Because it really doesn't. Dracula gets name dropped once only for Annette to go: "who is Dracula?"

Richter is a quipping retard, not a energetic boy scout.

Maria is a girlboss Karen who pushes Richter around and calls him a wanker, not a little girl chosen by the Four Symbols.

They pull a Luke Skywalker on Juste Belmont, Lydie and Maxim get killed by a rando vampire and Juste gets crippling depression, basically abandoning his daughter, they just get a passing mention, not even a flashback.

You know who gets three episodes dedicated to them tho? Blackwashed Eduard (the guy from that n64 Castlevania apparently) and Anette. And a vampire gets intimidated by a bunch of people giving him the stink eye

The old hag from bloodlines (Drolta) is a black vampire with a pink afro and go-go boots because of course.

Death doesn't get mentioned at all... it would be funny if it did, considering Loa are considered death spirits.

There are not classic monsters like skeletons or armors... just vampire mooks and useless "hell-beasts" that are made by placing corpses inside a demon machine that injects them with purple goo. I'm not kidding.

And there aren't any of the classic Castlevania locations in the show. Unless you consider generic forest one of them, and even then...