Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestEarl Dracula is craving for blood. He has not had the fresh blood of beautiful women for days. He will die of starvation. When he finally finds a beautiful woman, he sneaks into her bedroom. He is about to bite her neck when he discovers that she has had dinner garnished with plenty of garlic. Finding it more than he can bear, he runs away only to faint from hunger. Then comes an ambulance with a red-cross mark! The environment in this country is way too much for Dracula to live in.
This is a horror comedy in which a Western-style house in Romania is bought and brought to Tokyo, with the inhabitants still inside. They are Don Dracula the vampire, his daughter Chocola and his servant Igor.
Direction
Tezuka's experimental visual gags and fourth-wall breaking.
Writing
Bizarre Japan-meets-Transylvania culture clash jokes.
Creator
Osamu Tezuka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was originally cancelled after 4 episodes due to poor ratings, then briefly revived for 4 more before disappearing entirely. Only 8 of 21 planned episodes were produced.
The show satirizes 1980s Japanese anxieties about Western influence and foreign residents, with Dracula's castle literally imported as real estate — a bizarre mirror of Japan's bubble economy era.
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