Episodes: 13

Year: 2003

Status: Complete

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Rating: Awesome

Review: The Hellsing organisation is dedicated to fighting off the rampant vampires in present day England. The organisation is under the command of Lady Integra Hellsing who inherited the organisation after her father died. The organisation’s best agent is Alucard – a vampire himself. The story takes an interesting turn when Alucard mortally wounds a police officer in a battle against ghouls and offers her the chance to live on as a vampire or die as a human. Seras Victoria is then recruited into the organisation and faces a lot of trouble coming to terms with her own vampire powers and the lust for blood. The plot thickens when the number of ‘freak’ vampires increase rapidly and it is up to the Hellsing organisation to get to the bottom of this.

Hellsing is most certainly on the gory side of things. The story is itself, however, quite interesting. Alucard’s character in particular makes one often wonder in the early episodes if he really is the good guy. The story only gets more complex with the entrance of Victoria as a new member of the organisation and I found it to be a good watch. It is certainly a solid story with no fillers or moments of humour. Moreover, it is refreshingly different in style from the usual sword-fight anime we see so much of!

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