A Texas what? Oh, cowboy.

TBF, I think movies made old pirates look a lot cooler than they really were.

Çowboys V. Zombie Samurai sounds awesome

They also were primarily archers

Guy who invited his friends over to play Nintendo, and when they arrive pulls out a deck of hanafuda cards.

He would be playing hanafuda, which is the Japanese card game that Nintendo was producing at that time. Not as funny as imagining Dracula trying to beat Ninja Gaiden or whatever.

They probably said either the name of a specific game or "playing karuta", which is a word derived from the Portuguese word for card (carta).

Well, did they have their own proprietary game for their cards? Or were they just making poker cards?

I think that's your B story right there, the fact that they're all misfits, too out of step with their times, driven by a wild yearning and a sense of romanticism. The movie itself is 0% anachronistic, but the protagonist are anachronistic in spirit.

Dracula meanwhile as a villain represents postmodernism, apathy, and the banality of evil. He's ironic, sleek, with it - a Londoner par excellence, rich and idle, but his life is a living death, figuratively as well as the whole undead thing.

The third act sees the protagonists combine their fighting styles excellently, but without avail. However, their foolhardy spirit and absurd heroism inspires Dracula to an inner awakening, and they come to an understanding in the end.

Post credits stinger: Van Helsing and Captain Ahab combine forces to take down a were-whale.

Japan was opened up by American gunboats in 1853 at which point Japanese-American trade was present. That puts Nintendo in reach of American sailors. Levi's was founded in the west coast port city of San Francisco as workwear. This makes it plausible for a laborer to wear them while working as a deckhand or other skilled labor job where they may pick up a taste for Japanese card games while gambling in Japan. If they find themselves on the Atlantic route any time in the southeast and they're likely to run into coca cola which was a refreshing and energizing beverage owing to the sugar, caffeine, and cocaine. If they keep some bottles on board for a special occasion they may very well have some left by the time they arrive in England where Brahm Stoker is writing Dracula.

Now, why is a Gothic writer gambling in a Japanese game with an American sailor and noticing his curious pant choice? I couldn't tell you enough about Stoker to say if that's normal, but add some emotional abuse and a bisexual baccanal and it sounds exactly like some Lord Byron bullshit and Percy Shelley may join in.

On earth? Yes. Within traveling distance by sail? Also yes.

Colonization made strange things happen. Once, for example, Spain recruited indigenous warriors from Tlaxcala (Central Mexico, allies of theirs since their battles against the Mexicas/"Aztecs") and went to the Philippines, and there they fought Japanese pirates and samurais, basically.

Accurate info here.

Piracy pretty much always exists. As long as valuables are being transported by ship there will be people who want to capture those ships.

Is Pepsi okay?

Golden age of piracy for the western world ended in the 18th century, but piracy in the China and Indian sea was booming in the 19th century.

There was a us military action in Korea in 1875. During that expedition you could reasonably have had a western gunslinger have a run in with Japanese samurai and Chinese pirates? Not sure how Dracula gets worked into the scene though.

Um...what?

You mean Dracula didn't exist 😰?!