Balancing Act of Ugliness and Beauty in Netflix’s Adaption of Castlevania

<p>Anyone who has heard of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;retro-review-castlevania-the-adventure&sol;"><em>Castlevania<&sol;em><&sol;a> automatically calls to mind images of darkness&comma; elegance and tears&period; Netflix&&num;8217&semi;s adaption of the <em>Castlevania<&sol;em> franchise into a Western-made anime is genius&period; The reality of vampires are not glossed over but exposed in a disgusting light&period; The show does not cover anything up about night creatures who desire human blood&period; No glimmer or gloss can mask the stench of rotting death that seeps off the screen during both seasons of the show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;143734" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-143734" style&equals;"width&colon; 1280px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-143734" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;07155932&sol;castlevania-dracula-netflix-1141228-1280x0&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"721" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-143734" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Castlevania &sol; Netflix<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Humans are in a state of extinction because of Dracula’s vengeance&period; His human wife Lisa&comma; was burned at the stake by people of the church claiming she was involved in the dark arts&period; In reality&comma; she was using scientific methods from Dracula’s own library and knowledge to help humans&period; Lisa urged her vampiric husband to travel the world to learn more about people&period; When he finally returned&comma; Dracula finds out his wife’s tragic end&period; Snapping into insanity&comma; the vampire lord decides no human deserves to stay alive&period; After launching a genocide on all humans of earth&comma; only a small band of people decide to band together to take Dracula down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trevor Belmont’s family was a prominent well- celebrated vampire hunter family&period; Trevor is the last of his family and posses the knowledge and power to take down vampires&period; However&comma; he alone can not wage war on the entire vampire family&period; Sypha is from an ancient clan that wields magic and passes down stories&period; Her fire alone is strong enough to attack the fanged blood-hunters&period; And the third member of the trio is Dracula’s own son &&num;8211&semi; Alacord&period; His grace and lordly manor counteracts Trevor’s rough personality yet his own fangs and vampire power is what’s needed to take his father down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Language is a huge part of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;castlevania&period;fandom&period;com&sol;wiki&sol;Castlevania&lowbar;&lpar;animated&lowbar;series&rpar;"><em>Castlevania<&sol;em> anime<&sol;a>&period; Each character has their own manor of speech&comma; accent and personality that gives viewers a sense of the characters being real people&period; Their language emphases who they are and reflects upon their family&&num;8217&semi;s history&period; Trevor’s gruff attitude shows off his horrible life&period; His family was brutally murdered by the very vampires they hunted and his estate full of artifacts and family history was destroyed&period; Everything seems to push Trevor into stopping other humans from the same fate as his family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sypha&&num;8217&semi;s word choices shows she has some humor but her role in the adaption is one of the mother of the trio&period; She constantly is trying to keep Trevor and Alacord from killing each other&period; By being a traveling mage who posses the stories of her people&comma; Sypha is wise despite her rather sheltered upbringing&period; Alacord&&num;8217&semi;s speech is elegant with irony which perfectly fits his personality from the games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;143733" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-143733" style&equals;"width&colon; 1200px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-143733" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;07155821&sol;f409bf64-6a08-4ac0-8eb9-7d834dfa7723&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"680" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-143733" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Castlevania &sol; Netflix<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;retro-review-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-wonderful-pile-of-secrets&sol;">The music of <em>Castlevania<&sol;em> is always iconic<&sol;a>&period; It sets the mood for each game of the series&period; The soundtrack for the anime that follows<em> Shadows of the Night<&sol;em> lives up to expectations&period; The intensity of music’s emotion matches the situations of the characters&period; The despite screams of the vampires’ victims ring in the viewers’ ears as the music flows into the hearts&period; Watching the series seems to reach into the viewer’s soul&period; You begin to feel helpless as you can only watch innocent villagers get massacred for simply being human&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the other side of things&comma; the anime’s writers carefully reveals Dracula&&num;8217&semi;s pain from losing his wife beautifully to viewers&period; You can see the pain drawn into the vampire lord’s eyes&period; They make sure that viewers see how Dracula feels&period; His wife taught him that humans are not food but equals&period; He began to turn his views around until the betrayal&period; The line of who is right and who is wrong blurs when it is clear the religious leaders are responsible for horror starting&period; Until you remember that the vampire lord is literally killing everyone without hesitation&period; The sympathy does not last&comma; however you are not left without some understanding of how Dracula feels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Surprisingly&comma; Netflix&&num;8217&semi;s adaption of the franchise is a fantastic show to experience for fans of the video game series&period; And it can be enjoyed by anyone who is interested in vampire and darker animations&period; However&comma; it should be noted that since this is an M rated show there is a lot of gore shown without warning or hesitation&period; If you are in the mood for a show about vampires&comma; humans and lots of personality&comma; then Castlevania is the one for you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><b>If you think this is great news&comma; you may want to hear more about <&sol;b><a style&equals;"font-weight&colon; bold&semi;" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;comicyears&period;com&sol;anime-news&sol;what-is-comiket-going-inside-japans-massive-bi-annual-comic-con-like-anime-event&sol;">ComiKet&colon; a massive Comic Con like Anime event coming to Japan<&sol;a><b> that will surely have reveals for Castlevania and many other popular anime and manga series&period; <&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;