Castlevania is a horror action-adventure animated series set in a dark fantasy Medieval world loosely based on the video game series of the same name , released on Netflix worldwide. Its story is originally based on the events from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and unites some of its aspects with elements from other games, such as Symphony of the Night and Curse of Darkness. It features Trevor Belmont as the main protagonist, on a quest to stop the evil vampire Vlad Dracula Tepes , who seeks to destroy humanity following the execution of his wife Lisa.
The creators have clarified that the settings present in the animated series are separate from the games, which implies that lore, characterizations and plots don't necessarily parallel or copy them and things can develop differently.
The first season consists of four episodes of minutes each, which all premiered on July 7, After being delayed from a July release, a second season was ultimately confirmed by Adi Shankar and released on October 26, A third season was confirmed on June 7, [4] and was released on March 5, A fourth and final season was confirmed on March 27, by Warren Ellis and on Netflix's official X accounts. Ellis explained that as he worked with Igarashi to fit the timeline of the series, including writing a new story, Igarashi had eight rewritten pre-production materials, before concluding with a draft that he turned in August After that, however, nothing else was heard about the project until February , when co-producer Adi Shankar and Netflix announced it would be released as a series.
The show influences has been described by the producer Adi Shankar to be from Japanese anime such as Akira , Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll , as well as western animation such as Young Justice. The series was written by Warren Ellis, who was in charge of writing the script for the now defunct Dracula's Curse animated movie adaptation. Ellis worked at Marvel and developed Hellstorm: Prince of Lies , the acclaimed cyberpunk series Transmetropolitan , and more recently the award-winning FreakAngels series.
The movie Red is based on his graphic novel, Red. A teaser trailer was released on May 24th, The series was released worldwide at midnight PST time on July 7th, A few hours after the release of season 1, Netflix officially announced a second season consisting of 8 episodes to premiere in On January 19, , Warren Ellis stated that the second season was to arrive in summer On July 25, , Richard Armitage Trevor Belmont 's voice actor announced they had completed the voice work for season 2.
