Warren Ellis, the mastermind behind the past three seasons of Castlevania, has written a blog update about the next season of the series he describes as “an Anglophone adult drama animation about vampires, moral philosophy and toilet paper.”
Season 3, which Ellis said brought in “many, many millions” of viewers, wrapped up with the vampires Carmilla preparing to enslave millions of humans, the resentful forgemaster Issac ridding the world of an evil magician more-or-less incidentally on his continent-spanning quest for revenge, Belnades and Belmont having about as bittersweet of a victory as possible when fighting the forces of darkness, and Alucard more or less giving up on any promise of happiness.
Ellis says the series ended ranking within the top 10 of all Netflix’s content for “a week or two,” which he says gives him hope for the medium.
“If it turns out that this weird thing is what prised open the door on doing adult-oriented drama narrative in English language animation, I would be delighted,” Ellis wrote. “Because we just proved that the audience is there, in the same numbers that show up for live-action drama.”
Ellis says that the coronavirus outbreak actually hasn’t slowed down production for season 4, though that hasn’t stopped fans from being their usual impatient selves.
“[…] if that one guy who keeps tagging me on IG to demand ‘season 4 NOW’ could fuck off, I’d appreciate it,” Ellis said.
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