Sorcerer Hunters
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爆れつハンター (Bakuretsu Hantā) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy |
| Light novel | |
| Sorcerer Hunt: Sorcerer Hunters | |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori |
| Published by | Shufunotomo |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
| Original run | August 10, 1993 – April 20, 1996 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori |
| Illustrated by | Rei Omishi |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Dengeki Comic Gao! |
| English magazine | |
| Original run | 1993 – 1998 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Koichi Mashimo |
| Produced by | Hiroyuki Kawasaki |
| Written by | Masakatsu Kozuru Noriko Kobayashi Rei Omishi Satoru Akahori Yukinao Shimoji |
| Music by |
Kenji Kawai Michihiro Ito |
| Studio | Xebec |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo (1995-1996) |
| Original run | October 3, 1995 – March 26, 1996 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Light novel | |
| Sorcerer Hunt: Sorcerer Hunters Special | |
| Written by | Satoru Akahori |
| Published by | Shufunotomo |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
| Original run | February 15, 1996 – August 25, 1996 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Koichi Mashimo Nobuyoshi Habara Takao Kato |
| Produced by | Masaki Sawanobori Toru Sato |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Kawasaki Masaharu Amiya Satoru Akahori |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Studio | Xebec |
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| Released | December 21, 1996 – April 23, 1997 |
| Runtime | 29 minutes per episode |
| Episodes | 3 |
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Sorcerer Hunters (爆れつハンター Bakuretsu Hantā?) is a light novel and manga series, written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Rei Omishi. Akahori and Omishi also published Sorcerer Hunters Special, a one-volume story set sometime after the series' conclusion.
In the United States the manga was serialized in MixxZine, replacing Ice Blade, which had ended.
Sorcerer Hunters is set on the Spooner Continent, where the populace is divided into two groups: the ordinary people, called the Parsoners, and the magic users, the Sorcerers. Marked by the triangles on their foreheads, many Sorcerers dominate, exploit, torment, murder, and enslave the Parsoners of the Spooner Continent.
The Sorcerer Hunters are a group of warriors who protect humans from the Sorcerers. They are under the command of a holy woman who goes by the name of "Big Mama", the head of the popular Stella Church, who seeks to protect Parsoners from the gifted Sorcerers who have chosen to abuse their powers.
The plot focuses on the adventures of a small family group of Sorcerer Hunters, including the Glace Brothers (Carrot and his younger brother Marron), their childhood friends, the Misu Sisters (Tira and her older sister Chocolate), and Gateau Mocha.
Family (La Familia) is one of the story's main themes, playing a very important role throughout the manga.
Almost all character names are puns on the names of foods, particularly pastries.
The style is usually a parody of fantasy clichés, but it occasionally satirizes pop culture in the broader sense. For example, one entire chapter is a dedicated parody of the popular Iron Chef cooking show. In another one, the characters drink a potion to make them the heroes of various anime series, such as Urusei Yatsura, Darkstalkers, Sailor Moon, and even literary classics, such as Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
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