Anime geekery

[mrph]

Sometimes starting at the end is no bad thing. Over the last week or so I've seen large chunks of Hellsing (thanks to mrbear, who bought thw DVD set... :) and I like it a lot - despite watching the last couple of episodes (where a lot of brutal and nasty things happen to regular characters) first. Actually, possibly that's one more reason why I like it - I knew from the start that they hadn't bungled the ending... :)

It's got style. It's got weirdness. It's got a vampire called 'Arucard' with a wide-brimmed hat, custom-made guns and a very strange attitude. And it's got the sort of bizarre factual errors you get when the Japanese write a series set in London and Birmingham...

What more can you ask?

Comments

[markeris.livejournal.com]

Arucard? Is this like some sort of obvious Dracula name with stereotypical oriental phoneme confusion?

[mrbear.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough. Yes.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

As mrbear said, yes. Although the 'stereotypical oriental phoneme confusion' seems to have been a deliberate choice by the Japanese creators. Which is odd.

[lurkingcat]

The Dark Horse manga does actually spell it as Alucard, but they might be trying to make sure that the reader doesn't miss the point :)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

It seems to be a bit contentious and confused (see comment below). Ah well...