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Hellsing Vol. 1: Impure Souls + Artbox

» written by Wai Yung (Wayne) Chim [Discuss]

Synopsis
A secret war brews in the night - a war where humanity is only a pawn. The Hellsing Organization deploys in the shadows to protect the mortal world. But now, artificially spawned vampires have appeared, forcing Hellsing to call in their ultimate weapon - the rogue vampire, Arucard! After he transforms the dying Seras Victoria into a vampire, they join forces to combat the undead army - as well as her own newfound hunger…

Review
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The Breakdown
Hellsing is good to turn to when you need something a little dark. A vampire based anime other than Vampire Hunter D, Blood, etc.

» The Pros

Guess what?! Hellsing is another GONZO work! I really love those people over at GONZO . Anyways, Hellsing is a vampire-based anime, which we fans can't get enough. Looking back at a good vampire anime uhhh... I think the only anime that were famous and about vampires were Vampire Hunter D, Blood: The Last Vampire and Vampire Princess Miyu. Now lets get to the review of the first three episodes. As you have read (I hope) the synopsis, Hellsing is an actual organization that was created to fight these artificial vampires that disturbed the night. Our main character Arucard is an original vampire that works with the humans to fight these fakes. Aren't vampires supposed to be bad and evil? Well, the story didn't really clearly show why Arucard has sided with Hellsing. I'm predicting it's that he doesn't like the artificial vampires that were being created by ... (unknown yet). Onto the other main character, Seras Victoria, she came into the story as a member of the D-11 group, which was ordered to terminate/investigate the disappearance of the people of a certain town. Well to make a long story short, things went bad and then Seras ended up as a vampire, original vampire that is. Hellsing's animation on the other hand is of course amazing as always, because of GONZO. There are some really disgusting parts where maggots were pouring out of this vampire's neck after having her head being blown off by the Hellsing crew. Forget renting first, buy it, I really think it's worth the money, especially the collector's box that I received with volume one.

» The Cons

The amount of time DVDPlanet took to send me my box with DVD 1. Is that a con? I can't really come up with one, I'll be sure to find one in volume 2 - 4.

» Animation

10	The blood, the gore, the characters and the action all mix up very nicely by the cool people at GONZO.

» Sound

9	I've only watched Hellsing with Japanese language option and its quite nice as always, the English option on the other hand didn't hand that feeling to it, a did a quick experiment hehe ^_^;;

» Story

7	Based on episodes 1 - 3, not much as gone on, only Seras Victoria being turned into a vampire and meeting the rival.

» Recommend

8	Yeah, I'll recommend Hellsing to the action fans, and of course the not always action fans can always view it too. :P

» Other Information

Language: English/Japanese Language with English Subtitles

Extras: Trailer music video, credit less opening, concept art collection and action figure info.

Package: A nice box that fits 4 DVDs, Arucard is on the front and the side, and he looks kind of scary. On the back is another character that is from a rival group of the Hellsing organization. Overall the box states what Hellsing is about. A dark and scary feeling.