*Highlighted portions of the blog post were written on September 18, 2020. The rest of the blog was composed on September 2, 2020
It
feels like a pretty prolific week in terms of blogging. My release
schedule is filled up to October 1. I think trying to finish the "Chris
Memoirs" journal may be hurting my intros to the blogs, but that only
looks bad if your scrolling through the past blogs.
This may mean I should just use my hosting space to actually develop a web page to avoid maineventofthedead.com
opening a bunch of browser tabs, but I do not know if Windows XP era
Adobe design software will work on Windows 10. I was lucky that they
stuck around through Windows 7. Squarespace is not an option since I
already have hosting space.
How to promote entertainment blogs efficiently. First world problems are all I have had the past couple of days. And they are:
- @repstevensmith
- @eaglemom2015
- @wdunlap
- @cardellamatt
- @stubishop_lpd
I
guess you could lump in the vocal member of classes 1996 to 1999 from
Morton High School with these conservative trolls on Twitter. The cunts
from Morton are probably to insecure to become one of the sociopathic
Twitter twats. They realize that you got to work to earn those fake
friends. It is so much easier for them to just type in your high school
some barely graduated from (in the case of the wrestling teammate who
was proud of his racism which god will forgive because he is opposed to
abortion) or those that need to be friendly enough with to sell cars to
(in the case of the racist homophobe with an inferiority complex who
blames the victims when it comes police brutality).
Some
people just want you to be realistic. I had shared a meme that touted
how Barack Obama had given us affordable healthcare, constant
improvement in the job market, and saved us from the great recession. A
person responded with the rise in immigrant detentions, drone strikes,
and inequality growth that happened during his presidency. My response
was to tell them why that happened and how he brilliantly responded
(DACA, troop reduction, and healthcare costing him chances to fix the
problem that the rich are). In addition, since Trump had made all of
points worse, why do you want us not to think of better times?
I
can ignore high school sucking hard. I had wrestling and was team
captain on top of that. Bruce Springsteen wrote about the attitude in
"Glory Days".
Wrestling and an anime collection allowed me to survive my hometown.
Then adulthood almost immediately cut the latter out of my life. I have
spoken of this before. Once Toonami, Adult Swim, and IFC took over
anime distribution, every kind of release came out in season box sets.
College classes and jobs did not allow me to watch the content as it
aired stateside, so I could not sample the content before making a
decision to buy. It felt like the cost of getting away from Morton,
Illinois was half of my sanity.
Fortunately,
my little brother was borrowing DVD's from friends, so I occasionally
got lucky and caught an intriguing enough series. Thus, "Hellsing", my
introduction to Gonzo studio and their standard too harsh for run after
"Cowboy Bebop" products.
Hellsing - Episodes 1-3
Ceres
Victoria had just started her career in the London Police Service's
Division D11 tactical force when an assignment in Cheddar had lead to
her entire team being wiped out by undead ghouls. It was not long before
the team had also joined the undead. She escaped and ended up seeking
sanctuary in a church where she met a priest, the only other person in
the village that seemed to be alive. Seemed is a word to be emphasized
as he quickly used vampiric powers to enchant her.
Before
he gets to feed, he is confronted by a fellow vampire, Alucard who
immediately makes it clear that he is more powerful and out to destroy
any nosferatu who lacks a sense of decency. The priest's response is to
use Victoria as a shield. Alucard decides that a shield will not deter
his decision to exterminate him with a blessed bullet of a massive
caliber.
There
is only one concern, is the police girl willing to be killed to end
this terror. Actually, the question is not if she is willing to be
killed. It is whether or not she wants to stay dead. If shes chooses to
become a creature of the night, the only destiny for her is to serve
Alucard in the Hellsing Organization, Great Britain's Special Forces who
fight all that is unholy in the name of protecting a Protestant Europe.
At
this time, Europe is currently being threatened by vampires that seem
to be manufactured by humans via microchips and the Vatican's Iscariot
Organization, a group that is fighting the undead for the Catholic god.
If Victoria knew about the politics involved in fighting evil, she might
have second guessed her decision.
"Hellsing"
is the most stylish vampire anime on the market, and I will venture to
say that it has been that for the past 20 years. It is more of an action
anime than a horror one, but provides the gore and humor in doses that
should amuse anyone with a fascination of this breed of undead.
The
first episode is nearly perfect and the animation quality is
outstanding. Of course, that was probably the pilot, and the explosive
colors are not as prevalent in the later episodes. Also, the series does
jump around tone wise when it comes to character interactions. Episode
one seems to be a straight forward narrative, as is the third. Its
middle episode introduces some overly sexualized and foul-mouthed
characters, so it feels overly broad in who it is intended for.
All
of the stories are solid despite the tonal swings. It is also fun to
see modern politics being brought in like the protestant and catholic
dynamic. In terms of what the series will tackle, the series establishes
that no subject matter will be off limits, but all will be done
tastefully despite the crimson spilt.
It
is fun to see how all the unique characters, who all have subtle
comical elements, will deal with all the challenges that they will face
and the contemporary soundtrack fits in nicely. If it was a little more
consistent in how the stories would be presented, it would be a near
perfect anime.
"Hellsing"
is the vampire anime. It is accessible to any fan of anime and will
please those of either vampire genre, action or horror. These first
three episode are also fun because you get to witness the process of the
TV show determining what it is going to be, loud and brash or subtle
and charming. This element only encourages the audience to at least
stick with it for another three episode disc.
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