El Cazador

[Arika]

Production Company: Bee Train

Genre: Action-Heroine who isn't a drama queen!

Expected Release Date: April 2007

Website: http://www.elcazador.tv/

It's a Bee Train production. Some anime fans squirm at the mention of Bee Train and for a good reason too. Their resume read that most of their work are to do "in between animation" which, ironically, also reflects the quality of the series they have produced. Those series are also in between good-&-bad quality wise. Thankfully, I'm also one of those fans who actually likes Bee Train. Madlax happens to be one of my favorite series. Arc the Lad wasn't bad either. Hence, I'm looking forward to this upcoming series by them.

The director for the show is going to be Mashimo Koichi who also directed Madlax and Noir which are also Bee Train production. Music, series composition, and character design will be done by Kajiura Yuki, Kanemaki Kenichi and Kikuchi Yoko in respect. I'm hoping Lunar and Anbu will pick this series up as a joint venture. Their translation/editing job was so wonderful for Madlax that I still have the subs for it.

There is a short synopsis posted in Toua's blog which was apparently translated by Sylf. I'm guessing he is the same Sylf from Froth-Bite.

It’s about a girl named Elis, who finds herself on the run from the so called Hunters of the underground society due to being a suspect of a murder. She meets up with a bounty hunter named Nadi who offers her help and guidance to pursue the truth of her past. For some reason the Hunters are now after her as well.

A 2nd version of the synopsis is translated by Toua in this post:

In the underground world, an enourmous reward was placed on the head of a girl named Ellis who's a suspect of murdering a physicist Heinz Schneider.

Coincidentally, Ellis is saved from other bounty hunters by a bounty hunter named Nadi who finds her in a country town in Mexico. She escapes southwards after learning the truth of the matter. She expects to find a place there called Hometown where she was supposedly born. Ellis is convinced that if she goes there she can figure out her unknown past. Her only leads through her fate are the Inca rose gemstone and a mysterious word Uinyaimarka (ウイニャイマルカ - not sure how to transliterate). Nadi volunteers to become her guide even though she was originally chasing her.

Thus the journey of a girl with a prize on her head and a strange bounty hunter will begin.

Looking forward to it! Btw, the website has nothing on it yet, not even a picture!

edit: stole picture from Sonhex who beat Martanime fair and square by an entire 3-minute margin, and added Yuki-san's name!

edit 2: Added another version of synopsis, mighty thanks to Toua for the effort!

[renegadesoul]

Hmmm....Interesting....woot woot...LOL!

[RevenG]

El Cazador is a nice series, not too serious but not comical.

[sparkle]

sounds interesting.....

[Absolute]

a nice anime but starts out slow
still i like ^^

[andy65]

Very nice: a good anime

[cerealkiller]

was hoping to get a yuri fix from this show but it didn't quite pull it off.
i'm not a fan of Noir or Madlax either so go figure.

[orphenou]

Only watched a few eps but it seems quite interesting.

[DevilXXX]

it's absolutly grat anime! and it has some deep thoughts, I just like it
same applies for Madlax and above all NOIR

[ClampAnimeLover]

I have watched the whole series.
As an expected from Bee Train, another girls with guns anime. There are hints of shoujo-ai (yuri) in the series but things are moving so slow.
YOu have to be paytient. Anyway, I love the actions and the art was great.
The ending was a little shocking for me but now I think again, it wasn't bad.