Kyoufu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein OST - Insert Booklet Liner Notes (from Kentaro Haneda)

Similar situation as the Dracula liner notes I posted on here recently. Much like Toei's Dracula anime OST, the OST for Toei's Frankenstein TV special has some commentary written by Kentaro Haneda—these were translated last year by Windii.
Translation can be found below.

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While I Compose...
-Kentaro Haneda

This spring, just as I was taking a break from working on the memorable animation "The Door Into Summer," I heard a very delightful offer to write music for another wonderful animation, "Frankenstein," and I remember that at the meeting I had already developed my own image of the project & was quite excited.

Composing a piece of music for a movie or animation is not comparable to a real birth, but in a way, it is similar to giving birth to a baby in pain. For example, let's say you have a theme in music (a motif in film or animation). It can be very small or very big, depending on your perspective. You will share your blood and flesh with this theme (the first "life" brought into this world) and bring it into being as a full-fledged baby, and raise it with your undivided love. That's why my previous works such as "Treasure Island" and "The Door Into Summer" are cute children that don't pain me even if I happen to see them, and now with the addition of a brother named "Frankenstein," my doting side is spurred on.

This time, the main character is an unfamiliar monster(?) named "Franken..." but I focused on his kindness, unseen sadness, and unspoken loneliness rather than fear surrounding him, and expressed them in the music. Dr. Victor, who was devoted to his research to an extraordinary degree, Emily, who was misunderstood but kind, the old man who was a friend of his, and many other people surround Frankenstein, and the final scene makes my eyes burn even though I try to hold back. Couldn't Dr. Victor even implant a heart in the artifical man (Franken...) he created? In fact, he (Franken) had a warm, human heart, ironically even more so than the doctor. I think this story has a lot to teach us modern people.

Yami no Teiou Kyuuketsuki Dracula OST - Insert Booklet Liner Notes (from Seiji Yokoyama)

The insert booklet included in the vinyl soundtrack for Toei's 80s Dracula TV anime special includes some liner notes written by Seiji Yokoyama—these were previously translated and posted last year on Twitter but I am re-posting here for easier accessibility.
English translation is below the line at the bottom. Thanks to Windii for translating.

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The story of Dracula has been featured in a number of movies and TV shows in the past. Most of them had a strong emphasis on fear and the bizarre. Thriller,s in a way. Some of them had a comic touch.

The story of Dracula in this TV anime special, however, focuses on his love and sorrow with his wife Domini, his fateful confrontation with his child Janus, the pursuit of the Vampire Hunters led by Quincy Harker, and his duel with Satan the Great in Hell, as well as his death.

I found each of these scenes very romantic. Dracula is very human. I wrote a broque style music to accompany Dracula.

The themes of Dracula, his wife Domini, and his Janus were composed mainly with a string orchestra and harpsichord, with a fugue for Dracula, an aria played with English horns and scat for Domini, and four horns for Janus to express Youth.

On the other hand, the music of the Vampire Hunters who resent Dracula was plaued by four trombones and a bass flute with 16 beats.

I also used synthesizers for the theme of the dark world, the chief of Hell Satan the Great, and for the music of the army of the living dead.

The narration of the last page of the script for the broadcast ended with the following words:

"...People call him the devil. They call him the man who summons death, the murderer who has no tears. But no matter what they call him, there is only one name that should be given to him. So, in short, Dracula was a real man..."

I am now seriosuly thinking of visiting Count Dracula's old castle in Transylvania and the tomb of the Dracula family with the bat-shaped crest.