I don’t know much about Castlevania aside from watching a youtube retrospective of Symphony Of The Night. I started watching this show not even realizing it was a followup to a previous Castlevania anime.

Going in decently blind, I’ve been rather enjoying the show. The character design and especially the way faces are drawn reminds me of Aeon Flux, but toned back. The action is the main draw of this show for sure. I appreciate that every action scene has multiple angles and moving perspective. The integrated CGI aspects are for the most part not jarring.

The story is moving along, and while some of the twists are obvious, they aren’t dragged out, so I’m feeling like the plot is clipping along. Similarly, the protagonist characters are not overly complex, but they’ve avoided pitfalls that would have made them unlikable. They each have flaws or quirks, but never to the point of derailing the flow of the main plot by going off on some character specific side tangent.

Anyway, not done with it yet but I wanted to post some unfiltered thoughts so far.