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Anonymous Fri May 19 04:01:44 2023 No.9915367 [Reply] [Original]

How do we go from this...

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:02:17 2023 No.9915369 File: 50 KB, 420x422, alucard1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] to this?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:04:57 2023 No.9915372 >>9915367 >>9915369 Fujoshi

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:09:11 2023 No.9915383 >>9915369 That looks unironically better

Anonymous Fri May 19 04:19:30 2023 No.9915408

>>9915369
There's concept art of SOTN Alucard with dark hair. I think Kojima figured that his design would pop out more if he had light-colored hair.
Or Kojima came up with the white-haired Dracula design and started experimenting with giving Alucard a lighter shade.
Or Alucard being a dhampir and thus having a human mother got decided in development, and so Kojima wanted to incorporate a bit of Lisa into his design.
Or someone read Elric and thought "wow, this guy's cool."

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:19:37 2023 No.9915412 >>9915367 80s Sylvester Stallone 90s Jared Leto

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:20:35 2023 No.9915415 >>9915383 It's not a bad design or artstyle on it's own. I just really do not care for the change.

Anonymous Fri May 19 04:24:08 2023 No.9915420
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The real reason is because Tom Cruise played Lestat in Interview With the Vampire shortly prior and video games are notorious for stealing from movies.

An arguably defensible in-universe explanation is that his hair grew and lost it's color during the 300 years he was asleep. Though this is undermined by Castlevania Legends. It really was just a retcon.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:29:00 2023 No.9915430 >>9915420 They also liked Sephiroth. And the Sephiroth designers liked Psaro and Zechs Merquise

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:30:23 2023 No.9915434 >>9915430 SOTN and FFVII came out way to close to each other for there to be direct influence.

Anonymous Fri May 19 04:30:46 2023 No.9915435
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>>9915408
>Or Alucard being a dhampir and thus having a human mother got decided in development, and so Kojima wanted to incorporate a bit of Lisa into his design.
This is basically what they did for the Castlevania Netflix series and it worked pretty well (Despite other issues), Alucard is basically his Symphony of the Night design, but giving Dracula dark hair automatically gives Alucard more resemblance to his mother.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:36:11 2023 No.9915446 File: 1.68 MB, 1214x795, Alucard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here is Alucard from the Japanese manual, box art and a guide book.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:38:37 2023 No.9915451 File: 10 KB, 288x231, 16.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe they wanted to make him better resemble his best form.

Anonymous Fri May 19 04:52:26 2023 No.9915478

>>9915435
Another thing they got right was Dracula's design. Not so much the goatee, but in the original book he had the same hair and mustache. One upside to having English lit faggots write your adaptation is they will try to stay close to the source material, obviously not with the games they pretended to be fans of, but still.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 04:53:38 2023 No.9915480 >>9915434 In that case, they too liked Zechs Merquise.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 05:46:54 2023 No.9915558 >>9915430 Pretty sure Psaro's redesign to FauxSephiroth came years after FFVII. Originally, his single sprite in DQ4 had no official art and so he was subject to a lot of different designs.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 05:55:15 2023 No.9915567 >>9915367 >>9915369 They ditched the Bela Lugosi look for CV's Dracula, so Alucard follows suit.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:13:30 2023 No.9916342 >>9915408 Maybe it was based on Dracula-kun, who has white hair.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:15:50 2023 No.9916348 >>9915451 Alucard fags seethe when you tell them this is the real one

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:40:51 2023 No.9916395 File: 1.18 MB, 874x1106, Griffith_Card.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9915430 I thought that Sephi was based on pic related

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:44:55 2023 No.9916412 >>9916395 Plotwise, yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:46:07 2023 No.9916418 File: 397 KB, 1424x1072, Zechs_EW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9916395 Plotwise, yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 14:54:10 2023 No.9916442 >>9915369 Women

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 16:22:49 2023 No.9916771 >>9915451 https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbDe6wsLLNA

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 21:09:10 2023 No.9917420 File: 2.46 MB, 640x480, ThisIsWhyCaringAboutCanonIsForRetards.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9915367 >>9915369 I got your answer

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 22:11:11 2023 No.9917545 >>9915367 Robert Pattinson or anime lad, take your pick

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 22:58:15 2023 No.9917657 >>9915372 Spbp

Anonymous Sat May 20 02:12:32 2023 No.9918058
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>>9915420
>Though this is undermined by Castlevania Legends
It was flat out blue in Legends, and it was 25 years rather than 300, so I don't know, it could work, I think.

>>9915451

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 02:18:31 2023 No.9918073 >>9915567 Could copy Alucard (Hellsing ver.)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 03:10:14 2023 No.9918172 File: 537 KB, 1214x1586, FD378164-020C-4832-9565-6F664D7E15CE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9915408 >Or someone read Elric and thought "wow, this guy's cool." It’s true, THOUGH. Yoshitaka Amano’s Elric art is gigakino.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 06:06:22 2023 No.9918440 >>9915367 This is Alucard >>9915369 This is ARKARD Different guys

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 07:12:19 2023 No.9918513 >>9916418 Based character

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 07:56:56 2023 No.9918559 File: 42 KB, 640x400, tumblr_b3e3d1cfe3fab5e5c734998ccd5619b6_b70c840a_640.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9915367 to this?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 18:12:13 2023 No.9919537 File: 95 KB, 560x770, Arikado_Genya.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Alucard? NO it's uhhhh Arikado, baka

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 18:40:09 2023 No.9919623 File: 207 KB, 479x521, 1684544062209764.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9918058 >>9915451 Deleted it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 18:49:55 2023 No.9919648 >>9918172 i always thought sotn alucard was a rip off of D from vampire hunter D

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 18:50:55 2023 No.9919653 >>9918559 fucking hell im still mad about that

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 18:53:36 2023 No.9919661 >>9915451 The US was a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 19:00:25 2023 No.9919676 File: 937 KB, 2726x3265, ihkl8qsfvdk51.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9918058

>>	Anonymous Sun May 21 02:03:49 2023 No.9920743 >>9915372 This

>>	Anonymous Sun May 21 02:16:32 2023 No.9920786 >>9919537 My headcanon is that Alucard discovered anime sometime in the 90s and became a giant fucking weeb by the time of Aria of Sorrow.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 21 02:18:42 2023 No.9920795 >>9919676 I love that this is a thing now. I remember back in the day when most people had forgotten Captain N even existed.

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