All right let me clear this up. It was just OK to me. My main gripe is the plot which still doesn't really make sense, I felt the first 5 episodes weren't focused enough on the Belmonts and the voice acting just wasn't that good. Orlax was the shyt though I really wanted to see his backstory of him being an Aztec/Indian and being turned. This was the only one I really think they nailed the voice acting for with Zahn Mcclaron.
The other characters were OK but so much backstory was given to Annette and Maria (don't know why they changed her age knowing her importance of the story and to Richter) that I felt cheated. What happened with Juste? I wanted to see a flashback of his story and history ( I mean we all know the video game history but teasing us by name dropping Maxim and Lydie had me hyped). I hate to be an anime snob and some of the fight scenes were good but a lot of it was choppy and incomplete. There just wasn't any consistency. One scene looks good, the next looked like some Tom N Jerry shyt.
I felt Annette was forced plain and simple. Her backstory was cool and all and I know the time period/location calls for it, and I'm familiar with the Haitian gods Ogun and Papa Legba (hell my fam is from Louisiana and my mother is Creole born in New Orleans) but the build up to her getting revenge on Vaublanc had me literally say ..."That's it?" I already mentioned how I felt about Edouard earlier..
Now episodes 6-8 were so much better when they started actually hitting on things that were Castelvania. Richter's Theme on episode 6 when he got his magic powers back, and finally tied on the headband. Alucard's appearance is what really saved the show for me though. Hopefully with Season 2 we get Symphony Of The Night and Shaft makes an appearance.