

Antonio's face is later shown when Luka is searching through his recovered pictures from his broken camera, bearing a strong similarity to Luka's later redesign in Bayonetta 2. As Luka retells the story of Antonio's death, it is shown in gruesome detail compared to the game's portrayal. After dispatching a Beloved with the help of Gomorrah, she later breaks his camera and destroys his car by landing on it, a reference to Enzo's car in the game. Luka follows a clue about a mass suicide at the church, a reference to the mass suicide onboard the Valkyrie at the beginning of the game, and tries to obtain photographs of Bayonetta's fight and ensuing destruction. The Vestibule occurs inside a church where Bayonetta leads her double life as a nun.Yusuke Hashimoto, the angel designer of the first two games and director of Bayonetta 2, claims these designs were originally intended to be used as part of an angel VS demon battle at the beginning of the game but resource restrictions forced them to be cut.

These demons did not make an appearance in the game but were present in the Eyes Of Bayonetta artbook. In one of the windows, demons resembling alternate versions of Affinity shows up next to Malphas.
#Bayonetta bloody fate movie
The movie contains an opening similar to the Records Of Time section from the game, explaining the events up until the present day in the form of narration and images in a stained glass window fashion.Some of these changes are new to the film, such as an additional emphasis on certain character traits, or are changes that were originally intended to be part of Bayonetta that had to be cut during production.Īfter information revealed during the plot of Bayonetta 2, the movie is officially non-canon.

The story of Bloody Fate follows the general plot of the original game but has various aspects changed or added as part of the adaptation. Locale wise, the film features locations from the game such as the Crescent Valley and the Isla Del Sol, but certain events happen in other locations or in brand new ones not featured in the game. The other characters retain their major features mostly unchanged. Balder now wears gloves on both hands instead of only wearing one on his left and also has additional red highlights on his clothing. Hiroya Iijima was in charge of angel design and Mai from Avex Entertainment contributed the theme song, titled 'Night, I Stand'. Other music for the film was composed by Jun Abe and Masato Kazune, with some additional pieces being provided by reworked versions of tracks from the game.īloody Fate is the first Bayonetta product to have the characters voiced by a Japanese cast after the original game was exclusively English-only audio. Due to the positive reception of the anime, the cast of Bloody Fate returned to voice the characters in Bayonetta 2, all ports of Bayonetta following its Wii U version, and Bayonetta 3.Īs the film is an adaptation of the first game rather than a direct translation, there are slight visual and location differences in Bloody Fate.īayonetta's earrings are a crescent moon shape and her overall outfit features some minor differences to the sake of easier animation. Ai Yokoyama designed the characters based on Mari Shimizaki's original artwork, whilst Shimizaki also supervised the project. The movie was directed and storyboarded by Fuminori Kizaki ( Afro Samurai, Basilisk, Super Street Fighter IV, X-Men) to a story based on a screenplay written by Mitsutaka Hirota ( The Prince Of Tennis II, Tetsujin 28-go Gao!, X-Men). A dubbed release of the movie, handled by FUNimation Entertainment and featuring the majority of the original cast members, was released on October 21st, 2014.īloody Fate was created by the anime studio Gonzo, a studio responsible for animes such as Hellsing, Rosario + Vampire, and Trinity Blood. It is a film adaptation of the first game and was first announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2013. TBA 2014 (home video) Bayonetta: Bloody Fate (ベヨネッタ ブラッディフェイト Bayonetta Buraddi Feito) )is a Japanese anime film released in Japanese theaters on November 23rd, 2013 for a limited two-week run, later receiving a home video release for DVD and Blu-Ray on February 14th, 2014.
