Blade wrote:

To each their own. I find something as ridiculous and cool as giving Alexander Anderson a nonsensical Scottish accent to be perfectly in line with Hellsing. Basically everything in Hellsing is both cool and utterly ridiculous. Except "The Dawn", which is just ridiculous. I'm gonna guess you haven't seen it if you think the characters have any seriousness left to take away.

Did you got past volume 5!!! Hellsing is serious as nazi and vampires can't get!!...ehh....ahhh... It's serious dammit!!!

Lightice wrote:

Romanticide wrote:

Darkhorse edition *hate* *stab* *hate* Not only the silly accents are extremely dificult to understand also take away seriousness from the characters

Alexander Anderson a serious character? Mind boggles...
Seriously, Hellsing manga is supposed to be comical, for good part of it. Still, I agree, reading written accents gets on my nerves.

If your opinion of comical is a big war in london, Dracula releasing dead souls to terminate most of the enemy armies and then a flashback of his youth when he is only thought in mind was God as the sultan raped him... then is so damn funny...

Last edited by Romanticide (12-03-2006 12:56:29 PM)

Lightice wrote:

Perhaps I worded wrong: to have comical elements in it would be better way to say it. I've read only the early part of the manga and most of those volumes seemed to be about laughs. Sure, there are serious parts, as well, no doubt of that. A bit like Doctor Who - comedy and serious content in the same package.

Ok now we are speaking the same language, the early volumes have many comedy but the serious parts longer and the comedy starts to disapear as the volumes go by. Unless you count black humor.

In any case the whole premise of Hellsing is so silly that trying to be completely serious about it would be pointless - the TV series tried and only managed to add unintentional comedy. I mean, nazi vampires? Catholic super-soldiers of Vatican? Come on!

The whole premise is silly, the whole idea is hilarious but so is "the series about a girl who want to be a prince" and "a boy who wants  to be the best ninja/shaman/trainer/etc. Face it most of the anime premise's are hilarious, but still is not the story is how is told to you. Kohta Hirano has seen too much anime, read too much about nazis and vampires, played to much videogames and seen/written to much porn. So Hellsing is very hilarious, sick and damn serious. The fanatism and bumps between protestants have exist since forever, give supernatural elements to both, add some Nazis and give them the same elements to both and you have Hellsing.

skewed_tartan wrote:

To getr somewhat back on topic...

Here's a fic parodying the idea I enjoyed. (Found on UFR whee!) Though I do tend to have a pretty vicious sense of humor.

In some ways, I wouldn't mind seeing this version *eyes VirtualDub and Sound Recorder*

Romanticide wrote:

Did you got past volume 5!!! Hellsing is serious as nazi and vampires can't get!!...ehh....ahhh... It's serious dammit!!!

I get every volume as it comes out, I bought all the anime, and I'll buy the next anime and The Dawn if they come out here too.

Hellsing is so ridiculously, ludicrously over the top that I can't take it completely seriously, and would honestly be surprised if anybody could. Oh, sure, serious stuff happens. But in everything from Schrodinger to the spirit of the Harkonnen Cannon to Luke and Yan's Paper Phallus Theatre to everybody's wackily distorted expressions to Alucard's anthropomorphic karate-chopping coffin, it's silly. It's ridiculous. It's serious too, but it's full of goofy humour and even more full of dark humour, and it loves to go ridiculously, ludicrously over the top for drama and humour both.  "Over-the-top" is the first words I would use to describe Hellsing to anybody, because it is so gloriously, gleefully over-the-top in everything it does.

In that context, Anderson's ridiculous, nonsensical, but cool Scottish accent fits in perfectly.

skewed_tartan wrote:

To getr somewhat back on topic...

Here's a fic parodying the idea I enjoyed. (Found on UFR whee!) Though I do tend to have a pretty vicious sense of humor.

That was a really excellent story. And in some ways, I'd watch it. Just because.

I think the whole thing with the names in Ursula's Kiss are pretty funny, but Goku Akio should be called Richard, so they can call him Dick... and my mind blanches at Ursula and Angie... *shudders*

I just can't get past the fact that they called her "Ursula." It was a pretty rare name even before The Little Mermaid came out, and now nobody would ever name their baby that because she'd be cursed to be compared to an evil, fat, hammy, purple octopus-woman.

Why would they want people to think of HER whenever Utena would show up onscreen?

Who the frag though this would be a good idea? Utena should remain as Utena and nothing more.

Why would they want people to think of HER whenever Utena would show up onscreen?