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Self-awareness? In my ultra-violent cartoon?
Please note, this post will contain MASSIVE SPOILERS for the entire OVA set, so do not read this if you have not completed Hellsing Ultimate. The final four episodes in particular convinced me that there’s a lot going on beneath the surface of Hellsing Ultimate, so I’d like to discuss some of my observations and interpretations. There has been incredible confusion with licensing, leading to massive delays in the show being dubbed, so I recently, despite patiently waiting years to see episodes 1-8 dubbed, caved in and watched the last two episodes subbed. I had been watching the show dubbed, since a) these people are meant to be British, so it only makes sense b) in Japanese various characters break into horrible Engrish on a regular basis, and c) the English dub is very very very good anyway. This inkling began early on, but it didn’t really take hold until the end of the third OVA, wherein Alucard makes a rousing, and incredibly self-aware monologue. However, as I watched, I increasingly got the unnerving sensation that for all the ultra-violence, ridiculous accents and hammy characters, Hellsing Ultimate may just be a lot more intelligent than I had given it credit for. I began to watch it and figured it was basically more of the same, albeit more fleshed out and better animated, and with some slightly jarring humour thrown in with its increased tendency to briefly turn all the characters super-deformed. When Hellsing Ultimate began all the usual hype went around about how it would be following the plot of the manga all the way through, unlike the series, and thus would be much better.
#HELLSING ULTIMATE SERIES#
I saw the original Hellsing series when it came out and kind of dug its style, especially that catchy OP, but that’s about all I could really say about it.