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 volumes, 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 led 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, aswell as the organisation's new member. Arrogant, but cunning; Walter's careless and arrogant demeanor led to him struggling fighting the werewolf, and even so; his weapon, the Monofilament Wires, is deadly; killing every Nazi soldiers in the room without any effort taken. His speed, accuracy is formidable, being able to kick a butter knife off the table, and if the werewolf had never interfered, it would kill 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 sent Walter, a 14 year-old; inexperienced member however, remains quite anonymous, but either he has a completely different reason untold; or that he's just confident in the organisation's new, and quite strong member; for a 14 year old.

Production
Taliesen Jaffe has﻿ stated in a panel at Otakon 2008 that The Dawn is going to 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 will, in fact, be The Dawn. The post also stated that the team will be working on a manuscript from Kouta Hirano himself and that the 4 pages of this manuscript will be included with the volume's liner notes booklet.

Episodes

 * The Dawn - 01
 * The Dawn - 02
 * The Dawn - 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 make it completely faithful up til chapter 6 of the manga, which was left at that and was never continued; remains unknown. This PV also caused a cliffhanger, because 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. Interesting to note is that, the music that plays in the background is composed and sang by Yasushi Ishii, the original 13-episodes Hellsing TV Anime's composer.