Punished Lina: A sorceress denied her oppai.
Slayers Sunday
Kevin Murphy
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Chase Lee
fuck you guys
Brody Brown
fuck you again
Carson Green
Who is more IMAGINE tier, Lina or Megumin?
Xavier Reyes
New show WHEN?
Jayden Baker
Even as a Megumin fag I'd say Lina
Leo Carter
Absolutely Lina. Despite being about 19 now she's still 4'10" and canonically flat. Megumin might mature one day, but Lina is permanently an underdeveloped runt who makes up for her lack of growth with hostility, explosions, and a fear of intimacy.
Nathaniel Harris
OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO
Gabriel Sanchez
Could you fuck off?! This is a Lina thread!
Ethan Nguyen
Let's face facts. Lina & Naga movies/ovas > powergap > Lina without Naga tv shows
Landon Martinez
only lina could use just a thread to cover her chest
OHOHOHOHOHOOH
Grayson Green
I won't disagree, but that's solely because of the animation and the comedic pacing! It's not because Naga is a show-stealing superior character!!
Lina is already perfect as she is! Breasts would detract from her finer features!
Joshua Harris
Naga-mind
William Reyes
Easton Rodriguez
How come Lina's chest is still so small even though she eats so much food?! Also when is she going to fuck Gourry?
Bentley Gutierrez
Spells require a lot of calories. She used too much magic and ate too little when growing up.
Also never ever ever.
Juan Cox
She has an underdeveloped body because she's throwing Dragon Slaves like candy corn on Halloween. That much energy consumes a lot of energy, and her petite stomach can't help her surpass the calorie deficit. The end result is fairly obvious.
As for Lina and Gourry... Soon(tm). Even Araizumi-sensei is getting frustrated by the thirty-year sexual tension.
James Sanchez
Explain Luna, her more powerful AND bigger breasted sister?
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Dominic Ramirez
She has a fragment of a dead god inside of her that allows her to carve up plasma dragons with a kitchen knife as a pre-teen and is capable of slicing a Dragon Slave in half with little effort. She is LITERALLY an ubermensch and her body shows her natural superiority.
Nathaniel Brooks
fair enough.
Samuel Roberts
Lina's too much of a sperg to have sex. The moment she sees a dick, especially one as huge as Gourry's, she'll collapse like Naga does when she sees blood.
Austin Davis
Sebastian Butler
LN volume 17 when?
Juan Diaz
Eventually.
But seriously we should be getting news about Volume 17 either this month or next month from Dragon Magazine. I'm pretty sure Kanzaka-sensei had to re-read his stories to even remember all of the finer details and think of where the plot is heading because the last thing he worked on before the anniversary special, which was largely independent of a major plot, was the spin-off Slayers Smash Vol. 8(?) back in 2008.
But if he does remember details we'll be getting some really good shit.
Julian Nguyen
Can't she cast "enlarge tits" or something?
James Lewis
Jayden Lopez
She's not that talented of a sorceress unfortunately. One could say she's a bit of a bumbling idiot.
Joseph Flores
She COULD, but that would be too noticeable and if she ran into Naga again it would cause her an unbelievable amount of humiliation. In today's day and age we have breast enhancement surgeries, and if a 4'10" little girl did something like that everyone would notice.
Jace Young
>unbelievable amount of humiliation
Only if she is still smaller.
Leo Wilson
Watching through Slayers Try for the first time right now. Guess I should read the LNs once I finish all the way through Revolution. The English translation for the LNs are complete right? I suppose they're on baka tsuki or something. Or perhaps I could challenge my N3-tier Jap to try and read them all in Nipponese. Should be fun albeit tough.
Mason Barnes
Naga can cast Flow Break, which will render her breast augmentation spell useless and revert her chest to her normal size. If Lina was wearing a top that fit her new bosom, it would fall off and reveal her boyishly-flat chest for everyone around.
I hope you enjoy TRY, and I hope you don't get turned off of the series by Revo / Evo-R.
Jeremiah White
>If Lina was wearing a top that fit her new bosom
Magical form-fitting clothes probably can solve this problem.
Grayson Brooks
Look at how flat her chest is, thats so fucking hot.
Isaac Scott
In the official manga Slayers: Super-Explosive Demon Story, there's a special chapter where the group goes to the beach. Lina had purchased a bikini with an inflatable top to accentuate her slight cleavage, and after a while its air started to go out, causing it to slip off of the plane she calls breasts.
Even if you want to use the argument that it was for laughs, clothes don't conform to magical shapeshifting rules, especially since the only thing that could have ever been elastic in her wardrobe are her new spats.
Thomas Ross
>clothes don't conform to magical shapeshifting rules
My point is that she should craft some. I remember her creating magical items in a first episode.
David Hughes
Again, Flow Break negates spells, including enchantments on magical items. In the Slayers OVA Jefferey's Knighthood, Naga used a Flow Break to negate the magical properties of the final bad guy's equipment, rendering it "mundane" plate armor.
David Brown
Step 1: You create a mundane set of clothes for base Lina
Step 2: You enchant them so an outfit could accommodate Naga+ with ease.
Step 3: Enlarge Bust.
Then it's always form-fitting, magic or not.
Leo Edwards
DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE THAT
I'M GONNA KILL YOU
Nathan Sullivan
I WANT THERE TO BE A SLAYERS THREAD TODAY
A BIG HEALTHY ACTIVE SLAYERS THREAD WITH LOTS OF ARTWORK AND FAVORITE STORIES AND SPECULATION ABOUT SERIES 3
AND I WANT IT NOW
David Williams
But Lina can fight back while Megumin can't.
Julian Phillips
That's because Lina is absolutely fucking insane.
Sebastian King
More like Lina can cast a spell and still walk afterwards.
Wyatt Cruz
She's also cuter than jailbait witch, and is stronger and smarter and more attractive and sexier and more talented and has better hair which is silkier and smoother and feels better to run one's fingers through also she has a better complexion.
Grayson Hill
You sound like a creep.
Bentley Nelson
No, you don't understand...!
Connor Baker
Yes Lina, you are the best. I love you
Dylan Young
Matthew Howard
I never thought I needed to see this but here we are, punished Lina
Ayden Murphy
Why does no one talk about Gourry?
>tall
>handsome
>fit
>blonde hair / blue eyes
>huge dick
>dumb but affectionate like a cute puppy that follows you home
Ethan Ross
Zelgadis is more handsome.
Asher Edwards
Zel is bishi as fuwark
Gourry is handsome.
Jacob Richardson
I first discovered Slayers through playing Lina Inverse in Dota 1 in WarCraft 3 back in 2007. Started following the series since then.
Robert Johnson
I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully you got over DotA and are playing proper vidya now. And at least you have good taste in women, unless you still like the faker.
Sebastian Ross
I still play Dota 2 alongside other Japanese games like JRPGs, VNs and fighting games.
David Brooks
For those of you looking for an .mp3 repository for Slayers music, some of which can't be found on YouTube, I would kindly ask you to turn your attention to:
anime.plan9.de
The only things noticeably missing are some video game and radio drama music, as well as anything released after 2000.
John Nguyen
For me Lina strikes that nice balance in between feminine yet boisterous; boastful yet modest at times; courageous yet cautious; and of course VERY CUTE! Also her synergy with Gourry is very amusing to watch. She's the female protag other female protags wish to be.
Juan Flores
It's because Lina is written as a girl first and as waifubait second. Other female leads are written as a means of giving the author the ability to jack off to their fanfiction instead of focusing on the plot.
That's not to say Lina didn't become an SS-rank waifu later on, but you get my point.
Jonathan Anderson
>canonically flat
Her tits are almost as big as Amelias
Camden Ortiz
CANONICALLY
FLAT
In a world where every other woman has cowtits, Lina being a large-B / small-C means she's FLAT.
Ayden Sullivan
Girls with Justice-boners are my jam.
Grayson Young
All of the justice retards are taken.
Chase Campbell
She's only good at black/destruction magic, while being mediocre at everything else.
Hunter Phillips
Lina has a mastery over Black Magic, a moderate amount of talent in Fire and Wind Shamanism, and a passing skill in White Magic with modest healing. She's not necessarily mediocre, it's just that her skill in Black Magic eclipses everything else she can do, like performing transmutations.
Lina is absurdly gifted. For example, she created a spell that draws every fish in a certain radius to her location so she can easily catch them and never go hungry while traveling on the road, and let's not forget she crafted Giga Slave after reading a fragment of a Claire Bible, once, at a distance, when she was a child.
Isaac Gray
見てくんないと、暴れちゃうぞ！
見てくんないと、また暴れちゃうぞ！
見てくんないと、またまた暴れちゃうぞ！
Michael Turner
What's she gonna do, attack me through the TV box?
Brayden Anderson
>mfw used to have a crush on both of them back in primary school/middle school when Slayers was on TV
Oliver Edwards
You still can, despite being 30 years old. None of us will tell your boyfriend / husband.
Juan Bennett
Hikari wo!!!!!!!!!!!!
*lightsaber sounds*
Liam Ward
ASTURA VAINU
*nyeeeeeeeow* *clank clank*
Christopher Wilson
Gourryyy!!!!
*wet kissing sounds*
Cooper Wood
Well, for me it's just weird to talk about someone that looks like me.
Hudson Bennett
I bet Gourry can lick a dinner plate like a champ. If you know what I mean.
️|ω・)
It's not weird to be attractive.
Angel Reyes
Connor Reed
That's how it should be. Wonderful.
Jose King
>Lina's intelligence
>Gourry's physique
UBERMENSCH CHILDREN
William Wright
My wife Lina is VERY cute
Liam Green
Your "wife" is already claimed.
Austin Howard
You underestimate my capacity for 20+ years of mental gymnastics
Christopher Carter
I admire a man who can ignore 20+ years of doujins for his waifu.
Nathan Morales
It ain't easy but she's worth it
Andrew Miller
Jacob Adams
Heroes Phantasia anime when ?
Brody Nelson
Please no
Just give me a Slayers anime that follows Volumes 9-13 and then give me a movie for Volumes 14-15 where everything goes to shit.
Ethan White
You can't derail my undying love, villain
Jayden James
Coincidentally started watching this a couple days ago. When does the MC stop being a loud, obnoxious child?
Kayden Miller
Never. That's her thing. She's an upstart, vocal, violent runt who expresses her wanton frustrations with rampant destruction.
Levi Morales
I wonder why the guy who made Dota decided to put her in as one of the playable characters.
Landon Campbell
I hate your response and I won't answer it or give you a (You). I don't want you to die but I hope your penis becomes non-functional.
Landon Butler
SHABRANIGDU
Andrew Kelly
Yet another instance where the anime greatly and permanently changed the appearance of a major villain.
Julian Hall
>Gourry's intelligence
>Lina's physique
Fixed that for you.
Gavin Brown
The Hellmaster arc fucking crippled me emotionally when I was like 12. I mean I'd never watched a show where main characters got killed off yes Lina dies in season 1 but she's Lina so obviously she would come back so the shock factor was really powerful for smallbrain me.
William Garcia
I wish Slayer had good and kinky doujins
Jack Rodriguez
Yeah, I felt the same. The entire end of NEXT was some really great stuff. I'd never seen anything quite like it before at the time.
Jacob Mitchell
Have you ever read the Slayers light novels following the Hellmaster Arc? Things got really sour in Volumes 14 and 15, especially if you're starting Slayers now. It's been 18 years since the light novels ended, so if you go in blind, the tension is even higher.
Josiah Flores
Reminder that Dilgear is still alive
Ryan Parker
Reminder that his name is Spot now. Not by his choice, of course.
William Bailey
Xavier Murphy
Kanzaka already finished writing it last month, so it's on track for a release in October.
Samuel Perez
AHHHH SOMEONE CONTACT REB AND GIVE HER ALL THE MONEY THEY CAN SO SHE'LL TRANSLATE IT PLEASE
Xavier Wilson
When is someone gonna upload the JPBD of Next?
Blake Allen
Well, we're at 100 posts, and it's a Sunday; it's doujinshi time! I have a special treat today, a whopping 80-page book that has three stories in one! This is definitely not the norm, but I haven't had a goddamn Slayer Sunday in about a month and I really need a fix.
WARNING: This is a comedic, non-H work.
They've all been released; TRY's date was earlier this month.
Jacob Robinson
Angel Sanchez
Noah Morales
Josiah Price
Tyler Ramirez
Dylan Carter
Luis Nguyen
Yeah, they were delayed due to the artist having heart surgery. But still, only the upscaled Spanish BD's of all them have been uploaded. I just want to know if the JP BD of Next and Try are upscales or actual remasters
Levi Roberts
Josiah Brooks
I have the screenshots of the BDs for Season One, and they look like hot garbage. But, I'm posting this now, so you'll have to wait to see for yourself.
Aiden Peterson
FUCK I linked to myself, sorry.
Jacob Perry
Liam Taylor
Austin Price
>Is it out-of-character for Gourry to have an emotional attachment to Lina like this?
Not after they've both nearly died and she's the first person he's felt accountable for, and counted on, since he ran away from home. He is like a dumb puppy, but in the good ways.
Elijah Sanders
Wyatt Turner
Jeremiah Young
Landon Anderson
Kayden Scott
Christian Lee
Wyatt Green
Samuel Evans
Lina & co vs Kazuma & co
Josiah Long
Robert Sanders
Amelia preaches to Aqua to stop her rampant degeneracy, Megumin clings on to Lina and begs to be taken on as her apprentice, the BDSM paladin chick or whatever she is I don't fucking know keeps trying to get Gourry to do things to her but he remains aloof and oblivious, and Zel and Kaz stand in the background, frustrated and annoyed.
Aiden James
Adam Sullivan
Ayden Rogers
Brandon Morales
Gavin Williams
Parker Diaz
Jackson Jones
Nathaniel Thomas
Josiah Edwards
Flaws generate discussion, and Gourry is perfect.
Jayden Sullivan
This was also Lina and Gourry's conundrum at the end of Volume 8, and it was resolved the same way, with Lina promising to replace Gourry's lost sword as an excuse for the two of them to continue traveling together after the incident in Sairaag.
Noah Rodriguez
Cameron Carter
Adam Bailey
Wyatt Harris
Charles Turner
Chase Carter
Slayers thread?
Slayers thread!
Adam Morgan
Now, time for something else.
James Russell
Here's the AMV that got deleted after I posted a link to it in Yea Forums a few months back.
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Jack Walker
Brody Hill
Jayden Watson
Wow, almost an hour, and we're just halfway done.
Robert Allen
Aiden Bailey
Ian Wright
Jordan Turner
Adam Howard
Nolan Adams
Nathan Hill
David Long
Sebastian Thompson
David Carter
Jordan Cooper
Adrian Adams
Jackson Parker
Nicholas Young
Gavin White
Brody White
Jace Martin
Brandon Kelly
Saw this one before. Interesting that Archive can bother with full Youtube videos, when sometimes they can't even save the thumbnails off the much less complex websites.
Dylan White
And now for ANOTHER story.
Dominic Russell
If I had to guess, it's because the video was still active in 2019 and easily-crawled by Wayback.
Grayson Morales
Oh, by the way, there's children in this one if you haven't guessed.
Parker Young
Lina's earlier years I suppose
Christian Phillips
Hunter Watson
Not just Lina's...
Samuel James
Levi Gray
Alexander Watson
Jaxon Taylor
Nathaniel Allen
Brandon Johnson
Quick reminder that Gourry is about six or seven years older than Lina.
Aiden Harris
Another quick reminder that Lina was about sixteen, while Gourry was in his early-20s, when they kissed in Chaos at the end of NEXT.
Logan Miller
Final quick reminder the reason Lina and Gourry haven't been dating is because Kanzaka is very old-fashioned and doesn't like younger girls dating older guys. In the Slayers Movie, it was implied Rowdy Gabriev banged the elf girl, but Kanzaka squelched that idea because he found a grown man banging a still sexually immature little elf girl gross.
So he's like the anti-Miura.
Ayden Brown
PS: Lina is eighteen or nineteen now.
Gabriel Bennett
Cameron Cook
Bentley Walker
Zel and Kazuma probably would get on.
Justin Collins
hah
gay
Ryan Barnes
Jeremiah Hernandez
Hunter Evans
Bentley Gray
Grayson Allen
The end.
Unfortunately, I don't have a credits page, but I'll post the team's information here:
Turtle Paradise Scanlations
turtle-paradise.net
As always, support the official stuff.
Jacob Kelly
The mysterious masked swordsman was the strongest character. Not like that idiot wimp Gaurry. I wish they would bring him back as a main character.
Nathaniel Anderson
Gavin Johnson
Why do I get
> Funny, that was your first wish
vibe from this?
Dylan Sanders
How did you get something tragic from something sweet?
Xavier Cook
I miss Slayers.
Try really wasn't that bad.
Oliver Lewis
I liked Try the most.
Hudson Jackson
TRY is excellent if you're not going to take it seriously, which is Slayers' entire point. It's the perfect blend of ridiculous character designs, unnecessary edginess, and surprisingly great animation despite being made in '97. It also had a strong ending that was ruined by Revo / Evo-R.
Samuel Hernandez
>anime.plan9.de
Are there no places to find the ost for Slayers Great?
Bentley Long
I like the OVA's best. Why can't they make it with the same animation again?
Austin Evans
For the upteenth time you can't have your old OVAs back because the world's gone from cels to digital, and the old masters who were fantastic at drawing details in cels can't make the jump to digital technique, while the young ones who can utilize digital to the fullest potential don't include the flaws that made cels so full of soul. Digital is a no-win situation.
Do you mean besides Gloria and Reflection, which are both in the repository?
Hudson Rogers
>Do you mean besides Gloria and Reflection, which are both in the repository?
The song at 1:30 onwards. I will look through your link again. Cheers.
youtube.com
I miss it bro. I like the digitals but the vid I posted is just max comfy. I can blast through hours with anime like that.
Grayson Williams
Ryder Price
There's that one where Lina and Amelia try to outwhore each other.
Ethan Hill
What
Angel Wood
>Normal Zel
This is so insanely surreal.
Henry Diaz
Andrew Sanders
I wonder what he'd look like in this, if he was cured...
Brayden Sanders
>exhentai
WOW you're an asshole dude
Ian Martin
Holy shit user, get your shit together.
e-hentai.org
Justin Powell
Let us not dwell into this territory.
Cooper Hughes
But why not? I thought feminine dudes was the big thing on Yea Forums now?
Joseph Perry
I like my half-golem dude as he is.
Grayson Stewart
DO NOT POST LEWDS OF ZELGADIS-SAN
Ryder Allen
Post lewds of Amelia!
Tyler Morales
Grayson Hernandez
This is the coy Lina being asked what she's doing after work.
Juan King
If it's drawn by Araizumi-sensei, it's the real Lina.
Nicholas James
...is this Lina being kissed or Lina approching climax?
Ayden White
That's Lina yawning.
Christopher Richardson
Lina is so cute and adorable.
Chase Jones
Is this Lina about to lick an ice cream, or is Lina getting it raw from behind?
With Araizumi-sensei, who knows!
Blake Johnson
WOW
Isaac Nguyen
WITH ARAIZUMI-SENSEI, WHO KNOWS
Chase Garcia
Damn that is lewd.
Luke Gonzalez
What would Phil say about this...not to mention Amelia.
Isaiah Cook
It's ice cream obviously, his works aren't THAT lewd, an occasional nipple slip of course
Bentley James
My heartboner violently disagrees with your assessment!
Charles Parker
Is this anime where dota Lina the Slayer comes from ?
Lincoln Butler
You should get The Blacklist some time. It's only... eh... about $100.
This is the reason Naga isn't included in the story, because if things like this happened the Slayers universe would actively implode.
Ian Gomez
Dominic Moore
Speaking of which, how does Lina look in that bikini?
Josiah Johnson
She put on her blackbelt in dicksucking in this outfit.
Joshua White
So with the new LNs, Zel will surely find the cure he's been searching for this time. Right? ...Guys?
Charles Fisher
He... actually might!
Zephilia has one definite, and one supposed, very important thing within its country. I'll start with the supposed one, for explanation purposes. There is, purportedly, a copy of the Claire Bible, or at least a partial of it, within the capital of Zepheel. Whether or not this was a traveling manuscript, I couldn't tell you; however, we do know that Lina was able to catch a glimpse of it as a child, with which she learned how to cast Giga Slave. If this manuscript is still within the city, then Zelgadis might have a chance of reviewing it.
At this point someone may ask why Xellos hadn't destroyed Zephilia's copy, provided it does still exist. The best non-canon explanation I can give is that Luna, a Knight of Ceipheed, is dangerously close, and while she's remained largely inactive we have no idea what might trigger her to action.
However, the one thing the city definitely has is the Eternal Queen. While Luna may have a fragment of Flare Dragon Ceipheed's (aka God's) power, the Eternal Queen possesses a fragment of power and has all of the knowledge of Aqualord Regradia. Aqualord Regradia was a subordinate of Ceipheed, similar to how mazoku like Hellmaster Phibrizzo and Chaos Dragon Garv are subordinates of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu.
Aqualord Regradia is also the author of the Claire Bible.
Asher Ward
Stop Anonymous, my hopes and dreams can only be raised so much.
Isaac King
You just have to trust that Kanzaka re-read his notes, has gone over his world's expansive lore, recognizes the fan's desires and is willing to cater to them since he's an old man and Slayers doesn't have much more to go, and that he's not a fan of Faustian tragedy.
Aaron White
Noah Morris
TRY is my favorite season honestly
I get why some people didn't care for it as much but I really liked the lore of the world outside the mazoku barrier and the other-world shit with Almayce and the darkstar weapons
shit I liked everything about it
Carter Campbell
this is another unpopular opinion but I also think it had the best OP
Brandon Sullivan
I liked how nuanced the plot was. When I was a kid I didn't understand it, but going back over it as an adult I can see how well it played the "nothing is ever black or white" moral dilemma. You've got mazoku killing golden dragons during the Great Koma War, who demand the ancient dragons to fight, who refuse because they're pacifists that have seen the "bigger picture" in the shinzoku / mazoku conflict, which causes the golden dragons to attack them in a fit of rage, who in turn seal up the most-potent Weapon of Light as an act of spite, preventing the golden dragons from being able to properly fight and leading to the death of the Aqualord.
On one hand you say that the golden dragons are the bad guys for committing an act of genocide, especially on other shinzoku. On the other, you have to say they're good guys because they fought as hard as they could to prevent the end of the world. It was their portrayal, specifically the dragon elder's, that had me find it so fascinating. Even asking the question, "Why does everyone fight?" and Xellos getting butthurt about it was nice. It made both the shinzoku and mazoku look like pawns, rather than the invisible hands moving the white and black pieces.
Then there was the scene where Dugradigdu was starting to envelop the planet. Fantastic animation. The stakes legitimately felt real, unlike in Revo / Evo-R against Zanaffar 2 / Rezo-Shabranigdu 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I won't say Breeze is a bad OP, it's just that Give A Reason has a huge weight to it with how many light novel references it includes and being both brilliant and stupid in spoiling the entire season in the first ninety seconds.
Wyatt Cook
I know, I love Give A Reason it's just that for me personally Breeze takes the top spot
I know that's unusual
Samuel Martinez
It's not unusual, everyone has their tastes. When Slayers songs were being discussed a long time ago it was evenly split between Get Along, Give A Reason, and Breeze on Yea Forums because each OP has a little something for everyone. Even if you analyze the guitar work alone, Get Along has a fantastic solo near the end, Give A Reason has that great bass line throughout it, and Breeze has solid Spanish-inspired plucking that really emphasizes the acoustic.
That's the good thing about Slayers. Something for everyone.
Jonathan Ortiz
I agree with everything you said about TRY
The only worthwhile elaboration I could add is to this
>the "nothing is ever black or white" moral dilemma
I felt this the most from how Almayce and his allies had a fundamental split. Is it really OK to just dump Darkstar on this other world? And then for Xellos - how far is he willing to go to save this plane of existence so that HIS OWN race can later destroy it?
I mean, you have to view Mazoku as a kind of inversion of Life as we know it. Life wants to spread and grow - and reproduces by propagating itself into stronger generations. Mazoku do literally the opposite of this - striving to destroy existence and only reproduce by splitting themselves into progressively weaker parts. Yet you can't exactly fault them for this, as it's simply their core nature as beings.
James Evans
This actually the first time I've actually seen darkstar's full body in detail. Excellent find
Caleb Sullivan
He gives me a real Xenogears boss vibe, if that makes sense
Adrian Evans
One thing that continues to stand out to me is that when Lina was considering the Giga Slave, which would destroy their world anyways, Almayce was interested in seeing it fire just to experience the Lord of Nightmare's magic, referring to Her as "our Mother". That kind of writing, where you're writing the CHARACTER and not a walking trope, is so rare these days he always stood out to me.
Joshua Watson
Yeah, the fact that both Shinzoku and Mazoku seem to have conflicting religious beliefs regarding exactly who (or what) Lord of Nightmares is
Nathan Reed
I like Kanzaka's joke answer, that She wants everyone to be engulfed in Chaos because She's lonely and wants everyone to come back to her.
Ryan Miller
Even as a joke it has some depth to it
>all is void, a sea of chaos
>LoN gets bored
>creates shit
>gets lonely because all of that shit was part of LoN
>wants to return everything to itself
>simultaneously does not want that
It's a weird amalgam of both a creator and a destroyer God, and is one of the few examples in fiction that to me actually feels like how a higher level deity would operate
To put it another way, Shinzoku and Mazoku are like opposing halves of LoN's personality and wishes
Jason Gomez
One thing I need to point out is that LoN didn't actually make reality. Reality accidentally happened. She didn't even know reality was a thing until the shinzoku and mazoku started fighting each other. How reality accidentally happens, I don't know, but this is also the same woman whose true name is Lucifer in canon.
One fan theory I do like is that, at least in the anime, she'll grant anyone's truest desire without a cost. She destroyed Phibrizzo because he wished it, she saved Gourry at the cost of Lina's life because Lina didn't care what happened to her to get him back, and she returned Lina when Gourry was begging because he needed her.
Logan Martin
FUCK not "without a cost", "WITH a cost", since she completely erased Phibrizzo, took Lina's body, and erased both of their memories while they were in Chaos in exchange for having each other again.
Easton Nelson
That's real fuckin' cute.
Jonathan Brown
What was the cost to Phibrizzo then? That ONLY he got destroyed? She monkey paw'd him
Andrew Sanchez
oh nevermind I'm stupid, you said it already
that he was completely erased instead of being returned to chaos right
Caleb Rogers
She monkey paw'd him because he was acting like a total dick. When the Giga Slave didn't do what he presumed he did, he figured that Lina was "containing" LoN's power, so he attacked what he believed to be "Lina". He realized too late that he attacked LoN, who was so ticked off by this that she ripped him out of the Astral Plane and undid him.
This is absolutely one of those, "It was at that moment he knew he fucked up," moments.
Owen Martin
I like how Xellos' true astral form is just a black cone
something about the fact that the truest representation of him and his power is just a simple geometric shape is cool to me
Christian Bell
>photos taken moments before disaster
Adam Carter
Generally speaking, the stronger the mazoku, the more complicated their Astral Form can be. It's why stronger mazoku use more grotesque forms, to try and represent how powerful they are. Xellos, being just one step removed from a subordinate in terms of power, could have any form he wants. He instead chooses the simple death machine that can also become fragmentary cones that kill things from all directions at once.
It's the juxtaposition of his sweet demeanor with his absolute ruthless efficiency.
Jaxson Ramirez
I understood it more as "the more powerful a Mazoku is, the more CONTROL they have over what form they take"
Like, lower lever mazoku that try to incarnate always end up looking monstrous. Kanzel and Mazenda were able to look mostly human etc.
As I recall, Xellos' closed eyes and even the way they look when he finally opens them are a deliberate choice he made in terms of his appearance
Jack Martinez
We might be saying the same thing in different terms. When Zelas and Dolphin appear in the light novels to witness Lina and Gourry fight Shabranigdu, they're in human forms. However, we know that Zelas' true form is a gigantic beastial werewolf in spiked plate armor with leathery wings. Just a few chapters before that Dynast Grausherra's true form is described as a gigantic mass that fills up an entire throne room.
What I'm saying, or hope I'm saying, is that Xellos' true appearance is his way of flexing on others. He doesn't need to appear demonic or intimidating, nor does he care to.
Ian Hall
>We might be saying the same thing in different terms.
Yeah, we totally are
Xellos chooses to be simple as a reflection of his personality, whereas most others choose a more monstrous form as a means of intimidation or THEIR form of flexing
Xellos is just a really stylish motherfucker
Guys like Spiderman from Season 1 couldn't choose - he had to be part-spider when he manifested
Aiden Jones
oh another good example of Mazoku forms is Seigram, who could barely hold a humanoid form at all
As I understand it, he got a lot more development in the light novels
Always been a favorite of mine
James Gray
Seigram is a legitimate threat in the light novels, as he appears over the course of four volumes. Unfortunately, two of those volumes weren't included in NEXT, but they were adapted following Seigram's death in the anime... as Revolution / Evolution-R.
Brody Miller
Kayden Gutierrez
>your explanation...
So...thats why LoN is a woman?
>you are approched by a naked Lina hair flowing like OP pic, what do?
Anthony Hughes
She's a woman arbitrarily as far as I can tell, though Kanzaka might enjoy femdom since he routinely lets L-sama beat the shit out of him and Lei-Shabranigdu in the afterwords of the light novels. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Gavin Perry
I don't think LoN is really a woman in the traditional sense
It's more about her being the "mother" of all things
I really doubt it has a gender
Mazoku don't, because they don't reproduce that way
John Sullivan
HOWEVER, Lina IS a woman! And she has female parts that are both fully-functional and aesthetically pleasing! She is also capable of reproducing!
Brody Brooks
why is the series called slayers?
Ian Nelson
yes
Lincoln Harris
Lina has killed bandits, demons, ghosts, orcs, trolls, goblins, beastkin, and dragons. So, she's a "slayer" in the sense that she kills everything she comes across like the rabid little animal she is. It isn't until Volume 15 / Evolution-R that Xellos gives both Lina and Gourry the titular title of "demon slayers" until after they kill a second fragment of the Great Dark Lord Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu.
Brayden Evans
Sorry, like Taiga, birth for her would be...painful.
Aiden Cook
Yes, she is also my wife
Caleb Ward
SHE'S IN.
Jayden Jenkins
*bass guitar riff*
Noah Phillips
that might be the only thing that could get me to play Smash
Kevin Gray
Who would cast the most powerful explosion?
Ryder Carter
Same here for me, funnily enough. Never played any Smash in my life.
Wyatt Rivera
Thanks so much for this story time. I'm having a shitty night and this made it a little bit better.
John Powell
Lina can unmake reality, so I think it goes to her
Cooper Edwards
Roast Beef or Hot Pot?
Henry Baker
Roast beef is my preference, but is also a bit higher in terms of likelihood of containing carcinogens and hence increasing cancer risk, so hot pot once in a while is fine.
Matthew Carter
>worrying about trace nutritional needs when you'd be trying to eat meat with lina inverse
you're thinking about long term survival when you should be thinking short term
Nathaniel White
>liking flat chests
Ian Nelson
>disliking flat chests
Thomas Wood
This
Ian Mitchell
>thinking about chests at all
Carson Morgan
filthy neutrals
Blake Johnson
Having a chest/no chest doesn't make up for being a bitch.
Anthony Adams
I don't really understand what you're trying to say, I just know that I like flat chests
Jackson Sanders
Just putting personality over bust size, that's all. Didn't intend it to be a jab at anyone Slayers related.
Joseph Turner
yeah but personality is its own separate metric just like you said
ergo, Lina having a great personality AND a flat chest makes her my wife
Cooper Watson
>not liking all the chests
Parker James
Man of culture I see.
Dylan Anderson
Nice long thread, see you guys next Sunday I guess.
Camden Cruz
Never
William Harris
It's now or never. The VAs for the Slayers cast are getting old; the more we delay a new show the less likely we'll get it. Also you ruined my "see you next Sunday" post by bumping the thread ;_;
Blake Stewart
The wait is suffering.
Jaxon Perez
Ah... I fell asleep... I'm not as young as I used to be. At least the thread is still alive...
Will the thread be up in nine hours, once I come home from work...?
Nah...
Charles Ward
DAMMIT SPOILER THIS!!!
Oliver Howard
Post the cutest Lina art you have in your folder. Onegai.
Dylan Russell
Gavin Ortiz
Pretty cute, I guess, though not in the way I expected.