3-Minute Profile: Hellsing's Kohta Hirano

We're trying something a little different. Meet 3-Minute Profile...and Hellsing mangaka Kohta Hirano!

Video posted by gia on March 20, 2010

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giaon March 20, 2010 at 8:49 a.m.

wwfunderakeron March 20, 2010 at 10:04 a.m.
Hellsing is an awesome anime, Alucard is pure evil.
Lydian_Selon March 20, 2010 at 10:17 a.m.
Pretty cool Miz Manry, kinda makes me wanna re-read the Hellsing manga. Looking forward to more of these!!
crusader8463on March 20, 2010 at 11:46 a.m.
No wonder i liked Hellsing so much, its creator looks like a Japanese me and we share the same hobbies!
Kelleth moderator on March 20, 2010 at 11:58 a.m.
@crusader8463: yeah that kinda creeps me out, you look like twins XD
crusader8463on March 20, 2010 at 12:03 p.m.
@Kelleth: I should look him up in japan some day. Maybe I could convince him we are brothers, and he could let me "borrow" some money from him! He must have millions from Hellsing royalties!
Kelleth moderator on March 20, 2010 at 12:07 p.m.
@crusader8463:  Seeing how lazy he is i doubt it. when lazy people get money like that they usually only think one thing ''spending all of it on food that will surely shorten your life if you eat it to much ''
giaon March 20, 2010 at 12:34 p.m.
@Kelleth: Harsh! There are lazy people who aren't big eaters. 
 
Like John!
Kelleth moderator on March 20, 2010 at 1:45 p.m.
@gia:  Actually that was a bit of self-reflection rather then pointing it at them because that would be the first thing i would have done XD
Oneeyedjackson March 20, 2010 at 2:25 p.m.
 Funimation doesn't own the license on the Hellsing OVA's.  They're just the distributor on it. The license holder is still Geneon.  Good news is that the original Geneon license on Hellsing expires soon and seeing as how well Hellsing sold it 'll with out a doubt be relicensed by Funimation.  Then well be able to get the newer OVA episodes.
Sigueon March 20, 2010 at 2:26 p.m.
Hellsing + Read or Die = Gunbuster/Cowboy Bebop porn? That's weird and awesome.
Galamothon March 20, 2010 at 2:30 p.m.
Hirano drools, Kikuchi rules.  
 
3-MINUTE PROFILE:  HIDEYUKI KIKUCHI  PLZ. Or maybe a 10-minute profile...
crusader8463on March 20, 2010 at 2:40 p.m.
@gia said:

" @Kelleth: Harsh! There are lazy people who aren't big eaters.  Like John! "

Exactly! Once i start my own video game development house, buy a shit ton of life size replica Star Wars Armor to flank every door way in my house with two Storm Trooper guards on both sides-- Bed Room has Imperial Guards of course-- i would spend the rest on hookers and blow. Like any self respecting man would.
 
EDIT: As for whom we would like to see next, I vote for Akira Toriyama. I know most people know his history, myself included, but you might as well get the grandfathers/mothers of anime out of the way first. Leaves more room for the lesser known guys. Maybe do one well known person followed by one lesser known person, then cycle the pattern.
sora_thekey moderator on March 20, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.

Great segment... Although I need one of these videos a day for me to become an anime expert!
giaon March 20, 2010 at 4:58 p.m.
@sora_thekey: Oh, man, I think AHR would get pretty tired =P
sora_thekey moderator on March 20, 2010 at 10:27 p.m.
@gia said:
" @sora_thekey: Oh, man, I think AHR would get pretty tired =P "


True... I would help out but I'm not in the payroll, plus, even though I love editing videos, I am still a novice!

XChileon March 20, 2010 at 10:55 p.m.
Beating off?...........oh it all makes sense now! Thanks for the news.
Count_Alucardon March 21, 2010 at 2:10 a.m.

I like that cover of "Drifters". 
 
EDIT: Isn't "The Dawn" still incomplete? O_o

FLStyleon March 21, 2010 at 10:38 a.m.
I should watch Hellsing Ultimate, looks good.
transgojoboton March 21, 2010 at 12:37 p.m.
If there's one thing about Kohta Hirano that has always stood out to me, it's the man's seeming love-affair (fetish?) with BOOTS. No. I'm not kidding; the evidence speaks for itself. Flip through any copy of the Hellsing manga and count how many panels have either close-ups or side-views of footwear. There seems to be one, two or three nearly every chapter. I find it to be pretty hilarious.