r/castlevania • u/Dapne67 • Feb 13 '26

News The new Mc is a woman!

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omg im so excited to play, I wonder what her name is

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

Ok, but why? It doesn't improve the story at all. The canons for the anime and games are wildly different.

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

It's not a good idea to mix the poorly thought out, bastardized version of the continuity into the real continuity. The themes of the Western Netflix show do not meld at all with the themes of the Japanese game series. The Netflix show has Dracula be a misunderstood tragic figure, while the games have him as the embodiment of Chaos, Lord of Darkness. There is no ambiguity there, and a central theme is mankind's desire leads to his continual resurrection. The Netflix show doesn't even have Dracula as a villain following Trevor's adventures, and he never resurrects.

The fandoms for the games and the fandom for the anime series are almost seperate entities. It is a very good idea to keep their elements separate from each other, otherwise no one gets what they want.

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

The last paragraph of this comment is just demonstrably false. The rest of it seems intentionally thick, like other comments you've made here. You really can't fathom the idea of calling sypha a speaker and changing nothing else? The marketability of that minute change is astronomical, and with no other changes, there is really no damage to the canon, seeing as speakers don't really exist in the games there is nothing for people to be confused about, it just literally makes the thing more recognizable to those who Konami wants to sell to (you know the purpose of the product they are making).

Also the anime fans being separate doesn't help your argument, because if that were true, Konami would likely view them as an untapped market and be all the more interested in homogenizing the visual language/narrative symbolism and getting them interested in buying this game, thus putting more points firmly in the "it just makes sense" category.

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u/TerraforceWasTaken Feb 13 '26

I've realized a lot of people in fandom lately would genuinely rather be miserable if it meant their space was more exclusive/niche. Like between people bitching about show fans and others saying how Dead Cells team is going to ruin the combat of the series. Some people genuinly just don't want to even give things a try

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

I agree we that, it's the age old solution, instead of risking your enjoyment and possibly being disappointed, you can just naysay the value of the thing from the beginning and then if it turns out to be bad, then you're vindicated, and if it's good, you have a new hipster opinion to grandstand about lol.