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Tenor (Jan 20, 2004)

As per the translation/subtitles its Arucard, but I suspect its just a pronunciation getting mangled--dunno ask someone who has more Japanese experience than I

Pip, it owns ^__^ do more hellsing stuff

marcello (Jan 20, 2004)

Any L or R in a transliteration of a japanese name/word is ambiguous, there's no necessarily correct way.
In the case of names it's a little easier to say for sure is if a) the name was based on an originally non-japanese word/name and you happen to know that word/name (for example, Julia instead of Juria), or b) the official site has a spelling for the name. Oftentimes, even on the japanese sites, they'll have the spelling in english, because it's "cool."

Childlike_Vampire (Jan 20, 2004)

This looks even better with color, although compression didn't really help it seems.

The reason I said that wasn't because I don't know that Alucard is Dracula backwards, but because there is a debate among fans as to which is the real spelling. I say Alucard just cos I think it's cooler, but apparently even on the official series they changed it halfway through. I wouldn't know, I've only seen crappy downloads with fan subs.

Both versions have a "u" though, so there. lol.

Peipera (Apr 3, 2004)
drawn in 52 min

I'm still working on all the red. I worked on the blending on the face and glasses. More to come.