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Kathleen

Ryan

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(The Anime Review now
features two reviewers. The
new addition is Ryan, who in
addition to offering knowl-
edgeable opinions, will also
help to mediate Kathieen’s
endless tirades against
Weiss Kruez by replacing
them with his own endless
tirades.)

By Kathleen and Ryan

This issue’s offering is
Hellsing, the latest. offering
from Studio Gonzo and
Pioneer. Hellsing is the story
of the Hellsing Agency, a top
secret. British organization
that fights vampires by using
various means, including
Alucard, a mysterious and
incredibly powerful vampire.
Hellsing was based on the
manga of the same name
that was serialized in Young
King Ours magazine. It
began in October 2001 and
ran 13 episodes, wrapping up
this January on Japanese TV.
Hellsing was so popular that
it was licensed for North
American release before it
concluded its run- on
Japanese TV.

Kathleen: :

Well, | liked Hellsing for
several reasons. First of all
there were no puffy magical
creatures, no girls in school-
girl attire and no angsty bis-
honen. There was a cool
vampire, excellent art direc-
tion, and a cool soundtrack.

The animation was done by
Studio Gonzo (Vandread,
Gatekeepers) so as uSual

there was a high level of
attention to detail and the ani-
mation was crisp and sharp.
The soundtrack is really inter-
esting, rather than the usual
spooky organ music that you
would expect to go along with
a horror anime, it was smooth
Jazz, sort of reminiscent of
Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop
stuff. At first | wasn’t sure how
well Jazz would work with a
gothic horror style of anime,
but nevertheless, | really
enjoyed the music. The story
was. interesting enough,
although in three episodes
there was not much in the
course of plot development,-
which could be a problem
considering Hellsing only has
13 episodes.

Minor nagging aside, |
enjoyed Hellsing a lot and I’m
looking forward to its North
American release.

Ryan:

Hot damn! Vampires, lech-
ery, big guns and lots of
needless’ and _ gratuitous
cleavage shots. Yep after
watching the first ten minutes
of Hellsing |. was convinced
’'d found my new guilty plea-
sure.

Sadly, the show itself
thought it funny to prove me
wrong. Upon reaching the
twenty minute mark, | had
the sinking feeling that I'd
already seen this same
(expletive-deleted) plot
twenty times before. More
of an amalgamation of pre-
vious anime than anything,
Hellsing contains about the

same amount of hard-hitting
excitement as Grandma after
she takes some Nyquil.

The main character has the
arrogance and sheer inde-
Sstructibility of Bastard, the
blatant vampirishness (yeah,
} know that’s not a word) of
Vampire Hunter D, and the
fashion sense of the artist for-
merly known as Prince. Toss
in a ridiculously large hand-
gun with explosive bullets just
for fun and you’ve got an
anime that will please every-
one right? (Expletive-deleted)
that! | want to see more gas-
powered bass guitars! Now,
I’m as much a sucker for a
lavishly dressed, six-foot
vampire with a big gun as the
next guy, but for some reason
| found it very hard to even
give a (expletive-deleted)
about this character or what
he was doing. Not to mention
his top-heavy, cutsie-poo
sidekick who insists on wear-
ing a mini-skirt while staving
off the evil undead.

In its defense, Hellsing did
have an above standard
soundtrack, regardless that it
swiped one of the songs
straight form Final Fantasy
Ill, and the art and production
was better than most of the
(expletive-deleted) they’ve

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