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Hellsing
Hellsing DVD Cover released in North America
ヘルシング (Herushingu)
Genre	Action supernatural fiction
TV anime
Director	Umanosuke Iida
Writer	Chiaki J. Konaka
Studio	Gonzo
Licensor	Geneon Entertainment ADV Films Madman Entertainment
Network	Fuji Television
English network	Starz! (Encore Action)
Other networks: Latin America Animax XEIMT-TV SIC Radical Tooniverse Hyper Plug TV MTV Russia Canal+ Scandinavia MTV Türkiye Animax
Original run	October 10, 2001 – January 16, 2002
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
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Hellsing (ヘルシング, Herushingu^?) is a Japanese animated television series based on on Kouta Hirano's manga series of the same name. The series is directed by Umanosuke Iida, from a screenplay by Chiaki Konaka, and produced by the Gonzo animation studio.

Hellsing was broadcast on Japan's Fuji Television from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002, totaling 13 episodes.

Characters

Main characters

Alucard

Voiced by: George Nakata (Japanese), Crispin Freeman (English)

The main protagonist and the most powerful warrior of the Hellsing organization. He is not just a vampire, but one of the eldest. Alucard's original "life" dates back to the 1400s. Although his true identity is not explicitly stated, it is implied he is Dracula, as it is his name spelled backwards. The alias "Alucard" is also used by Dracula in Bram Stoker's "Dracula". The leader of the Vatican's Section XIII refers to him as "el nosferatu."^[1] In the last episode of the TV series there is a close up of Alucard's face and for a few seconds the screen splits and he resembles classical portraits of Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad III the Impaler), a voivode of Wallachia who provided the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel. When he first meets Incognito, he says that it is fine that Incognito's name is a puzzle, since his name is a riddle as well.

Seras Victoria

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), K. T. Gray (English)

Seras was a member of the D11 special forces unit until being mortally wounded by Alucard in his destruction of a vampire masquerading as a priest. On the verge of death, she chose to allow Alucard to turn her into a vampire. Serving beneath Alucard, she now works for the Hellsing organization.

For some time after joining the Hellsing organization, Seras avoided drinking blood, fearing the loss of her humanity (the first time she encountered her medical blood ration, she was almost overcome by bloodlust). However, when Alucard drank the blood of a reporter in front of her, she finally acknowledged her vampiric powers and consumed blood.

Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing

Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese), Victoria Harwood (English)

Integra is a 22-year-old noblewoman and the head and last member of the Hellsing family. She is the strong and intelligent leader of the Hellsing organization, and Alucard's "Master". She inherited the Hellsing organization at the age of 13 upon the death of her father. Although she often seems strict and domineering, she is respected and admired, even among her sworn enemies. Apparently an expert pistol shot.

Paladin Alexander Anderson

Voiced by: Nachi Nozawa (Japanese), Steven Brand (English)

A warrior priest or paladin who works for the Vatican Section XIII, Iscariot. Anderson is Iscariot's ultimate weapon in the fight against the undead. With regenerative capabilities and a variety of holy weapons (including his signature blessed bayonets), his mission is nothing less than the complete destruction of all the demons of Hell. As this includes many of Hellsing's subordinates, Anderson is one of Alucard's greatest foes.

Incognito

Incognito

Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese), Isaac Charles Singleton, Jr. (English)

This masochistic vampire is from "the dark continent," a reference to Africa. Though physically androgynous, he is generally thought to be male. Extremely powerful, he combines dark magic with an enchanted ArmsCor 40 mm grenade launcher that fires spines. Incognito vomits into the launcher's cartridges before loading; and he also is known to have a gatling gun as backup. During the final plot arc of the series he summons a snake-like being referred to as Sett (presumably the Egyptian god of chaos) and takes it into his body in order to use its power to attack Alucard. Incognito has regenerative powers which seem to be related to the purple stripes and sigils covering his body. It has also been argued that, while Alucard may be inspired by, or is Count Dracula, Incognito may have been inspired by the vampire Count Orlok, from the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu.^{[citation needed]} Incognito does not appear in the manga and his name comes from the literal definition of the word, incognito. In episode nine, Alucard responds to Incognito's introduction by saying his name's "quite an enigma as well."

Secondary characters

Walter C. Dornez

Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), Ralph Lister (English)

Walter is a 69 year old retired member of the Hellsing organization. Though now serving as Integra Hellsing's butler, he still has proved the capacity to live up to his nickname "The Angel of Death" with deadly razor sharp wires. He has a close friendship with both Integra and Alucard.

Enrico Maxwell

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (Japanese), J. B. Blanc (English)

Enrico Maxwell is the overzealous religious leader of the Iscariot Organization (Vatican Section XIII).

Luke and Jan Valentine

Luke Valentine - Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English) Jan Valentine - Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Josh Phillips (actor) (English)

The Valentine brothers are "freaks", humans who were turned into vampires with the aid of a chip. They have much influence in the underworld. Their exact origins are unknown. Jan acts, looks and sounds like a member of the lower classes and uses strong profanity while Luke seems much more cultured and restrained. Both wear the same outfit, though Luke wears a white jacket over his. With an army of ghouls, they stormed Hellsing HQ. Their ghouls were armed with rifles, body armor, and shields. Jan uses a pair of heavily modified, suppressed P90s, while Luke uses a pair of sawed-off M1 Garand rifles. Jan faced off against Walter and Seras, while Luke descended into the basement to do battle with Alucard. Luke claims to be as powerful a vampire as Alucard, and their fight seems to be fairly even, until Alucard uses the gravity of the situation as an excuse to release (part of) the enchantments that bind him, letting him use a greater amount of power. Alucard overwhelms Luke and easily kills him, while Jan is shot full of mercury incendiary shells by Integra Hellsing. Integra then asks him to tell her who his masters were; Jan refuses and is ignited on fire, taking his secret with him to the grave.

Other characters

Helena

Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu (Japanese), Akure Wall (English)

A young-looking vampire that spends her time reading and listening to "Solveigs Song" by Grieg. She appears to live alone in a dark old house. Despite her young appearance, she is quite old and becomes something of a role-model for Seras. Helena is eaten by Incognito, though she continues to live for a short time afterward, even after being beheaded.

Kim

Voiced by: Pam Susslin (English)

A news reporter saved in Episode 2 from vampires, she tries to prove afterwards that vampires exist to the general public. One such feat was watching a snuff film being recorded in which a vampire would attack a man who clearly had no idea what is going on. When Alucard ends the recording and Integra arrives Kim states that as a reporter she has an obligation to tell the world, showing no guilt because she wasn't the one who made the arrangements. Owing to the nature of what she has done, Integra states that her crime is beyond human law, and authorizes Alucard to drink her (Kim's) blood.

Enrico Stivaletti

Voiced by: Hisato Masuyama(Japanese)

A foreign exchange college student who appears in Episode 3. He is actually the first artificial vampire shown implanted with the 'freak chip' as he attempts to turn another student Mick, with whom he was heavily implied to have been in a romantic relationship, into a vampire for the sake of "being together forever". After being apprehended and later placed in the morgue with the chip removed he is believed dead. This is later disproved when he comes back to "life" in search for Mick. Anderson was sent by the Iscariot Organization to destroy the foreign vampire but is rudely interrupted when Alucard is the one to kill him.

Harry Anders

Voiced by: Takashi Taniguchi (Japanese), Arthur Russell (English)

An MI-5 Agent who apparently cooperates with Kim and is involved in the Hellsing exposure affair. Anders investigates the 'freak chips' and questions Helena, taking Seras along with him for protection. He is killed during an explosion of his car possible carbomb, the circumstances of which are unexplained. It is to be noted that Anders had been acquainted with Seras' father.

Bubbancy

Voiced by: Mika Di (Japanese), Siobhan Flynn (English)

A baobhan sith who infiltrated Hellsing HQ and tried to turn Integra into a ghoul since it is a same-sex transformation. Apparently possessing great hypnotic powers, she got in without suspicion by mentally convincing everyone (except Alucard and Seras) that she was Integra's sister "Laura". In what is widely considered the most risqué scene in the series, she paralyzes, partially undresses, and bites Integra on her breast. Integra realizes then that she has no sister, and that the girl must have tricked her. She then stabs Integra in the stomach with a knife to begin drinking her blood, but is then dispatched by Alucard, who'd been delayed in an encounter with Incognito.

The text of the English dub is somewhat confusing, probably due to nonrecognition of the term "baobhan sith" (especially when rendered by a Japanese speaker). The original script is clearer: Bubbancy took the name Laura from the novel Carmilla (which, like Dracula, may be close to the truth in the history of the Hellsing world), but Integra also addresses her as a baobhan sith. Upon realizing her identity, Integra refers to the baobhan sith as the Countess Karnstein, this of course being another reference to the classic vampire novel, Carmilla.

Commander Peter Fargason

Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese), William Morgan Sheppard (English)

Commander of the Hellsing organization's Paramilitary forces. He is an older human male with a deep voice and was Seras Victoria’s first tactical trainer after she became a vampire. He is shot and killed by a British Army sniper during the stand off at the Tower of London.

Media

References

External links

• Hellsing (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Hellsing at the Internet Movie Database
• Hellsing at TV.com

From Wikiquote

Hellsing (ヘルシング, Hellsing?) is an anime TV series produced by Studio GONZO, based on the manga of the same name by Kouta Hirano. The name is either a mistranslation or deliberate alternate spelling of Helsing, as in Abraham van Helsing from the Bram Stoker novel Dracula.

The 13-episode TV series was produced by Studio GONZO in 2001, with the story and characters slightly different from the original manga. The TV series was broadcast on Fuji Television in Japan from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002 and in the US on Starz!'s Encore Action channel from October 4, 2003 to December 27, 2003. As of December, 2005, the TV series has been broadcast since August of the same year on Animax Latinoamerica; the Latin-American branch of the satellite TV network owned by Sony Corp. which offer programing consisting exclusively of Anime works. The first few episodes of the TV series were screened at the "The Future of the Toons" (anime) showcase at 2005 Future Film Festival in Italy (some of the other anime screened: FLCL, Wolf's Rain, and RahXephon).

Hellsing (television series)

Alucard

Episode 1: The undead

"You are a fool who creates slaves to do your dirty work. A coward and an incompetent, incapable of doing anything on your own. You are not worthy of the lowest pits of Hell!"

"I crave for blood on this kind of night" (For himself at first then to Victoria)

Seras Victoria: "You're not human!" *runs*

"Why? Would you have shot me if I was?"

"Beautiful night, isn't it, Police Girl? It's especially beautiful, of course, if you're a bloodsucker."

"Out of the way, human... Unless you'd rather become a miserable little ghoul...?"

"It's a beautiful night for vampires. It makes me want a bite to drink."

Episode 2: club M

"You have gone and taken all those lives, and not even because you were thirsty! Is it fun... Huh! Is that what it takes for filth like you to get off...? Cheap little two bit terrors."

"Show us that you aren´t the same as they"(Ferguson to Seras)

"Eternity is wasted upon the likes of you. Try as you might, immortality slips away. And you remain with only your shame."

Episode 3: Sword Dancer

"It's time somebody put you in your place, human!"

"This bullet was meant for a vampire, but it will do to send you to hell, Father!"

"You're less than inhuman, a pitiful defect, a failed science project. Sending you back to your maker would be an act of mercy."

"You humans are incomprehensible. You and the Police Girl." (To Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing)

Episode 4: Innocent as a Human

"I can’t help you, I belong to a world where all is death. Your world of choices was not meant for me to interfere with"

"What exactly is so amusing about exposing your filthy face to the world?

Does having an audience for your sins make you feel like you're special? Does it make you proud?

I can only pity such a vampire; a titan reduced to a puppet just to give humans a good show." (to the Undead)

"Well, it seems that I'm also a creature in the service of humans. That's something... we had in common." (to the Undead)

"Why do you need to witness this? I will never understand you humans." (To Steadler and Kim)

"I’ve been hungry for so very long, but you’re going to help me change that."

Episode 5: Brotherhood

"Besides, the gun Walter got for me... begs for a field test."

Episode 6: Dead Zone

"My enemies are not the trash you have been fighting police girl" -Alucard (to Seras Victoria)

"Don't push yourself... Angel Of Death." -Alucard

"Now I'll show you how real vampires do battle!" -Alucard

"Stop Whining! All I did was cut off your stupid legs! Summon your demons! Transform yourself! Regenerate your legs! Stand up! Pick up your gun and attack me! Do something! The night is still so young, and the real fun is yet to start! Hurry, hurry, hurry, HURRY!!!" -Alucard

"You're just like the rest... a disappointment." -Alucard

"You're nothing but dog food!" -Alucard

"As a vampire, you were a peice of shit! Now you're nothing but dog shit!" -Alucard

Episode 7: Duel

"English Sow? No wonder Section Thirteen commands such respect; what strong language."

"To reign over the kingdom of the world, to make its peace and write its laws; to be generous to the obiedent and merciless to all who would stand against you. Nothing ever changes; two thousand years and you still act like the world is yours."

"Then Peter Pan should entertain his guest, before he gets too upset."

"I get that a lot. But then what does that make you?

A man? A dog? Or a monster?"

"That dog is neither man nor monster. Only a man can truly hope to kill a monster."

Episode 8: Kill House

"Have you ever wondered, Master, what it feels like to be hunted?"

"All the time I've served you, I've been pitted against pretenders and frauds... but this time its different!"

"Perfect. A battle unlike any other before. Two genuine monsters! Let him come!"

Episode 9: Red Rose Vertigo

"That's fine, my name is something of an enigma as well."

Episode 10: Master of Monster

"Those souls, who suffer their rightenous, will know their eternal inheritance."

"Your orders, my Master"

(Integra)"I was such a child back then"

(Alucard)"No.You´re still the same little girl to me"

"I know you don't want to die tonight..."

Episode 13: Hellfire

"Yet another beautiful moonlit night." (to Seras)

"I'll send you to the deepest pits of Hell! And while you're there you can lick the Devil's ass, Incognito!"

"I´ll send you to Judecca´s bottom!"

"Is this all you've got? Even after you awaken that dried up Helldemon and take him into your body, is this really all the power you can muster?"

"You have such disgusting taste. Is pain truly your pleasure? Then I will grant your wish! I'll send you to a world where all you will know is pain! But don't let my fun end too quickly! Come on, what are you going to do? Come on, show me! Hurry! Hurry up! HURRY!" (to Incognito)

Paladin Alexander Anderson

Hellsing Ultimate OVA: Volume 3

Anderson: "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces, like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore ye kings. Be admonished ye judges of the earth. Serve the lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his wrath be kindled but a little."

Episode 3: Sword Dancer

Anderson: "I am the instrument of God, messenger of the divine punishment of heaven"

Episode 7: Duel

[Alucard deflects Anderson's Sword] "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, it's about time, Vampire"

Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing

Episode 6: Dead Zone

"The ordeals of the first masters of the Hellsing Family in the last century were much harsher than this."

[Clenches Fist]

"No matter how intelligent or how strong they are still nothing but vampire rubbish."

[Eyes grow wide]

"They will not destroy the Hellsing Family."

[Stands up and moves vocals on a crescendo]

"These monsters dare to enter this house built on blood and honor! I will see them all roast in the deepest pits of Hell!"

Enrico Maxwell, Head of the Vatican Special Section 13: Iscariot Organization

Episode 7 Duel

"The Vampire and those who ally with such filth, all stand equal in the eyes of God, seen for dirty heathens upon man."

[Becomes a disembodied voice]

"I act as God's own wrath upon the earth, reigning down the divine punishment of heaven, (>snake voice>) I WILL PURIFY THEM ALL!"

[Voice becomes one in the same with Anderson's]

"In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost"

Walter C. Dornez

Episode 6: Dead Zone

[Advancing towards Yan Valentine after slaying a horde of Ghouls] I highly recommend pissing yourself, followed by a course of praying to your impotent God.

Episode 13: Hellfire

Sir Integra: That's enough Walter, I don't want to risk losing you next.

Walter: Orders given by the Hellsing Organization must be executed even at the cost of our own lives, Sir Integra.

Seras Victoria

Episode 3: Sword Dancer

• Yes sir, master!

Episode 12: Total Destruction

• In the Name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished to eternal damnation!
• While you're on your way to hell I want you to beg forgiveness for the men you've killed.

Incognito

Episode 13: Hellfire

• "Sett will enter me and together we shall send this cursed town crashing down to hell."

Hellsing (manga)

Alucard

Volume One

"Have you sustained any injuries? Sir Hellsing. What is your bidding, my master?" (To Integra)

Volume Two

"You were more a piece of shit than a man. Now you can be a piece of dog shit."

Volume Three

"Why? You ask 'why', Angel of Death? There are only three who've ever thought of trying to throw Undead into actual combat before. One is you all. One is them. And one is me. (To Walter C. Dornez)

"And that's why John Bull... grows old and fades away."

"Heh heh... You don't say. Well, that figures. She's a far more interesting girl than she looks. She was in a hamlet of death where her fellow officers and superiors kept changing into ghouls and annihilating as soon as they deployed. With a vampire trying to rape and kill her, it was like a hell at the bottom of a witch's cauldron. What did the girl choose to do in that situation? Resignation is what kills people. Once they're rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath."

"I can't be expected to go for a plane ride dressed like that. It'd make me a walking billboard for our foes."

"That's right. My final dominion. Here I am born, here I die."

"Damned hounds. Your power is impressive. But a pack of hounds can't beat me. I cannot be killed by dogs... That which defeats a monster is always a man."

"I get that a lot. So what does that make you? A man? A dog? A freak?"

"What's your point, Draculina?! Does it matter if those who start an armed war against us are human or not?! They came to us!! To defeat, kill, and make us rot away, or be defeated, killed and rot away themselves!! That is all!! That is everything!! That's the way of war!! They gambled all they had on the cards in their own weak hand!! That's how it works!! We must kill them!! I cannot change that. No one can. That's the sole truth. Not God, not the Devil, not me, not you."

"The higher-ups of the police force are probably controlled by them. However... the ones who were just following their orders to break in here... The ones I killed and will try to kill again, are just typical ignorant humans. I can kill them. I can massacre them without even a bit of hesitation, an ounce of regret. Because I am a monster. Now, regarding you. Miss Integra. I will wield the gun. I will also determine its aim. I will put the ammo in the magazine, pull the slide, and even undo the safety. But... what will kill them is your intent. So, what are my orders?! Hellsing director Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing?!"

"... Hah! Hahah! Hahahah. Hahah. Hahahahahah! Rogerrr. Yes. That's the last fig leaf. How splendid! It prompts a stirring in my loins, Integra!! In that case, I'm going out shooting. Watch closely. Sir Hellsing."

"I still have to check out. So, I'll walk out the front door. And teach our watchers a little lesson. They need to see with whom they've just picked a fight."

"You've done your duty well, soldiers. Farewell."

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