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Cartoon Sunday: Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1

Posted by Anna H. on November 2, 2014 at 1:25 AM




How's it going my gumdrops? 2 Tuesday nights ago, I learned in an Adult Swim thread, that Dish Network removed most of Turner's channels.


The exceptions are TBS and TNT.


Those 2 channels are covered by a separate contract than CNN, HLN, TruTV, TCM, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang. Out of all those listed channels, my family and I only watch 2 of them. Those 2 channels are Cartoon Network and Boomerang. We can't watch Boomerang or Adult Swim because Turner and Dish Network couldn't reach an agreement about their contract.


Dish Customers Lose Access To Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, More


My grandmother watches Boomerang for all the older cartoons. The rest of us watch Adult Swim. It's a bundled network on Cartoon Network.


I mostly watch Adult Swim for American Dad, Family Guy, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, Bleach (which just ended last night), Metalocalypse, and Hellsing Ultimate.


We don't watch Adult Swim nearly as much as we have in the past. Within the last several years, the network switched all the Anime to late Saturday nights and early Sunday mornings. Regardless of the awful programming, we still watch Adult Swim.


I checked Dish Network's stalkbook page. It has numerous irate customers to answer to about blacking out most Turner networks. Based on the comments I read 2 weeks ago, most customers were furious for not having CNN, TruTV, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang.


Dish Network pulled this exact same stunt several years ago with AMC's other networks, which are affiliated with NBC Universal.


Dish Network's customers are so irate, that they are canceling their packages. I don't blame them. If I really could, I would cancel the service not because of losing only 2 channels, but because we do not watch most of those other 100+ channels.


I watch slightly more than a handful of Dish's channels alone. Since I'm not paying the bill and because my family watches certain channels, we're stuck with Dish Network.


It is disappointing that John McCain never had his bill passed. He wanted to pass a bill where cable and satellite dish owners could customize our own packages by removing excess channels.


That would've saved customers money. It may sound silly to some people, however it's ridiculous to pay $100's for unwanted channels. It annoys me to have a gajillion sports channels, that none of us watch. We have to pay extra to watch the better channels because they're not on the main Dish package.


I don't necessarily mean Showtime, HBO, and Skinemax. I mean the Japanese channels and other channels, that I would consider watching.


Meanwhile, it's Cartoon Sunday. Remember that Cartoon Sunday blog I posted about Hellsing Ultimate, 2 months ago?


Besides learning about Dish Network and Turner's dispute, I also learned that Adult Swim will only air 8 of the 10 OVA's.


Hellsing Ultimate Finale Will Not Air On Toonami


Next Sunday, Adult Swim will air the 8th OVA.


Judging by the network's current late Saturday night/early Sunday morning schedule, I won't be watching Adult Swim. This is until the network acquires the rights to another show(s) I want to watch.


Then again, even if there was a show I wanted, I still would be unable to watch it on Adult Swim. Thank you Dish Network and Turner for not settling your dispute! Now, I have extra time to be more constructive and watch better shows on TV and online.


On the more positive side, I managed to grab Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1 from YouTube! Funimation Entertainment restricted outside viewers 2 months ago, but we just got lucky today! I have a duplicate! WOOHOO!!! Get ready to watch a kick ass Seinen Horror Action Anime! Anyway, here's Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1.


Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1 (2006)


Let me know what you think!

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Reply Jesse
2:38 AM on November 3, 2014 
Hi Anna. I couldn't think of any comment to write here and since nobody else has commented yet. I felt kind of bad so I had to upload a nice you tube video for you :) http://42believer.tumblr.com/
Reply Jesse
2:39 AM on November 3, 2014 
Sorry Wrong one. Here it is: http://youtu.be/xSo5B6fv9hI
Reply Anna H.
2:47 AM on November 3, 2014 
Aww thanks, Jesse! I think my gumdrops have been very busy these last few days. We all know that I've been extremely busy, lately. LOL! Did you get a chance to watch Hellsing Ultimate? If so, what did you think? :)
Reply Jesse
3:08 AM on November 3, 2014 
You're welcome :) I did try watching part of it but I didn't really understand it very well. It was difficult for me because I'm used to watching these kind of cartoons: The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, South Park etc.
Reply Anna H.
3:18 AM on November 3, 2014 
Oh okay. Well, it doesn't hurt to watch something different. If you click on that last link above the video, it gives a brief summary about Hellsing Ultimate. Otherwise, you can go to this link. :)
http://itsnotallgumdropsandunicorns.webs.com/apps/blog/show/42659
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Reply Jesse
3:21 AM on November 3, 2014 
Thank you Anna :)
Reply Anna H.
3:28 AM on November 3, 2014 
You're welcome, Jesse! I hope my summary clarifies Hellsing Ultimate for you! :)
Reply Jesse
3:47 AM on November 3, 2014 
Yes. It does. I learnt that Hellsing is a secret organization who protects people from vampires and hides the fact that fact that they exist. This is exactly what the Men in Black did with Aliens. So I'm seeing a resemblance there.
Reply Anna H.
3:52 AM on November 3, 2014 
Yes, I'm glad my summary clarified this OVA for you. You might want to re-watch Hellsing Ultimate and see if you can understand it now. ;)
Reply Jesse
3:58 AM on November 3, 2014 
I would like to but not right now cause it's getting kind of late (10pm) in my time zone. I'm going to sleep soon. Goodnight :)
Reply Anna H.
4:03 AM on November 3, 2014 
Oh okay. It just turned 3 am on my end. Anyway, try to re-watch it when you get more time. Good night! :)
Reply [email protected]
5:09 PM on November 3, 2014 
I just watched Hellsing today. I have to download the longer ones because buffering takes forever on my computer. I loved it. Oh man, did I ever get excited. I've wanted be a vampire most of my life and this really got me going again. I loved it when what's his name (can't recall it) pulled out his 454 Casull and it went through all those slo mo close ups of the gun. The cop girl was fun and a great character, running around with that big rifle and blowing away vampires ghouls, just what I want to do, be a good vampire killing bad vampires. I thought it would be an effort to watch this, being as long as it was, but it wasn't, I was totally engrossed and it flew right by. When it was over I felt like I had just come out of a movie theatre. Nothing like a good vampire movie to make an old guy "come alive again." Buwahaha.
Reply Anna H.
7:23 PM on November 3, 2014 
Mimikoko, that's fantastic! :) Sir Integra is the head of her family's organization. Alucard is the vampire and Seras Victoria is "Police Girl." LOL! Most Hellsing fans love Alucard. ;) If you want, you can buy Hellsing! You can buy both the Anime TV series and the Hellsing Ultimate OVA's. The TV series is different from the OVA's. Hellsing Ultimate, which is what you just watched, is supposed to be closer to the Manga. It's also more violent than the TV seires. You can buy Hellsing TV Series here.

http://shop.funimation.com/Shop/ShopProductDetail.ss?itemid=62544


You can also buy Hellsing Ultimate, when the complete OVA set is ready. Based on what I've observed, the entire Hellsing Ultimate episodes are already on YouTube.
Reply [email protected]
8:51 PM on November 3, 2014 
Thanks for the info. I doubt I'll buy anything because I'm on a fixed income, but you never know. I want to check out more episodes on youtube at least, I can always download them. I've heard of Alucard somewhere before. I want to see what happens to Seras too, I Iiked it when she started getting her blood lust. Anyhow, it was great, thanks for posting it.
Reply Anna H.
8:55 PM on November 3, 2014 
You're welcome, Mimikoko. I've posted blogs about Alucard in the past, but you might have read or heard about Alucard in reference to the Hellsing franchise.

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