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Summary: Beautifully produced Boxset
Review: There is no doubt that the original "El Hazard" is one of the best of American released animes. The comedy is raunchy and clever, the characters are funny and the story finds the touching human element in a wacky sex comedy. Top notch all the way around."El Hazard 2" loses the "clever" part and just focuses on the "raunchy." It is not bad, but it is nowhere near the quality of the original. Worth watching, but not really worth buying on it's own. The boxset itself is the real showcase. It is just so...pretty. The artwork is outstanding, and the whole thing is a real presentation. I am not usually sold by nice packaging, but this one did it for me. A great series, and OK series wrapped up in a fabulous package. Not perfect, but worth having.
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Summary: El-Hazard is Definately the Alternative Universe
Review: This is from my website...: (goes past the first tape) The Wanderers: El-Hazard is the watered down TV series of the original, El-Hazard. It all starts with Makoto, Fujisawa-sensei, Jinnai, and Nanami all having a normal day at the school festival. Fujisawa-sensei is a huge mountain climbing fanatic, Makoto is a science genius who's building a new invention at the time of the festival. Nanami is the money making genius who is selling bento box lunches to the people at the festival. And Jinnai...Jinnai is the sCaRy student council president that is EVIL. He hates Makoto! So everyone is getting ready to go home, Jinnai messed with the machine Makoto was working on, and they accidentally get sucked into magnificent world of El-Hazard! In El-Hazard, a woman is running through the forest, trying to escape the fearsome Bugrom. A HUGE bug that looks like a robot. Fujisawa-sensei has suddenly gained super-human strength and fights it off. The woman running is Rune Venus, the princess of Roshtaria a "realm" in El-Hazard. At first Makoto and Fujisawa-sensei are thought to be spies...but later they gain the trust of the palace people. To find a way back home to Earth, Makoto and Fujisawa gain a guide, Alielle who will take them to the 3 shrines of the Priestesses: Water, Wind, and Fire. The Priestesses can't help them... so they go back to Roshtaria. Jinnai somehow becomes a supreme leader of Bugrom, the city of the Bugroms. With Diva, the Queen, he goes psycho and keeps on trying to become the supreme ruler of El-Hazard... With Jinnai adding to the problems, they discover Ifurita... she's the Devil (oooh) Jinnai becomes her master (oh no!) but Ifurita is ditzy and really nice and doesn't understand what's happening. Suddenly Princess Rune Venus gets kidnapped by Jinnai...and problems start brewing. The Princess escapes, and Jinnai hatches the plan to use the "God's Eye" a huge circular object of a lot of power in the sky... Ifurita is used to control the God's Eye...and too bad she goes all evil and since she already started controlling the God's Eye, she can't stop...she must destroy EL-Hazard. The only people who can stop her are Makoto, who has the mark of the king, and Rune Venus who is the descendant of the king. Since Rune Venus is still in Bugrom trying to escape, will she get back in time???
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Summary: pretty good
Review: well this show is pretty good. El Hazard one (the first seven episodes) were alright but didn't greatly impress me, especially after all the great reviews on it. For about the first three episodes the pacing is really, really slow and almost downright boring, though it does start to pick up in the second half of the show. Some of it actually did make me laugh a little but not much. The problem is with the fact that el hazard has a strange sense of humor that isn't for everyone. All the jokes seem to revolve around the main guy (Makoto) cross dressing and the two homosexual girls, the princess and her uh girlfriend. It's not that I'm homophobic or anything but throughout the series it was dependent on this fact to make it funny. Ummm ok. What really bothered me was that the princess' girlfriend can't be older than twelve while the princess herself looks to 19 or 20. EWWWW that's just sick. Yeah and a crossdressing male and all the hyjinks that ensue from it can only be funny for five or ten minutes tops. Rather in el hazard, the main guy sports his ladies wear for more than half the show. There is also some romance that developes between a few characters and a love triangle surrounding Makoto though it isn't all that interesting. I mean there is nothing appealing about this guy at all. He's boring and dresses like a woman for half the show, what's to like. The only relationship that I did find just toooo cute was the one between the teacher Mr Fujisawa and the water priestess, I think her name was Mizu. They are just sooooooo sweet together. Awwwwwww :D. Anyway I did find the ending of El Hazard one very good and Shayla Shayla is really cool. I admired her strength. I must also add that I loved El Hazard two (last four OAV episodes), way more than el hazard one. The pacing is fast and stays interesting till the end, probably cause it's shorter. The story has more action, more cute Fujisawa/Mizu moments, and jokes that are actually funny. I really have no idea what everyone has against this second series. It's actually interesting and Makoto stays a man for a majority of it. All in all I'd say this series is not too bad. I liked it enough to buy the boxset, I just did'nt like the first three episodes which were, as I said before, boring, and some of the humor made me cringe. Other than that this is a good anime find with nice art and beautiful use of color.
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Summary: Love it. A little hard to understand... but I love it
Review: Wow.... the eyes on some of them look wierd don't they? Great movie though.
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Summary: I've been waiting years for this!
Review: Years ago, I discovered an amazing Anime called El Hazard. At the time, it was only available on VHS, and I only saw it dubbed in English. Despite the format and language, I *loved* it. the characters were vivid and loveable, the scenery was beautiful. I hoped and wished that it would be available soon on on DVD. Now I hear that that day is finally coming. While I have heard that the second series is a dissapointment when compared to the first, this DVD set will be worth it just to get the first.
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