My biggest problem with Nocturne is not just the stoic dialogue but that the character voices don't always feel like they match the appearance and age of the characters

So I'm expecting a lot of hate towards this post and I might delete it later but here goes...

Some of the voice acting was ok but there were some bad elements that really dragged it through the mud for me. The only voice actors I thought were genuinely good were Olrox and the Abbot but that's it.

Richter looks like a jacked 20 year old but sounds like he's in his mid 30s. The face just does not match up with the voice and dialogue lines at all. His banter, irritation, and grumblings all sound and feel like someone much older, grouchier, and charismatic. But his face and age convey none of these things. Even by the end of the show it felt very obvious that this was a much older person talking through a younger man's body. Many older voice actors can disguise this when playing younger characters, but in this case it was extremely obvious.

Maria's character sounds and talks like a precocious 10 years old who quotes Voltaire to her friends and thinks she's hot shit. I kept thinking of the "perfectly splendid" girl from The Haunting of Bly Manor whenever she opened her mouth.

However the most annoying thing was how her character's static, doll-like, face looked so much older and mature than the voice coming out of her. Her character looks like she's 16 or 17 at least from the many close-ups of her face the show has, but then she opens her mouth and I hear this 10 year old kid preaching to me about democracy.Her face looks like an Otome game protagonist yet the scene of her jumping up and down and yelling "LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY YAY YAY" was just so jarring. I guess it's supposed to be an emotional moment but I was just laughing at the scene.

Annette's dialogue felt pretty bland and stoic in moments where I felt it should have been far more emotional as well. It also feels like in some scenes, she rushes her lines. There were moments where she seems to be feeling one emotion but the voice actress doesn't take her time to deliver the lines organically. They just come out at a bullet's pace in certain scenes where the pace of dialogue doesn't match the mood. All this left me wth was, why are you talking so fast? Slow down lol.

Characters have this awkward bluntness behind the dialogue whenever they're talking as a group on what to do next. Everyone sounds like they're flatly reading lines off a scrawled piece of paper while rehearsing a stage play. The emotional force behind their lines feels very artificial.

I was normally not a dub person, but the original Castlevania show had a dub with dialogue and emotion that felt natural and immersive. The banter felt like banter and the monologues had a lot of charm and wit. I had no issue listening to it and thought it was quality voice acting. This felt nothing like that.