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Mizuhara Makoto

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OVA Timeline

Makoto is supposed to be the typical normal 17 year-old high school student. But really, let's not kid ourselves. This guy is anything but typical. THIS is the guy fathers want their daughters to date. Good student, good athlete, popular, well respected, but with the kind of personality that makes him not seem like a threat to women. Which is probably why they flock to him like Yogi Bear flocks to pickinik baskets. You know the guy right? The guy you knew in high school who had it all going for him. And if you weren't him, then you wanted one of two things: 1. To be him. 2. To kick his ass.

Maybe that's a little harsh, but he gets away with it because he IS the story's main protagonist. Without him, we don't have much of a story do we? It is his actions that ultimately start a very long and complex cycle that makes up the very colorful and wonderful tapestry that is the story of El-Hazard.

Makoto, is what you can call a very 'Tenchi-esque' character. That is, he is the main 'hero' of the story though you wouldn't guess it from the way the story begins. He is also very much like Tenchi because he has many female suitors vying for his very limited attention and, much like Tenchi, he doesn't seem to grasp that most of these women want a romantic commitment from him.

Makoto is the almost identical twin of the Roshtarian Princess Fatora. The only obvious differences is that he is male (and all that goes along with that distinction) and that his hair is shorter though very similar in the front. However, when he adorns a lengthy wig and proper attire, he makes a very convincing woman. His very thin, runners' physique has made his body lean and trim enough to easily pass as a well built girl (and the other than hair, physically the main difference between him and the princess is that Makoto's chest is washboard flat, while Fatora has a rather decent bosom.)

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Wanderers Timeline:

This version of Makoto is actually my least favorite. All in all his personality is the same with some minor differences. This version of Makoto is very much a science geek. In this version of the story, it is not Ifurita who sends him and his compatriots to El-Hazard, but rather a machine he built which had been sabotaged.

Gone also is his relationship with Ifurita. Instead, his main 'love interest' is a much younger version of Rune Venus. However, Nanami and Shayla are still fighting for his affections and still have little chance to win them.

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Manga Timeline:

This is a nice version of the character. The entire Manga story is as if they took the OVA and TV universe and threw them in a blender. Many elements from each show up. In this version his love is Ifurita (OVA version) but he also has suitor in the TV version of Rune Venus (Though she realizes that she has no chance). While, not as flawed as his OVA version, Makoto is not squeaky clean and self righteous either.

I think the main saving grace of this version is his relationship with Ifurita, which is very wonderful to watch play out. I love the fact that they kept the last scene from the OVA's and actually gave it some dialogue, which seems perfect for the occasion.

Videogame Timeline:

This version is almost exactly like the TV version of the character, so not much is worth adding. He is in love with TV Rune Venus. Apparently Makoto is supposed to be some sort of Messiah who is prophesized to save El-Hazard in a time of dire crisis.

Portions of this page originally belonged to The Wanderers' Guide to El-Hazard: The Magnificent world, co-authored by Makoto and Spanner. The original page is no longer available on-line. However, it may be available at Archive.org in April 2010.