Comments on: El Cazador de la Bruja Review - 89/100

by: sovayfox

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:22:54 +0100

I just had time to watch this series long after you blogged it. and, I had to watch it twice more to really watch the relationship between them develop. If you notice Ellis understands her feelings for Nadie before Nadie does her own for Ellis.

by: Solaris

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:48:02 +0000

I am doubtful, i liked the characters, the scenarios and backgrounds and the music too, but something seems wrong here. I mean the technical stuff is great and the plot is well performed, but something is missing!
I’m quite satisfided by the ending too…

What then? Ah the plot, maybe? It’s soooooooo sloooooooooow… ok with character studies, but pretty much NOTHING happens for 22 episodes and then everything happens in one shot! The grand finale is just resolved with one shot too (and a lame revive crap spell). Too bad!

PS: Is it possible that in 26 useless episodes we never happen to know ehere Lilio and Ricardo come from? Couldn’t they just use the last episode instead of showing us those gay crap? Ep #26 shines for how useless it can be!

by: Kane Nash

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:09:36 +0000

While not a challenge for Noir in terms of action scenes (gogogo Kirika gothic lolita =D ) or Madlax in plot complexity I am agree the guys of Bee Train focused this time more in the characters, heck, yeah! At least they got a happy and funny ending (those gay guys simply rock!), something I cant say from other animes which I dropped bcs they got bad endings (eg. School Days , Kotonoha apparently was the younger sister of Kirika 0_o…!), ok I will give them a 7.5/10, bcs it was really funny and got a lot more of sense of humour than the other series, and now lets see if Bee-Train decide to make a second season, but now with tons of action, gore, showdowns and witch powers =D !!!!

by: charlie_l

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:21:42 +0100

Bah, I can’t give El Cazador anything more then a 60-65/100. I have actually decided not to watch a Studio Bee Train Production again after this. Why? Well, I didn’t like Noir or Madlax because of the same problems as El Cazador. The animation is always dull, the characters are poorly made, the stories move WAY to slow, and in general it just gets repetitive and boring. I can’t forgive Studio Bee Train after doing a hack-job on a perfectly good manga…I’m talking about Tsubasa, which they completely ruined. It takes Studio Bee Train to turn something great, into a utter piece of garbage. Their direction and vision with series is always limited and narrow.

El Cazador should of been a 13 episode series. Then, IMO, it wouldn’t of been nearly as painful to watch. The constant amount of fillers was terrible….Actually, I could almost consider this whole anime one big filler. There was hardly any character development or plot development from one episode to the next. There had to have been 10 episodes that just had there stupid little encounters with L.A. that didn’t progress anywhere until the end. Speaking of the end, I don’t even want to start on the problems of that. The action was lame and not even exciting. At least Noir had interesting action occasionally.

I think this is the worst anime I have watched that has been released in 2007. :(

by: Sai-Sorai

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:56 +0100

In western countries, shoujo-ai refers to not romantic, but more than friends relationship between two girls (like Marimite mentioned above between Sachiko and Yumi or in Noir between two main protagonists). But the term is only used in the west. Yuri depicts “a very close relationship between a woman and a woman not spoiled by a man”, it does not state the kind of relationship they should have, so generally, all shoujo-ai anime fall under the cathegory of yuri. Western anime fans and otakus tend to believe that yuri anime is about romantic relationships between two females, like in Strawberry Panic! or in Kannazuki no Miko. Even though I still believe El Cazador to be more of a yuri than shoujo-ai type of series, considering the fact that relationship between Ellis and Nadie is much closer than in your normal shoujo-ai show and has that “romantic air” hanging above it, so even if it is not shown clearly, it should still be considered a yuri anime :D

by: andygrove

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 +0100

Psgels, have you ever taken a look at Maria-sama ga Miteru? It has beautiful character development, and the relationships are half way between friendship and romance (typically). Yumi and Sachiko seem to have become a classic couple.

(Psst, it’s about catholic schoolgirls, but don’t put it in the same boat as Strawberry Panic ;) I’m surprised you haven’t given the show a mention on your blog yet!

by: psgels

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:01:00 +0100

Kgw: really? I was under the impression that shoujo ai was simply a love-relationship between girls, while with yuri they’re actually getting it on with each other. I must’ve heard that one wrong.

by: Kgw

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:45:07 +0100

“Shôjo-ai” doesn’t exists. All girl-girl relationship is plain called “yuri”. At least, that’s what they say in Japan (one might think they know what they are talking about).

by: Windcutter

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:05:09 +0100

I really wish they made a second season focusing on Nadie’s past. A little more info on Lirio and Ricardo would be awesome as well.

by: Petrouchka

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:43:03 +0100

I’ve read somewhere (forgot where exactly) that the masked man from the ED could be death in human form. When I rewatched the ED sequence with that in mind, it made sense. No idea as for the sniper cat, though…

The main difference between El Cazador and its two predecessors is that it focuses on the characters and not the plot, and that turned off quite a few people, I think. I got the feeling that each side-character, each part of the plot was just there to help or try to separate Ellis and Nadie. But well, it might explain why I enjoyed it so much. It also has one of the best endings I’ve ever seen, which, for once, left me totally satisfied.

…I think this show has made me a Bee Train fan ^^

by: Taibideyo

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:25:41 +0100

El Cazador is different to Noir and Madlax totally.

El Cazador leaves some doubts…
Who is Lirio? Why she travels with Ricardo? And what is the Nadie’s past?
And the most important… who is the masked man??? xD

by: kacpy

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:21:01 +0100

I’m a BeeTrain fan too, but ever since Tsubasa Chronicle… EH. Maybe I used to be a BeeTrain fan…