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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Nightmare of the Witcher fan
While animation itself was generally ok, I really didn't like how they twisted original story. You have an established fanbase with esbalished expectations, and instead of giving people what they want, you take characters, main plot point (destruction of Kaer Morhen) and rewrite the story around it completely for no apparent reason. The original story was actually good enough for the cartoon. So those changes are annoying.
The plot in Nightmare of the wolf is quite simple and predictable.
And it does not leave you with better understanding of the witchers, how they are created, why they tend to be emotionless and so fond of doing anything for coin. I feel like it could have been explained better.
Some scenes in the show are trying to show the process of witcher creation, but they are abrupt, chaotic, and some of them are just ridiculous attempt at scaring the viewer (like when untrained kids are dumped in swamps just to be eaten - it is just plain stupid idea, and nowhere near like it was in the original story).
Also, In the original story, even if you were given to the castle via law of surprise, you still could choose to become or not to become a witcher, because, you know, you might not survive the process of becoming one. You had to undergo training, you had to know how to use weapons. Simply put - before any trials, you prepare for them. In the netflix show, witchers shown as butchers, who instead of training future colleagues, just throw kids into the swamps to be eaten. Trail of Grasses explained very-very poorly, while it is kinda important.
And then this plot point, that it all was for revenge. In the original story the idea of people disliking witchers for being mutants is a huge deal. So while witchers were killing monsters, they still were hated by people. It is a problem that makes witchers even colder towards people. In the netflix show all of this just goes out of the window, the conflict simplified to the easy concept for dummies: witchers bad, they made monsters, angry witch good, with acceptible motive of revenge. Mob agrees, because witchers made monsters. And it was not the case in the original - in the source material people didn't need the real valid reason to attack, because of the blind hatred towards any non-human (it is kind of a major issue for most of the conflicts in the Witcher story - how humans are hating all non-human races, as well as witchers). This simplification became the major reason for my dissapointment in this show.
Also, Netflix tends to call every cartoon anime nowdays, but it doesn't feel like one, neither it looks like one. It is a cartoon, and it is not a bad thing, it is just as fine. Just stop calling every drawn piece of storytelling an anime.