This is the greatest female protagonist of all time.
This is the greatest female protagonist of all time
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Who is this flat chested girl?
My fucking wife, so treat her with some goddamn respect, calabadary.
Looks more like a boy to me. I don't think it's possible for a girl to be that flat.
It's not her fault everyone else in the world has disgusting cow udders! She has a naturally petite, attractive and athletic figure that anyone of your JAV stars would be envious of! Instead of trying to find a way to cure back pain, she's adventuring!
Star Twinkle Precure had a reference to her yesterday.
*blocks your path*
That is an excellent omen. I genuinely hope that Slayers starts to make a bigger comeback so it can finally cleanse the anime world of the garbage that has been flooding the airwaves the past decade-plus.
>ugly
>unintelligent
>virgin
>brocon
>all of her r34 is disgusting futashit or being a gangbang cumdump
>blocking anyone's path ever
Konosuba is literally a modern version of Slayers and it's better than most of Slayers.
>harem ecchi isekai is literally a modern version of Slayers
What, exactly, do you mean by that?
She could be better if she had a baby and a daughter
>all of her r34 is disgusting futashit or being a gangbang cumdump
It's all yuri these days.
Konosuba is more like a modern version of those Who hunt elves
It's not a harem, it's barely ecchi (and it's not like Slayers is free of fanservice c'mon), and the isekai part stops mattering after the first episode like 99% of isekai and it just becomes a normal fantasy setting. I mean that it's a parody of JRPG type fantasy stories, featuring a cast of goofy characters setting off on advetures that are filled with more comical antics than epic heroics, but which still end up being fun, well constructed adventures non-the-less.
Give it some time. With Lina's intelligence and Gourry's physique, their kid(s) will be prodigies.
Unless something goes horribly wrong and they get a kid(s) with Lina's body and Gourry's brains.
The fact that you're actively defending Konosuba says more about you, than it says about me choosing to not debate this.
Naga > Lina > Amelia
I disagree, but I can understand your mistake.
Konosuba is great and 100% better than the later seasons and even the OVAs of Slayers. Would like to once again reiterate that I don't know how you can insult Konosuba as "ecchi" when Slayers is probably more fanservice laden than it, AS FEATURED in the image you just posted.
Just started watching this. She has so much personality, just makes you realize how fucking bland 99% of modern female characters are
If it's wholesome, it's not bad. More than that, the fact that you're actively defending Konosuba says more about you than etc. etc....
>stripping underage girls down for a male audience's pleasure is "wholesome"
Ah, I see the divide here. You inherently hate Konsuba's crude meta style because it points to you and makes you face how sleezy your interests are, unlike Slayers which lets you oggle 14yos in peace. I should've realised what was separating the two shows for you sooner, goumen.
I dunno what you're typing on about, but if it's coming from you it's probably dumb anyways.
An excellent choice but Holo will always have my heart.
btw I've never read nor seen Konosuba.
She's beautiful.
Shut up dude. It's okay to like new and popular things. Or do you not like thing because reddit likes it?
Slayers is one of my favorite series and I enjoy Konosuba a lot.
It is okay. Seriously. You can enjoy more than one thing at a time.
Naga is much more entertaining as a character than Lina
You're not wrong, but if we didn't get bursts of Naga and she were instead in front of the camera the entire time, the audience would grow to loathe her.
I do enjoy more than one thing at a time. Konosuba isn't one of them.
:/
Also,
Saying Slayers doesn't have fanservice or that it is okay when slayers does it because it is "wholesome" (an idiotic statement, by the way) is just ridiculous.
Sure, sure, except for the part where you're wrong. The characters in Slayers come before the fanservice. The characters in Konosuba were made intentionally for fanservice. That is what the difference is. The fanservice in Slayers is wholesome because it's just an aspect of the characters. The fanservice in Konosuba is the opposite because that's all the characters are.
I like Konosuba too, but why are you hijacking a Slayers thread? We get it, you like Konosuba, but you don't need to be obnoxious about that, everything has its time and place.
He's not hijacking, he's responding to me because this argument is literally the only way a Slayers thread will stay up on Yea Forums because absolutely no one but me cares about it.
Yes, but not really, no.
>King Luchador the Pacifist
Phil's so fucking much fun.
One day I, too, wish to master his gentle techniques that deliver heartfelt justice.
>the pokies
MY FUCKING DICK
his technique is something to behold
Nice moving goalpost.
Ah, I see you are a man of fine culture as well.
Haha, nope.
konosuba is way better than revolution/evolution-r
You're not wrong about that. I won't disagree on that. If Pokota didn't exist, I'm sure things could've gone more swimmingly adapting volumes 4 and 5 of the light novels into a post-Phibrizzo setting. Someone somewhere hopefully got shot for that stuffed animal's inclusion.
I miss shading.
What kind of shading, though?
What was the last Light Novel adapted in anime format?
I want to read the LNs but just wanted to know.
Slayers and NEXT roughly adapted the first eight light novels, with some things ostensibly out-of-order, omitted, or changed. Try was its own original story. However, because there was a large amount of content skipped in the first eight, Revo / Evo-R adapted large chunks of things from volumes 4 and 5, namely the assassin Zuuma and the creation of Zanaffar armor using a schematic from the Claire Bible.
With how much things have changed, you'll find that the light novels and the anime offer different rides.
Clearly, the shading on the tips of those pointy perky palmfulls.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about the shading on those exquisite eraser endings?
>6'2"
>4'10"
He'd break her in half.
Honestly I fear more for Gourry's pelvis.
And more than that I fear for poor Amelia grinding on Zelgadis's Stalgmite.
Amelia is a strong girl who has trained every muscle in her body since she was four years old. I think she can blow demon Zelgadis' golem without injury.
I dunno, I trust there's some magical answer to it, but that's not really something you can work a callous onto.
Yes, they just couldn't wait, could they...?
Don't be so judgemental about poor Zelgadis' physiology! Amelia wouldn't put herself through that kind of pain unless she could enjoy it!
Speakin' a that...
Gonna get a bit racy, now...
If Amelia had a devious bone in her body, I'd think this was her plan all along.
She should make up her mind. Before and after, she's begging for it. During, she's begging him to stop. Is that bipolar?
El fin.
Nah, that's just how japanese porn works.
It's why I won't bother with JAVs even if I will watch 3d porn sometimes.
I just realized, I need Amelia and Naga to meet someday, not just because they're sisters, but because I need to see Amelia to tell her older sister to step the fuck off her man.
I don't know if I could perform while feeling like a rapist even after receiving consent. Combine that with how young they all look, it's like any attempt would be a life imprisonment.
Do you really think Naga would go for a person of Zel's caliber?
He's cute when you get past the stones, I mean, we all remember what he looks like in a dress.
I'm trying to come up with a reason why she wouldn't go for Gourry first though. Maybe she doesn't like blondes?
Normal Zel is a bishounen fuckboy that pretends to be hardcore, why would Naga go after him? Also, she would definitely go after Gourry. Even though it would be funny for Amelia and Naga to fight, more than likely she would argue with Lina.
Or, rather, Lina would argue with her, Naga would belittle her, and then Amelia would stand up for her best friend.
>soulless
>soul
>soulless
>soulless
yep boomers win again
It feels good to be old enough to appreciate the 90s, and young enough to appreciate adaptation.
You know nothing of the durability of the small human adult female.
Tell me of your personal experiences then, sensei, because from what I've heard tiny girls make "small" men feel like they're packing a Titan-family missile.
This is just sad. Those other girls are vacuous husks next to Lina.
I don't even know who they are. What are their characters like in their respective series?
Has Lina had sex, anyways? I think she's too self-conscious.
My sister is 4'9" and mother of 5. My brother-in-law is 6'4", they obviously had no problems.
Not gonna lie, that kind of ruined it for me. I can't imagine Zelgadis wouldn't stop if she said no.
Wowzers. Imagine having to think about that every Thanksgiving and Christmas.
It's funny though, when it comes to Zelame, their relationship is all over the place in the eyes of the fanbase. For example, here's a very abusive incarnation where Zel is actually hardcore.
... And here is one where theirs is a relationship of healing.
I definitely prefer the healing. Abusive Zel is just so out of character.
Don't worry, someone very important to the Slayers series silently agrees with your assessment.
Think about what user? I'm celibate by choice after 3 gf's.
Oh wait, shit, it's the same outfit! You'd think I would've noticed...
Same with Lina and Gourry.
I wish somebody would resurrect the English Slayers LN license that isn't fucking Y+
You will never, ever get volumes 9-16 translated into English. It's time to accept that you're going to have to rely in fan translations to understand the story... Not that there's anything wrong with that. No, the real crime is that there's no fan translations of Slayers Special / Smash.
Ponder.
I think he means the mechanical aspects instead of the romantic aspects.
We humans are versatile.
How the fan translations compare to the official ones?
Is Slayers worth watching? I saw it was on Hulu today
It still seems dangerous...
They're fine, actually, with only a minor grammatical error maybe once or twice a chapter. You can find official translations for 1-8 and a solid fan translation for 9 with this link, but for 10-15 I'd recommend using novelplanet.
I DUNNO WHY DON'T YOU FIND OUT HUH
The first series is extremely 90s, but that doesn't prevent it from being enjoyable. NEXT is regarded as the best season for the anime, and with very good reason. It arguably has better drama and a better climax compared to the light novels, which it adapts from, and has one of the best OP songs in anime history. Try was its own original story, and it gets very dark and very serious for what should be a comedy show. While it follows through on some romantic stuff seen in NEXT, it's lower than the second season in fan rankings because there is a horrendous filler break in the middle of intense action.
Revolution / Evolution-R aren't necessarily bad, but they certainly aren't good. When the mascot animal isn't involved, it feels like a healthy continuation for the series in the anime line, and even the digital art stays rather faithful to their old designs. The problem is that the mascot animal is central to the core story, and the two seasons themselves are adapting stories from the light novel that take place long before the "Hellmaster" arc, which had been completely resolved in the anime for years.
All in all, give it a shot, and if it's not your thing, try the movies and OVAs.
Love motivates beyond danger.
Forgot the link to the song...
youtube.com
That's what the doujins teach me.
Life beyond the page user. Find it.
For what reason?
Please answer, I have always wanted to get into this series as I l watched a bit of the anime and loved lina's personality. So which is better, manga or anime?
Why does Yea Forums love girls with periods so much.
Because what you post is only dust on paper. Its not flesh.
Light novels are "core", and includes the original work and the comedic spin-off Slayers Special / Smash, which chronicle Lina's adventures prior to the main series with one of the best side-kicks ever created. This is what you want to go to for Hajime Kanzaka's original ideas. The problem is that only Volumes 1-8 of a total of 16 have been translated by TokyoPop (of all companies) because they didn't believe the light novels were selling well enough.
The anime roughly adapts from the light novels, and is the easiest to get into simply because Funimation has all of the subbed episodes available on YouTube. The anime has to include filler and other cast members, but it largely does so very well. Fans generally prefer the anime because there's more-overt shipping, and I personally believe the drama and climax for NEXT blows volumes 5-8 out of the water. Try is its own story, and Revo / Evo-R goes back to (poorly) adapting the light novels. Also in animation are movies and OVAs, which are largely stand-alone and all, except Premium, take place before the Slayers anime really begins because it features Naga, whose ojou-laugh is peerless, even in the English dub.
The manga is largely adapted from the light novels and the movies / OVAs, but also has two original stories, Knight of the Aqualord and Hourglass of Falces. KotA was originally supposed to be a video game, and you can tell with the introduced primary character in that story, but there's never a point where it can be called "bad". The Hourglass of Falces, meanwhile, deviates from Rui Araizumi's artwork and is blatant ecchi, so if that's your thing then go for it. I believe both of these works are available in English... but if they aren't, you can find them fan translated on most manga-reading sites.
As for what's better, that's up to you. Do you like worldbuilding and heavy-detail? Do you like shipping and slapstick comedy? Do you like TITS and ASS? There's an option for everyone with Slayers.
Seven Seas might pick it up if you bug them about it in their surveys.
They've got Record of Lodoss War and at least the True Tenchi novels. It would make sense for them to pick up GXP, but no signs yet.
So Slayers is right up their alley and it's about to be a hot IP again.
If you can't convince Rui of that, then you can't convince me, either.
To each their own.
If you have an Animebytes account this is what they have
I put it in every survey and I sometimes bother them on Twitter (I actually got a response about it once)
You either retire a hero, or live long enough to see that d20 come up 1.
It makes them real, so it's not just pussy on a pedestal. Sort of like how Lina's outfit is the way it is, there's a practical reason so she can easily pop a squat on the road.
Woops misquote. Meant for not 188683425
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
no.
I like both Slayers and Konosuba
Fuck, Gunsmith Cats ended rough. At least Minnie May made it out okay. Goldie flooding the streets with her wonderdrug is like the Clintons and superpredators: fucked up, but the old niggys living in 90s Chicago would've done anything to stem the violence.
I didn't recommend AB because, if they're asking for sauce, they more than likely don't have an account and would be turned-off from the application process. Still, thank you for sharing. There's really no such thing as too much information, right?
Since Zanaffar armor is back on the table, and it's being used by elves, and Hajime made it clear that elf-magic is going to be important in Series 3... Well, Lina better keep hitting as fast and as hard as she has been.
Don't worry, Gourry is retarded, too, and people still love him!
's joke
Would Asuka have chilled out if she had a Gourry chad in her life?
Konosuba does have the mean-spirited friendly banter comedy Slayers has at its best. I don't know if I'd call it better, but I would call it a spiritual successor.
Megumin could even be Lina's kid sister if you squint. They're both boisterous, big eating, scummy, flat teenage genius mages who solve their problems with guile and overwhelming firepower.
Yes.
Absolute yes.
Please don't start this up again, I haven't been bumping this thread for hours and finally gotten the discussion on the series and lore for us to fall back to fucking Konosuba comparisons.
Tfw you devote your life to helping some crazy bitch because a fisherman told you to
#relatable
Lina's father is a legendary wingman and I can't wait for him and Gourry to meet again once the two complete their trip to Zephilia.
In what way??
Why can't we be friends?
thanks user, it's honestly hard to decide still. I also don't like really much the other artist's artstyle for the manga by the way. I just think the original art style has more charm.
It's not like you're picking a degree path lol
I'd suggest starting with the anime, simply because of its accessibility. Then you can move on to the light novels, and when you're craving more Slayers stuff you'll be able to force yourself to read the manga.
And then you can begin the quest for the Holy Grail, the official doujins by Rui Araizumi himself.
I wonder what the novels will do with Xellos in this new continuity. I just hope they stop making him job; dudes supposed to be the strongest of the monster race outside of Shabranigdu's subordinates but they rarely show it.
To be fair, they can't really show it, because there's no one within the crew's team that is just as powerful as Xellos. For example, Reisaat and Rashart together could handle Xellos, but they both wanted to kill Lina while she was looking for the Claire Bible, meaning that if Lina was sticking around while Xellos fought them, they would always target her and render a full-blown fight between the three of them pointless.
However, word of God says that Luna, as a Knight of Ceipheed, is about the same in terms of power as Xellos, who is both a Priest and General...
Why is Luna a waitress instead of combating the demons trying to resurrect Shabranigdo?
Just as powerful? With a comment like that, they just have to meet eventually. I wonder if they'll despise each other instantly kind of like the Xellos/Filia dynamic in "Slayers Try".
While there is no official reason as far as I am aware, outside of it being a funny gag it makes sense why Luna would be staying in Zephalia for two reasons. The first is that Luna has no need to intervene because the Mazoku are far more interested in Lina's ability to use "Chaos" magic, or magic that calls upon directly the Lord of Nightmares. If Lina kills herself in the process, who cares? Certainly not her elder sister who has tried to kill her in the past, both with beatings and with poison. (Yes, that's canon. To be fair, though, Lina would make village boys pay money to use a special projector to show Luna bathing; she's no saint.)
The second is that Zephalia has the Eternal Queen, a living aspect of the Aqualord Ragradia, who is one-fourth of Ceipheed, the God that fought against Ruby Eye Shabranigdo. Ragradia fought against a fragment of Shabranigdo that had been released by (someone who in fanon is a Wiseman like Rezo) Lei Magnus, as well as Chaos Dragon Garv. Ragradia died, passing on his wisdom in the form of the Claire Bible, and fragments of that immense knowledge are believed to be part of the Eternal Queen's as well.
Since Xellos is on a mission to destroy every copy of the Claire Bible, she would need to protected.
>You could cure cancer with that technology!
>But I don't wanna cure cancer I wanna turn people into dinosaurs!
More or less that. She's powerful but she doesn't give a fuck and just wanna take it easy.
Luna is no-nonsense. If they were to meet, which Hajime is understandably reluctant to do because her strength is so far beyond anyone else's in the main cast, it wouldn't, or rather shouldn't, be played for gags. Xellos could kill Filia in the blink of an eye, since he'd killed thousands of golden dragons in the War of Monster's Fall, which made it funny when he would harass her and she would retaliate.
Luna is the only person we know of outside of one of the subordinates of Shabranigdo, like Garv or Hellmaster, that could legitimately destroy him. Comedy ends when a threat to a major villain's life is put on the table.
So is the new stuff following the light novels?
The new stuff is Series 3 for the light novels, so yes. Series 1 is volumes 1-8, Series 2 is volumes 9-15, and 16 is sort of an anniversary bridge, and will probably be included in Series 3. The issue is that nothing after volume 9 has been translated into English, meaning you and I getting volumes 16+ will be tricky; 16 still hasn't been translated, and it was released last year in October.
Damn, I guess it is too risky for Xellos and Luna to meet each other. Still, Regarding Xellos, I wonder about the monster races power balance. Beast-Master currently has the strongest monster outside her siblings as her subordinate while her siblings have lost their subordinates. You'd think that they would try destroying Xellos behind her back in order to maintain balance
Shut the fuck up.
As far as it can be understood from the light novels, after Garv's betrayal and destruction, with Hellmaster and Dynast following shortly thereafter, there's only Deep Sea Dolphin and Zelas Metallium, Xellos' retainer, left.
Considering that every other priest and general has been killed in one continuity or another (Riksfalto and Hurakei being destroyed in the manga), Xellos is the only one left, and has shown he's willing to work for other subordinates like when he worked for Hellmaster. He's basically the only tool Dolphin and Zelas have.
Its because the way you responded the first mention of it. Fact of the matter is most people like both. I don't think Konosuba needs to be discussed in this thread but now you have people discussing it solely to respond to you disliking so much.
You are clearly the biggest Slayers fan here, I will give you that, but you brought this upon yourself.
On the topic of the thread, though it isn't "lore" discussion like you want. I enjoy Slayers a lot and found a copy of this at a Bookoff this weekend. Didn't even know it was a thing.
same.
One more question. Does the Lord of Nightmares dislike the monster race? As I re-watched Slayers Next; I noticed that she was pretty antagonistic toward Hellmaster from the jump and gave Xellos a nasty look the moment he appeared(teleported) into the scene.
Yeah, but I clearly stated as well. If the thread is talking about its topic actively, then there's no need to talk about a different topic. If the thread is dying, then it's time to start shitposting. This isn't a very difficult concept...
>This is the greatest female protagonist of all time.
I was gonna post my wife Ryoko but than I realized this is a Slayers thread. So I'll post my mistress Naga.
As far as it can be understood, she doesn't have an opinion on the gods or the Mazoku. She IS, as every world is made up of her. She is unstoppable, insurmountable, and undefeatable. Her name alone is enough to demoralize Mazoku, like what we've seen when Lina mentions her around Xellos.
Her objective appears to be the same as the Mazoku; to drown the world and make it become part of the Sea of Chaos again. Hajime has joked that she wants this done because she's "lonely", but her real reasons aren't clear. Not even the Claire Bible can tell us what her goal is. However, her reason for assaulting Phibrizzo in NEXT is because he attempted to elevate himself above LoD by assuming what her desires are.
There were only two options known to using the Giga Slave at that time. Either is fires off correctly, or it fails and the world it was used on falls into the Sea of Chaos. LoD chose a third option when Lina used it for Hellmaster, and that was to use Lina as an avatar. WHY she did that, we don't know, nor do we know why she gave Lina's body back when Gourry started punching his way through Chaos to get her.
Like Zel said, "she has a capricious nature".
I miss the sword of light
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in this thread that would count as shitposting are
I think it is good that you want to have Slayers threads, but I think you should also take a step back and realize that you seem to be an extreme fan whose knowledge and obsession with the series goes far beyond most peoples so you aren't going to have your perfect thread.
Isn't Gourry's new Blast sword supposed to be way more powerful anyway?
To make it more clear, when she appears she tells Phibrizzo that "only my thoughts exist here", when a better understanding of her statement would be "everything that exists is a part of me". Phibrizzo, wishing for destruction, presumed that if he assaulted LoD and killed her vessel, Lina, it would take out the entire world, which is a part of LoD, would be destroyed as well.
Absolutely. The Sword of Light, despite being a weapon, is a subordinate of Dugradigdo, like how Garv and Metallium are subordinates of Shabranigdo. In other words, it's a Mazoku, so it could handle fighting most other Mazoku quite well.
The Blast Sword, however, was probably the weapon used by Ceipheed, this world's god, and because of its "holy" qualities it's dramatically more powerful than the Sword of Light from what we've seen. While there can be an argument that the SoL wasn't properly tapped in to because no one knew what it really was until it was taken away, given the universe's power-level chart, the Blast Sword would still be stronger than SoL at its full potential.
Maybe but it's nowhere as cool.
JUSTIFY THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW
Da hell, The weapons of light are supposed to be the equivalents of Helmaster and the other subordinates. Gourry really did not know how to use that sword at all then.
Considering its origins, no one really knew to be fair, and especially not Gourry. He never had the weapon properly explained to him. He has a rather sad backstory where, while his family passes down the Sword of Light by generation, siblings regularly fought with each other over who would get it. It was either Hajime or Rui who, in an interview, stated that Gourry has an older sibling(s?) that basically have a "Hokuto no Ken" relationship where they fought over who would get to possess the Sword.
To end the conflict because he has such a kind heart, he stole it as a young teen and ran away from home.
If so, then why did I drop it at episode 3 of this boring crap?
I dunno. Maybe you didn't like how everything was moving at a relatively slow pace because the plot hadn't kicked in yet? Maybe you were mad that the show was clearly going to wind-up jumping the shark before even reaching the halfway point? Maybe you didn't like the shitty VAs that were cast for Rezo and Zel, and Gourry sounding like Brock? Maybe you don't like how the old animation looks?
That's just off the top of my head, at least.
>Gourry taps those buns
The cast wasn't feminine at all
I don't understand?
OOP books are worth several times their MSRP.
Just ask the /shelf/ threads on Yea Forums.
holy shit thats bad
these things arent fuckin' gutenbergs
It's a perfect little storm.
It's regarded as a bit of a cult classic series, for a given value of "classic", and it's actually a really cute story.
It's been OOP for about 10 years, and isn't likely seeing a new run anytime soon.
And online scans only reach so far, and I don't think anyone's finished the series. Even the translation leaves out about six volumes.
Yikes, even worse.
And another factor to consider is the targeted audience.
Teenage boys with one hand on the book and the other on their dick.
The only way to be sure that your copy is clean is if it's factory sealed. And so many others surely have pages stuck together.
Gourry is a lucky man that we should strive to aspire to be like.
>female mc
We need more porn of Lina.
Always love Lina but then got a crush on Amelia . Now Amelia seems nice a a friends and Lina as a wife .
Redheads .... masaka ....
Tomoko is queen of Yea Forums; that’s how it’s been since 2012.
I thought the collective Yea Forums changed their mind after she got friends and went /u/?
Tomoko was always Yea Forums's crap, please go back to there.
I’m afraid you’re mistaken, but to each his own.
How can I choose when there's only one option?