History YMMV / Castlevania2017

* OlderThanTheyThink: This series has been criticized for introducing [[CorruptChurch anti-christian themes]] in a setting that's supposedly free from it. In actuality, [[LightIsNotGood holy]]-[[HolyIsNotSafe themed]] antagonists have always been a staple of ''Castlevania'' (albeit mostly as angels and other divine beings working for Dracula, for unknown reasons).

** The nameless Bishop that starts the plot by burning Lisa bears an uncanny resemblance to [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Jean-Claude Frollo]].

** In the same way, in the Mexican Spanish dub Alucard is voiced Creator/JoseAntonioMacias, who previously voiced [[Film/{{Deadpool}} another invincible anti-hero]], except this time his personality is switched out with ''Trevor'' instead.

** Anyone who watched the Japanese dub will notice Alucard is voiced none other than Creator/ShinichiroMiki, who was the voice actor for Zamasu in the Japanese version of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. The hilarious part is where Zamasu wants to commit genocide to all humans (like Dracula is doing, save a few), but in this series, Alucard wants to ''prevent'' genocide to the human race.

* HilariousInHindsight: There's a [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/castlevania/ flash game]] where you play as a Belmont fighting a priest. Now, while the circumstances behind that game were more comedic, one cannot help but think of the game when the CorruptChurch subplot kicks in.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: A common complaint among viewers, even among people who liked it, was that the first season was too short, being only 4-episodes long with 20 minutes each (not counting intro and credits). Producers have acknowledged it and promised that the next season will have twice as many episodes. This stems from the project's origin as an animated film trilogy, each part running 80 minutes.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Dracula, believe it or not. A misanthrope who hides himself from people except to feed on blood, he nevertheless falls for a woman that dares come to him to learn the medical sciences. They fall in love, wed, and have a child, only for the Church to catch Lisa while no one is protecting her and burn her at the stake. Dracula arrives too late to save her, and can only warn her kind neighbor to leave the town. He then gives her executioners a year to leave the city, before he starts his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Trevor and Alucard oppose Dracula not because they believe he is unjustified, but because he will wipe out thousands of innocents.
** Trevor Belmont. The surviving son of his family, who was disgraced and exiled, he wanders Wallachia while it burns, doing his best to stay drunk and well-fed. He feels SurroundedByIdiots where the church is concerned and is quite a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He refuses to leave people who need his help, because he doesn't believe in BystanderSyndrome.

* MemeticMutation: Although the video game series' famous "wall chicken" hasn't appeared and doesn't seem likely to, the fandom has generally agreed that Trevor Belmont is ''exactly'' the kind of person who would eat mystery meat that he found inside a wall, probably while Sypha looks on in disgust.

** Alucard Tepes, Dracula and Lisa's son. He can't be older than twenty, and he undergoes a TraumaCongaLine in the first episode: Church agents ransack his mother's house and burn her on charges of witchcraft. He and his father are too late to save her, and he tries to convince his father to TurnTheOtherCheek. Dracula in response inflicts a mortal wound on him that takes a year to heal, and by the time he awakens, most of the country is in chaos. He tests Trevor by fighting him, and backs off when they end up in a stalemate, because he needs Trevor and Sypha's help. Alucard isn't happy about having to kill his father, but the other choice is to let Wallachia burn.

* CatharsisFactor: Among the Bishop's [[SarcasmMode more noble deeds]] in the first three episodes, we get treated to scapegoating, attempted bribery, terrorizing his own congregation, corruption, plotting to use the night hordes to accelerate his own rise to power, and, oh yeah, [[CorruptChurch basically defiling the sanctity of the Church at every turn]]. Come episode 4, when [[spoiler:a demon lieutenant stares the Bishop down, invoking BreakingSpeech, NotSoDifferent, and YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame all at once before giving him a hellishly undignified death right at his pulpit]], any viewer would be forgiven for standing up and ''cheering''.

** The nameless Bishop that starts the plot by burning Lisa bears an uncanny resemblance to [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Jean-Claude Frollo]]

** The nameless Bishop that starts the plot by burning Lisa bears an uncanny resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/HunchbackOfNotreDame Jean-Claude Frollo]]

** The nameless Bishop that starts the plot by burning Lisa bears an uncanny resemblance to [[{{Disney}}/HunchbackOfNotreDame Jean-Claude Frollo]]

* CounterpartComparison: Some people compare Trevor to [[Anime/JojosBizarreAdventure Joseph Joestar]] due to both being the descendants of a noble lineage of vampire killers who happen to be huge {{Combat Pragmatist}}s with a penchant for snarky commentary.

** Alucard Tepes, Dracula and Lisa's son. He can't be older than twenty, and he undergoes a TraumaCongaLine in the first episode: Church agents ransack his mother's house and burn her on charges of witchcraft. He and his father are too late to save her, and he tries to convince his father to TurnTheOtherCheek. Dracula in response inflicts a mortal wound on him that takes years to heal, and by the time he awakens most of the country is in chaos. He tests Trevor by fighting him, and backs off when they end up in a stalemate, because he needs Trevor and Sypha's help. Alucard isn't happy about having to kill his father, but the other choice is to let Wallachia burn.

** Finally, ''actual divine beings'' as villains have been a stapple of the ''Castlevania'' franchise (Nemesis, for example), so if anything this series is pretty tame as it goes to portray God as fully good and not in approval of the Bishop's actions.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Is it an animated series based off a game that was commonly enjoyed by kids, and animated by a studio known for making kid shows? Yes. Is it actually for kids? '''''Absolutely not.''''' Like recent ''Castlevania'' entries such as ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Lords of Shadow]]'' reboot, it is far too dark and bloody to be for kids, with the producer Adi Shankar comparing it to ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and calling it "R-rated as fuck". The first episode opens with ''with thousands of impaled skeletons,'' and goes on to show a woman burned at the stake with her charred body crumbling away, an entire city being wiped out by demons, [[BestialityIsDepraved and two men talking about how the first one happened upon a man screwing one of his goats.]]

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Averted with the first season, which got fairly good reviews. Praise came for the character of Trevor Belmont being delightful as a snarky asshole, for making Dracula sympathetic instead of a GenericDoomsdayVillain, and the action scenes being very intense, with high praise going to the demons descending and Trevor versus Alucard in episode 4.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Is it an animated series based off a game that was commonly enjoyed by kids, and animated by a studio known for making kid shows? Yes. Is it actually for kids? '''''Absolutely not.''''' It is far too dark and bloody to be for kids, with the producer Adi Shankar comparing it to ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and calling it "R-rated as fuck". The first episode opens with ''with thousands of impaled skeletons,'' and goes on to show a woman burned at the stake with her charred body crumbling away, an entire city being wiped out by demons, [[BestialityIsDepraved and two men talking about how the first one happened upon a man screwing one of his goats.]]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: A common complain among viewers, even among people who liked it, was that the first season was too short, being only 4-episodes long with 20 minutes each (not counting intro and credits). Producers have acknowledged it and promised that the next season will have more episodes.