Hellsing 4
Posted: November 29, 2008 Filed under: Hellsing 1 Comment »This volume is mostly exposition and an introduction to the various players in the Millennium Nazi group or whatever. Their teleconference is pretty awesome, if only because Integra orders Schrodinger’s head blown off and then orders Seras to blow up the monitor broadcasting the Major.
The series is good for nice speeches. Integra gave a good one last volume that I failed to mention, but the Major gave another in this volume. It’s not terribly interesting, but it is notable that he goes on for around four very articulate pages about how much he loves war.
Things start up at the end of the volume when we see how it is the Nazis operate and how they have plants in the military et al. We also get to meet the first of the… commanders (?), miss Rip Van Winkle. I like her character design a lot, and I also like that there are so many powerful female characters in Hellsing. Not that some and/or most of them aren’t riddled with some stereotype or other, but I like that the ladies are there at all. Hopefully that has little or nothing to do with the fact Hirano used to draw H manga.
The terrible end pages in the past two volumes have had weird Saint Seiya references that I now understand. The fact that I understand them is pretty novel, but that doesn’t mean the references themselves make any more sense now.
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