Those Who Hunt Elves I & II

Those Who Hunt Elves is anime about ripping off clothes from women… without even a trace of fanservice ;__;

This is a review of both seasons.

Story begins as we get to know that a group of people tried to return to Japan from (cause of a lack of better words) a parallel world. The whole prologue is split over two or three episodes, so I’m not going to spoil it. The point is that they have to check bodies of elves in search of fragments of a spell. The twist is that there are only five fragments and female elves in that world are mountains. As you’d expect, no woman wants to undress naked in front of strangers, so they had to take different approach. Well – they used the easiest possible method, ripping off their clothes.

So, our group consists of big guy that is a numbskull, refined female actress from Hollywood and, to my surprise, high school girl that is a military freak (o__O) Of course they need something to traverse this big world, so yeah, they have a freaking tank!!1 Well, with a setting like this, you just can’t have a decent, reasoned anime in the first place, so you can expect a lot of ludicrous adventures full of hilarious events – I personally laughed hard at an episode with little white bear ( I think it was in second season) .

The whole anime is really funny – characters tend to joke around even about them being in anime and such. If I had to compare this series, I’d say that it’s really similar to the original series of Slayers both in jokes and style. Well, some patterns tend to repeat themselves, like driving to the setting sun at the end of the day, but there is just few of them. Episodes are titled in the same pattern “Those, who…” and are relevant to what’s going to happen in current episode.

To sum it up, Those Who Hunt Elves is anime for people who like adventure comedies in style of Slayers, and where you don’t have to think too hard into it. If you expect some really deep, emotional stuff, then it’s not anime for you, BUT if you’re looking for anime to spend some good time with, it’s definitely anime for you.

Subbing Group: Exiled-Destiny

Episodes: 2x12

My Score: 7