In praise of the masterpiece - Castlevania

Everytime I get a recommendation from someone I'm just getting to know, it's always a given for me to approach it with skepticism. If it turns out to be an exceptional piece, you'd gain my respect as far as movies are concerned. If proven otherwise, it's fine. We'd just talk about other things.

Why am I saying this? Someone recommended the animated series Castlevania to me recently, and now the person has my respect in folds, after watching. Without further ado, the point of this post is to review the series Castlevania, let's get to that.

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Castlevania is a fantasy animated series, consisting of four seasons. The series follows Dracula, who has assembled an army of vampires to rid the world of humans, who brutally murdered his wife due to their misinterpretation of science as witchcraft. His son Alucard, knowing that that isn't what his mother would have wanted, has to team up with Trevor Belmont, the last member of a family known for the elimination of vampires and other non-human species, causing harm to humans, and Sypha, a speaker adept at magic.

This trio team up to kill Dracula and luckily for them, amidst Dracula's elite courtmembers, disunity arises. But even with this, are these three enough to overpower the myth turned reality that is Dracula?

The thing about this movie is that I can't even pinpoint one particular thing I loved. You know when you watch a series you initially didn't know what to expect from it, and even if you somehow expected to find faults, you were rewarded with none? That's what Castlevania did to me. It started out with the intention of killing Dracula but may I tell you? It didn't stop at just that. I'd have loved to tell you so many other things about the plot but no, go have your own share of the fun watching it.

I dreaded starting this series actually because I feared for how long it was. It's a total of 32 episodes and I didn't think I'd even be able to finish it but this drama had a whole lot in store for me. A whole lot I'm grateful I came across. The characters were everything. There was Alucard, the fairly used human being as described in the movie, lol. I liked his aloofness which made him seem as the leader in the trio, whenever Sypha and Trevor decided to play their enemies to lovers game.

Sypha and Trevor were two sides of the same coin and I loved them. They were talented, sensible and went according to plan. The way things turned out for them left me so thrilled. The villains here, did so much and I was happy with how some of them ended. Although some of them deserved painful endings, they didn't get it. But you know the good thing about that? It didn't in anyway make the ending less satisfying.

The animation, the graphics, the CGI, and everything was mind-blowing in this series. It's one that stays with you for a very long time. I really really enjoyed this one and so, I'll be rating it a solid 9.8/10. If you haven't watched this series, and you're a lover of animations, action-centered or not, gory or not, do you a favor, and check out this one.

Thanks for reading.

Unsourced image is a screenshot by me while watching.