Our First Proper Look at Castlevania: Nocturne’s Return Teases the Team Up You’ve Been Waiting For

Netflix has just released its first teaser trailer for the second season of Castlevania: Nocturne. Have a look:

As evidenced from the trailer, the show’s second season will see Richter Belmont (Edward Bluemel) team-up with the newly-arrived Alucard (James Callis, reprising his role from Castlevania) to put an end to Erzsebet Báthory (Franka Potente) and her quest to gain the power of the goddess Sekhmet herself, in a loose adaptation of Symphony of the Night–what many believe to be the high water mark of the video game franchise. As the show’s first season ended with our heroes on the run following Tera’s (Nastassja Kinski) futile effort to appease Erzsebet, Alucard’s sudden arrival–and swift defeat of Drolta (Elarica Johnson)–was a welcome balm to an otherwise grim finale. To finally see proof-of-life for this second season feels strangely rewarding, somehow, and we’re excited to see how this strained Belmont/Alucard alliance plays out. We’re guessing they’ll be respected allies by the end of it, don’t you? After all, it’s kind of what Alucard does with that bloodline at this point.

Castlevania: Nocturne‘s second season will see the return of Edward Bluemel as Richter Belmont, James Callis as Alucard, Richard Dormer as Emmanuel, Thuso Mbedo as Annette, Pixie Davies as Maria Renard, Nastassja Kinski as Tera Renard, Sydney James Harcourt as Edouard, Aaron Neil as Mizrak, Zahn McLarnon as Orlox, Iain Glen as Juste Belmont, and Franka Potente as Erzsebet Báthory/Sekhmet. It’s set to premiere sometime this January 2025 on Netflix. 

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