Hellsing

Hellsing, an organization specializing in dealing with supernatural threats, is called in to eliminate a vampire that is turning the villagers of Cheddar into ghouls. To put an end to this, the leader of the organization, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, dispatches her most formidable asset: a powerful vampire known as Alucard.

Armed with only a single handgun, Alucard wreaks havoc on the monsters plaguing Cheddar. However, a young police officer, Seras Victoria, gets caught up in the chaos and becomes mortally wounded as a result. Taking pity on the girl, Alucard gives her a choice: die as a human or live on as a vampire. Seras accepts his offer and begins a new life as a member of Hellsing.

Though it was her decision, Seras struggles with the fact that she is no longer human. Nevertheless, she must embrace being a creature of the night soon if she wants to survive on the front lines in the fight between humans and the supernatural.

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Alucard Main

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Victoria, Seras Main

Orikasa, Fumiko Japanese

Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, Integra Main

Sakakibara, Yoshiko Japanese

Anderson, Alexander Supporting

Nozawa, Nachi Japanese

Dornez, Walter C. Supporting

Kiyokawa, Motomu Japanese

Valentine, Jan Supporting

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Maxwell, Enrico Supporting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Japanese

Valentine, Luke Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Helena Supporting

Hiramatsu, Akiko Japanese

Incognito Supporting

Yamazaki, Takumi Japanese

Ide, Mie Assistant Producer

Iida, Umanosuke Director, Storyboard

Urata, Yasunori Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tsuruoka, Youta Sound Director

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Aug 6, 2024

WIZRAD64

Recommended

Hellsing provides evidence to the validity of emphasizing art, soundtrack, characterization, and visual storytelling over an approach centered around hard worldbuilding, and more direct exposition. Both methods are valid and can be executed well, but Hellsing takes a more challenging approach to it's interpretation of an unfinished manga. With so much time spent fleshing out characters, exploring the unique style of the work, and introducing one of the most consistently impressive anime soundtracks out there, there's many gaps in the storytelling like lore that needs further exploration, missing pages of origin stories, and central characters that become irrelevant shockingly fast. This is unfortunately (most likely) ... due to the animes short run time, which is caused by it's completion before the Hellsing manga was done. Since there was not as much context to work with many gaps were filled in with fairly decent (unremarkable) explanations which leaves an unfortunate conclusion to some genuinely captivating characters, and plotlines. Besides the art and music Hellsing takes a pleasing view of the multifaceted conflict of monsters existing in an aggressively human world. The rights and wrongs of being, as opposed to doing, the concept of choice within selection of authority. To summarize: Hellsing is a thematically/interpersonally leaning anime with great sound and art, but falls flat with it's poor approach to developing a conclusion to an unfinished manga. I would recommend to anyone captivated by dark fantasy, religion, and military, but also to most anime watchers in general since it's only 13 episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Feb 11, 2024

kenzdahuman

Mixed Feelings

Haven't watched Ultimite, but screw it. Here's my review anyway.

I don't know if I feel this show too much. It has a really distinct style, and some of the main casts are fine, but it still manages to produce some forgettable episodes. It kinda gets messy in the last three episodes. Also, I find Seras' character a bit weird, since I'm pretty sure she has most of the screen time on this show, yet her developement throughout is pretty much treated like an insignificant side character. Idk, it's a bit weird. It's a shame because I found her conflicts with being a vampire initially interesting.

I ... mean it's not like there are no great episodes in this series but still. It does feel really undercooked.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 5, 2024

the_mosayat

Not Recommended

I'm a big Hellsing fan. Its manga was among the first mangas I ever read, and to this day remains very cool in my eyes. However, both anime versions of it are beyond disappointing imo, BEYOND DISAPPOINTING. I would even call them OBJECTIVELY very bad, and question the taste of any person that even thinks they are okay, no matter how popular they are. This older one of them in particular truly got almost zero redeeming qualities. To keep it short, please do not waste your time watching this.

The story is really generic and the characters are mostly flat and boring. In the manga that ... was compensated by being pretty cool at least. But in this anime the other factors distract so much from that, that maybe only Alucard remains somewhat cool, and his scenes are the only thing to look forward to. The animation looks really cheap and wastes excellent source material of visuals and action. The events of every episode contain more questions about mysteries that remain unexplained and many mind numbing decisions.

The best part of the show is its soundtrack which is pretty good, but even that can't help elevate hopelessly shitty content, and in fact at times even conflicts with the events of the story and sounds inappropriate. But anyway, this anime is very frustrating to me because of how much I love hellsing. I regret watching this and I wish I could have my time back.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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