Castlevania Season 3 - Recommendations

• TV (25 eps)
• 1997 - 1998

Born beneath the gallows tree from which his dead mother hung, Guts has always existed on the boundary between life and death. After enduring a terrible childhood, he spends his adulthood in brutal combat, pitting his strength against others in order to build his own. Life is simple enough for Guts until he meets Griffith, the inspirational, ambitious, and beautiful leader of the mercenaries, the Band of the Hawks. When Guts loses to Griffith in a duel, he is forced to join the group, and, despite himself, finds a sense of camaraderie and belonging amongst them. However, as Griffith leads his soldiers from victory to victory, the bloody wars and underhanded politics reveal a side to him that nobody quite expected. Can Guts, a simple warrior, defend those who have come to mean the most to him, all the while struggling not to lose to the darkness he has carried with him his entire life?

• Other
• 2024

Sparks of the discoveries of the Renaissance are only beginning to burn in 15th century Europe, even as those who make discoveries are burned for their heresy. In Poland, a child prodigy named Rafal is expected to be another great mind in theology, but an encounter with a certain man leads him down the path to a heretical truth.

• Web (8 eps)
• 2023

Using the aristocracy to feed on humanity from the shadows, vampires in France await the coming of a promised vampire Messiah who will cover the land in permanent darkness to give them dominion over the world. Vampire hunter Richter Belmont and his comrades are determined to make sure this doesn't happen, but with danger coming at them from both bloodsuckers and their corrupt human allies, it becomes hauntingly apparent that victory is not assured - and not everyone may survive the ordeal.

• OVA (10 eps)
• 2006 - 2012

Alucard is a vampire who works for Hellsing – an organization responsible for hunting down and destroying other vampires. In these dark times, whoever is bitten by a vampire turns into a ghoul -- with the exception of Seras Victoria, Alucard’s newly created and appointed apprentice. Now, Seras must serve her master, Alucard and work for Integra Wingates Hellsing. Nefarious vampire activities are being reported throughout England, and it all traces back to the organization named “Millennium”. Will the Hellsing organization, under the command of Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing, be able to prevent a full scale war? Or will the world become a battlefield of destruction?

• Web

The second season of Castlevania: Nocturne.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

Maria is a young witch living in France during the Hundred Years' War. She despises warfare and does everything in her power to stop the violence, but her good intentions are not always appreciated. Many people see her as an interfering interloper; and the church, fundamentally opposed to witchcraft, has decided that Maria is a sinner in need of redemption. To make matters worse, agents from Heaven have started bothering her as well, displeased with her use of magic to influence humanity's free will. The archangel Michael finally forbids further interference with earthly affairs, and decrees that if Maria ever loses her virginity, she'll lose her powers as well! He sends his agent Ezekiel to keep an eye on the virgin witch and keep her out of trouble, but constraining such a free spirit to the laws of heaven might be a lot harder than he thinks!

• Other (1 ep)
• 2011

"My Last Day" depicts the biblical story of the crucifixion of Jesus through the perspective of a thief who was also crucified.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2018

Montmorency, the son of a noble family, immerses himself in the studies of sorcery and alchemy at a royal knight training school in Paris, surrounded by many other knight candidates. His life is hectic, but fulfilling... until France suffers a crushing defeat at the Battle of Agincourt, changing his fate along with that of the entire nation. With the fall of Paris, the knight training school is shut down, and Montmorency loses everything. Now a wanted man and a wandering alchemist, he flees to a certain village where he meets a mysterious young woman named Jeanne...

• TV (22 eps)
• 2010

Encased by trees that are used to make grave markers, Sotoba is a village thought to be surrounded by death - a fact that soon literally becomes the case. One summer, a series of mysterious and untimely fatalities begins to plague the small rural town. With a higher than normal mortality rate for the time of year and each cause of passing remaining unknown, Toshio, the local doctor, and Seishin the temple’s vice chief monk become suspicious and take it upon themselves to investigate. However, as the deaths begin to pile up, more people begin to wonder just what is behind this sudden epidemic; could it have anything to do with the bizarre Kirishiki family that recently moved to the village?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2018

Rumor has it that, in a certain guild in the middle of nowhere, there is an extraordinary man who has climbed all the way to the Silver rank just by killing goblins. At the same guild, a priestess who's just become a new adventurer has formed her first party... and the man who ends up rescuing that party when they get into trouble is none other than the Goblin Slayer.