There are two new characters introduced in this TV sequel to El Hazard: The Magnificent World 2: Parnasse, the brother of Alielle, and Qawoor Towles, the new priestess of water. Of course, Qawoor instantly falls in love with our hero Makoto and the one-sided relationship commences. Why did that have to do that? There's no possible way he can get together with the multitude of women trying to him to like them and the whole thing is just going to go nowhere.

Why is that? It's because, like El Hazard: The Magnificent World 2, The Alternative World takes place in between the time after Ifurita goes into the Eye of God but before Makoto transports himself to Earth to meet her. If he were to fall in love with another woman, wouldn't the fragile story that's already holding together El Hazard be broken into pieces? For the love of continuity, why do they even TRY to introduce more love interests?

Useless relationships aside, the story wasn't all that bad. It all revolves around a strange old man who calls himself the ruler of the universe transporting everybody to other dimensions. Okay, so it wasn't THAT amazing of a story. Unfortunately for us, all of the more idiotic characters from El Hazard have made it to the other world. Fatora, Alielle, and the new addition Parnasse are all somehow transported, and their perverted ways have not changed at all. In fact, there is no change in any of the characters from the beginning of the series to the end. Not a single relationship is furthered in the thirteen episodes, and the series just ends without actually explaining anything that happened in the twelve episodes prior.

The so-called "villain" in El Hazard: The Alternative World is a joke. For some reason he's trapped in a mechanism that Makoto found and for some other reason he's going after the Eye of God, and for some other reason he dies in the end. None of the many questions regarding the villain are ever answered, and not a single ounce of background information is provided for him. He just seems to serve as a really lame plot device to eventually get Makoto to see Qawoor naked, which is exactly how the series ends. Big spoiler, eh? In the end, everybody relaxes in a hot spring and all of the women get fondled by Fatora and Alielle.

There is one thing that separates El Hazard: The Alternative World from the other three El Hazard series though: the music. The music is really good in this series, and I can't quite figure out why they got their act together for this instead of a better El Hazard series like The Wanderers. The animation quality is also really good, and the art is very crisp and clear. The newer character designs are a vast improvement over all of the past ones too.