Anime - What. The. Hellsing?

I absolutely support the idea that anime is brilliant... in theory. The blending of Eastern and Western drawing and animation styles produces staggeringly beautiful and expressive artwork, and takes advantage of the limitless nature of a drawn image to do things that would be impossible in real life.

Unless you're Guillermo Del Toro.

Certainly, it's noticeable that all modern comic-books and animation have drawn heavily from anime, which is part of the reason that I'm still willing to pay about £2-3 for sets of 15 coloured pieces of A4 paper every week. And everything I've seen come out of Studio Ghibli has been, if nothing else, staggeringly beautiful.