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A review by anastasiaadamov
Hellsing, Vol. 01 by Kohta Hirano
2.0
This may be one of the rare cases were anime version was more likable. I watched anime version - both of them and really liked it.
Reading the manga was a completely different experience. Both are nicely graphic but also the religious themed violence was a lot easier to digest in the anime version.
The reason I gave it 2 stars is for the authors horrible joke in the end of the volume.
There were certain things about this manga that made it very interesting to read though. It was a sort of multilingual experience: there were some japanese kana trought it just like in the most of real manga editions, english translation was somewhat made difficult to understand since there were characters who talked in irish english (real irish brogue like) which kinda made me wonder how did that look like in original japanese version. There were few phrases that may or may not be arabic in origin. Also there were a few german phrases that I was very pleased to find I actually understood.
visually the manga was not bad, but I still like the anime version better so far.
Reading the manga was a completely different experience. Both are nicely graphic but also the religious themed violence was a lot easier to digest in the anime version.
The reason I gave it 2 stars is for the authors horrible joke in the end of the volume.
There were certain things about this manga that made it very interesting to read though. It was a sort of multilingual experience: there were some japanese kana trought it just like in the most of real manga editions, english translation was somewhat made difficult to understand since there were characters who talked in irish english (real irish brogue like) which kinda made me wonder how did that look like in original japanese version. There were few phrases that may or may not be arabic in origin. Also there were a few german phrases that I was very pleased to find I actually understood.
visually the manga was not bad, but I still like the anime version better so far.