What online game would you need to see became an anime? That is the query requested on social media by our sister website PC Gamer, which attracted the eye of Samuel Deats, director of 32 episodes of Netflix’s Castlevania anime between 2017 and 2021 in addition to 8 episodes of the spin-off Castlevania: Nocturne, each of that are primarily based on the traditional online game franchise that dates again to 1986.
Deats took the query a step additional, asking his followers what online game they’d prefer to see his crew tackle – with the pure caveat that the query is all in good enjoyable.
“What may you prefer to see me and my crew animate some day?” Deats asks in response to PC Gamer’s immediate “A online game of your alternative is now getting an anime spinoff? Which is it?”
Maybe unsurprisingly, there are a couple of main decisions amongst Deats’ followers, together with, considerably unsurprisingly, Bloodborne, which shares a couple of themes in frequent with Castlevania’s vampire-centric monster-hunting plot.
A number of followers additionally requested Berserk, which has after all been tailored into anime earlier than, and has additionally been became a number of video video games. One other widespread suggestion was Metroid, with one fan pointing to the venerable Nintendo franchise as the following logical step for Deats “simply to say you have got area over MetroidVania.”
There are some enjoyable outlier solutions, together with “any Remaining Fantasy,” Mass Impact, and “one thing Elden Ring impressed.” However my private favourite solutions embrace Altered Beast and Darkstalkers (or because it’s identified in its native Japan, Vampire and Vampire Savior).
Will any of those come to move? Who’s to say. It is a enjoyable thought experiment although, particularly when contemplating Deats’ particular model as a director.
Whereas we wait to search out out if there will likely be extra Castlevania, try the 25 anime sequence try to be watching in 2025.
