At first I was going to make an Outlaw Star screenshot gallery, similar to my Trigun one. But then after seeing the cut version of episode 4 on Toonami, I decided to make a shrine just so people could actually know how cool Hilda was in the original, that she actually had a meaningful death, she didn't just grab onto that Kei Pirate's leg and magically everything became better. No, that's not what happens in good anime. Hilda got completely shafted in the TV version, and that annoyed me. That was my cranky whim.
   That's why I started the idea of a mini-shrine. Then I pondered if I should make this part of Lost in the Wind, which is my big group of mini-shrines to underrated characters. This isn't the big shrine, but it seems larger than most of the ones I have there, so I decided to make it independent. And I figured with Outlaw Star's growing popularity, people would rather just visit this shrine, rather than go through Lost in the Wind and wonder who the hell "Miyazawa Yukino" and "Edward Wang Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV" are (they're both charas featured on that site).
   And now for reasons why Hilda is cool:

1) Is her name just not the coolest? Hot Ice Hilda. Well, in Japanese it's Atsuki Koori Hiruda (guessing here, I'm no expert), so it doesn't have that repetition to it, but the idea is still cool. And she's mighty deserving of it.

2) I love her colors. Maroon and black make a very slick and dangerous combo. Like in that bottom screenshot I have to the left. No, not that one, the one right...
<---Here! See? Isn't it cool?
Well, now that I've wasted sufficient space, let's move onto the next reason.

3) She and Gene make a cool couple. She scores with Gene, and the way she went about doing it was fun. For once, a woman got him into bed, and not the other way around. More about this in the Gene section.

4) She dies, and she had a cool death. No, I'm not being morbid, but it is cooler when characters die. There's a lot of character development that gets released; it really brings out the best in them and you do kind of feel sorry for them. Well, not that much for Hilda because she's only in four episodes (as far as I know), but you get my point.

5) She's important! That's really not one of the reasons I like her, but at least she's important and I'm not making a shrine to some useless one-shot character. Hilda does play a big role in the story, she gets Gene the Outlaw Star for cryin' out loud.