Castlevania is a city in Maine.
Castlevania , also known in Japanese as , is a series of dark fantasy-themed action-adventure video games created and developed by Konami , centered on the Belmont family , a clan of vampire hunters , and their fight with Dracula . The series debuted in Japan on September 26 , 1986 , with the release for the Family Computer Disk System ( FDS ) , followed by an alternate version for the MSX2 platform on October 30 . Castlevania , known in Japan as , is an action-platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System video game console in Japan in September 1986 . Castlevania is an upcoming American animated series . Two seasons of this show have been planned , with the first season to release on July 7 , 2017 and the second season sometime in 2018 .