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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I just finished the series and decided to watch the Hellsing OVA's afterwards. So far the story is basically the same. The episode starts with Lady Hellsing's uncle hunting her down. This is seen later in the Anime, but basically the same thing happens. Alucard is awakened and he saves Hellsing from the uncle. Next we see the scenes that open the series. The priest is at it in Cheddar, and Victoria is being held captive by him. The scenes in the OVA are much more "adult" than the series. Also, in the series Alucard asks Victoria if she wants to be a vampire before shooting her. In the OVA we see Alucard simply asks her if she is a virgin before firing (she answers yes), and asks her if she wants to be a vampire only afterwards as she is dieing from the gunshot wound. The next big thing is the introduction of Iscariot. I do not remember learning his name in the series, nor do I remember learning the details of his background which are explain here in the OVAs. The episode ends with a battle between Alucard and Iscariot. During the build up to this battle we get to see Victoria hand out some serious ass whopping unlike anything see in the series. Great episode. This series seems like it will be very good. The animation quality is up over the series, and the story seems to be more concise and adult. I wish that the OVA series was longer so that some of the plot that is drawn out in the series could be redone here, but asides missing that it is very well done. The adultness of the series is also enjoyable, although sometimes there is more blood than I would anticipate as been normal... lol. |
OmegaRedJul 29, 2008 5:50 PM
"There is no such thing as God in this world." -Setsuna F. Seiei |
| Alucard & Anderson are the best in this Episode They were both awesome & the Guy at the end made me very curious |
| "Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. And some will lose more than the tips off their fingers, I promise you. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that" |
| That was pretty awesome. I don't like the Hellsing TV series so much but Ultimate is really nice. The fight at the end was cool. But that Anderson made me sick. |
| I don't think I've ever been so disappointed by a widely appreciated OVA. The animation was really off (be it in the calm scenes or the action scenes, very lazily animated), soundtrack was kitsch, characters were stupid and acting illogically (the cop chick is really one of the blandest and stupidest anime characters I've ever seen), story doesn't look too great... I sure hope the next episodes will be better ; I just don't get how such a low-budget, badly directed, poorly animated and lazily written OVA!! got to be 35th in MAL, with no less than 2595 people rating it a perfect 10/10... The only thing I've really enjoyed in this episode was Norio Wakamoto's astonishing voice acting, at least, this guy never fails to entertain. |
WindspiritFeb 17, 2009 4:55 PM
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| Good first episode, maybe a little too fast in the turn of the events but it still better than Hellsing in term of rythm. The music was really awesome, not really spectacular but it fit perfectly with the fighting scene and it give it more rythm. The animation was okay. |
HooHiraiBunnyJul 23, 2009 12:13 PM
| A long, long time ago I remember seeing the first couple episodes of the Hellsing TV series and thinking, "wow, this is terrible." And this is back when I thought stuff like Trigun constituted good anime. Years later I decide to try out Hellsing Ultimate because a highly rated action OVA sounds like fun. After viewing that first episode however, I'm kind of pissed I wasted time and space downloading this crap. It would be one thing if the action, apparently the only selling point, was good, but since it isn't there isn't much left here. The story is crap, I don't know if you can even call the "characters" characters considering that might imply that they are more than a series of drawings that look awfully shoddy at times, and the blood splatters are bad even for an anime. If I can manage to force myself to watch another fifty minutes of this I'll look for improvement in the second episode, but I can't imagine I'll be able to. |
Absolutely_Steve said: A long, long time ago I remember seeing the first couple episodes of the Hellsing TV series and thinking, "wow, this is terrible." And this is back when I thought stuff like Trigun constituted good anime. Years later I decide to try out Hellsing Ultimate because a highly rated action OVA sounds like fun. After viewing that first episode however, I'm kind of pissed I wasted time and space downloading this crap. It would be one thing if the action, apparently the only selling point, was good, but since it isn't there isn't much left here. The story is crap, I don't know if you can even call the "characters" characters considering that might imply that they are more than a series of drawings that look awfully shoddy at times, and the blood splatters are bad even for an anime. If I can manage to force myself to watch another fifty minutes of this I'll look for improvement in the second episode, but I can't imagine I'll be able to. To each is his own. BTW, the first OVA is probably my least favorite (it wasn't all that great in the pacing department). But they get better as they go on. But I think this reviewer pretty much nailed it: "If the show doesn't hook you with its pure coolness, then it'll leave you plain cold." |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
| Pretty good episode. |
#Feitoism @ irc.rizon.net - the official IRC channel for Fate Testarossa. |
| This is very different than the one aired on TV. I don't like the characters attitude compared to the older one. The story development went smooth and didn't leave out a lot of chunks of background info. The artwork is a lot better in this one also, this artwork looks a lot more sharper and detailed. |
| I really liked this for a starter episode. The new content made me laugh with the Ecci Zombies and Pantsu (FFDShow Chapter Title). |
| nice |
| At last. Hellsing as it meant to be. TV was fine but nothing special. Now we have a movie for those who loved manga and for such action filled manga, animating and colouring will do good. It's whether you like author's style or not: if you don't, first OVA has everything you might hate about it. |
| Hell is empty and all the devils are here. |
| Niiiice. I am very familiar with the TV series... which i LOVED.... but I am impressed with this. Nothing is to long/drawn out, like the TV series sometimes did. Loved. Look forward to the next episode. |
| I liked this first episode, although the animation isn't my cup of tea. I think i will like this. |
| The Story sounds very interesting and the animation is well too. The only thing that was not good was the sound, the things that I expected to be loud were actually very quiet (Stabs, Gunshots,...). But Although I think this will be a very interesting and good show. |
| I absolutely loved this anime... :D its got all the blood and gore I need :D although the beginning was abit confusing for me cause everything was all over the place... @.@ |
WiNomNomNomBi said: I absolutely loved this anime...everything was all over the place... @.@ Guts and brains? |
| is this basically a better version of the Hellsing anime that adheres to the manga more? Or is it something different? |
| Pretty much yeah, the animations were done much better than the 13 episode anime, and the story.. Well, the first anime practically had no story, the episodes didn't really connect to each other if i recall correctly. The OVA follows the manga story from start to finish. |
| Holy shit. Now this is what you call GAR. I can see that this OVA series will be 100% better than the first one. First of all, the plot moves damn fast. Only episode 1 and a lot just happened? Not one moment was this episode boring. Second, the animation improved by tons. Now this is what i wanted to see all along. Okay so from what I understood, there are 3 big organizations. Hellsing, Iscariot, and the group that's manipulation the low level vampires. Iscariot has that badass Anderson, Hellsing has the more badass Alucard. I wonder who's the ace of the third group. I'm so curious. Victoria becoming 1/2 vampire was pretty cool too although I'm wondering why she didn't drink Alucard's blood. Surely she will become one of the true vampires if she did but nah, she decided to love her human side more. :( |
| I really enjoyed this episode. There's less drama with Victoria becoming a vampire which I like. They also show that she is not week which they did in the other series. They go much further into personal background right away which I like. Plus there is a story unlike the other one. Over all this one PWNS!!! |
~ A woman's determination can move the mightiest of stones~ |
| If you don't understand the simple hints of Alucard's true origin that they said in this episode, or who he's based off, then were you watching this? And yeah, I agree with the idea that if you don't really enjoy this, you despise it. |
| 'Everything is impossible until proven possible.' - Me |
| I think it was a fast turn of events. But still badassery is written all over this ep. I guess I'll finish this before continuing the series. |
| I like the animations more and even Anderson looks more badass than ever. Way to go! |
| I LOVED THIS!!! i don't know why its just awesome it gave me the same feeling as watching FMAB. I dunno if it's wrong to watch this before the series, for what i've heard it doesn't really matter but it still kinda bugs me D: |
| That was absolutely amazing! It was everything great I've heard about it and even more... So much better than the (non-OVA) anime series (though I liked it as well)! To say the least, I was very pleased with this episode. Graphics highlights: >Engravings on the guns, blood writings, patches, etc >Camera movement!! >Backgrounds, flooring/walling/etc details >Lighting >Vehicle head/tail-lights and other motion >Air distortion caused by helicopter Storyline: >Better order of events than the anime series >Story was told more clearly >_Much_ better pace than anime series Other: >Music was astounding >Chibi humor was done very well without going overboard >Vampire description/complexity was excellent (most-probably credit to the manga, which I will begin reading shortly) Perfect Episode; 6/5 ★★★★✶ |
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kesmikcuz said: That was absolutely amazing! It was everything great I've heard about it and even more... So much better than the (non-OVA) anime series (though I liked it as well)! To say the least, I was very pleased with this episode. Graphics highlights: >Engravings on the guns, blood writings, patches, etc >Camera movement!! >Backgrounds, flooring/walling/etc details >Lighting >Vehicle head/tail-lights and other motion >Air distortion caused by helicopter Storyline: >Better order of events than the anime series >Story was told more clearly >_Much_ better pace than anime series Other: >Music was astounding >Chibi humor was done very well without going overboard >Vampire description/complexity was excellent (most-probably credit to the manga, which I will begin reading shortly) Perfect Episode; 6/5 ★★★★✶ <img src="http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/2275/2275767130b9cdb90761a5654c742f1f3cdb8bd.jpg" /> Yes I agree with nearly everything you neatly laid out. The reason Hellsing Ultimate is so good and much better than the old TV series is that Ultimate is a very faithful page for page direct adaptation of the original manga. |
| So after being mindblowned by the awesomeness of the Hellsing manga i decided to finally pick this one up. I watched the first Hellsing anime about 7 years ago and because i didn't even know that it was based on a manga i didn't know what to think about it other than the awesome music and pretty cool animation (the only anime that i had seen before was Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust). After reading the manga i realised how it butchered the story with boring filler, so when i found out about this new version that was going to be thousand times better than the first one my expectations were a bit high. I just watched the first episode and this here is my 2 cents: The opening scene with Integra Hellsing and his uncle was an interesting start for the series. One thing bothered me about the uncle though, when did he turn german? Anyway a nice little recap to the original past. It was really short though, but who gives 2 sh*ts, were here to see BIG GUNS and BLOOD and BODYPARTS! Then we get to the church. I noticed that the blood is made with CG and it looks a bit silly. Seras gets introduced and they added a little rape to the scene. Strange to make the head vampire even more evil by adding that. You'd think killing the small towns population and turning them into ghoul's would be evil enough, but nooo: He's also an evil rapist. Alucard comes and gets shot to hell. Big plus for the animation team to show his ripcage and not just covering everything with blood. The gun animation was OK. It's always good to see whats written in the side of the gun. But the music. The music...sucks. Its like from a bad action film with stupid electrical noises and such. Some rock-music with a touch of metal would work a lot better, or some munk-chorus that rhymes with the Priest's character. It bothered me so much it took a lot of impact from the scene. The funny bit with Sera's was ok at best. Some of the lines were delivered a bit awkwardly, but everyones doing a decent job. I see they skipped a bit from the manga and went straight for the next vampire hunt. I loved the way Alucard just shoots his body full of holes with everyone of them intentionally missing his heart. These 2 characters only had one line and the rest were grunts. I guess were here for the action and not the characters. Alucard delivers a few awkward lines on the roof. The VA should put a bit more effort into his character. Lolling at Andersons engrish. Victoria killing ghouls was pretty entertaining. Especially the sliding she did while firing her rifle. The fight with Alucard and Anderson could have been better. And the stupid music was also in the background ugh... They got pretty gory with Integras body guards which was surpising how they always covered every gory part with more blood. Actual decapitation and arms flying off. Nice. And the ending lines were again a bit awkward. Maybe i just imagined them to come out differently while reading the manga. And thats that episode. Maybe the music will be better in the next one... TL;DR: Pretty good compared to the first version, but the music was godawful. |
Shinobinomi said: Seras gets introduced and they added a little rape to the scene. Strange to make the head vampire even more evil by adding that. You'd think killing the small towns population and turning them into ghoul's would be evil enough, but nooo: He's also an evil rapist. But that intention was in the manga, it's not like they've added it on their own. Maybe only made it a little bit more emphasized by grabbing. |
Windspirit said: This. Wasn't terrible but wasn't great. The pacing seems really off and yes the characters are just weird and irrational.I don't think I've ever been so disappointed by a widely appreciated OVA. The animation was really off (be it in the calm scenes or the action scenes, very lazily animated), soundtrack was kitsch, characters were stupid and acting illogically (the cop chick is really one of the blandest and stupidest anime characters I've ever seen), story doesn't look too great... I sure hope the next episodes will be better ; I just don't get how such a low-budget, badly directed, poorly animated and lazily written OVA!! got to be 35th in MAL, with no less than 2595 people rating it a perfect 10/10... The only thing I've really enjoyed in this episode was Norio Wakamoto's astonishing voice acting, at least, this guy never fails to entertain. |
5biscuits said: ...the characters are just weird and irrational. Any examples? |
| This was so much better than Hellsing! Although it is a lot faster paced but it also puts comedy in with the action. |
| This episode was kinda boring considering it had about 50 minutes. The story that happened here could be easy done in 24. I also disliked that they threw random terms around and didn't bother explaining anything. I'd be satisfied with at least a single word or two. Also the characters felt kinda awkward at times. Seriously, who the hell smiles like that all the time even during a battle? And wtf is with Integra's look? I have nothing against the fact that estrogen haven't seen her even from a plane but what's the point of making her female when she looks and acts 100% male? On the other hand, this shows something that's VERY rarely (unfortunatelly) seen in vampire stories. Actual young vampire making her first steps. I seriously love that. Either way, I'm still continuing to watch because people say it gets better later on and after the failure that was Blood-C (I just hope the film will be better) I'm in a serious need of a well-done vampire story... yeah, that's the main reason, sue me. |
| fuck this is just too awesome much better than the anime |
| Basically the TV series done right. |
| Watching another series of Hellsing gives me such a damn hard on. Ahhh fucking love it. ┌( ￣^￣) |
| I'm not sure what to make of this yet. It's cool and stylish like a John Woo movie, and has some great action scene's and wonderful over the top voice acting. But the characters are a bit flat, specially Victoria. I remember her being a lot smarter in the TV series. Here she's nothing more than a dumb, big breasted chick. I have to see a couple of more chapters to get a feel for this. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
Marzan said: I'm not sure what to make of this yet. It's cool and stylish like a John Woo movie, and has some great action scene's and wonderful over the top voice acting. But the characters are a bit flat, specially Victoria. I remember her being a lot smarter in the TV series. Here she's nothing more than a dumb, big breasted chick. I have to see a couple of more chapters to get a feel for this. Ammm, actually Seras was a stupid useless fan-service in the TV-series. OVA1 is basically TV episode 1 + sniper training with a murder couple + some action with Anderson, yet better. What was Seras's achievements in episode 1 of the old show? She shot Alucard (who was actually her ally) for no apparent reason and never was able to shoot at the evil vampire priest or at least one of his minions. What an idiot of a cop. In Ultimate she has done a reasonable thing and shot the priest plus his ghouls while being nice to Alucard. Also TV Seras was full of fail during her sniper practice, while OVA counterpart killed the target with her first bullet. So why exactly do you think Seras is dumber in OVA? I can't see the logic here. |
| Holy shit that was good!! |
| just rewatched this after funimation announced the BD and will have english voices as well as the returning cast. it's been 2.5 years now since i last watched the series. i also remember how the fight scenes are tons better than the original anime. this is one of the very very few anime's were the english cast is on par if not arguably better than the japanese cast. and wow the animation is godly, i just wished the voice is as clear as the special effects since the english dub tend to sound lower then suddenly louder out of nowhere. there's a reason why Hellsing Ultimate is one of the best OVA's ever made. it's like the jump from Fullmetal Metal Alchemist to Brotherhood. the former is good, but the latter is much much better and more complete. and wow it's been awhile since i last heard Crispin Freeman. i remember his voice when i played Xenosaga Ep I-III last year. good times :) although i still wish Yasushi Ishii at least made contributions in this film. he has one of the redeeming features of the original anime. can't wait to get up to date in this series!! |
| He's backkk: But anyways, nice episode. Loved the action towards the end there in that duel. |
| I enjoyed this first episode. The pacing felt a little off; but this show's style and bloody action sequences provided more than enough fun to make up for its weaknesses. Also, with Jouji Nakata facing off against Norio Wakamoto it was like a battle of the awesome voices. "Amen". |
| Alucard good vampire, dang he badass and unstoppable, I like that! 4/5 |
| Pretty good first episode, though the animation kind of felt off. Most notably, though, the music was pretty bad here. Hopefully that aspect in particular will improve as the series goes on. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
JohnGalt89 said: Also, with Jouji Nakata facing off against Norio Wakamoto it was like a battle of the awesome voices. "Amen". Amen indeed. |
| I enjoyed the fight scenes here but I really hope the characters will see some improvement. They are basically cardboard cutouts with zero personality. I really hope that will improve. |
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