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Elf Hunters
In General
- Anti-Hero Team: Due their tendecy of forcefully strip elves, with complete disregard of their feelings. And in some ocassions, Junpei seems to be enjoying too much what he is doing.
- Badass Crew: For better or for worse, Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko and later Celcia are a team. Junpei can kick people across a town, literally, Ritsuko has a Neko Tank and an arsenal of military-grade weapons and equipment, and Airi is a master strategist.
- But Now I Must Go: Ultimately the fate of the Elf Hunters sans Celcia at the end of the sequel manga
- Paper Fan of Doom: The women in the main cast, usually directed at Junpei (or any male too obsessed with the Elf Hunters quest), although Junpei himself uses it to prevent an uncomfortable old man homoerotic moment.
- Sexy Santa Dress: All the girls who act as Santa for temp jobs.
- Spanner in the Works: The elf hunters become this when an evil sorceress holds the entire world hostage as her magic, which can burn anyone at whim, does not work on those from the outside world.
- Summon Everyman Hero: Those Who Hunt Elves were the summoned heroes in question at the beginning of the story. The rest of the tale involves them trying to return home.
Junpei Ryuzouji
Junpei Ryuzouji
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Andrew Klimko (English), Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish), Víctor Ugarte (Latin American Spanish, young)
- Anime Hair: With hair that defies the laws of gravity.
- Badass Normal: Since many of his opponents are supernatural or magical in nature.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: He is a brawler who fights with his fists exclusively.
- The Big Guy: Played completely straight.
- Catchphrase: At least in the dub, Junpei says, "This is why I hate fantasy stories!"
- In the original manga, and it's "Freaking fantasy world!".
- "Forgive me for stripping you!"
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Junpei has incredible strength and speed from all his training and, as he put is, a natural talent for fighting.
- Chick Magnet: Several of the elves end up falling for Junpei, they even willingly strip because of it. Celica and Ritsuko also have a clear crush on him. In the manga the Elf Rebecca even stole all the fragments they had gathered because she didn't want Junpei to be sent home.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Be very afraid when Junpei finally stops fooling around and fights seriously.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Played very straight in the Christmas episode. Junpei kicks Satan up a chimney when he offers the group a deal.
- Hidden Depths: For such an Idiot Hero, he believes in the heliocentric model due to watching a television program about a man persecuted for his beliefs on the heliocentric model and then executed on the order of the church- this led Junpei to cry only once in his life. Despite needing Eri to explain the theory specifically in the anime, this reasoning for being moved speaks volumes about his character.
- Idiot Hero: Though how dumb varies between the manga and anime. For example, in the manga, he finds the portal to the mermaid temple by himself, while in the anime he needs Airi's help. Similarly in the manga, Junpei explains Heliocentrism to Celcia on his own, while he asks Airi to give the explanation in the anime.
- I Gave My Word: Junpei takes his fighter's honor very seriously. It actually wins over some of the elves they meet in their journey.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he is very abrasive, he is ultimately very helpful to his friends and considerate sometimes.
- Lightning Bruiser
- "Not So Different" Remark: Airi and Ritsuko have mentioned more than once how Junpei and Celcia are more alike than they care to admit.
- The One Guy: He is notably the only male on the team.
- Potty Emergency: Junpei, Season 2 Episode 2, complete with a graph and flashing alarm showing his current state. His dilemma leads to some
uncomfortable images. Ends with the discovery of a teddy bear that can excrete toilet paper, in perfect rolls, complete with cardboard tube. Yeah. - Right Behind Me: Dawn broadcasts a giant hologram of herself holding up a wanted poster of Junpei, telling everyone on the planet to watch for him, entirely unaware of Junpei's looming silhouette just behind her. Since she can sense the native's emotions, she briefly wonders why 2 billion people are mocking her at once before Junpei's foot lands.
- Ship Tease: Celcia and Junpei, and also Ritsuko and Junpei. The latter seemingly even gets jealous when something happened between Junpei and other girls, especially the time he (accidentally) kissed another girl.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Junpei is the polar opposite of his younger sister Mai Shintani in the sequel manga
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Junpei and Celcia, believe it or not. Junpei sure doesn't. As in, he's completely oblivious even when Celcia confesses to him. Though Junpei does admit to finding Celecia's true form attractive.
- Would Hit a Girl: In the opening of the series, he is seen kicking Celcia and fighting against her. And he often shows no hesitation to fight against female elves in order to strip them by force.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: In one chapter of the manga, Junpei states that "you can't go by in a fantasy world without knowing a spell or two", and thus sets out to train in the arcane arts in his very own way. Hilarity Ensues.
Ritsuko Inoue
Ritsuko Inoue
Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura (Japanese), Rozie Curtis (English), Cristina Hernández (Latin American Spanish)
- Badass Normal: Since many of her opponents are supernatural or magical in nature.
- Despair Event Horizon: Ritsuko slips into this briefly during the Mold arc after she realized she gave away the titular Mold, which allows the villain to burn her pretty much at will.
- Friendly Sniper
- Guns Akimbo: She is a military otaku.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak
Airi Komiyama
Airi Komiyama
Voiced by: Michie Tomizawa (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English), Dulce Guerrero (Latin American Spanish)
- Badass Normal: Since many of her opponents are supernatural or magical in nature.
- But Not Too Foreign: She's Japanese-American.
- Cult: At one stage, Airi founds a religious organisation who pray stark naked. Unsurprisingly this is mostly marketed at elves.
- Guile Hero: In addition to being a Master of Disguise, Airi is skilled at reading people and controlling them. She can often do more with a few words than the others can do with magic, bullets or fists.
- Katanas Are Just Better: She carries a katana
- The Load: Not that she's ineffectual. She just doesn't do a lot of the fighting.
- Master of Disguise: Justified in that she is an award-winning actress.
- Not So Above It All: Airi doesn't voice her frustrations over not being able to return to Japan as often as Junpei and Ritsuko, but she does complain internally. Like in episode nine of the anime where she has an inner monologue complaining about having to work a retail job selling dresses and the fact that in the elf world she's a nobody with no money.
- The Power of Acting: Airi uses this as her main weapon.
- The Smart Girl: Airi, lacking muscles, magic, and guns, relies solely on her brain and her acting skills to support the group.
Celcia Marie Claire
Celcia Marie Claire
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Jessica Calvello (Season 1) Shelley Calene-Black (Season 2) (English), Rommy Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)
- Anachronism Stew: Justified in that Celcia's spell summons objects from our world to hers (so having a tank makes perfect sense and is awesome), but also played straight in the pop culture references and the many religious profanities used. And Elf Mc Burger. You cannot escape McDonalds. (This eventually becomes a plot point, by the way.)
- Butt-Monkey: If there is anyone who has earned this title for the sheer amount of Epic Fails alone, it is Cecelia, who is considered to be, ironically, the best magician in the land. In the manga she even gets stuck as a literal monkey for a time.
- Critical Failure: Celcia, a lot. She screws up the spell to send the trio home not once, but twice. Not only that, but she's the one who cast the spell that summoned Junpei, Ritsuko, and Airi to her world in the first place!Especially true in the manga where she loses the fragments they've collected multiple times whenever they get all five or are close to getting all five.Despite exemplifying this trope for the sake of the plot, she's reasonably competent when the stakes aren't returning the heroes home.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When she reminds you that she's not just a Butt-Monkey and really is one of the most powerful magic users in the Elf world.
- Magic Misfire: Celcia disguises herself as a doglike creature to try to help them find the spell fragments without being recognized. However, when they find the first fragment and she transfers it to herself, it causes Shapeshifter Mode Lock until they have all the fragments. Her increasingly ridiculous appearance as the spell fragments transfer to her become a Running Gag.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Airi and Ritsuko have mentioned more than once how Junpei and Celcia are more a alike than they care to admit.
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Happens to Celcia.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Junpei and Celcia, believe it or not. Junpei sure doesn't. As in, he's completely oblivious even when Celcia confesses to him. Though Junpei does admit to finding Celecia's true form attractive.
- Stable Time Loop: It turns out that the Big Bad whom Celcia casts a protagonists-summoning spell to defeat is amnesiac Celcia from the future.
- Summon Everyman Hero: The back-plot of the story: to defeat the Big Bad, Celcia casts a spell which summons the protagonists. Less than a minute later, the Big Bad is only mostly dead, thanks to Ritsuko blasting it with the armored tank that the spell also brought along.
- Team Pet: For most of the series. Though what type of pet changes over the course of series.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Celcia has this type of relationship with her old Academy Rival the elf Rebecca in the manga and Junpei in both Anime and Manga. Junpei and Rebecca actually hit off because they both care for Celcia and think she's an idiot.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Celcia can transform into whatever she wants with her ring. However, played with in that she always ends up transforming into animals (hence she is considered Team Pet) and cannot transform back once she absorbs any one of the spell fragments. She can only change back once she gains all fragments or lose them all. The fact that the spell fragments, which manifest visibly in her body as she gains them, make her look ridiculous
◊ does not help. For those who don't understand the image, the dark lines on the big bird are the spell fragments that manifest on Celcia's body. And that big bird is only one of the forms that she ends up not so willingly taking throughout the whole comic. - Yank the Dog's Chain: Celcia has been able to return to her original form and can even stay in it for a few chapters, but she'll inevitably get stuck as some sort of creature again.
Mike
Mike
Voiced by: Eriko Kawasaki (Japanese), Joe Jaworski (Ep. 5-9) Christopher Bourque (Ep. 10-12) Tiffany Grant (Season 2) (English)
- Cool Tank: A Mitsubishi Type 74 Main Battle Tank, practically a character in its own right. Later on, it actually does become a character, when the cat spirit Mike (mee-kay) possesses it.
- Leitmotif: The tank is represented by an electric guitar riff.
- Mega Neko: Once the tank is inhabited by a cat spirit.
- Sapient Tank: The Type 74 "Mike" after being possessed by a cat.
- Tank Goodness: The friendly cat-possessed tank is certainly helpful.
Pichi
Pichi
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English)
- Curb-Stomp Battle The result of the battle with the Legendary Sorcerer in Treetown amounts to Pichi growing into a giant and eating the demon tree in one bite, then pooping it in the form of a giant toilet paper roll, a form that is even more difficult for the Sorcerer to move in
- Mundane Utility: Pichi's race can eat plants and transform them into perfect rolls of toilet paper. This becomes handy once the team runs out of it and Junpei needs to go to the bathroom badly.
- Team Pet: Ritsuko gets attached to one of the bears and decides to adopt it as her pet.
Others
Annette
Annette
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Melissa Cybele-Sparks (English), Monica Estrada (Latin American Spanish, season 1), Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish, season 2)
- Canon Immigrant: The elf Annette who showed up in the anime first and was later added to the manga.
- Remember the New Guy?: How Annette's introduction into the manga was handled. With the main cast acting like they've always known her and that she always was one of Celcia's advisers like in the anime, even though in the manga it was originally just the two old elves.
Einal
Einal
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa note (Japanese), Bob Elliott (Season 1) Rob Bundy (Season 2) (English), Agustin Sauret (Latin American Spanish)
Beenal
Beenal
Voiced by: Chafurin (Japanese), Lew Temple (Season 1) Randy Sparks (Season 2) (English), César Arias (Latin American Spanish)
Emily
Emily
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Heather Bryson (English), Alma Wilhelme (Latin American Spanish)
- Pointy Ears: She's an elf.
Andy
Andy
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Randy Sparks (English), Genaro Vasquez (Latin American Spanish)
Bronco
Bronco
Voiced by: Fujiko Takimoto (Japanese), Kurt Stoll (English), Kalima Marichal (Latin American Spanish)
Hammerhead
Hammerhead
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), Brett Weaver (English), Blas García (Latin American Spanish)
Gabriella
Gabriella
Voiced by: Eiko Yamada (Japanese), Kim Sevier (English), Monica Villaseñor (Latin American Spanish)
- Anime Hair: Her hair defies the laws of gravity.
- Demoted to Extra: Made several more appearances in the manga, but only appeared once in the anime.
- Pointy Ears: She's an elf.
Dihal
Dihal
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (Japanese), Rebecca Connelly (English), Ilia Gil(Latin American Spanish)
Rapier
Rapier
Voiced by: Minami Takayama (Japanese), Laura Chapman (English), Gabriela Willer (Latin American Spanish)
Sister Romina
Sister Romina
Voiced by: Kanako Tanaka (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English), Laura Ayala (Latin American Spanish)
Emmy
Pierre
Pierre
Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (Japanese), John Gremillion (English), Herman Lopez (Latin American Spanish)
Colleena
Colleena
Voiced by: Kae Araki (Japanese), Luci Christian (English), Vanessa Acosta (Latin American Spanish)
Grace
Milliea
Milliea
Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (Japanese), Marcie Corder (English), Norma Echevarria (Latin American Spanish)
- Clingy Costume: Millia from episode 10 ended up with an indestructible armor she cannot remove after trying to save her village from a giant. This ended up ruining her life, seeing how the armor comes with a pair of absurdly sharp blades she can't even stop wielding, making her unable to raise her hands without almost killing people. She got so desperate about it, that she actually approached the protagonists and begged them to strip her naked. By the end of the episode, they do succeed in removing the armor, much to her delight, but she ends up putting it back on when she realizes wearing a Nigh-Invulnerable armor and wielding two Cool Swords is kind of awesome.
- Pointy Ears: She's an elf.
Milliea's Grandfather
Milliea's Grandfather
Voiced by: Isamu Tanonaka (Japanese), Matthew Kelly (English)
- Dirty Old Man: Having a potion that makes elves take off their clothes?
- Eyes Always Shut
- Pointy Ears: He's an elf.
Judge
Judge
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Mike Kleinhenz (Season 1) Jay Hickman (Season 2) (English), Ricardo Hill (Latin American Spanish)
- Inspector Javert: While he's in the right about Those Who Hunt Elves being criminals and a serious nuisance, he's very much an authoritarian Jerkass. Even on the second season, when the team gets a special dispensation that allows them to do their "job" freely, he continues to insist that he wants them in jail and keeps seeking methods to make them lose the dispensation so he can do it (his favorite being stringing them along with a series of Impossible Mission bets with their freedom on the line—the team accepts because otherwise they would not be able to have access to the elves on those places, period). And when the team finally loses the dispensation, Judge orders their capture as gleefully as he can in his immense haughtiness.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Considering how much of a destructive nuisance Those Who Hunt Elves become, he has a point about them needing to be arrested. The problem is how much of a manipulative, authoritarian and above all smug jackass he is.
- Mirror Match: Used by Judge twice to weaken the heroes to arrest them: the first time it's a true-blue example of this with magical doppelgangers that only fight as long as Those Who Hunt Elves fight (if they stop fighting or are knocked out, the shadows disappear). The second time, he gathers a group of dimensional travellers of his own that are more amoral near-copies of Those Who Hunt Elves and sets them loose on the team.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Judge is only called "The Judge" by the other characters.
Magistrate
Magistrate
Voiced by: Rin Mizuhara (Japanese), Alissa Alban (Season 1) Monica Rial (Season 2) (English), Magda Giner (Latin American Spanish)
- Pointy Ears: She's an elf.
Professor Bruno
Professor Bruno
Voiced by: Chiharu Suzuka (Japanese), Monica Rial (English), Belinda Martinez (Latin American Spanish), Gaby Beltran (Latin American Spanish, young)
- Adaptational Species Change: Bruno is a human girl in the manga, but was an elf in the anime.
