"El Cazado" review: A fascinating witch-hunting action movie

A young girl named Ellis is being pursued on suspicion of murdering physicist Heinz Schneider, and for some reason, a huge bounty has been placed on her in the underworld. Nadi, a bounty hunter, finds her in a rural town in Mexico, but ends up saving her from other bounty hunters through a series of events. In order to find out the truth behind the incident, Ellis escapes her pursuers and heads south. It is said that there is a "hometown" where she was born. Ellis is convinced that if she goes there, she will be able to find out about her unknown past, but the only clues she has are the raw Inca rose stone, which is said to guide destiny, and the mysterious word "Uinhaymarca." Nadi, who was supposed to have been pursuing her, volunteers to guide the bewildered Ellis. Thus begins the strange escape of a wanted man and a bounty hunter...

An innocent wanted man and a free-spirited bounty hunter - two girls on the run in the wilderness. Eris is being pursued on suspicion of murdering physicist Heinz Schneider, and a bounty has been placed on her head. She is heading south to her "hometown" to learn more about her past. Nadi, a female bounty hunter, finds Eris in a rural town in Mexico, and ends up heading south with her. Thus begins the strange run of wanted man and bounty hunter... *Quoted from Bandai Channel

・Ellis/Ai Shimizu ・Nadi/Shizuka Ito ・Jody "Blue Eyes" Hayward/Aya Hisakawa ・Douglas Rosenberg/Kenta Miyake ・L.A./Mamoru Miyano ・Heinz Schneider/Shinichiro Miki ・Riccardo/Fumihiko Tachiki ・Lilio/Marina Inoue

・Original work / Bee Train ・Director / Mashimo Koichi ・Series composition / Kanamaki Kenichi ・Character design / Kikuchi Yoko ・Mecha design / Koizuka Masashi, Teraoka Kenji ・Concept design / Kado Tomoaki ・Art director / Umino Yoshimi ・Color design / Kojima Makiko ・Director of photography / Igarashi Shinichi ・Editing / Kurosawa Masayuki ・Sound director / Nakano Toru ・Music / Kajiura Yuki ・Producers / Kitayama Shigeru, Aoki Mamiko ・Production / Bee Train ・Production / Project Leviathan

・Ellis A girl who is wanted as a suspect in the murder of physicist Heinz Schneider. A huge bounty is on her head in the underworld. She has the DNA of "witches" who are said to have disappeared long ago, but her powers are accidental and incomplete. To find out the truth of the incident, she heads south, relying on her faint memories to search for her hometown. In fact, she is an artificial lifeform created through genetic engineering in the national project "Leviathan."
Nadi A lone female bounty hunter. A drifter. She uses an old .45 caliber Colt Government. Due to a sudden turn of events, she heads south with Eris, but in fact she has made a contract with Blue Eyes, and her real purpose is to watch over and protect Eris. However, when she finds out the true nature of the project, she decides to break the contract and protect Eris.
Jodie "Blue Eyes" Hayward: An office lady working in the accounting department of the Central Intelligence Agency. She has a hard time dealing with Rosenberg's easygoing paperwork, but she is actually a descendant of the "Witch" and her goal is to prevent the revival of the sealed magical power. While she continues to investigate Project Leviathan, she gets Nadi to approach Eris in order to protect and monitor her.
Douglas Rosenberg: Head of R-339 at the Central Intelligence Agency. A skilled agent with political connections. When it was discovered that he had secretly restarted the dormant Project Leviathan, he was forced out of the intelligence department under the pretext of taking a vacation...
・L.A.
A mysterious, beautiful boy who approaches Eris. Born in the same laboratory as Eris, he is a test subject and also has witch DNA, but cannot use magic. (Only female demons can use magic.) He has the ambition to shoulder the future of the world in place of foolish humans.
Heinz Schneider is a doctor of physics. He is the central figure in the research and development of "Project Leviathan". As he lives with Eris, the test subject, he falls in love with her and decides to run away, but...
Ricardo is a silent bounty hunter who tracks down Ellis. He was employed by Rosenberg, but lost his client when Rosenberg fell from grace.
Lilio: Ricardo's stepchild. He is attached to Eris and Nadi.

Episode 1: The Woman Who Runs Away (2007/04/02)
Episode 2: The Woman Who Waits (2007/04/09)
Episode 3: The Woman Who Got Dropped (2007/04/16)
Episode 4: The Target Woman (2007/04/23)
Episode 5: The Woman Who Wears It (2007/04/30)
Episode 6: A Man in Love (2007/05/07)
・Episode 7: Working Man (2007/05/14)
Episode 8: A Lying Woman (2007/05/21)
Episode 9: The Digging Woman (2007/05/28)
・Episode 10: The Man Who Lives with an Angel (2007/06/04)
Episode 11: The Cursing Woman (2007/06/11)
Episode 12: The Shooter (2007/06/18)
Episode 13: Hiding Woman (2007/06/25)
・Episode 14/Maple Leaf (2007/07/02)
Episode 15: The Rebellious Woman (2007/07/09)
Episode 16: Angry Woman (2007/07/16)
・Episode 17: The Woman Who Cornered Me (2007/07/23)
Episode 18: Quarrelling Women (2007/07/30)
・Episode 19: The Protective Man (2007/08/06)
Episode 20: The Captive Woman (2007/08/13)
・Episode 21: A Woman Who Takes Her Wings (2007/08/20)
Episode 22: The Woman Who Awakens (2007/08/27)
Episode 23: The Confused Woman (2007/09/03)
Episode 24: The Man Who Died (2007/09/10)
・Episode 25: Holy Woman (2007/09/17)
Episode 26: Shining Woman (2007/09/24)

・OP1
・Where the Light Goes ・Lyrics by Ah ・Music by Takumi
・Arrangement: Yuki Kajiura ・Song: savage genius

・ED1
・Romantic
・Lyrics/Yuki Kajiura ・Composition/Yuki Kajiura ・Arrangement/Yuki Kajiura ・Vocals/FictionJunction YUUKA