Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Hellsing

This GN is based about the character Alcuard who himself is a vampire, but still a vampire hunter. He is the guardian of the family Hellsing, and his mission is to kill vampire's who have no purpose.Basically vampires who are running around slaughtering people, to become the strongest vampire. Alcuard was preserved in the basement of the Hellsing mansion. He came back to consiousness to protect Integra from her uncle who wanted to killer so he could take power of the family. Alcuard is quoted saying "his blood smells bad". This is to mean that he was evil. I believe Alcuard is the balance of power, he is the ying and yang. He seems to have a sense of good and bad to help him with his efforts to preserve life as much as possible. Being naturally evil, since he must drink blood to survive (yet he is only shown for the most part drinking blood from bags you get at the hospital) yet, at the same time being the savior of humankind (at least from vampires). For the most part Alcuard is impossible to kill which represents the power of the ying-yang. There must be a balance of power or all hope and life is lost. If Alcuard were to be killed, the crazy vampires would kill off the humans, and they would go extinct; therefore, bringing the spiraling end to all.

1 comment:

Craig McKenney said...

Focus on the concept of anti-hero and explain more explicitly how that connects to HELLSING, manga and GNs in general.

In our conversation, you mentioned religion. That might also be something to examine, esp. in terms of the horror/ fantasy genre.