When Lisa Tepes, beloved wife of Vlad Tepes AKA Dracula is acused of witchcraft and burned at the stake by an overzealous bishop, Dracula declares war on the people of Wallachia and unleashes an army of murderous demonic creatures from hell. Luckily, Trevor Belmont, last survivor of the Belmont clan, a disgraced family known for hunting all kinds of monsters, is still in town and agrees to take the fight to the lord of vampires. A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly creatures controlled by Dracula. It's a good show. Everything about it is good. Except for the length. I do not know how anyone can call four half-hour episodes a 'season'. It is primarily this that prevents me from scoring it higher. Exposition is dumped on the view in short but vital bursts. There's not enough time given to let anything grow or develop. Still, they do good work in the allotted time.<br/><br/>As with any adaptation of a source material, you can't please everyone. I can utterly sympathise with fans of the games not liking this. But for a casual anime viewer and game player, there's little to really complain about – except the frustrating length. I love the Castlevania game series, when the Animated Series was announced the hype was real, and I was waiting for this day, the 7th of July, but what we really got was a 80min movie split in four parts. Let's be realistic, if we have to wait one year and a half for the 8- episode Season 2 to be released (because we all know it's a big and hard work) this was nothing. I devoured the whole season in less than two hours and I was looking for more. It just didn't made me full. Maybe that's what they were going for though. To be fair it can act as a great prologue (but that was not how it was sold) and the animation, story and acting were flawless. It would be a 10/10 for me if it wasn't soooooo short.
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