Castlevania/Trivia

Cash Cow Franchise: Castlevania is one of the guiltiest in Konami for this; some Konami fans are complaining about the other titles cast aside, such as Contra.
Fan Nicknames, such as:
- Somacula, for the evil Soma in the bad ending of either Sorrow game.
- "Whip Guy" and "Spear Dude" for the protagonists of Bloodlines.
- For Simon's walk in Haunted Castle, "Wedgie Walk" or "Gotta Pee Now Step" apply.
- Eeguh - Koji "IGA" Igarashi, the current producer of the series.
- Japan refers to Chronicles Simon as either Red Simon (akai Shimon) or... Homon.
- Castlevania (Nintendo 64) - The first Nintendo 64 game, properly named Castlevania, starring Reinhardt and Carrie.
- The Belmont Walk; the Pimp Walk - A peculiar stride that all of the members of the vampire hunter clan Belmont use. This most likely originated from the four frames of animation use for Simon's walk from the original game, but other 2D Belmonts used it too, leading to the nickname.
- Simon Yagami - Simon Belmont in Castlevania Judgment, for his striking resemblance to Death Note protagonist Light Yagami. See for yourself.
  - Dracula Note, Death Notevania, Castlevania Just As Planned, Akumajo Keikaku Doori, Power Stone: The Death Note Version and Death Note: The Fighting Game: the game.
  - Castlevanians of Ottawa-region like to call it "CastlevaNote".
    - On that note, let's see which other characters we can rename: Near Lecarde, Soicula Yagami, Misa Renard, Caryomi Takada, Mello Danasty...
- The Samuel L. Jackson Attack - Shanoa's Nitesco + Weapon Glyph union from Order of Ecclesia that resembles a giant purple lightsaber, just like Master Windu's weapon of choice in Star Wars.
- Holy Snorkel - The Holy Symbol relic from Symphony of the Night, which allows Alucard to survive underwater and happens to resemble a gold snorkle.
- Fleaman - Originally called Hunchbacks, people started calling them Fleamen because of their erratic jumping, and the name kinda stuck, to the point that it's the official name in-game for them.
- IGAvanias - For all the Castlevania games produced by Koji Igarashi, almost all of which were "Metroivanias".
- Classicvanias - For all the classic stage-based Castlevania games prior to Symphony of the Night.
- Metroidvania - For the post-Symphony of the Night installments in the series for their sprawling world map and wide open exploration. It has also become a nickname for an entire sub-genre of 2D action games offering similar mechanics (for better or worse)
- 3Dvanias - For all the 3D-based games in the series.
Hey, It's That Voice!:
- It would seem that Patrick Seitz is the go-to guy to portray Drac. Seitz has portrayed Dracula in The Dracula X Chronicles, Order of Ecclesia, and Judgment.
  - Mathias was voiced by Nobuhiko Kazama (Toru Hanagata, Mikazuki, BiriBiri Yarou) and Crispin Freeman.
- Tom Wyner (Devimon, M. Bison) voices Death in Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness, while Travis Willingham takes over in The Dracula X Chronicles and Judgment.
  - In Japanese, he's been voiced by Masaharu Sato (Buffaloman, Sunshine, Miyamoto Musashi, Adjutant Black) in SotN, Lament, and CoD, Takuo Kawamura (Amago Haruhisa, Katsuya Kumagai) in HoD, Yasuhiko Tokuyama (Heikichi Nakao) in PoR, and Koichi Sakaguchi (Prince Hata, Musashi, Cid, Claw-Hand) in Judgment.
- Leon Belmont's US voice actor is Dave Wittenberg, which means... he's Kefka, Sesshomaru and Kakashi Hatake. And his Japanese voice you may recognize as Basara Nekki, Lancer, or Axel Almer.
  - Don't forget Maxi, Knuckles the Echidna, and Kakashi Hatake.
- Walter Bernhard was voiced by Yukimasa Kishino, known for voicing Brad Wong, Cao Cao, Higuma, and Burter. Jamieson Price provides his voice in English.
- Yasunori Masutani and Steve Staley voice Trevor in CoD, while Judgment has Trevor voiced by Takashi Kondo and Gideon "Balthier" Emery.
- Grant was voiced by Masaya Onosaka (JPN) and Kirk Thornton (ENG) in Judgment.
- In the Japanese version of Judgment, Sypha is voiced by Ami Koshimizu.
- Recent continuity has Alucard voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. Japanese-wise, he was at first voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu, but recent continuity had Mamoru Miyano to voice him (to match Yuri Lowenthal's "youngster" voice?)
- Hector was voiced by Crispin Freeman, aka Jeremiah Gottwald, Regal Bryant, or Itachi Uchiha. Freeman also previously voiced Mathias Cronqvist.
  - For the Japanese: Takahiro Yoshimizu, better known as the voice behind Kab uto, as well as Chet and Chief Haro.
- Isaac was voiced by Liam O'Brien in the North American version.
- Julia's voiced by Tomoko Fujino (Aegina Eine Artwaltz, Aljeena) in Japanese and Dorothy Elias-Fahn (003, Tomoe Kashiwaba, Naru Narusegawa, Kaoru Kamiya) in English.
- In Judgment, Simon's voiced by Kenichi Suzumura (JPN) and Keith Silverstein (ENG). Hideo Ishikawa voices Simon in DreamMix TV World Fighters, a Mascot Fighter featuring characters from Konami, Hudson, and Takara.
- In Judgment, Carmilla's voiced by Sayaka Ohara (JPN) and Karen Strassman (ENG).
- Juste's seiyuu Tadasuke Oomizu also voices Troy in Suikoden IV.
- You may recognize the dulcet tones of Harry Mason in Richter's impassioned confrontation with Dracula at the beginning of Symphony of the Night.
  - For the redub for The Dracula X Chronicles, David Vincent voices Richter.
  - In Japanese: Jin Horikawa (Tetsuya Onodera, Igor Planter) in Rondo of Blood, Kiyoyuki Yanada in SotN and The Dracula X Chronicles, Shin'ichiro Miki in Nocturne of Recollection (a drama CD set a year after SotN).
- Maria's voiced by Yoko Teppouzuka (credited as "Yoko Teppotsuka"; she's better known as Yuko Asahina, Shie, and Ai) in Rondo of Blood, Chisa Yokoyama in SotN, Sawa Ishige in The Dracula X Chronicles, Miyu Matsuki in Nocturne of Recollection and Judgment. In English, Michelle Ruff voices her in The Dracula X Chronicles, while Philece Sampler provides Maria's voicework in Judgment.
- Jeff Manning, perhaps best known as the Narrator/Master Hand in the original Super Smash Bros., voices Shaft in SotN, while Dave Wittenberg takes over in The Dracula X Chronicles. Their respective Japanese counterparts are Kiyoyuki Yanada and Dai Matsumoto (Henry Marker, Dokugakuji, Arbiter, Sin Rubeo Amniculus).
- In Judgment, Cornell's voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi (JPN) and Paul St. Peter (ENG).
- Jonathan has the same voice in Japan as Suzaku Kururugi and Kira Izuru. The fact that he looked kinda like a more cheerful Izuru doesn't help...
  - And Edward Cullen. Cue the jokes.
  - Hilariously, in the NA version, he's voiced by Liam O'Brien, who's noteworthy for providing the voices of Joachim and Isaac.
    - Oh, and Gaara.
- Zobek's voiced by Patrick Stewart. Cue the Star Trek jokes.
Name's the Same: There are major differences between Alucard and the Alucard from Hellsing
No Export for You:
- Vampire Killer on the MSX2. It doesn't help that the MSX is absolutely nonexistent in North America, making VK even more obscure.
- Rondo of Blood was like this until just recently; ditto the Saturn version of Symphony of the Night.
Remade for the Export: Akumajou Dracula for the X68000 was introduced to gamers outside of Japan for the first time as Castlevania Chronicles. Similarly, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood made its first (functional, playable) trip outside of Japan as Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles. We don't talk about the SNES Dracula X.
Shaft Debuted in Symphony of the Night
What Could Have Been: Older Maria Renard was meant to be playable in SotN, but was scrapped due to time constraints (voice files can still be found on the disk). Nocturne in the Moonlight, the Updated Rerelease for the Sega Saturn, among other things, made Maria playable.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Some were not pleased that the Maria in the PSP release of Symphony of the Night was not like the Saturn version of her in combat.
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