THE DAWN: A supplementary of HELLSING

The Dawn: A supplementary of Hellsing (ヘルシング: 外伝,) is the anime OVA adaption of the eponymous prequel of the Hellsing manga, Hellsing: The Dawn, where it's included in Hellsing: Ultimate's 8, 9, and 10 DVD set.

The series was included in each volume, with one episode included respectively; between July 27, 2011, and December 26, 2012, in Japan, and July 4, 2019, in the United States, and many other countries. The entirety of this special was animated by studio Graphinica, the studio that replaced Madhouse after Hellsing: Ultimate VII.

Plot
It is September 1944 and World War II is raging in Europe. To get an advantage on the field, Nazis are experimenting with artificial vampire technologies, they are still far away from achieving their initial goal, but even the intermediate stages of such researchers are possessing a great threat to The anti-German coalition. In an attempt to stop the Nazi project and to protect England and The Allies current head of the Hellsing Manor, Sir Arthur Hellsing, is sending his best agents — Walter C. Dornez and Alucard — into German-occupied Poland where monstrous experiments are being conducted.

Alucard

 * A vampire that can shapeshift into a man, a girl, even a demon hound, Alucard is the Hellsing Organisation's Trump Card, making him their most powerful member; second to none. However, his sarcastic nature makes him arrogant and careless, which could lead to his downfall. He only answers to the head of the Hellsing Organisation, Arthur, and nobody else. His motivation is not clear, and it seems that he's a psychopath; smiling even when killing his enemies.

Walter C. Dornez

 * A 14-year-old superhuman, Walter C. Dornez is the Hellsing Family's butler, as well as the organisation's new member. Arrogant, but cunning; Walter's careless and arrogant demeanor led to him struggling to fight the werewolf, and even so; his weapon, the Monofilament Wires, is deadly; killing every Nazi soldier in the room without any effort taken. His speed and accuracy are formidable, being able to kick a butter knife off the table, and if the werewolf had never interfered, would have killed the mysterious leader of the experiment.

Arthur Hellsing

 * Cunning, wise, and the son of the great Abraham Van Helsing, he's yet a cocky person and pretty much a ladies' man. Confident in every way, smiling even when his task is quite hard to do, he believes in himself; and that's what makes him formidable. His decision to send Walter, a 14-year-old, inexperienced member, however, remains ambiguous; either he had a completely different reason untold, or he was just confident in the organisation's new, strong young member.

Production
Taliesen Jaffe﻿ stated in a panel at Otakon 2008 that The Dawn would be animated as part of Ultimate. It was also revealed in the official features page for Hellsing VIII on the official Japanese Hellsing website that the special Short Gaiden in the extra disc that comes with the limited edition of Hellsing Ultimate OVA 8 would be The Dawn. The post also stated that the team would be working on a manuscript from Kouta Hirano himself and that the 4 pages of this manuscript would be included with the volume's liner notes booklet.

Episodes

 * THE DAWN: A supplementary of HELLSING 01
 * THE DAWN: A supplementary of HELLSING 02
 * THE DAWN: A supplementary of HELLSING 03

Drifters Promotional Video
The last minutes of the OVA shows a promotional video of Drifters, Kouta Hirano's new manga. The reasons for not continuing the show and making it completely faithful up until chapter 6 of the manga, which was left at that and was never continued, remains unknown. This PV also caused a cliffhanger, as Alucard finally made an appearance and it was cut off. The whole PV was animated by Graphinica, and interestingly enough; the Drifters official anime adaptation in 2016, was instead animated by Hoods Entertainment. An interesting thing to note is that the music which plays in the background is composed and sung by Yasushi Ishii, the original 13-episodes Hellsing TV Anime's composer.