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| 10:56pm 08/05/2009 |
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I rented the first disc of Hellsing from Netflix, because I had heard good things about it, and because hey, vampires. Vampires are cool, right?
After three episodes (only three?!), about the only thing I found entertaining about this anime were everyone's accents. Also, "tee hee, Integra sounds like a girl!"
("This vampire is no more! It has ceased to be!")
Did we really need the close-up of slithering tongues and the blow-job scene in episode two? The animation was iffy at best, and the voice-acting was kind of creepy, so I felt like I was watching one of those badly-dubbed hentai clips you can download on the internet. I know Alucard's supposed to have kind of a wide mouth (for better to see his zillions of teeth), but sometimes it would just do some really bizarre things that jerked me right out of the story.
Victoria and her vampire hang-ups are obnoxious, not interesting or thought-provoking.
I did laugh once, in episode three when Integra showed up in the middle of what looked like to be a really hard fight between Alucard and some kind of mutant Scottish vampire hunter from the Vatican, and proceeded to do what Alucard could not-- defeat the vampire hunter!
...with paperwork.
(no, really. I was like, "...wait what?")
So to sum up:
Hellsing has a slow-moving storyline, no likable characters, inconsistent animation, strange dubbing, and a creepy, 'cheap-porno' vibe.
One star out of five. * One little lonely star.
You can stake this one.
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