Comments on: Old Animu: Slayers Next

By: Closing Thoughts: Kaze no Stigma at PinkuBentoBox

Closing Thoughts: Kaze no Stigma at PinkuBentoBox — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:10:32 +0000

[...] that I finish. This is sort of continuing along the same theme that I started when talking about Slayers Next about a year ago. This is actually the third one of these I’ve started, but this time I’m finishing the [...]

By: Summoning the Lord of Plot Thinness: Filler Slave! at hontou ni sou omou?

Summoning the Lord of Plot Thinness: Filler Slave! at hontou ni sou omou? — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:33:05 +0000

[...] Revolution was always going to have a hard time measuring up against Next; the latter being the favourite Slayers season of many, such as NegativeZero. [...]

By: July 2008 Anime at PinkuBentoBox

July 2008 Anime at PinkuBentoBox — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:34:18 +0000

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By: Nomake

Nomake — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Wowza, that was a real blast from the past… I watched Slayers back in college, oh say around ‘96~97, preying off of a guy in the anime club who bought the LDs, or maybe it was VHS fansubs… um, anyway I don’t remember any of the first or third season, but I do remember vaguely parts of Next, so I guess I agree that it was the best of the lot.

It’s weird to see this sort of analysis on stuff I had watched when I was much younger, because I never thought about the pieces that go into anime, aside from the obvious like music, art and animation, and voice.

Slayers was never a real favourite of mine; I wasn’t particularly a fan of the seiyuu or the characters or the slapstick, and being that it was back in the old days, the filler was substantial in both volume and crapness. But it was really quite entertaining and if I had to give a reason (uh, no pun intended) I’d say it was because Lina had attitude. She was just so different yet very charismatic. Unlike the other strong female characters before her she wasn’t made to be appealing in a sexy or cute way. She kicked ass but you wouldn’t go “She’s so coool!”. But, dang it, you always cheered her and her motley gang on. It was that gap, where they are incredibly powerful but also really dysfunctional.

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:37:21 +0000

Try is not the strongest. It is undoubtedly better than the first season, but Next is ahead of it, if only because it actually has consistent characterisation and actual character development. Try also takes ages to actually get moving, and then it has a five or so episode bit at the three-quarter mark that is complete, utter filler that’s clearly designed to artificially extend a plot that was too short.

The OAVs were generally terrible, though some of them were passable.

Who the fuck said anything about 1998? I didn’t even get into Anime in a big way until Evangelion’s first free-to-air TV run here (in Australia. I object to being called an American) in 1999. Which would have been around about when I got those episodes. It would have been maybe the fifth show I downloaded and watched. Mixture of fansubs and official tapes, downloaded over HTTP. You just didn’t know where to look.

Also, who pissed in your coffee this morning? Jesus christ.

By: karry

karry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:36:28 +0000

“I think that I won’t find many people that would argue that Slayers Next is anything but the strongest offering of the bunch”

I think you’ve just met the wrong people, or maybe not enough people. Try is unmistakably the strongest. Next had a completely nonsensical main plot, Try had the classic revenge, dragons (lots of them), aliens, and lots more of Xellos air time.

“OAVs, they were shit.”

Yet again, your opinion is clearly in the minority, OAVs are exemplary. Then again, for some reason USians seem to worship the weakest “Slayers : the Motion Picture” first movie, so maybe you’re just wired that in that weird way from the birth.

Oh, and i really doubt you could just freely download all three series in 1998, seeing how all the net rip distribution only kicked in 2000, approximately.
And 50 mb per episode was quite rich, the best i saw available at the time was 30 mb ones, dont know where you got yours.

By: Hinano

Hinano — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:41:10 +0000

I actually loved Slayers Next. It was my favorite Slayers series. It beat Slayers 1 and Slayers Try was a big fat drag. Lost Universe was toilet poo in comparison. Lina is pretty awesome and I don’t mind her being rescued by a big blonde bloke because hey it had romance and kissing which is enough to make me have a satisfying ending ;P

Looking forward to Slayers Revolution or whatnot this summer.

By: just a duck

just a duck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:28:53 +0000

Interesting observations on the main cast in terms of how current anime are viewed today. I actually too have a recent reviewing of this series (in preparation for the new series. Even if the show may not have aged the best (it’s still delightfully cheesy and fun), I’m biased since I consider ‘Slayers’ my gateway show into discovering and trying out more anime.