“The background is in the distant future after the destruction brought about by Armageddon. The war between the vampires and the humans continue to persist. In order to protect the humans from the vampires, the Vatican has to rely on other allies to counter the situation. The protagonist, a priest called Peter Abel Nightroad, travels through the countries as a representative for the Vatican. However, he is also part of “AX”, a special operations group controlled by the Cardinal Catherina. His encounter with a young girl called Esther will determine the struggle and survival between the human race and the vampires.“
(Above: Father Abel Nightroad.)
Truly another great anime, and one that can only truly be described as a cross between Hellsing and Trigun. Personally I find the Catholic/Christian religious overtones in it a bit much, but then whenever there’s vampires about there’s usually someone running about with a crucifix not for behind them. It also features some fancy devices known as ‘lost technologies’, and in the case of the Vatican airship known as the ‘Iron Maiden’, I’d say it had gotten lost straight from the Warhammer 40k universe.
The story is well developed as we follow the adventures, or more aptly, mis-adventures of Father Abel Nightroad in his own quest for salvation over something that happened long ago. Cue the Trigun plot devices that were blatantly stolen – Abel is immortal, has an evil brother that is also immortal (Or they age really slowly anyway), they came from space and have intricate knowledge about the ancient technologies, and Abel though his duty requires that he spread peace, much like Vash, he tries to do so without harming anyone. All because someone he cared deeply for long ago was killed by the aforementioned evil brother.
(Above: Vash the Stampede from Trigun.)
Also, once he gets pissed he uses his powers, much in the Alucard from Hellsing uses his; Alucard through the Cromwell initiative and Abel through the Crusnik nano-machines. They then become super powerful and all evil-looking. But at this stage Alucard is not so much a vampire than demon, and Abel more vampire than human. Just a few interesting *cough* blatant ripoffs *cough* …I mean, interesting coincidences there. Oh, and the way Alucard’s hair raises above his head menacingly as is it then made entirely of pure liquid evil – Abel has this too, but it was just his hair in a sort of cone shape, which made me lose all respect for his potentially bad-assed Crusnik powers.
(Above: Alucard from Hellsing.)
I can’t say I found the OP or ending sequences in any way interesting, but the rest of the music throughout the show was extremely well blended. So much so that I barely remember how it sounded – That’s how well blended it was!
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