I'd just like to ramble for a minute on the glory that is Hellsing, an
anime featuring vampires and one vampire with all the power of a Great Old
One, a dark eldar god.
I suppose that since it was my first anime series that I ever watched, I
would feel some nostaligia towards it and therefore am probably somewhat
biased, but I genuinely feel that Hellsing is simply the most awesome
series I've ever watched, anime, cartoon or live-action.
It incorporates the odd bit of Lovecraftian mythos, as a lot of japanese
horrar/cartoons do, and naturally this is innately cool.
It is a 13-episode anime series based on the manga (japanese comic book) of
the same name.
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with that heaposhit, overblown,
dripping-with-runny-fat special effects movie called Van Helsing that
Hollywood slaughtered. Although to be fair, that movie did have its
moments.
To keep you interested, here is a picture from the original manga, of a vampire nazi soldier eating a fucking baby.
That oughta fucking grab your short attentions.
Not one of you here can refute this single image in its coolness, and
fortunately it is detached enough from the storyline for me not to spoil
the story.
Hellsing is spelled differently than the original character from Bram
Stokers' 'Dracula', Van Helsing, because it's really
fucking cool, and deserves the extra letter.
This was the series that got me into anime as a genre to be respected.
One final note, though... do not, under any circumstances, watch the
English version. They made the voices all pussified, and they sound utter
crap, not the awesomecool that the japanese voices are. Watch with
subtitles, or not at all.
posted by Azrael on Friday 7th October 2005, 23:12:18
zelzor^^ (83.245.131.*) on Saturday 8th October 2005, 05:14:44 (#21640)
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I hate anime and everything releated to it. Don't need drawed
unrealistic people to show me and tell me what's cool. All you
animefans are part of the big mass on depressed teenagers and fucking
faggots who don't know how to live in a real world. Anime also
generates wrong sexual images on young persons head. GET RID OF THE FUCKING
CARTOONS! And go outside to meet real people.
to some extend i agree.. but on the other side, cartoons are and
always were made to make ppl. laugh and to entertain them..
they're made for people to dive right into a surreal world full
of unreal things and scenes.. so, i says: enjoy the cartoons, but
don't live them!!
you don't know a fucking thing about anything, you...
godfucking... gah! your so self-enforcedly STUPID it angers me!
you don't know a thing about me! i have 3 circles of friends, an
on-off gf, and last night i got drunk and had sex! what did you do
last night? attack someone on a forum and then go fix youself a
midnight snack from your parents fridge!
you've just hit 20, so now of course you can look down and make
fun of all teenagers! of course! i forgot! because in every culture on
the planet, the difference in age of one year gives you all the
maturity high ground you need to be above everyone else, of course.
never mind that some cultures don't even count age, let alone
individual birthdays, and never mind the fact that the ones that do
have their coming-of-age about 4 or 5 years before your current
age.
can you even conceive tolerating another culture long enough to
appreciate it's subtleties? can you even suppress your sexual and
emotional frustion long enough to realise that art exists in many
forms just in OUR culture, and in other cultures can take on different
forms that you will probably have to understand before you can
understand the vehicle it comes in?
no, of course you can't, you're too busy trying to prove
yourself to people of your own culture to find time to appreciate
another one.
and people wonder why hollywood makes movies about aliens attacking
and invading earth more than ones about first contact and living
peacefully.
you're an idiot, and i say this after viewing a plethora of anime
ive seen it all from the shitty happy-anime of Dominion Tank Police to the
fucking craziness of Perfect Blue
and frankly, it sucks
very few anime is worthy of good: Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Cowboy
Bebop
and that's it
of the 1000's of anime videos and tv shows, ive just saved you
countless hours and dollars on shit
all other anime that has been praised (even though it sucks) usually has
somewhere on the cover "from the director of [insert one of the above
videos]"
here, i broadly agree with you. i'm very particular about the
anime i watch because a lot of them do suck :P
i never really enjoyed cowboy bebop, though, and the movie version of
Akira is far inferior to the manga because it was only about one sixth
of the story.
one movie you forgot was Ninja Scroll.
Ghost in the Shell kicked serious fucking arse, it along with the
sequal (Innocence) is my favourite movie, far and away.
Dr Doom on Sunday 9th October 2005, 20:03:11 (#21742)
I like all of the above anime but Hellsing is still the best no
matter what. Its unlike any of those others simply because the
only happy person in it is only happy when hes eating people and
killing innocent bystanders
Neon Genesis Evangelion. If you don't like, then you
don't know perfection.
It can please everyone from "guh it's one
o'them giant robots..." to the fine arts analysts,
but not unwelcoming loads and loads of virgin fanboys and
all their money.
Cowboy Bebop is second.
Those who don't think anime is cool
