the upload. The timing is perfect!
The last episode was an absolute punch in the gut! I honestly felt like someone ripped a part of me out. Especially the Alucard's arch. The last scene, when he walks back to the castle, made my cry...
Somehow this show is like Game of Throne: Sex, violence and surprises but more beautifully shown. Also, there is not too much different characters maybe :D The animation is just the best thing in this show
Every time Trevor use the Vampire Killer or the Morning Star,I cum
@@devilbuster20xx37 I love this comment.
@@devilbuster20xx37 😊😏🖤
My only request if there’s a season 4: Give Hector the chance to be the badass he was in Curse if Darkness.
I'm sure something will go down, cant imagine all this shit about controlling the armies is for nothing
Don't worry post nut clarity will save him
@@patrickripleyiii134 the post but clarity was real in that room.
Gotta love how the ring is pretty much just a wedding ring. Haha
Poor guy says some things mid fuck rattle and now he's being controlled by a ring on his finger.
He'll surely get some much needed revenge soon.
He was portrayed as fairly dumb the first 2 seasons, but after all the shit he’s been through, Hector will get his revenge next season for sure.
I did feel the Alucard and vampire sisters story line did feel very 'damm your sudden but inevitable betrayal' also twist in the town story line was wtf. But overall an awesome show.
Alan Kohn I saw something coming with the judge, but I hoped that it wouldn’t be what I thought.
I was a little disappointed in Hector.
SPOILERS:
You would think, having known two vampires and being deceived by both of them, that he would have put up his guard just a little bit with Lenore. It feels like he hasn't learned anything.
@@DoubleADwarf both of the forge masters actions leave a little to be desired. Hector had to know the outcome but I think he was looking for someone to tell him what to do while salving his conscience by going I have no choice and his offsider is as bad claiming he wanted no trouble while basically doing everything possible to pick a fight.
@@alankohn6709
There's really nothing to salve with Hector - he only betrayed Dracula because Carmella tricked him into it. He's the victim here.
@@DoubleADwarf He was a naive child.
I dont think Alucard story is weak. I think it more breaks our hearts because he is a hero. Was. Then two people who wormed their way into his heart while he was lonely. Then they tried to kill him. It broke him because he craves human contact. I think it was telling us more and maybe evening telling us that Alucard will be turned into the next big show down.
He is starting to become Vlad (Dracula) in a way with the impalments at the end, so I expect confrontation between him and Belmont in the next season
@@goblinKappa I was thinking that. And i think because we all saw he was slowly turning into his dad once friends will become enemies
@@aliciagentile1857 all we can do is wait another year or two
@@goblinKappa which I dont want to wait!!
I disagree, he didn't impale them for no reason, he impaled them so people wouldn't come to the castle anymore.
Furthermore, the impalement was a torture method. He didn't use it to torture them.
Best girl:Sypha
Best boy:Alucard(sorry Trevor)
Best couple:SyphaXTrevor(holy shit what a cute couple they are in season 3!)
Most hated characters:Sumi and Taka(God I hope Dracula has some “fun” with them in hell)
Most relatable character:Trevor(I only hope to one day find a spunky redheaded GF one day)
Imagine going to hell after failing to kill the son of the most powerful and evil vampire that ever existed, those two are not going to have fun down there.
The worst characters are the 4 stupid vampire sisters.
Best "couple": Lenore and Hector 😉
@@TheHolePuncher
I can't wate for Isaac to kill them all, he is the only villain I am cheering for.
It's going to be so satisfying.
@@Wurstbrot03
More like man child pet and manipulative vampire.
IT was so obvious but still felt bad for him because he is a man child.
Lessons we've learned from Castlevania Lore:
Whips & Magic rock
Sex equals betrayal( sometimes)
Don't trust towns folk
If someone calls u a bastard, they're your friend.
Churches( of this era) equal excommunication, cults, hiding secrets or don't liked to questioned under penalty of death.
Yea I gotta say the two japanese characters felt so outta place like damn they traveled all the way from japan to Europe on foot? I guess castlevania is a japanese IP so you gotta include japanese people at some point.
not so fresh I assumed that because of Aria of Sorrow, and Dawn of Sorrow that he would train them??? Then go to Japan???? Idk it was weird, I genuinely hated how they hurt him like that. But the whole situation with the twins took the same time as Trevor and Sypha, and it would’ve felt easier if it was a longer period of time.
later alucard will go to japan and dress a modern suit with black hair, i thought this was the build up to that but the awful twist for the sake of shock value ruined that.
@@prettiepaw1614 dont those games take place in the future? I legitimately dont knwo but I somehow came to think that
@@Ezekiel_Allium 2035-2037. *Way* into the future from when Trevor and Sypha are around (1476-1479).
@@izzy1356 ah, I thought so
My thoughts on season 3 SPOILERS AHEAD:
I liked this season, but I thought the sex scenes at the end were a little gratuitous. The battles at the end of the season were so much fun to watch, and then it would switch to one of the unnecessary (to show) sex scenes and kinda ruined the pacing of both those scenes. I love Alucard, he's a good boy, but man, they really made what felt like a pointless side plot. Like, I get the character development he got, but the execution felt so... Flat. The threesome felt completely random and came from out of nowhere and then the end of that felt like I got whiplash? Like, I was seeing Alucard in that relationship as more of an older brother to them, and that plot could have been left to stew longer for more impact. The back to back sex scenes felt predictably monotonous, Lenore was obvious, and the weird out of no-whereness of the threesome made it seem more sinister.
On the other hand, I loved whenever Trevor and Sypha were on screen, even if their plot wasn't as important. Their chemistry and dialogue was golden and an absolute breath of fresh air. They don't pull that wishy-washy crap where they almost get together, but then something happens garbage, they aren't shitty to each other, and they don't get into any relationship drama. They're just in a relationship and it doesn't effect how badass they are (thank the gods they didn't make Sypha a damsel or I'd have lost it). Gods, they were in fact weirdly cute together, and I wanted to see more of them. Those two were the shining beacon of positivity that season 3 needed, and the only healthy relationship so far. I really liked the Isaac plot too, the philosophy and the strangers who kindly made him think about what his motivations made him way more relatable as a character compared to the first two seasons. It was nice to see him have actually amicable interactions with humans instead of just Hector. Speaking of Hector, man, that sure was a thing that happened. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, Hector's plot felt a little slow at points, especially with the Styria ladies feeling a little on the inactive side. I liked Saint Germain, he kinda stole the season for me overall with his quick witty banter and mysterious backstory.
All in all, I felt like that one vine: "Are you guys fucking? Are you serious?! Right in front of MY salad (high stakes, high tension, beautifully animated fight scenes)?!"
Sexual climax and violence climax are equal.
Alucard's threesome was pretty null, their deaths could be done any other way, violent or betrayal or just them leaving, the sexual action wasnt major, except for Alucard being lonely and possibly even more lonely now.
But hector's betrayal could have only been though sexual and emotional desire. Its *the* plan. Its *the* climax. Its equal in importance, to Trevor and Sypha's fighting though demons to actually learn of Hell's portal.. which now changes a metric fuckton of shit that can happen.
Sexual tension is equal in both though, I dont know how you missed that.
Lenorar literally puts on every battey eye fucktoy tease there is in the book, it's so obvious that shes interested in fucking him, to get him cooperative.
And the twins are just as playful and flirty, both of them tease and flirt with alucard softly, asking for him to cook and carry them, physically close and affectionate. While the sex scene itself wasnt great, their betrayals though sex to get close, was wasted.
But Hector and Lenora was appropriate, it couldn't have work any other way, cuz fucking obviously, vampires mistress and slave boy was the deal to start with. And ultimate exactly what hector was betrayed with.
@@TheKiroshi I get what you're saying, but what I'm saying is the sex scenes where needlessly explicit and lengthy and ruined the flow of the amazing battle. Just because you can "cleverly" say both sets of scenes where climaxes both literally and figuratively, doesn't mean they fit well together. It was kind of a mess. The Lenora Hector scene was obviously coming. I never said I couldn't see her being flirty, that part was obvious. Again their scene was just needlessly explicit and groan inducing whenever the really well done action scenes cut to one of the two scenes of either party just hardcore fuckin'. Alucard scene was questionable at best, cooking for someone and touching don't necessarily have to be sexual. Alucard and the twins(?) didn't read completely as romantic or sexual to me, for numerous reasons. The cooking could be seen as him just taking care of his guests, the touching because them both being touch starved from living alone with few other people. At last they could relax knowing they were safe. It absolutely didn't have to be sexual.
Again, I liked season three a lot, it just had to cram almost 4 different stories into one season in 10 episodes and ruined what would have otherwise been an incredible climax. It felt kind of Game of Thrones-y and I personally wouldn't consider that a good thing. The sex scenes are too distracting, long, and explicit than necessary. I can rewatch the first two seasons and have fun, I can rewatch half of season 3 and have fun, but I don't think I could get through that scene again and that's a real fuckin' shame because that animation in the fight scene was gorgeous.
The threesome was so fucking weird and out of nowhere like i saw the twins and alucard's relationship as sibling/family-like I can't get over how forced and random it was. Guess it's what they would call "fan service"???
Lmao I was watching it with someone and he said. "Yo, wouldn't it be funny if.... Oh my god... It was a joke! STOPSTOPSTOP" and I was laughing my ass off which was what helped me take my mind off of the sex scenes lol
@Danny Stuivenberg I don't disagree with the animation industry needing to take nudity seriously as when used with the right contexts, it can make for a very powerful storytelling device as it was earlier in the the season (Hector being naked in the cell showed how much the vampires think of him as 'just an animal' and I thought that was a good use). *However*, I can't agree with the rest of your statement. The first two seasons of this show never set a precedent that they'd have gratuitous on screen sex scenes and throwing those into the show in the middle of an important fight scene made them needlessly distracting. The level of violence was clear from the first 5 minutes of this show, so you can be prepared for the intensity you're about to watch throughout the rest of the show and if you can't, you can click something else. Also, there's nothing wrong with people being squicked by watching hardcore sex scenes, especially if it wasn't something they signed on to do with this show, and calling them prude is dismissing those feelings. I might not like Game of Thrones at all, but at the very least, they established early on in the series that you should expect hardcore, on screen sex in the show alongside the violence. I would be saying the opposite if the show set the standards of gratuitous sex scenes in the first two seasons, but shoved the intense violence in the last season at random, but that wasn't the case.
*Unpopular Opinion:*
Castlevania is the Greatest Netflix Adaptation
* Grabs Popcorn *
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Netflix has adaptations like Death Note, you’re preaching to the choir.
Unpopular opinion? Are you high?
Agreed
This show is fantastic..but you should watch Bojack horsman
My take on the season, especially around episode 9:
"There's a lot of killin' and fuckin' going on."
Episode nine, the episode with not one sex scene going on during a fight scene, but *TWO* sex scenes during *TWO* fight scenes.
I thought the sexualization of violence was a bit uncomfortable in that episode, but the story itself was fantastic.
Honestly, I have a problem with season 3. I agree that Alcuard's arc was weird and weak but moreover I didn't enjoy them jumping rapidly between the four arcs as they reached their climax in the second to last episode. It's a common technique to build excitement in movies but it just felt distracting, especially when some are exciting battles and other are manipulation and others are just sex. They didn't coalesce; I would have been much happier seeing each of the stories play out to their conclusion in longer chunks, as in earlier episodes.
Yeah, I found all the cutting about distracting too, especially the cutting to the two seemingly-random sex scenes during the climactic fight. The thing is, those scenes *were* actually big climactic scenes for each of their arcs, but for some reason the writers decided to only reveal that *after* the fact. So for the audience, with no way of knowing that, all cutting to those scenes did was ruin the tension, rather than actually build on it.
"What is a man , a miserably little pile of secrets "
- Dracula
"But enough talk, have at you!"
diE MOnster! yOU dOn't BELOng iN ThiS woRLD! >:0
Isaac going up the tower while "It's Raining Men" plays. Well, at least in my head.
I'm a simple man.
I see Castlevania & SaberSpark,
_I Click_ .
A simple man with simple pleasures
I actually finished it less than 20 minutes ago, this upload timing is insane!
Season 3 can be a good season. But that’s when the banana effect starts to kick in so it’s a long ride
What is the bannana effect?
Tell us about this banana effect
Tell us wise one.
What the fuck is the banana effect?
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I think that Alucard's arc could've been good if they didn't just seemingly get rid of the trainees with that out of nowhere scene at the end. Also in my opinion it seemed like they swore a little too much but that's just a little thing, overall I thought the season was pretty good
Needless to say, Netflix struck GOLD with this one
And considering the director for the series is working on a DMC anime and is trying to get the rights to Berserk the future looks BRIGHT
I think the director was also going to do an Assassin's Creed adaption as well. IGN had an interesting video suggesting they could be trying to establish a loosely interconnected animated universe spanning different video game adaptions using St. Germain and time travel/alternate reality travel through the Infinite Corridor as the connective tissue between series.
As much as I loved season 3, I really wish they would have used it to wrap up the story behind Trevor's second game. Other than that all the different plots really caught my attention and made me feel for the characters
They're building up to the events of Curse of Daekness, which takes place after Castlevania 3. So moving from Trevors story to Hectors story.
@@Ixbran I mean I got that, nonetheless I'm hyped for season 4
We’re getting there, you still have the PS2 game in the timeline where Hector and Issac face off against each other before Issac resurrects Dracula.
@@thelinedrive Very fair point. That showdown is gonna be nuts
@Orga777 guess we will have to wait and see. The plot of Curse of Darkness is Hector swearing to kill Isaac after Isaac murdered his wife. So something tells me Hectors wife from the game is being replaced by Lenore for the Netflix cartoon. Chances are she may not survi e long into season 4
Alucard's plotline BROKE me. My poor baby. I'm still grieving for him.
Same
Season 3 was everyone running around screaming in chaos, meanwhile Isaac is walking around with Sunglasses living his best life
Season 3 felt like a set up to Curse of Darkness, which primarily focuses on Hector's quest against Isaac.
This season felt stalled compared to the other two season but on the other hand they have set the groundwork for future events, Dracula's cult chief among them.
It'd be interesting to see if they stay in this time line or move on to the others. Seeing Ritcher and Alucard team up would be amazing.
This seems like a weird place to leave Trevor and Sypha. Felt more like an act 2 ending. Unless they i tend to heavily compress the timeline and stick to using Trevor and Sypha exclusively and forego the future Belmonts altogether. I can see them trying to do games set in the future within the lifetimes of Trevor and Sypha. If they don't compress the timeline, we probably need one more season to satisfactorily wrap up Trevor and Sypha's arcs.
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"I've played Aria of Sorrow"
Huzzah! A man of culture!
I liked this season, aside from episode 9. I didn't have a good time and neither did the characters, lol.
You know the show is rough when the guy fighting the giant ball of corpses is the only one with a happy ending
It feels like trevor sypha and alucard, the ones who killed Dracula to end his genocidal quest against humanity are seeing how humans can be bad and the negative traits they have and what Dracula could have seen while isaac who was on the same genocidal quest is seeing the more positive traits of humanity
Me towards the end: why is the music equally suspenseful from all 4 viewpoints?
"Man, this scene is going on for long, and it's not cheerful..."
*more worried about the sex scenes than the fight*
The twins were EXPENDABLE that's why they weren't cohesive in n motivation and however you felt. And of course sypha and Trevor are gonna be side characters this go around! We have a bunch of new ppl to watch for... It makes sense
Good Review, S p a r k y.
I haven't watched Castlevania yet, but if you recommend it, and from seeing the clips shown, I'll have to check it out!
WATCH IT
You won't be disappointed.
Enjoy it it's an awesome show
Avoid parts of episode 9 of season three it includes several rape scenes
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Technically everyone participating in those sex scenes are voluntarily doing so in as much as seduction is ever voluntary. So not really rape scenes there is not extreme coercion physically, mentally, or chemically, just a few people making stupid decisions based on faulty emotions.
Ok phew I wasnt the only that thought alucards moments was flat. I liked his position in the story and where it was going with the 2 vampire hunters, but we barely got any of him and them interacting or glimpses into why they wanted the castle to move so damn badly. It was just info dump at the end. And the sex scene was just weird. And no not for the fact of the 3some with another guy, but for the fact it was just random. Like no lead up no alucard saying anything or even a brief relief after for him to take it all in and be happy with his situation. They just sprung the trap and and info dumped us saying alucard was hiding things like what??? But the turn for where alucard may be going and turning into his father is nice and I cant wait to see that or what they do with that. All in all, loved the season but that near the end of it was just woah
VIZE KUN if the writer really wants him to become bad or whatever he at least needs to earn it. It’s bad enough that’s even something that might happen but if they do a danerys and just make him decide to go insane the show will have disappointed me.
@@willvermillion1025 yeah that scene if played out better would have the season more whole
@Zach Bartolo it wouldve been fine if they wouldve stuck with hector's sex scene and then dedicated alucards to the last episode to really nail it on the head
VIZE KUN it was a weird rape scene yeah, just off
@@MissMatched see even I saw it like that afterwards cause in a way it was them stealing his innocence but especially his humanity. And I like that somewhat because it gives reason to h ik m leading down his fathers path but at the same time I wanted to play out differently.
I just gotta disagree with the opening words, Castlevania is more of its own thing that an adaptation, think of an spin-off. It's good on it's own merit, but some events and characters show that they do NOT really know Castlevania, just superficially.
Still, it's not entirely a demerit, Castlevania isn't known for plot, it's known for gameplay.
That doesn't make it not an adaptation.
Changing things to fit a different medium is, in fact, the point of adaptation.
@@Peasham No It isn't. That's called an "spin-off". Adaptations are not just names and visuals
@@Raxyz_0 Uh, no, this is an adaptation of Castlevania 3, and it kept the basic structure of Castlevania 3.
You could make an argument for season 3 being a spin-off, but like it or not the first 2 are direct re-tellings of C3. They might've changed a metric shitton of stuff, but they're still re-tellings.
Not to mention, for my money literally all of the changed made it better.
@@Peasham Season 3 is mostly a bridge to lead into the Curse of Darkness era (with 1 and 2 being the Dracula's Curse era), which is Trevor's final arc before things move on the next generation of Belmonts, as well as trying to come up with a fitting reason for Alucard to get so despondent he just decides to seal himself away forever (or ~300 years as it turned out being).
Realizing he's on the verge of taking the same path his father did would be reasonable justification for him deciding that it's better to simply seal himself away since there simply isn't enough love for the human world to stay in it (even if he does like Trevor/Sypha that simply isn't enough to sustain him) but doesn't want to go down Dracula's path as to not tarnish his mother's memory either.
The 8-bit ending sort of implied he felt he was a monster that didn't deserve to remain in the world and chose to seal himself "forever" as a result, but this isn't an 8-bit plot anime, so it does need a bit more build up to justify the why he does it.
I thought their "reward" was to give Alucard the most pleasant and painless death they could give him. The distrust angle while sad in hindsight just seemed out of the blue.
8:30 I had trouble swallowing that too. Like he let them look around the castle as much as they liked. They said it themselves they thought he was just lonely and, because of that loneliness, teaching them slowly so he'd have company a bit longer. They decide they're going to give him a "reward" for keeping it together all this time to convince him to give them a shot and hurry things along but then out of nowhere it's like the writers just forgot and decided they wanted to murder him????????
Whether or not it was well justified is a different story, but they do explain why in the middle of the weird kink stuff. They had their own agenda (intending to use the castle as an armory and to teleport back home), and they said that they didn't believe him to be honest with them about magic or whether or not the castle could still teleport. They assumed he was being dishonest and taking advantage of them like they claim happened to them throughout their journey. Alucard is a dhampir, sp why would he be any different than any of the humans or vampires they knew who inevitably abused them? The logic is sound. It's just not very well executed in order to make the betrayal a shock and surprise to the viewer.
the twins didn`t try to kill alucard because they were simply impatience. was because they felt like they were being take advantage of. many people believe that the twins were planning on betraying alucard from the very beginning because of the eye contact they exchange to one another. but that`s not actually it. when they first did that,they had a smile on their face. given what sumi said about " you wont help us. nobody has help us ". that scene tells us they felt relieve.that alcuard can give them what they were looking that that other didn`t. but soon,their expression began to change when they exchange eye contact is when alucard didn`t show them the rest of the castle. this is when they began to question if alucard was really going to help them. this happen many time. but this wasn`t what drove them to kill alucard, it`s when they think back about what he said about his father. this is when they had serious doubt that alucard was gonna help them. they were aware they he was lonely and they believe he was just doing what he can to keep them around. and to them,that felt like they were being held captive again and they wanted out.( and that`s not even the only reason ) sure, they could have just left, but they were on a mission to save their country and they were never close from achieving it because no one out there help them in their cause. they were desperate, so they thought that this was the only chance they had left. the other thing reason is that they even felt his pain for killing his father and they thought by killing him will relieve him of that pain. they thought they were doing him a favor. the one thing i got right is that is that they were kept in captivity for soo long, but what i got wrong was the meaning behind it. give the fact they were only train to just get slaughter when they reach a certain rank. it`c clear that they were never taught the ways from right or wrong. but you would think by being raise by vampires would mean that they would turn out like hector and isaac. its the fact they were force to watch people who climb up the ranks everytime just to be annihilated by cho in the worst ways possible is the reason why they even have a shred of humanity in them. with all of that, it actually makes their motives justified. and then theres alucard. just like the twins,alucard thought they were taking advantage of him. that they were only pretending to be nice to him just to get what they want. this in turn destroy alucard and made him loses a bit of his humanity after he kill them and impale them in stick. this also made him have a better understanding of his father as well. the arc is about two sides who miss judge each other thought they were being use.its not only just a set up for him to turn out like his father. if you ask me, this makes alucard arc one of the best written ones in the entire series. it one of the reason why i prefer this season to
@@gutsonthemic5261 y'all have a MAJOR reading problem. I'm not saying they didn't give a reason when they tried to kill him, I'm saying they literally told us they were going to try getting him to warm up to them first by rewarding him for staying strong during that month of being alone. They were enacting that plan... and it seemed to be working... but then they just switch to plan B for no fucking reason.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid this was what they were planning to do. they didn`t make love to him just to convince him to see more of the castle. they needed him to lower his guard so they can kill him to take the castle. hell, they even had sword prepare. this was their plan
@@gutsonthemic5261 Still bad at reading I see. That "plan" only comes out after they betray him. The last time we see them talking alone to each other they have a different plan and reasoning though. It's JUST bad writing.
Saberspark: I don’t usually like anime
Castlevania: hold my whip
it’s wild to watch a show and not really know who you want to cheer on the most. every character has their own personal goals and struggles and flaws. you almost want everyone to succeed but each goal intertwines with another, not everyone can win
I just finished the season yesterday so I can finally watch your video! Dude, hearing your intro always makes me happy
being honest i really disliked this season... the animation is good as always but man do things draaaaaag since the story is mostly carmela just being like "mmm yes look at the plot im plotting my plot that is gonna be soooooo great my plot i am plotting, yeah my plot is gonna so world changing and insane my plot look at my other vampire sister who are also plotting yes! we plot plots that are so complex and perfect that plotplotplotplotplotplotplotplot" im tired of her, and isaac being like "hey humans bad even tho im meeting good humans FUCK ALL HUUUUMANS" and just repeating his backstory we learned about in season 2 and he just keeps talking about how he met some asshole who was an asshole and thats why he wants to kill a lot of humans
Aaaaand you're the first person to accurately represent the frustrations I have with this season. None of it was awful. But it felt like exposition dumping for the next season, isaac is really not any more complex than he already was, alucard is more bitter but the arc that got him there felt forced and badly crafted, trevor and Sypha were the best this season but their storyline took far too long. Build up is necessary, but when your build up is boring and largely tension less, that's a huge problem. Attack on titan season 3 part 1 was a lot of build up to the climax, but it knew how to be interesting, suspenseful and fun.
@@HORSESNDOGS9 Indeed and TBH trevor and sypha side of the story was the only thing that i enjoyed but then it ruined everything at the end with the sudden reveal that the judge was an evil child murderer!!... that was so sudden, out of nowhere and the only reason for that happened is to force trevor and sypha into being sad and angry for next season
@thadedede in my opinion... the writer wanted an edgy/shocking moment with alucard and was like "Sh*t where do i even slap this on? the season is almost done!" And just force it at the end with a BS excuse
@@TheGameDomeGuy yeah it did come as a shock, but I thought of it more as even the people you think are good are hiding something, or are capable of terrible things in the name of "good". Either way, it had more foreshadowing and set up than that lame twist in Alucard's arc. All the more reason the village arc could've been a better two parter story and the portal thing could've been attached to a different story
Man, you definitely summed up this season perfectly along with stuff i had major issues with.
thank you for making this video!!! i feel like i don’t hear much about castlevania and that it’s underrated. i am completely blown away at how absolutely stunning this show is. every single thing about it is just perfection in my eyes. i truly appreciate you taking the time to talk about it and showing it a lot of love!!!
> Hasn't played any of the games
Oh oka-
> Aria of Sorrow
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHH
this show is the hypest shit ever, I found out the new season dropped in the evening and was up till 4;30 binging it cuz I couldn;'t stop, I could talk it up to no end, everyone please watch it, I'll pobably watch the whole show over again before we get season 4
I never knew Castlelivina had a anime. Great video and anime
not anime as it made in USA but i can understand confusion as i though it was anime when i first saw it
What you waiting for - go and watch ;-) :-D :-D :-D
Oh yeah and listen to what @@elisabethacronqvist7859 says
I really loved this season but the twins were mostly filler to have Alucard do something instead of twiddling his thumbs in the castle for a dozen episodes, and I hope they aren't making him turn against his humanity because of them
But Isaac is becoming my favorite story line, they are really fleshing out his character
isaac carried this season.
Not going to lie but I thought one of the vampire girls looked like DIO in part one.
Was I The only one who sees that???
Lucas Zelnhefer DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
i think the merchant that gives the mirror to isaac was holding a stone mask as a jojo easter egg.
My friend and I were literally texting about why I needed to watch this show and then your review dropped 🤣 I have to watch it now
Personally not a fan of season 3, really soiled the series for me. Still gonna watch season 4 if it ever comes
Didn't really like how Alucard's arc was handled (mainly because the two new characters felt like plot devices instead of actual people), and I wish the different stories tied together in some way. I felt like there were too many separate stories happening which detached me from the story at especially at the end where this becomes more apparent.
Expectations: I wanna watch season 3 of Castlevania
Reality: Everyone brags about Alucard is getting his ass fucked by twins with twincest.
It was confirmed those two are NOT related. (even though they look really similar...)
Which kind of upset me considering Alucard was straight in the games
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin Was he? Did he clarify at any point: By the way, I don't find men attractive, just fyi.
@@WhiteScorpio2 He had a female love interest in a game, but never anything *official* like Trevor and Sypha.
So technically there's no solid confirmation he was straight/bi/gay/etc in the games.
Need I say more a out Alucard getting anal? No? Okay then.
castlevania fandom: **strangling taka and sumi**
i didn't know there were an anime show for this. the men looks hot.
It's in the anime style, but it's made by Americans and considered cartoon
@@CyrusLagom ohhhh. i didn't know we made such a good looking cartoon.
thanks saberspark i watched it and its fucking amazing like omg thanks bro
2:45 Did you ever watch any of the DC Animated Movie? The series has more common with them rather than anime. I advise you to broaden your horizon in the western animation department.
Alucard, Trevor, and Sypha please go hug
Alucards ending came out of left field
its been a long time since the black guy is my favorite character in a show
the ending was percfet because *SPOILERS*
when they tried to ressuract dracula i was 100% sure that the season will end with him coming back to life and that's it.
the percfet thing about this was that i was actually right. because this season ended with alucard deciding to seal himself from the world (and humans even more) and thus sending himself on the path to becoming the new dracula who lives in solitude and hate humanity with all his heart
they teased dracula coming back to life. and he really did, but not in the way we expected. and it is absolutly genuis.
RAWR (Hector, can you please not get manipulated by someone who clearly doesn't see you as an equal
FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES!?!!)
I would love to see a review of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated! The characters are actually interesting and has a great art style! If he had to review just one episode, for fetish purposes he should review s2 e19 “The Devouring” since it involves two characters gaining a massive amount of weight. It would probably be better to review the show overall and mention spoilers.
I've been watching you on and off for ages. Finally subscribed. Enjoy that, one of many. Keep doing you.
Pls.... Play PS2
" Castlevania: Curse of Darkness."
It explain some plot that happen here.
This anime sets between Castlevania 3 and C.o.darkness.
this cartoon is a fanfiction and is not part of the castlevania timeline.
@@RyuSaarva well it does relate some connection. It finally explain whos St Germain and the infinite corridor now while the game just show up without explaination.
he is a completely different person in the game, he is like a distant past version of himself who only cares about his personal objective instead of working towards something greater.
@@RyuSaarva th-cam.com/video/UsJ08t8fsJ0/w-d-xo.html
I've watched all of 'em and I fricking loved them