Hellsing ARMS Casull (2024)

The Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull Auto(usually referred to simply as "Casull (カスール, Kasūru^?)") is a very powerful handgun and one of the first personal firearms wielded by Alucard.

This weapon is the first custom handgun made by Hellsing and was specifically designed by Walter C. Dornez. It's essentially a very big semiautomatic pistol, with a length of 39cm. The bullets are special, being made out of silver obtained from melted holy relics, with an exploding property as well, making for a rather devastating cartridge against the legions of the night. It is too heavy and unwieldy for a human to use, yet a perfect match for Alucard's strength.

Profile[]

The Casull is a semi-automatic magnum pistol, based on two pre-WW1 handgundesigns byColt: theM1903 and M1905 pistols (the early versions of theM1911). The gun weighs approximately 6 kg unloaded and has a magazine capacity of six.454 Casull cartridges. Its appearance is also similar to the AMT Automag III. The Casull is believed to be based upon the Colt 1911 (or its variants like the longslide). However, it also bears a resemblance to early model Colt pistols. In some close-ups, one may note that the hammer is never fully co*cked, indicative of either a double-action or fast-action mechanism similar to the Daewoo DP51. The lengthy barrel and slide give this gun incredible accuracy, and the weight at the front of the gun makes the massive round significantly more controllable. Something this extreme suits Alucard perfectly.

The overall design of the Casull is simple, using the Browning short recoil mechanism. Its most recognizable feature is its long slide, counteracting the weapon's heavy recoil with its weight. The barrel is 10 inches long (specified on the slide) and finished with titanium nitride which gives it a characteristic gold color.

Stats[]

• Caliber: 13mm Explosive Steel Rounds (modified by HELLSING from the original .454 Casull rounds)
• Total length: 335mm
• Weight: 4kg
• Magazine: 6+1 Rounds
• Inscription:

HELLSING ARMS WEAPON Hellsing 454 Casull INDUSTRIAL CO.LTD.

Usage[]

Early on, Alucard used the Casull alone to terminate all sorts of vampires, including the Vampire Pastor. After acquiring another weapon, he still uses the Casull along with this new weapon. In both the anime and the manga, the Casull fails to kill Alexander Anderson, so Alucard specifically asks Walter C. Dornez for "something bigger" (however, he may have been refering to the ammunition). This led to the creation of the Jackal, a 13mm handgun that has the same size as the Hellsing Arms Casull, but fires even more powerful rounds. Alucard often dual wields these two pistols later on.

Ammunition[]

While the name remains unchanged, the gun fires a different round from that of a .454 Casull; a 13mm Explosive Steel rounds, which were alloyed with silver melted from a Lanchester Cathedral Cross. The rounds were modified by Hellsing, presumably by Walter in order for it to be more effective in killing vampires. They are used in a six-round single-stack magazine. The Casull is able to kill normal vampires with only 1 shot. Although Alucard has reloaded it at many points throughout both the manga and anime, Hirano has joked in the back of volume 1 that "They're all cosmoguns that can hold a million rounds." This is also evidenced in the first OVA, where Alucard takes out a large group of ghouls without reloading.

Name[]

In the original fan-translation of Volume 2, the translators incorrectly translated Walter's line referring to the gun, making him call it the "Joshua" even though the Katakana reads "カスール (kasuru)", which would be the correct Katakana for "Casull." Since then, many fans have perpetuated the name, so much so that ADV (the Official European Distributor for the TV Series) called it "Joshua" on their Official Website, the Special Features, and the booklets on their DVD release. Regardless, this name is incorrect as it never appears in the Original Japanese version of either the Manga, TV series, or OVA, or any official Translations of Hellsing, not even ADV's, as they use Geneon's dub and subtitles.

Trivia[]

• The cover of the first volume of the manga features the Casull and Alucard; however, the Casull's well known inscription which reads out "Hellsing Arms .454 Casull Auto" was replaced instead by "Hellsing 13mm clockwork Giant PANDAS."
• .454 Casull is a big-game revolver cartridge, basically a magnumversion of the .45 Colt round. The .454 is twice as powerful as the .44 Magnum, and even more powerful than the .50AE of the Desert Eagle.
• The .454 Casull is powerful enough to penetrate NIJ Level II and NIJ Level IIIA vests, having a muzzle velocity of approximately 580m/s, while a Level II is only rated for .357 JSP which grants 436 m/s, and a Level IIIA is rated for.357 SIG FMJ Flat Nose, with a velocity of 448 m/s.
• It made its final appearance in Volume 9, it's nowhere to be seen after it was last shot to LukeValentine.