Best Netflix Anime 2018
Castlevania Season 2
The first season of Castlevania was disappointingly short, but the video game series deftly worked as an anime and fans were left wanting more. Luckily, we’re getting just that this summer, with eight more episodes hitting the streaming service. The short first season saw Trevor Belmont meeting a magician named Sypha and Alucard, and forming a strange team. The second season, which should be among the best Netflix anime of this year, should finally show the trio taking the fight to Dracula himself.
The Castlevania series stays true to its video game counterpart, filled with violence, religious themes, and dark characters. While it is developed by the western studio Powerhouse Animation Studios, its aesthetic is heavily inspired by anime and the artwork of Ayami Kojima in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. For all intents and purposes, this is an anime, and hopefully, a longer episode count in the second season will give the characters and story room to breath, and it should be remembered as one of the best Netflix anime of 2018.
