If what the little thing says is true, this plot seems a lot more like one of the movies or the OVAs. Which is by no means a bad thing (could be better with Naga though...).
I half expected Lina to start chanting the beginning of the Giga Slave and have Gourry stop her before she got too far...or maybe a bit more realistically a Ranga Blade and cleave a huge swath in the forest.
For those more familiar with the series:
Is that waitress in the OP who I'm hoping it is?
Unfortunately looking at the waitress brings nothing at all into my mind... So, I can't say anything one way or the other.
But yeah, I was also half expecting her to start to chant Giga slave. However, rarely enough, Lina herself also recognized the spell is a dangerous one, if I remember correctly, so it would have been slightly unlikely. Still, I had totally forgotten also those magic amplification crystal things, so it was all good.
The plot seems now quite promising. Not too straightforward. At least it has potential not to be.
It's less about what she looks like, and more towards the fact that she is a waitress. It's the occupation rather than the appearance. There's a famous appearance of a silhouette of a sinister waitress in the OP sequence of Slayers NEXT. It was never brought up in that series, but her identity was pretty clear to those who have watched all three seasons or read some of the novels. I shall leave it a mystery for now.
But yeah, Lina would never use the Giga Slave all the way to completion ever again. Half of NEXT was all about that, and I think they mentioned it in TRY as well. I just thought it would be a good joke.
The birds spell was definitely my favorite gag though. I really thought Lina got all flustered and misspoke one of her more trademark spells.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Thu, 07-10-2008 at 07:24 PM.
Those interested in the previous seasons... here is a 30GB torrent with them all...including ovas and movies. Good luck downloading it though...
http://www.datorrents.com/download.a...rse%29.torrent
I'm big Slayers fan(it was my first anime), but i can't find translated light novels on the net. Meybe someone have them stored on disk or smthg?
And i hope that the waitress is the one we hope for.
And back to Zelgadis, well he could cast Rah tilt before Amelia could(remember first fight against Shabranigdo?). and there is spell that only he used - it was in 1st series(big stone spikes from ground - one of my fav spells).
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No, i cant buy novels in my country, and i dont know japanesee enough to read them without translation
Last edited by Xelbair; Sat, 07-12-2008 at 06:04 PM.
I've watched the two episodes (youtube quality, since my computer is out).
it feels like having a childhood friend coming over to hangout, but then he brings out the sega-gensis...
seven years are a long time. the animation looks old, the fighting scenes don't flow well, only the humor and (hopefully) are keeping this thing together.
I'll watch the anime, only because it's Slayers. and I used to like the first slayers season five years ago.
new audience would probably enjoy this season greatly, I, however, want to get some ties closed, and some progress done, let the fuckin' charecters grow already.
even though nothing beats a dragon slave...
"Darkness beyone midnight, Crismon beyond blood that flows.
buried in the stream of time, in thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness.
let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I posses.
DRAGON_SLAVE!!!!"
whats wrong with playing genesis nowdays? genesis still has great games... and actually the last scene of episode 2 was intriguing (who the hell is that rat/digimon?)
i hope that this country is trying to go to war so we can have some politics too...
"Lord of the dreams that terrify. Sword of cold and darkness, free yourself from the heaven's bonds. Become one with my power, one with my body, and let us walk the path of destruction together. Power that can smash even the souls of the gods: Ragna Blade!"
[SS-Eclipse] Slayers Revolution eps 3 [1024x576 h264]
[SS-Eclipse] Slayers Revolution eps 3 [low performance version]
Last edited by Ryllharu; Thu, 07-17-2008 at 06:48 PM. Reason: corrected because Kraco is being pedantic
It's not actually HD. It's just HQ with 576p resolution.
I'm starting to like the OP and ED more as I keep listening to them. The first time I thought they are nice enough but nothing special and while I still don't think they are special they are gaining my favour nonetheless.
This episode, however, felt like a filler. Unless the once mentioned prince backing clandestine research turns out to be a prominent character later, I can't see what possible purpose this served. Even the voice acting in this ep sounded somehow tired, especially the villain's acting. He sounded like he had stayed up for 36 hours before the recording session...
I also wish the others would finally fight seriously. Now it seems like they are just bystanders because everything so far has basically been Lina trying to prove herself innocent and so the others won't do much and let her do everything to prove herself. Gourry should also get a decent sword so that he could do something.
There. Fixed.
I also like the OP/ED the more I hear them. They're not as catchy at the ones from Seasons 1 and NEXT or the OP from TRY, but they're definitely growing on me.
As for the episode itself, I didn't think it was filler. It was a pretty good way of getting rid of Wiser for the time being. He was starting to get annoying enough that I wished Martina would come back. Yeah, that bad. Although I was hoping that the mention of the Ruvinagard (sp?) royalty might bring an arc in, but that sadly seems to not be the case. Then again, Pokota did mention that he/she was the inventor of the tanks that they are using for some kind of military push.
The little plan actually made up for most of the dumb shit Wiser was doing all along.
The first thing I thought of when the guy revealed the super Chimera was Pantyhose Tarou from Ranma...and then they named it Tarou. An homage to Ranma 1/2?
intersting,, it didn't occuer to me..
though, it may be that both are from the latin "taurou", and it just sound 'right' in japanese.
I never realized how hard it's going to be to watch slayers on a weekly basis... I WANT ACTION! PLOT! MAGIC! COMEDY! FUNNY GUYS (I could on without Xellos, though, I wasn't such a fan of him in TRY)! MORE EPISODES!.
yes, I'm not so good with waiting.
sig made by Itachi-y2k5, thanks, dude!
Currently Watching: probably a show directed at 9 years old girls, lets be honest.
You know the important distinction between Batman and me? Batman is fictional. In real life, there isn't always an alternative.
weird no one posted new episodes...
ss-eclipse's slayers revolution episode 4 (h264)
ss-eclipse's slayers revolution episode 4 (xvid)
I wasn't really able to watch the previous seasons of this anime. Can I still watch this even if I don't know the past seasons?
Thanks shinta|hikari for the sig.
im watching this anime, and im pretty sure i only saw the first season, not even ovas or movies... and the only weird thing is gourry not having his light/beam/star wars sword
[SS-Eclipse] Slayers Revolution - 05 (1024x576 h264)
[SS-Eclipse] Slayers Revolution - 05 (XviD)
I am severely dissapointed that what I had hoped was a waitress turned out to be a maid. While she has some pretty amazing powers for a Combat Maid. I was still hoping for the appearance of one particular part-time waitress.
Well, with the most recent episode they do discuss things that happened in the first season. They did give a brief recap, but Slayers has always been pretty light anyway.
You can read the novels or watch the anime series. The only huge difference is how the Sword of Light is lost. In the anime, they lose it during Slayers TRY by defeating some form of nearly extinct dragon that the Gold Dragon race nearly killed off (or something to that effect). In the novels, the Sword of Light was taken in exchange by the Lord of Nightmares (who had possessed Lina and killed Hellmaster Phibrizzo, who was attempting to lure Lina into destroying the universe) in exchange for Lina to take her body back.
Nearly killed off:
Episode 6 h264 - SS-Eclipse
Episode 6 xvid - SS-Eclipse
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Edit: It was a somewhat entertaining episode even though I thought it'd be a total filler of little merit. Well, it was a total filler but watchable. The next episode could already have some more intelligence but the setting still sounds dubious. I really wonder what kind of a script this series has with so many random episodes between the sensible ones.
Last edited by Kraco; Fri, 08-08-2008 at 02:49 PM.
Exactly the same as any other Slayers series.Originally Posted by Kraco
I can recall a tennis episode, two crossdressing ones, a theater one (or two), various dumb rival ones, a fishing episode, and all the plots of the movies/OVAs. That's just the first two seasons and the films.
With Eclipse dropping the series, I guess it's time to scrape the bottom of the barrel for any possibilities available.
Episode 7 HQ - VivaLaRevolution
Episode 7 SD - VivaLaRevolution
Kraco, is VLR any good so far? or should I skip them & wait for the DVDs to come out who knows when from now?
But I will say if it's Funimation that licenses it I WON'T buy their crap DVDs till it hits like $20 for the box set, 18-23/dvd with 2 to 3 episodes of low quality audio/video just is not worth it. Hell I've seen better audio/video quality on fansubs then on the official R1 DVDs erm rant over lol
It wasn't that bad. Download it. And let's hope it wasn't just this one episode but they will continue to sub it till the end.
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