This Shanoa bag on Amazon is interesting, but is it legitimate?

One of the challenges inherent in collecting everything Castlevania related is sidestepping all the fan-made, bootleg, and downright garbage stuff floating around out there. Case in point: this Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia bag that’s sitting on Amazon, available through a seller known as Hobby Hunters. The black bag features official production art of Shanoa, the heroine [...]

1up interviews Michiru Yamane about the Best Music Collection Box

Castlevania‘s best-known and loved musical engineer, Michiru Yamane, was interviewed by 1up recently about the music of Castlevania. This is fascinating stuff, as this woman’s done most of the music in the series since Bloodlines.

1UP:  Prior to Symphony of the Night, you had written music for Castlevania: Bloodlines, which appeared on the Sega [...]

Remember these two tracks from Rebirth? They were left out

There were two tracks on the Adventure Rebirth soundtrack (which frustratingly was not sent to me with the box set like it was supposed to) that didn’t actually appear in the game. Things like this happen. I don’t feel like we were particularly ripped off. The music in the game was actually pretty disappointing. All this [...]

Warning: Castlevania Best Music Collections Box may not come with everything shown

I was thrilled to see my Castlevania Best Music Collections Box had finally arrived today, and then pretty disappointed to find that several of the parts of the set shown in multiple photos on Play-Asia’s product page had not come with it. Specifically, the neat zippered case and the three CDs shown in the foreground of [...]

May I have my Castlevania Best Music Collection Box, please?

I mentioned last month how I’d ordered my copy of the Best Music Collection Box, and was excited to be getting it. Unfortunately, it still hasn’t shipped. The item details page now lists the product as backordered, but my personal order is shown as “preparing.” The estimated ship time was pushed back a couple of times [...]