CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

I am a christian and I love Hellsing... There is alot of unnesescary swearing and all but, I cant help myself. And for all the people who think its evil because the pentagram in his glove, take note that the point of it is that Alucard is bound to the Protestant church WITH HIS OWN EVIL. I though it was pretty clever. Fighting fire with fire and all... All opinions welcome, please no flaming.

rest assured that no flaming will be allowed.

there are actually quite a few Hellsing fans on the board...there are probably some threads on it around here somewhere already. let me find some for you.

http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=6116&highlight=hellsing

http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=4607&highlight=hellsing

http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=2513&highlight=hellsing

Pentagrams alone do not make something evil, they were actually symbols to ward evil back in the middle ages.

I've not read the manga, but I just watched the first disc of the anime. What shocked me was not the violence, but the sexual content. The cursing was, I believe, almost non-existant in the sub.

I will limit my commentary to the manga due to the forum in which this has been placed.

In general, I felt the series was extremely stylish and had numerous effective characters. However, the plot left a considerable amount to be desired and characterization was overall not equal to the rest of the series.

Action-wise it is good, as is the overall artwork. The violence is quite excessive, and in my mind weakens the series by sheer pointlessness. I have no particular opinion regarding the cursing; I frown upon the sexual content.

Theologically I consider the series wholy fantasy and in no means Christian (I use that term to mean a series that Christians can or should derive meaning from). Despite prayer and references to religion, the characters reflect Japanese secular thought on one hand and the historical secular nature on the other (state religions being less about faith and more about culture).

I really liked both and yeah it is overly violent, but I really liked how you were left questioning everything because they didn't stop and explain anything lol

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