It depends on what you're looking for. The series is great for when you're aiming to spice up your Halloween party and just want something in the background. It has a great soundtrack and the voice acting is better than most anime from the time. On the other hand, if you prefer something more akin to the manga, you'll want to watch the OVA. Both are entertaining in their own ways as long you don't take them too seriously.
It's a show about a vampire causing death and mayhem and laughing maniacally about it, after all. Molly Kishikawa is an American artist living in Japan. Starting with the original broadcast of Sailor Moon on Toonami, she has been an avid anime fan since. Living in Japan for two years, she has seen first-hand how the country views anime and manga. By Molly Kishikawa Published Sep 04, He is the most powerful warrior of the Hellsing Organization which works against vampires and other such supernatural forces.
Alucard is no mere vampire; it has been implied that he is the most powerful vampire, as well as the most powerful entity in the entire series. Having seen a photograph of her and Jonathan, Dracula found he desired her, and in the middle of the night, he succeeded in biting her. He proceeded to drink from her and feed to her his own blood, making her into a vampire as well but bonding her to himself as his servant Vampire. Knowing time is short, and the only way to save Mina is to defeat Dracula, Van Helsing leads a frantic search for the Count.
The group finally followed the count back to his castle and confronted him for a battle just before dawn. After a fierce fight, Van Helsing cornered the count and was able to drive a stake through the No-Life King, defeating the Count by the light of the coming dawn.
Here are my thoughts :. Satelight was responsible for the animation of episodes one through four, Madhouse animated episodes five through seven, and Graphinica animated episodes eight through ten.
The animation quality was not just more sophisticated, as per the more modern animation standards, it was executed much better and much more consistently quality-wise, despite the fact that the OVA series was animated by three different studios.
Hellsing Original Soundtrack: Raid was released on November 22, and contained 20 tracks, which were republished on July 1, The second soundtrack, Hellsing Original Soundtrack: Ruins , which included 22 additional tracks on February 22, , was republished on September 16, We have now analyzed both series in four individual categories and we are now able to tell you which version is better.
Most fans will tell you that Hellsing Ultimate is so much better that you can actually fully skip Hellsing and never watch it. This is true for the most part. Hellsing Ultimate is better when it comes to the majority of elements. In terms of production elements, more specifically the animation, there is absolutely no dilemma that Hellsing Ultimate is far superior to the original anime series.
This is due to the historical context, as the animation in the early s was far less sophisticated than almost 10 years later, when Ultimate was released. Despite the fact that a total of three different studios have worked on Ultimate , the animation is much more consistent and its quality is undeniably better. The only fact that every Hellsing fan will agree on when comparing these two series is that Hellsing has a much better and more memorable soundtrack than Hellsing Ultimate.
We hope you had fun reading this and that we helped solve this dilemma for you. Table of Contents show. What is Hellsing about? Sign in to vote. Irishchatter 30 April So recently i got to watch this multiple 10 part OVA series after watching the original and boy, they made such massive changes on this! The whole anime is a lot more sharper, thrill-riding and unpredictable. The original was kinda more sugary but good enough for an early horror 00's anime series.
However, this time in the late 00's to 10's, this anime had more chillis and fierceness involved in it. Seras Victoria is not that cutesy little british policewoman that you've experienced watching the original. But now, she is literally a badass chick that is the defination of destruction. Seriously, it was such a good shock that they really did change her personality out of cleverness and boy it suits her!
Alucard is more hard on her on this one, he has calling her an idiot several times in the series and you'd be thinking that's really not the original Alucard we know here. Still he's a brillant character and like he's a lot more scarier then his original form.
Really I dont care, it makes him even more badass and invincible! I was literally sad towards the ending that Hellsing grew to be an old woman like honestly, I hate the fact they are nearly killing her off as a character. Yeah I know she doesn't die though but still, it is sad that she did grew old and that'll be us too lol! Of course Victoria and Alucard are still going so I wouldn't worry about them on that lol! I really really want a third installment instead of a prequel, i wish they made it already!
I just love the series! Even when I liked the first "Hellsing" anime adaptation from the year , I guess I'll have to admit this version Which is far closer to the original manga by Kohta Hirano is vastly superior in almost every aspect.
Despite having a somewhat similar beginning to its television counterpart, after the first two episodes the plot from "Hellsing Ultimate" becomes a totally crazy roller-coaster of extreme action, horror, gore and even some black comedy And personally I found this combination to be incredibly entertaining to watch.
While the plot isn't anything incredibly complex or "deep" as other Japanese animations that try to include some kind of "philosophical" content, the twisted fun delivered by "Hellsing Ultimate" is enough for me to include it among my personal anime recommendations. In a nutshell, Hellsing is about vampires. This is exactly the kind of anime that can keep you panting for the next episode. A very well knit product it encompasses intrigue, betrayal, conspiracy, gore, sarcastic humor and plenty of ass-kicking action, John Woo vampire style.
The OVA stays very true to the manga, almost panel for panel, much like 'Monster' in that respect. Each installment covers the incidents of one volume of work by the way, I highly recommend the manga as well and is a visual spectacle.
The voice acting done by the same people who did the TV series is quite good and even the English dub is fairly commendable. The characters are much more polished and darkly drawn than the TV series too. All in all, one of the best animated series I've seen. Highly recommended. Warning: If you're quesy about blood and violence, I suggest you steer clear, because this series is a cornucopia of gore.
Synopsis: Tasked with defending England from undead and supernatural assailants, the Hellsing Organization led by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing Mizuhashi Kaori , grows strained as the frequency of vampire attacks increases.
Hellsing's own greatest weapon, an ancient and powerful vampire named Alucard Nakata Jouji along with his new servant Seras Victoria Orikasa Fumiko are quickly drawn into the central conflict.
The appearance of Millenium, a new faction hosting an army of vampires, threatens to engulf all of London in a cataclysmic war as they square off against Hellsing as well as the Vatican's Section XIII Iscariot. Characters: For a show so fundamentally focused on its own various factions, Hellsing doesn't actually have all that large of a cast, opting instead to represent its various organizations through a handful of recognizable characters and a moderate supporting cast.
While Alucard, Integra, and Seras are the focal characters of the show, the story often wanders away from them to investigate the goings-ons of other notable characters and companies such as Alexander Anderson and the Vatican.
Around the midpoint of the story these various perspectives and characters start to come together as the show begins its long and drawn out climax. Both the most iconic and notable of the cast is Alucard himself who embodies much of what Hellsing is about. He's a vampire through and through and not only presents all of the familiar traits and abilities of his folklore counterparts but a host of far more vague powers such as teleportation, minion-summoning, and near-invulnerability.
He's a cruel and ruthless killer who's gruesome style of combat often ends with him just as ragged and bloody as his opponent. His most common strategy is to allow his opponent to blow him to bits while mocking his own powerlessness before reforming and quickly dispatching them. It's a very weird fight dynamic and many of his fights fall into this formula however eventually more back and forth exchanges are established.
The issue that arises with Alucard is that, between his tendency to let his own enemy inflict ostensibly lethal wounds upon him, his seemingly ever-expanding list of strange abilities, and the general gory aesthetic of the show - it becomes increasingly hard to tell when Alucard is actually in any real danger.
The tension and suspense of each fight involving him quickly dissipates and drains the fight sequence of all meaning when he appears so openly infallible. What the viewer might insinuate to be severe blows against him are often discarded as Alucard merely playing with his opponents.
His frequent 'apparent deaths' quickly desensitize the viewer to both his own well-being as well as that of vampires in general. With people getting their brains blown out and quite literally painting the walls red with their own blood, it's hard to tell what is at stake if anything when they keep coming back.
The other character worth touching upon is Alucard's servant Seras Victoria, a police girl he converts into a vampire at the start of the series.
Initially she is played off as somebody in way over their head - thrown into an outlandish situation involving the Hellsing Organization and her own newly acquired vampire status.
In the early episodes she is almost entirely relegated to an awkward comedy-relief role however Hellsing eventually re-purposes her into somebody more action-oriented.
It felt as if the show couldn't make up it's mind on what she was supposed to be - dopey and comedic fan-service character or tragic and badass vampire warrior. One trait often ended up compromising the other and it was hard to take her more grave scenes seriously given her initial foolishness and role in the show. Like any good vampire show, it was obsessed with blood. Hellsing is all about overkill. Too many guns, too many bullets, too many enemies, too many bodies, too much blood - it created an aesthetic and presentation out of pure excess and it certainly found unique qualities within this approach.
When it came to bloodshed, it didn't shy away from showing some truly brutal material and the subject matter of war was a terrifying place for this style to manifest.
This visual brutality and excess is key to understanding what Hellsing is about and how it tries to appeal to its viewer as much of its allure is closely tied to the outlandish nature of its characters and these grotesque characteristics. The show's visuals are pretty decent - though lackluster and sometimes even awkward during the first 4 or so episodes, the animation quality steps up over the course of the show and solidifies itself fairly strongly around it's midsection and onward.
Punctuated by heavy shadows, stark lighting, and more eye-glasses glare than you can handle, Hellsing establishes a distinct visual appearance early on though initially some of its characters would move strangely and exhibit exceedingly odd postures because of their lanky designs. The occasional, oddly cliched-looking, gag scene also upset the show's aesthetic on top of being completely unfunny. Story: Hellsing's story is where it suffers the most for a variety of reasons.
The first few episodes follow a pretty similar pattern as the viewer is introduced to the show and its characters. A vampire sent by Millenium is wreaking havoc and Hellsing and Alucard have to intervene. Some faceless background characters are killed and transformed into ghouls and there are some highlights of Integra, Seras, and Walter the butler before Alucard ultimately ends up killing whatever the threat is.
This kind of bland introduction to the show leaves the first half feeling uninspired though with the proper introduction of Millenium near the series' midpoint, things start to heat up.
The initially gruesome aesthetic finds new footholds in the subject matter of war and the degree of its excessive nature doubles and triples as the action mounts. One particular problem Hellsing had was in the pacing department. Given how it's 10 episodes were divided into roughly 50 minute-long installments, it often felt as if each episode would drag out it's own self-contained action and plot before expiring. Fights would last an exceedingly long time and the show never seemed to tire of vampires and supernatural abilities ripping through people and ghouls like endless fodder.
This approach set up the atmosphere of the show quite well early on but its prolonged use to kind of fluff up the episodes grew tiresome after a while. Monologues as well were a huge problem for the show's pacing as they would often state and restate the same esoteric thing for the sake of emphasis. This gave a lot of the dialogue a certain monotonous tone to it. Possibly the biggest shortcoming of the show is in its final few episodes.
Hellsing's midsection does a decent job of revitalizing the show with improved animation, gory action scenes, and a surprisingly exciting war development. However, once the the pieces are in place and the story is once again in motion, it rather quickly devolves into incoherency. Hellsing is far more interested in the factions its characters belong to and the gore of its action scenes than the characters themselves and this leaves them feeling not only under-explored but downright confusing near the end of the show.
Certain character twists and reveals make less and less sense, the viewer lacks context to understand the implications of many new powers and abilities being revealed, and the whole point of it all is kind of lost amidst the rambling presentation.
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