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This was a very old and super generic heroes-trying-to-save-the-world show I watched sometime from the 90s to 2000.
The MC is a sword-fighting red haired boy and is said to often get mistaken as a girl. I mean I remember thinking that he looked feminine enough that he could pass as a girl. I know he's a guy because he and (maybe) some others had to swim across a river so he took off his shirt.
The heroes (MC included) each had a mystical ball of power with a kanji or something on it and travelled from planet to planet. They are not really special in any way; they were just selected to be heroes as they had the ball.
I remember they fought human-sized robots (which I guess was to lower the age rating as the MC cleaves his enemies into pieces). It was not a mecha anime.
The main(?)/last villain had a ball of mystical power too. I recall near the end (I know because the show ended soon after) that he killed his attendant with a sword to increase the power of his ball (The sword had a socket or place for the ball).
The villain’s ball was crushed in the end, and a blonde or brown haired girl was the only survivor of the heroes.
The world is saved.
P.S. I. I could have sworn the blond/brunette's name was Isabelle, Isabella or something similar. But Anime-Planet had nothing.
II. My sis recalled that the title of the anime was pretty long. She also found the show poor.
Edited by Nick4117