Castlevania: Nocturne‘s Opening Explores the Bloody Belmont Legacy

Netflix ’s newCastlevania show , Nocturne , is set up hundreds of class after the event of the original series , with a recollective - line descendant of heroes Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades , Richter , headline the plaster cast . What good room to unite theBelmont Clan bloodlineacross shows than immediately give the poor young lad tragedy , violence , and monsters to take with ?

That ’s the case in the seven - minute cold undecided to Nocturne , which Netflix released today as part of itsanimation - focussed “ Drop ” event , celebrating tomorrow ’s entry of the new series . The opening introduces us to 18th century Boston , where young Richter lives with his mother Julia Belmont … at least , not for farseeing , when an encounter with an old vampiric grudge go steady Richter ’s life spiral into a mess of blood and tragedy .

Nothing say “ distantly have-to doe with toNoted Sad Vampire Hunter Trevor Belmont ” quite like watching your mom ’s own hunting legacy baseball swing tragically unforesightful by a shapeshifting vampiric giant , alas . But this is a bang-up exercise set up for Zahn McClarnon ’s mysterious villain Olrox , who ’s efficaciously cool in not just his thrilling struggle with Julia , but his minacious soliloquy to the young Richter about his retaliation pursuit .

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It ’s a neat band up for the show at prominent , and immediately makes Castlevania ’s recollective inclination of Belmont Clan descendants feel tangibly personal in the cognitive operation — a smart way of life to show just what ties the two shows together thematically , even it means a whole lotta injury for our newest little boy Belmont .

Richter ’s journeying continues tomorrow , September 28 , when Castlevania : Nocturne begins teem on Netflix .

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