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| 4. Tyrenol 
This series begins where the last series ends. After Ifurita
sacrifices herself to save El Hazard (ending up in our own timespace continuum,
yeah you wish ^_^; ), the characters settle down and a wedding between Miz Mishtal
and Fujisawa is set. Unfortunately Mr. Fujisawa's mountain-crazed instead of girl-crazed.
So Miz, the "older babe" that Pioneer deserves credit for creating,
forces everyone to search for him. Meanwhile, Katsuhiko Jinnai releases yet another
Demon God... And we find out that a series of Ifuritas have been made (which explains
"The Wanderers" slightly 86'ed Ifurita). AIC/Pioneer
was at its best in creating drool-worthy series like El Hazard. The characters
herein are that their best; visually, mentally, and even in their worst. And the
plots and subplot are intertwined with the near perfection of a knitted cloth.
And we start to "love to hate" characters like Jinnai and Fatora instead
of outright hating them. (Jinnai, by the way, looks like he took some lessons
from Mobile Suit Gundam's Gihren Zabi.) |
| 3. Tempy
El Hazard 2 starts out promising enough, with a lovely
opening song. The first 2 episodes focus on the gang trying to find Fujisawa,
who ran away from his wedding with Miz. There is more silliness and rivalry between
the characters, which makes things fun to watch. There's a new villain Kalia,
who starts out with some promise (and a Dilandau-esque smirk on her face). Unfortunately,
once Kalia shows her true self to the audience, things start going downhill, and
the show begins to reek like some cheap role-playing game. If it were longer than
4 episodes, I'm sure they would have the gang go in search of the three 3 keys
of Great Hope which will merge into the Huge Hammer of Justice to defeat Kalia,
or another similarly groan-inducing cliché. Granted, it's not really bad
as some other shows (*cough* Slayers *cough*), but it ain't interesting
as well. There is some small effort to give Kalia some humanity at the end, but
it remains merely an effort. |
| 2. weasl
While El Hazard 2 can be enjoying at times, it's brought
down by a boat load of problems. The 4 episode second set of OVAs starts off well
enough, great in fact. On the day of Miz and Fugisawa's wedding, Fugisawa gets
cold feet and bolts for the mountains. Of course it's up to the rest of the El
Hazard crew to chase him down. The first episode is a riot, with the Fatora
using her likeness to Makoto in order to make advances on Shayla-Shayla, and Nanami.
Sadly after the first episode things start to fall apart. The reappearance of
an Ifurita clone, and the poorly developed villain Kalia, don't help, and the
whole end battle is fairly anticlimactic. Fun at first, but quickly deteriorating
into mindlessness, El Hazard 2 is worth watching at the very least for
the first episode. |
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