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What were they thinking?

>> No.4107310

>>4107306
90s.

It was a dark time.

>> No.4107312

Stop.

>> No.4107313

I generally like Ayami Kojima's art but god damn, her bishounen Simon was atrocious.

>> No.4107325
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>>4107313
I think they hired the Death Note guy as character designer for that other game in order to make Kojima's redesign look less stupid

>> No.4107329

Why's there like ten Castlevania threads?
Konami finally stopped being shit or something?

>> No.4107330

>>4107325

Why all the metal or whatever? What was wrong with his IV design?

>> No.4107334

>>4107329
Can't annoy you that much when you keep bumping them

>> No.4107336

>>4107329
The cartoon came out on Netflix yesterday.

>> No.4107337

>>4107329
Netflix series released yesterday. Expect a lot of /v/, /tv/, /co/, /a/ and other crossposters.

>> No.4107342
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>>4107330
Uhh yeah about that
they made a Castlevania fighting game

>> No.4107361

>>4107342
I'd take the No-Grant-At-All from the TV show any day before Mummy Grant

>> No.4107382

Conan The Barbarian until Richter finally broke that long lasting tradition.

>> No.4107383

>>4107306
It's perfect you faggot. Literally best Simon.

>> No.4107389

>>4107383

It's the short tights and boots I dislike. They make him look too homosexual. I'm not comfortable with that.

>> No.4107391
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>>4107389
As an actual homosexual I much prefer the original Simon over that nu-male emasculated twink.

>> No.4107397

>>4107325
They really missed their mark then.

>> No.4107518

>>4107325
This is far and away the worst he has ever looked.

>> No.4107529 [DELETED] 

bump.....

>> No.4107665
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4107665

perfect simon coming through

>> No.4107728

>>4107391
Trevor was the most fuckable Belmont though

>> No.4107758

>>4107306
looks badass, I don't see the problem

>> No.4107770
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>>4107325
they actually did this

>> No.4107780

I love that appearance of Simon!

>> No.4107793

>>4107306
tranny bdsm

>> No.4107819

tbqh I think that's his coolest design, I was never a fan of the burly barbarian looks, this one is just badass.

>> No.4107825
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4107825

Who is the best dressed Belmont, and why is it Leon?

>> No.4108117
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>>4107825
All of Kojima's Belmonts are dressed the same regardless of time period

>> No.4108398

>>4107325
>>4107342
Holy shit why have I just now realized that it was the death note guy who made this? It always looked so familiar.

>> No.4108428

>>4107306
When there's a whip...
...There's a way.

>> No.4108481

>>4107361
the Death Note artist did the designs for Castlevania Judgment. Simon looks just like Light Yagami and Grant looks like Rem.

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>>4107825
Wrong. The answer now and forever will always be Julius aka best Belmont.

>> No.4108642

>>4107728
gotta agree with >>4108610 here, really like the daddy vibes.

Also I'm a sucker for facial hair, none of the bishounen protagonists can provide that.

>> No.4108835

>>4107325

All that's missing is the spikey rubber strapon cock.

>> No.4108838

>>4108117

Only Richter looks somewhat normal..

>> No.4108840

>>4107306
>>4107325
>>4107342
>>4107825
>>4108117

Is this because of that nuke we dropped on them? Is it slowly transforming Japan into sissies?

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>>4108840
We already have a /vr/ Edge Master, junior. We don't really need an amateur taking a shot at it

>> No.4108925

>>4108840
old joke is old and is overused. find new material.

>> No.4108926

>>4108840
Herbivore thing happening to usa as well. Mgtow, marriage rates down soooooo much.

Has more to do with post modernism.

>> No.4109102

>>4108840

Maybe they dropped two bombs, a nuke AND that top secret GAY bomb the CIA was working on..

Just took a couple decades to kick in.

>> No.4109136

>>4107306
A challenge to establish the queerest character between Fagvania, Final Faggotry (known in the west as Faggot Fantasy) and King of Faggoters.

>> No.4109638

>>4107306
I find it funny that some people say the Japanese people are redpilled and conservative when they come up with the faggiest characters in fiction.

>> No.4109662

>>4108642
All of Kojima's belmonts are seen as young boys who are 20 at most, Julius can afford to have a manly beard because we've only seen him in his 50s.

>> No.4109710

>>4107325
What the fuck is this shit? Looks like Justin Bieber went shopping at Hot Topic.

>>4108117
Richter is still best Belmont.

>> No.4109720

>>4108840
It's funny because japan is still one of the most conservative 1st world countries on the planet, while USA is getting more and more degenerated by the day. Enjoy your race-mixing and the end of genders as we know it, goy.

>> No.4109725

>>4109102
so did the CIA secretly drop the gay bomb in Europe and USA too?

>> No.4110102
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4110102

You eh.. Got enough belts there buddy?

>> No.4110106
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4110106

Dancing in muh sexy boooooots, out to defeat Draculaaaa

>> No.4110119

>>4110102
trevor tries so hard bless his heart

>> No.4110490

>>4110102
Looks like they got Tetsuya Nomura draw him up.

>> No.4110507
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4110507

Everyone ignoring the real best Belmont

>> No.4110515
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>>4110507
Fix'd your Belmondo

>> No.4110527
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>>4110106
Lol

>> No.4110780

>>4110515
Sauce?

>> No.4110793
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>>4107325
Why didn't he just used the Death Note to kill Dracula?

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>>4110515
Got the sauce, don't got the scans though.

https://www.doujinshi.org/book/479394/

https://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/01/82/040030018201.html

>> No.4111532

>>4110793
He's already dead. If you write in his name he simply gets a boner

>> No.4111560

>>4107336
>>4107337

Didn't know about this.

>> No.4111586

>>4110507

Because aside from everything being a bit too big its not super duper gay like the rest of the stuff in this thread.

>> No.4111591

>>4109710
>Justin Bieber jokes in 2011+6
Underage?

>> No.4111602
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4111602

>Dracula has risen
>Better put on my high heels

>> No.4111621
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>>4107306

This opinion doesn't seem to be popular, but I actually like this design. Sure, the barbarian look is fine, but this redesign just clicks for me. Maybe it is because it reminds me of Fuuma Getsu, which is what Kojima was probably going for.

>> No.4111629
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>>4107306
fuck you

>> No.4111657

>>4111621
Remove the hanging belts and the fur and it could look alright.

>> No.4112459
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4112459

>>4107306
That's awful.

>>4107325
That's even worse.

>> No.4112484

>>4112459
>Literally he-man

>> No.4112557

>>4111591
Castlevania Judgement came out in 2008, so Justin Bieber jokes are topical for the time. My jokes are retro. :)

>> No.4112662

>>4112459
They were all terrible, Sonia Belmont it's the better one.

>> No.4112689

>>4110102
Still like this more than pretty much any other version of him.

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4112781

>>4107306

I actually like the red hair and the costume but they should have kept the square jawed beefy barbarian physique.

>> No.4113223

>>4112689

I'm happy you're so comfortable with your homosexuality anon, it's very important to be proud of who you are in this ocean of hate that is 4chan.

>> No.4113514
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4113514

>tfw patrician enough to appreciate the faggy designs
Feels good man. They need to get Araki to design the next Belmont.

>> No.4113678

>>4113514
Anyone that would call themselves patrician is just a plebeian faggot with an undeserved ego.

>> No.4114183

Y'all only prefer the 80's generic muscular barbarian hero design because it's older.
Old simon is like gachimuchi tier homosex.

>> No.4114197

>>4114183
Man I'd fuck old Simon, not gonna lie. Those others... eh, not so much.

>> No.4114665
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>>4107325

>> No.4114672

>>4114183
Stop projecting your sexual orientation onto others.

>> No.4114745
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>> No.4114807 [DELETED] 

I'll take the least been design please

>> No.4114848
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4114848

I'll take the least bdsm design Please.

>> No.4114852
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4114852

there are a lot of reasons why I accept in my heart that this is the final castlevania game made

>> No.4114967

>>4107310

It wasn't all bad. There was time for Klax.

>> No.4114974
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4114974

>>4114848

>> No.4114990

>>4114745
Flamboyant personality aside, I never understood the rest of the design. Most of the designs in the show where quite literal interpretations of their sprites, but where the fuck do you get the whole aviator getup thing from in Simon's sprites? Specially the fucking googles.

>> No.4115002

>>4114848
>>4114974
Why don't people fuck with this design more often? It JUST WORKS

>> No.4115469

Honestly I think the problem with castlevania is the whip it's self. They are so fixated on giving every goddamn castlevania character a stupid whip that they are holding themselves back. Who the fuck uses a whip?

>> No.4115473
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4115473

>>4115469
Fuck off.

>> No.4115484

>>4107325
You are now noticing that he has tattoos leading down to his crotch

>> No.4115485

>>4115484
what a slut

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>> No.4117442

>>4115630
Simon's 3rd best design behind his 2nd game design then
>>4114848

>> No.4117469

>>4107306
I really like that design. I want to cosplay it sometime.

>> No.4117473

>>4108117
>shows a picture of 4 guys who are all dressed differently except for little Belmont motifs

wtf are you talking about?

>> No.4117480
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>>4114990
Pulled down hood - big collar
Bare legs - pants tucked into boots

And just go from there to make something that was visually unique and stood out. NES Belmont is a very vague sprite compared to someone like Megaman or Pit.

>> No.4118094

>>4112779
>Conan's face when people seem to think He-Man was the only barbarian looking guy from the 80s

>>4114990
I think they were going for a pulp hero adventurer look. Kinda works for me, it's just... not Simon.

>> No.4118114
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4118114

WE WUZ BARBARIANS

>> No.4118473

>>4112779
AND UNTO THIS, SIMON, DESTINED TO WEAR THE JEWELED CROWN OF WALLACHIA UP-ON A TROUBLED BROW

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>>4118114
Is this now a best barbarian thread?