Netflix’s new Castlevania present, Nocturne, is about tons of of years after the occasions of the unique collection, with a long-line descendant of heroes Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, Richter, headlining the solid. What higher technique to join the Belmont Clan bloodline throughout exhibits than instantly giving the poor younger lad tragedy, violence, and monsters to take care of?
That’s the case within the seven-minute chilly open to Nocturne, which Netflix launched at this time as a part of its animation-focused “Drop” occasion, celebrating tomorrow’s debut of the brand new collection. The opening introduces us to 18th century Boston, the place younger Richter lives together with his mom Julia Belmont… at the least, not for lengthy, when an encounter with an outdated vampiric grudge sees Richter’s life spiral into a large number of blood and tragedy.
Nothing says “distantly related to Noted Sad Vampire Hunter Trevor Belmont” fairly like watching your mother’s personal searching legacy lower tragically quick by a shapeshifting vampiric monster, alas. But this can be a nice arrange for Zahn McClarnon’s mysterious villain Olrox, who’s successfully chilling in not simply his electrifying battle with Julia, however his menacing soliloquy to the younger Richter about his revenge quest.
It’s a neat arrange for the present at massive, and instantly makes Castlevania’s lengthy checklist of Belmont Clan descendants really feel tangibly private within the course of—a sensible technique to present simply what ties the 2 exhibits collectively thematically, even it means an entire lotta trauma for our latest little boy Belmont.
Richter’s journey continues tomorrow, September 28, when Castlevania: Nocturne begins streaming on Netflix.
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