Dobes Zone

       Wow! Honestly I love the way Castlevania wrapped up. For all its grimness and violence and tragedy, the series is ultimately quite hopeful- its characters have chances to grow and change, to think of themselves as their own people and not beholden to someone else's grand plan, instead moving towards ideas of building a kinder future for everyone. Isaac especially has a neat story arc and I love how it resolved. Alucard also gets a girlfriend who is bisexual and poly, good for him. All-in-all a fun watch, would recommend if you like horror, fantasy, and dynamic battle scenes. Playing the games is not necessary for you to enjoy or understand the series.   Moral of the story- just don't fucking kill Dracula's wife. Here's screencaps, though I didn't cap the last two eps because that felt spoiler-heavy.

 More screencaps of Castlevania. I'm still enjoying the series, though it's going darker as the story is expanding beyond the now deceased Dracula and into the worlds of other powerful vampires like Carmilla and as we follow the lives of the forgemasters Isaac and Hector. Sypha and Trevor also run into trouble with an insane Orthodox church that's turned to devil worship. I like how every form of the church in this series is shown in a terrible light.  We also get lots of sex and sexy betrayals in this season. It's a real shame that Alucard doesn't get to have a sexy polycule but oh well, it's nice to be thrown a bone once in a while. I do kind of wonder if this was a last minute writing decision because they just had no idea how to handle this dynamic, or they wanted a cheap bit of tragedy. It really didn't feel cohesive. On the plus side, we do get a lesbian vampire couple.  There's of course, also tons of monsters. My screencaps also decided to upload...