Line #20 Trivia/Hellsing


1	* CreatorsPest: Kouta Hirano [[https://sacchiri.tumblr.com/post/182905635350/new-hellsing-interview-translated-for-those-not-in considers]] Zorin Blitz his least favorite character. By his account, he found she had very little personality outside of being a brutal villain, and her design was a huge pain in the ass to draw due to her detailed tattoos (his assistants reportedly joked about being DrivenToSuicide), but also didn't look appealing. Her CruelAndUnusualDeath (having her tattooed face slammed against a wall and [[WipeTheFloorWithYou scraped into a bloody smear]], after which she's dismissed as a miserable failure by her bosses) was reportedly revenge for all the trouble he'd had writing her.
2	* FakeBrit:
3	** Walter was played by Englishman Ralph Lister (from then-British Hong Kong) in the TV series and the first eight episodes of ''Ultimate'', but in Episode 9 by American Creator/LiamOBrien.
4	** Most of the Round Table Conference are played by American actors, particularly in ''Ultimate''.
5	* FakeNationality: Italian Enrico Maxwell is played by Englishman Creator/JBBlanc (who coincidentally, used to live with Steven Brand).
6	* FollowTheLeader: Several incidents in the [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} anime]] are referenced in later chapters of the manga, including [[spoiler:the Jackal's destruction, Alucard "dying", Alucard releasing to his highest for at Integra's behest, England reduced to burning rubble,]] impaling, [[spoiler: Walter]]'s "[[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]]", and [[spoiler:the revelation that Alucard is Vlad (III) Dracula]]. [[LateArrivalSpoiler Even if some were obvious]]. Also, apparently Hirano thought Alucard [[NowThatsUsingYourTeeth cocking his gun with his teeth]] was so cool that he decided to draw it in one of the later chapters, and also took inspiration from Incognito to create the character of Zorin Blitz.
7	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Before Creator/{{FUNimation}} re-released this series, you pretty much had to do this with the older Creator/{{Geneon}} releases, now that they packed their bags and headed out the door.
8	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The US boxset for Episodes 5 through 8 were released on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler's birthday (November 13).
9	* MissingTrailerScene: Most of the anime's [[https://youtu.be/8Hbhtq9ugPg early trailer]]'s scenes are in it (or at least in the show's opening), but not that of the ''Major'' making his trademark applause gesture. He did not appear in the anime at all, as he was probably outlined by Hirano but not developed enough for the anime to build an arc around him as they OvertookTheManga.
10	* NoExportForYou: For some unknown reason, and despite the popularity of the first series there, the ''Ultimate'' OVA series never reached Spain. Even when distributor company Selecta Visión announced in 2016 a surprise related to the franchise, it was revealed to be just a special edition of the Gonzo series, leaving everybody disappointed.
11	** ''Dawn'' has never seen a release in the U.S., either subbed or dubbed.
12	* TheOtherDarrin: Thie happens on both the Japanese and English tracks, and even in between the 2001 anime and the OVA
13	** English
14	*** Helena Taylor voiced Zorin Blitz in OVA 4, but Taylor had to go back to England during the hiatus of the dubbing, so Creator/RachelRobinson filled in for her for [=OVA=]s 5-7.
15	*** Young Integra was voiced by Tricia Dickson in the TV series and [=OVA=] 1 but was replaced by Creator/LauraBailey for her appearance in [=OVA=] 5. Jaffe justified it as the character being a little older in the later flashback.
16	*** Chris Packman from the TV anime was voiced by Arthur Russell in episode 9 but was replaced by Creator/GildartJackson for episodes 11 and 12.
17	*** Tricia Dickson, previously mentioned above, replaced Ananda Banc from the TV series as Jessica in the OVA. In a similar vein, the British Michael Marr was replaced with American Doug Stone as the Round Table leader Hugh Irons.
18	*** In the original anime, during the next episode previews, the Spirit of Hallconnen was voiced by [=ADR=] director Taliesin Jaffe as an in-joke based on his encounters with Kouta Hirano. When Jaffe tried to do it again for Hallconnen's appearance in the OVA, [[ExecutiveMeddling the higher-ups]] deemed it "too offensive" and demanded to cast a "proper" actor. Peter Beckman was cast in the role soon after.
19	** Japanese
20	*** Creator/NorioWakamoto takes over as Father Anderson in the OVA, replacing Creator/NachiNozawa from the TV anime. This was due to Nozawa being diagnosed with lung cancer and thus was unable to reprise. Said cancer sadly claimed his life in 2010. Wakamoto was already cast in the TV series as Richard Hellsing and was replaced in that role in the OVA by Creator/YosukeAkimoto.
21	*** Creator/ShowHayami replaced Creator/HideyukiTanaka as Enrico Maxwell from the TV to the OVA.
22	*** Creator/WataruTakagi replaced Creator/KazuyaNakai as Jan Valentine from the TV to the OVA. Takagi was already cast in the TV series as Haggar (referred to as Leif in the TV series) and was replaced in that role in the OVA by Creator/NobuyukiHiyama.
23	*** Creator/ChiakiTakahashi replaced Creator/AkenoWatanabe as Jessica from the TV to the OVA.
24	* OvertookTheManga: The reason why the [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} anime series]] looks so different from the OVA past some point? They caught up with manga ''extremely early on'' (as in, before the BigBad was introduced). This was made worse by the fact that (1) Hellsing was a monthly series, and (2) Hirano is [[ScheduleSlip famously lazy]], regularly turning in chapters only 10 pages long in a magazine where the average is 25-30. Hirano was [[DisownedAdaptation extremely unhappy with the anime]] (though he still liked some things from it), and further adaptations of the manga were postponed for years until the OVA moved forward. Still, the ''Major'' (the manga/OVA's BigBad) must have been outlined by Hirano, considering the fact that he appeared in an [[https://youtu.be/8Hbhtq9ugPg early trailer]] for the anime. His arc was replaced by Incognito's in the anime. The only hit to Millennium is that the anime's version of the freak chips have a swastika incorporated in their design (unique to the anime), hinting that they were intended to be the ManBehindTheMan.
25	* RealSongThemeTune: "Shine", the ending theme of the television series. Performed by Music/MrBig.
26	* RoleReprise: Most of the cast of the original anime series returned to their respective roles for the OVA series, in either Japanese or English (for the characters that were not unique to the anime, that is).
27	* ScheduleSlip: Ten years to finish a 10 volume manga, Kohta Hirano is (in)famously known for being quite a lazy mangaka when editors are not keeping a constant watch on him, near the end of the series it seemed Hirano would release a new chapter whenever he felt like it, he was often taking breaks from working in a ''monthly'' magazine and also some of the near end chapters are just 9 to 12 pages long!
28	** The [[OriginalVideoAnimation [=OVAs=]]] also followed suit in what it seems to be a staple in the franchise. The first three episodes had just a few months between each other. From the 4th and on the delays would just get longer and longer as Satelight was having a hard to time to keep producing the episodes all by themselves, after a year and a half without releasing anything Satelight passed the baton to Madhouse and finally looked like they would keep up the pace, and they did... only up to the 7th episode, another year and few months (and many rumors that Madhouse just dropped the series) is what it took for the 8th episode to get a release date; the series finally finished with the release of the 10th episode in late December 2012, nearly seven years after the series began. And the official US releases were worse, with the original license holder going bankrupt, the gap between releases was 4 years, with two Blu-Ray/DVD sets compiling the eight [=OVAs=] so far finally being released in October and November 2012 after the release of the DVD for Episode 4 in September 2008.
29	** Hirano topped himself with the prequel, ''Hellsing: The Dawn'', after 6 chapters he simply stopped in 2007. The Dawn didn't even have enough chapters to publish a ''single'' volume, so the series remains just a collection of 6 separate publications in 6 different ''Young King Ours+'' issues.
30	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Only the first 8 episodes of ''Hellsing Ultimate'' aired on Creator/{{Toonami}}, as they only had the broadcasting rights to those episodes. This is due to an unfortunate case of miscommunication on either the Creator/FUNimation staff or the Creator/AdultSwim staff, as the production crew behind Toonami were under the impression that they had the broadcasting rights to the last two episodes as well. Fortunately, Toonami aired the last two episodes as part of their December 2014 Month of Movies event.
31	* SeriesHiatus:
32	** ''Hellsing: The Dawn''. Hirano felt like stopping out of nowhere in 2007, and yet Young King Comics did not declare the series as finished nor canceled.
33	** The Animax English dub of Hellsing Ultimate. Animax Asia aired the series with their own English dub which has no swearing and foul language like the American dub. So far, only four episodes were dubbed and aired by Animax Asia and it's unclear if the rest of the series will be dubbed.
34	* StarMakingRole: Katie Gray as Seras Victoria.
35	* StudioHop:
36	** The TV series was produced by Creator/{{GONZO}}. For ''Ultimate'', the first four episodes were produced by Creator/{{Satelight}}, before switching to Creator/{{Madhouse}} for the fifth through seventh episodes and Creator/{{Graphinica}} for the final three episodes.
37	** The Japanese home media rights are currently held by Creator/NBCUniversal due to their purchase of [[Creator/NBCUniversalEntertainmentJapan Pioneer/Geneon]] in 2008.

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