| El Cazador de la Bruja | |
 Limited edition cover of the first DVD volume | |
| エル・カザド (Eru Kazado) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure,[1] girls with guns,[2] modern Western,[3] Yuri[4] |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kōichi Mashimo |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Kenichi Kanemaki |
| Music by | Yuki Kajiura |
| Studio | Bee Train |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 2, 2007 – September 24, 2007 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hirose Shū |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Champion Red |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 2007 – August 2007 |
| Volumes | 1 |
El Cazador de la Bruja (エル・カザド, Eru Kazado, Spanish for The Hunter, or by its longer title, The Hunter of the Witch) is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and animated by Bee Train studio.[6] It is a spiritual successor of Noir and Madlax and the final installment of Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy.[7] The series was aired on TV Tokyo from April to September in 2007. A manga adaptation was serialized in the Champion RED Magazine beginning in March 2007, and the chapters were collected into one volume.[8]
The series was announced for North American release by Funimation on February 19, 2009.[9] It was released in two complete season sets in early December 2009 and re-released as a complete set in March 2011. The series made its North American television debut on March 22, 2010, when it started airing on the Funimation Channel.[10]
- ^ "El Cazador de la Bruja". Funimation. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
- ^ "Trina Nishimura to Appear at Otakon 2012". Anime News Network. July 19, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
Having completed work as Nadie in El Cazador de la Bruja, the final installation in BeeTrain's "girls with guns" trilogy, Trina has finally been able to leave the FUNimation premises having proven her voice acting abilities.
- ^ "Interview with Kōichi Mashimo". Animage: 49. February 2007.
- ^ "Yuri Anime: El Cazador de la Bruja, Volume 2 Disk 4 (English)". January 29, 2010.
- ^ "Funimation Adds El Cazador De La Bruja". Anime News Network. February 19, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ "El Cazador" (in Japanese). Bee Train. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2007.
- ^ "News". Anime News Service. January 6, 2007. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved January 19, 2007.
Following Noir and Madlax, this [El Cazador] is the third installment in a series of what Director Koichi Mashimo has referred to as his girls-with-guns genre trilogy.
- ^ "El Cazador de la Bruja manga listing at Amazon.co.jp" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
- ^ "FUNimation Entertainment Acquires El Cazador De La Bruja from D. Rights". FUNimation Entertainment. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
- ^ "VOD Fridays – FUNimation Channel (3/19) - FUNimation Channel Official Blog". FUNimation Channel Official Blog. March 19, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2015.