Hellsing

[Anarchy]

'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 rouge vampire, Alucard! After he transforms the dying Seras Victoria into a vampire, they join forces to combat the undead army - as well as her new found hunger...' - Passage taken from DVD Case

I got into hellsing from buying it from a local comic book store and it was a fairly decent anime to my experience. Alucard is a favorite, his attitude and his hate of his own kind fits perfectly with his red jacket and his big handgun. Has anyone else seen this before?

Pictures from Hellsing
http://hellsing.keenspace.com/profiles/Alucard/ep9_21.jpg
http://www.loveofanime.com/hellsing/h78.jpg
http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/a-m/hellsing/hellsing_shot7l.jpg

[Dark Fact]

I got all the DVDs for it! Pretty good series! :)

The english dub for it was very well done. You ought to give it a listen! ;)

For anyone who hasn't bought the series, wait for the Geneon Signature Series re-release for it. :)

[rubberchicken]

Actually, Alucard doesn't hate vampires. He just hates the FREAKs, which he views as cheap copies of a far superior race.

Series was decent up until episode 8 or 9. Once Incognito appeared everything fell apart. They should've stuck to the manga...

[Anarchy]

My Bad, I should pay more attention to the film. I have one of the dvds 'impure souls'.

[Youko Recca]

Series was decent up until episode 8 or 9. Once Incognito appeared everything fell apart. They should've stuck to the manga...I agree. It was doing great and then when the seperation happened it got mediocre. Badly. Oh well, I should really start with the manga soon. Though I'm kind of too busy for it with all these others coming. Damn.

[Dark Fact]

To think that Hirano could've used episodes 8-13 to have Alucard fight the nazis but noooo...they had to bring in an "original". :(

[Mynd Hed]

Series was decent up until episode 8 or 9. Once Incognito appeared everything fell apart. They should've stuck to the manga...

Supposedly at the time they were wrapping the series up, they were running out of manga, so they decided to just go ahead and end it rather than putting the show on indefinite hold while they waited for more manga to be written for them to adapt.

That said, yeah, the ending pretty much did suck. Incognito might've been a neat one-shot villain, but for him to just kind of appear and say, "I am apparently the final villain of the show! We must fight now... FOR NO RAISIN!" [/Futurama reference]... yeah, that didn't sit well with me. I don't mind deviating from the manga, but jeez, you can do better than THAT.

Still, the show was pretty fun for what it was, and its strong suit was never the plot anyway.