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Title: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 03:07:12 PM
The Revolution is coming! In the meantime! Watch these:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61w8%2Bp1q5TL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519m-VG2YIL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61kcdP%2BfIeL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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From one of my favorite NEXT episodes, the cursed game of endcatcher at Artemay Tower!

(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/mrangryface_bucket/1210935153564.png)
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 17, 2008, 03:29:14 PM
is there any nudity?
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 03:30:16 PM
haha no

Slayers is harmless. The OVA has some stuff with Naga but even then its so absurd its obviously not there to get anyone excited.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Human Snorenado on May 17, 2008, 03:36:46 PM
lol anime lol
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 04:17:07 PM
Anime ftw president 2008 day 1 sniper fire 100 year war
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 17, 2008, 04:30:24 PM
:bow :bow slayers :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 17, 2008, 04:31:18 PM
In honor of this thread, I'll watch some Slayers today.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Enl on May 17, 2008, 08:29:42 PM
Yay Slayers! I think I'll finally sit down and watch Try in a couple of weeks, but first I need to run through Next's episodes since it's been a while the last time saw it. It's also one of the few animes where I felt the english voices were as good as the Japanese. I don't have a specific favorite episode but I thought the build up at the end of Next was really well done, especially when

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Lina watches helplessly as her friends drop dead like flies by a snap of a finger
[close]

Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 09:56:44 PM
Yeah i've grown really attached to the dub work for the tv series, plus some of the translation changes theyve made are pretty funny on their own. Lisa Ortiz doesn't get that insane furor down as nicely as Megumi, but everything in between has more personality. I credit a lot of this preference to my inability to descern tone within japanese speech. Plus Zelgadis' dub voice is done by Crispin Freeman, who has done probably as much awesome dub work as megumi has done native work.

The OVA I could go either way. Megumi > Cynthia Martinez here for sure, but Naga's dub laugh > sub imo.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Trent Dole on May 17, 2008, 10:00:30 PM
SLAYERS  :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat
I own all three seasons and the seven discs that ADV has issued. I'll probably at least get the reissue of Next since the encode on the CPM release is so fucking horrible.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 17, 2008, 10:04:26 PM
Oddly enough, I just picked up season 1, the OVAs, and the movies a few weeks ago. I'd been wanting to watch it for a long time and then suddenly I just decided to go pick them up off of Amazon. I'm really glad I did.

Also, I like the OVAs and the movies better than the series proper. The Lina/Naga team is a comedy goldmine and the series is at its best when it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 10:05:34 PM
The sound is re-mastered by the video is pretty much the same. Still, they crunched it downto 4 discs instead of 6 and the packaging has 10x better art. I noticed the first set they did some new overlay work for the intro in the dub and it came out looking really not good, but after the intro is over it looks fine again.

BOGGLE.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 10:07:52 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 17, 2008, 10:04:26 PM
Oddly enough, I just picked up season 1, the OVAs, and the movies a few weeks ago. I'd been wanting to watch it for a long time and then suddenly I just decided to go pick them up off of Amazon. I'm really glad I did.

Also, I like the OVAs and the movies better than the series proper. The Lina/Naga team is a comedy goldmine and the series is at its best when it doesn't take itself too seriously.

I've always preferred the TV series, mostly because Amelia is one of the funniest supporting cast members ever. The OVAs are for the most part good, with Jeffery's Knighthood being the best. The few of the movies fall flat with maybe 2-3 of them being legitimately good (golem, elven weapon, squid monsters) while entries like Slayers The Motion Picture end up falling pretty flat.

Revolution should be pretty good, everyone involved in the first three series are on board here.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 10:09:45 PM
Quote from: Buy Slayers on May 17, 2008, 10:05:34 PM
The sound is re-mastered by the video is pretty much the same. Still, they crunched it downto 4 discs instead of 6 and the packaging has 10x better art. I noticed the first set they did some new overlay work for the intro in the dub and it came out looking really not good, but after the intro is over it looks fine again.

BOGGLE.

LOL it was always 4 discs, im thinking of a different series. The discs have new art at least!
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 17, 2008, 10:18:01 PM
Quote from: Buy Slayers on May 17, 2008, 10:07:52 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 17, 2008, 10:04:26 PM
Oddly enough, I just picked up season 1, the OVAs, and the movies a few weeks ago. I'd been wanting to watch it for a long time and then suddenly I just decided to go pick them up off of Amazon. I'm really glad I did.

Also, I like the OVAs and the movies better than the series proper. The Lina/Naga team is a comedy goldmine and the series is at its best when it doesn't take itself too seriously.

I've always preferred the TV series, mostly because Amelia is one of the funniest supporting cast members ever. The OVAs are for the most part good, with Jeffery's Knighthood being the best. The few of the movies fall flat with maybe 2-3 of them being legitimately good (golem, elven weapon, squid monsters) while entries like Slayers The Motion Picture end up falling pretty flat.

Revolution should be pretty good, everyone involved in the first three series are on board here.

Amelia and her bandit father are always great fun. They're like a super sentai show gone horribly wrong. :lol

It's been a while since I saw Slayers: The Motion Picture, but I remember not being overly impressed with it. The OVAs and the movies you mentioned are great, though.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 17, 2008, 10:45:49 PM
PACIFIST SMASH!!  :lol
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Eric P on May 17, 2008, 10:49:16 PM
i never did watch past the third episode of the original series

i should make that a project
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 17, 2008, 10:50:25 PM
Quote from: Eric P on May 17, 2008, 10:49:16 PM
i never did watch past the third episode of the original series

i should make that a project

Yeah, you should!

If that doesn't really do it for you, you may want to check out the OVAs.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 10:54:34 PM
The trouble with Slayers The Motion Picture, a unique issue, is that they tried to go serious and emotional, and they had no real capacity to handle their own time travel plot device either.

The rest of the movies are at least entertaining and at best, fuckin great.

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The first 9 eps of the first series isn't bad, but they tend to be the most 'serious' and it doesnt really get fun till Amelia shows up. I actually skip the first few eps of the first series sometimes. However, the first eps are important in explaining some of the rest of the series, but they do flashbacks anyway.

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Pacifist CRUSH
GOODWILL TOWARDS MEN SMASH ;)
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Eric P on May 17, 2008, 10:58:18 PM
well there seemed to bee a serial storyline so i would probably want to start over.  it's not like i got so far.

i want to watch GTO again

i should queue that up in Netflix
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 11:00:04 PM
Yeah I picked up GTO finally, gotta watch it afterrrrrrr gee whats next.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Grecco on May 17, 2008, 11:01:07 PM
I loved the Slayers when i saw all three seasons on the international channel

havent seen any of the movies yet.


GTO is awesome


oh and go watch the irresponsible captain tylor too
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Enl on May 17, 2008, 11:04:22 PM
Seems they have most of the episodes on YouTube:

[youtube=425,350]7oS0ddD8eg4&hl=en[/youtube]

JUSTICE SHOULDER ATTACK!!!


[youtube=425,350]djV5cLvF9oo&hl=en[/youtube]


Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 17, 2008, 11:20:05 PM
haha the fighting dragon macho men or whatever
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Raban on May 18, 2008, 02:00:14 AM
I really enjoyed Slayers as a child, but the artwork has become tough to look at for long periods of time.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Oblivion on May 19, 2008, 04:58:40 PM
Slayers is awesome. I was quite surprised to find out that I've grown quite fond of the english dub, though I really don't care for the chick who does Lina in the OVAs.

Quote from: Raban on May 18, 2008, 02:00:14 AM
I really enjoyed Slayers as a child, but the artwork has become tough to look at for long periods of time.

The artworks rox, stfu.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Raban on May 19, 2008, 07:20:08 PM
How can you say that? It's the most generic anime art I've ever seen in my life.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Trent Dole on May 19, 2008, 07:34:59 PM
 :gun
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 19, 2008, 07:48:56 PM
[youtube=425,350]QBYik581l2E[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBYik581l2E

is this the first episode?
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Trent Dole on May 19, 2008, 07:52:44 PM
Of season 2, yeah.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 19, 2008, 11:07:51 PM
[youtube=425,350]Zj6ZZ4Fp2Is[/youtube].
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Enl on May 20, 2008, 01:31:01 AM
I'll take that and raise you a

[youtube=425,350]xPCv44ZA2HY&hl=en[/youtube]
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 20, 2008, 02:42:08 AM
Good thing they didnt let her whip out the ol L o N whenever she wanted, it woulda been SSJ4 or whatever. Talisman Amplified Ragna Blade was probably her most powerful, sensible spell since it cut through the astral plane like the ra tilt and had at least a fraction of the power of the giga. Dragon Slave became her comic relief character blaster after ragna showed up.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 04, 2008, 08:08:30 PM
Bumping cuz of REVOLUTION!
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Tucah on July 04, 2008, 08:15:01 PM
Currently on episode 4 of the original series, enjoying it much more than I have any anime in the past year or so, even with the sub-par animation (but I love the art/character designs).

A question: When should I get around to watching the movies/OVAs? After I finish all three seasons, sprinkled between seasons, anytime I want, etc.?
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 04, 2008, 08:23:12 PM
Anytime you want, they take place before the tv series (except slayers premium, that takes place between next and try.) and the only mention of things from the OVA in the tv series are inside jokes.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 04, 2008, 09:24:48 PM
SLAYERS

Rewatching this for the first time in YEARS.

Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Enl on July 04, 2008, 11:09:37 PM
Went to Best Buy today to look at new TV's and then waltzed over to the DVD section to find Slayers Try. Unfortunately they didn't have it but I did find a an entire collection of Slayers OVAs for only $14.99.  :D

I also eyed the third Tenchi OVA that came out recently and have been kinda skeptical on checking it out due to some bad word of mouth. Any Tenchi fans here that have seen it?
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 04, 2008, 11:14:51 PM
I kinda didnt like Tenchi OVA the instant the baby episode and furry episode showed up :( I havent tried 3 because of that.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 06, 2008, 02:28:48 AM
Noonsa is the greatest bad guy ever
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 06, 2008, 02:29:48 AM
Quote from: Enl on July 04, 2008, 11:09:37 PM
Went to Best Buy today to look at new TV's and then waltzed over to the DVD section to find Slayers Try. Unfortunately they didn't have it but I did find a an entire collection of Slayers OVAs for only $14.99.  :D

I also eyed the third Tenchi OVA that came out recently and have been kinda skeptical on checking it out due to some bad word of mouth. Any Tenchi fans here that have seen it?

The third ova? I hear it's garbage but I haven't seen it.

Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 06, 2008, 02:41:25 AM
I was just watching Next, lol.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 06, 2008, 02:45:04 AM
on ep 5 of my slayers run through!
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 06, 2008, 02:46:30 AM
yeah, thats the spirit.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Tucah on July 06, 2008, 10:40:25 AM
Going through pretty slowly, just finished episode 10, which I'm assuming is the end of that first story arc. Still fun stuff, even if it turned more serious by the end of the storyline.

I also just realized I get the Funimation channel and it plays Slayers like every day of the week, cool.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 06, 2008, 12:18:00 PM
funimation channel?
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Tucah on July 06, 2008, 12:20:20 PM
TV channel, plays shows licensed by Funimation.
Title: Re: Weekend Slayers Appreciation Thread
Post by: Himu on July 06, 2008, 06:02:39 PM
i wonder if i have that channel