The theology is pretty light, there's just enough to set up conflicts between Protestant and Catholic and other religions. There's a mixture of guns, swords, and fisticuffs. The violence is highly stylized and frequent which is what I expected. It just looks a little odd to have Japanese letters all over some frames and not know what they mean. It's easy to imagine what the sound effects refer to (sword slices, guns firing, feet creaking on floorboards, etc.). Also, most of the sound effects are still in Japanese even though the dialogue is all translated into English. The comic panels and word bubbles are also laid out right to left on the page, which took a little getting used to but wasn't too hard to master. The layout is like it was in Japan, so the book starts with what would (in the West) be the back cover and you read it from the back to the front. More adventures follow after this, including a confrontation with the top agent of the Vatican's covert operations force Iscariot. He saves the girl and starts a new era for Hellsing.
He's been enhanced by various spells and potions so he's stronger and more durable than other vampires. Alucard is the ancient secret weapon, an undead monster who fights for Hellsing against the other undead in the world. In the gun fight, she's injured and some of her blood lands on the corpse, which forms into the vampire Alucard. The uncle's minions catch up with her there and almost kill her.
She flees to the basement levels of the headquarters where she comes across a dessicated corpse. His brother isn't happy about this and decides to hunt her down and kill her before everyone else knows the old man is dead and she is put in charge. This story begins with the death of the head of Hellsing, who is passing the company on to his daughter Integra. The Hellsing group is family-run Protestant (presumably Church of England) covert operation that takes care of vampires, zombies, ghouls, and other hazards that the local police can't handle. Hellsing is a manga (Japanese-style comic) about a secret group protecting England from supernatural threats.
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