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[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Slayers is a fantasy, adventure, and comedy anime based on the Slayers light novels. It is one of the most important works of the 1990s fantasy genre and blends magic, monsters, and absurd humor.

A series that embodies the spirit of RPGs from the SNES, PlayStation, and SEGA era.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Boring ass anime

EDIT - I know I sound mean but my friend was obsessed with the anime when I was in college. I never got that type of humor so it was a boring anime for me

 

[uncreativename]

I watched a teensy bit of it a while ago but I really don't remember what I thought of it at all... Looks like I didn't rate it on Myanimelist either .

 

[Paltheos]

Not sure it would hold up in the lord's year 2026. Its characters are certainly a memorable lot, but was the comedy really that good?

 

[GymWolf]

Liked it when i was young.

 

[KaiserCrab]

One of my most favorite series of all time, since I discovered it in public TV as teenager. I started watching it blindly, expecting a badass sword and sorcery anime, and stayed because of the chaotic humor. Years later, I bought as many of the manga as I could find (the stories there are a bit different tho).

Fun fact: in the Spanish dub, there were literally only four actors doing the voices of all characters for all the seasons. Also, Lina/Rina was called Reena, Gourry was Gaudy, and the show renamed as "Reena y Gaudy".

 

[ssringo]

I enjoyed the seasons greatly and it was one of the early anime that I checked out after DBZ/Sailor Moon. I still have VHS of most of their releases. The intro themes were catchy ear-worms (Megumi Hayashibara!) and Lisa Ortiz as Lina was perfect casting and I love her voice. The Dragon Slave spell chant was awesome. However, I didn't really care for the movies because they didn't bring back Lisa.

 

[freemandos]

That is a secret .

 

[jason10mm]

You really can't go wrong with any of the classics, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, or Seasons in the Abyss

 

[Durien]

Boring ass anime

EDIT - I know I sound mean but my friend was obsessed with the anime when I was in college. I never got that type of humor so it was a boring anime for me

This is one of those anime you NEED to watch dubbed.

 

[NahaNago]

I liked it back in the day although I was a never a big fan of it but my memory on it is a bit fuzzy on it since it has been such a long time since I had last seen it. Wasn't there a dragon girl as well or am i mixing that up with some other anime. Oh well, I had been thinking about watching this series for awhile now so I guess I can watch an episode or 2 after my sleep.

 

[poodaddy]

You really can't go wrong with any of the classics, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, or Seasons in the Abyss

Someone around here knows their shit!

 

[mileslongthe3rd]

I still have all the LaserDiscs of the show, and I loved it.

Lina was an archetype of an overpowered character.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Haven't watched too much anime or even heard of this one. So my opinion is that Slayers looks like any number of 90s anime I haven't watched, since I don't have enough exposure to really differentiate them from each other.

Maybe when I'm retired and my thumbs can't hang with the sweats in Call of Duty #57 anymore, I'll catch up on anime.

 

[KaiserCrab]

One of my favorite things about Slayers is that the main characters are usually far from your typical altruistic heroes, even if they end up saving the world and all that. Amelia is perhaps the only one with a hardwired sense of justice, but Lina and Gourry are a pair of simpletons who mostly care about food and money, Zelgadiss would sell everyone and their mother for a chance to break his curse, and Xelloss... well, he's just Xelloss.

 

[Durien]

Xelloss... well

That's a secret!