This is the second time I’m reviewing TWHE, since, after I reviewed it the first time, I formatted my hard drive without actually relocating the file, but that’s okay since I don’t think I liked that review anyhow (I was watching that stupid celebrity boxing deal because a bunch of my brother’s friends came over and took command of the living room I was sitting in).

            TWHE is about a group of people who, after being accidentally transported to another world, must travel the land and take the clothes off of female elves because the elven leader was distracted while trying to cast the spell to send the group back to Earth and the symbols needed to cast the spell were sent all over the place and stuck on the bodies of elves. The group must find these symbols.

            Although TWHE starts off a bit slow, it gets better as it goes, and I was also surprised by how it wasn’t nearly as predictable as I had thought it would be. Also, while many things are left unexplained in the beginning (I just left them off to convenience, like the fruits that produce gasoline), they are later explained, making the show more believable.

            The animation is pretty good and the artwork is above average, especially when it comes to the mechanical designs. Case in point, the tank. While the tank is a T-74, and therefore supposedly a Russian tank (that in reality doesn’t exist, it went from T-72 to T-80) is well detailed and even operates like someone who knows about tanks would expect it to (hydraulics are present, I’d heard that the later T series had hydraulics that allowed them to drive up to a berm and jack up the back end to keep a low profile).

            Anyway, all that jibber jabber aside, TWHE is pretty good, despite a somewhat slow and confusing beginning. Plus, all 12 episodes are on 2 DVD’s, which, asidefrom buying fansubbed from Jay-a-pan (Yu Yu Hakusho has 112 episodes on 12 DVD’s), is the best usage of the space available on a DVD I’ve seen.