Slayers

Holy SMOKES would you look at what day it is!

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This is a thing?

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>ywn be as based as Rui
fuck...

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It was a thing, then stopped being a thing, then it tried to be a thing, and then literally nothing happened for ten years, and now it's trying to be a thing again because the light novels are getting a third series. It's a clusterfuck of failed ambitions.

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You think that modest Naga and sweet, harmless Lina mirror clone are still alive roaming around somewhere?

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In the light novels, they live their lives quietly in a small village out of the way. However, someone created a doujin that explored the end of the OVA, with a "what if the Shadow Reflector was used on the rest of the cast?" and posited that Shadow-Xellos would adopt them.

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>shadow Xellos
My mind popped at the idea. Seems like he would just be a crotchety old man that would tell everyone everything but at their own best interests and not want to do anything interesting.

The normal version is perpetually playful and "lies" by withholding information for the purpose of serving himself.

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I would storytime it, but... I want to storytime a different thing, if the thread is active enough to warrant such a thing being possible.

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I'll never stop reading that as 'hokey smokes'

Thanks god a slayers Sunday thread has finally showed up, was getting sick of those outtakes threads but who cares more Lina is fantastic!

I'm just tired that some shitty redhead gets three threads a day, but Lina can't even manage to survive for one day. It's like some massive cosmic joke.

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OHOHOHOHO

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>people posting pictures I don't have
This makes me feel good.

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Where do I find a Linawife?

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Is watch order just production order, or can i watch the movies ahead of most of S1?

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This Xellos is a scholar and gentleman.

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Chronological Order~

01 - Slayers Excellent
02 - Slayers Book of Spells
03 - Slayers Perfect
04 - Slayers Return
05 - Slayers Great
06 - Slayers Gorgeous
07 - Slayers
08 - Slayers Next
09 - Slayers Premium
10 - Slayers Try
11 - Slayers Revolution
12 - Slayers Evolution-R

Release Order~

1995:
Slayers 01-17
Slayers Perfect
Slayers 18-26

1996:
Slayers Next 01-16
Slayers Book of Spells 01
Slayers Next 17
Slayers Return
Slayers Next 18-26
Slayers Book of Spells 02

1997:
Slayers Try 01-08
Slayers Book of Spells 03
Slayers Try 09-18
Slayers Great
Slayers Try 19-26

1998:
Slayers Gorgeous
Slayers Excellent

2001:
Slayers Premium

2008:
Slayers Revolution

2009:
Slayers Evolution-R
NOTE: DO NOT feel obligated to watch any Movie/OVA right in between a season like what is shown here, this is just the Exact release order of each instalment in the franchise beacuse I am nitpicky like that (sorry). The OVAs and Movies have little to do with the main storyline and eachother so don't sweat the watch orders too much.

NOTE dos: I do not know for a fact that Book of Spells 02 came out in 1996 rather than 1997 because I was unable to find a release date for it. Basic probability based of the initial and final release dates of Book of Spells pointed to it coming out in late '96 (yes, I know I am very tedious, I've been told).

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why can't aryan slavs be real ;_;

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She looks even more unhinged than normal, this is nightmare fuel.

Unhinged?! No! Lina is cute! CUTE!!

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Especially if the thumbnail is far away

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Yes, i naga the serpent is lina's master, give her gold to me.

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Lina and Naga pair so well together...

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no no, it's HO!HO!HO!HO!HO!HO!HO!

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How the fuck does something like this accidentally happen?

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Is it like Ninja Slayer

I know little to nothing about Slayers, but some years ago I decided to watch on TV some episodes of Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R when they aired for the first time (top tier OPs and EDs btw). I hate the switch to digital so fucking much because it's noticeable with remake of old anime. The bright, unnatural colors were atrocious and the animation seemed pretty cheap too.

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Moderately sized tit on Naga? More likely than you think.

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It'd better be a date, she looks like she's got a bun in the oven.
Oh Gourry is a lucky guy. Even luckier he can survive her shit. Though looking at what Amelia put up with sleeping beside her, you have to tie her down in order to snuggle with her.

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Yeah, well, that's why we don't talk about it.

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:^)

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I'm a mid-30s boomer and never watched anything Slayers when I was younger.
What's the best entry point for Slayers?

I would.

why haven't Slayers NEXT JPBD been uploaded yet? And I'm not talking about the shitty Spanish BD's which came out last year

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The fucking filler episodes for Try were better than the show. It basically becomes about watching it for the characters and the gags rather than the plot, which becomes shit. Alice in Wonderland was just 10/10.

The assassin in Revolution had a solid backstory but they didn't handle it well. Loved the anti-climactic death. Loved the little things like Zelgaldis just trying to flood a whole fucking valley before Amelia smacks him.

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Gourry is the only one durable to put up with Lina, though.

Admittedly the first season of the anime, but you're hardly limited to it. Slayers has a "core" story that was first written in the form of light novels, but after a certain point there's a massive amount of deviation in plot using the same characters.

The light novels have a lot of world-building, so if you're a nerd that likes to know how cosmology works, that's probably your best place to go. It helps flesh out the characters, and they're still comedies despite being printed-word.

The anime, movies, and OVAs are all about gag comedy and have excellent voice actors that bring the characters to life. So, if you are trying to waifu (or husbando) someone and you're looking for mindless fun with shockingly high stakes at the climax, then animation is your thing.

However, there's also the manga and video games, which are intertwined. I doubt you'll ever play a Slayers game, even Slayers SFC, but the manga is full of fanservice and ecchi content. So, if you want to masturbate violently, look to the manga.

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I loathe the plot of Revo / Evo-R for many reasons, like using Rezo and Zanaffar as villains again, or using a copy of the Sword of Light instead of introducing the Blast Sword, or going back to the light novels when TRY was a phenomenal, original ride.

However, I will not deny that Revo / Evo-R had the BEST filler episodes, with the exception of The City of Women in NEXT being the best filler episode ever created. However, it's really telling when someone says filler episodes are better than the actual plot...

I agree with you about TRY's filler, though. To have the plot ramp up to 11, only to break everyone's necks with the filler... Awful.

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THOSE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LINA TRIPS

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Based and nagapilled

Pretty sure Uncle Phil could survive her, but she'd never take him and anyone who would consider putting the two together is sick in the head.

I wish the show had a little more Prince Phil in it.

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lina doesnt have an electra complex does she?

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Her mother and father aren't portrayed in any of the series so I don't know? She doesn't seem attracted to father figures and initially wants elegant princes before getting attached to Gourry. She only competes with sister figures, not mother figures, which is natural.

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I wish I could be this happy... But yeah, you're right. She gets frustrated with Naga being Naga, she's envious of Amelia's swelling justice, and in the light novels she gets into arguments easily with the elf Memphis. You're on to something.

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I just finished Try recently and hoo boy was it a slog. Never in my life have I wished the main plot would take a break so we could have more filler. It was like they recognized all the things that made the first two seasons good, and decided to omit them in favor of super-serious plots about genocide and misery.

You should read Volume 15, where Hajime Kanzaka is unnecessarily cruel to all of the characters for absolutely no reason.

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Even worse, the awful character designs for their interdimensional DBZ gods. I felt like beating my head against a wall once everyone fight resorting to blurs and flashes across the screen with the occasional CHARGIN' MY LAZER!

Genocide temple was actually pretty traumatically amusing. Just stuff all their speared corpses against the walls of their own chapel and seal it off then bury it. Then blondie had to walk through it with their horrified look when she realized it was a real place.

Too bad.

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Fuck it, I'm going BALLS DEEP inside Lina!

fugg you I liked it

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One thing that I have to say is that the story, while being absolutely bonkers, did stick to being close to canon, unlike the 2008 anime. I loved how the gods from the Overworld wanted to see a Giga Slave go off so they could witness their "Mother", rather than panicking that Lina's dimension would be consumed. It was minor character nuances like that, that I really appreciated.

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That doesn't sound fun at all!

But this fucking fox.

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Considering that it's GOURRY who is thinking rationally during the story while Lina has given up, you're absolutely right. It wasn't fun. It was painful and cathartic and the ending was sweet and bitter at the same time.

FUCK YOU
THAT FOX WAS THE BEST THING IN THAT SEASON
IF YOU WEREN'T PULLING FOR HIM YOU'RE A GODDAMN LIAR OR A SOULLESS MONSTER

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Jillias was a shitty comic relief that wasn't funny. He can make a rocket as powerful as a dragon slave but apparently can't tell powder charges apart? or make a basic firearm that leaves more than a bruise? He just whines and tags along to anyone he thinks he has a debt to despite being dead weight that's only good for scaring villagers with firecrackers.

shut the fuck up you
you
DOUBLE-NAGA

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Wow, you have some really strong feelings about the fox. Is there something you need to tell us?

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Is it time to start posting about the best daughter?

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You mean best wife.

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Imagine being a deformed mercenary that gets elevated to the rank of princess-consort without having to do anything except slipping the dick to her?

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God, I wish that were me.

>without having to do anything
What the hell have you been smoking? Dude-brah helped stop apocalyptic events repeatedly and saved Amelia's life countless times.

Plus you know there's no harder dick. Someone is probably going to have to sand the surface smooth to prevent it from damaging her. The amount of fucking jokes or pet nicknames for this guy around the castle is going to be hilarious. We're just going to call him Rocky, because of his boulders.

Please be more sensitive with Lady Amelia's assistant. I'm not sure she would appreciate that kind of harassment being delivered towards him.

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For me, it's Gourry.

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Let's not kid ourselves, as long as he's not being laughed at or shunned, Zelgaldis prides himself in attention. Remember the cruel sorcerer bit(s)?

What if we let him experience his most depraved, fetishistic desires?

That's Amelia's swimsuit, by the way.

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Once he gets laughed at I assume the spells would start flying. And he hates wearing women's clothing or being embarrassed, this was shown multiple times.

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I really like Slayers, you know.

In that case, you decide what I should storytime later.
A) Three small stories put together in one anthology;
B) The epilogue to Volume 15;
C) A non-r34 Lina x Gourry doujin.

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Zelgadis is both best boy and best girl.

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youtube.com/watch?v=lenEFlU9qU4

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Great post user, thank you.

Disregard the people who tell you are nitpicky or tedious, they are all shallow and negligent people with no passion.
Attention to details is fundamental in life.

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I'm pretty sure it's called "autism", but I'm not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth.

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Do you think he got the title of the series from Krull? Seems like a lot of fantasy anime and games were influenced by that movie.

I'm fairly certain he chose the name because it sounded cool. It wasn't until Volume 15, ten years after the story began, that Lina and Gourry were even acknowledged as "demon slayers" after all that they accomplished against the mazoku.

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I thought Lina mentioned that spell was originally the Dragon Slayer, but people corrupted it over the years. Or I could have just been dreaming, my dreams are really fucking vivid and just about my day to day.

You're correct. I'll give you the long version.

1000 years ago, there was a powerful sorcerer named Lei Magnus. Whether or not he can be considered a Wise Man of the Age is unknown, but he was immensely powerful. How powerful, you ask? He is the one who created the Demon's Blood Talismans, the tools that Lina uses to tap into the four Great Dark Lords on parallel worlds, and gifted them to Xellos after the priest did Magnus a favor.

At some point, Lei Magnus created the Dragon Slayer. However, time and history changes things which is how "Dragon Slayer" became "Dragon Slave".

See, 2000 years prior to the Great Koma War, the Flare Dragon Ceipheed battled against Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu. Using the Blast Sword, Ceipheed carved Ruby-Eye into seven pieces, and trapped each of those pieces in human souls.

A piece of Ruby-Eye was trapped in Lei Magnus, and Hellmaster Phibrizo, a subordinate of Ruby-Eye, wanted that piece to "awaken". Hellmaster decided to create the biggest global conflict seen in 2000 years by waging war on humanity, elves, and dragons all at the same time. As more and more people came to the northern continent to fight, Lei Magnus bore witness to more and more people dying in the process, and their suffering allowed the mazoku, who feed on human negativity, to flourish. It was the despair and hatred in Magnus' heart that woke up the piece of Ruby-Eye in him.

Magnus-Shabranigdu, Hellmaster, and Chaos Dragon Garv fought against Aqualord Regradia, the golden dragons, and numerous humans and elves, and in the end Aqualord sacrificed herself to kill all of Hellmaster's retainers, force Garv into a human soul, and trap Magnus-Shabranigdu in ice, turning him into the "Demon King of the North".

Magnus-Shabranigdu is still alive, trapped in his prison. In fact, Garv's motivation in the light novels was to build a human army to march to the far north and kill Magnus-Shabranigdu, and he was hoping Lina would join him, before Hellmaster tricked her...

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Oh yeah the slayers from krull, I know what your talking about. Maybe but most likely not as the name just sounded cool. It is possible kanzaka has seen the movie since he also watch the Peter Jackson LOTR films.

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Autism's not as bad as people say it is, at least not on the higher-functioning end of the spectrum. It makes you really good at really specific types of jobs.

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I've been watching those fantasy movies from the 80s and it's incredible how many concepts made their way into video games like Zelda and anime like Slayers and Lodoss.
I always thought these guys looked like Jim Henson puppets from Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal.

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Someone should've picked the funny one for me share. Oh, well.

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Gonna be honest, not digging this art style.

They can't all be Halo, user.

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I literally only just started watching Slayers (1st season) last week. Shit's good man. I've heard about the series since the 2000's but never bothered to watch/read it until now. Slayers S1 is peak 90's comfy fantasy. Will watch all of the remaining 4 seasons and 5 movies later. Or maybe I should read the novels instead?

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I don't care if it's spoilers, this thing's been out for two decades.

The male here, Luke, was a former acquaintance and former rival of both Lina and Gourry. He, unfortunately, had a shard of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu trapped inside of him, though it was kept in check by his adoration, borderline worship, of a beautiful young woman named Millina, who was his own traveling partner. During a fight, she was poisoned, and because the pair were being hired by an enemy of one the only cleric in the city who could cast Resurrection, the priest would not heal her. She died from something preventable, and that awakened the fragment in Luke. He went on a rampage, slaughtering every religious official in the city. Lina and Gourry finally managed to kill him with Shabranigdu's own power, despite him being a part of Ruby-Eye, because the human part of Luke wished to die himself so he could be with Millina again. The entire incident severely affected Lina within the story, forcing Gourry to take the lead for once instead of following along like a puppy.

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Try and Evolution/Revolution are very goddamned optional. You can skip them if you want.

Watch through Next though.

I would recommend, if you're able, to read Volumes 1-8 before continuing to NEXT. That way, you can compare and contrast what happens between the two very easily, noting their similarities and differences. Alternatively, you can watch NEXT blind, but the ending of the anime is far stronger than the light novels, in my opinion, which is why the light novels should come first.

After that, you can read Vol. 9-15, or watch the rest of the anime, or read the manga stories... It's all up to you.

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*cough*

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Including this untranslated page for completion purposes.

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Thanks lads. I'm a bit confused with the order of novels though, where does Slayers Special fit in all this? Do I read Special after reading the initial run of the original LNs? Do any of the manga add anything important, or can I coast along fine with just LN + anime?

Slayers Special is a spin-off series of light novels detailing Lina's adventures prior to meeting Gourry. In these, she is either traveling with, or trying to avoid, a woman by the name of Naga the Serpent, who declares herself Lina's rival and wants to prove she's the better sorceress. They're comedic, they have world-building, and build up who Lina is and where she came from, though one Special novel is critically important because it shows just how lucky it is that Lina and Gourry even met.

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D) Zangulus x Martina doujin pls

for what purpose
???

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Is he usually this blunt in the comics?

Gourry has a low-INT / high-WIS build. He says the first thing on his mind, which is most of his early bruises were from Lina clobbering him over his honesty about her having a flat chest.

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I just finished watching Slayers 1-26 should I move onto Slayers Next? Or is there something I should watch before?

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No, I mean it seems more vicious than the anime. I wanted to know if his phrasing was different.

Nope. However, if you're sticking solely to animation, I would strongly recommend watching Slayers Premium after NEXT and before TRY.

Oh, I have no idea. I didn't do that translating, nor do I have raws, so I couldn't even begin to tell you what was the original statement. It's still entirely in-character for him, though I can't give any examples of a similar situation off of the top of my head.

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Hell through Slayers: The Motion Picture in there. You gotta wonder if Lina hasn't been dropped on her head a few times, managed to completely forget a traumatic couple days, or if that shit isn't non-canon. I'll not spoil it for you but it should make the relationship between Gourry and her seem more significant or make her notice it.

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I don't understand your post?

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Did I forget something from the movie? It takes place before the series right? Shouldn't she immediately know too damned much? Was there a mind-wipe I forgot about?

Oh, you're talking about the kid from the movie. No, that wouldn't impact her relationship with Gourry at all. It's nice, but tangential to their relationship. The thing that seriously impacts her relationship with Gourry is from Slayers Special #21. THAT is going to have some serious fall-out once Lina and Gourry get to Zephilia.

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Missing a page...

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They wore the same fucking armor, he looks like mini-me, I think he had the same last name! I'm just asking if she has amnesia because she doesn't remember basically creating Gourry. It just seemed off in the series, like she managed to forget that whole incident.

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She didn't "create" Gourry. The kid in the movie, Rowdy Gabriev, is one of Gourry's ancestors. She and Rowdy never banged, if that's what you're thinking, nor did Rowdy get it on with the elf girl in the movie. Hajime Kanzaka made it clear that, given how elves age, the girl would still be physically a child when Rowdy was an adult, and their relationship would be wrong. Rowdy had his own wife, had regular, human kids, with one of his descendants being Gourry. That's it.

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Well, Rowdy looking like this or that isn't really the question, the question is shouldn't the sword of light have been the thing to make Lina remember?

But then again, filler movies, magic, blah blah.

I'm sure she remembers, but telling Gourry about it didn't matter during their initial meeting because she was floored he thought she was a child, and neither of them caught a break since the very same day they met Zelgadis for the first time. Afterwards, it wouldn't have mattered to bring it up, since Gourry didn't even know one of his ancestors defeated the Great Beast Zanaffar and trapped its miasma with Holy Flagoon. If he can't keep track of his lineage, then he certainly wouldn't know who Rowdy was.

I get what you're trying to say, I think, but it doesn't add anything to their... "friendship".

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Lame cop out. You know damned well that was a time-travel fix to prevent the slaughter of the village and make sure blue-haired wizard Gabriev gets together with blonde-haired elf lover.

Word of God is that Gourry has no elf in him. This isn't some Dragon-Age-Alistair bullshit, Gourry is 100% man.

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The end...

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... and credits to the team that brings this to us.

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>clusterfuck of failed ambitions
Not unlike this franchise

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Azumanga Dai-gofuckyourself.

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what happened in slayers special 21?

Well, I'm also trying to understand the mindset of people who live in an explicit fantasy world, where things I would find crazy they just, like, accept.

Maybe Lina talking to Gourry about the time she traveled backed in time has all the dramatic weight of talking about the weather

A lot of people go into shock when exposed to cultures outside their continent here. Add a new system of "science" and existence the norm would traumatize a lot of people if you were to pop them back and forth from a world similar to ours or visa versa.

There's a special Gourry chapter that details his life prior to meeting Lina. We find out that he comes from a rough family where they fought over who would inherit the Sword of Light. Since he loves his family and wanted them to get along, he stole the Sword and ran away from home, wanting them to hate him if it meant they would stop fighting each other.

Since he has a strong body, he did odd-jobs for a while, usually serving as a mercenary, but then he was eventually conscripted to serve in a war, which he survived of course. During this time he would also end up doing a favor for Sairaag, which would lead to Sylphiel having a crush on him.

He ended up having a crisis of faith, of sorts, as he realized that all he had done for years was fight, and he blamed the Sword of Light as the cause of these fights. It's what tore his family apart, it's what led him to think he must become a mercenary, it's what led him into a battle... He was so frustrated, he attempted to toss it into a river he was traveling by. At the same time, a fisherman passing by intruded, asking what Gourry was doing. Gourry, still agitated, started to get heated with the man, who remained calm and even set himself up a spot to fish, despite Gourry brandishing his weapon. After venting, the fisherman simply told Gourry something along the lines of, "It's not the weapon, it's the person using it. You need to find, for yourself, what you want to do with your life."

Gourry kept the Sword of Light, and thought about what he should do. He wanted to find a way to do what he's good at--fighting--without feeling guilty. He realized that if he fought to protect people, then that would make him a good person. So, he set out to find someone that he could protect.

A week later, he ran into the fisherman's daughter, though he didn't know it, who was being harassed by bandits. Her name was Lina Inverse.

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Woah Lina, don't be so hostile, we like BOTH shows. Now please chill out before another village blows up.

Reminder that Lina was thirteen or fourteen while wearing those tight red trousers for her early adventures. She's also gone on-record saying she has to wash her clothes whenever she can, which is only at an inn, and some towns are days apart from each other...

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Do the Slayers light novels or manga have or will receive hardcovers collections like Berserk or library bindings like the Hunter x Hunter volumes?

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Hahahahaha
no

Okay, well, MAYBE, but that depends solely on whether or not Volume 17 actually leads to a Slayers revival. Vol. 16 certainly has caused a bit of hype to appear, but unless Slayers becomes internationally famous, not on the level of the Big Three, but at least in terms of what you've referenced, it won't be getting reprints or anthologies.

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Before someone says, the stench, or something, I only get a mild ammonia/urea smell on jeans after about 3 days on jeans (sorry I don't have a laundry mat here and sometimes use one pair as a beater). As for deodorant, you can use potassium alum (preferably) though sodium alum can be used as an effective deodorant and even to seal small nicks or cuts. This has been available since the middle ages and a sorcerer would probably know about this crystal.

Did the Middle Ages have a douche? Or tampons? I know they had razors... but did Lina ever use one?

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Hey who's the tanned QT? Her bust is even larger (well,slightly) than Naga's! I'm guessing it's Jane due to the above title.

You need to leave.

It's a manga story. I can't for the life of me remember what it was even about, but that specific chapter was about Jane boating Lina to an island to confront her boyfriend, whom she believes is cheating on her with Naga.

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The sketches showed her groin and other parts bald. Not sure about anything else. I'm not saying she was scentless, just that she didn't likely smell like a farmhand before the invention of deodorant if she knew what she was doing.

Pretty sure Lina's family come from the "rustic" part of Zephilia...

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Does she get good tips?

And I'm pretty sure an adventurer gets sick as hell if they don't follow hygiene protocol. Even modern military has protocol, and they aren't bullshit arrogant sorcerers that carry resources with.

Let's stop discussing traveling hygiene.

No, but she gives good head.

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On this one page in particular, Lina and Naga's earrings look like glass grapes my grandmother used to collect.

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Where is there mom?

Where is the best place to watch Slayers? I'm watching the series on funimations website and the advertisements are annoying.

>Where is the best place to watch Slayers?
Piracy while it was still the largest high quality library of all of humanity's knowledge. Now? Even the official DVDs are low quality. Yes, I am bitter.