Does it still hold up after a Month?

The whole japs Alucard arc was so nonsensical from beginning to end. The most bizarre thing was that, they decided to kill him simply because they suspected he was holding back??? I was thinking their whole "twist" was going to be that they kidnapped him in order to have him hunt vampires in their native land...but no, it was an even more stupid reason

it didn't when it came out

Which makes the entire arc to Alucard nonsensical.

They just wanted to shoehorn him in it cause he's the most popular character, his arc felt like pure fanservice with the whole sex scene and I kinda thought he was kind OOC with a more "kawaii uwu" personality

All the gratuitous trashy sex thrown in was so un-Castlevania. It's just as insulting as EROTIC VIOLENCE yet barely anyone will say.

sorry for sounding racist but having gay sex as a bottom with an asian man is a turn off for most gays
that was a straight's man idea of being gay and progressive
they could have had him getting plowed by some lumberjack he found chopping down trees around the castle

It introduced a couple of plot-holes like Forgemasters apparently being able to summon/make demons on the fly instead of requiring more of a ritualistic thing (especially egregious when Isaac makes a fucking kaiju) and random demons apparently being able to open portals to Hell all on their own (which looked pretty empty from what we saw of it even if Dracula's wife is there for SOME reason) which makes Forgemasters look rather redundant, all things considered.

Alucard's entire arc was also entirely pointless and seemed like it was mostly meant to give him something to do while also putting him in a somewhat assholish mindset, something which could have been achieved just as easily if an angry mob showed up on his doorstep.

The judge being an asshole who kills/fucks/sniffs the shoes of children he's killed/fucked also seems pointless. Trevor and Sypha already fucked up and had most of the souls in the village get eaten; just leave it at a Pyrrhic victory. In general I don't get why Trevor, Sypha, and the judge just didn't bust down the door of the church from the very beginning; they've already fought vampires, humans aren't that much more dangerous.

Isaac's journey was cool, though I feel like the people he met along the way were overly dramatic in a way that broke immersion. "OH LAWD knows I've forgotten me own name; jes call me... the captain." Give me a fucking break; Grant is apparently too goofy for the series and then you pull this shit?

Trevor and Sypha's relationship was cute and Saint Germaine is based.

Carmilla lost a lot of her menace this season when the other female vampires were introduced, and other than Lenore they didn't leave much of an impact. I hope Isaac gets revenge on Carmilla at least and that he waifus Lenore for real.

I'm glad to see they're using more of Castlevania's bestiary going forward; that was one of my complaints for S1.

Overall I give it a 5/10; it has its moments, but it's clear filler.

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Because the show isn't made to appeal to fans of the games. The people jerking off over shit like Lenore and gay Alucard aren't the same people who were getting mad over the erotic violence pachinko machines from 6-7 years ago.

>Dracula's wife is in hell for some reason
You're right. Why would a woman who had sex with a vampire go to hell?

Game Lisa didn't tho, she just got reincarnated as a Shinto shrine maiden 500-ish years later.

It was a waste of time. You could condense it all into one episode. And the story and plot itself sucks.

My main issue is that it pretty much unambiguously shows God or whatever it is that controls who goes to Hell is a cunt. Assuming that wasn't just Dracula's personal Hell, but the "Christianity bad" angle is tiresome when Isaac being Muslim is presented as a virtue.

Granted it's in line with actual Christian doctrine where anyone who doesn't suck God and Jesus off all their life goes to Hell, but still.

>straight man's idea of being gay
True, you could see it wasn't even a fujo because they would have Alucard have gay sex with a named character instead of some literally who chinks who died almost immediately

I mean that's all religions. I'm not sure they show Isaac as virtuous given he creates demons and kills entire towns of people not just the guards who harass him. On top of that he wants to kill all humanity.

>I'm not sure they show Isaac as virtuous given he creates demons and kills entire towns of people not just the guards who harass him.
I'm not saying that all of his actions are virtuous, but I think for better or worse not drinking, smoking, doing other drugs etc. is considered a virtue for most people. Your mileage may vary based on country or where you were raised.

You are being a bit ridiculous. He is driven and committed to his mission. In seaosn 2 it was killing all humanity. In season 3 it's killing Hector. You are talking about a guy who practices self flagellation. Also I don't recall anywhere in the show saying he is Muslim. He's just black from Africa and traveled the middle east.

It happens during his talk with the captain of the ship he charters; the captain offers him a drink, Isaac turns him down because he's a good Muslim (who happens to want to genocide humanity, but that issue doesn't come in terms of contradicting his religion).

I'm not a Christfag, but if you're going to shit on one religion shit on all of them.

There is some really blatant "muh OC is the coolest character in the whole series" vibe with Isaac. On an objective level, both Dracula and Isaac are irredeemable cunts but the show is too busy sucking their cocks and make everyone else bad so they seem "justified".

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Good, downer ending. I'm angry they decided to make the judge a typical secret serial killer instead of just a hard leader
Alucard is a fucking waste. Everything about him and his interaction with the korra-tier siblings (literally good only for porn) was squandered screen time
The vampires and whats-his-face the perpetual retard frustrate me to the point of shrieking. It's all so awful

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The same reason a greek philosopher is in hell. Because the church deems him a sinner. It has nothing to do what god thinks is a sin or not so long as the word of man who represent god deems them sinners.

He was in hell not for being a philosopher, but for selling out his fellow scholars.

Lenore still makes my dick stand up yes

Even if he didn't sell them out, he would still be deemed a sinner by men in the clothe.

>hey, let me and my squadron of disgusting demons go through your town, and i won't brutally slaughter all of you, i'm on my way to brutally slaughter a bunch of other people
>no, get on your ship and go away
>damn, okay. i was just trying to be reasonable. alright guys, go ahead and slaughter this whole village. humanity is truly at fault for all the horrors in this world. look at how they forced my hand!

I hate this fucking faggot like you wouldn't believe.

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He is literally a manchild. It cannot be helped.

Still going through it. Ellis put the fucking Bleed into Castlevania with the Infinite Corridor
The dolls were funny but later lines show that Al really doesn't have a proper grasp on his sanity when they start pestering him for training. He's just so happy to have some contact that he goes along with it. I'm still waiting to see if there's a convincing reason for them to turn on him but it sounds like it just fucking happens which is stupid

I get why he's mad but man he really could stand to consider trying to just like, walk the fuck around the city with his demon hordes. Hell, command them to walk around by themselves. They'll fucking listen to your every word

They were basically raised by a vampire so them turning out to be messed up themselves isn't really surprising. But we really should've gotten some examples of people "using" them.

All I want is the show to continue down the Belmont bloodline and with how the way this season ends it just seems theyre gonna keep sticking with fucking Trevor than going to Simon.

Trevor's basically the only interesting Belmont besides Richter and maybe Christopher, but Christopher doesn't have any casual cred. Simon's story is too simple

It didn’t hold up immediately after it released

It was dogshit and I feel like I’m in crazy land and all of you idiots are fuckingn insane for thinking it was good

I could write a fucking novel on how bad it was, and I loved the fuck out of season 2

He was tasked by Trevor with guarding both their homes and family's legacies, so I'd give him a pass for spending 2-3 months tucked away.

At this point I hope they stick with Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard for however many seasons they have left in them. Better than seeing how they fuck up the rest of CV's legacy characters.

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Taka and Sumi had as great, if not greater, an interest in killing humans and becoming conquers themselves, but Ellis waited (mistakenly, IMO) until episode 6 to give them blatant dialogue showing that they wanted tech and magic that could kill large groups of people, like when Taka asks if the electricity in the refurbished Belmont hold could be used to kill armies.

I think if Ellis laid out more breadcrumbs early in the season then the arc would have worked better, but I at least like the general idea of scheming adventurers taking advantage of a weak Alucard and playing to his emotional neediness.

Actually having them be genuine in their benevolent pursuit of power would never have gelled with the grimness of the story being told anyways, unless they end up dead at the hands of wandering vampire hordes, which still would have left Alucard helpless and alone but without the furthered trust and intimacy issues.

You're not alone.

Agreed. They should have had a scene earlier on with Cho or one of her human administrators abusing them or having one violate the other (non-sexually, of course). There were not enough scenes showing the audience that they held such a deep-seated distrust for everyone besides each other.

>Actually having them be genuine in their benevolent pursuit of power would never have gelled with the grimness of the story being told
Ironic, considering that's essentially the first two-thirds of the story in Order of Ecclesia

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Ellis may well have taken some inspiration from it seeing as he hodgepodged the series cannon from various games, but I don't know if how much he actually gained from his cursory wiki readings and maybe some input from colleagues more familiar with the games.

It never held up.

Except none of the seasons have been interesting thus far.

He was going to use Dracula's canon real name on a throwaway OC vampire until Konami said no.

Like half the cast are manchildren

DEHRE AHLL MAAAAHNCHILDRUHN
HIS PET BWEEDAH

Filler/connective tissue season it kind of seemed like. Everything in Styria seemed like it was designed to set up a future conflict. Alucard's stuff just seemed like it was there to give him something to do, unless they're setting up a villain turn, which I doubt. Sypha and Trevor were basically just on a random D&D mini quest that ended poorly, but at least the action in its conclusion was good. Isaac was the most solid one, because of the philosophical discussions and quiet moments, and the action at the end. It felt like they were spinning some wheels while trying to move other plot elements along for the future, so it doesn't make me lose faith for Season 4, but it was a weak point.

>shit dialogue
>shit direction
>shit dialogue
>seasons never complete plot lines/arc
>shit dialogue
>one, MAYBE 1.5-2 decently animated fights a season
>shit dialogue
>hamfisted glbt self service
>shit dialogue
>still no Grant
>shit dialogue
Held up? This shit couldn't hold itself up with crutches and a four foot dick.

When you put it that way Issac does seem like a insufferable fagget

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Honestly all I can remember from the whole thing was Trevor and Sypha's bad ass fighting, and the fact Alucard is a bottom and he cried during sex.

That's because Matthias Cronquist was a bad idea to begin with and only kind of works with the addition of Soma as his reincarnation. Dracula should have either been the historical Vlad Tepes or something too ancient to properly remember.

I think all main characters are in some way childish, including Sypha (naivete and optimism, contrasted by Trevors worldweariness) and Carmilla (temper-tantrums).

Alucard's plot was to set up his and Trevor's rematch before the core trio addresses Alucard's struggles with guilt over his father's death, along with the grief over the loss of his mother (which he still hasn't processed yet b/c his fight with his father and hibernation immediately afterward) and inability to cope with being alone after making friends for the first time.

>didn't resolve character arcs in an ongoing series
Also Grant is boring and had the least to do of any protagonist in CV3. But I do think he will be in S4 as the St. Germaine of the season and alert the core trio of the incoming Styrian invasion.

He's easily as autistic as Hector but totally in denial about it. Hector can't make proper human connections while Isaac can't understand others and has tard outbursts.

Ellis please go.

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>season 1
>literally nothing explained about him
>season 2
>does nothing
>season 3
>wanders around making a side story for himself
>don't worry guys
>it will all come together
These fucks can barely cobble the main characters' plots into something manageable and I'm supposed to care about Forge Master Doesnothing McNobody? Nah, dawg... nah.

Pretty much everything here. Pretty obvious every single plotline except for trevor/sypha