Post by Honeyman on Mar 2, 2006 17:35:43 GMT
Hello folks! It's been a while since I've writen a review put no time like the present, eh? Anyway, courtesy of my friend's housemate I got to watch this on Tueasday night so here are my impressions.
The OVA is 50 minutes long and covers material equal to the first 3 episodes of the TV series. The style of the characters and such is much closer to the original manga and I must say that if I was Kouta Hirano I'd be very happy with how the whole look of the OVAs. Here's hoping that they keep the quality at this high level with future releases.
In addition, as opposed to my memories of the TV series the background and artwork of the OVA is of high quality and justifies itself as OVA (just like it should.)
The music is a bit hit and miss. Where in some scenes I feel that they took a bold step and added new music to familiar scenes, in other scenes the music seemd to be out of place. However, ultimately it'd be best to check the OVA out yourselves to make up your own mind.
Hellsing fans will be happy to note that the tone of the shows remains faithful to the manga/TV series with gushings of blood, slicing, shooting and body bursting in ample measures throughout the OVA. Given that it was an OVA meant that the creators could go all out, as this does show.
All in all I'd give Hellsing OVA 1 a firm thumbs up. Any Hellsing fans owe it to themselves to watch this and general anime fans will probably enjoy it as well.
