Check Out The Stylish Opening Title Sequence For Netflix's CASTLEVANIA Animated Series

Check Out The Stylish Opening Title Sequence For Netflix's CASTLEVANIA Animated Series

The first season of Adi Shankar's animated adaptation of classic video game, Castlevania, is now available to stream on Netflix, and we have the opening title sequence for you to take a look at right here.

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 08, 2017 06:07 AM EST
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The animated Castlevania series is now streaming on Netflix, and you can check out the opening title sequence below.

Producer Adi Shankar has previously teased a "dark, satirical" adaptation that would "flip the vampire sub-genre on its head," and more recently he promised us the "western world's first good video game adaptation."

I haven't had a chance to check Castlevania out yet, but if you have drop us a comment in the usual place and let us know if it's everything Shankar has built it up to be.


Inspired by the classic video game series, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself. The animated series is from Frederator Studios, a Wow! Unlimited Media company, written by best-selling author and comic book icon Warren Ellis and executive produced by Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar.
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Deszarose
Deszarose - 7/8/2017, 6:51 AM
Watched the whole thing yesterday... sooo gewd!
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 7/8/2017, 6:51 AM
just watched. best anime of all time, although the title of the season one should be the beginning.
RancidBane
RancidBane - 7/8/2017, 6:55 AM
@Superheromoviefan - Idk about best of all time. It has to go against Full metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai 7. But it is really good nonetheless.
RancidBane
RancidBane - 7/8/2017, 6:54 AM
My only complaint to the show is that it's way to short. I could have watched hours of it. I guess this is a good problem to have. Leaving the audience wanting more. Bring on season 2. I am glad that Netflix doubled the episode count for next year.
r4dagast
r4dagast - 7/8/2017, 6:58 AM
As a life long castlevania fan, this is just so great in every way, but sooo damn short. There's a lot of potential with this series and could go for many seasons. Would be great if they made it to the end of the original timeline with adapting aria/dawn of sorrow and everything inbetween!
TheBigkahuna
TheBigkahuna - 7/8/2017, 7:11 AM
Im about to check it out soon hope it holds water
TheArlington
TheArlington - 7/8/2017, 7:27 AM
Way too short. Great characters. Still have the last episode to watch. Dracula really isn't the villain which is odd. Trevor is a cool piece of shit though.
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 7/8/2017, 7:44 AM
I've heard good things about this series. Once I finish catching up on superhero shows, I'll check this out.

These are probably my favorite anime intros:
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 7/8/2017, 7:56 AM
It was pretty damn awesome if you ask me but you can tell this was a product in development hell. This was originally supposed to be a direct to video DVD movie and it definitely feels like one by the time the credits roll.

Hopefully, now that they've got a second season secured, we can see them build on this fairly solid foundation.
DetBullock
DetBullock - 7/8/2017, 7:57 AM
I really liked this, it captures the games (at least the post SoTN ones) well and you could clearly tell Warren Ellis wrote it.
MarsivNayr
MarsivNayr - 7/8/2017, 9:05 AM
This was a serious gem of an anime. Very well made. I too have the same complaint of it being too short. But all in good time. Looking forward to more seasons. And also everything else Adi Shankar wants to do.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 7/8/2017, 9:16 AM
this was so short but so badass at the same time. they went f*cking hardcore with this thing, I love it.

they also made Dracula a sympathetic figure. yeah, he's commiting genocide, but I get why he's doing it. the heroes are also cool and well balanced: you got the no-nonsense magician woman who can talk sh*t once in a while, the cocky pretty boy vampire with a score to settle with daddy Vlad, and Trevor who's the asshole with a good heart and a renewed sense of duty.

all in all, probably one of the best video-game adaptations in anything so far.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 7/8/2017, 9:20 AM
also, they found an interesting thematic anchor for the show: in a world where freakin' Dracula exists, human ignorance and fear are the real root of evil (see the POS priest who had it coming near the end).
BlackConvoy
BlackConvoy - 7/8/2017, 3:20 PM
I loved this. It was just way too short, and you can tell that they had a pretty limited budget. Now that it's getting a second season with more episodes, I hope the animation quality is increased.
Jimster
Jimster - 7/8/2017, 8:06 PM
as a big castlevania fan i watch all 4 episodes back to back last night. great show. too short though. can't wait for season 2. if it keeps going i can't wait for them to cover rondo of blood and symphony of the night somewhere down the road.
ClarkFarley2012
ClarkFarley2012 - 7/9/2017, 10:01 AM
I'm on episode 2. Is it me, or does Belmont sound like Johnny Deeps character in POTC lol?
Pathogen
Pathogen - 7/9/2017, 11:47 AM
THis was boring. I'm not a fan of anime, so, it just confirmed my bias. But seriously..the voice acting was terrrrrrrrrrible
ComicBookPsycho
ComicBookPsycho - 7/9/2017, 2:48 PM
@Pathogen - I watched the Japanese dub and it was great, Trevor especially standed out.

You should check out Death Note, it will probably make you wanting to watch more anime.
ComicBookPsycho
ComicBookPsycho - 7/9/2017, 2:49 PM
@ComicBookPsycho - *want
Pathogen
Pathogen - 7/9/2017, 3:15 PM
@ComicBookPsycho - Someone, you perhaps, recently suggested that to me on these forums. But I'm just not into the high school thing, it always devolves into some immature drama bs. I see Anime littered with high school kids becoming heroes or doing crazy stuff, and its just so Twilight to me, I roll my eyes at it. Just not my style, ya know?
ComicBookPsycho
ComicBookPsycho - 7/9/2017, 3:25 PM
@Pathogen - It doesn't have anything to do with highschool other than the fact that the protagonist (Light) is a high schooler.

Also, no drama involved other than a few scenes. The whole anime is a crime thriller with perhaps the smartest cat and mouse game I've ever seen.

And you never get the feeling that Light is a teen, he acted way ahead of his age, in terms of intelligence and behaviour.
ComicBookPsycho
ComicBookPsycho - 7/9/2017, 3:40 PM
@Pathogen - I swear what I'm telling you here is not BS.

Death Note was the first anime I have ever watched, and it was my friend that made me watch it, he kept telling me to watch it but I wasn't interested in anime in general, then like a few days later, he sent me a link to the first chapter of the manga, I read it and got soooo into it, and then he told me to watch the anime instead, I binge watched it in like a week, and I loved it. It was bloody brilliant.

Death Note is a great crime thriller involving a battle of wits between the 2 leads, Light the sociopath who wants to change the world by wiping out criminals and and L, the detective going after him.
Pathogen
Pathogen - 7/11/2017, 4:05 PM
@ComicBookPsycho - Ok. I watched Castlevania, and it was terrible/boring as all hell, so I'll give this Note of Death a shot (I know its called Death Note, but its a silly title. I'm hoping it sounds better in original Japanese)
Donovan
Donovan - 7/9/2017, 11:48 AM
So cool adaptation of a video game! Now, allow me:
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