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Meet sorceress Lina Inverse — she’s short, flat-chested, brash, loud, eats like a barbarian, ridiculously powerful, and has a temper as hot as her fireballs.
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She’s also the lovable anti-heroine of “Slayers” The Complete Seasons 1-3 ,” a thoroughly hilarious and warped little classic anime that spans three very different storylines. Each of the three seasons blends in plenty of fantasy spoofs and a solid little story about good vs. evil (or justice vs. evil, depending on who you ask), when our heroes aren’t dressing in drag or mugging bandit gangs.
After Lina robs a bandit gang, she finds herself being pursued by a mysterious Chimera named Zelgadis and his weird minions, and a revered blind priest named Rezo who wants to protect Lina from Zelgadis… or so he says. Fortunately she has the handsome but dumb swordsman Gourry Gabriev to help her out — except she seems to have her enemies and her allies mixed up.
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And as Lina, Gourry and Zelgadis are pursued by Rezo’s monstrous allies, they learn the real reason that Rezo wants the statuette — yes, it’s to unleash ultimate evil upon the world, and all that. But even after the threat seems to be over, the two of them — plus a justice-happy princess named Amelia — end up with a bounty on their heads, dodging a crazy mercenary, and a new enemy lurking in the city of Sairagg…
“Slayers Next” reunites the gang somewhat explosively in the city of Xoana, where Zelgadis is seeking a cure for his Chimera body. But the gang’s quest for the legendary Claire Bible is disrupted by the crazed Xoana princess Martina, a sorcerous feud that upends an entire city, the hunt for dragon cuisine, a magical tennis game, a tower of magic dolls and weird obstacles, a city that bans men, and a “mysterious priest” named Xellos who seems to have way more power than an average sorcerer should have.
But the real trouble starts when the gang makes it to Amelia’s country of Sairune — and discovers that a conspiracy of greedy royals and evil Monsters want Lina very, very dead. The gang sets out to discover the reason why on a journey riddled with Golden Dragons, malignant Monsters, and the true form of the Claire Bible. But their mysterious enemies have plans for Lina and her ultimate attack spell… which may bring about the end of the world.
“Slayers Try” has Lina and her friends set adrift at sea during a battle with a Golden Dragon… who also happens to be her latest employer, Filia. Eventually Filia reveals why she has done all this — a prophecy foretelling a terrible disaster that may destroy the world, which only Lina’s sister (or, if she’s not available, Lina) can stop. Unfortunately the gang also have a new enemy — the vengeance-maddened Monster Valgaav, and a mysterious shadowy creature who wants Gourry’s Sword of Light.
But after some nasty obstacles, Lina discovers the true intent of Valgaav’s new master — to destroy the Dark Lord Darkstar (yeah, silly name), using five weapons including the Sword of Light. When a clash with Valgaav goes horribly wrong, Lina and her friends end up scattered across the continent, with only a short time to stop the insane Dark Lord from invading their world. And finding the last of the weapons to kill Darkstar will take them deep into the bloody past of the Golden Dragons…
Spoofs of the fantasy genre are a dime a dozen. The real challenge is creating a spoof that also has a story and mythology all its own — and “Slayers” succeeds brilliantly at doing that. Not only are all three seasons gutsplittingly funny, but each one has a really solid storyline and thoroughly enjoyable characters — including some moments that are beautifully dramatic and tragic too.
Each one has basically two interconnected arcs of epic battles, with plenty of Dark Lords, uberpowered Monster lords, wizard-priests, sword duels, hidden libraries, mystical ruins, devastated cities and the occasional town being ransacked by multicoloured trolls. It’s a solid enough fantasy series, and it takes the usual fantasy tropes — big dumb guy with magic sword, sorceress, Dark Lord, plucky princess — and promptly turns them on their heads.
And there’s a lot of humour too, ranging from a horde of Lina and Gourry clones (”It’s… TINY!”) to a series of running gags (”That…. is a SECRET”). At least half the episodes contain and/or end with some kind of massive explosion and possible rioting. And a couple stories wedged between the two arcs are entirely devoted to comedy — usually they involve a more relaxed tone, with stuff about cursed jars, elderly superheroes, Gourry in drag, and the whole gang dressing up in big silly animal costumes.
Lina is a brilliant fantasy anti-heroine — she’s flat-chested, assertive, hypersensitive and wonderfully bombastic, and even her expanding arsenal of highly destructive spells doesn’t make her less endearing. Swordsman Gourry is a good complement to Lina, given his childlike attitude and a tiny brain . And hyperactive princess Amelia is kind of annoying at first, but when she starts balancing out her “justice!” obsession with a healthy dose of reality, you start feeling fond of her.
Zelgadis is the best-rounded character of the bunch, since he starts as a semi-villain but soon reveals that his only real goal is to become a human being again. And Xellos is a priceless character — he flits in and out, causing trouble just for the fun of it, announcing that whatever he’s talking about “is a SECRET,” and sometimes he even turns against Lina and Co. Despite all that, you end up really, really liking him.
The first three seasons of “Slayers” make up a solid fantasy series that also happens to be a hysterically funny spoof, with brilliantly solid plots and likable characters. Definitely a must-see.
Somehow in my weird and wacky anime history, I’ve unintentionally avoided The Slayers and its storied franchise history entirely. Despite frequent whispers of its lighthearted and enjoyable nature, it always seemed like there was something more pressing or pertinent to force The Slayers to the proverbial backburner. Fortunately Funimation has individuals like me in mind with their latest release of the property: The Slayers - The First Three Seasons collection.
Coming in at a whopping total runtime of 1725 minutes, this box set spans 12 discs packaged in a “book” of clear thin packs housed in an attractive cardboard outer slipcase.
The show wears an appropriate, if not slightly conservative TV PG (13+) rating due to animated and often silly violence over the real rough stuff such as nudity or adult language. Language options include both the original Japanese dialog track or an English dub (each in stereo) and the option of running English subtitles with either.
Special features are non-existent but considering how much actual material is presented within this set, it’s quite forgivable. Speaking of the material contained, this collection lives up to its name by including the first three seasons of the show in their entirety. Each season consists of 26 episodes (4 discs apiece) and are labeled as followed: Season One: The Slayers, Season Two: Slayers Next, and Season Three: Slayers Try.
The story, in an intense effort to summarize, goes something like this: The infamous and ultra-powerful sorceress, Lina Inverse encounters the brave (but incompetent) Gourry Gabriev who, due to her lack of pubescent development, mistakes her for a foolish little girl in distress. The unlikely duo end up teaming up in a world riddled with crime and corruption in effort to find a way to make a little loot in the process of cleaning up society.
The show, for anyone yet to experience it, can best be described as a fantasy romp (think magic, dragons, treasure, and bandits) with a strong sense of humor, and a splash of Dragon Ball Z thrown in for good measure. Don’t let that last one throw you; it’s meant in the best sense of the comparison. Fighting (spell casting) occupies much of the story development and like many shows of the era, works pretty well as a catalyst to move our heroes from town to town. Villains are frequent and come in many forms only unlike most shonen do-gooder themed anime titles out there, part of the fun in The Slayers is to root for the bad guys since technically they’re the good guys. Old Lina and Gourry aren’t above robbing from a group of bandits in effort to support their insatiable appetite for food (triple servings please), or ridding a village of a pesky black dragon but only if the price for their service is right.
The dynamic between the lead characters is strong enough to warrant the voyage thanks to witty dialog that succeeds in both language options. The ragtag group of rogues (which later expands to include members Zelgadis and Amelia) find their path laced with opportunities to administer their unique brand of justice around every corner.
Pacing is swift and efficient with episodes that neither drag by nor end suddenly or incompletely. The show doesn’t follow typical serial format, which means that each episode was written to stand on its own (with references to past events strewn about). Basically it’s pretty easy to pick up on the show at any point and follow along without much explaining.
The visuals look a bit faded and choppily animated when compared to the computer-generated imaging of today’s anime titles but, and again I have to compare it to DBZ, the show has aged quite well for its vintage (the first season aired back in 1995). There is little in terms of the visuals to differentiate the three seasons from one another save for the opening sequence, which was unique to each. On the whole it appears that the show gradually began to take itself a bit more seriously as time went on. While the first season especially seemed to revel in near-constant stabs at humor (including Lina’s penchant for sarcastically talking to herself), the chemistry of the characters as they played off one another definitely became less forced in the later seasons.
Sound work is adequate in all regards with little to get overly excited about. The English dub is only slightly less enthusiastic as the original Japanese vocal work; again a testament to quality that was quite ahead of its time.
While I could spend limitless server space talking about the show itself, the real show stopper comes in the form of the packaging/ presentation value Funimation packed into this collection. This 12-disc set is absolutely gorgeous with its double-disc thin packs linked together and bound in what looks like a spell book taken directly from the show. Within this “book” are the complete episode listings for all three seasons (half of the second and all of the third are only visible by removing the two-dvds and looking through the clear plastic on the last page), written in fancy scroll on intentionally yellowed parchment. This entire book then slides into the outer cardboard sleeve that is pictured and the whole affair takes up a little less room on the shelf than three standard dvd cases.
In conclusion, The Slayers is a fine example of a special time in the history of Japanese animation where everything hadn’t been done a hundred times over and writers were free to enjoy the process of story telling by not falling into the trap of taking themselves too seriously. If the show’s unique character isn’t enough to justify giving it a go during your next anime binge, perhaps the packaging (which is truly top notch) and the sheer entertainment value contained within (we are talking about 29 hours worth of anime here) will be.
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