#el hazard

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

El-Hazard: The Magnificent World CD Cover

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly Shōnen Captain (月刊少年キャプテン) / Tokuma Shoten (徳間書店) / Jan 1996 issue

[sky-chau]

It the bug man

[hatie]

[schwarzfeesecond]

El Hazard: The Magnificent World OVA (1995/1996)

[captain-azoren]

I have a new character concept in mind, one that takes a lot of inspiration from these anime tomboys in particular. I haven't got the design drawn yet, but I know what I want;

Dark Skinned

Tomboy

Cat Girl

Braids and Tail

Big eater, loves meat.

Hotheaded, loves to fight.

Martial Artist

Punch Girl

I think I'll call her Lygrah, or Lysha. I'll get the design down soon. I already have the backstory in mind.

[ultraericthered]

HELLO FELLOW KATSUHIKO JINNAI ENJOYER

LORD GOD JINNAI, DA DOPE IN DA HOUSE!

[animefeminist]

Dweebs, Dorks, and Dictators: El-Hazard’s prescient political commentary

Although the isekai genre has garnered a reputation for pandering to consumers by offering little more than macho power fantasies and contrived scenarios for fan service, plenty of noteworthy examples demonstrate the genre’s capability to meaningfully comment on the real world. One shining example is the OVA series El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (1995–1996). 

While the series was made decades prior and set in, as is conventional, another world, its remarkably honest portrayal of a power-hungry dweeb trying to raze everything to the ground just to feed his own ego is painfully relevant to reality right now—especially if you live in the US, where a flailing strongman grasps for more and more power, and the world’s richest man calls one of our only societal safety nets a Ponzi scheme while standing under the banner of a department of questionable legality. El-Hazard’s depiction of its own petulant villain provides some eerily relevant commentary that resonates outside of the show’s original context, and makes revisiting the series particularly powerful.

Read it at Anime Feminist!