Editing El-Hazard (section)

==Plot==
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{{See also|List of El-Hazard characters}}

The story focuses on three high school students, [[Makoto Mizuhara]], [[List of El-Hazard characters#Katsuhiko Jinnai|Katsuhiko Jinnai]] and [[List of El-Hazard characters#Nanami Jinnai|Nanami Jinnai]], and the History teacher [[List of El-Hazard characters#Masamichi Fujisawa|Masamichi Fujisawa]], who are mysteriously transported to the fantastical world of El-Hazard. When they arrive they find themselves in the middle of a war between the human nations and the insectoid [[List of El-Hazard characters#The Bugrom|Bugrom]] tribe.

===''The Magnificent World''===
The central conflict in {{nihongo|'''''El-Hazard: The Magnificent World'''''|神秘の世界エルハザード|Shinpi no Sekai Eru Hazādo|lit. ''"The Magnificent World of El-Hazard"''}} focuses on Makoto, who along with Nanami, Mr. Fujisawa and human residents of El-Hazard fight against Jinnai who is made leader of the Bugrom armies by Queen Diva, but meanwhile, other, more sinister machinations lie below the surface.

===''The Wanderers''===
'''''El-Hazard: The Wanderers''''', known in Japan as simply {{nihongo|'''''El-Hazard'''''|エルハザード|Eru Hazādo}}, takes place in an alternative timeline from the original OVA. It is a simplified version of the original OVA plot, stretched to twenty-six episodes and eliminates or alters several of the OVA's major characters.

===''The Magnificent World 2''===
{{nihongo|'''''El-Hazard: The Magnificent World 2'''''|神秘の世界エルハザード2|Shinpi no Sekai Eru Hazādo Tsū|lit. ''"The Magnificent World of El-Hazard 2"''}} is a sequel to the original OVA and features Makoto and the others continuing on in their lives in El-Hazard after the war with the Bugrom has ended. When Mr. Fujisawa suddenly runs off, getting cold feet the night before his wedding with Miz Mishtal, Makoto and the others race off to find him.

===''The Alternative World''===
{{nihongo|'''''El-Hazard: The Alternative World'''''|異次元の世界エルハザード|Ijigen no Sekai Eru Hazādo|lit. "''A Parallel World to El-Hazard''{{-"}}}} follows up after the actual wedding of Mr. Fujisawa and Miz Mishtal, but the cast is then thrust into another world for a second time; the militant world of Creteria.

===Characters===
{{Main|List of El-Hazard characters}}

===El-Hazard's causal loop===
''El-Hazard'''s plot is made up of a causal loop, an example of the [[predestination paradox]]. The first OVA begins with Makoto meeting Ifurita for the first time on Earth. After giving him a warm greeting, revealing that she somehow knows him, she sends him to El-Hazard. Later on in the series, Makoto discovers Ifurita entombed in a labyrinth, where she had been kept since ancient times. Upon this second meeting with Ifurita, Makoto is puzzled by the fact that she does not recognize him, nor does she treat him with the same demeanor she evoked in their first encounter.

Over the course of the series, Makoto manages to free Ifurita from her enslavement to Jinnai (the "master" of the Power Key Staff, and therefore her master). In response, Ifurita comes to love Makoto, but events involving the Eye of God (see below) force her to drift through time and space for ten thousand years until she is eventually entombed under what would later become the site of Shinonome High School. The series then returns to the beginning, this time from Ifurita's perspective. After warmly greeting Makoto, she sends him to El-Hazard in order to trigger all of the events that, from Makoto's perspective, had yet to take place. In the final episode, Ifurita is reunited with an older Makoto who has transported back to her with her key, enabling them both to return to El-Hazard together. An ending montage shows various El Hazard characters apparently now living on Earth.

===The Eye of God===
[[File:EH OVA05 EyeofGod.jpg|thumb|left|The Eye of God as seen from the ground in ''The Magnificent World'']]
The Eye of God plays a prominent role in both the OVA and ''The Wanderers''. In both continuities, it is the ultimate superweapon, created by an ancient civilization. Its basic design is that of a giant metallic orb that floats in a geosynchronous orbit within the world's atmosphere.

The Eye of God is a dimensional weapon that sends all it destroys into a [[vortex]] leading to an unknown destination. In the first OVA series, its use in ancient times is responsible for pulling the [[Characters of El-Hazard#The Phantom Tribe|Phantom Tribe]] from their own world into El-Hazard.

In the OVA continuity, the Eye of God first needed to be unsealed by the [[Characters of El-Hazard#Muldoon Priestesses|Muldoon priestesses]] before it could be operated via the Stairway to the Sky, a tall metal tower that almost reaches the height of the Eye's orbit. Two female members of the royal house were required in order to activate the weapon, but the Phantom Tribe attempted to get around this barrier by creating a machine that would require the use of only one. The Phantom Tribe also sabotage the Eye, causing it to go out of control when the Princesses [[Characters of El-Hazard#Rune Venus|Rune Venus]] and [[Characters of El-Hazard#Fatora|Fatora]] use it to destroy the Bugrom. It's stopped by [[Characters of El-Hazard#Ifurita|Ifurita]], who synchronizes with the device and is ultimately lost in time and space for ten thousand years as a result.

In ''The Wanderers'', the Eye is controlled from within rather than from the Stairway to the Sky, and the character Ifurita acts as a key to controlling the weapon. Jinnai attempts to use Ifurita to control the Eye, but once connected, Ifurita's true purpose as the Demon God is revealed, and she attempts to destroy El-Hazard. Makoto stops the Eye from going out of control and is temporarily lost, but finds his way back to El-Hazard at the end of the series.

In ''The Alternative World,'' another Eye of God appears, but this one is a shattered version of the original and does not seem to need a princess and three priestesses to unseal it. Its origin is not explained.