manga: Hellsing Vols 2-3

[meganbmoore]

I sincerely hope Dirk Benedict never reads this manga. His delicate sensibilities could never survive. Particularly one scene in volume 3.

Still more style and violence over substance, but in a very entertaining way.

Comments

[woodburner]

The last arc of the TV series was pretty much entirely made up for the show. I'm not sure if any aspects of it were in the manga.

[meganbmoore]

I distinctly remember Integra being in a meeting and the mansion being attacked by some sort of monster, which I THINK were zombies. But that could have been earlier, or the only elements that made it there. I'm also thinking about the first series. I haven't seen the more recent one yet.

[woodburner]

Yes, I know - the new series was supposedly made for the express purpose of following the manga very closely. I don't think they're ever actually going to finish it, though. ;_;

I really do have to get around to reading past the first volume of this. I think part of the problem for me getting around to it is that Integra and Alucard's incredibly sexy voices are part of what makes the series for me.

[lady_ganesh]

the new series was supposedly made for the express purpose of following the manga very closely. I don't think they're ever actually going to finish it, though

But it is terribly sexy.

[kakkobean]

Dirk Benedict...that's the guy who thinks that women don't like superheroes and that they need to be behind the kitchen counter?

[meganbmoore]

No. The one who thinks women should have women's roles, and men should have mens, and never the twain shall meet. The glass ceiling of fiction must remain intact or the world will end.

You know, the original Starbuck guy who says it's OK and awesome for men to smoke cigars, flirt, fly fighter jets and drink, but women can't.

[kakkobean]

AH! That dude.

Hah. I'd like to see his face while reading Hellsing

[shiegra]

Oh, I think so too, absolutely!

....our ideas of woman's roles and men's roles may differ, though. Mine tends to be: WHATEVER IS AWESOME.

That guy is such a caricature I don't know whether to snicker or give him an internet middle finger.

[smillaraaq]

And there really are Nazis! Nazi ghouls!

Don't forget the shota-tastic Nazi werewolf!

[meganbmoore]

I'm not sure i've reached the shota-tastic Nazi werewolf. If i have, i was blinded by Alucard's pimp suit, and how I initially wondered if it was him or Father Maxwell.

[smillaraaq]

You may not have met him yet...I can't remember which volume he shows up in. Have you met the chubby otaku Nazi leader already? He and shota!wolfie show up around the same time, IIRC.

[meganbmoore]

Chubby Nazi leader showed up at the end of Vol 3, though I don't think his otakuness has shown through yet.

[meganbmoore]

YES! All that snapping and revving up for it...and then Seras goes and completely ruins it. And neither seems particularly upset about that.