El Hazard

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US Licencee: Geneon (Pioneer)

There may be spoilers ahead, do not read unless you have watched a considerable share of the series mentioned

General

Jinnai: I really haven't researched this, but the name Jinnai seems to tell me that it might be a pun that says "not a person" or "not human". This explans Katsuhiko, but not so much Nanami, although both have the special skill of speaking the same language in El Hazard.

Bugrom: The English names seem to be those of the Marx brothers. I do not know what the Japanese names were, but I could infer from the English names that they may be adapted as the the US's equivalent of a popular Japanese slapstic comedy troupe. I need to research this.

Alternate Universes:

The Magnificent World This is the original. If you only had to see one, this is it. The rest are cute but really don't seem to add a whole lot, in my opinion.

Second OVA Series: In order to fit the second OVA series into the first, it seems to assume that a good deal of time between Ifurita's destruction of the Eye of God and Makoto's return to Earth. This seems to fit as Makoto looks a few years older when he does return in the end of the original OVA.

The Alternative World: This one seems a bit tricky, but the El Hazard-world timeline seems to allow it to fit before or after the second OVA series. They don't really say what the second alternate world is, but at the very least, it appears to be the final destination of the Eye of God that Ifurita destroyed. I think it could be El Hazard in the distant future, as the insects did seem to be Katsuo's distant relatives.

Wanderers As I've said before, this one doesn't really seem to fit. Fatora isn't in this one, while she is in all the others.

Wanderers follows the same often-used path of reformulating the characters into alternate timelines or alternate universes. Although AIC isn't the only animation company accused of doing this, they seem to do it the most often. The original OVA series and the Wanderers are obviously separate universes because they drastically change the initial events, how the priestesses are introduced, they change some personalities and so on.

Wanderers

This shot is part of the school festival in the first episode in Wanderers. It appears to be the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy, of another AIC OVA episode and TV series.

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Last Updated: 2004 September 5
Updated: 2001 October 15
Created: 2001 April 2