El Hazard: The Magnificent World / Shinpi no Sekai El Hazard
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: other world, priests and priestesses, yuri
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: When Makoto Mizuhara discovers an old monument in his school and awakens a beautiful woman, he, his teacher, his worst enemy and one of his female friends is transported to the magnificent world of El Hazard. There they discovers that they have received some special powers. Makoto and his teacher Fujisawa lands in a jungle and saves a princess from some large bugs. Makoto’s friend Nanami lands in a desert. And Makoto’s rival, Jinnai lands in the middle of the bug’s kingdom and becomes their general, plotting to destroy Makoto and his new friends. After several having his attacks repelled by Makoto several times, Jinnai learns about an ultimate weapon, the demon Ifurita. And so everyone sets of to find Ifurita, and when she’s found Makoto learns that she is the same woman that sent them to El Hazard. But the one gaining control of her is Jinnai.
**Number of episodes: 7
Vintage: 1995-05-26 to 1996-01-25
El-Hazard: The Wanderers / Shinpi no Sekai El Hazard
Genres: adventure, comedy
Themes: other world
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Makoto Mizuhara is working on his latest experiment in the school science lab, but when he takes a break his lifelong rival Katsuhiko Jinnai shows up and attempts to destroy the device and discredit Makoto. This overloads the experiment and transports Makoto, Jinnai, his sister Nanami, and their teacher Mr. Fujisawa to the strange and magnificent world El Hazard. Makoto and Fujisawa land squarely in the Kingdom of Roshtaria, and quickly befriend the princess Rune Venus. Jinnai allies himself with the Bugrom, a race of giant insects bent on taking over El Hazard, while his sister tries to eke out her own living in the desert. Makoto searches desperately for a way to return home, all the while fighting off the Bugrom, enlisting the help of the Holy Priestesses, and stopping the demon god Ifurita from destroying everything.
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 1995-10-06 to 1996-03-29
El Hazard 2 - The Magnificent World / Shinpi no Sekai Eruhazaado dai 2 ki
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy
Themes: other world
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Continuing the from OVAs; When Fujisawa, suffering from cold feet, leaves Miz at the altar, an enraged Priestess drafts Makoto and friends to go find him. In the course of locating the hapless (and gutless) teacher, they find another Ifurita. Meanwhile Jinnai and Diva searching for a new Bugrom homeland stumble upon another yet another Demon God, the impish Kalia. However, unlike Ifurita she has a mind, and a mission, of her own…
Number of episodes: 4
Vintage: 1997-03-21 to 1997-10-25
El Hazard: The Alternative World / Ijigen no Sekai El Hazard
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: other world
Plot Summary: Miz plans to retire as a Great Priestess of Water to married life with her darling Fujisawa and as replacement the young Qawoor Towles arrives to Floristica. Jinnai sees Qawoor’s initiation ceremony as a chance to infiltrate Makoto’s laboratory but accidentally activates a mysterious thingy that sends them all through the dimensions to a grey industrial city protected by a huge castle in an alternative world.
Number of episodes: 13
Vintage: 1998-01-08 to 1998-03-25
The series has some really great visuals and superb music.