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Talk about whatever but the show must have some variant of "Slayer" in the name. I played D&D recently so that made me start rewatching The Slayers. It's still good! One thing I didn't appreciate when I watched it as an "anime is serious art" teenager is just how much of a cartoon it is. Goofy animations, silly anime faces, giant sweatdrops, its all very comfortable and conversant in the language of animation and that 90's hand drawn charm just oozes from it. Lina is extremely fun and inspiring character and has a great approach to problem solving we would all do well to emulate. I hope the sequel series are just as good!
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congrats to lina being immortalized as a dota character
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Oct 24, 2018 03:15
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I have been watching it for the first time and it makes me feel cozy. I can't articulate exactly why, but it's aesthetic is nostalgic and I really like the characters and music.
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Oct 24, 2018 03:17
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I just watched the first episode of Ninja Slayer From Animation. The Yeearts pretty good.
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Oct 24, 2018 04:19
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RME posted:congrats to lina being immortalized as a dota character I like bringing up that piece of trivia every time someone plays Lina.
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Oct 24, 2018 05:03
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I approve of this pro-Slayers thread: Party on. 
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Oct 24, 2018 05:48
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Slayers Next is my comfort food. It always manages to cheer me up when I feel down.
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Oct 24, 2018 06:05
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Slayers is a great series that brings nothing but smiles to my face. Hell yeah.
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Oct 24, 2018 09:57
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 Let us also appreciate the royal family of Saillune.
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Oct 24, 2018 10:22
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Mulderman posted:Slayers Next is my comfort food. It always manages to cheer me up when I feel down. Cool, I just finished the original so that's up next for me. Gonna get comfy in the anime zone.
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Oct 24, 2018 12:46
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Shinjobi posted:Slayers is a great series that brings nothing but smiles to my face. Hell yeah. All 5 season are pretty decent honestly. Out of curiosity, were the original novels it was based on ever translated and was there anything from them that still remains unadapted (that is, is there any chance of this series getting revived again one day)?
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The first 8 novels were translated and released by Tokyopop The other 7 however remain untranslated. With no plans on translating them. You can find some fan translations online, but the quality of those leaves much to be desired. On the plus side, the first 8 novels do wrap up the first story arc. So you at least get a complete story. Slayers REVOLUTION and EVOLUTION-R adapted some of the material from the novels. But honestly, with a few clever changes they have enough material for a few more seasons. Mulderman fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Oct 24, 2018 |
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Oct 24, 2018 14:00
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Mulderman posted:The first 8 novels were translated and released by Tokyopop I think there was a Slayers manga as well if I recall correctly, was that any good/any different from the anime?
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Oct 24, 2018 14:07
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Also, there's a new novel that came out for the main storyline, after 18 years.
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Oct 24, 2018 14:07
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There's a bunch of manga. Most of them are short self contained stories. You do have: Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers which is an adaption of the first seasons/novels.
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Oct 24, 2018 14:12
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Wark Say posted:Also, there's a new novel that came out for the main storyline, after 18 years. Nice, so this series isn't dead. Hope they make a new season one day in that case. Speaking of which, were most of the 5 existing shows (and possibly the movies as well) adapted straight from the novels or was there a bit of original stuff thrown in here and there as well?
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Oct 24, 2018 14:35
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There was at least one season that was completely anime-original (I think it did have Kanzaka's input, but it definitely wasn't part of the novels). I know for a fact that the blond dragon lady voiced by Houko Kuwashima is anime-original.
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Oct 24, 2018 14:39
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Pretty sure TRY (the third season) was completely original.
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Oct 24, 2018 14:52
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Mulderman posted:Pretty sure TRY (the third season) was completely original. I believe that's the one where the aforementioned dragon lady comes from so that makes sense. Were the movies adapted from the novels as well? Speaking of the movies, they really should have found some excuse to introduce Naga into the series proper (though they sort of did in Revolution in kind of a roundabout way). Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Oct 24, 2018 |
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Oct 24, 2018 15:07
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Best minion Jyllas is also from that season.
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Oct 24, 2018 15:14
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Movies are all original stuff, some of the manga series are based on the movies. I like Naga, but I'm pretty sure she would get tiring for an entire season. She's best saved for one offs. Jillas was great, especially because I didn't expect a seemingly simple character like that to get the development he did.
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Oct 24, 2018 16:26
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do we get more weird fish guys
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Mulderman posted:Movies are all original stuff, some of the manga series are based on the movies. Fair point but as I alluded to she did technically appear at least once in the main series (the suit of armor that temporally joins the group at the start of Revolution has her voice actress, mannerisms and is heavily implied to literally be Naga. Yet for some reason they deliberately avoid explicitly stating that).
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Oct 24, 2018 16:41
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Funnily enough, the Special novels (the ones focusing on Lina & Naga's shenanigans previous to Lina running into Gourry) actually outlasted the main series for the longest time, numbering in a whopping 30 volumes (to the main series 15) and getting published up until 2008. I mean, sure: They were actually shorter in length than the main novels, but still.
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Oct 25, 2018 04:19
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What exactly did Slayers do right that Lost Universe did so, so wrong?
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Be funny
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Oct 25, 2018 05:36
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Is this the new Goblin Slayer thread?
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Lina is a good girl.
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Stink Billyums posted:Is this the new Goblin Slayer thread? what are your thoughts on Goblin Slayer
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Oct 25, 2018 06:12
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Give a Reason is still one of the best anime opening themes.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Lina is a good girl. Lina is besto gal
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Oct 25, 2018 07:59
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Dr Pepper posted:Give a Reason is still one of the best anime opening themes. 
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Oct 25, 2018 09:58
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Stink Billyums posted:Is this the new Goblin Slayer thread? Dr Pepper posted:Give a Reason I'm watching it too, the campfire scene was funny, but given the reception to the last thread I will probably not post about it unprompted.
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Dr Pepper posted:Give a Reason is still one of the best anime opening themes. Crabtree posted:What exactly did Slayers do right that Lost Universe did so, so wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYl1a3DOc44
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Crabtree posted:What exactly did Slayers do right that Lost Universe did so, so wrong? It didn't have crabs climbing on trees in it. Mainly so horrendously cheap animation that it coined the term yashigani anime.
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Getting your studio burned down probably didn't help either.
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So I'm watching some of the old Legend of Heroes OAVs, starting off with Dragon Slayer. It's got a weird kind of Lodoss/BASTARD! like nostalgia to it with the added benefit of the 80s/early 90s dub's main character being named Serious. My side game is now counting all the times they actually say "Are you serious?!".
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If anyone here hasn't seen Slayers or wants to watch it again the entire series is available for free in both sub and dub formats on Funimation's YouTube channel (the first season as well as Revolution/Evolution-R is also on Crunchyroll as well but that could change before too long).
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Larryb posted:If anyone here hasn't seen Slayers or wants to watch it again the entire series is available for free in both sub and dub formats on Funimation's YouTube channel (the first season as well as Revolution/Evolution-R is also on Crunchyroll as well but that could change before too long). All seasons are on crunchy, but for some reason it puts next/try as seasons two and three of Slayers but revolution as a separate entry.
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