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alt title(s): Bakuretsu Hunters 
They were called Sorcerer Hunters.
A 13-volume manga written by Satoru Akahori with art by Ray Omishi, which was adapted into a 26-episode anime TV series and 3-part OAV. The series also spawned various video games and radio dramas.
The Spooner Continent is ruled by "Sorcerers", a Witch Species which rules over the "Parsoners" as a noble class. With their magical powers, they can exploit the Parsoners virtually at will. However, the 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".
Meanwhile, Leisure Suit Larry swordsman Carrot Glace, his Bishounen little brother Marron, Clingy Jealous Action Girl Chocolate Misu and her Unlucky Childhood Friend Shrinking Violet little sister Tira, and borderline Hard Gay muscleman Gateau Mocha Walk The Earth... and you can see where this is going, can't you.
From the creator of Saber Marionette J, Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, and Maze Megaburst Space.
This series contains examples of:
- Action Girl (Tira and Chocolat)
- Adaptation Distillation (The anime takes a very different turn from the manga after about 8 episodes)
- Adaptation Decay (YMMV, but the TV anime wastes a lot of what made the manga great - dynamic wardobes, Marron and Gateau's/Marron and Carrot's Ho Yay, making Chocolat way more annoying, Sirius, most of the character development, trading Tira's sexy bondage-queen costume for that ridiculous tap-dancing ensemble and pink hair... and so forth.)
- After The End
- And Thats Terrible
- Badass Bookworm (Marron and Tira)
- Beach Episode
- Berserk Button (Hurt Carrot and Marron will kick your ass.)
- Beware The Nice Ones (Marron, Mille, Tira, Apricot, Cinnamon...)
- Beware The Superman (The Sorcerers are treated as nobility to keep them from really causing trouble.)
- Bishounen
- Boisterous Bruiser (Gateau, Onion)
- Brainwashed
- Brainwashed And Crazy (Gateau and Carrot in the second volume of the manga)
- Cheryl Blossom (Mousse in the manga)
- Chinese Girl (Dota)
- Clingy Jealous Girl (Chocolat)
- Commissar Cap (Chocolat)
- Crouching Moron Hidden Badass (Carrot and Chocolat)
- Die For Our Ship (Poor Enzeru! And poor Chocolat, sometimes.)
- Dis Continuity (the 10th anniversary special and the short sequel)
- Distress Ball (Everyone gets handed one at some point)
- Dropped A Bridget On Him (Milphey and Marron, to a number of fans)
- Dub Text (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)
- Expy (The artist notes in the manga that Eclair's initial appearance is deliberately based on a certain female fighting game character, which This Troper understands to be Street Fighter's Cammy). She also notes the village elder's similarity to Yoda of Star Wars.
- Face Heel Turn -> Heel Face Turn (Eclair, Gateau's younger sister in the manga)
- Fan Preferred Couple
- Fanservice
- First Girl Wins ( Tira in the manga)
- Five Man Band:
- Genki Girl (Dota, Eclair after her Heel Face Turn in the manga)
- Gentle Giant (Gateau)
- Healing Hands (Tira)
- Heroic Sacrifice ( Marron in the anime, Tira and Gateau in the manga. They come back, though.)
- And And Mama and the Haz Knights, in the manga. They don't..
- Hot Springs Episode
- Ho Yay (Gateau's flirtation with Marron, especially in the dub of the anime; also, Marron's brotherly (?) affection for Carrot in the manga. There's also Milphey's shameless flirtations with Carrot and Onion.)
- Idiot Hero (Carrot)
- If Its You Its Okay (Gateau loves showing off his body to lots of girls... and to Marron)
- Jerkass (Carrot and his manga-only father Onion, at certain points)
- Knife Nut (Chocolat's other Weapon Of Choice, aside of her Razor Floss, are throwing knives)
- Also Apricot, in the manga.
- Knight Templar (Zaha Torte will create a better world At Any Cost(tm))
- Last Of His Kind (Dota and Sirius are the last of a species of Winged People in the manga, which is never expanded on past volume 6)
- Leisure Suit Larry (Carrot)
- Like Brother And Sister (The reason Carrot's not into Chocolat or Tira)
- Lotus Eater Machine (The anime episode with the magic book that grants the Hunters' wishes; Carrot gets split into three parts to grant both his wishes and the Misu sisters'. The episode also proudly leans on the fourth wall.)
- Love Triangle
- Mama Bear (Apricot Glace. In the manga, she took on a DEMON LORD to protect Carrot. When said demon tried to possess her to capture Carrot, she killed herself to stop him.)
- Market Based Title (ADV Films released the second half of the series as "Spell Wars: Sorcerer Hunters' Revenge" to persuade the American market that the anime had Grown The Beard.)
- Meganekko (Tira, outside the battlefield)
- Megumi Hayashibara (Tira)
- Miniature Senior Citizens
- New Powers As The Plot Demands
- No Fourth Wall (Happens constantly, but especially courtesy of Potei 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 cameo jumps in just in time to ruin the ensuing Carrot/Marron Ho Yay, and explain that Carrot got the chapter title wrong).
- No Guy Wants An Amazon (Carrot will chase anything with a chest and a skirt, but ignores the advances of Chocolat and Tira, who would sleep with him anytime he wanted. Not only he seems to view them more as sisters than girlfriends, but they also beat the shit out of him often.)
- Since Carrot has been seen chasing both a buff female wrestler and a female version of himself (amongst other examples), this seems an unlikely reason for his fear of the Misu sisters.
- Not As You Know Them (This troper is still traumatized by what happened to Carrot in the sequels.)
- Of Corsets Sexy (Tira in "combat" mode favors these.)
- Parental Abandonment (Quite a few dead or missing parents in this one, folks)
- Personality Powers
- Princess Curls (Big Mama)
- Quite amusing, since she actually does turn to be a princess.
- Razor Floss (Chocolat's favorite weapon, also used by Tira ina slightly different form)
- Sealed Inside A Person Shaped Can (Carrot has the "God of Destruction" sealed within him.)
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
- Shrinking Violet (Tira in "normal" mode.)
- Strangled By The Red String ( Carrot and Tira's romance in the manga)
- Stripperific (Chocolat and Tira, literally.)
- Stupid Sexy Flanders (Milphey Yuu in the manga and OVAs)
- Superpowered Evil Side (Carrot's shapeshifting.)
- Tenchi Solution (the anime's handling of the Carrot/Tira/Chocolat triangle strongly hints at this)
- The Power Of Friendship, especially in the anime
- The Power Of Love ( Carrot and Tira in the manga, quite literally. Twice.)
- Tsundere (Chocolat (more tsuntsun) and Tira (more deredere). Carrot and Marron's mother Apricot in the manga qualifies as well)
- Unlucky Childhood Friend ( Chocolat in the manga)
- Wall Banger: The sequels. Carrot gains a ton of weight and loses a few IQ points, Tira is little more than his devoted angry housewife, and the plots are less plots and more ridiculous excuses for fanservice.
- We Help The Helpless (What the Five Man Band does, strictly)
- Whip It Good (Tira's weapon is a whip)
- Woobie Destroyerof Worlds (Charlotte, Big Mama's traumatised little brother in the manga)
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