Line #52 Manga/SorcererHunters


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2	[[caption-width-right:280:They were called Sorcerer Hunters.]]
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4	''Sorcerer Hunters'' is a light novel and manga series written by Creator/SatoruAkahori with art by Ray Omishi, which was adapted into a 26-episode anime TV series and 3-part OAV, both produced by XEBEC with the TV series as their first work. The series also spawned various video games and radio dramas.
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6	The Spooner Continent is ruled by "Sorcerers", mages who rule over the [[{{Muggles}} "Parsoners"]] as a noble class. With their magical powers, they can exploit the Parsoners virtually at will. However, there are rumors of those who will punish any Sorcerers who abuse their powers and harm the innocent - a mysterious band of five teenagers, the "Sorcerer Hunters".
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8	Meanwhile, CasanovaWannabe swordsman Carrot Glacé, his {{Bishounen}} little brother Marron, [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous]] ActionGirl Chocola Misu and her UnluckyChildhoodFriend ShrinkingViolet little sister Tira, and borderline MachoCamp muscleman Gateau Mocha [[WalkingTheEarth Walk The Earth]]... and you can see where this is going, can't you.
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10	!!''Sorcerer Hunters'' provides examples of:
11	* AdaptationalModesty: Tira and Chocola's outfits are a lot more modest in the anime than in the manga, probably because the only way a faithful reproduction of Chocola's outfit wouldn't involve flashing her nipples every other frame would be is if her top was glued on.
12	%%* AfterTheEnd
13	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Carrot actually finds it easier to get a date after TheReveal that [[spoiler:he's possessed by the God of Destruction]]. The village girls think it makes him cool and mysterious.
14	* AmbiguouslyGay: Marron. According to one postscript in volume 10, the initial story made him openly gay; the wording didn't make it clear how much this aspect was changed.
15	* ArtEvolution: Tira's outfit changed from orange in the series to black in the [=OVAs=].
16	* BabyMorphEpisode: Episode 8 "The Forbidden Fire" has the Hunter sans Carrot infiltrate a sorcerer's seemly noble crusade of fighting evil spirits in nearby ruins when in reality, he deages his victims and tortures them until he gets tired.
17	* BeachEpisode: Anime Episode 4 " The Fireworks of Love" and Manga Chapter 10 "Beware of Beach Babes" has the Hunters head to the beach for a little R&R.
18	* BestHerToBedHer: Gateau's younger sister Eclair once vowed that she would never fall in love with any man who couldn't beat her in a fight.
19	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Marron, Mille, Tira, [[spoiler: Abricot, Cinnamon]]...
20	* BewareTheSuperman: The Sorcerers are treated as nobility to keep them from ''really'' causing trouble.
21	* BoisterousBruiser: Gateau and Onion
22	* {{Bowdlerize}}: For the TV series, the costume designs were changed significantly due to broadcasting restrictions.
23	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Gateau and Carrot in the second volume of the manga.
24	* ChivalrousPervert: Carrot may be a hopeless lech, but if he learns that a pretty girl already has a boyfriend, he will immediately leave her alone.
25	* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: This is apparently Tira's main job, with the Cloudcuckoolander in question being Carrot. Between whipping Carrot's monster forms until he changes back and smacking Carrot around in human form to make him suspend his lecherous idiocy to concentrate on work, she spends more time keeping him in line than she does hunting sorcerers directly.
26	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Carrot and Tira's voice actors, Shinnosuke Furumoto and Creator/MegumiHayashibara, sing the opening theme for the TV series. Hayashibara also performed the OVA's ending theme along with Chocola's voice actress Creator/YukoMizutani.
27	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Tira and Chocola constantly abuse Carrot, which is supposed to be seen as funny. Granted, he is a pervert.
28	* DubText: Marron is more or less asexual and doesn't really pay attention to Gateau's flirting, but the dub adds lines about his possible homosexuality.
29	* DuelingMessiahs: Big Mama vs Sacher Torte. Both believe that the world is not a nice place anymore, but while Big Mama strives to heal it, Sacher Torte wants to destroy it and rebuild it from scratch, believing it too far gone for redemption. Big Mama's dedication to maintaining the world is so absolute, she even [[spoiler:attempted to ''kill'' Carrot so he wouldn't turn into the God of Destruction]].
30	* EdibleThemeNaming: ''Everyone.'' All named from desserts. Relatively obvious are Carrot, Onion, Abricot (apricot), Count Potato Chips, and Cinnamon Tea; there's also Tira Misu, Chocola (chocolate) and Marron (chestnut). Gateau, eclair, and mille-feuille are all French pastries. Sachertorte is a rich Austrian chocolate cake. Even [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_%28dessert%29 Charlotte]] is a food name. Satoru Akahori is fond of this trope, and practically everything he writes uses it.
31	** Abricot's maiden name is ''Anzu'', which is Japanese for...apricot. So her name is basically Abricot Apricot. Double EdibleThemeNaming!
32	* EpisodeOfTheDead: Manga chapters 11-13 "The Spellbook of the Necromancer" and OVA episode 2 in which the Hunters battle a necromancer named the Death Master who's turning living humans into his [[VoodooZombie zombified slaves]].
33	* {{Expy}}:
34	** The artist notes in the manga that Eclair's initial appearance is deliberately based on a certain female fighting game character, who is clearly Cammy from ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. Not only that, but Eclair's brother Gateau is said to have been designed in the image of Guile. The artist also notes the village elder's similarity to Yoda of ''Franchise/StarWars''.
35	** You can also spot ''tons'' of Expy Extras in the background of various manga panels, especially in the beach episodes, and {{Cosplay}}s of characters from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'', ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' and ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', amongst others. In the 'Iron Chef' chapter, most of the cast of ''VideoGame/{{Angelique\|KoeiTecmo}}'' seems to be in attendance.
36	* FaceHeelTurn[=/=]HeelFaceTurn: Eclair, Gateau's younger sister in the manga.
37	** Plus a vanilla FaceHeelTurn in the backstory [[spoiler:Sacher Torte, who later does a bit of a turn again, but unfortunately RedemptionEqualsDeath]] and numerous HeelFaceTurn examples [[spoiler:Sirius, the village elder and his lover]].
38	* FanDisservice: You'd think a butler who lives to please his master and crossdresses would be hot. Unfortunately, the master is a small child with a lisp and the butler is little old man. Pass the BrainBleach, please.
39	* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler: Tira in the manga]].
40	* ForTheEvulz: A lot of sorcerers perform a wide variety of atrocities on the local population for no reason beyond their own entertainment.
41	* GainaxEnding: The last episode of the anime has an ambiguous ending. [[spoiler: Sacher kills all of Carrot's companions, then starts smacking him around to try to force him to unleash the God of Destruction. Big Mama commits suicide, and then proceeds to track down the other hunters in the next life so that she can awaken their memories of their previous life. This somehow allows them to come back to life with an apparent powerup, but instead of defeating Sacher, they run to embrace Carrot and celebrate the fact that he didn't give in. Sacher refuses to admit that he was wrong and flees, Mama somehow revives herself, and the world goes back to its daily routine. Then the series ends on a scene in the next life where someone like Carrot is hitting on a girl who looks like Daughter.]]
42	%%* GenkiGirl: Daughter, Eclair after her HeelFaceTurn in the manga.
43	%%* GentleGiant: Gateau
44	* GodInHumanForm: In the manga, the Sorcerer Hunters are all the reincarnations of five deceased gods. Carrot is the reincarnation of Hakaishin, God of Destruction, whilst Tira, Chocola, Marron and Gateau are the reincarnations of Apros, Qurin, Yaksha and Karlman, who were respectively the Gods of the West, South, East and North and who perished after subduing Hakaishin.
45	* HealingHands: Tira has the power to heal others. The manga connects this to her past incarnation as the goddess Apros, whose divine portfolio was healing.
46	* HarmlessVillain: Potato Chips is a sorcerer who repeatedly causes trouble for the heroes, but as he's basically just a kid who's trying to pick up girls, most of the problems he causes are more accidental than intentional. This is why he makes it through the series alive.
47	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Marron in the anime, Tira and Gateau in the manga.]] [[UnexplainedRecovery They come back, though.]]
48	** And [[spoiler: And Mama and the Haz Knights, in the manga]]. [[spoiler: They don't.]].
49	%%* HotSpringsEpisode
50	* HotterAndSexier: The OVA. Tira and Chocola get their all black {{dominatrix}} attires faithfully adapted (minus the swastika on Chocola's hat) and the first episode especially indulges with the nipple shots.
51	* IdenticalStranger: Chapter 14 "Carrot Turns Into a Girl?!!" has the gang meet Ginny who's essentially Carrot with boobs and a side ponytail. After beating her admirer/Sorcerer of the Day, Carrot naturally hits on her.
52	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Carrot and Onion are jerks, but they do care for each other and their friends.
53	* KnightTemplar: Sacher Torte will create [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans a better world]] At Any Cost(tm).
54	* LastOfHisKind: Daughter and Sirius are the last of a species of Winged People in the manga, which is never expanded on past volume 6.
55	* LikeBrotherAndSister: The reason Carrot's not into Chocola or Tira.
56	* LotusEaterMachine: The anime episode with the magic Chocola that grants the Hunters' wishes; Carrot gets split into ''three parts'' to grant both his wishes and the Misu sisters'. The episode also proudly [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall leans on the fourth wall]].
57	* LoveFatherLoveSon: Millefeuille's thing for Onion seems to have passed down to Carrot. Though to be fair, he likes teasing everybody, he just enjoys flirting with those two the most.
58	* LoveTriangle: A SiblingTriangle between Carrot and the Misu sisters. Either sister fine with the other winning Carrot's heart to the point when [[spoiler:Tira wins in the manga, Chocola has no problem wanting to make it AFamilyAffair.]]
59	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Ultimately, Tira and Chocola's former selves, Mother of West Apros and Holy Demon Kurin, respectively. [[spoiler: Naturally, Carrot marries the younger, cuter, less aggressive and more maternal of the two sisters, while the older, sexier, and more ruthless one cheerfully asserts herself as his mistress.]]
60	* MageSpecies: The difference between Sorcerers and Parsoners is a genetic trait; having it lets you use magic, lacking means you can't use magic. At least, not ''that type'' of magic...
61	* MagicAIsMagicA: There are at least two different forms of magic in the setting. Sorcerers use one type of magic, which requires a specific gene. Eastern Style Magic, as practiced by Marron, doesn't require the Sorcerer Gene.
62	* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler: Reviving the God of Destruction drained all the magic in the world, and destroying him didn't bring the magic back. As such, by the end of the manga there are no more sorcerers, and therefore no more need for Sorcerer Hunters.]]
63	* MamaBear: Abricot Glacé. In the manga, [[spoiler: she took on a DEMON LORD to protect Carrot. When said demon tried to possess her to capture Carrot, she ''[[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]]'' to stop him]].
64	* MarketBasedTitle: Creator/{{ADV Films}} released the second half of the series as "Spell Wars: [-Sorcerer Hunters' Revenge-]" to persuade the American market that the anime had [[GrowingTheBeard Grown The Beard]].
65	%%* MiniatureSeniorCitizens
66	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: According to Millefeuille, Carrot's zoanthropy works in this way adapting to whatever magic he absorbs and transforming into the appropriate form needed for the moment.
67	* NoFourthWall: Happens constantly, but especially courtesy of Potato and his butler. The most blatant example is a chapter near the middle of the manga where Carrot thinks the series is ending, and proceeds to promise all his teammates their ideal endings. An author [[CreatorCameo cameo]] jumps in just in time to ruin the ensuing Carrot/Marron HoYay, and explain that Carrot got the chapter title wrong.
68	* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Carrot's reason for spurning Chocola and Tira's advances.
69	** Well, it's also because they regularly beat him senseless with whips and imprison him when he tries to chase girls and are just generally terrifying.
70	%%* NotAsYouKnowThem: What happened to Carrot in the sequels is pretty traumatizing. ZCE: What sequels, and what happened to Carrot?
71	* OlderThanTheyLook: Salad Chips is ''35'' for a good portion of her appearances, but looks like a junior high schooler.
72	* ParentalAbandonment: Quite a few dead or missing parents in this one, folks.
73	** Add ParentalBetrayal, as [[spoiler:Chocola and Tira's surrogate father, Sacher Torte, does a FaceHeelTurn and becomes the BigBad]] during their backstory.
74	** MissingMom: Carrot and Marron's mother, Abricot.
75	*** Though [[spoiler:she manages to [[UnexplainedRecovery get better]]]] in a surprisingly well-justified way.
76	%%* PersonalityPowers
77	%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: Especially in the anime.
78	%%* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Carrot and Tira in the manga, quite literally. '''Twice'''.]]
79	%%* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Carrot has the "God of Destruction" sealed within him.]]
80	%%* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip
81	* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Carrot is a Hits On Everyone But You towards Tira and Chocola - probably because the way they act when they take their coats off scares him. Naturally, the only girl either of these two is willing to lose Carrot to is the other, so this behavior just inspires more such treatment.
82	* StayInTheKitchen: Gateau's attitude toward Eclair, even going as far to ''slap'' her when she wants to get in on the adventuring. Extra weird because she's the stronger of the two.
83	* StockFootage: Three notable ones: Carrot transforming, and Chocola and Tira stripping off their outer layers to reveal their fighting outfits. Expect to see at least one in virtually every episode.
84	%%* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Mousse in the manga.
85	* ThreePlusTwo: The manga started with Carrot, Tia and Marron with Gateau and Chocola coming in ch. 6.
86	* TimeShiftedActor: In the anime, Lake's younger and adult selves are voiced by Creator/ReiSakuma, while her older self is voiced by the late Creator/MasakoSugaya.
87	* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Chocola in the manga. Not that she lets this stop her - she proceeds to declare herself Carrot's mistress and tries to horn in on Carrot and Tira's relationship ''on their wedding night'']].
88	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Carrot's disturbed when he discovers that Millefeuille's actually male. Millefeuille is still happy to continue flirting; Carrot's reaction after the reveal falls under StupidSexyFlanders, as seen above.
89	%%* WeHelpTheHelpless: What the Five Man Band does, strictly.
90	* WhamEpisode: Episode 8 "The Forbidden Fire" reveal not only the dark and troubled past of Sorcerer Hunters, but reveals Zaha Torte and causes Carrot to go berzerk in his beast mode... ''[[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening without getting hit]] [[DefenceMechanismSuperpower by magic]]''.
91	%%* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: [[spoiler:Charlotte, Big Mama's traumatized little brother]] in the manga.

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