The third season of Netflix's Castlevania animated series is coming soon. Today Netflix tweeted a new poster and an official release date for the third season, which arrives on Thursday, March 5.

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Check out this new poster below:Netflix originally renewed Castlevania for a third season in October 2018, days after Season 2 debut on the streaming service. Check out our review of Castlevania: Season 2 to see why we called it "the king of video game adaptations."This news comes a few months after Netflix Nordic tweeted and deleted a message indicating Season 3 would be released in early 2020. While that tweet appears to have been in error, it turns out it was technically correct.The plot of Season 3 remains under wraps for now, though the poster spotlights returning heroes Alucard (James Callis), Trevor Belmont (Richard Armitage) and Sypha Belnades (Alejandra Reynoso) and indicates Carmilla (Jaime Murray) will replace Dracula as the series' main antagonist. The poster also features a new character who could be Rinaldo Gandolfi, an alchemist introduced in the game Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.Executive producer Adi Shankar is also developing a Devil May Cry animated series intended to coexist with Castlevania as part of the shared "bootleg multiverse." Hopefully we may see some clues as to how the two shows will fit together in Season 3.For now, check out our past interviews with Shankar to learn how the series might adapt Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and how it explores the tragedy of Dracula

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