History Manga / ThoseWhoHuntElves

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Celcia's old-self, Celcia's current-self, Airi, Junpei, and Ritsuko. (Mihke is missing)]]

In 2017, after 20+ years, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-09/those-who-hunt-elves-2-manga-listed-as-ending-with-10th-volume/.125052 the series ''finally'' ended]] [[spoilers:and they're finally back home]]

In 2017, after 20+ years, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-09/those-who-hunt-elves-2-manga-listed-as-ending-with-10th-volume/.125052 the series ''finally'' ended]]

* SiblingYingYang: [[spoiler:Junpei is the polar opposite of his younger sister Mai Shintani in the sequel manga]]

You can find a playlist of the series [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGREVTjIpC4&list=PLC400FE9A90442F26 here.]]

You can find a playlist of the series [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGREVTjIpC4&list=PLC400FE9A90442F26 here]].

* AnachronismStew: Justified in that [[spoiler: Celcia's spell summons objects from our world to hers]] (so having a tank makes perfect sense [[RuleOfCool 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.''

* BadassCrew: For better or for worse, Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko [[spoiler: and later Celcia]] are a team. Junpei can kick people across a town, [[ATwinkleInTheSky literally]], Ritsuko has a [[MegaNeko Neko]] [[TankGoodness Tank]] and an arsenal of military-grade weapons and equipment, and Airi is a master strategist.
* BadassLongcoat: Judge

* DespairEventHorizon: Ritsuko slips into this briefly during the Mold arc after [[spoiler: she realized she gave away the titular Mold, which allows the villain to burn her pretty much at will.]]

* [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: [[spoiler: Millia, from episode 10.]] Comes complete with WorldOfCardBoardSpeech.

* {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Junpei.

* MagicMisfire: 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 [[spoiler: ShapeshifterModeLock until they have all the fragments. Her increasingly ridiculous appearance as the spell fragments transfer to her become a RunningGag.]]

* MegaNeko: [[spoiler: Once the tank is inhabited by a cat spirit.]]

* NakedFreakout

* PottyDance / PottyEmergency: Junpei, Season 2 Episode 2, complete with a graph and flashing alarm showing his current state. His dilemma leads to some [[{{Squick}} uncomfortable images.]] Ends with [[spoiler: the discovery of a teddy bear that can excrete toilet paper, in perfect rolls, complete with cardboard tube. Yeah.]]

* ShipTease: As mentioned somewhere in this page, Celcia and Junpei, and also Ritsuko and Junpei. The latter seemingly even gets jealous when something happened between Junpei and other girls, [[spoiler: especially the time he (accidentally) kissed another girl]].

* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: 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 EpicFail number two.]]

* TankGoodness

* UnscaledMerfolk

* InspectorJavert: Judge. 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 ImpossibleMission 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).

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent

* BadassCrew: For better or for worse, Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko [[spoiler: and later Celcia]] are a team. Junpei can kick people across a town, [[ATwinkleInTheSky literally]], Ritsuko has a NekoTank and an arsenal of military-grade weapons and equipment, and Airi is a master strategist.

* BadassCrew: For better or for worse, Junpei, Airi, and Ritsuko [[spoiler: and later Celcia]] are a team.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Junpei has incredible strength and speed from all his training.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The manga Mold arc, with a villain that actually managed to conquer the world and ''8 million'' deaths upon her introduction alone. Compare this to the usual story arcs where pretty much nobody dies.

* MomentOfAwesome: Near the end of the Mold arc, when Dawn [[spoiler: ordered everyone to look for the protagonists, holding up a picture of Junepei, guess who shows up ''right behind her''...]] Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** --->'''Dawn:''' [[spoiler: Two billion people, mocking me at once?!]]

* CorwningMomentOfAwesome: Near the end of the Mold arc, when Dawn [[spoiler: ordered everyone to look for the protagonists, holding up a picture of Junepei, guess who shows up ''right behind her''...]] Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* EvilCounterpart: Bartz, Kilica, and Teesen in the manga who serves Dawn Baxton. Their roles are similar to Junpei, Ritsuko, and Airi respectively, i.e. Bartz is a BareFistedMonk, Teesen is a ShapeShifter, and Kilica...well, hers is actually slightly different as she's actually a PuppetMaster who specializes with PeoplePuppets and StandardStatusEffects instead of being a FriendlySniper.

* IdenticalStranger: Kilica from the manga is pretty much Ritsuko with elf ears and a different hair color.

* ShipTease: As mentioned somewhere in this page, Celcia and Junpei, and also Ritsuko and Junpei. The latter seemingly even gets jealous when something happened between Junpei and other girls.

* ButtMonkey: If there is anyone who has earned this title for the sheer amount of [[EpicFail Epic Fails]] alone, it is Cecelia.

* CurbStompBattle: The fighting in this series pitch the residents of a typical high fantasy setting against a second generation main battle tank.

* PottyDance / PottyEmergency: Junpei, Season 2 Episode 2, complete with a graph and flashing alarm showing his current state. His dilemma leads to some [[{{Squick}} uncomfortable images.]] Ends with [[spoiler: the discovery of a teddy bear that can excrete toilet paper, in perfect rolls, complete with cardboard tube.]]
* ThePowerOfActing

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* OurElvesAreBetter: A notable aversion. They all ''look good'', but otherwise their society seems to have integrated well into that of human's.

* CoolTank: The Type 74 tank, practically a character in its own right. [[spoiler:Later on, it actually ''does'' become a character, when the cat spirit Mike (mee-kay) possesses it.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Celcia's old-self, Celcia's current-self, Airi, Junpei and Ritsuko. (Mihke is missing)]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Celcia old-self, Celcia current-self, Airi, Junpei and Ritsuko. (Mihke is missing)]]

* ClingyCostume: Episode 10, season one. An elf kight comes to the group and asks for help removing it.

* CanNotSpitItOut: Seriously, people. "Hey, my friends and I are looking for the fragments of a very powerful and important spell that has imprinted on five random elf women. You don't happen to have any odd marks that popped up recently, do you?" IS THAT REALLY SO HARD?!
** They've tried. It didn't work. Elves can be such snobs.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Judge again. He seems to enjoy pretending to be [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]].

->''Ready, set... strip''
->- American cover for the first DVD