This low budged 90s animation has more SOUL in it than 90% of what's coming out now. FIGHT ME.

I always love how every time Amelia travels with the group, they have a worse and worse influence on her.

I love that you feature these vintage series. I'm 73 and been closely watching and collecting anime since seeing Astro Boy in the late 60's. Old school and still anime crazy. Slayers is a big fave. Though I do love the movie, which has some real differences. But yeah, this and all the A-ko/B-ko/C-ko movies. Tenchi. I so love Tenchi. But thank you for showing that these are still huge piles of fun.

I proudly have Slayers 1-3 in my anime collection. Thank you Kyoto Video for the recommendation.

Slayers is still one of my favorite anime series. I remember in 2001 being introduced to this series.

I discovered this show when I was 11 years old and I've loved it ever since. I love the world building, the fantasy LOTR/Dungeon & Dragons-inspired setting and the perfect balance between action and slapstick comedy. In a lot of ways it reminds me of The Princess Bride. Also I have to confess that I had a crush on Lina when I was a kid lmao

Watched this as a child in Korea when in was dubbed for korean television (1998, I think?), and fell in love with it. Now I have the whole series on dvd/bluray, and I watch it every 2-3 years or so.

You came in what I'd call the middle period of US fandom .. back when Slayers came out, the only way to get it was either fansub or the nascent digital fansubs being passed around in MPEG1 / VCD format. I used to go to anime cons in the early /mid 90s specifically to get fansubs, because there were boiler rooms at the cons with dozens of VHS VCR stacks owned by the clubs that would be trading tapes with each other.

"Those $30 DVDs that only contained 4 episodes" Oh my,... try being in the era of those $30 VHS' that only contained TWO episodes... and EITHER dubbed or subtitled, lol

I always felt that Lina’s a good example of making an overpowered character without being a Mary Sue

I'm sorry but Zelgadis isnt half Demon. Hes 1/3 human, 1/3 golem and 1/3 demon.

Slayers and Ranma 1/2 had taken a great part in forming my sense of humor.

Imagine an Isekai where the poor protagonist is reincarnated in the Slayers world. And he's not Lina Inverse.

Still one of my favorite anime's. At least in top 3 along side with Tanoshii Mumin Ikka, and The Ancient Magus Bride. This is something what I wanted to see when I looking some of the best of the 1990's. I never saw this show when I was a kid, but every time when I watch it, it feel like a missing piece from my childhood years. God I miss 90's.

Ah, yes. That Time of the Month. That thing that happens that is never mentioned again.

Slayers used to be my favorite Anime show back in the 90s! I'm surprised I just forgot how important it was for me. I guess that with the hyper saturation of great anime shows during the 2000s I lost track of one of my favorites (I blame Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Full Metal Alchemist). Slayers alongside the Shining Force games solidified in my mind how fantasy series in general should look. I still remember the first time I played D&D 3.5 thinking "Oh, so this is like Slayers!". It even influenced the first D&D one shots and campaings that I homebrewed: I draw a lot from plots, worldbuilding and characters from Slayers when writing them! I'm gonna rewatch the entire thing, maybe in Japanese this time (Growing up I watched the Latin american dub, which was pretty good back then!). Amazing video! very well put and great to hear while I work. Insta subscribed :D PS: The "You imagined your D&D campaign like Record of Lodoss War but you were actually playing it like a Slayers episode" part made me laugh SO hard. 🤣

Actually, the voice recasts weren't done due to any "poor reception" of it, it was done because they only did the first batch of episodes, with the intent of airing it on a tv network, then the deal fell through and the production of the show went on a long hiatus. After the hiatus ended and they decided to just finish it up as a direct to VHS show, they attempted to bring back the cast, but several of them could not be contacted, or did not answer. That is why they were replaced, it had nothing to do with any perception of quality.

Slayers is an absolute legend. I hope that it eventually gets a reboot. I have my hopes up with all the recent merchandise being released too. It's so good. I even based a dnd character on Lina.

I found this show when I was in middle school back in 2007. The LoT inspired world, the goofy comedy and the sense of wonder as these characters are exploring their world and discovering all this magical stuff was so captivating to me. I also had a crush on Lina back then XD.

Slayers was one of the first shows I watched via streaming and as an early anime fan; it was also an early favorite. Perhaps one day I'll introduce it to my brothers.

“wonka wonka” made me swallow my spit and die cough laughing. also i’ve almost watched every video of yours and i really appreciate and respect all of them

Ruin explorers is a similar ova 4ep take on the slayers formula. Worth it as a sort of dnd context

So glad I found this channel! I’m a huge retro anime fan and I always felt there weren’t enough KZfaqrs who had similar tastes as me. Great job!

I remember watching this subbed back in middle school when I joined an anime club. I had already some experience with the slayers franchise in the form of the motion picture and the OVAs that chronicled Lina and Naga's adventures (imo those are my favorites) But it was a treat seeing it play out, we watched the entire series throughout the span of, i believe two weeks, since we were able to watch 2 episodes per lunch break and it made me love the series even more. good times

I love Slayers! The anime was my first exposure to the series. I don't have any of the light novels, but I do own a 8-volume manga adaptation called Choubaku Mahouden Slayers aka Slayers Super-Explosive Demon Story. From what I've researched, this manga adaptation of Slayers follows more closely to the light novels than the anime does. Volumes 1-3 adapts the first novel. Volume 4 adapts the second Slayers movie, Slayers Return, making it a prequel. Volume 5 adapts the third novel. Volumes 6-8 adapts the fifth, seventh, and eighth novels.

My favorite anime of all time.

“Koala.......”

I have never seen any of the animes you review, but the videos are still really good so I keep coming back.

Got you beat, had it on VHS, the whole serious...😂

Would you ever consider disclosing your top ten or 3x3 or whatever for your favorite anime? Your videos have been so insightful and agreeable so far that simply hearing you speak positively of something piques my interest.

Because of this video I just bought a vhs player and the vhs tapes to this anime and gonna watch this anime like they did in the 1900s lol

Hello fellow kids. I to, was a child of the 90's. A child of commercials for the Hairagami on International Channel, and unsubbed anime in part thanks to IC. I was always into it thanks to Toonami. But IC was the door opener to a different language. That is how I became a fucking degenerate weeb in training.

Fun fact: both Ranma 1/2 and Slayers aired on tv in Latin America. Yes there was a moral panic over Ranma

That cheeseburger line was so out of nowhere it did get a chuckle.

There really is something about that first season of Slayers. I haven't watched much anime, but Slayers roped me in from the first episode. As much as I think the series perfected itself with Next, the first season still just has a certain charm to it. The lower budget, looser animation just does something for me. Despite the low budget, everything feels so expressive. I just love it. This was a great video that really encapsulates what makes the first season so fun.

this series needs to continued like its novel series

Omg i grew up watching The Slayers i was little so i don't remember much about the story but the opening theme is nostalgic.

I hear FF8's Blue Fields at the 23 min mark!

I still love Get Along after all these years. My first encounter with the Slayers franchise was Slayers the Motion Picture and I missed Naga... err... I mean Princess Not-Appearing-In-This-Anime... as a prominent character of the party ever after. I loved her dynamic with Lina. It's been years now so I don't remember, but we never got a real confirmation of who that certain living armor might have been in the anime, right? :P Though it wasn't the same anyways.

I just got the whole series on dvd, and i just couldnt decide wether to watch it dubbed or subbed. The main issue being, as i kept hearing Lina's voice, all i could hear was Amy Rose. Thankfully, that stopped after watching just a few episodes.

Hey I love your work dude :) keep it up. I loved this anime growing up and glad to see it kinda holds up. Subbed and will keep going.

Imagine if Peter Jackson were to direct and translate this over Lord of the Rings.

I like nuku nuku in your intro

30 dollar dvds... oh you summer child. Try the 2 episode per vhs tape days.

My anime renaissance came about in much the same way. I didn't watch Utena until I discovered it here on KZfaq over the lockdown.

Instant like and sub. I was sold on your presentation and choice of subject. You = Panache

My first anime was Guyver... when I was single digits... fml... I got in so much trouble for watching Appleseed when I was 11...

Lina Inverse is one of the best anime heroines of the ‘90’s that isn’t a FUCKING shojo girl, there are reasons that the entirety of Slayers is No#1 on my anime top ten list.

This video was great, had a great time listening to it at work

good job, very informative.

I think they should have redudded Zelgadis and Amelia in the first 13 episodes with Crispin Freeman and Veronica Taylor for better continuity. overall original Slayers 7.5/10

Calling Zelgadis grouchy is an understatement, he's downright mean and borderline evil

I think this was my first anime...

Los Justicieros fue increible ❤

Love the review!

FF8 music along with Slayers. Yeah, subscribed

I love how Naga the serpent doesn't get any love in the actual TV anime even reviewers who cover it just completely crossed over the fact that Amelia's sister is actually Lena's greatest freaking rival ever. The one the only the beautiful The Majestic the lady in the leather bikini with a bazangas I just don't stop to the point where they snap her top. Naga the white serpent. Now queue up her theme song pheromones Dancing in The Wind, and bask in the glory.

Quality video I watched it as a kid on TV at A+/Animax (the only cartoon channel we had at the time switched to hungarian dubbed anime content at 20:00) Couldn't ask for a better time

I need to watch this it skipped me by and I think id love it. It’s weird to me that ppl see that the budgeted stuff is bad or don’t hold up, like most modern shows still use these teqnuiqes and they work it’s not bad. Stills never bother me nor does re use if it’s done well it’s good .

CHICKEN. Fantastic review

She became a dota 2 character. 😄😄

When I was a teen anime was so expensive I was limited in what I could watch. As an adult I could afford anime but couldn't find a lot of the old stuff. Now the old anime is either priced out of reach or straight-up unavailable. I feel like all this old anime should just straight-up be free to watch. Copyright should just be allowed to run out and this stuff should all be posted online for free. If I haven't gotten a chance to watch something in over 20 years, I feel they should at least try to make it a little easier for me now.

This is pretty much one of the only sub only animes for me. I disagree on your opinion of Hayashibara's Lina. I think it's her best character she's done. She barely mumbles a few lines as Rei, so I don't know why that would be considered her best role. I think the Japanese cast really work well together in Slayers. I tried watching the dub starting in episode 14. It's weird, but there's a lot of dead air where there is acting in the Japanese version. it stuck out to me in a few spots and I switched the audio back and forth to make sure it wasn't in my head.

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I learned about Slayers from an account on twitter, & I decided to give it a shot; but for some weird reason, *both* times I torrented a complete collection, even in the one that advertised itself as "English translated", the only seasons that *were* in fact dubbed were Slayers Revolution & Slayers Evolution R; all the stuff that came before was all in *Japanese* , & didn't even have *any* subtitles. If anyone knows where I could torrent the complete collection where *everything* is English dubbed, I'd *very* much appreciate it if you told me.

Am I hearing the Chrono Trigger's ost (at 6:37)?0o

I don't understand why do you call this animation bad. It's just standart Anime animation, like it mostly is. I mean, Anime animation conventions are not the same as Western Animation conventions - Anime animation is basically Hanna Barbera animnation, but with more dynamic posing. Fluid animation is something saved for so-called "Sakuga" moments. Well, i mostly watch old anime, and one of main appeals of Anime to me, is how you can create illusion of movement without doing much of it. I love it, it inspired me to make my own animation someday... Also, i mostly watch old anime, i rarely watch modern anime... and well, modern anime animation makes me sea-sick XD (Even back when i was a kid, i prefered animation from TV Disney toons, rarhter than Feature Length Disney animation which was too fluid for me for my eyes to catch up) Yes, imagine that, there's people who prefer static animation with lots of still-frames to fluid animation.

16:13 yes

Hey guys I have the 3 seasons in one box set for this show. For some reason the clips in this video are better rez is that because of editing or are the individual season better quality.

I honestly think Kanzaka made the fantasy names hard to pronounce just in case it made it to an anime. Imagine the poor voice actors having to learn to smoothly say Zelgadis or Shabranigdo.

I love this video I grew up with Slayers wile all my friends were watching SpongeBob it will always hole a special place for me

Next year??? Ugh I want it now!

I had a crush on Lina when I was a kid lol

Slayers was also my all-time favourite anime for a very long time (it is still the second right now), and I agree with your perceptions about the characters and the humour factor, also basically about everything. Besides that, the Hungarian dub was also really well-made (which is very rare though) so I also watched its dubbed version. By the way, I highly recommend you a bit less well-known fantasy, Violinist of Hameln (1996-7) (if you haven't seen it yet), especially the TV version. It is very much different from the original manga, but I preferred the Tv version because it was quite dark, yet it had deeper and more complex characters, therefore it got me totally immersed in the plot. It is way more serious than Slayers (altough the manga has the same amount of gags as Slayers), but as a thought provoking and mature fantasy it gripped me (a huge Slayers fan) so much. Also I still enjoy Slayers, but I was 14 when I found it and it was perfect for that age, however, as an adult, Violinist of Hameln was more pleasing for me as a dark and filosophical 90's fantasy anime.

MAN, I LOVED Slayers! I feel like I'm the only one who ever watched it. Is it on a streaming service?

22:14 Yeah, this "giga slave" spell bugged me on a recent rewatch. They can call it whatever they want here but isn't what they're showing later described as the Ragna Blade? Then there's the term itself; Dragon Slave was explained in the show as a degradation of "Dragon Slayer" so Slave/Slayer is fine but then "Giga Slayer" is weird. It's like a spell created by that one guy who knows "decimate" really means to reduce to one tenth. ... oh, so it'd be perfect for a DnD spell...

Lina is the single best dubbed character in all of anime

I've only ever watch the sub version of this show.

Where can I watch this??

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Nice opening.

Your channel should be as big as Kenny's... Apparently KZfaq's algorithm thinks there's too much anime on the site, so you're not getting pushed. The algorithm really likes your looney tunes reviews. Maybe put a slight more focus on classic western animation so your Kyoto videos reach a bigger audience

Why DIDN'T they rerecord the first half?? I can't even watch it these days, I'm so used to Crispin and Veronica and I can NOT go back.

Classic anime, really wish we could get more seasons and/or movies after all these years.

The voice actress for Lina sounds like Amy Rose from Sonic X. Is that just me?

Lina reminds me of Excel

Slayers is my all time favorite anime series especially NEXT, TRY and REVOLUTION

I'm honestly not as against the dubbing for the early half of this season myself. In my personal opinion, it's just part of the show's character.

The serune arc is the hilarious and I disagree one should skip it.

Ahhhh....my favorite Slayers! It's dubbing that made sense and I love the story. Also it's called in my house D&D on Crack! Basically the DM goes on vacation and leaves his wife in charge of the group.

Thank god i watched all of the slayers series and movies on japanese

i love me some Slayers, literally one of the best shows ive ever seen.

It was a great show. I'm sorry you had to watch the dubs.

Love Slayers since the early 2000s (I was very little when it first came out), but I hardly disagree on the dubs vs. subs issue. The original VAs are leagues better than the dubs, and it's particularly noticeable when comparing the voices of Lina and Amelia.

if anyone need to know where to start or what the chronology of the series, consider the following: Release date chronology: - Slayers Original Episode 1-12 (April 7 - June 23, 1995) - Slayers The Motion Picture (Perfect) Movie 1 (July 29, 1995) - Slayers Original Episode 13-26 (June 30 - September 29, 1995) - Slayers NEXT Episode 1-16 (April 5 - July 19, 1996 ) - Slayers Book of Spells OVA 1 Episode 1 (July 25, 1996) - Slayers NEXT Episode 17 (August 2, 1996) - Slayers Return Movie 2 (August 3, 1996) - Slayers NEXT Episode 18 - 26 (August 9 - September 27, 1996) - Slayers Book of Spells OVA 1 Episode 2 (somewhere in the beginning of 1997) - Slayers TRY Episode 1 - 8 (April 4 - 23 May, 1997) - Slayers Book of Spells OVA 1 Episode 3 (25 May, 1997) - Slayers TRY Episode 9 - 18 (May 30 - August 1, 1997) - Slayers Great Movie 3 (August 2, 1997) - Slayers TRY Episode 19 - 26 (August 8 - September 26, 1997) - Slayers Gorgeous Movie 4 (August 1, 1998) - Slayers Excellent OVA 2 (October 25, 1998 - March 25, 1999) - Slayers Premium Movie 5 (December 22, 2001) - Slayers Revolution (July 2 - September 24, 2008) - Slayers Revolution-R (January 12 - April 6, 2009) Story Chronology: 1.Slayers Excellent OVA 2 2. Slayers Book of Spells OVA 1 3. Slayers The Motion Picture (Perfect) Movie 1 4. Slayers Return Movie 2 5. Slayers Great Movie 3 6. Slayers Gorgeous Movie 4 7. Slayers Original 8. Slayers NEXT 9. Slayers Premium Movie 5 10. Slayers TRY 11. Slayers Revolution 12. Slayers Revolution-R

I like the original voice actors better.

"omg, 80s and 90s animation is so bad, I mean look at all these things that are still done in most TV anime to this day." I'm sick of this, the only thing that's changed is the technology.

Not to be confused with Slayer metal band haha. 🔥🔥🔥💦 Love this series🔥🔥🔥

Finally, someone who agrees with my dang near 30-year old hot take. While I love Megumi Hayashibara's work, and think she did a fantastic job on Lina, I really feel like Lisa Ortiz's portrayal of Lina to be much more accurate to the character, especially after reading just about every English-translated piece of media available. As a whole, I might still prefer the sub as the voice acting is more consistently good across the board, however.