El-Hazard Online

General => El-Hazard Online => Topic started by: xxpacmanv1 on April 10, 2003, 02:07:00 am

Title: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: xxpacmanv1 on April 10, 2003, 02:07:00 am
Hey everyone!

Well i just recently bought el hazard: alternative world, el hazard: the wanderers, and el hazard: the magnificent world(OVA's).  I have never seen el hazard and it looked like a cool anime so i decided to buy the entire series(because i hate leaving anime series unfinished).  well my question is, what is the order of the series?  Is it the wanderers first then the ova's then the alternative world or the other way around... or since the ova's are split into two different sections, el hazard ovas and el hazard 2 ova's do i watch the second ova's after the second series(or mayb i'm retarded and have no idea what i'm talking about   ???)  O well, this msg went longer than i expected, but yea can anyone tell me in which order should i watch el hazard? thx
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: dooky on April 10, 2003, 05:42:08 am
The order goes like this:

OAV1
OAV2
The Alternative World.

The Wanderers is a separate continuity, based off elements of OAV1.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Fujisawa4654 on April 10, 2003, 10:47:36 am
But the wanderer's series has, I don't know HOW many episodes, it's all of the previous series put together.. Sorta. I prefer Wanderers over the 3 though  8)
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: xxpacmanv1 on April 11, 2003, 12:08:39 am
wait.......so the wanderers is basically oav1 oav2 and the alternative world put together.....:( i bought all 3 because i thought the wanderers was totally different...
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Captain Southbird (EHOL Creator) on April 11, 2003, 12:10:41 am
Nah, that's kind of an overstatement.

Wanderers uses some of the elements of El-Hazard to make it El-Hazardy, but it actually rewrites a bit of the core on how El-Hazard operates.  To speak too much might spoil it (or not make sense).  It's different than OAV1/2/AW, don't worry... it's kind of like telling the story of El-Hazard a "different way".
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: xxpacmanv1 on April 11, 2003, 01:05:57 am
icic, ok thanks  ;D so basically like record of lodoss wars vs. the new record of lodoss wars.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Captain Southbird (EHOL Creator) on April 11, 2003, 01:20:02 am
Have fun!  You will not be sorry you bought this. ;)  Especially after seeing OAV1...
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Kathy Guinea on April 11, 2003, 12:37:51 pm
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icic, ok thanks  ;D so basically like record of lodoss wars vs. the new record of lodoss wars.


Yeah EXACTLY! OVA 1,2 and Alternative World all go together... (like Record of Lodoss War OVA)

Wanderers is like the retelling...  (like Record of Lodoss War TV)
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Saucer on April 13, 2003, 07:40:33 pm
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icic, ok thanks  ;D so basically like record of lodoss wars vs. the new record of lodoss wars.

Right. Like Loddoss TV-which starts in the middle on the manga continuity -_-;-which is followed by Legend of Crystania. Where as the OVA just starts at the beginning and then veers completely off track. ^^;;;

At any rate, you most certainly did make a good decision by choosing El Hazard! I hope you enjoy the series. Please let us know what you think!
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: xxpacmanv1 on April 14, 2003, 03:06:29 am
yup will do  ;D.  O and i heard that the makers of tenchi made el hazard, is that true?  cuz i was thinking of getting all of tenchi also.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Tim needs time to work it out on April 14, 2003, 07:05:28 am
...How in the world are you affording all of this?

Unless you are buying illegit copies, I don't see how you can manage to buy the whole series and consider another whole series.

...or maybe you are just rich.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Saucer on April 14, 2003, 04:48:10 pm
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yup will do  ;D.  O and i heard that the makers of tenchi made el hazard, is that true?  cuz i was thinking of getting all of tenchi also.


Yup, And Dual and Photon as well. Masaki Kajishima also did a couple hentai titles; Masquerade and Spaceship Agga Ruter. ^^; The former is a pretty good OVA with alot more substance than usual for hentai. The latter is absolutely hysterical. Must be seen to be believed.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Captain Southbird (EHOL Creator) on April 14, 2003, 07:40:15 pm
Neil has an excellent short intro to the OAV that talks about Hayashi in relation to Tenchi and El-Hazard.  This ought to give anyone a good perspective of how the two are linked in history.  (Based on actual interviews with Hayashi himself.)

If you're lazy, just click here (http://www.el-hazardonline.net/cgi-bin/eholpage.cgi?series=MW;menu=1;content=mworld/introduction.html).
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Saucer on April 14, 2003, 09:46:52 pm
Very interesting. Did you also know that, the seed that became Tenchi Muyo germinated in the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA? Hayashi and Kajishima, who were both assistants on that project, were just brainstorming and thought "Wouldn't it be interesting if Mackie went to a hotsprings with the Knight Sabers? Imagine a single young man surrounded by several beautiful young women?" And the rest is history. ^_^;
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Captain Southbird (EHOL Creator) on April 14, 2003, 10:15:49 pm
Well, I'm sure there are plenty of other ties here and there, they just don't pertain to the El-Hazard story.  ;)

But no, I did not know of this, but then I'm not really well versed in BGC either.   Unless we're talking about the data format I invented a long time ago for my games.  ;D  (Bob Glob Clump)
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: xxpacmanv1 on April 15, 2003, 12:40:54 am
Yea i saw Dual! and i love that series, i think it should be a little bit longer though, 13 episodes plus the OVA just didn't cut it, but it was still good.  O and to Tim the dazed guy, haha, well you see ever since i got into college(I'm an comp sci major) i have had very little time to go out and hang out with my friends anymore because i spend so much time working on my projects at home on my computer (yea i'm such a loser now), and i broke up with my girlfriend because basically i chose my schooling over her...well at least she made me choose, didnt' let me have both.  O well, i'm in college there's p lenty of women out there.  So basically without goin out with friends anymore, and no more girlfriend, i have saved up a lot of money.  ;D so that's how i can afford all these.  I actually just started collecting anime, i went on an all out anime spree one day and bought my two favorite anime's cowboy bebop and martian successor nadesico as well as the whole series to el hazard with the money i saved, and of course i worked in the summer a lot so i had a lot of cash to spare.  So basically when i get programmer's block and i can't think of what to do next i just go watch anime for an hour or two, since that's not enough time to really go out.  Haha this message went on longer than i thought, so basically taht's my life right now if u can call that a life  :P.
Title: Re: hey everyone, i'm a newb with a question
Post by: Saucer on April 15, 2003, 10:05:09 pm
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Well, I'm sure there are plenty of other ties here and there, they just don't pertain to the El-Hazard story.  ;)

But no, I did not know of this, but then I'm not really well versed in BGC either.   Unless we're talking about the data format I invented a long time ago for my games.  ;D  (Bob Glob Clump)

Bubblegum Crisis is a good way to go, if you need a recommendation for your next anime purchase. An AIC 80s classic! Just make sure you pick up the original OVA, and not the recent BGC Tokyo 2040 TV series (suXx0r! :P).