Disaster Report: Hellsing
There are few things more thrilling for a manga fan than to see one of their favorite series make the jump to television. It’s not just the joy that comes from seeing the story and characters you enjoyed previously come to life, there’s also the delight of new viewers becoming new readers and fellow fans and the occasional satisfaction in seeing these adaptations become critical, if not commercial successes. More than a few of us have been enjoying this feeling recently as we watch the latest adaptations of works like The Ancient Magus’ Bride and Land of the Lustrous . That being said, for every successful adaptation there are countless others that simply miss the mark. Few of those shows can be said to be as disappointing as the 2001 anime adaptation of Kouta Hirano’s Hellsing .