In an earlier post, I mentioned a friend had given me some nice tasty anime to watch. Two set was half of hellsing ultimate, (which I need to find the rest of) and Elfin Lied.
Hellsing ultimate isn’t as heavy on the plot as other anime. A plot does exist however. An increase of vampires and ghouls has been noticed. And the Hellsing Corporation are one of few people who can fight back with the good old beat fire with fire method. They have their own vampire who was created by Hellsing and exists as the most powerful vampire. Alucard (which in case you hadn’t noticed is “Dracula” backwards) is the vampire in question. Who in the first episode converts another girl to the night. Vampires can only turn virgins of the opposite gender into vampires. Others become Ghouls. Same sort of thing, but rather mindless minions of the vampire who ate them.
Soon we discover the cause of the vampire increase. Nazis have been lying in wait, making vampires and getting ready to fight again. Nazi vampires. It doesn’t get any better. And as expected in an anime about vampires there’s a lot of blood. The main colour is red. Red everywhere. Paper cuts could kill with the amount of blood that comes out. More than is probably possible to fit in a human. It’s entertain fun is you like vampires beating the shit out of each other. And let’s be honest, why wouldn’t you.
Elfin Lied is much more plot focused. It follows Kohta, a boy who gets wrapped up in the affairs of an organisation studying and preventing the evolution of mankind, named Diclonius. Shown as usually having pink hair, horns, invisible hands known as “vectors” and commonly being female. One escapes the facility and ends up living with Kohta. However, she has a split personality. One being innocent and little to no language or other basic capabilities, and the other being violent and murderous.
This too, has lots of blood. The Diclonius waste no time in tearing limbs and heads from torsos to get at their goal. However, there are also a lot of boobs. No matter what their age is, at one point or another, Diclonius are shown completely naked. And it’s not even a sexual thing. It just happens. Any sexual references are either complex incestuous feelings, or awkward moments shown in a comedic manner.
As the story goes on, you realise that there’s a lot more going on than you thought. And events shown in the past have a massive relation to the present events. You don’t get the full story straight away. You get shown parts of flashbacks, only getting the full effect when it becomes relevant. It keeps you guessing. And Kohta definitely had an interesting past. We know that his father and sister are dead, but we don’t know how and apparently he doesn’t remember. It’s a learning experience from both ends.
But still. His main love interest is his cousin. I guess that’s just what happens in Japan.
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