Hellsing Abridged Episode 6, 7 & 8 Reaction
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Fun fact, blood consensually given to a Vampire is exponentially more powerful than blood taken by force.
to add, Alucard and Seras are the only true vampires in the show. the nazis are pseudo vamps made from a formula derived from corpse
You mean in the show or in mythology?
@ChaosKid420 iirc I think show as well as in mythology.
I haven't actually seen it anywhere outside of the show.
@@ChaosKid420 The show. Most mythology it's not true, but some books or stories use that or something like it. Pretty much like everything else involving Vampires. Depends on the lore that the Author wanted for their story.
Alucard's anger at Anderson using the nail was for a very personal reason.
Alucard saying, earlier, that he'd lost the will to live wasn't just for the sake of giving Seras a pep talk. He was *tired* of existing, but he couldn't let himself die without leaving behind someone to fight the worst of humanity, and the monsters like himself. He wanted to know there would be someone to protect those who were too weak to protect themselves.
He saw in Anderson a protector who wasn't a monster, someone who could take his place, so that he, Alucard, could finally rest. He saw a kindred spirit who would do the right thing and make the hard choices so others wouldn't have to.
Seras was also chosen for the same reason, and what he told her was the truth. He saw that she was willing to survive, but wouldn't sacrifice her humanity to do it. Even becoming a full vampire by drinking Pip's blood, she didn't change (too much) as a person, and she didn't become a monster. She was a vampire with the heart and soul of a human.
So when Anderson stabbed his own heart with that nail, Alucard lost his hope in Anderson. Anderson became God's Monster, just to beat Alucard, and in doing so, chose to intentionally forsake his own humanity. In Alucard's eyes, this was the deepest possible betrayal.
So, when Alucard said "No, no, *no",* it wasn't because Anderson was calling on God. It was because Alucard was furious, because Anderson mirrored what Alucard did. He gave up his humanity to become a monster, and in doing so became Alucard's opposite in the worst possible way.
One of the few humans Alucard genuinely respected became like the one thing Alucard genuinely, truly hates, *despises,* above all else; himself, and in the original anime, that nearly broke Alucard.
Not to mention that Alucard the monster, has to be killed by a human. Not by another monster.
Abridged Alucard ,in that regard, is closer to the manga:
Anderson was his second worthiest human opponent after Abraham Van Hellsing.
Van Hellsing comes first for having none of Anderson's enhancements to help him fight Dracula.
Anderson was more of an extremist , who would literally turn himself into a monster in order to win. To Alucard, that was a cowardly tactic that made the whole fight meaningless. As far as he was concerned, no victory was worth throwing one's humanity away. The honour for Alucard comes from being defeated by a human capable of rivalling him.
“Who the f**k am I offending, THE NAZIS?!”.
I agree. Screw their feelings.🤣
Can you even offend nazis
@@tevinlogan8781 Yes, it's easy, and it feels great!
@@tevinlogan8781 Neo-Nazis I believe tend to be very insecure, especially the ones that try to hide behind Pagan religions.
that and they being kinda of rapey is one of the best lines in this abridged series lol
@@tevinlogan8781 Nazis I believe tend to be very insecure, especially the ones that try to hide behind The Norse religions.
I feel like we need a "Alexander Anderson" song reaction with the last episodes
Agreed, the full song they did was awesome
I genuinely can’t recall, have they ever reacted to the Hamilton musical?
Was just about to ask that lol
I’m gonna assume no since they didn’t even realize its what was referenced
They'd probably just talk over the whole thing again.
Just a heads up, everybody but the last ones, are not actually KKK. The garment shown in the video is a capriote. It is a piece of religious clothing worn by Catholic priests for select religious observances. The use of the capriote pre-dates the founding of the KKK, which was formed in 1865. The KKK would later appropriate its use
So they're not the KKK, they're worse... the Catholic Church.
I have been to a few religious parades/celebrations when I lived in Spain where people wore those.
BTW the Clan was not only racially discriminating they were against Catholics too, maybe because of most Latin Americans being very Catholic.
I mean same difference really.
@@Artanis99it’s less “anti-Catholic” more “anti-everything except Christian.” And white, straight, cis, male.
You were correct bout Seras not having fed properly. In the original anime she refused to drink human blood because she hadn't fully accepted what she was and couldn't give up on that last bit of humanity. So for the whole series she was, basically, starving. She was getting by on a few drops of Integra's blood. But when she fed on Pip she, essentially, fully awakened as a full fledged vampire. And the childe of Dracula at that. So far more powerful than any of the Nazi vampires.
not to mention that Pip gave his blood willingly, so this was a sacrifice, which is way more powerful than if his blood was just taken by force
Yup. Dracula is always special, any of his children are going to be too.
Bride of Dracula according to lore too
@@BekindBekbek not only did she take Pip's blood she took his soul as well. and notice she refused to take any of the nazis. She's now just a mini version of Alucard just with the soul(s) in her willingly helping.
"I grew up in Leeds. Nothing happened."
As someone from Leeds, this is 100% accurate.
TFS put out only 1 episode of Hellsing a year. On Halloween. We waited FOREVER for this show
which made it extra awesome that instead of the last episode (9) we unexpectedly got two episodes (9 and 10) as finale which were released less than one month apart
Also the original Hellsing took about 6 years to come out. 6 freaking years for 10 episodes. It was so painful, but the wait was worth it though
And it was worth every wait.
That’s referenced in the line from Alucard, saying it’s been only two days since they talked, but it felt like years, cause it took years for them to see each other again
And then after we FINALLY got the final episode, it felt like saying farewell to an old friend.
This is why Alucard is so damn hard to kill, every time something happens that could kill him he uses one of the other souls he consumed to “pay the toll” as it were.
Plus his insane regeneration means he often doesn't even need to go that far.
Also he's full of occultist powers since the hellsings have been experimenting every damn thing under the sun on him
I just realized that Maxwell was LITERALLY throwing stones from a glass house 😭
Heh, symbolism can be a bitch...and her name is Fate.
@@dawnfallon6812 what's fate's opinion on cannons
@@ToyotaCorolla-en2mvshe loves them.
“It’s a shame your blood daddy won’t be here to see it!”
*Alucard has entered the chat*
All these years, TFS giving us Alucard’s grand entrance to “Ready to Die” is still one of the most badass to date
Blood sugar daddy
Man. That "America is imploding" joke NEVER gets old. I love it.
It's even more relevant nowadays.
Gets more relevant every day unfortunately 😭
As an American, agree.
It's a joke that keeps being relevant
@@ToyotaCorolla-en2mv i don't see anything unfortunate about that
The reason Alucard was pissed off when Anderson pulled out he Jesus Juice Nail is because in the anime he clearly says in an early episode that it takes a man to kill a monster. He want's to die and only a strong human can kill him, like Seras' ancestor did when they captured and imprisoned Dracula. Once Anderson put that nail into himself, even if he was imbued with the power of God he was no longer a man and was incapable of killing Alucard.
He was incapable of killing Alucard in either form without him willingly submitting, which is what his lines mean. He wants to die, but he wants a true human, a human he considers worthy, to do it. He once attempted to allow Abraham Van Hellsing to kill him, but despite his prowess Abraham proved incapable of doing so. Instead he captured him and studied him, creating the Hellsing Organization around him. Alexander misunderstood that Alucard would gladly submit to him, and fell back on the nail when he realized he couldn't defeat him as he was. Alucard was testing him, and he failed, so he died.
It is a very interesting way to make an overpowered character: have them essentially be a Big Bad Evil Guy on a leash waiting for his "Chosen One" to come put him out of his misery.
i think you are mixing Seras Victortia with Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
@@rainestar6781 also is cool that they are two faces of the same coin: the monster of god and the monster without god, Andersen does a cross with his bayonets and Alucard does an inverted cross, Alucard thinks a man is needed to kill a monster but Andersen is willing to throw away his humanity to kill Alucard
@@rainestar6781 he seeks to rid the world of monsters, and as one himself, he cannot allow any other monster to slay him. Only a man, human and mortal, may do so.
So many lines I love in this series. Best one “Don’t weep for the stupid you’ll be crying all day”
Always love Takahata's Alucard, but Jesse Nowack's Seras in episode 7 is probably the vocal highlight of this series
Fun fact, Jesse's screams were so convincing his cat came in to check on him, genuinely worried for him xD
@@aCatNamedGarbage I've seen the video he put out, my throat hurts just hearing it
100% agreed. He NEEDS to do more voice work. I get why he stopped, but he's just one of the best actors - always giving it 110%
12:37
Fun fact: That my friends is actually a capirote helm they’re wearing. The pointed full faced hood was originally used by the Catholic Church in Europe (primarily in Spain) as a sign of penance, so what you see here are simply crusaders in holy garb (save for Jed Forrest at the end). Problem is that the clan decided to nick off with the designs for the specific purpose of throwing shade or even shifting blame on the Catholics, who they also usually despised.
Fun Fact: if you pay attention after episode 4, the party,party,party song isn't playing anymore.
It's because Alucard left and so did the party.😱🎉
Basically, each time Alucard/Dracula/Vlad The Impaler eats a person's blood, which contains their soul. He adds his/her lifespan to his own. Like adding another bar of HP your video game character. And by using the blood for his victims and his own body, he automatically regenerates. Level Zero is just a massive expulsion of souls from his body in the form an army of blood soaked zombies. At the cost expelling every soul he's collected.
Yes.
Though add to that his normal regeneration means he rarely has to actually use up any of those lives.
He's not just the OG vampire, he's the OG vampire that the British government has been pumping every occult buff they could lay their hands on into.
yeah, should be noted that alucard is not a normal vampire by this point. the fact he's able to do a bunch of those things is because he's been experimented on by hellsing since their founder, abraham van helsing, took him down and captured him.
seras is the closest anyone in the series gets to being a "normal" vampire, but she inherited some of alucard's modifications, so she's not exactly typical either.
The levels are confirmed to be added by experiments from Hellsing. So originally, all the souls were just extra lives, him being able to expel them was because Van Hellsing then experimented on him and made him even more powerful
Similar to Gojo in JJK Alucard is simply to OP for the villains to handle directly so they tricked them to stranding him on a broken boat in the ocean before preforming their all out offensive on London. Bram style vamps have trouble dealing with water, so it took him a while to make it back to the main land, hence the stretch episodes with out him
Yep, just telekinetically pushing an aircraft carrier for miles across the ocean, and watching the Catholics shit themselves when they learn it.
I love how the manga just fully quotes the arrival of The Demeter from Dracula when the carrier pulls up
This is where we found out that the show doesn't have a theme song Alucard does
Man, Seras's fight in the hallway to avenge Pip is so badass.
Also, some backstory on her "life in England." Her father and mother were killed and she witnessed it from a closet she was hiding in. The men then proceeded to violate her mother's body. I don't remember if the original showed the act, but it definitely happened and Seras saw all.
The orginal showed it more explicitly then the abridged yes, not stopping at when the dude was about to rip her sweater off, naturally its not hentai so you didnt see any gentitals but her chest was bear and the dude made a very obvious pumping motion
Only for like 2 seconds and not in full view, but yes it was shown
I love how TFS was able to make this very comedic while at the same time not diminishing the awesomeness of the actual series.
38:40 what i absolutely love about this scene is the fact that exemplifies what it's essentially everyone's plan up to this point: strand the invincible vampire in the middle of the ocean, so they'd have time to attack London. Two armies, counting in the thousands, battling each other and killing everyone on sight.
Yet, the second Alucard arrived, everyone froze. Thousands upon thousands of highly design monsters, thousands upon thousands of fanatical and well armed soldiers..., and yet, none dared to do anything, till Alucard did his first move: release all restraints on his power.
At that second, two opposing armies forgot the others completely, and focused on eliminating Alucard, absolutely terrified and full on knowing that, should they let him power up, it wouldn't even be a battle anymore.
And it wasn't. The second Alucard returned to his old form, it was a one-man-million-soul-army one-sided slaughter
Against the thousands of Iscariot, agaisnt the thousands of Millenium, the Hellsing's had about a couple dozen men, Seras, and Alucard. Lose the soldiers, put Sera on guard duty, and with just Alucard, they turned the entire battle around in under a few minutes
"the dead shall dance, and all of HELL SHALL SING!"
-the actual thing the major said when release level 0 happened.
The Bird of Hermes is my name
Eating my wings to make me tame
I don't know how many people notice this when watching Hellsing for the first time, but when Anderson advances at Alucard after he stabs himself in the heart, Anderson's bayonettes form a cross and Alucard's guns form an upside down cross,
i mean, it was a scene from the trailer when that particular ova came out
This mirroring has occurred throughout. Alucard often makes an inverted cross, whether with his guns or his arms, and Anderson always poses with his bayonets in a cross.
Something that wasn't in the abridged was that Seras was refusing blood so that she could "retain her humanity." Also, Pip tells Seras to drink his blood, which is actually important. Blood is tied to the soul, so when a vampire drinks blood, they eat your soul. Blood willingly given is more powerful than blood taken. This, as well as being sired by Alucard himself, is why Seras gets a hyper power boost.
They aren't actually critiquing Pope Francis, they were just making fun of how the more conservative Catholics insulted him for trying to be more humble and accepting of others. Essentially, Maxwell is a figure for mocking those viewpoints.
Which is ironic considering pope Francis' recent change in tone on transgender people.
Yeah, Abridged Maxwell is a caricature of your average right-wing Italian catholic; particularly those disgusted by Pope Francis' more progressive viewpoints.
It should be stated the song Alexander Anderson just like Hamilton is a song about his actual backstory.
36:12 the moment you realize why the intro's haven't had music till now. Because it was HIS theme song. Not the show's.
To kind of explain why Alucard is out of the action for some of the story, the writer, Koto Kirano, realized that he basically created the equivalent of an atomic bomb with Alucard early on: he’s so unstoppably powerful that it was hard to create actual stakes with him in the picture. So in the manga and anime, he basically takes him out of the story by having him ambush Rip and her crew.
If I’m not mistaken, he can’t travel very far without his coffin and the dirt of his homeland, so he brought it aboard the blackbird when he assaulted the ship, but because he was in the middle of the ocean, communications were down, and “he can’t fly with his vampire powers,” he was basically stranded and had to literally paddle his way back to London.
31:20 Correct. Seras resists taking blood for most of the series and Pip's blood is the first big dose she ever takes in.
Also, the only blood she's had up until that point was small doses from Integra, just enough to keep her from starving. Pip was the first life she took, the first soul she consumed, and that's the trigger to become a full-fledged vampire in the show's lore...and since Pip gave it willingly, it was EXPONENTIALLY more powerful than most of the souls Alucard had taken.
Alucard's power is quantity, and through sheer quantity he's an absolute beast. Seras' power is quality, and that one soul puts her well above almost everyone else in the series.
"Alright, YOU need to CHILL" gets me every time. This guy literally just went on a several minute long megalomaniacal super villain speech culminating in declaring himself Pope and launching a literal Crusade, and even HE thinks that was going too far.
"Iscariots, do you want to live forever?"
"We *WILL* live forever, in God's grace."
Is one of the hardest lines ever.
The reason Alucard was so angry when Alexander impaled his heart with that nail was because Alucard is only willing to die by the hand of a human. Before, Alexander had nanites which gave him rapid healing but those were a human creation and Alexander was still human. When he used that nail, he became a monster. A monster in the service of god but a monster nonetheless and Alucard refuses to die by the hand of a monster. In that moment, a lot of his respect for Alexander was lost
The “Alexander Anderson” song is a “Hamilton” reference because the play became really popular around the time the episode was released
Seras Victoria is one of my fave side characters because she fights so hard against her own blood lust; yet when she decides to rampage then only Allucard is better than her.
The fact she is her own worse weakness and the show sells that so well is why I like her so much.
Abridged simply amped it up to 11 the series was already a solid 10.
Alexander Anderson is a parody song created by Team Four Star for Hellsing Ultimate Abridged's Episode 8. It was released first in the credits of Episode 8 uploaded on October 14, 2017, followed by a full version released the same day. It was a song dedicated to the character Alexander Anderson.
Best part is this is 90% how the show went lol
35:24 “kill them all, let God sort them out” is actually a real quote from the height of the Crusades
Fun fact blood essentially holds parts/if not the whole soul of a person in the Hellsing universe, so the reason Seras kills Zorin the way she does instead of drinking her blood (as well as the other nazi vampires) is because she does not want any part of them within her. Hence why she also spits out Zorin's fingers.
Blood is the medium of the soul, the symbol of the ever shifting changes of life. While the mind holds that which is information, and the flesh that which is physical, the blood holds the greatest density of one’s spirit. Through the blood, one can draw upon the entirety of the soul. Blood taken hot holds a path to its enormity, and blood given fresh lets the whole of one’s being to follow.
Disclaimer: this is a synthesis of my own spiritual beliefs and the show’s lore.
as a little context, Seras up until the point she eats pip in the show, had not drunk any blood from anyone, and was being sustained by Sir Integra forcing her to take some of her blood every so often
She’s been slaughtering on a few drops of blood here and there.
Then she got a few pints of willingly given, fresh, hot life-blood. She went from a candle to the entire Amazon ablaze.
I remember in an interview of sorts with seras' voice actor, he said performing all the screaming for this episode scared the shit out of his cat, who rushed to the room looking for him, iirc he had to stop recording to calm the cat down
Which makes sense, imagine your owner literally starts yelling as if they were being dismembered by a nazi vampire
Seras f*cking POPPED OFF in Ep 7!
Embracing her new life after drinking from Pip showed why she isn't one to be messed with
The satan was voiced by Zach Hadel, co-creator of Smiling Friends and the voice of Charlie.
Who would voice Satan again in said show if I remember right
I am fascinated by the similarity between Lestat and Alucard, specifically the proclivity for changing up their persona every few decades. This eccentricity making them seem really schizophrenic to immortals, but unchanging and in touch with the times to humans.
When you guys were wondering at the beginning of episode 8 where Alucard actually was in the original anime for the past few episodes: exactly where he is in this. They didn't change anything like that. The Nazis purposely lured Alucard to that boat, knowing that he wouldn't be able to get back in time to stop their invasion. It was a genius move to get their #1 threat out of the way. As you saw in that episode, it couldn't keep him away for the whole thing, but... it kept him away for long enough.
As for that rap at the end; TFS didn't just make that up from scratch - it's an alteration of a song about one of the American founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, from the musical Hamilton.
Episode 6 defiitely had my favorite end scene 🤣
The whole Hellsing Ultimate is 10 OVAs ranging from an hour to two that covers the entire Hellsing manga.
TFS made 10 20 odd minute videos to sum it up even farther with their trademark comedy woven in.
Yall need to see the anime, every episode is 1 hr long and there is alot of lore in there XD
Though you might have to censor a lot of sexual scenes in the anime itself
36:25 Both in Abridged and the OG, one of the best anime entrances in ANIME HISTORY.
Another thing TFS is currently doing is a creator commentary on FourStarBento which I think is really interesting
I love Zorrin's voice actor, Whiteash. She did an abridged series herself: Saiyuki Reload abridged.
"Some of this footage is from an OVA" made me lol for some reason. The entire show is an OVA.
Its very funny watching all these episodes together and the massive jump in quality and writing from each one as opposed to watching them as they released like, once a year. It felt like such a natural evolution at the time but each one is so different now.
My buddy and I use "Context, Heinkel!" refularly to this day. This series was most of our highschool years xD
So the whole 'Alucard being missing' thing is in the show. The Nazi's used Van winkle to get Hellsing to send Alucard onto the ship witht he intent of stranding him on the ship, since the inability to pass running water is a vampire weakness.
Alucard doesn't have that weakness, as shown in episode 3 when he's quite casually sipping red wine while flying in an airplane over the ocean in the daytime while Seras has to be locked up in a coffin in the darkness with the dirt of her homeland. He's so powerful that he can flat-out ignore most of the weaknesses that vampires have...garlic, crosses, running water, stakes through the heart, all of that mythological nonsense, none of that works on him, and whether or not direct sunlight does or not, we never get to see. He's gone beyond the myth.
But he can't fly without an airplane, and he can't swim that far in a reasonable amount of time. So he's as stuck as anyone else would be in that situation, all powerful vampire or no.
There's a few scenes they cut from the abridged version earlier in the series. Basically, Seras isn't handling the vampire transition well, and she's not fond of feeding. She pretty much only cuts loose when she's in a rage. That scene you saw a glimpse of where she was sucking blood off Sir Integra's finger was a part of that. Basically she was getting weak because she was refusing to drink blood, and Integra didn't want a weak solider, so she intentionally cut her finger with a letter opener and sort of provoked Seras into feeding from her, and basically getting the fuck over her blood problem.
So this scene here when she's fighting Zorin Blitz is sort of the culmination of that arc, where for the first time she really embraces her powers.
The abridged series is great, and obv very funny, but they do cut out a bunch of the really cool conversations in favour of them memeing at each other.
30:00 The first British Dairy Queen comment Alucard makes is a callback to episode 2 as well as TFS acknowledging the commenters on that vid who brought up the fact that DQ didn't have any locations in the UK back then (or currently)
That “say my name” scene is my absolute favorite from the entire abridged series. You got Seras feeling like she’s completely nothing and at her lowest, gets a genuine pep talk from someone who takes very few things seriously, then you get her full on snapping and annihilating everyone in her path. That guttural rage as she screams “say my fucking name” as she violently scrapes Zorin’s face through the hallway always gives me goosebumps.
Fun fact. You wanna know why all these bodies at 43:08 are basically SHISHKABOBED on those tall poles? Well, you can thank Alucard's past self for that. His hobbies back in his old life were literally IMPALING PEOPLE TO DEATH, and that's why people called him "Vlad the Impaler".
the "kill them all" line paraphrases something said by Arnaud Amalric before the massacre of Béziers, Amalric, when asked how to distinguish Cathars from Catholics, responded, "Kill them [all], for God knows which are His own."
Something surprisingly underrated, is Seras Victoria's transformation into a full vampire. They shortened it for the abridged version, but when she awakens, Zorin Blitz notes that her troops were frozen in fear. She made a comment to the effect of watching artificial, nazi vampires staring, all but visually pissing themselves at the sight of Seras about to tear them to shreds. These troops of hers, who worship death and would gladly die with a smile on their face, stood in fear as the "German Bloody Mary" tears them apart like tissue paper.
Additionally, her fight with Zorin Blitz was drastically shortened. Zorin further tries to manipulate her even after her full awakening, but Pip's soul and memories interfere and fragment Sera's, further protecting her. As Seras is about to execute Zorin, Schrodinger appears amongst the shattered memories(further foreshadowing his powers), telling Zorin she's lost, and is going to be even denied the mercy killing Millennium gives its agents(the self immolation you've seen several times now).
I've had "like coke after lent" waiting in the chamber for sever years.
The entire scene of Seras/Pip losing, Seras crying out for help, Alucard's message to her and her transformation/defeat of Zorin is one of the best things I've ever seen in any medium, EVER. And yeah, I've seen the original as well. It's the conviction in the voice acting, both the despair and the triumph that sell it.
"I SAID SAY MY FUCKING NAME! SAY IT! SAY IT!
Abridged Seras Victoria is the only waifu, period.
The voice actor screamed that line so hard that he strained his voice so bad that he needed specialized care.
God, the mercenaries' first line of post-Seras defense was peak Hellsing. First it sets up: hey, these are nazi vampire soldiers, you're gonna try to shoot something with insane enough reflexes and night vision to dodge bullets? "Doesn't mean they can dodge landmines."
But second is the way they get AROUND the landmines. The manga cuts to an incredible shot- they've thrown knives into the ground every ten feet and a line of them are HOPPING FROM HILT TO HILT. These were SERIOUSLY tough opponents.
Seras was so powerful due to being the first vampire Alucard directly sired in a very long time. This is like the first time Seras is really drinking blood, having fought and only consumed the bare minimum previously so as to keep some of her humanity. Seras' lineage is how she was able to go head to head with a vampire over 50 years her senior
Also because Pip gave his life and soul to her willingly, and in the Hellsing universe, a willingly given life is EXPONENTIALLY more powerful than a forcefully stolen one.
18:28 full auto versions of the anti-tank rifle she was using before.
she's dual wielding a pair of 30mm autocannons.
The phrase that seals Maxwell's fate is a direct quote from the commander of the First Crusade, Arnaud Almaric. What a horrible man he was!
The whole conversation between Anderson and Alucard was so damn emotional!
"matter of perspective really"
If I remember, I think the reason for that joke is because TFS said there would be two episodes of Hellsing Abridged in a single year... except they released 12 months apart from each other (January 2016 and December 2016)
That credits song is a parody of the first song in Hamilton, for anyone that missed that train. This episode came out right at the peak of the musical's fame, right before people started dunking on Lin Manuel.
Hellsing abridged episode 8 is still what I consider the best of all of their abridged works because it is so well written and acted.
The song "Alexander Anderson" is a direct play on the song "Alexander Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The version they created is amazing and uses a lot of info that was detailed in extra materials beyond the base series set of Hellsing & Hellsing Ultimate.
Soon as I saw the episode go up, I wondered how many comments were going to be swiftly explaining who the 'eager volunteers' actually were
Man! I'm hoping you guys watch the original version because Alexander Anderson's original speech hits so much harder.(to the point I had a couple tears rolling by the end) Oh and if you don't already know the song was a parody from the play Hamlet.
You know what’s crazy? I’ve been watching TFS’ version of Hellsing for a really long time and I just have to say I watched the original much later down the road and I’ve gotten so used to the Abridged version, I actually prefer it over the original because it’s so dang good and I love TFS’ Hellsing more. If you ask me it’s the definitive version of the series, but that’s my personal opinion.
The original is really good in terms of story
But the abridged version just adds the extra comedy while somehow making the characters so much more badass at times
They made the characters feel more alive and relatable. I watched the two Hellsing shows before finding the abridged version. I still love the abridged more, they did a good job, ty TFS.
This is me with DBZ only I never watched the og show lol
I do prefer Ultimate a bit more, but Abridged is VERY close.
I think the original is more consistently awesome, but HU:A has far higher highs. I mean, “A midnight walk” hits *SO MUCH HARDER* than “the bird of Hermes.” The poem alone stands tall and epic, but with the lead up beforehand it becomes bonechilling.
To the question regarding the 10 episodes list. Hellsing ULTIMATE is a series of OVAs, so they were long special episodes when they were released, so they essentially worked one episode at a time.
The song at the end is a parody or tribute to "Hamilton" and a proper banger in its own right.
Oh good, I thought I'd have to wait a week or so to watch this. Thanks for making my Monday!
Most phrases from this show that live rent free in my mind are from Alucard and Sera's but most of the heavy hitters get quoted by me weekly
Alexander Anderson's every line lives rent free in my head!
@@yeshevishman "call yourself whatever you want you crazy protestant bastard"
"Well, you know what time it is!"
"Ones Japanese and get this, the others FUCKING GERMAN!"
"Bayonets for days!"
"Aw son of a protestant who*re!"
@@yeshevishman "Don't weep for the stupid you'll be crying all day" has slipped my mind though. No more
@@khrisbreezy3628 Hahaha! I quote that ALL the time!
Every time a name is used for one of the mercs, that was the name of voice actor of that particular merc in the original version of Hellsing Abridged.
Also, the lore around vampires here was that they could sense hostility from attackers, but landmines and claymores are inanimate and therefore the nazis had no warning before they were blown up.
Look at the credits for this episode. Most of these VAs either went on to have awesome careers, or already had them. Marc Swint went on to design a GAME as well.
This is the first time Seras ever fed properly. The first time she tried was when Anderson turned up for the first time and skewered her. It caused a mental issue with her. So basically, shes been getting weaker and weaker as a starving vampire, and STILL dominated the shit out of almost anyone in her path. Thats the value of having Alucard as your sire.
Seras' power up scene still gives me CHILLS
Anderson: "I.."
*Kills Him*
Walter: "Said three Hail Marys, ate my vitamins, Fucked off and died, *A-Men* "
In the words of Alucard: He is sassy as fuck, holly shit I like that!
That end song is a parody of the Alexander Hamilton musical. Still an awesome song on its own.
There actually are 2 Hellsing series. This is 99% Hellsing Ultimate, an OVA series based on the manga. The original series was on HBO in 2000 (I think). Only the first 2 chapters of the manga were out, so both will look similar. After that, the series had to make it's own story. Absolutely worth the watch
thanks for not making us wait as long for these episodes!
4:28 if im remembering things right that equipment she's using is actually based on the GP03 mobile armor add on Dendrobium
31:01 will always send a shiver up my spine, both in the Abridged and Original version
49:22 so for those not in the know, Alucard’s backstory is really f’d up. *SPOILERS for those who want to learn**
According to the wiki for his character, “Vlad III”, born in the 1430s, and eventually became known as “Vlad the Impaler”. However, prior to earning such a title, he was “enslaved by Ottoman conquerors when he was child” and…repeatedly SA’d by a ruler during that time for 10 years. That’s the connotation in the abridged when Abridged!Alucard asks, “Which set of prints were yours in the sand? The hand prints, the knee prints, OR the footprints behind THOSE?!” During the repeated assaults, he held onto a silver cross, praying for God to answer his prayers and save him from it.
Some time after, he waged war against the Turks when he was known as “Voivode of Wallachia”, which is a more grandiose title for when he became a militant governor, tying back to his fearsome origins as The Impaler. He ultimately lost this war, and as a message of his failure was to be executed via decapitation, as seen at 51:08. Before his capture though, he consumed some blood on the battlefield, so while his decapitation would’ve spelled the end for him as a mortal, he’d become a true vampire. He turned to the powers of darkness then, because he realized that the God he thought was on his side during all those years of pain, had left him to suffer. He wasn’t there, during the 1st year, or the 2nd, or 3rd, 5th, or 10th, and he never stopped it sooner…but maybe darkness would answer his plea. And it did. Thus, “Alucard” was born, and just like the original anime states, he swore to never let another monster like him be born into this world.
All of the enemy vampires were created artificially, and they all resorted to the transformation for power or eternal life. They hadn’t known hell during their childhood like Vlad or Seras Victoria, which is why Alucard resents them all so much. They didn’t endure something to push them to this point, like he did. He’s not a 20-30yr something who wants to brag about being a vampire, like any of Millenium’s experiments (The Valentine Brothers, The Dandyman, or Rip Van Winkle). He’s a broken soul who 500 years ago was taken advantage of as a child, and had no one to turn to or save him from a literal hell. He turns to darkness at his lowest point, and it’s now something he partially regrets, cuz he can’t really die now. Immortality is only as good a fate as watching all your friends and family around you grow old and die. If he did form any meaningful relationships over 500 years, he had to watch them all die, only to still remember all the pain he knew as Vlad III. Seras is the only vampire Alucard sired himself, because he saw that she had the will to live. After the crime against her parents, she became a police officer, and when she was held captive by a priest who’d became an artificial vampire, Alucard found them. He made sure that her blood hadn’t been tainted by the faux vampire, shot her, and gave her the choice of to die a human or live the rest of her days as a vampire. Because she resolved to keep living-even in spite of all the horrid shit that had happened to her-he granted her wish, and she became a vampire with the same potential to become a true, full-fledged one later on. She completed said contract with the dark side, when she consumed Pip’s blood in Episode 7, thus healing her otherwise mortal wounds (severed left arm, eviscerated torso, eyes), the same way Alucard was reborn from Vlad, after his head was decapitated during the execution.
Alucard’s tragedy is another tally for people who’re dealt a bad hand, and antagonized for finally snapping after enduring far more than anyone should have to. His tragedy is a warning to not let ourselves become consumed by the evils we’re faced with, and to not let ourselves become monsters in turn. There’s far too many already, and we owe it to ourselves and others to break the cycle or prevent more from being created.
The Alexander Anderson rap was riffing on the HAMILTON intro rap!
I love this Abridge more than the show itself lol and LOVE the parody of Hamilton at the end 😂
At the start of episode 7, this canon is the guy seeing his dead daughter.
14:08 Oh, just something they put in the show because they knew there were folks out there like you guys professed to be last video they could poke fun at. 😆
Are you gonna do a reaction to actual hellsing ultimate?
Given that they think this is Hellsing Abridged, they might wind up watching Hellsing first by accident.
The episodes 7 and 8 are possibly my favorite. Seras becoming a full fledge vampire and Alucard returning. 2 lines that were screamed in these episodes were insane and I love them. When Seras is fighting Zorin and grinding her head against the wall she is screaming "Say my name you Nazi bitch! Say it!! Saaaay iiiitttt!!!" The last Say It is so visceral I love it. The Voice actor even recorded herself doing lines and you can see her go crazy saying it in the video. The other big line is when Maxwell sees Alucard change into his original form and screams "DRACULAAAAA!!!" The intensity in that scream was chefs kiss. Still to this day I think Hellsing Ultimate Abridged is the best Team Four Star has made!
Alexander Anderson is probably one of the most badass characters on the planet
The voice of satan sounds like a smiling friend… just a bit
"Did he kill her family?" Dude, he's French, just said he grew up in France and Seras just said she grew up in Leeds.
Y'all's reactions are so much fun to watch 😂
A really cool attention to detail is ever since Alucard has been gone the intro to every episode has been very quiet.