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dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 19:46

I just saw slayers the TV series! (the first one)
and The motion picture and the OVA.
I love the TV series more than any of the others (I think the OVA is bad) any way no gouury no fun!
so is Slayers Next and Slayers Try are the same quality as the first one?

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Satoshi Miwa

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Red Carpet Regular Member

"Re(1):Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 20:04

Next and Try are actually better than the first season, IMHO. The animation takes a step up in quality (More money cause the first season did well) and they introduce Xellos, one of the more intriguing characters in the series..(And he's...Well, that's a secret...).

Don't like the movies? But the movies have Naga in them, and Naga rules all!

Really, the movies and OAV's are all fun and are nicely done gag anime. While they don't match the scope of the TV series they're still fun watches.

dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"Re(2):Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 20:14

well I saw:
Slayers : The Book of Spells
and belive me I like Naga
but the first episode just made me Sick
hearing Naga Laugh for a hour, it stuck in my head for three days!
the moive was fun.

Hungrywolf

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Gold Customer

"Re(3):Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 21:14

quote:
well I saw:
Slayers : The Book of Spells
and belive me I like Naga
but the first episode just made me Sick
hearing Naga Laugh for a hour, it stuck in my head for three days!
the moive was fun.

I LOVE SLAYERS! I was just telling Jazzie earlier today that I bought the Slayers graphic novel of Medieval Mayhem. I have the first season of Slayers on tape, but gave them to my sister since I'm gonna get the three seasons on DVD eventually. I like the OVAs and the Movie, but the TV series is better IMO. But it's all good, and the manga is good too. I have some of the Slayers Special manga and The Slayers: Super Explosive Demon Story manga. That reminds me, I'm gonna be putting up a manga section on my webpage soon...and I have a Kenshin section up now and a Lodoss section on the way. Anyway, Slayers is great and a lot of fun, and Gourry and Lina are my favorite slayers characters (which is why I like the TV series better than the OVAs and movie). Oh, BTW, I think one of the other Slayers movies will be coming out soon. Anyways, does anyone know if any of the Slayers movies have the TV series characters are they all just Lina and Naga?

Shin ATproof
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Regular Customer

"Re(4):Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 21:33

None of the TV series characters are in any of the Movies or OAV. It's basically just Lina and Naga.

Slayers kicks ass. I love Slayers...however I was barely able to watch Slayers Try. I wanna watch ALL of it because I know TONS about Slayers...it's like a hardcore Trekkie who has only watched the first two Star Trek shows.

"Kore ga...Kusanagi no ken da!!!"
"I AM GODZILLA...YOU ARE JAPAN!!!"

pointystick

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Gold Customer

"Re(5):Slayers!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 21:53

Slayers got old fast for me. The only part I really enjoyed is watching Naga tease Lina about her breast size, and then her huge knockers causing some kind of comic mischief. Lina's a cool character though, I have her or characters like in roleplaying games before. She's pretty easy to recreate in most fantasy RPG systems.

Dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"need advice!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 22:11

o_O
oo yeah I bought The Slayers: Super Explosive Demon Story manga too it is kinda nice, but I am still in the begining.
is it like the best manga?
I am totaly new for the manga.
so I need advice!

Satoshi Miwa

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Red Carpet Regular Member

"Manga Advice...." , posted Wed 27 Mar 22:55

quote:
o_O
oo yeah I bought The Slayers: Super Explosive Demon Story manga too it is kinda nice, but I am still in the begining.
is it like the best manga?
I am totaly new for the manga.
so I need advice!

Well the best way to start out with manga is too take a quick Manga sampler, covering all of the major genres out there. This will give you a good starting guide, and you can build from there...

Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi: Can't go wrong with Akira and Ghost in the Shell here. Both are good works, and Ghost in the Shell has Shirow's art work too boot. After reading these you may wanna check out Dominion, Appleseed, and space opera epic Outlanders (As well as some of the Gundam Manga).

Love Story, Shonen: Maison Ikkoku and Oh My Goddess are good starting titles here. Maison is one of the best manga series, ever, and OMG is also up there. And if you like the stuff there then be sure to check out Love Hina and Video girl Ai, two top notch love story comics.

Shoujo: Girls Comics, and two real good examples of the genre are Fushigi Yuugi and Card Captor Sakura. And if you like those you'll want to check out more Clamp, Ceres, St. Tail, Kodoma no Omocha, and the king of Shoujo loves stories...marmalade Boy!!

Giant Robot Comics: Gundam comics are a good bet here, as is the Big O book. And if you like that you'll want to give Rayearth a shot (okay, it's more shoujo than anything else...but it has Giant Robots). The first 2 volumes of Patlabor rock as well, though I wish there was more in English...-.-

Samurai Comics: Lone Wolf and Cub and Blade of the Immortal are both wonderful reads. And if the Kenshin manga ever comes over here in English than you should check that out too...

Fantasy Comics: Bastard is a good bet for magic, mayhem, and heavy metal. Inu-Yasha is also good for asian themed fantasy, as is 3x3 eyes. And if you want your fantasy with a heavy D&D theme then the Lodoss Wars manga is worth checking out. And Naussica of the Valley of the Wind is a must read comic, nuff said.

Comedy: Urusei Yatsura is the pic here, as it's pure madcap comedy. Love Hina and Maison fall in here too, as they have dashes of comedy as well..

(Wow, can you tell I read a lot of manga...maybe I need to cut down...After I get into GTO, that is...:)

Dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"Re(1):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 00:31

Wow that was good
Thanks!
I will go with Blade the Imortal, and slayers.
yet there are many slayers Manga!
Slayers Special
slayers super explosive demon story
and other never mind me o_O I have the baddest memory ever!

Shin ATproof
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Regular Customer

"Re(2):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 00:41

In about 50 words or less can someone give me an idea of what to expect in the Slayers Manga? I have mainly been a watcher of the Anime....

oh and is it just me or do Naga and Lina ALWAYS eat? Especially when we first see them in every movie? It's amazing that Naga and Lina can keep their figures and look so damn good when they eat enough to feed several families...

"Kore ga...Kusanagi no ken da!!!"
"I AM GODZILLA...YOU ARE JAPAN!!!"

Dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"Re(3):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 00:54

as I see in most of the funny Charactars:
Lina
Vash
Naga
Gouury
ahh I forgot ....
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.....
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I swear I know more but no luck I can't remember. (>_<)
any way yeah they always EAT, they always make me hungry.

Dr Orochi

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Copper Customer

"Re(1):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 01:02

quote:

Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi: Can't go wrong with Akira and Ghost in the Shell here. Both are good works, and Ghost in the Shell has Shirow's art work too boot. After reading these you may wanna check out Dominion, Appleseed, and space opera epic Outlanders (As well as some of the Gundam Manga).

I also have to add that Battle Angel Alita/GUNNM is an excellent addition to this genre...The story, the art, everything about this series is amazing.
It's my favorite manga. Yukito Kishiro should be worshipped.

Hungrywolf

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New Red Carpet Member

"Re(3):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 08:42

quote:
In about 50 words or less can someone give me an idea of what to expect in the Slayers Manga? I have mainly been a watcher of the Anime....

oh and is it just me or do Naga and Lina ALWAYS eat? Especially when we first see them in every movie? It's amazing that Naga and Lina can keep their figures and look so damn good when they eat enough to feed several families...

Well, if you are familiar with the Slayers anime, you can expect the same things. The Slayers Special manga is the manga that has Naga in it (I don't know if there are other Slayers manga that have her too, just know about that one) and the Slayers Super Explosive Demon story is about Lina meeting Gourry (A lot of it hasn't been released yet, so I don't know what other characters to expect in the future), and the Slayers Medieval Mayhem is about Lina and Gourry. Basically, Slayers:SEDS is more like the TV series and Slayers Special is more like the OVAs. I guess that's the best example I can give.

Time Mage

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Bronze Customer

"Re(4):Manga Advice...." , posted Thu 28 Mar 10:22

Hmmm... Just wanted to say...

SLAYERS RULE!!!

Rid Hershel

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"The Cannon God" , posted Thu 28 Mar 11:10

quote:
Giant Robot Comics: Gundam comics are a good bet here, as is the Big O book. And if you like that you'll want to give Rayearth a shot (okay, it's more shoujo than anything else...but it has Giant Robots). The first 2 volumes of Patlabor rock as well, though I wish there was more in English...-.-

I would add Exaxxion, it's being edited by Dark Horse, and it seems that everyone is overlooking it, too bad because Kenichi Sonoda did a great job...

Hungrywolf

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New Red Carpet Member

"Re(1):The Cannon God" , posted Thu 28 Mar 11:53

quote:
Giant Robot Comics: Gundam comics are a good bet here, as is the Big O book. And if you like that you'll want to give Rayearth a shot (okay, it's more shoujo than anything else...but it has Giant Robots). The first 2 volumes of Patlabor rock as well, though I wish there was more in English...-.-

I would add Exaxxion, it's being edited by Dark Horse, and it seems that everyone is overlooking it, too bad because Kenichi Sonoda did a great job...

Good point. I have the first issue and it's pretty good, it's just hard for me to find right now, but hopefully I'll get more issues of it soon.

Dragon-warrior
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New Customer

"Re(2):The Cannon God" , posted Thu 28 Mar 13:33

Thanks guys!

Adon

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Red Carpet Regular Member

"Re(1):Slayers!" , posted Thu 28 Mar 20:18

Allow lord Gav to interject his opinion.

I like the first season quite a bit I really thought Rezo the Red Preist was one of the coolest enemies, seasons 2 and 3 are pretty good, But me Valgav made season 3, I say this cuz I cosplayed as that character, There probabally some photos floating on the Web of me, It has been sometime now Otakon 2000, As fas the OVAs yeah they suck!