Hellsing Ultimate OVA

[Kraco]

Seras-chan!!! Ahem... Episode 4 in the proper format:

Episode 4 h264 - AonE

[Ryllharu]

I enjoyed these chapters in the manga, but this episode blew it to pieces. From the classical music in the background through most of the episode, perfect casting for the Nazi captain, the catgirl (played by Ryoko Shiraishi), and most of all, Maaya Sakamoto playing Rip Van Winkle. Actually hearing the songs added a lot to the episode alone, but the shrieks and cries by Maaya Sakamoto made the scenes where Alucard slowly destroys her and then in perfect Dracula-style, sucks her blood delicately* from her neck.

*Delicate on one hand with the pose he forced her into (against a wall, slowly bringing her neck to his teeth, every part of the "romantic" side of vampire lore) but at the same time, he's holding her rifle through her chest.

The catgirl, hilariously named Schrödinger also made my day. I should have caught it the first time I read it, but you can't ever be sure whether the Nazi catgirl is dead or not [wiki link].

Is there anything more satisfying than seeing someone kill Nazi vampires? Clearly, Hellsing shows us that another vampire killing Nazi vampires can beat it.


The other OVAs have been good, but this one was a masterpiece.

[Lucifus]

Schrödinger's cat...read most o the wiki and couldn't figure out what it was getting at. A little help?

[Ryllharu]

Schrödinger's cat is an example of how quantum physics is ridiculously confusing, and makes it easier for the paradoxes be explained.

A subatomic particle either spins clockwise, or counterclockwise, when you look at them, but in actuality, it's spinning both ways at the same time, but the very instant you look, the particle does one or the other.

Schrödinger's cat explains this in simpler terms. A cat is inside of a box with poison gas. The box is sealed from all outside influences (and therefore observers). While the box is closed, the cat is either alive or dead. Once you open the box, the fate of the cat gets "decided." So until the box is opened, the cat is both alive and dead.

Here, the character Schrödinger is a play on that. They clearly shoot her brains all over the place, look away (the key part) and suddenly she's not only alive and well, she's not even there anymore, not leaving even the smallest drop of blood.

[bagandscalpel]

*Explains the paradox of Schrodinger's Neko*

Excellent explaination, my friend, but you've made just one oversight: Hellsing's Schrodinger is a catboy~