Will any company pick up the re-mastered TV series for release in the UK/US?
Will any company pick up the re-mastered TV series for release in the UK/US?
Michael Martinez
Kayden Baker
I hope so.
Joshua Flores
And here's our Sunday thread!
As for your question it's possible they will.
Blake Roberts
God, I love Lina!
Colton Perry
Xavier Long
My first husbando.
Alexander Ortiz
Hmmm....
Camden Smith
Don't we all
Christian Stewart
Try's JP BD has been out for a month now. How does it compare to the Spanish BD's? Is it just another shitty lazy upscale?
Lucas Perry
Seriously lads, is there a way to forget Slayers so I can watch it all again as if it was all new to me? Get hit on the head? Electric shock to the brain?
Leo Howard
Why do generic japanese fantasy characters always wear gloves instead of gauntlets?
Jaxson Murphy
>re-mastered TV series
Wait, has Slayers been remastered recently? Did we get nice BDs or something?
Owen Scott
We got upscales.
Zachary Scott
(Un)fortunately, you can never really forget. However, as someone who re-read and re-watched everything after several years, once I heard that Series 3 was going to be a thing, I can honestly say it's still a great ride the second time around.
Liam Carter
Why would you need to forget such a nice series like this? It's kind of impossible
Christian Thomas
Oh my goodness! It's that time of the year again!
Logan Davis
Lina a cute, CUTE!
Adrian Adams
It saddens me that new generations of weebs have never watched this masterpiece
Eli Clark
I'm just sad we never got the rest of the LN animated. I really was hoping for Blast sword shenanigans.
Brody Jones
Post best songs
Matthew Morgan
And what is this?
Nicholas Kelly
Is there a reason why they couldn't do a proper remaster? Did they lose the film elements in a fire or something?
Ryder Sullivan
I wish the 90s anime style would make a comeback. Also, then people might seek out the original 90s shows.
Andrew Long
I always suspected Xellos was a big perverted peeper.
Parker Roberts
Ignore the AMV, it's the full version of the video game Slayers Royal 2's opening song.
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1. JC Staff might not have cared about Slayers when they were releasing the BDs. They didn't include anything Slayers-related in their anniversary celebration video:
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However, after how popular Slayers has become, they DID include the still-shot of Lina in the mom-bait fetish anime they're doing now (pic related), so... who knows?
2. The originals could have been burned in the massive studio fire that happened years ago when the staff was creating Lost Universe. After the KyoAni event, it's possible that all things Hajime-related, animation-wise, were simply lost, and all that's left now is converting tapes to digital and upscaling the images.
CUTE BUTT!!
Nathan Miller
Doujinshi.
Samuel Campbell
What releases of slayers should I grab, and is it worth waiting for the BDs?
Lincoln Jones
All of them
No, unless I see screenshots of the recently-released Slayers NEXT proving they aren't upscales.
Thomas Myers
>All of them
I think you didn't understand what i meant. I mean, what fansub release should i be going for. a-s or?
Jace Evans
O-oh...
If you want to save bandwidth and system memory, Funimation uploaded everything from OG to Evolution-R with subs. The problem is that the subs are just the dub script, and that does not include the OVAs or movies. Granted, other channels have uploaded SOME of the OVAs and movies and subbed them, but not all of them. Regardless, the best resolution you'll find on YT is 480p, though Revo / Evo-R might be higher.
Enderp has uploaded all of the animations in excellent quality. They're not remasters, but they're touched up quite well. He uses HVC1, though the videos come from "various sources", so their resolutions are all over the place. See pic related.
The other option comes from ShinMugetsu, but when I tried that upload it took an eternity to get done. This video is all MKV, except for S1 which is MP4. The resolution here is all 1920x1080.
David Gomez
Are the Slayers DVD Collection sets good?
Noah Butler
I personally haven't seen shots of them, but people were happy (or at least content) with ShinMugetsu's uploads, and those were off of the DVDs I believe.
Liam Cruz
dead thread
Jaxson Sanders
Never!! I'll post more pics. Also, does anyone own any Slayers merch outside of DVD's, tapes, etc.
Brody Cook
I don't think we can have a thread of just us posting...
Jeremiah Brown
Guess not, and I've got to get to bed soon for work tomorrow. See you next weekend?
Lucas Gray
The elf girl on the far left, who is that one of the newer characters introduced in series 3?
Matthew Rodriguez
M-maybe... I work now, too, I just got lucky and had a Sunday off...
Elaina / Eileen! Introduced in Volume 16, she's a pro-life elf who delivers the warning to the humans in Atessa, where Gourry and Lina are resting on their way to Lina's hometown, about an impending attack from tribal elves who are angry that humans are logging the forests the elves turned over to them, for humans to use responsibly.
Eileen also removes the Dulling Spell Milgazia, the golden dragon who guided Lina to the Claire Bible, put on Gourry's Blast Sword, because it was too sharp for them to use safely. She does this because Lina can no longer cast the Ragna Blade without using a stationary magic amplification circle, and Gourry needed the power-up.
Thomas Walker
Figured that was her, not enough elves in slayers apparently but it's nice to see a new and actually great character introduced in the series.
Gabriel Wilson
There was Memphis. You know, the one who turned into a giant angel that shoots laser beams from her face thanks to using Zanaffa (NOT Zanaffar) Armor? The one who was an unnecessarily rude bitch to Lina as soon as they met?
Jace Cruz
Blake Long
The bestest
Andrew Parker
Hello friend!
Dominic Harris
Afternoon!
Joseph Green
There's nothing like a good Lina after a long day, is there?
Ethan Taylor
Isn't she a bit flat?
Joseph White
All 2D characters are flat, retard.
Benjamin Baker
Christopher Cruz
Bullshit, dvdrip looks much better than this.
Adrian Ward
Honestly, ya
Jayden Price
Samuel Mitchell
She's fat.
Levi Hall
I dare you to find an ounce of fat on this tight little body.
Dominic Jackson
>Slayers reference in the mommy sex anime
>suddenly Yea Forums is inundated with slayers threads
Isaac Martin
>infinite NGE waifu war, Nart, OP, Berserk, SNK, and other trash threads on Yea Forums
>no one bats an eye
>a couple Slayers threads
>everyone loses their goddamn minds
Brayden Sanchez
Wait, what?
Jackson Martin
Carson Cooper
Okaasan Online.
Nicholas Martinez
Oh look. Another boomer thread for boomer anime. Get off my board grandpas.
Hudson Bennett
>*cracks open a Monster*
>*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip*
>"Yup, they don't make animes like they used to."
Wyatt Diaz
Weve been having one or two threads every week for months, mommy anime had nothin to do with it
Wyatt Butler
>Ywn watch a fantasy anime without the retarded isekai/mmo mechanics in your lifetime.
Chase King
Chase Gutierrez
I don't believe you.
Adam Long
Sounds like a freakin' personal problem lmao
Sebastian Nguyen
What show?
Leo Cox
...
Ryan Cruz
Levi Jones
Top ten unexpected anime crossovers
In all seriousness I actually didn't expect there to be an official drawing of this.
Ian Anderson
I'm just glad that Slayers can't be used by Kadokawa. The last thing I want is Lina's party to end up as a gag in Isekai Quartet.
James Campbell
What the fuck?! Why the fuck is Lina carrying a disembodied copy of her chest? I've never seen shit like this in slayers before! I'm reporting this post for guro content.
Joshua Gomez
>I'M GONNA GET VIOLENT!!!
Nathan Russell
Noah Cruz
Sorry, only chested girls can qualify for the bubble tea challenge.
Cameron Price
Lina ALWAYS finds a way!!
David Anderson
Noah Rivera
How do you pronounce Gourry? Does the anime dub pronounce it properly?
Aaron Campbell
GOH-ree is the correct pronunciation. There are times where you might here someone say GUH-ree, or GOR-ee, but it's meant to be the first.
Zachary Garcia
I could've sworn I heard it as GAW-ree at one point.
Lincoln Garcia
I found this at Anime Expo like two decades ago for $5. I bought it just for the box art. Don't even own a laserdisk player.
But there's plenty. Not only older shows like this, but plenty within the last decade.
Jordan Moore
>How do you pronounce Gourry?
Just watch the original Japanese. It's Gau-rii.
Angel Sanders
KISSU KISSU KISSU
Hudson Brooks
FAKKU FAKKU FAKKU
Carter Rogers
Yeah, the Jap sounds a lot more like Goh-ree.
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The English is much more of a Gow-ree
Sebastian Torres
Tyler Morris
Are you talking about the actual animation cels? Those are collectible, they often got sold after production finished.
Julian Flores
Can confirm, I've seen plenty of the cels on sale. Almost bought one myself, but got one from episode 1 of CardCaptor Sakura instead.
Usually the way they make things into BD is to take the original film and record it into a higher resolution. But most TV shows didn't get a high quality 35mm print. This is why it's mostly movies that get good BD adaptations. And most TV show adaptations before the digital age are upscales.
Carter Adams
Technically if the cels had been recorded as film instead of tape, they could be successfully restored and enhanced at a later date.
If my meager understanding of animation is correct, of course.
Gabriel Fisher
Oh oh oh are we Zelameposting now?
Blake Sullivan
I'm just posting best girl. As I always do whenever I see a Slayers thread. Zel just happens to tag along.
Ryder Hughes
OH FUCK
Anthony Mitchell
Naga no!
Adrian Martinez
Liam King
Like mother, like daughter.
Nathan Johnson
Jeremiah Carter
No he's talking about the original master footage that was created when the series was first made. Film actually has a very high resolution so if the masters are still around and in good condition they can be used to create a HD version of an older show. In some cases those masters don't exist any more so you have to use lower resolution copies like first generation VHS tapes or other SD sources. You can digitally convert those to a higher resolution image but it's an extrapolation. Unlike with a true high quality source the image data just isn't there so it won't look as nice.
You wouldn't see an older series getting a HD treatment by re-shooting the cels for exactly the reason you think. Studios don't really have the storage space or the manpower to keep and maintain huge amounts of old cels so they would have been lost, stolen, sold off, or destroyed.
Elijah Phillips
What a shame. Still, beggars can't be choosers. I still keep my fingers crossed that the Next BDs are in good shape, and if not those, at least Try's. I'm sure with Slayers' newfound popularity there may be more effort involved in the revival.
Dominic Gomez
And I was trying to tell you that most TV series don't get high quality masters. Movies did because they were required to be 35mm. TV shows could be a much smaller format. So with only a few exceptions like Escaflowne, most TV shows didn't get recorded on full 35mm film. TV shows usually got 16 or even 8mm film, since the old CRTs didn't show much quality difference. Even if they still have the masters for Slayers, it's probably on 16mm film. And needs to be upscaled.
Once digital took over, they didn't need to worry about film, obviously. But early shows still stuck with a 480p resolution, even when recording digitally. Which is why early digital shows like Princess Tutu and Love Hina also need to upscaled.
Angel Rodriguez
Guys, all this science-talk is hurting my brain...
Luke Morgan
The BDs are upscaled right?
Angel Perry
>remaster
Surely you mean to write "upscale of old digitized betacam tapes".
Leo Collins
Yes, the BDs, to our knowledge, are upscales.
Parker Campbell
Jonathan Powell
I always thought it was Guh-ow-er-ee.
Gavin Watson
Shortstacks are the greatest miracle in the universe.
Robert Bell
Its been a bad day anons, more Lina!
Jose Fisher
>Comparing Wise with Lina
TIME PUT FIRE AT JC STAFF NOW!
Henry Foster
Gourry is a two-syllable name. You can't have four syllables in a two-syllable name. His name in Japanese may use four characters--ガウリイ--but it's read as "Gaurii", with the first two, ガウ, having a "GOW" sound, like "gown" or "gouge". So, everyone was right and everyone was wrong. It's GOW-ree.
Caleb Peterson
No. Lina is perfect!
Jacob Flores
>mfw The other mommy charcter will be voiced by Lina
JUST MAKE THIS BHIT HAPPEN!
Logan Fisher
Nolan Green
I'm glad I stayed awake instead of going to sleep. I don't care if I have work today, Lina is more important than being job-efficient.
Austin Hernandez
Thanks user
Sebastian Martin
I can't let the 9-5 get in the way of my real job, now can I? You're welcome.
Leo Campbell
Given how JC Staff handled the last two seasons, I wouldn't want them to be adapted. Let someone like Bones or Madhouse do it. With Junichi Sato handling the adaptation. He brought Slayers back to life with the last movie, only to have JC Staff kill it again.
Also, a Lost Universe remake is desperately needed.
Kayden Young
They shouldn't adapt the LNs. They should continue exploring outside of the Mazoku Barrier while the LNs continue to take place on the continent and the manga goes full-weeb and stays in the Eastern part of the world where the Airlord is. Now that the dragons following the Firelord are dead, the anime should move to the South where the Earthlord is. Don't cross the streams after the Hellmaster Arc.
Brandon Turner
Landon White
Mason Sanchez
That might be the best ass Lina ever got.
Michael Morris
25th anniversary expo.
Ian Martinez
And the other one, just to bring the point home.
Matthew Evans
A good butt yes
Joshua Bell
And then there's this...
Christian Murphy
That I can agree with. Let the anime after Try be it's own thing. And just have them going to do unique adventures. And keep Amelia eternally a cute shortstack and never grow up to be like her sister.
John Gray
Can't forget the LNs...
Samuel Davis
'scuse me, mods, just dumpin' some ass in here...
Julian Garcia
Wait, are we shifting back to Amelia AGAIN??
You can't keep changing gears, you'll strip them in the bad way.
Ayden Phillips
Those are kinda flat though.
Alexander Edwards
Is this the pic you were wanting?
Jaxon Martin
Austin Martin
I've only been posting Amelia since I found this thread.
Zachary Edwards
Aiden Scott
Hudson Nguyen
Josiah Gutierrez
I'm sort of new to the series, why do these two pictures have different art styles? Does the anime change art styles in later seasons?
Austin Young
Charles Walker
Why do I find so much enjoyment in seeing this retard get abused?
Jayden Carter
Lina is 30 years-old, and has gone through quite a few changes since her first design. The first one you linked to is the anime studio's design of her, while the second one is Rui Araizumi's artwork. Rui is the original artist for the light novels, which is the start of the Slayers series. This is Lina's first draft.
I'll post more history with more pictures in a moment.
Robert Kelly
Lina was first written as having chestnut hair, and you can see that the original designs for both Lina and Gourry were much more "grounded"; Slayers was a comedy, but still managed to maintain a sword and sorcery setting. While Lina may be over-dressed, you can see there's nothing that particularly stands out about her. The same can also be said for Gourry.
Continuing on...
Gavin Rodriguez
Now, the problem with having such high-details is that they're difficult to animate, so Lina in the anime had fewer objects attached to her. They also gave her hair an orange tinge, because it makes her "pop" more than if she had regular brown hair. This would also be the time when she would get her lewd fang.
Continuing...
Juan Cruz
Nobody is going to source from VHS tapes; they're going to source from the videotape master (betacam?) that was used to make the broadcasts/VHS tapes/LDs.
Ethan Cruz
I guess the first image is not a good example, but anime Lina seems to have the more objects attached to her.
Nicholas Butler
Luis Wood
In the LN spin-offs with Lina touring with Naga, Lina still had her chestnut hair, but you could already see that a change was undergoing her. Naga would also go through some changes once she was adapted into OVAs and movies, which I will discuss next.
Isaac Stewart
Slayers has TV shows, movies, manga, light novels and games, all with different designs. Then on top of it, you have other artists who make magazine ads, TV ads, movie posters and so on. And even within the TV show itself, characters will have massive differences in design based on the artists doing the episode. Every season of the TV show has one particular artist who goes extra heavy on the outlines, making Lina's nose look bigger and even defining the teeth to a creepy degree. Which doesn't look like her design in all the other episodes.
tl;dr Multiple artists.
Don't fucking call mai waifu retarded!
You probably just like it when characters go off model with reaction shots. It's why I love Usagi in Sailor Moon more when she's doing something exaggerated or silly.
Brody Howard
I'll provide a better example of my own after this mini-presentation.
The OVAs and movies gave Lina dark-red hair, as opposed to the stock-brown that the LNs had, and the bright-orange the anime had. They also helped to fix the "yaoi face" Naga had somehow gotten, while helping to bring her personality into full-bloom. However, this is about Lina, not Naga, so we'll focus on her changes for now.
There's not really much that DID change between the anime and the OVAs / movies, other than we get to see more moving "parts" for Lina, such as how she rolls up the sleeves for her undershirt. The anime tries to keep Lina's moving "parts" to a minimum, so outside of a full outfit change we don't see her attire in layers.
Brandon Barnes
Its not helping guys ;_;
Aaron White
Over time, Rui's artwork started to follow the anime's design more than the written text. It's understandable, since anime Lina is more "cute" than the reality-grounded LN Lina we had seen prior. Here's an example showing how he's changed from the 90s to today.
Jack Watson
Naga changed as well in Rui's artwork, though arguably for the better. While the designs can be considered more "basic", they are nonetheless following staple rules and archetypes so we know exactly who they are as they changed over three decades.
Luis Garcia
About to start watching this, what am I in for
Colton Martin
Here's what I mean when talking about details. Lina, in the anime, has the same animations saved (this isn't a knock on it, by the way) for her hair moving, her cape flowing, and the large, round designs for her mantle. Her attire is unique enough to be recognized, but simple enough to be drawn.
In the original LNs, there were multiple layers that were a part of Lina's outfit, and because they didn't have to move, we could see those layers individually.
Jacob Jones
What are the best releases to watch slayers?
There's a ton of options and I don't know which ones don't look like shit, or which ones have styled subs that don't look like shit
Noah Anderson
ima just goto sleep, night anons
Aaron Diaz
F
Leo Cooper
I'll finally end with Lina's new outfit, the "Atessa" attire. It's not practical in the slightest, but it's flashy, it has great detail, and despite being new Lina looks right at home wearing it. Rather than degrading over time, Lina has only improved as a character.
Brayden Perry
Luis Hughes
>Be thankful I used the back of my blade
>Oh, this sword is double-edged
Some gags just stay with you.
Carson Cruz
>"Oh my God...!"
>"They JIGGLE!!"
>"YEAAAAAAAH!!!"
Noah Hughes
The best filler episode is sadly stuck in Evo-R. The gags were off the rails, though.
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Christian Butler
Megumi Hayashibara completes Lina. It's just not the same without her voice.
Jaxon Watson
A show that seems like random comedy, but has one of the largest examples of world building and lore behind it. Also, it feels a lot like a D&D campaign because it literally started out as the authors D&D campaign. But his take on magic is far more unique and interesting than D&D standard in my opinion.
And about two dozen other things I won't spoil for you. The show just has a little of everything.
Carson Morgan
Zelgadis no!
Levi Howard
That post, regardless of what I look, brings me back to this very thread
Jeremiah Thompson
The show did not start as a DnD campaign. Record of the Lodoss War did.
>In the late 1980s he noticed that Dragon Magazine was holding an amateur fiction contest. Being a fan of science fiction and fantasy, he decided to enter with the predecessor to what would be Slayers. However, he eventually changed the story's scenario, keeping some of the same characters but changing their roles in the story. This new version was Slayers, and his entry won first prize in the contest.
>He once related a story of him riding his bicycle home from work late at night, working out the incantation for Giga Slave aloud as he rode. He also admits that much of the first novel was not planned; for example, he claims that he had not come up with the character and role of Ruby Eye Shabranigdu, the primary antagonist of the volume, until approximately midway through the book.
Adding on to this, Hajime's original conception for Lina was that she was a 10 year-old clone of Luna that was obsessed with machinery and technology, while Lina would be the protagonist and 15 years-old herself.
Wyatt Evans
*Luna would be the protagonist
FRICK
Justin Peterson
The author for Slayers has also said in other interviews that he played D&D and some of the ideas from his time playing that got incorporated into Slayers. It may be stretching it to say the whole thing came from a D&D campaign, but clearly he had some inspiration from it. He also said he got inspiration from Batman and X-Men of all things. Though I don't see how it factored into Slayers. Maybe he was just saying stuff he liked and D&D is included in that.
Julian Baker
What if we say he was inspired by "Western influences" and leave it at that? This way, we'd both be right.
Noah Nelson
No! I have to be right!
Okay.
Jaxson Martinez
AFTER A CRACK LIKE THAT I'M GONNA WAIL ON YOUR WAIFU
Juan Cruz
Gavin Scott
ALSO SHE'S AN IMMODEST WHORE
Adam Sanchez
Angel Young
I BET SHE PLEASES OLD, FAT, UGLY BALD MEN FOR MONEY
oh wait she's a princess?
THEN SHE DOES IT BECAUSE SHE ENJOYS IT
Joseph Evans
source for a ryonabro?
Matthew Roberts
What's some choice Slayers merch I can pick up?
Samuel Perez
The official and liscensed manga, Hourglass of Falces.
The official and drawn by Rui Araizumi doujinshi, The Blacklist I and II.
Christian Green
no dumbass, 16mm can be scanned up to 4k, not upscaled
Hudson Adams
Well nobodies going to fansub this now they're blocking fansub ISPs in some countries.
Why aren't we burning down our governments again?
I mean they have all the time in the world to fuck around with this shit, but no time to crack down on the millions of other more serious issues around the world.
Alexander Wood
You should also read the doujinshi Tempting 3 where Zel violently deflowers Amelia.
Amelia is made for having painful sex. I'm positive she's secretly do-M.
Ryan Allen
Easton Mitchell
You can't fan sub an official release, but you can try.
Ayden Stewart
It's an upscale. There's probably no other source but the double telecined master. At least, unlike the Spanish BD, they didn't try to "fix" it. They thankfully gave us encoders something to work with. It ain't pretty as it stands, but it can be worked with.
Hunter Carter
Isaiah Price
discotekmedia.com
Suggest it to Discotek Media.
shoutfactory.com
Can probably suggest it to Shout! Factory's licensing team too.
help.netflix.com
As a last resort, also suggest it to Netflix. But do the others first.
Austin Myers
>Netflix
Brody Mitchell
>he doesn't want 3DCG Slayers movies
Levi Brooks
Hmm...
No, it's just not worth it. The cost is too great, and I don't mean money.
Nathan Mitchell
I'd rather Netflix spend money picking up Slayers then funding another season of Saint Seiya or any other terrible 3DCG series.
Jonathan Jones
Haha time for me to go wageslave! It's been fun, and if this thread is dead when I get back, I'll understand; half of these posts are mine, after all. Good morning, everyone!
Landon Gutierrez
I can honestly believe that, it does feel like a average D&D campaign with a twist.