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

Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto

Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto or anime for neko-freaks!! Seriously.

Story begins when our heroine, Taruto moves with her master to a new home. We get to know that Taruto can use magic - though it comes out the way she wants only more or less, with emphasis on "less". Her master lives in his own world of sweets and speaks some unrelated stuff all the time, so hearing how they "talk" with each other, can make you go FTW!!?

So, the story is all about cats and their world - human world is more of a background for what happens in the anime. Taruto is a really cute cat-girl and she's clumsy, and I mean really clumsy, both in actions and way of speaking. All the cats in anime are personified - each and every of them look like nekogirl or nekoboy - the later one I haven't seen anywhere beside this anime. Though cats can speak, people can't understand them, but Taruto "talks" with her master all the time despite that fact. What makes me wonder even to this moment is why the hell Taruto is a nekololi maid in pantyhose.

Soon, Taruto meets more cats, that become her friends - especially two other nekogirls and an old ninja geezer, who insists that also can use magic.

Whole anime revolves around Taruto experiencing weird adventures, mostly related to her failing magic and silly ideas, sometimes making us laugh or cry. Only at the end creators serve us some "thrilling" adventures with bad nekos scheming to catnapp princess of mystical world called Ganash... will they succeed? What's the role of Taruto in all this!? Will we see what Taruto has under her skirt!!? This and many more in Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto!

Whole serial has rather slow pace, without any thrills, but hey - it's a nice light comedy with nekos, and loli maid at that!!

To summarize, Taruto is nothing special, don't expect being glued to the screen through those twelve episodes of moeness, but if you love cute airhead nekololis, you're just going to love this series ;)

For everyone that's going to watch it - Tora Tora Nya Nya! <33~

Sub Group: Exiled-Destiny

Episodes: 12

My Score: 6/10