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see-arcane · 3 months ago

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I was reminiscing on some anime vampires, and now that I think about it Alucard Hellsing gets so much funnier, and pathetic when I realized that this mighty as Fuck all powerful bullet hell back to back vampire will ALWAYS be salty that neither Mina nor Jonathan wanted to be in his little polycule.

He can wave the guns, and monologue all he wants but we know the truth, and the fact (at least considering the novel) that if Mina came back to life as a plot point she would have killed him point blank.

Also the bar is in the fucking ground for adaptations when this ever loving edgy trash thing managed to respect both Mina, and Jonathan's romance in a single fucking flashback panel in the manga than the majority of them.

Right on every count (longest sigh)

It says something that a manga absolutely drowning in aggro blood and guts, overpowered Dracula antics, another ~Van Helsing (sorry, Hellsing) is the extra special magic-cool archenemy~ rewrite, mountains of hetero cheesecake and just plain looney tunes treatment of demonic/divine supernatural shoot-em-up madness…

…also features one of the few renditions of a Dracula with something like believable sympathetic character development. Not into an antihero or even an antivillain, but just a tired monster who looks back in bloody tears on a past where he did battle with worthy enemies—heroes—and neither stole them to his side or got to be allowed euthanasia by them.

He’s fun as hell and I love to see him eat some Nazis, but he’s also up there with one of the most depressing versions of Dracula who I can actually buy as being a (developed!) Dracula

#I know Hirano likely never intended it but I can’t help picturing so many of the characters around Alucard #as his replacement goldfish for people in his past. like do-overs #Anderson and Walter were two sides of a would-be Jonathan; both of whom betrayed the vision he had for them #(Anderson turned to a warped version of God rather than trusting his own steel. Walter betrayed love itself for a rematch)#Seras and Integra were at once an attempt to bring back his ‘Brides’ and Mina to varied results #(there’s no itch for conquest anymore—just company…who are fun to aggravate and nettle along to his rhythm)#I wonder if Integra reminds him of them both #the ex-innocent callused into a force against the dark #man now I want to do a reread #dracula #hellsing #alucard #jonathan harker #mina harker

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