Hellsing The Dawn Analysis

Hellsing Ultimate is a Japanese animated series that has been popularized for ultraviolence and gore involving vampire characters. It is based on the original manga, Hellsing, written by Kouta Hirano, which was published from 1997 to 2001 through Young King OURs magazine, while the collected chapters published by Shonen Gahosha. Hirano published Hellsing: The Dawn from 2001 to 2009, as a prelude to Hellsing to provide additional backgrounds to the original work. Hellsing is the story about Alucard, the vampire, who serves the Helsing family to hunt other vampires and ghouls. Hellsing: The Dawn is the history of Alucard that led to his servantship under Helsing. Both works have a strong influence from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897, and refer to the main plot and characters from the novel. Dr. Jan Perkowski, a professor of Slavic language and literature, created a structural analysis method to study the vampire characters in the folklore. His analysis is composed of ten steps: information sources, country, name, origin, detection, attributes, activity patterns, precautions, cures, and social or psychological roles of the vampires in the folklore. Dr. Perkowski’s analysis focuses on the vampire characteristics and …show more content…
The original video animation, OVA, was directed by Tomokazu Tokor, Hiroyuuki Tanak, Yasuhiro Matsumura, and Kenichi Suzuki, released from February 10, 2006 to December 26, 2012. The Television series was released from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002, but it was completed before the original manga was finished, creating its own ending separate from the manga. To closely resemble the plot and to illustrate more violence, OVA version was released in 2006. The OVA series have ten episodes, and the voice actor of main character Alucard was Nakata Jouji in Japan and Crispin Freeman in the English dubbed