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Exclusive: It’s Heart Attack time. Here’s a first-look at the show from Skybound and Robot for Japanese network Fuji TV.

The team behind the project are pitching it as ‘live-action anime’ and Deadline can share the first sneak peeks, and report that Cineflix Rights will handle distribution. It will launch the series internationally at MIPCOM, the biggest TV market of year.

The eight-part drama is based upon the hit graphic novel of the same name, created by Mortal Kombat 2’s Shawn Kittelsen and Eric Zawadzki.

The series will be set in a post-pandemic Japan. It follows a segment of the population who have supernatural abilities, known as Variants, and who face oppression because of their powers. When two Variants, Ema and Umin, meet, they make an unexpected connection and together they fight for their existence and freedom.

The series stars Kanichiro (Kubi) as Umin, Toko Miura (Drive My Car) as Ema,...

Kouta Hirano's action-horror manga "Hellsing" begins 100 years or so after Abraham Van Helsing defeated Dracula. Contrary to the account of Bram Stoker, the Lord of Vampires was not slain, merely cowed, and became the Helsing (eventually Hellsing) family retainer. Abraham's descendant, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, leads an eponymous ghoul-hunting organization. Her top agents are the rechristened Alucard and his newly sired protégé, Seras "Police Girl" Victoria.

Hellsing's enemies are two-fold. First, there's Iscariot, the Vatican's vampire slayers who rival the Protestant Hellsing; Father Alexander Anderson is particularly dead-set on killing Alucard. Second, there's Millennium, a Nazi remnant who experimented with the occult and still intends to bring about a thousand-year Third Reich. If you're not much of a manga reader, don't fear, for "Hellsing" has been adapted into an animated series. However, if you're looking to watch the "Hellsing" anime, you'll have to decide: Which one? That's right,...