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– Smith1980 23 points 1 year ago +23 / -0

I no longer have Netflix. Did they give this the usual Netflix treatment?

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– throwawayaccount2037 28 points 1 year ago +28 / -0

I was about to ask the same thing...

Looks like the user score reflects a "White man bad" narrative with a healthy dose of globohomo content and a strong admixture of race-swapping.

I have zero interest in watching anything on Netflix, so I'm not even going to waste time finding out.

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– RondoOBlongo 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0

It gets really stupid. Vampires are implied to be european slavers but then the big baddie's right hand is a black vampire wearing go-go boots.

Yoruba gods are real (Anette is a descendant of two of them, of course) and the africans still got enslaved somehow. Imagine having control over metal and earth and still get mogged by a bunch of people with guns...

Elizabeth Bathory is actually Sekhmet (furry head and all) and she blocks the sun to get back at Ra, which is retarded on so many levels I don't know where to begin. For starters it reframes "muh rich people should rule" natural order shit, is she actually referencing the Ma'at? Sekhmet is not evil, there are evil egyptian gods associated with darkness and a bone to pick with Ra (Apophis) so why pick her, Ra's servant and Hathor's alter-ego? And again, if gods are real how the fuck did egypt decay? She says vampires have had to tolerate alliances with humans for reasons but she is literally a god and it's implied other gods are real so, how? What could even humans do to them?

It's implied Olrox is Quetzalcoatl and the reason he wants to stop Elizabeth is because Europeans conquered his people but as I pointed out she's actually Sekhmet so his motivation (weak as it is) doesn't really makes sense anymore. Oh, and he is a gay homo with the bara soldier... why? Do the writers know what whas the punishment for gays in the aztec culture? He also kills Richter's mother because she killed his mohican lover (also gay) and the show doesn't really portraits him in the wrong for that. It also raises questions like were pre-columbine gods real? Are they vampires and that's why they need sacrifices? Etc. Why use Quetzalcoatl anyway, there are moon demons that drink human blood in aztec mythology, you know?

And course the christian God is useless, the extend of his power is relegated to kinda scorching vampire's skin when they touch a cross... no holy water, no bible, no cross-erang nothing. Magic is relegated to basic fire balls, ice and blue fire (that's Richter's item crash substitute apparently).

To add salt to the injury Maria's Four Symbols get demoted to being just animals she summons. And one of the phoenix/red bird dies... and she gets another one off-screen... also, no blue dragon (seiryu) because reasons. I guess the writters didn't want an european girl to have magic powers based on asian mythology.

And that's just how bad religions/mythos get threated, other aspects like the writting shit too. In fact, I think the show's only reedeming quality is that it looks nice...

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– SR388-SAX 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

As a fan of the series up through the GBA/DS games, other than a few names, none of what you described sounds like it has anything to do with Castlevania.

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– RondoOBlongo 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Because it really doesn't. Dracula gets name dropped once only for Annette to go: "who is Dracula?"

Richter is a quipping retard, not a energetic boy scout.

Maria is a girlboss Karen who pushes Richter around and calls him a wanker, not a little girl chosen by the Four Symbols.

They pull a Luke Skywalker on Juste Belmont, Lydie and Maxim get killed by a rando vampire and Juste gets crippling depression, basically abandoning his daughter, they just get a passing mention, not even a flashback.

You know who gets three episodes dedicated to them tho? Blackwashed Eduard (the guy from that n64 Castlevania apparently) and Anette. And a vampire gets intimidated by a bunch of people giving him the stink eye

The old hag from bloodlines (Drolta) is a black vampire with a pink afro and go-go boots because of course.

Death doesn't get mentioned at all... it would be funny if it did, considering Loa are considered death spirits.

There are not classic monsters like skeletons or armors... just vampire mooks and useless "hell-beasts" that are made by placing corpses inside a demon machine that injects them with purple goo. I'm not kidding.

And there aren't any of the classic Castlevania locations in the show. Unless you consider generic forest one of them, and even then...

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– throwawayaccount2037 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Wow.... that is actually somehow worse than I imagined.

Thanks for the brief summary.

This just further solidifies why I stay away from a lot of [current year] media these days.

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– Norenia 19 points 1 year ago +19 / -0

Christians still bad, Annette (Richter's kidnapped fiancé in the game) is a black Carribean former-slave girlboss.

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– rebuildingMyself 10 points 1 year ago +10 / -0

Maximum cringe

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– Smith1980 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

Oh yea. I remember he attacked fans who called out the race swap.

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– RondoOBlongo 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Maria is a girlboss too, she is the proactive one and Richter just tags along. My favorite part Is how she tries to start the french revolution but is not until Anette gives a speech it actually starts... and then it happens off-screen... which is extra dumb since it's implied most aristocrats are vampires but eh...

Oh, and there's one haitian priestess complaining about how them whitey don't care about them but then sends Anette to help them anyway...

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