Hellsing - Impure Souls (Vol. 1)
This vampire-turned-hunter saga owes a lot to both the original and remake ofVampire Hunter D. In Britain, vampires that were artificially created by implanting chips in their necks are attacking people. Dispatching them is the job of the Royal Order of Religious Knights, headed by the icy (and apparently female) Sir Integra Hellsinger. Her chief agent, the red-clad Arucard, destroys one vampire, then turns police woman Victoria into a servant-vampire, bound to him. The outré story violates the rules of the traditional legends: vampires wear crosses, enter churches, and pose as priests; Hellsinger's mortal enemy is the Vatican's Iscariot Organization. The animation is very static, and the design style changes from character to character. Despite grotesque imagery borrowed fromNight of the Living Dead, the result is more silly than scary. Rated 16 Up: Considerable violence, sexual situations, profanity, tobacco use.--Charles Solomon