HELLSING (manga)

Hellsing (ヘルシング) is a manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It first premiered in Young King OURs in 1997 and ended in

September 2008. The individual chapters are collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Shōnen Gahosha. The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Dark Horse Comics. From 2001 to 2009, Hirano released a 6-chapter prequel series, Hellsing: The Dawn, in special editions of Young King OURs. This series consists of 10 complete volumes on which both TV Series and the OVA are based.

Plot
Hellsing is named after and centered around the Royal Order of Protestant Knights originally led by Abraham Van Helsing. The mission of Hellsing is to search for and destroy the undead and other supernatural forces of evil that threaten the queen and the country. This organization is currently led by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, who inherited the leadership of Hellsing as a child after the death of her father. She witnessed his death which turned her from a once innocent and shy little girl to a tough and deadly force. She is protected by the faithful Hellsing family butler Walter C. Dornez, a deadly foe in his own right, and Alucard, the original and most powerful vampire, who swore loyalty to the Hellsing family after being defeated by Van Helsing one hundred years before the story takes place. These formidable guardians are joined early on in the storyline by former police officer Seras Victoria, whom Alucard turned into a vampire.

As the scale and frequency of incidents involving the undead escalate in England and all around the world, Sir Integra discovers that the remnants of a Nazi group called Millennium still exist and are intent on reviving Nazi Germany by creating a battalion of vampires. Millennium, Hellsing, and the Vatican section XIII Iscariot clash in an apocalyptic three-sided war in London, and Millennium reveals its true objective: to destroy the vampire lord Alucard, ending a feud begun during World War II.

Volumes

 * Hellsing: Volume 1
 * Hellsing: Volume 2
 * Hellsing: Volume 3
 * Hellsing: Volume 4
 * Hellsing: Volume 5
 * Hellsing: Volume 6
 * Hellsing: Volume 7
 * Hellsing: Volume 8
 * Hellsing: Volume 9
 * Hellsing: Volume 10

Chapters
Main Article: Hellsing Chapters

Guide Book
Main Article: Hellsing Official Guide Book

Prototypes
This series includes Kouta's old works, before he started Hellsing that features the character's prototypes.


 * Angel Dust: Alexander Anderson and Enrico Maxwell
 * Coyote: Pip Bernadotte, The Major and Rip Van Winkle
 * Desert Guardian: The Captain
 * Doc's Story: The Doctor and Schrödinger
 * Hi and Low: Integra Hellsing and Yumie Takagi
 * Magic School: Renaldo
 * The Legend of Vampire Hunter: Alucard, Seras Victoria, Luke and Jan Valentine
 * Daidōjin Monogatari: Walter C. Dornez and Heinkel Wolfe
 * Susume!! Seigaku Dennou Kenkyuubu: Makube (Section XIII Iscariot's second leader)

Reception
In 2005, the sixth and seventh volumes of the Hellsing manga series ranked among Diamond Comics Distributors' list of the top 48 manga volumes sold in the United States for the year. In November 2007, the ninth volume was among the top 10 volumes sold according to Japan's monthly sales rankings.