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Junpei, a thick-headed martial artist. Ritsuko, tomboy and gun Otaku. Airi, award winning actress. These three are transported from their homes in Japan to a High Fantasy parallel world. Enlisting the aid of the most powerful elven sorceress in the land, they try— and fail —to cast a spell that will return them home. The result? The spell is made manifest as fragments on the bodies of five elven women throughout the land. To return home, they have to collect the fragments of the spell and join them into a working spell.
The catch? They don't know precisely which elves have fragments of the spell on them. The solution? Find every elf woman in the land and take off their clothes.
That's basically it. Their search for the spell fragments takes them across a strange fantasy land, where they earn renown for their amazing accomplishments as well as a healthy dose of infamy for their indecent behavior toward the land's elven women.
They also have a tank.
Has nothing to do with He Who Fights Monsters.
This series has examples of:
- 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 Mc Donalds.
- This eventually becomes a plot point.
- Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever: Creative use of an enlargement potion in an absence of Magic Pants makes for instant nudity. It also makes for an angry giantess who punches out a dragon that is threatening her town.
- Badass Crew: For better or for worse, Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko and later Celcia are a team.
- Badass Longcoat: Judge
- Badass Normal: Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko all qualify, since many of their opponents are supernatural or magical in nature.
- Better Than It Sounds: People run around the country stripping elven women. It sounds like the basis for nothing but fanservice, but the great deal of meta-humor keeps you watching the show that you picked up for the fanservice.
- The Big Guy: Junpei, played completely straight.
- Catch Phrase: At least in the dub, Junpei says, "This is why I hate fantasy stories!"
- This troper owns part of the original manga, and he does occasionally say "Freaking fantasy world!".
- "Forgive me for stripping you!"
- Censor Steam: Even during the initial fantastic tearing of clothes, the camera rarely catches inappropriate elf bits.
- The Chick: Airi. Not that she's ineffectual. She just doesn't do a lot of the fighting.
- Cool Tank: The Type 74 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.
- 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! Despite exemplifying this trope for the sake of the plot, she's reasonably competent when the stakes aren't returning the heroes home.
- To be fair, it was mostly Junpei's fault. The idiot got the wrong impression that Celcia needed to be naked to complete the spell, and Celcia made it damn clear that she needed silence so she could get as much concentration as possible on the spell.
- Then one has to wonder why her stupid old guards/men/whatever they are were hanging about. She pretty much only needed Ritsuko, Junpei, and Airi there, right? Though Junpei probably would have messed it up regardless.
- Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Be very afraid when Junpei finally stops fooling around and fights seriously.
- Cult: At one stage, Airi founds a religious organisation who pray stark naked. Unsurprisingly this is mostly marketed at elves.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: A dragon makes the mistake of perving over a stripped elf.
- Dirty Old Man: Celcia's advisors are perhaps a little too eager to help the Elf Hunters in their quest to return home. And Millia's grandfather having a potion that makes elves take off their clothes?
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Millia, from episode 10. Comes complete with World Of Card Board Speech.
- Everythings Even Worse With Sharks
- Fanservice: Comparatively little, considering the plot.
- So little in fact that we Yanks got away with slapping it with a PG rating because of the violence. Even though the plot involves people stripping Elves down to their birthday suits!
- Gag Dub: If you watch the English dub, it sounds a lot like The Abridged Series version of what you would expect. In fact, if it weren't for the slightly dated pop culture references from before abridging anime became popular, you'd think it was. A lot of the jokes are probably replaced and This Troper suspects that the characters are a lot more serious in the original Japanese.
- Not so much that you'd notice. One episode has several instances of Junpei, Ritsuko, and Airi scowling at their scripts and complaining about their inconsistent characterization. "Say, why were you afraid of ghosts in that last scene? I thought you were supposed to be fearless." "It's these fantasy shows, the characterization is never consistent." The scriptwriters and voice actors do not appear to be taking any of it seriously. They seem to be having fun, and their sense of fun is infectious. That's what makes this show Better Than It Sounds. Well, that and Kotono Mitsuishi and Yuko Miyamura, who can make almost anything fun.
- Guns Akimbo: Ritsuko. She is a military otaku.
- Hey Its That Voice: Vic Mignogna (better known to some as Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist) plays one of the wolf hunters in Season 2 Episode 7.
- I Gave My Word: Junpei takes his fighter's honour very seriously.
- I Have The High Ground: Judge again. He seems to enjoy pretending to be Tuxedo Mask.
- Leitmotif: The tank is represented by an electric guitar riff.
- Lightning Bruiser: Junpei.
- Master Of Disguise: Airi, justified in that she is an award-winning actress.
- Mega Neko: Once the tank is inhabited by a cat spirit.
- Mirror Match: Used by judge to weaken the heroes to arrest them.
- Naked People Are Funny: enough said.
- The Nudifier: the potion which will make any elf naked.
- The One Guy: Junpei.
- Our Elves Are Better: A notable aversion.
- Our Mermaids Are Different
- 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.
- Pimped Out Dress: The Dances And Balls episode.
- Playboy Bunny: Junpei accidentally bursts into a room where girls are dressing into them.
- 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.
- The Power Of Acting
- Pretty In Mink: A few outfits.
- Skimpy Holiday Dress: All the girls who act as Santa for temp jobs.
- Save Both Worlds: Brought up explicitly near the end of the first season is the idea that both Earth and the magical world to which the cast has been sent are fundamentally connected and in danger of some sort of magical cataclysm if the cast are not sent back to Earth. Then averted, or maybe just forgotten by the writers, because it's never mentioned again.
- Shout Out: "Those damn dirty humans!"
- The whole point of the series is to poke fun at pop cultures and conventional fantasy tropes.
- 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. Which leads to Epic Fail number two.
- The Smart Girl: Airi, lacking muscles, magic, and guns, relies solely on her brain and her acting skills to support the group.
- Team Pet: Celcia, for most of the series.
- 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.
- Spiritual Successor: Those Who Hunt The Butterfly, aka Ageha O Ou Monotachi, which is basically Junpei as an ex-prison guard trying to hunt down Airi while she hides in plain sight (In Space...), by simply stripping everyone naked he can and checking for a tattoo. Unlike Elves, though, Junpei tends to end up arrested/beat up/etc for his trouble.
- Unscaled Merfolk
- 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.
- 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.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Airi's purple hair.
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