Castlevania
Season 1 - Episodes 1 - 4
NETFLIX
July 7, 2017

This is an energetic, enjoyable and quite adult animation series.  There is a Castlevania video game by Konami.  As I have never played it, I cannot say how faithful the characters of the game are portrayed in this film. The animation is vivid and emotionally evocative.  Characters are full realized with personalities and self-expression. I enjoyed the sardonic humor of the characters.  The voice acting (English) is spot-on with the accents and tone.  Energy level is high with no lag.  This is a violent series with bloody deaths of men, women, children and even infants shown.  As this film has vampires, demons, monster, vampire hunters and despots, the high gore level is not gratuitous.  Each episode of the 4 episodes of season 1 is less than 25 minutes. Fortunately this series has been renewed.  Unfortunately Season 2 (with 8 episodes) is not expected until  2018.