Ya Know What I Think Is Really Sad? Theres So Many Artists Who Have Worked On Castlevania That Either

Ya know what I think is really sad? There’s so many artists who have worked on Castlevania that either don’t get credited, have incredibly little information about them, or aren’t appreciated nearly as much by the fandom as others. It’s to the point where while I was looking up information for this post, Google was only giving me Ayami Kojima as the answer for “who painted the Castlevania 1 cover art”. Which is so sad because! like! I love Ayami’s artwork!!! But she is not the only artist for the series! And I love everyone else’s artwork too!!!!!!!! :(

Anyway, the only information I could find about the art of CV1 and CV2 is that Noriyasu Togakushi was the character designer for the games, as well as for CV3. But I’m not sure which artworks he did for these games. Some sources claim that he did the cover art for the first two games, others (updated just as recently) claim that the cover artists for both games is completely unknown. And I’m not sure if he did the cute little manual doodles and concept sketches either, but I’d say those are probably more likely his since cover arts were commonly outsourced at the time and concept sketches like that seem more in line with the work of a character designer, but I could be wrong. Sadly, many websites have a habit of crediting an artist and then not specifying what works are theirs. And judging by how little information there is regarding everyone involved with working on those games, even the main writer/director, it’s also possible that we might not actually know which works are his.

Regardless, I wanna thank this guy for probably having designed Simon Belmont, the man I draw or want to draw almost every day of my life :)

I hope that the images show up correctly cause I’ve been having some weird issues with images lately. When cropping the image, it shows the correct one, but the thumbnails aren’t showing up right at all on my end. I was initially going to make this a larger multi artist appreciation post, but I don’t wanna have all the images switching for no reason with that many images ugh. So uh yeah ok bye—

Anyone else experiencing some weird skipping issues on here? Like I’ve been scrolling through my recommended or even just other people’s blogs and suddenly tumblr will either jump a few posts forward or a ton backwards and I’ll have to scroll to find my place again. Honestly probs just a mobile issue (alas mobile is the only platform where I have all my photos accessible so I have to use it on mobile) but man why have a mobile version if you’re not gonna fix the bugs on it :/

Simon Belmont with the Nintendo Switch, what game will he play :O

trevor is like. hes so. human.

hes in the role of the paragon hero, hes the legendary belmont, the first man to kill dracula, the one who recruited the Big Good of the series, hes one of the like four to five different belmonts you could call The Belmont because the criteria is so wacked up

and yet

hes so? he has flaws? hes blunt and kind of an asshole and he fights first and asks questions later, hes quick witted but its in a hindsight is 20/20 sort of way and like, he has marks? scars? proof of imperfections? you can see just where he fumbled once or twice, you see him fumble just as hard to isaac

and its like wow he certainly is some guy

but the thing is that none of this means he isnt also a hero! hes kind, charming, eager to make friends unless youre hector at first lmao sorry hector, he has a strong moral compass; despite some bitterness in regards to the belmont clans current situation, despite the fact we see the nasty sides of him where hes rough around the edges and a bit of a bitch, he tries to do the right thing, he wants to help people, and at his core despite being a PERSON he is very much a GOOD person

like

blehhhh

hes a guy. he has facets. hes not a perfect paragon hero despite the fact hes in the role of one, but he is nonetheless a hero. do you understand. he is my favourite i love him so dearly i want to parade him around like a prize winning vegetable or something

i love just a guy belmont i adore just a guy belmont. he is a man and he is doing his best no matter what ok

screwing around with my artstyle again so uhh, have a juice, richter scale, and leonardo di belmont

I keep forgetting that I have not yet posted like 99% of my art here and probably should like dang I actually have to fill tumblr in on the lore ig