Hellsing (ヘルシング, Herushingu?) refers to the made-for-television anime based upon a manga by the same name created by Kohta Hirano.
It was first broadcast in Japan on Fuji Television from October 10, 2001, to January 16, 2002, and ran in the United States from October 4, 2003, to December 27, 2003, on Starz's Encore Action cable channel. It finished at thirteen episodes long. The series was directed by Yasunori Urata under the chief direction of Umanosuke Iida from a screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka and animated by studio Gonzo.
The anime follows a different storyline, especially towards the end, but with the same protagonists and main characters. Following the announcement that Funimation would be unified under the Crunchyroll brand, both Hellsing and Hellsing: Ultimate were moved to the platform in 2022.
Plot[]
Within the dark and misty city of London, filled with smoke and mystery crawling in the darkest and deepest pits of the city, supernatural creatures are present. To combat this, the late King of England created a small branch of Vampire Hunters called "Hellsing" led by Abraham Van Helsing himself. Decades after the defeat of Dracula, in 1999, the Organisation is led by Van Helsing's descendant, Sir Integral Wingates Hellsing. During this time, its discovered that the vampires nowadays are created using a chip implanted onto their body dubbed "FREAK Chip." Multiple investigations started but all of them results in a fail, that is until the sudden appearance of its creator in the island of England, seeking to bring ruins to all that is.[1]