Audience reviews
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Avgasblomman
This is, by and large, not a great show, but it's a pretty good time if you don't set your expectations too high
It's a goofy children's show with a fairly loose story and simple characters, and if you take it at that level you'll enjoy it just fine.
On the whole the show does make a good enough job of making the characters likeable, so I'm curious to see where the franchise goes after this, but it's not something I'd say is a must watch unless you're otherwise interested in the franchise or this era of animation
The animation style is quite basic, but I'm quite fond of it - not the best of its era, but does the job in conveying action and emotion.
Overall, I'd say this show is no higher or lower than a five; it's quite enjoyable, but beyond its relative fame it also doesn't really sta…
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If you want a medieval fantasy that feels like it was ripped right from a D&D campaign with serious and comedic moments in all, I'd recommend the show. It's a nice story that has good pacing and a nice OST to back it up. It's not a show you are going remember for too long after finishing it, but it's more so just a show to get cozy with and wind down for a bit. So yeah, a good show to watch if you just want something to chill out to with a D&D campaign feel to it.
If I was to give one complaint (more so a nitpick), it would be that the balance and timing of serious and comedic moments definitely took me out of having any stakes in the plot. Some big final arc battle will happen and then during the serious fight they'll splice in a joke with a cartoony face, and it would usually just remov…
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Slayers is a show based on a book series about how it feels to play Dungeons & Dragons: 2nd Edition while at the mercy of a level 90, metagaming Black Mage addicted to Fireball. If you have any experience with magic users in tabletop RPGs, this should be enough to sell you on it.
If not, here's a few more words to better sell you on it.
Much like Dirty Pair, many of its gags involve said metagaming Black Mage, Lina Inverse, causing massive amounts of collateral damage while fighting assorted fantasy goons for one reason or another - so much that I feel like it and Dirty Pair work really well as "double feature" shows, for whenever you're in the mood for some surprisingly witty but overall absurd 90s anime comedy.
The characters all play on and with western fantasy tropes in a way that f…
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I thought, “why don’t we watch some anime classics?”, and slayers popped up as a good option for a chill anime to watch after Evangelion (my god lord, that one was deep). So let’s start with the review, keeping in mind that this anime is indeed from the 90th (1995), period when the people wanted long, auto-conclusive stories type series, which is why slayers may be quite boring between arc one and two for some people (me included, I’m not going to lie). Yet, the age when it was release is not an excuse, since auto-conclusive type anime can be both good and bad, and it depends a lot on how the story is made and expressed to the audience.
The story:
We don’t get too much here, since the main plot is simple: The adventures of Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev, a pair who will find more peopl…
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I've talked about The Slayers franchise on several occasions with films and OVAs. Well, the time has come for me to talk about the anime series proper. It aired mid to late '95 and was brought to us by E&G films. The whole series was based off of a light novel series and proved popular enough that it spawned five anime series along with video games, OVAs and films. Today, I'm looking at the first anime.
Story:
We open with a group of bandits revelling in their ill-gotten gains when a fireball rains down and our heroine, Lina Inverse, makes her appearance. She beats the bandits, helps herself to some of their treasure and goes about her life. Unbeknownst to her, one of the treasures she's acquired is greatly desired by some powerful people and she, alongside the dimwitted swordsman Gourr…
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As a person who is actually quite a lot into old anime, in fact even stuff much older than Slayers, I'm honestly bewildered by the amount of praise this show gets, and I think its status of an old classic might be heavily influenced by nostalgia. The anime is severely lacking in multiple areas, most of all it's just boring and completely devoid of anything unique.
Slayers tells a story of Lina Inverse, a powerful yet inconspicuous magician who travels around, kills monsters, fights bandits and robs them of their treasure. Over the course of the show, new adventurers, starting with a travelling swordsman Gourry, join her party and together they explore the fantasy world. You know the drill, and have probably heard something similar many times, because this is nothing new. Nevertheless, th…
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Slayers is a 26 episode adventure comedy TV anime produced by studio E&G Films. It was directed by Takashi Watanabe (Boogiepop Phantom) and aired from Apr 7 1995 to Sep 29 1995.
Set in a fantasy world filled with magic and monsters, we meet Lina Inverse. She's a powerful sorceress who's also known as the bandit killer. She's traveling the world stealing the stolen goods from bandits, meeting new people, and getting into all sorts of trouble. She ends up running into a swordsman named Gourry Gabriev who thinks he's helping out a little girl who's getting attacked by bandits. They end up forming a duo of sorts and sets out to travel the world. Where they are going, no one knows. Not even them.
Lina Inverse is of course our main character. She's a 15 year old sorceress in season 1 and has q…
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After watching Slayers I think the easiest way to say it is this.
"Slayers is one of those anime that I WISH I could have watched as a kid."
It was one of those classics that was part of the great anime boom of the 90's. just a year before DBZ made it's debut in the west. And while it may come across as cheap because of it's obvious budget restrictions. Slayers is very self-aware on multiple levels and try's to make the most of what it does. and frankly it does a lot of things better then most modern day shonen.
For Example: lets take ..."Bleach" A Shonen that feels the need to throw buckets of dialogue and exposition about HOW attacks work and WHY someone was able to dodge a certain attack. which just break the flow of the scene instantly and just makes me shout at the screen. "FIIIIIGH…
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I decided to start the year by watching something new and different, even though I'm still looping with Sakura Card Captors! But in parallel I fit into my grid Slayers. I met him in this video of youtube channel Anime Whatever, and my research is an anime so much known here in Brazil (less by me, I did not understand why).
In the anime, we continue journey with Lina Inverse, a powerful witch who accompanied the swordsman Gourry Gabriev, Princess Amelia and the magician swordsman Zelgadis Graywords, face bandits, monsters and demons. Lina has a terrible fame, for always causing unnecessary destruction wherever she goes, due to this, she is known by many nicknames not nice!
The story of the anime is interesting, but often it becomes confusing because in an instant they are fighting, and sudd…
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Whenever I was asked which time period I found to be anime's finest hour the 90's has always been my answer and I don't see my take on that changing any time soon. I find this time period the most ambitious as anime became quite more innovative expanding on multiple genres. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Berserk, and various others are directly responsible for boosting the genre's credibility; and as a result anime was no longer something one had to be ashamed to admit they were actually fans of. Many series had plenty of depth and characters people could relate to and hold dear to them. However, some of these titles like the one's I mentioned took themselves very seriously. Eventually Slayers was introduced containing a well enough written story and a plot with…
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The Slayers is considered one of, if not the, most popular anime of the nineties. Based on a huge series of light novels (over fifty) The Slayers is a comedic response to the more serious fantasy anime of the time, most notably Record of Lodoss War.
This first season of Slayers came out in 1995 and I feel it’s only right to watch and review this series as we approach its’ twentieth birthday. So for the next few weeks, we’ll be exploring all five seasons of the show, as well as the movies and OVA’s.
Lina Inverse is the star of Slayers, a dark magic user who floats around in search of treasure and monsters to slay. After stealing from a group of bandits she meets up with a knight named Gourry, an absolute moron despite his skills with the sword. Together the two battle monsters and bad guy…
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Overview:
Time for another wonderfully nostalgic anime review! Slayers was a very popular anime in the mid 1990s, but most young anime fans in 2015 either haven't heard of it, or they are only familiar with the less spectacular later seasons. After 5-6 seasons of the same formula, Slayers has sadly become like the Simpsons of anime. It is one of those series that older fans love and younger fans are baffled at how the franchise ever gained fans and can't even imagine a time when it used to be good. To truly understand what made Slayers special, we have to go back to 1995 and look at the state of the anime industry.
Story and characters: 7/10
Slayers was written in 1995, which was the year when DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho had just ended. The most popular anime of that year was the surprise sma…
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Slayers is an anime based on a series of light novels by Kanzaka Hajime, and it was by far one of the most popular series of the 1990s, spanning several anime seasons, OVAs, movies, video games, and other merchandise. How does the anime fair nowadays? Pretty well, I'd say, but I'm easily hit by nostalgia and have been wanting to see Slayers since I saw the trailer for one of the movies when I was a wee little thing, so the verdict's ultimately up to you, dear reader.
The anime follows the adventures and misadventures of Lina Inverse, a sorceress with a lust for food and money. Along the way, she meets up with several other characters who join her party and end up forming the bulk of the interactions while simultaneously carrying the story afloat. Evil strikes, and it's up to Lina and her…
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Well, Slayers; what an interesting anime. I think it was a trailer from a Dragon Ball Z movie that got me interested. And a couple of years later when I became interested in all sorts of different anime and step out of my one or two likes Slayers was on the top of my list.
Story- The story is diferent I must say. It's unique and this is one of the older animes from the 90's and do to popular opinion, it is part of the 2nd "Big 3". The reason why the story wasn't incredible is that the pacing seemed way off. I don't want to give any spoilers but something happend in the beginning of season 1 (Slayers) that could have waited until the end of season 5 (Slayers Evoulution-R). Everything happens fast; it's not quite as jam packed as SAO and that may be a good thing but there was deffinatley ro…
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This show doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s what I love about this. It’s much like a dungeon and dragons game where you’re just with a group of friends who jokes around. Even Glass Reflection has said (want more of that, go to the other reviews) and each character has there own personality.We follow two characters most of the times, Lina who is a sorceress with a chip on her shoulder and Gaurry, a rather bumbling warrior. The two work rather well together from the moment they met and are the main reason why the show keeps going on. The two argue like an old married couple but its Gaurry’s heart and Lina’s knowledge that makes the dual work so well in every little case they go. Sure you have some of the stereotypes that happen once in a while, like the ‘stupid’ blond haired Gourr…
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First let me start by saying that for me, the anime that was released in the 90's, is the best shit around. It broke ground for all the new age, digitally enhanced, CG infused stuff we watch and love nowadays. It was a time where zooming in on a single cel or panning out was top of the line animation. It was a time when no one cared about character development, background music, and a quick glimps of a leading ladies underwear. It was a time where you could sit back, zone out, and just enjoy the antics that were about to unfold.
Slayers is one of the greatest anime series to be released from the 90's because it is the apitamy of 90's anime.
The story as a whole is an action, adventure saga, following Lina Inverse on a quest to become rich as fuck with as little effort as possible. She me…
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Bored and lonely, equipped with a strong burning desire to watch some nostalgic shit, led to my chance encounter with Slayers.
Story 9/10
Slayers is a long running and popular Light Novel series by Hajime Kanzaka, but if you're reading this review, you probably already knew this.What YOU need to know about Slayers' Story is that it's basically about an overpowered girl named Lina Inverse and her wacky adventures in medieval fantasy Japan. That's essentially, how you should think about it. I know it doesn't really make much sense, but you'll find a strict definition of this show's plot does not necessarily do it justice. They go around adventuring and shit. It's almost like some adventure time type stuff, but not quite as goddamn campy. There's consistency in the plot of this show at lea…
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The Slayers series for me is very interesting- I don't know exactly what made me start watching it but there is some hook that just pulls you in. I would reccomend though that most people maybe start with Slayers Next instead of this, mostly because unless you are a hardcore old-school fan, it takes a while to get into (especially since Crispin Freeman~, playing Zelgadis, doesn't come in for quite a while). By the second season (next) the show has definitely gotten much better, and it starts off fresh so you don't need to have seen the first season to enjoy it or follow the plot.
But enough with that, the plot. It has a very classic medieval-magic-and-swords theme, where you follow the characters as they travel across the land in search of... well, several things. I'm bad at explaining pl…
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Slayers is an anime about a party of characters and their misadventures to kill bandits, get treasure and, eventually, save the world.
The story's main protagonist is one Lina Inverse whose blade is nearly as quick as her temper (overshadowed only by her ability with magic). She's considered to be witty, intelligent, the natural leader of the group and also very powerful. It's a refreshing change to see a strong female lead in an anime during a time where this was almost unheard of.
Where the show really shines through is in its cast of characters that compliment each other very well. Without rehashing what others have said so well already, I will say that of all the anime I've seen, I have yet to find characters that are so memorable. Watching the next couple of seasons is like reunit…
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The mid 1990s were a bit of a special time for anime, kind of like a mini golden age. Akira had opened the doors to the West and, after a taking a little rest, the second great expansion of anime began to gather pace. Titles like Ghost in the Shell, Martian Successor NADESICO, Fushigi Yuugi, Golden Boy, Escaflowne, Macross Plus, Giant Robo, and the ever contentious Neon Genesis Evangelion became firm fan favourites and cemented the media's place as a viable form of entertainment in the West.
In amongst all these great shows came a fantasy series that would literally change the way studios would approach the genre for years to come. With its irreverent humour, memorable characters, and a story that was more about getting rich than going on quests, it possessed an appeal that was almost uni…
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