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Jul 28, 2011 3:04 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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So the first episode looks basically like a lead-in: in 9 minutes we've been introduced to the circumstances and characters, action is just about to begin, but we'll have to wait for the second part to witness it. Art clearly is promising: it's basically Hellsing OVA stile + really detailed shading everywhere + darker pallet, so in combination it heavily resembles first colored WW2 chronicle videos. Also The Dawn special follows the manga perfectly close, panel by panel.
Jul 28, 2011 3:57 AM
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So this episode covered the first chapter of the manga.
Need I say I loved it? It was so great seeing young Walter, Alucard (EDIT: its coffin that is, as Klimat kindly pointed my fail xD) as well as Integra's father animated. The only flaw is that it felt so SHORT.

Btw, I wonder who's Walter's VA, to me it sounded like Paku Romi.
metamorphiusJul 28, 2011 4:15 AM
Jul 28, 2011 4:04 AM
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metamorphius said:
It was so great seeing young Walter, Alucard as well as Integra's father animated.

Alucard's coffin you you want to say =).
Jul 28, 2011 4:12 AM
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Klimat said:
metamorphius said:
It was so great seeing young Walter, Alucard as well as Integra's father animated.

Alucard's coffin you you want to say =).

Ahahahah. Damm, such a fail...ROFL
Yeah, believe me or not I did intend to write coffin, then I had to go away from the keyboard for 5 minutes so I completely forgot to check what i wrote when I got back.
But that was a god damn awesome coffin xD
Jul 28, 2011 4:24 AM
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Also you are right about Paku Romi, I've just checked the credits, she is the first one in the cast.
Jul 28, 2011 4:50 AM
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Klimat said:
metamorphius
Also you are right about Paku Romi, I've just checked the credits, she is the first one in the cast.

Tnx for the confirmation.
Woohoo, I guessed that. (^o^) Can't mistake that Hitsugaya-esque voice.
Jul 28, 2011 6:00 AM
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But most importantly... Does this mean Hirano will finally finish this?
With the release speed, he should have plenty of time, if he can be bothered.
Jul 28, 2011 6:20 AM
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Baman said:
But most importantly... Does this mean Hirano will finally finish this?
With the release speed, he should have plenty of time, if he can be bothered.

It has been stated on the official site that Hirano simply wrote down the final part of The Down with no pictures, so the OVA team already has their material to finish this thing according to the author's idea, but I really doubt we will see manga of The Dawn completed...
Jul 28, 2011 10:34 AM
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I came... Romi Paku as young Walter? And the kid just knows he's such a badass!
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Aug 1, 2011 3:49 PM

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Interesting story, seems there will be action next OVA.
I'm looking forward to it
Aug 14, 2011 7:19 PM

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It was short, but damn it was awesome! I just love seeing young Walter animated. A bit surprised about Paku voicing him, but it fits very good. Can't wait to see the next episode together with the ova
Aug 22, 2011 3:12 AM

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Subs are out on CtA!
Aug 23, 2011 2:51 PM

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Holy crap the RAW for this was hard to find.

I uploaded CtA's subs with the 480P RAW I found to NyaaTorrents.
Aug 25, 2011 6:54 PM

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SUBS MAI GAWD

Finally saw this, and hell yeah young Walter.

I've never read the manga so any back story on Walter is awesome.
Aug 29, 2011 8:19 AM
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sweet but so short ;_;
Aug 30, 2011 1:11 PM

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^ so true!

Walter is so badass.

Sep 4, 2011 1:53 PM

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Looking forward to this specials. I'd watch anything related to Hellsing. And yeah, cheers for Walters sergeant. He made him smile and automaticly made me smile!
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あらあら。。。
Sep 5, 2011 5:45 PM

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Some people need to brush up on history:
Sep 9, 2011 11:36 PM

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So good. Great exposition... and I loved the art style (OVA style)..

Walter is so badass... makes it that much more sad that...
Feb 6, 2012 2:15 PM

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good
when will the next come out???
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good
when will the next come out???

One week from today.
Aug 30, 2012 4:11 PM

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so they made this to cover up some manga stuff eh :P
lets see how good the 2nd ep is
Oct 4, 2012 4:58 AM

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I can't decide if old man Walter or young punk Walter is cooler. I loved it when he just jumped out of the bomber with Alucard's coffin in tow xD
May 11, 2013 11:57 AM
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Where do you know the old Walter from? Was he the old man from the original series which had 13 episodes? Damn I forgot everything.
Aug 14, 2013 11:57 PM

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nice... :3
awesome I think.. walter is really badass one here XD
and that steak made me really hungry XD
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Klimat said:
So the first episode looks basically like a lead-in: in 9 minutes we've been introduced to the circumstances and characters, action is just about to begin, but we'll have to wait for the second part to witness it. Art clearly is promising: it's basically Hellsing OVA stile + really detailed shading everywhere + darker pallet, so in combination it heavily resembles first colored WW2 chronicle videos. Also The Dawn special follows the manga perfectly close, panel by panel.


I'm glad that they've made this specials,at least we will understand a little bit more of their fight in the WW2 and how everything happened.
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Quite lovely start I must say, the quality of both art and animation definitly have improved and well I sure love the setting and the voice actors chosen for the characters! Let's see what's next!
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young walter so nice
Apr 9, 2014 3:59 PM

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Ok looks pretty interesting.

Jul 9, 2014 7:31 AM

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Loving this art style ok first episode nothing to crazy yet >.>
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One of the best Anime ever...
Mar 31, 2015 9:46 AM

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Oh it's a prequel? Damn so no Seras in here eh? :<
Jul 29, 2016 7:09 AM

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pretty good first episode. Young Walter is badass af


Adramelech said:
Where do you know the old Walter from? Was he the old man from the original series which had 13 episodes? Damn I forgot everything.

How the fuck you skipped Hellsing Ultimate and watched this instead?
Take this L
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Yup... hes defiantly smoking spirits haha those bastards last forever XD
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American Sprits DO taste like shit. I'll take my cigarettes with chemicals, thank you very much.
Oct 1, 2022 6:52 AM

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Okay first episode, nice to see young Walter xD!
Sorry for my english xD!

RIP Kentaro Miura :(
RIP Akira Toriyama :(

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It was good, not gonna lie.

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