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I FUCKING LOVE HELLSING! So far I only have two volumes... but I LOVE IT!!! You know what's better than Hellsing the manga, tho? HELLSING ULTIMATE, the anime!!!!! I've never seen any anime adaptation of Hellsing (there's at least two idk if there's more...), but I've been shown enough to know that Hellsing Ultimate is even better yet! I've seen clips a few scenes that I read through in volume 2, and the dialogue is sooo much more fucking hilarious in the anime than it is in the manga. FUCK I really really want to watch the anime! But of course I want to get the remaining 8 volumes. I won't lie I'm glad this one series is over. That way I know how many bookstore trips I'll need to get it. That'll make 8 more trips, or 7 if I decide to buy two volumes at the same time. That is of course assuming that I buy a volume every single time I go to the bookstore, until I finish the series, but I love this series so much that's on my list of priority book buys!
I'm gonna try not to go into too much detail about this series, or any others, because there's plenty of other sites out there you can read up on, like Wikipedia, or the fandom wiki, better yet. Or, you know, the manga itself. But anyway Hellsing the manga is about a secret British organization (called Hellsing), run by Sir Integra Hellsing, who is actually a chick. Because why the HELLLLL not. Anyway, their whole thing is they fight vampires and the ghouls that vampires turn people into (not all humans killed by vampires kill vampires themselves). Hellsing's main asset is Alucard, who she found in the basement while hiding from some men who wanted to kill her because her dad put her in charge of the organization when she was still a kid. Alucard though, I'm told, is not the Son of Dracula, but from what I've read outside of the manga itself, but is Dracula himself. Try telling me that back when I used to stay up every Saturday watching old horror pictures with Svengoolie.
Anyway, Alucard helps Hellsing, I think because he's bound/obligated to somehow? But also because like he says, they have to control the population of his fellow vampires because if the vampires are just left to roam, and they turn all humans (their food source) into vampires and ghouls, well what then? Alucard is an asset to Hellsing mainly because he's a vampire, so virtually invincible, though he does have his weaknesses, which only means he knows how to kill other vampires, and he can be minced and shredded but as long as you miss his head he's fine cause he can just reassemble, as Father Anderson found out*.
Speaking of, being in a historically Protestant country, Hellsing has a rival sent by the Vatican, called "Iscariot" and their main guy is Father Alexander Anderson, an Irish Catholic who rather than work together against the other evil creatures, would prefer to beat Hellsing to the punch AND kill Alucard. How's that going for him? Well...
Meanwhile there's other colorful characters, like Integra's butler, and Police Girl (I never bother to remember her name...she's a badass with the big guns tho). Basically what happened was her unit was sent out against this one vampire, but she was the only one alive when Alucard got to them, and the other vampire used her as a human shield, but since she was a virgin Alucard shot her anyway to hit the vampire's heart, and while she lay dying he turned her into a vampire (if you know anything at all about vampires and virgins...). ANd she's been with Hellsing ever since.
Badass Dialogue (Mostly From the Anime)