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Hellsing Volume 2
Kohta Hirano

Both Seras and Alucard get shiny new guns, but Seras's weapon is actually a…cannon! She has got to have one of the coolest weapons ever, and with her newfound vampire strength, it's easy for her to wield. The undead couple receive their guns just in time - the
Valentine brothers are invading Hellsing and using the organization's own soldiers (now existing as ghouls) against it. Jan, the younger vampire brother, is a little annoying with his posturing and dropping the f-bomb every five seconds, so when Walter, the Hellsing family butler, breaks out with his mad skillz, the fight is all the sweeter. Walter was apparently the man in his day, and he can still formidably and gracefully use his strings o' death to deal with ghouls and vampires.

The older brother is after Alucard, but doesn't realize what he's up against. Alucard releases the seal on his power and shows his true form: a shape shifting, full of eyes, black mass of a shadow dog. Pretty creepy stuff! Nothing cool and suave about this guy's true nature. I would have liked the sound effects translated though; they come in handy when understanding a fight.

Hellsing hires on mercenaries to replenish its depleted numbers, and the Iscariot agency (the organization to which Father Anderson belongs) meets with Sir Integra in a museum to share information about the Millennium project that Jan mentioned before he died. Of course, the guy has to insult Integra first, which sets Alucard off, and he calls in Anderson to protect him. The funniest part of the volume is how Seras defuses the situation. She leads a group of elderly people on a tour right through the middle of the two, and they decide it's not the proper fighting atmosphere. B