Sorcerer Hunters: The Complete Collection - Region 1 DVD

During the first season, the characters wander around, dispatching bad guys while Carrot chases every female in sight. The tone darkens in the second season (originally released in the U.S. as Spell Wars: Sorcerer Hunters' Revenge), when they're pitted against Zaha Torte ("Sacher Torte" in some translations), who wants to destroy the world so it can be reborn in a purer form. To accomplish his desire, he must unleash the God of Destruction who dwells within Carrot. Their drawn-out confrontation takes a number of odd twists before love triumphs over evil.

Sorcerer Hunters is surprisingly entertaining, with a slapstick tone reminiscent of Slayers or Generator Gawl. The filmmakers give Carrot some unexpected kind moments that separate him from run-of-the-mill anime lunkheads, but the fate of the cosmos resting in the maladroit hands of Carrot and his friends seems as improbable as the cast of Seinfeld turning out to be the gods of Olympus. (Rated 15 and older: risqué humor, brief nudity, violence) --Charles Solomon