Rate the Slayers series from best to worst seasonS1 > Next
>>141069934
original > ova's > try > next > restfight me
Slayers = Next = Try > Revolution > Evolution-R
Enjoyed the OVA/movies about as much as the three original seasons.
Try>= Original>Try>Revolution>Evolution-R
I still gotta watch all the ovas
>>141070478
Shiiiit meant Next>=
>>141069934
I want to make love to Lina.
FUCK YEAH SLAYERS THREAD
Will they ever make another season/OAV?
I kinda hoping they do.
![[a4e]Slayers_OVA_Excellent_03[divx5.1.1].mkv_snapshot_04.46_[2014.02.09_15.40.04].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MO9ypwe.jpg "[a4e]Slayers_OVA_Excellent_03[divx5.1.1].mkv_snapshot_04.46_[2014.02.09_15.40.04].jpg")
>>141069934
Who else felt that Revolution and Evolution-R were kinda weak?
Do you think that another season of Slayers can ever get to the heights of Next? Is another season even possible?
Next > S1 > Try > Revolution> haven't watched.
>>141070720
WHATS WRONG WITH ZEGADIS'S FACE???
More protags now a days should really follow Linas problem solving methods
Did Naga ever get to meet Gourry or her sister?
EXPLOSION!
>>141070746
Yeah, they were weak, but not as bad as some people make them out to be. I was honestly expecting worse when I watched them and was somewhat pleasantly surprised. I personally enjoyed them more than Try. I was more afraid of the digital animation than anything but I got used to it much faster than I thought I would and pretty much forgot it even looked different after the first few episodes which impressed me. Pakota did suck, as did the Tiger centaur guy, but neither of those guys were even half as bad as that fucking furry from Try or any of the other bland original characters from that season like Filia and Valgaav. They were all terrible. On top of that, there were a few moments at least that I actually found very funny and on par with the first humor of the first two seasons even, those being when Amelia was in her sister's suit of armor and the episode with the fish people. I was satisfied with the last two seasons.
>>141070931
>Not DURAGON SUREIIBU!
>>141070987
>Filia
Filia was worth it just for the Xellos banter.
>>141070870
Yes, but only in video games.
Rate the OP/EDs
Get along >>> all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UchKDmjt07c
>the fans have been waiting a decade to see actual canonical continuation
>"LETS JUST PHONE IN ANOTHER FILLER SEASON, THAT'S WORSE THAN TRY BECAUSE POKOTA IS SHIT AND IT WAS REZO AGAIN EVEN THOUGH HE'S DEAD"
>>141071026
>DRAGON SERBIA
>>141070987
Filia and Xellos banter was still worth it, and Jillas I found charming in a Team Rocket-esque sort of way. Though I'm probably biased against the digital coloring, I also liked the locales of Try the most, mainly all the sea and coastal stuff.
>>141070987
I can agree with you for the most part though I did enjoy Try as well though sure it wasn't as good.
Still
>tfw no blast sword
>tfw no Gourry cutting through everything
>tfw no Gourry CUTTING THROUGH EVERYTHING
All I wanted was Gourry fun times.
>>141071082
KIZUTSUKU KOTO WA KOWAKU NAI > all
SEKAI JUU UWASA NI NARITAI > all
It's honestly pretty unfair the best season also gets the best songs.
>>141071184
Was Gourry really as stupid in the novels? I hear they kinda made him stupider when adopting him for the animu.
>>141071225
I don't remember since it's been ages since I read the novels.
He's downplayed a lot due to magic being the dominate force but he's still insanely op in a sword fight. I beleive he starts messing things up once more with the sword of light post-brainwashing. The blast sword is basically him going oops it's too sharp to i just fucking cut lord ruby eyes into 5 tillion peices.
Original
everything else is shit
>>141071612
The masked swordsman showed that swordfighting can be on par with magic. Gourry is just shit.
>>141070870
So Naga is OVA exclusive?
>>141069934
2 > Ova > Movies >1 > 4 > 5 > 3
>Lina complains about her flat chest
>she actually has perky breasts
I never really understood this.I also like perky breasts.
>>141072049
>making Lina a titty monster like Naga
For what purpose?
Test 1/2
Test 2/2
>>141072297
>>141072324
How did Lina react to Goury?
>>141071962
Why didn't you watch it? It's good.Try a best.
something something something JUSTICE!
>>141072494
Muh dick is rock hard.
>>141072395
Way back when I saw some random episodesusing Anime on demand and about a year back using the PS3' app thingy I don't know the name of. I'm too dumb/lazy to marathon several seasons at once but I might look into the OVAs for Naga.
>>141072394
Beats me. I just wanted to post some bikini armor.
>>141072796
For Naga, don't watch the series, only the movies/OVAs.
OVAs/Movies > Original Series > everything else
I just could not enjoy Slayers without Lina having a proper foil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfaF5otJv0
Udders.
>>141073675
God bless them.
>>141069934
Next > Special > Slayers > Excellent > Movies > Try >>>>> Revolution = Evolution-R
>>141072055
>I never really understood this.
Symptom of spending too much time with Naga.
Lina is where my fetish for redheads and small boobs started
>>141073577
As far as the anime goes, the OVAs and movies have the best overall comedy in my opinion (Naga makes a really good comic foil to Lina) but the first two TV seasons have the best balance of story and comedy, so which is better depends a bit on what you want to get out of your time watching it.
>>141070746
It was bullshit because it was some hashed up mix of the novels and original material, instead of just being either. Doing this basically makes it impossible to continue the series later down the line, like the final squeeze from a cash cow before putting it down for good.
At least Try ties into the 4 worlds of the pillars, Rev and Evo-R do absolutely nothing that just faithfully following the LN wouldn't do better.
>>141071787
This. Gourry for all intents and purposes is the weakest member of the 4 in that he only has one specialty, and he's not even amazing at it. He just benefits from having the most broken gear out of the Slayers.
Imagine if Luna had the Blast Sword/Sword of Light.
>>141070746
I think Slayers was the greatest anime series ever created, and I have a big sentiment for it, but I stopped watching the moment they've shown that mascot. I literally said out loud "I'm too old for this shit" back then.
>>141074030
>Imagine if Luna had the Blast Sword/Sword of Light.
Dont have to imagine, we saw it with the final val gav fight, she blew up almost a quarter of the planet(though with help) in one shot.
Not to mention she is always the most broken by default considering the lord of nightmares.
>>141074166
What?
>>141069934
I enjoyed Try the most then Next and finally original, watched the 1st few episodes of Revolution but dropped it, it was awful
>>141074166
I have no fucking clue what you are talking about, Luna never shows up in anything and is only briefly mentioned in the novels.
>>141074650
He thought Luna was a typo for Lina. And that Try is canon.
>>141072154
Some people like having shit taste.
You know, despite how much I disliked Revolution over all... I really liked Plenty of Grit as an opening. Front Breaking wasn't bad either.
>>141074716
>He thought Luna was a typo for Lina.
Is it even possible to be a total secondary for Slayers? I think it's my first time having seen such a thing that's why I never considered the possibility.
>>141075036
They are plenty good in their own way, but that has more to do with Megumi being top tier than it has to do with anything else.
But then again the catchy songs are always what stuck to me about Slayers so I can relate. If Slayers were made in 2016 it just wouldn't take off without the nostalgia behind it, but those damn songs would sell easily even if it reeks the 90s.
>>>flat
>>141074716
>Try is not canon!
>Revo comes out
>I wish back Try
>GT is not canon!
>Super comes out
>I wish back GT
Coincidence?
>>141074009
The series after the first season fell from favor for me because it ran into to much fluff or filler. The OVAs/movies are a great balance because they are centralized stories, and don't drag on.
>>141075179
The filler in Next is the best part of the whole franchise.
Next is the best, stop saying it's not to be a contrarian
It has the best plot, the best filler, the best world building, the best climax
>>141075131
>If Slayers were made in 2016 it just wouldn't take off without the nostalgia behind it, but those damn songs would sell easily even if it reeks the 90s.
I think it would still do decently, but it certainly wouldn't blow up into a media juggernaut the way it did in the 90s. Then again, who even knows what the landscape would look like without it having happened back then, it was pretty influential in its own way.
And yeah, the catchy Megumi Hayashibara songs were always a great part of Slayers to me.
>>141075176
No people preferred Try because it was well done, but almost no one would want Try over an actual sequel and continuation of the LN adaptations. The funny thing is, if they wanted to continue the LN adaptation even now, Try would break less continuity than Rev and Evo-R because it's more self contained and the LN ultimately never gives two shits about the rest of the world once the barrier breaks. Ironically the shitty LN ending is what makes Try 'workable'.
But Rev/Evo-R is literally just the LN arcs put into a blender and had some random ass plushie mixed in. So even if you did adapt more, it the arcs would just repeat themselves with different characters and such so everything is ruined.
>>141075248
Basically this, aside from just being bad, after the latest seasons the only way to really get a proper adaption would be to either pretend it never happened.
They revived an old franchise just to kill it permanently. Barring a reboot or the like, which I don't think is likely to happen.
>>141075235
>I think it would still do decently, but it certainly wouldn't blow up into a media juggernaut the way it did in the 90s.
That's what I meant by take off. Slayers was HUGE.
>Then again, who even knows what the landscape would look like without it having happened back then
I'm talking about a hypothetical situation where the landscape remains the same as now, yet Slayers didn't exist. It's purely hypothetical and makes no sense, but it's for the purpose of gauging how well Slayers matches the current generation.
A lot of the humor in Slayers was more innocent in a sense, even if it were the same perverted jokes and stuff. Anime today basically turns it into fap material at the same time, but Slayers wasn't really like that, the art style and faces don't give people boners anymore now that anime/manga art has changed and progressed so much.
Kinda like how there could be people who fapped to Flintstones back then but nowadays only old geezers would do that. Now apply that for the jokes as well. It was a more wholesome generation so to speak.
This isn't even just restricted to anime. Take a look at Disney. The new stuff they pump out doesn't have the same vibe as classics like Snow White, Lion King, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, etc etc, but unlike Disney which basically had little to no improvements and just opted for cheaper production, anime actually did progress.
Slayers was also big because it was practically THE JRPG LN, before all this MMO LN stuff took place (Lodoss doesn't count it relies purely on it's art and D&D connection and has shit story telling), so nowadays Slayers coming out would come off weaker than the likes of Overlord which learns from it.
I mean there sure as hell aren't any MMO/JRPG/etc LN today that gives you a half-baked ending like Slayers. If Slayers did what it did back then today, even the Shieldbro original WN ending would look small time in comparison. We'd get fucking 10000 replies on /a/ in one thread before lock.
Next > Slayers > Evolution R > Revolution > Try
Movies: whatever.
I honestly don't understand anybody preferring Try over any season.
Do you honestly believe Try had memorable characters? Memorable episodes?
Do you honestly believe TRY was in ANY way necessary?
>>141072297
>>141072324
What is this? A game? A gag OVA? Whrn the heck do Lina and Naga meet after Lina hooks up with Gourry?
>>141075409
>Slayers was also big because it was practically THE JRPG LN
I'd argue that Slayers is still more of a Table Top RPG LN along the lines of Lodoss than a JRPG LN. What I see it doing is parodying the difference between the seriousness people aspire to (exemplified by Lodoss) and how many people end up actually playing (exemplified by the behavior of the Slayers characters in their sillier moments.) But I've only read a couple of the novels so I might be missing something.
>>141075409
>>141075620
Slayers actually COULD work today. I remember how I hated Lina today because she is a massive bitch.
But in TODAY'S anime industry, where female characters are all the exact same type of virginal ditz completely subservient to the bland male main character just to fulfill the sex fantasies of japanese gene pool rejects, Slayers could be big if for nothing else but the character dynamics and characterizations alone.
If not necessarily in Japan, land of a million grown men who are scared shitless of women, then internationally.
>>141075721
I'm pretty sure that there hasn't been a leading female anime character that could make viewers feel dislike for since the turn of the decade.
>>141075754
Or maybe you should watch more amine.
>>141075833
There's really very little to watch. And even if you disagree, I'm confident it is merely because of your own, personal views on women; views which I am almost certain I do not share with you.
>>141075620
It's a bit of both, there were a lot of JRPG references vidya style but you are right there's table top references as well my mistake.
>>141075721
That's wrong, feminists don't actually buy jack shit and this has been proven time and time again in vidya so there's no way it would ever work out for anime.
>>141075947
You don't need to be a feminist to enjoy female anime characters that have a backbone. All the west loved characters like that before Japan stopped producing them because anime studios were too stupid and incompetent to produce content for a global audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjBDs1JnS4
Next > season 1 > OVAS > Try > The rest
Try has a great OP even if it is a clear step down from Next
>>141075409
How did the Slayers LN end?
>>141076152
>All the west loved characters like that
And bought basically next to nothing compared to the domestic market. Google up Slayers dub sales or whatever if you wanna get a good look at reality.
>>141076490Lina basically gives up after destroying another Ruby fragment which the anime doesn't cover cause it's rehashed with Pokota and all fucked up. She says it's a hopeless cause despite being involved with every single Ruby shard fragment that's been destroyed and has never had the help of more than 10 people at a time. She doesn't even know that wiping out the Mazoku would basically cause LON to wipe the slate blank so that excuse is complete bullshit as well. The world also doesn't react at all, practically no one in the world including the god damn dragons that keep asking Lina for help don't seem to want to spur her on to finish off the Mazoku (they also don't know about the whole LON thing) and are perfectly fine twiddling their thumbs. Amusingly enough Xellos' master Beastmaster Zelas and Deep Sea Dolphin show up and hint at something greater at play because they 'allowed' Lina to get away with destroying the recent fragment but hey the LN ends kek.
Basically only rabid fans would assume the author thought it was a good idea to end it there. Author probably either just got burned out, got writer's block, or whatever, you know typical normal human reasons. It basically has enough material to continue for another 10 volumes at least but who gives a fuck let's make mascot anime adaptations instead.
Like the first Ghostbusters movie, Slayers Next is perfect
It is a master of the tone shift and way ahead of its time
Season 1 is great, but NEXT is just fucking incredible
TRY is ok but Valgaav's bullshit is a bit silly at times
Gaav and Hellmaster are far better
>>141076707
The LN ending is great
Lina is not a great hero of destiny, and she had to pretty much Old Yeller a friend after watching another friend die
Her stepping aside is totally in character, and Xellos is stated to spend the rest of his life desperately wishing to never come across her and Gourry ever again
>>141075456
Try didn't have Pokota.
That's one plus.
>>141076754
>The LN ending is great
No it's not, try that kind of ending for any LN series today it'd get Shieldbro'd and retconned.
>Lina is not a great hero of destiny
Yeah she's not, she's the great heroine of destiny.
>and she had to pretty much Old Yeller a friend after watching another friend die
Because no main character ever had to go through a period where they didn't wanna fight on of course. Mobile Suit Gundam clearly ended when Amuro ran away from the White Base.
>Her stepping aside is totally in character
Just like it's totally in character for half the MCs in fiction today to not wanna be the hero but end up being the hero anyways.
>Xellos is stated to spend the rest of his life desperately wishing to never come across her and Gourry ever again
Yeah because every single Mazoku should be scared shitless of a girl who can one shot Hellmaster and is literally responsible for every single fragment destroyed so far, something the dragons couldn't even dream of in a million years when it's their coveted goal as a species.
Why the fuck do you always defend Slayers ending in these threads? I've gone over it ten times by now, it's not about what Lina wants or how she acts, it's about how the world reacts to it. They let her go this time, unlike EVERY OTHER TIME.
And Knight of the Aqualord basically proves you wrong, she Old Yeller's the kid no problem and literally gets an SSJ boost from the Air Lord himself temporarily making Lina the equivalent of the Knight.
So the world still fucking reacts the same, it still will make Lina go down the same path she's always gone down. Nothing she wants matters, nothing will change so long as she doesn't, because her desires never mattered in the first place it's a god damn comedy about a girl who can destroy the world not being able to get enough money to be filthy rich despite having no qualms about abusing her power, how can you possibly start using logic to defend the ending?
>>141075456
what you didn't like the furries and dbz villians?
>>141077228
How does the ln end?
>>141077308
Read the thread it's posted.
>>141076754
>Xellos is stated to spend the rest of his life desperately wishing to never come across her and Gourry ever again
It's the best way to win the war after all. Just wait until Lina dies of old age then steam roll the world into oblivion.
>>141070746
I found Revolution rather weak, though still better than most of the OVAs. Evolution-R was a glorious comeback however, to the point that I consider it better than Next.Like with Star Wars, I consider the second part the weakest of their original trilogies.
>>141077228
>No it's not, try that kind of ending for any LN series today it'd get Shieldbro'd and retconned.
>Shieldbro
Oh sweet jesus, it's nothing like Shieldbro. Lina saves the day from an entire Mazoku War and goes off to the country side with Gourry, it's a GOOD END
>Because no main character ever had to go through a period where they didn't wanna fight on of course. Mobile Suit Gundam clearly ended when Amuro ran away from the White Base.
Lina fucking Inverse is not Amuro. She is not the savior of the human race, she is an adventurer wandering the world for fun. She'll stop to help if it tickles her fancy, but she never made it her goal to slay all the Mazoku. In fact doing so is a VERY BAD IDEA because the Lord of Nightmares gets bored if one side wins too much
>Just like it's totally in character for half the MCs in fiction today to not wanna be the hero but end up being the hero anyways.
Fuck off, Lina is different from the boring Japanese schoolboys you'll see in LNs. Lina values freedom above all, and being a hero ties down her freedom.
>Why the fuck do you always defend Slayers ending in these threads? I've gone over it ten times by now, it's not about what Lina wants or how she acts, it's about how the world reacts to it. They let her go this time, unlike EVERY OTHER TIME.
I would let a girl who single handily BTFO out three seperate Mazoku Lords and two vessels of Shabernigdou go too. Wizer lets her go because Wizer is her friend and knows that trying to control Lina Inverse is like trying to control an unstable nuke.
>And Knight of the Aqualord basically proves you wrong, she Old Yeller's the kid no problem and literally gets an SSJ boost from the Air Lord himself temporarily making Lina the equivalent of the Knight.
That's a manga, and at the end of the manga Lina wanders off with Gourry to go adventuring again
It's what Lina does. She's is a free spirit. She's not going to become some faggot self insert savior of humanity
>>141077228
>Shieldbro
>>141072228
Holy...
Motion Picture > OVAs > Other movies > everything else
>>141077669
>Oh sweet jesus, it's nothing like Shieldbro. Lina saves the day from an entire Mazoku War and goes off to the country side with Gourry, it's a GOOD END
>GOOD END
>literally the only person who is capable of opposing the Mazoku
>Ruby Eye of the north will still unfreeze later and completely fuck shit up
>Not a single god damn Dragon Lord even has the means to oppose the remaining 2 1/2 bosses let alone the remaining fragments
>GOOD END
>She is not the savior of the human race, she is an adventurer wandering the world for fun.
Who happens to be the savior of the human race, which we saw happen time and time again. Amusingly enough Amuro is not the savior of the human race, he's just a good pilot who helped the Feds win the war, and he wasn't even the major factor in it. The Feds would have won even without the Whitebase or Gundam.
>In fact doing so is a VERY BAD IDEA because the Lord of Nightmares gets bored if one side wins too much
Which absolutely no one knows about because it's all exposition. Not Lina, not Luna, not Auntie Aqua, nobody. I already covered this, why are you posting copypasta from previous threads? You never EVER address this point. Why the fuck do you always defend people's decisions from a meta perspective when said characters know jack shit?
>Fuck off, Lina is different from the boring Japanese schoolboys you'll see in LNs.
See the fact that you are already blowing up proves you have nothing to say.
>Lina values freedom above all, and being a hero ties down her freedom.
She's a heroine, not a hero. And she becomes a heroine just by being herself naturally, that's how the LN has always been retard why do you ignore this? I literally just posted it in the post you are cherry picking quotes from and taking out of context.
>>141077669
>I would let a girl who single handily BTFO out three seperate Mazoku Lords and two vessels of Shabernigdou go too. Wizer lets her go because Wizer is her friend and knows that trying to control Lina Inverse is like trying to control an unstable nuke.
So because you are a friend, you literally doom the entire world the moment Lina dies. You do not even make sure Lina passes down her skills and experience, you do even attempt to do your part to unite humanity and the dragons to prevent the onslaught against the world's very existence by the Mazoku.
Please tell me, how long has Wizer known Lina again to care more about her feelings than the fate of the fucking world?
>That's a manga, and at the end of the manga Lina wanders off with Gourry to go adventuring again
Thanks for proving my point. Even if Lina and Gourry go off to the country side she will still get wrapped up with Mazoku in the end. The only difference is, it won't be published for everyone to read retard.
>It's what Lina does. She's is a free spirit. She's not going to become some faggot self insert savior of humanity
Yeah she's a self-insert for freedumb despite literally changing nothing about her other than the next place she will visit. You think she's gonna settle down and have kids with Gourry when they are broke as fuck and can only blackmail/threaten people for food? She's not Korbo.
I have addressed every single thing you've said long ago, and every time you post the exact same shit and you still don't get it. Why not just get a trip so everyone can filter you?
It's super obvious that you can't even grasp my point, and don't realize even Japan thinks Slayers LN ended like shit.
>>141077766
>hating on something automatically somehow invalidates the comparison
Yeah that's a good way to show you're being logical and not letting your emotions run wild. Nobody cares about what you like or dislike.
>>141075721
The issue with a "modern" Slayers is that Slayers art style became something left in the past and heavily associated with the 90s. You'd need to modernize it in the first place in order to actually push a successful season, but that could betray the existing fanbase itself.
Anyway, to me, Try > Next > Evo- R > Season 1 > Revolution
>>141078213
Also, due to Evo/Rev, any new season would pretty much need to be original material, which would be actually good in this case since they could lead things to a better conclusion.
>Slayers thread
Sign me the fuck up.
>>141078276
What about a crossover? If Shonen can have it.
I want to fuck Martina
>>141078276
They can always retcon Revo/Evo. The best option would be a reboot with somewhat updated character designs, but that won't happen anytime soon.
>>141078765
>they named her just as a setup for a very lame joke that got an entire episode dedicated to it later
Next was such a wild ride.
Next> Original> Try >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Revolution & Evolution-R.
The second movie > S1 > OVAs > Next > the rest
>>141069934
Next>Movies>S1>Revolution>Evolution-R>shit> Try
>>141073686
I want to marry this white serpant.
>>141070790
The anime character designs removed this, but in his original design, Zelgadis has this bit of skin/rock that goes from the top of his left eye socket to the bottom, partially covering his eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aXHdLd1qrs
It's Naga's VA singing
>>141075721
>because she is a massive bitch.
That's a odd way to write "fun and charismatic".
Slayers OTP?
Did Luna inverse ever appear other than the one or two pictures shown of her?
why is xellos so great
>>141084398
Zelgadis/my dick
>>141086841
That's a secret
>>141086944
Wouldn't his stoney ass be a problem during sex? Ore can you look past that? I imagine any relationship would be pretty rocky given his loner tendencies. You're boulder than I to try to dick him.kill me
>>141086841
Xellos is my favorite character not gonna lie. Goes from happy go lucky character into beady eyed fox. Comes and goes as he pleases, annoys everyone, jokes around, then next minute he's making a deal to kill you or conducting mazoku business.
>>141087183
Hi-mi-tsu
>>141075456
Try had Filia
>>141084398
Lina/Xellos
>>141091082
xellos/my dick
>>141091302
thats gay tho
>>141071787
You obviously haven't read the novels.
When I waqs 12yo, I used to have an @dragonslave.net email from some shitty email website that offered dozens of geeky domains. When I gave the email to somebody, they would always look at me weird or make fun of it, "lol, you're a slave to a dragon? that's gay"
>>141091082
I honestly like this ship. It seems like LinaxGourry is canon, but they act more like brother/sister. I really don't get the appeal, although I like both characters.
Does anyone else find Lina x Gourry unnatural?
>>141077508
>Evolution-R was a glorious comeback however, to the point that I consider it better than Next.
Wut.
>>141069934
Next>=S1>>try>>>>>>>>>Rest.
Haven't gotten around to the OVAs.
>>141069934
Slayers = NEXT > Movies = TRY > Lost Universe > Watching something else > R-Evo > Rev
They really should get Junichi Sato to come back and take over the series. But after how bad the last two seasons were, he'll have to reboot it for a second time.
![try 4.mkv_snapshot_07.22_[2016.03.29_16.28.40].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Jy8UUkp.jpg "try 4.mkv_snapshot_07.22_[2016.03.29_16.28.40].jpg")
>>141092718
I couldn't get into them either. I personally ship Lina with Zel but I equally enjoy them as friends--and actually find even that more appealing than Lina and Gourry's friendship.
>>141086841
Chaotic Neutral done right. Pretty much the same role as Lina Inverse, but with an opposing personality.
>>141070748
I agree with this person. Next is the greatest.
>>141075456
I really liked how Try basically pushed the scales up going from Next - seeing the outside world, fighting against the demon lord from another universe.
Valgaav wasn't that great of a villain, but I'd easily take him over recycled villains, like clone Rezo, or Rezo again. The whole story with Valgaav, Phila and Xelloss also allowed them to portray him in a much darker way, which I thought was neat while watching the series.
Also, when Try wasn't making that odd and quickly tiring zombie Gourry joke, they actually showed him fighting like he did when he was brainwashed near the end of Next (releasing energy blasts, deflecting spells).
>>141094980
I agree. TRY was fine. Some of the comedy episodes were rather slow, but even NEXT has a couple lackluster episodes. The thing that really hurt TRY was like you said, Valgaav and the serious episodes weren't on par with the first two seasons. In reality, Lost Universe did this much better, but suffered from low quality animation and lackluster comedy episodes.
If I was in charge of the series, I would actually remake Lost Universe and then lead into a new Slayers season.
>>141093695
I don't think Lina/Zel would mesh well in a relationship, butWhen Zel punched Lina in the belly during the Rezo arc when he was still working for the bad guys, I fapped hard and multiple times. Also to that "torture" scene.So I respect your taste. I feel like Lina/Gourry would just bring out the worst in both of 'em. She is only interested in him for his sword, anyway. Sword-digging whore.
>>141093008
Finally a (You)!
Next was the least coherent season. And while I liked Martina, she contributed less to her series than other companion characters. Pokota redeemed himself for me in Evolution-R.
I should add thst I enjoyed all TV seasons. Rated Revolution at 7.0, Next 8.0, others 8.5 each. And I guess it's time to rewatch them soon.
>>141096097
The difference is Martina was only trying to be a joke character from the start and only had one dramatic scene which was done to strengthen Lina and the ending. Arguably the best scene in the entire series.
Pokota on the other hand was trying to be the focus of his series. I liked both characters, but Pokota and his story wasn't enough to make a bad series good.
>>141083419
This is why Naga is the best girl, nay I say best woman.
>Slayers thread that is actually alive
I've been waiting for a moment like this
Lina started my love for redheads
Lina: The Original Megumin.™
It's time to rewatch for sure.
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>>141070746
Happened to have that same pic from the BDs.
Dub>Sub
>>141097273
nostalgia > acting quality and consistency
>>141097273
>>141097273
I'll have to say that I like both but I really like Lisa Ortiz. Her voice is something that I can always memorize as soon as I hear it in an anime.
Same with Veronica Taylor and I'll have her sign my Try box set when I go to Supercon this year
The only thing I got out of the english dub was the amusement of hearing transexual meowth in Slayers Next (or was it Try?)
I wanted to watch it in spanish, but the audio quality was always shit tier, like it was ripped out of a VHS, so I tried the english dub for a while, which was kinda shit.
So, always stick to subs with Slayers. Always.
>>141097454
And this is exactly why I stopped going to anime conventions. Its just a big advertisement for the dubbing industry. As well as stroking the egos of dubbers.
>>141097273
I HATED Gourry's english voice.
>>141097590You didn't like Brock from Pokemon?
>>141097046
>The Original Megumin.™
I always find it insulting when people draw that connection.
Konosuba is a terrible show in all aspects that tries to hide its lack of originality behind IT'S A PARODY!, but has nothing to make it stand on its own.
Megumin is just chu2koi's Rikka with a hat plus explosions, and even the Giga Slave reference was stolen from chu2koi. And that's where the connection ends.
>>141097888
I think me might have been making a pun directed at Megumi Hayashibara. But I could be wrong.
Try is a great season, better than season 1, but the main story arc sucks and the ending is incredibly boring.
>>141097946
>but the main story arc sucks and the ending is incredibly boring.
So its not better than Season 1.
>>141097888
The joke has now been explained.
>>141097979
It's just that the filler episodes are that much better.
>>141098018
I actually prefer the way the story in the first season of Slayers was ongoing. Not really broken up into individual episodes, but two long arcs of Lina and co traveling the countryside. It just didn't have as good of animation and as strong of an ending as NEXT. But I would argue its my favorite season.
Game translation never.
>>141099136
Which game? I'm kind of surprised Wonderful at least hasn't been translated yet. The Saturn games would be nice in English, too.
>>141097273
Lina's VA in sub has better acting skill, although at first the dub sounds better because it isn't so high pitched. Xellos is better sub. Background characters better sub.
desu sub is just superior although it isn't the worst dub I've heard.
>>141097102
American BDs when?
>>141099943
I was really hoping soon, but I haven't heard any hints of it. Really tempted to import them, though.
>>141093695
I used to ship them too.
Lina's brutality kicked well through Zell's melancholy and self-pitying.
They both had nice chemistry while chatting about magic stuff and working together.
I'll save you, Lina!
>>141102727
>They both had nice chemistry while chatting about magic stuff and working together.
>RA TIRUTO!
Zel just isn't on Lina's level when it comes to magic. I don't know why he even bothers.
Don't die. Slayers is one of the only things left in this world that brings me any joy.
>>141106811
I love Slayers, but you need to watch other shows rather than lamenting a dead series.
Next>Slayers>others
Next is the best
>>141097922
>>141098000
Slayersfags are basically a bunch of dinosaurs that get offended at the slightest touch to their nostalgia so no pun will get through to them intact. Basically right up there with LOGHfags and Tominofags. Ironically enough most of them haven't even read the LNs.
>>141104665
No one in the series is on Lina's level when it comes to magic. The closest people got was Dragon Slave which is nothing considering Sylph a fucking healer spec managed to figure it out and so did the fodder that tried it on Ruby/Rezo.
Lina is the only person who can use the LON moves so it'd be unfair to compare. All the threats from Mazoku and friends are meaningless when Mazoku have possibly the most retarded restriction in Japanese LN that prevent them from effectively destroying the world in 5 minutes, especially when they semi-pull that shit in honorabu combat anyways.
Zel is also a much better swordsman and all round handiman/encyclopedia while Lina is so reliant on magic the moment she loses it she's practically Martina level. You can't compare hybrids to pure spell casters like that, Zel is already pretty high end for what he does. It's just that Shaman a shit and Clerics are joke builds in Slayers cause Lina can't be the star if CoDzillas are running rampant.
The only person who comes close to Lina is whoever invented the Blast Bomb or whatever spell.
>>141109247
According to the series creator, Luna was stronger than Lina in magic. And Gourry had 'equal bucket capacity to Lina, but no mental ability to learn spells'.
And of course any of the Mazoku from Xellos and up were stronger than Lina. And arguably some of the Dragons as well.
Even when neither one could cast Ragna Blade or Giga Slave, they were still stronger in magic than Lina.
>>141109247
>The only person who comes close to Lina is whoever invented the Blast Bomb or whatever spell
Lei Magnus is much stronger than any human sorcerer simply by virtue of having one of Ruby Eye's shards inside him. Not to mention he was an amazing magician in his own right.
>>141109564
>According to the series creator, Luna has a bigger magic capacity than Lina
Fixed that for you. Luna doesn't use magic, she is a warrior who fights with a sword.
>And Gourry had 'equal bucket capacity to Lina, but no mental ability to learn spells'.
>equal
Not really.
http://tokitama.net78.net/slayers-etc/some-setting.html#blas7p58
>(T) "Aside from aptitude, how much is Gourry's magic capacity?"
>(Kanzaka) Just one step short of Drag Slave class.
>>141109564
Aside from the guy who fixed most of your points, nothing you said means anything because Lina is still effectively the greatest magic caster in the Slayers verse. Having better reserves means jack shit when you don't got spells that can match Ragna Blade or Giga Slave.
And I already pointed out the Mazoku deal. They are for all intents and purposes, in a position to completely smash the world into pieces in 5 minutes and not even Lina/Luna/Dragon Lords can stop them. However because of MUH PRAIDO bull shit the Mazoku twiddle their thumbs and concoct silly plans that never bear fruit because pretty much all the big ones end up attracting Lina inadvertently.
Guys like Seygram despite not being hybrids like Garv also come very close to completely breaking that rule as well, the only difference is Seygram hasn't stooped so low yet that he would kill Lina in her sleep but when you consider how even the lowest mooks of the Mazoku need to abide by this rule when facing the greatest sorceress of the world you gotta wonder how genetically fried their brains are.
And to begin with, if you watch/read all of Slayers there's plenty of inconsistency with how Mazoku sneak in blows and act with subtlety yet conveniently refuse to do so in a strategically advantageous manner only against Lina and her party. It's as glaring a plot hole as how LOGH tries to gloss over how silly Tanaka's 'space combat' works.
Writers back then simply did not give a shit about making sense, I don't see why people can't accept that, it's not like people are flawless with it today either, but it's certainly better addressed. All that matters for Slayers is the fun, that's timeless.
>>141110044
Exactly, he basically has a cheat code to begin with, and it's not like Xellos' orbs really even out the difference. Still at least he created something instead of just copy shit all day like Lina.
No one comes close to Lina's accomplishments with magic, why compare Zel a hybrid?
>>141110410
>Writers back then simply did not give a shit about making sense
It may not be realistic, but it works within the rules of the story. Its like asking why in the Lord of the Rings, Souron doesn't just go destroy everything with his formless power. Or why a Wizard like Sarumon don't just blow up a whole city with a fireball, which is within his power. Instead, they spend years building armies and manipulating people.
In reality, the Mazoku are following the same rules. For fuck sake, Hellmaster can just snap his fingers and kill anyone he wants. But because of the limits of the story, that is the Mazoku wanting to destroy everything, it actually remains believable that they don't just teleport out of nowhere and just kill Lina. Since she's the only one who can cast the Giga Slave or kill other Mazoku.
>All that matters for Slayers is the fun, that's timeless.
Well then why are we geeking out on Slayers lore at all? And it all hardly matters since Amelia is the best girl, despite her marginal magical ability (compared to Lina).
I haven't been keeping up with /a/. Has anyone made the Slayers/Kiznaiver reference yet?
>>141111040
>In reality, the Mazoku are following the same rules. For fuck sake, Hellmaster can just snap his fingers and kill anyone he wants. But because of the limits of the story, that is the Mazoku wanting to destroy everything, it actually remains believable that they don't just teleport out of nowhere and just kill Lina. Since she's the only one who can cast the Giga Slave or kill other Mazoku.
That has no bearing on all the other times they don't just simply kill Lina, yet simply kill everyone else. Dynast sure as hell never needed Lina, she just got him his way.
>Well then why are we geeking out on Slayers lore at all?
Cause pointing out how people are wrong is what makes a mongolian cave painting board. It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter or not, no one wants to see people spew shit that isn't true.
>And it all hardly matters since Amelia is the best girl, despite her marginal magical ability (compared to Lina).
Only because Naga isn't in the main series.
>>141111294
>>141070804
at least she agrees
>>141112083
There's a filler episode in Next where Lina has pain revisited back onto her. By the end of the episode Martina has it too.
>>141072055
Lina comes from a different age, if she was made today she'd literally have nothing on her chest.
>>141115271
>OHOHOO RINA PLEASES OLD MAZOKU FOR POWERUP GEMS
