Image via Project 51 Productions, Powerhouse Animation, and Netflix
The latest trailer highlights fan-favourite characters such as Richter, Annette, Alucard, and more.
After its immense success with season 1, fans have been waiting for Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 to hit the screens for a while. A spinoff of the massively popular Netflix series, Castlevania, Nocturne takes place a few hundred years later, during the French Revolution. The protagonist Richter Belmont is the descendant of the original series’ protagonist Trevor Belmont. Part of the monster-hunting Belmont family, Richter and Annette need to stop the impending doom of Paris at the hands of Erzsebet Báthory. Season 2 will return with the next part of the story on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
Fans were delighted to see the return of Alucard, the Dhampir son of Dracula, in the final episode of season 1. In the original Castlevania series, Alucard had helped Trevor Belmont bring down his own father Dracula, who decided to destroy the population of Wallachia after some people burned his human wife at the stake. The Nocturne series mostly focused on Richter and the others, who threw themselves into action to stop the Vampire Messiah Erzsebet Báthory. Unfortunately, Erzsebet is fully incarnated as Sekhmet, and Richter and his allies have nothing to do but run.

Alucard as seen in the trailer (Image via Project 51 Productions, Powerhouse Animation, and Netflix)
During the final stretch of the last episode, Alucard swoops in to save Richter and the others from Drolta Tzuentes by killing her. The new trailer also hyped up the audience about season 2 by showing some incredible action sequences and emotional moments between friends and family. Alucard’s repeated appearance in the trailer suggests that he will become a part of Richter’s group to fight Erzsebet. The protagonist will go head-to-head against the powerful final villain and promises to not run away anymore. Fans are excited to see the breathtaking, high-stakes battles between the heroes who want to save Paris and the supernatural villains who want to destroy it.
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