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ROBANN_88 posted...

without reading any of the reviews or discourse, i'm assuming people hate that there's a powerful black woman in it

the internet always has a hate-boner for that

That was the usual Twitter discourse yes as well as a few grifters trying to get attention off of it. That and the French Revolution thing. Funny enough, Rondo of Blood did actually take place during this time period. The only reason it wasn't part of the main plot was because Dracula was the villain as per usual, doing generic villain things. Since Dracula obviously isn't a threat anymore, Nocturne can now make that event part of its story

People try to claim the series has never been political but try to ignore or handwave away Bloodlines, despite that its villain plot is centered around World War 1 and like Nocturne, features a real life person as its antagonist, them being one in the same here

It's rather silly that people are still expecting "faithful" adaptations when the original series veered off from Dracula's Curse after Season 2 and to be frank, Rondo of Blood was not a terribly interesting game, story-wise. Like, at all. It was a very generic story that very well could have just been a throwaway OVA, especially given the aesthetic of the game being so wildly different from every other game before it

Another dumb complaint I saw people throwing around was trying to compare Nocturne's style to Ayami Kojima. Of course they fail two realize two things:

1: Kojima is an illustrator, not an animator

2: Kojima didn't even illustrate for the series until Symphony of the Night and her design of Richter is so far removed from the original to the point where he only resembles the character in that they have the same color palette. It's even more jarring considering Symphony of the Night's introductory scene is the final boss battle of Rondo of Blood...and Richter is still using his RoB sprites, looking nothing like his portrait.