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Shelf Life - Vlad to the Bone

Speaking of Vlad the Impaler, which by the way, would be a great nickname for a dude's junk

I was curious enough about it to check out the light novels to see if it was "faithful" to them or possibly a case of bad adaptation and decided that either the translation I was reading was really, really bad or that the anime was, if anything, a slight improvement over the source material. It was really not interesting.

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I like war.

Gentlemen, I love war.

I like genocide, I like blitzkrieg, I like aggressive war, I like defensive war, I like sieges, I like breakthroughs, I like withdrawing, I like cleaning up, I like retreating.

In moors, on highways, in trenches, in plains, on tundra, in desert, on sea, in sky, in mud, in marshes. I love every aspect of war that takes place on this earth.

I like blowing away the enemy with the thunderous roar of a line of guns going off all at once. When an enemy is shot to pieces after being thrown high into the air, my heart dances. I like crushing the enemy tank with the 88mm on our tanks. When I mowed down the enemy who fled screaming from the burning tank with a MG, my heart leapt.

I like it when the infantry plow through the enemy's lines with their bayonets all in line. I remember being moved when seeing new recruits, filled with panic, stabbing an already dead enemy again and again.

Seeing an escapee being strung from a lamp post in the street is unendurably exciting. Seeing a captive be thrown down with a piercing shriek as my own hand fell was spectacular.

When the pitiful resistance came bravely with their small firearms, and we destroyed them and a good chunk of the city with the 4.8 ton bomb, I was at my height.

I like it when we are destroyed with the morning dew. It is a sad thing when the town one is supposed to protect is trampled, and the women and children violated and killed.

I like being squashed and destroyed by England and America's amount of material resources. Being followed by English and American forces and having to crawl around on the ground like a pesky insect is the ultimate disgrace.

Gentlemen, I desire a war that is like hell.

Gentlemen, my companions in the battalion, who follow me...

Gentlemen what do you desire? Do you desire war as well? Do you desire a war of no mercy? Do you desire a conflict that stretches the limits of iron, wind, lighting and fire to the limit, one that will destroy all the crows on this planet?

Very well then. I shall give you war.

Hellsing Ultimate volumes V-VIII: I like that Funimation includes an artbox for both this volume and the first one, but why didn't they make room for three blu-ray cases? After all, you'd expect them to also license episodes 9 and 10 in the near future... Or will they release those with a bigger artbox?

But, it also comes with an episode of Hellsing: Dawn, a prequel to the series that follows Walter as a young boy. It's subtitled-only, but it's a nice addition, and I'm astonished that Funimation didn't make a bigger fuss about including it as an extra.

[Aria] I was curious enough about it to check out the light novels to see if it was "faithful" to them or possibly a case of bad adaptation and decided that either the translation I was reading was really, really bad or that the anime was, if anything, a slight improvement over the source material. It was really not interesting.

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But, it also comes with an episode of Hellsing: Dawn, a prequel to the series that follows Walter as a young boy. It's subtitled-only, but it's a nice addition, and I'm astonished that Funimation didn't make a bigger fuss about including it as an extra.

Hey, Funimation? No.

"hapless groin"

zensunni wrote:

[Aria] I was curious enough about it to check out the light novels to see if it was "faithful" to them or possibly a case of bad adaptation and decided that either the translation I was reading was really, really bad or that the anime was, if anything, a slight improvement over the source material. It was really not interesting.

Thanks for taking one for the team

What would happen in the sequel? Cleopatra?

eyeresist wrote:

"hapless groin" zensunni wrote: [Aria] I was curious enough about it to check out the light novels to see if it was "faithful" to them or possibly a case of bad adaptation and decided that either the translation I was reading was really, really bad or that the anime was, if anything, a slight improvement over the source material. It was really not interesting. Thanks for taking one for the team

Good to hear that from someone who disliked the anime. I just heard from people that it was a bad adaptation. good to know that is false