Hellsing

Alternate Titles: None

Original Japanese Release Date: 2001

Episode Length/Run-time: 13 Episodes

Summary:

Alucard, an anti-hero mystery vampire, is teamed with Victoria, a police girl turned vampire for the Vampire Extermination Group of England known as the Hellsing Orginization.  In their stuggles they learn of a new breed of vampire stemming from a mysterious drug and mysteries surrounding the orginization.

Review:

This series is good, but the Hellsing OVA is a significant improvement.  Comparitavely it sticks to the manga much more closely than the original hellsing.

There are also spins to the steryotypical vampire story such as rules to how one becomes a vampire.  For example chips are used to transform people into vampires if they are not virgins, there is also requirements that one must be of the opposite sex and a virgin to become vampires.  There are technologies that make people immortal and strong, adding an almost sci-fi spin to the series.

It’s a very enjoyable series.