Slayers Frantic, and then...?
(This review is for the DVDs only as I lack a Blu-Ray player.) Reviews of the two series included with this set are already available on their respective pages, so I'll get to the important thing first. If you're a fan of the old 3 season series of Slayers (Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try), you should get this set. It's great to see the old gang in action again, and the return of the English voice cast is fantastic (if you're a fan of the dub.) The packaging on this 2-season set is minimal, but fine. It doesn't have the flimsy feel to it that the Slayers: Seasons 1-3 Box Set by Funimation did. For the price, this set really can't be beat. It includes both the DVDs and the Blu-Rays of Evolution-R and Revolution, and the quality is fantastic.I avoided buying the separate releases of the series due to the price and this compilation made things a lot more affordable.
As for the two seasons. If you've...
Something to show the ladies of your neighborhood
It's been over a decade since there was a new season of "Slayers," but better late than never.
And "Slayers: Complete Seasons 4 & 5" (which is really more like one longer season split in half) is a solid fantasy-comedy anime, although it suffers from some wobbles in execution (a replica of the Sword of Light?). Not only is it fun to revisit Lina, Gourry and their colorful unruly world, but the writers introduce some clever twists and concepts along the way, while dipping into some surprisingly dark subplots.
Lina and Gourry have been busy nabbing pirates on the high seas, but they're unexpectedly interrupted by Amelia, Zelgadis, and the Ruvinagald Inspector Wizer, who promptly arrests Lina for "the crime of being Lina Inverse"... and for blowing up some magic tanks with the Dragonslave. The actual culprit is actually a sort of... flying stuffed bunny thing called Pokota, who can cast almost every spell Lina knows AND has a Sword of Light replica.
The...
Good to see old friends again
There's been a lot of anime released in English over the past decade, sort of an explosion. But I will always have fond memories from the late 1990s release of The Slayers, Seasons One through Three. Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Zelgadis, Amelia Wil Tesla Seyrune, Zangalus, Syphiel, Martina, and the Mysterious Priest Xellos. They are like old friends coming to visit again. But it seems you can't go home again, at least with this new effort.
Seasons 4 and 5 actually constitute a regular full season when you put them together. If you were wondering what is new in the life of Lina and Gourry, or Zelgadis and Amelia, they have frozen in time. We don't know if they're dating, friends, or just unaging cartoons like the kids on The Simpsons. Instead, the star of this season is "Pokota", a stuffed animal. Yes, he's the animating spirit of a long-dead prince, but it's still a sock puppet. Why they thought we'd take this seriously in any remote way is beyond me. It would be like...
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