“And THEN, Trevor sees a demon just walkin’ by, BUT, get this, it has a FUCKIN’ BABY in it’s mouth! Sick, right?” The true antagonist is the church, but spoilers, (fuckin’ whatever this show is so awful I’m doing you a favor) both the Archbishop and Bishop are killed off with LOTS OF BLOOD because it’s EDGY AS HELL so I guess we’re back to Dracula as the antagonist? He wanders into town looking for kicks, which is the only reason he’s even involved in the plot at hand. Our protagonist, I guess, is Trevor Belmont, who is wholly unlikable. The violence is entirely unearned at that point, so seeing a dead baby or a disemboweled kid is just an exercise in being thirteen and saying, “FUCK yeah DEATH and GORE!” It’s not cool and it doesn’t service the story.
So when he kills everyone 365 days later because no one listened, I don’t really feel bad for them. He gives the people a year to prepare for destruction and spares a woman that was friends with his wife. Dracula is portrayed as the main antagonist, but he’s only in one episode and his reasons for being super pissed honestly make sense. The story itself is also confusing and uninteresting. The tone is complete chaos, much like this entire show, which is shit. On top of all this, the most inappropriately “comedic” score cuts over the fight, but the scene is so incomprehensible that I cannot tell if it’s supposed to be played for laughs or to show that Trevor can hold his own in a drunken bar fight. “Would you please leave my testicles alone” is another line that is said, out loud, by Trevor after being kicked in said testicles twice. In a bar scene that is exposition-heavy as hell, the name Belmont is said sixteen times, along with discussions of bestiality that don’t pertain to anything. It mostly feels like it’s been penned by a thirteen-year-old who has just recently started labeling himself as a “writer” and is very interested in vampires and swearing. The writing, which was done by Warren Ellis, has moments that shine through, but not very often.
What in the fuck is this shot? Why does this exist? It doesn’t appear they were ready for a transition of this magnitude, both in style and substance, and it shows at almost every turn. None of these are bad shows, but all of them have a very specific art style and are made for a largely similar audience: younger people. Their previous work includes things like The Fairly OddParents, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Adventure Time, and Bravest Warriors. They’re just terrible for this particular project. It’s unfathomable that a powerhouse like Netflix can’t muster up the cash to make this look even half as good as something like Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, an America/Japanese anime venture also dealing with famous vampire/half-vampire characters, that came out seventeen goddamn years ago.įrederator, the animation studio primarily behind this series, is by no means terrible. Nothing feels fluid, everything feels like a garbage. The lip flaps don’t match, the faces are stilted, Trevor Belmont’s beard looks like someone just drew an M that never ends, and every fight scene appears as though they just animated three frames: the beginning, middle, and end. Every painful piece of this looks like it was done in Flash by one person at 2 AM over the weekend before it was due to air. And by the “scene,” I mean the whole show. Anytime characters make movements, it’s as though someone forgot to finish animating the scene. It’s clearly inspired by anime but does a pretty horrible job at showing any respect for the art form. The most jarringly terrible part of this show is the animation. I’m baffled that anyone in their right mind would associate the word “good” with this trash. Despite how cool that title card is and how much my mind is telling me the show should be amazing, it’s seriously not. Now, before you say that the reviews are great, let me just set the record straight: everyone else is wrong. If the show was any longer than four episodes, I never would have finished it.
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Castlevania, the new animated series from Netflix, is total and complete shit.