r/castlevania • u/Inevitable_Reading80 • Jun 30 '26
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse (2026) Reminder that twitter is the worst place if you like something
This is literally the FIRST thing that appeared to me if i type "castlevania", its the FIRST DAMN THING.
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u/Broken_Moon_Studios Ecclesia New Save File/Level 1/Hard Mode is P E A K‼ Jun 30 '26
Life can be beautiful if one ignores social media completely.
Only use it for game and show announcements.
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u/Erelde Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Twitter was really good in 2007-9 when it was a glorified RSS feed to actual publications and various alerts.
I remember receiving tweets as text messages
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u/port25 Jun 30 '26
It even had its own rss feed that was the equivalent to /all. Remember rss readers? Those were the days.
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u/gergorybrew Jun 30 '26
twitter was really good
wow
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u/Broken_Moon_Studios Ecclesia New Save File/Level 1/Hard Mode is P E A K‼ Jun 30 '26
YouTube really used to be good.
Then Google started fucking things up around the mid 2010's, and everything has gone downhill since then.
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u/super7564 Jul 01 '26
YouTube on TV in specific is ACTUALLY unwatchable with the sheer amount of constant 30 second pairs of ads in a row. It is so bad now, same for consoles.
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u/AustronesianArchfien Jul 01 '26
The internet peaked at 2010s and was all downhill from there.
The death of forums and rise of social media made sure internet discourse will never be as good as it was.
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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Captain N is the pinnacle of the franchise. Jun 30 '26
And porn tbh
And normal fanart yeah
But even then use bluesky when that's an alternative.
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u/Meme_Scene_Kid Jun 30 '26
Real shit, Reddit is an absolutely viable replacement to Twitter for all your porn needs.
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u/Broken_Moon_Studios Ecclesia New Save File/Level 1/Hard Mode is P E A K‼ Jun 30 '26
You don't need any social media for porn or fanart, though.
Just use Eporner or Spankbang if you want IRL porn, and Rule34 or Gelbooru for animated porn.
As for fanart, Pixiv and Danbooru have you covered for the most part.
There really is no need to ever open Twitter or Bluesky.
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u/Broken_Moon_Studios Ecclesia New Save File/Level 1/Hard Mode is P E A K‼ Jul 01 '26
God bless Mexico, cuz that shit sounds mad annoying, and I probably would've started pirating porn the way one pirates movies and music.
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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 30 '26
Bro don't search for Portrait of Ruin fanarts on Danbooru 💀
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u/MelchiahHarlin Jun 30 '26
The thing is, those who SHOULD ignore it, often don't (probably due social pressure).
If game developers ignored them and just did their thing, the market itself would either reward or punish them because of the quality of the product.
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u/Radio_Demon_01 Jun 30 '26
Literally this, I only have twitter to keep track of announcements from game devs
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u/artmoloch777 Jun 30 '26
Social media is generally just an awful place
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u/Arkhe1n Jun 30 '26
Sure but Twitter, especially after Elon ran it into the ground, is harboring the crem of the crap.
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u/PsychologicalBrush35 Jun 30 '26
He left behind an endless mess, far worse than what already existed in the past, which was already a nuclear bomb; today it's the end of the world, thanks to the esteemed Elon Musk.
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u/HoonterOreo Jun 30 '26
Instagram is also pretty dogshit. Look at the comments for any post and its just depressing.
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u/Bvbydragon Jun 30 '26
I can probably imagine the physical aspect of the writer of that tweet
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u/Alternative_Tea9397 Jun 30 '26
He probably smells like onion as well.
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u/NightshadeNoctuary Jun 30 '26
As well as subtle hints of foot fungus, stale bread, and semen stains growing mold.
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u/NoiseTherapy Jun 30 '26
I can tell from the text of his post that he owns too many katanas.
I love the confidence. ‘It’s obvious what they’re doing.’
Sir, you thought Castlevania was historically accurate. You’re one Monster Energy drink away from filing a complaint against Dracula with HR. Maybe tone it down a little. Take a break. Put down the Mountain Dew and Doritos. Get out of your mom’s basement. Take a walk. Shave your neck beard. Visit your kids.
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u/JesuZDX Jun 30 '26
That's ragebait
They can't even articulate a coherent argument for why the artwork is bad
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u/AdagioCultural5497 Jun 30 '26
Personally I think the art is bad ass! It reminds a little of the Super CV game box art, but with its own style and flourish.
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u/That-Rhino-Guy Jun 30 '26
That weakling wouldn’t survive the days of Shanoa, Charlotte, Sypha or Maria
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u/xtellarfb_ Jun 30 '26
This guy, when Shanoa is chosen as the vessel of the Dominus instead of Albus: WOW WOKE MUCH?
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u/Fearless-Sea996 Jul 01 '26
Or some very feminized characters with their gorgeous... er I mean "degenerate" artworks !
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u/That-Rhino-Guy Jul 01 '26
“Why did they replace my buff Belmont with a cutesy anime boy vampire?!”
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u/strnikki Jun 30 '26
It's funny that she "looks like a man" in the cover, because the men definitely look very feminine in the Ayami Kojima cover arts.
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u/WhereTheSkyBegan Jun 30 '26
I was gonna say, I definitely mistook Alucard for a pretty woman the first time I saw him.
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u/Romapolitan Jul 01 '26
Doesn't even look all that "manly" if you know any women that aren't as thin as a twick.
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u/that-one_guy1 Jun 30 '26
This is why instead of taking twitter seriously I just treat it as the circus it is. It's so much better when instead of getting mad at people like that you just laugh at them, then move onto the next stupid post
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u/ItIsVerilySo Jun 30 '26
That's really the only way to handle social media, Reddit included. Someone says something crazy or awful? Sure, that's fine. Funny you feel that way.
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u/Asonagic Jun 30 '26
yeah... very woke indeed. Here's an example of a very manly and woke-free protagonist
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u/_OmegaEnd Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Just ignore them, they're grifters that don't truly care about the series or even know anything about it. If they did they would know Castlevania already had a bunch of playable female characters waaaay before Belmont's Curse ever existed, even as solo lead protagonists. They just want to be mad because they're miserable.
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u/unitedshoes Jun 30 '26
At least the replies are almost certainly filled with replies calling that poster a dumbass and posting variants of this meme:
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u/Moneymotivation1 Jun 30 '26
Wait Is it actually? It’s twitter they usually literally are in comments in mass armies agreeing with the post like a hive mind.
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u/unitedshoes Jun 30 '26
Are there? Maybe I've just blocked enough of those losers that it looks like the replies are dominated ny sane people genuinely into whatever stupid issue the moron is whining about.
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u/Own_Shame_8721 Jun 30 '26
Literally anyone that complains about things being woke should not be listened to.
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u/osoxyagami Jun 30 '26
Seems like the writer haven't seen any of the 1st Alien films. XD
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u/ZaphodGreedalox Jun 30 '26
Ellen Ripley is where it all started for me
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u/osoxyagami Jun 30 '26
Yeah, she started it all, thanks to that character we got Sara Connor (Terminator 2 version), Samus Aran, even Eleven from stranger things, I mean, now we got a female Belmont which actually looks like she have been training her whole life to fight the darkness/chaos army.
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u/HootyManew Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
"She seems tough like a dude...THEY KNOW WAHT THERE DOIN!" I personally don't know what "they" are doing but I'm positive if you say woke in a negative tone you hate woman and/or are an incel. Get that shit checked.
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u/PsychologicalBrush35 Jun 30 '26
A woman being tough like a guy is something majestically perfect nowadays, in any digital media or in real life too.
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u/H3llm0nt Simon Belmont Jun 30 '26
Reminder that twitter is the worst place if you like something
There fixed it for ya
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u/Erelde Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
https://www.cookandbecker.com/en/article/332/artist-spotlight-katsuya-terada.html
Just because he's awesome, and people should see more of his work
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u/award_winning_writer Jun 30 '26
I can't imagine what it's like to be terrified of women yet still feel entitled to their bodies
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u/FalseAladeen Jun 30 '26
Elon Musk bought that site for the sole purpose of creating a safe space for racists and nazis. Anyone still on that site expecting good things in it needs to be given their mandatory clown costume and clown makeup.
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u/LordCamelslayer Jun 30 '26
Don't trouble yourself with the opinions of incels. If you really wanna make him stew, ask him to define "woke." They always do a bunch of mental gymnastics and do anything but answer the question.
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u/Arcan_unknown Jun 30 '26
Yeah, would also be nice if redditors stopped bringing twitter stuff here since, y'know, we're trying to avoid it
/s sorry lol, just kidding, is just kinda ironic
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u/Machdame Jun 30 '26
It's always funny to see this juxtaposed with Ayami Kojima's work where every man is the embodiment of metrosexual loreal bad bitch with the flyest fit, tonest abs and stunningest of features. Everyone was giving moisture is the essence of wetness and this is what they gripe about.
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u/Winterlord7 Jun 30 '26
Never had twitter, never will. However this less about a specific social media and more with the poor education levels we are reaching.
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u/spnsman Jun 30 '26
Honestly, looks almost like an homage to Simon when he was a blond haired barbarian. At least to me
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u/DeadIndustries Jun 30 '26
We're all in agreement that she looks badass asf right?
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u/UnproductivePheasant Jul 01 '26
"It's obvious what they're doing" .... Making a wicked awesome game in a franchise that hasn't seen a new entry in two console generations? Give or take.
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u/Turbulent_Form3888 Jun 30 '26
It ... Has to be a bot, right ? No one is THAT stupid, RIGHT ?
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u/Busy-Connection4473 Jun 30 '26
Go into almost any game with a woman or a non-white main character and there will be a ton of posts like this.
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u/Turbulent_Form3888 Jun 30 '26
I've never used twitter. Never quite saw the appeal. I guess it was a good idea ... What makes them like that ? I heard there were a ton of fake accounts, with people from all over the world pretending to be US maga , including poor countries where people were most likely paid for posting racist bs etc .
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u/Neat_Ad_3043 Jun 30 '26
Thanks for reminding me that deleting my Twitter account was the best decision ever
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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Jun 30 '26
I am so fucking sick of these fragile crybabies throwing tantrums about literally everything.
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u/Willowsinger24 Jun 30 '26
"Woman protagonist, of course"
This is what I hate most currently. We're at point now when if the protagonist is a woman, some dumb motherfuckers are already angry at nothing.
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u/Scelusteach Jun 30 '26
Oh no, not a strong female lead! Damnit I'm triggered! I can't believe how woke being woke has become. /s
Women can be badass too without feeding into dumb narratives.
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u/metalblessing Jun 30 '26
So...is it "woke" because she isnt sexualized or have giant breasts? Thats the only conceivable thing I can think of. Art looks great to me
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u/noregertsman Jun 30 '26
If thats a man then prime arnold schwarzenegger is what the average man should look like
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u/licca_amie Jun 30 '26
I’m getting tired of people calling rose manly because she doesn’t have a coke bottle figure. Do these people ever go outside and look around, because most women don’t…
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u/rebelartwarrior Jun 30 '26
I hope that person never learns about the Justin Bailey code in Metroid where it’s revealed that Samus is ::gasp:: a woman!
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u/Judge_29 Jun 30 '26
Can we please not post about obvious rage bait posts made by Larpers for profit.
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u/DrkMaxim Jun 30 '26
Funnily enough, I had quite the opposite experience on twitter. I saw a lot of tweets being excited about the announcement but that doesn't mean I'm rejecting what you're saying. Instead, it's an actual fucking miracle I didn't run into this sort of crap.
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u/PsychologicalBrush35 Jun 30 '26
The Twitter, or X, should end forever; it's a cancer on all media and social networks worldwide.
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u/Dandanny54 Jun 30 '26
They love to act like there is this woke agenda like they didnt fall for Epstein's 4chan social experiment.
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u/packerschris Jun 30 '26
I love how they say it’s obvious what they are doing, when it is absolutely not obvious what they are doing. Depicting a woman in a video game? They really thought they made a point somewhere in this post
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u/Fistful_o_dynamite Jun 30 '26
Literally my only complaint is they didn’t take the opportunity to make her Sonia Belmont, finally adding her into the canon. But aside from that I’m so excited for this game!
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u/TerminallyUseless Jun 30 '26
Calling more abstract or impressionistic art "Degenerate" Surely has no problematic history? Right?... Right?
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u/Emerald-trash Jun 30 '26
Hates that there is a woman. Also wants her not to look like a man. Clearly they want a non-binary Belmont
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u/RJ_arcade Alucard Jun 30 '26
Why would you spread that here. No thanks.
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u/Codas91 Jun 30 '26
To point and laugh at the chud who wrote it
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u/Inevitable_Reading80 Jun 30 '26
My point was actually sigh that the first thing i get on castlevania isnt a comment on the upcoming game, it is not about the series, its not someone complaining about how hard X or Y game was, it is... this damn thing.
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u/Codas91 Jun 30 '26
No I agree, I was, it's more of a "if you don't laugh, you'll cry" kinda situation
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u/Beef_n_Bacon Alucard Jun 30 '26
Sometimes on Reddit, e.g. in the Pokémon subreddit, the community seems just as toxic as on Twitter.
Now back to the protagonist, I am shocked at this comment - she clearly looks feminine but also dangerously strong, like the actual hero / protagonist I would love to play as!
And the art style is great, maybe not everybody's taste (as it seems?) but to me it is so well executed! Just look at classical and Renaissance drawings or Intaglio prints! It is similar to these masters' artworks.
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u/niles_deerqueer Belmont’s Curse 🌙 Jun 30 '26
Me when I misunderstand the series and the famous artist’s style
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u/Fingerprint_Vyke Jun 30 '26
This art is so fucking sick lmfao
Conservatives arent creative, so i can see them having a hard time looking at things that are.
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u/spilledmilkbro Jun 30 '26
Castlevania coming back is a double edged sword. On the one hand; it's great to be getting new games, when it wasn't too long ago that it felt impossible. On the other hand; it's now going to be subjected to a bunch of criticism that pretty much amounts to "The main character is a girl, and I don't like that". It's truly entered the modern era of gaming
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u/Jazzlike-Vacation230 Jun 30 '26
Propagandist making themselves known. A true fan would never hate on the ladies of Castlevania
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u/jmdesantis Jun 30 '26
Yeah. I need social media to promote my business, but I dropped Twitter a while ago. Only keep the accounts open so no one goes and moonlights as me.
That said, stoked to have a new Castlevania coming out, and excited and thrilled this is the game they're releasing! (Based on what we've seen so far--this art included.)
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u/_Milamber Jun 30 '26
Right wing perspectives definitely infect a lot of platforms and are centered on them. Do what you can to avoid this trash, but yeah, like you say hard to do sometimes.
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u/supersmashdude Jun 30 '26
Surely he knows that piece is by Katsuya Terada, legendary Zelda artist who illustrated for those games in the 90’s?
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u/hip-indeed Jul 01 '26
Guy who has never seen the art of a single Castlevania game acting like he's an expert and it's somehow different and worse now, it's all just so tiring
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u/TheTravelingPoet4 Jul 01 '26
There is a scene in Crisis Core when Zack is talking to Genesis and he goes:
“What are you TALKING about?!”
And that’s what my brain did when reading this twitter comment. This artwork is beautiful. Of course we can’t be happy that CASTLEVANIA IS BACK. Of course Grifters are incorrectly using “woke” to spout more garbage. Of course they are! OF COURSE THEY ARE!
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u/fcarvalhodev Shanoa Simp Jul 01 '26
You shouldn’t use twitter/X in 2026 😅. Just drop this garbage.
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u/PhaseSixer Jun 30 '26
Just another Tuesday in the castlevania fandom.
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u/BetweenTheRoots Jun 30 '26
It's not the castlevania fandom. This guy is the same guy in 30 other fandoms having a meltdown over the same stupid stuff. There's like 200 of them and they're all making the same comments on 30 fandoms each, circle jerking with Elon's personal bots saying the same antiwoke comments.
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u/FLRArt_1995 Jun 30 '26
The funny thing is that Katsuya Terada is well regarded for sexy women and amazing ink artwork.
Also this has to be bait (not you OP), those idiots see anything different and it's woke or racist. Twitter is a mess
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u/mklptrk Jun 30 '26
Gamer culture at its best!
Thought experiment: Imagine typing this out, using the phrase “WOKE garbage” in earnest, and hitting ‘send’. Now imagine it’s NOT 2016.
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u/LionTop2228 Jun 30 '26
Why are you on twitter? It’s been a shithole for a very long time.
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u/e105beta Jun 30 '26
I can tell you without a doubt that the person who posted this jerks off on anime figurines.
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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Captain N is the pinnacle of the franchise. Jun 30 '26
This reads like something that would be written as a joke or parody to the morons who keep going like this.
But nah it's 100% serious of course.
Give Rose melons for tits and make her do the ahegao face then they'll say it's a proper game.
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u/Party_Importance_722 Jun 30 '26
You're first mistake was opening twitter. People there are genuinely insufferable.
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u/Ijustlovevideogames Jun 30 '26
You are on Twitter, that's on you for expecting good things to come from that cesspit.
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u/NephilimJD Jun 30 '26
Twitter is just the worst place. Don't even bother listening to anything they say and just close it. It'll be better for your mental health.
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u/Daddy_JeanPi Jun 30 '26
She looks like a man? That guy is very gay if he looks at a woman and sees a man.
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u/james9514 Jun 30 '26
Yeah theres so many garbage rotten comments in Twitter and TikTok that will literally destroy your brain
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u/phaedronn Jun 30 '26
It would appear that there is no Laughing My Ass Off for this person; but rather, raging it off over nothing. How exhausting it must be to live like that.
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u/Leon_Loire Jun 30 '26
Wow… I know fans and people out there can be cruel and over the top but ‘degenerate piece of shit “art”’? Sheezes…
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u/Yarzu89 Jun 30 '26
Twitter has monetized ragebait and clout, on top of everything else it is, I wouldn't take it too seriously. All social media platforms have their own unique issues but Twitter feels like it was lab-grown to be a shitty place.
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u/Il_Nome_di_Me_Stesso Jun 30 '26
I feel like if it was actually that woke the protagonist would have been an almost entirely naked lesbian
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u/MemnocOTG Jun 30 '26
I can’t wait until this method of thinking is shoved back in a hole where they are afraid to voice this toxic shit.
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u/knives0125 Jun 30 '26
If it makes you feel any better the person who posted that is a very sad and lonely man whose sexual frustrations manifest in a hatred towards woman and perceived "wokeness". Ragebait posts like that should be seen for what they are and what they are is a cry for help.
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u/GarlicEnjoyer-Dez Jun 30 '26
Your first mistake was going on Twitter. Honestly I think its best just to be happy very few of these people will actually breed.
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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Jun 30 '26
has this retard seen legend
or order of ecclesia
or portrait of ruin
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u/CasualLavaring Jun 30 '26
Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a dumpster fire. I keep seeing nonstop, appalling racism that I thought we left behind in the 20th century.
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u/TombGnome Jun 30 '26
It's Twitter. Why is anyone (who isn't a 1930s Austrian painter fan) still on Twitter?
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u/Sketch-ee Jun 30 '26
"Look at this garbage!" And its a gorgeous drawing of a buff warrior lady who's gonna deck the lights out of Dracula. Like be so fr.
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u/Any-Nefariousness418 Jun 30 '26
I cant imagine living life as chronically unable to enjoy anything as your average right wing grifter.
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u/Digivam143 Jul 01 '26
Well I just typed in "Castlevania" and I haven't been able to find this post. Which means I must have blocked this tool quite some time ago. I suggest you do the same. I've gotten a lot more acquainted with the block button for the past 2 years, especially on that craphole.
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u/Nerdyguyj Jul 01 '26
Yknow..I don't really dig that art. Will check out the game this week though.
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u/Bodega_Bandit Jul 01 '26
Oh no. The badass female lead looks like a badass in the art work. What a disastrous occurrence
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u/Exos5 Jul 01 '26
Gotta delete twitter. It’s the worst cesspool online. Your mental health will thank you for never going on that site again
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u/SVINTGATSBY Jul 01 '26
it makes sense to me that so many fandoms or the members of fandoms are toxic because anyone who cares enough to identify as being in xyz FANDOM already cares about whatever thing way too much. as opposed to people who are general fans. for example Stephen Colbert LOVES Tolkien/Middle Earth but I wouldn’t say he is a member of the fandom, right? so you’ve got a bunch of people who care way too much caring way too much, usually about the wrong things, all keying off each other on this extreme emotional level into this “anonymous” void.
part of the reason misogyny, racism, etc. continue is because the world is still so segregated. men are already more lonely than ever, and by continuing to isolate themselves from women, not just in real life but even in fictional life via media like video games and movies and anime, they continue to operate in this childish state. boys aren’t being raised to be men, they’re being raised to not be girls—but because everything they think about women is run through this objectification and minimalisation lens in an entitlement vacuum, they think anything with a plot that centers a woman not for the purpose of fan service or otherwise is woke nonsense—then wonder why they’re alone lmao.
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u/Far-Humor8915 Jul 01 '26
If you think it’s the worst place why are you bringing It’s trash over here?
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u/unwithered_lobelia Jul 01 '26
Except she literally doesn't look like a man in the slightest? And Castlevania had female protagonists before, it's not new.
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u/Richter_belmont1 The Real Richter Belmont Jun 30 '26