Through a set of circumstances, Lina and Gourry find themselves among the company of old friends Zelgadis and Amelia as they chase after a mysterious creature named Pokota who, for some reason, is capable of casting the powerful Dragon Slave spell. Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev continue their ongoing quest of ridding the world of evil bandits by pilfering the stolen treasure for themselves. While the latest run goes completely to formula as far as Slayers goes, I can’t say that’s a bad thing at all. Both 13-episode series are part of the same story arc, which is a bit more in tandem with Slayers earlier 26-episode offerings. The new series would be followed by Slayers Evolution-R in 2009. It took over ten years for them to bring the series back and in 2008, Slayers Revolution began airing in Japan. But, thankfully, with the pending release of new editions of the original novels, and the anime's easy accessibility, it's never been easier to get into Slayers.The last time we saw Lina Inverse and her band of merry spellfilchers in an actual TV series, it was before the turn of the millennium. However, none of the movies or OVAs are available for streaming, and while Amazon offers box sets of the shows, its DVD of the original movie is incredibly expensive. Funimation all five seasons of the show available both subbed and dubbed. The last three seasons of the anime are available for purchase through Amazon Prime Video, while the first season is available on Hulu. Two OVA specials, Slayers Special and Slayers Excellent, were also produced, though their English releases split them into different movies and retitled them. These shows more loosely adapted the novels, pulling from many different volumes at once. The second and third seasons, Slayers NEXT and Slayers TRY, respectively, ran from 1995 to 1997, with the fourth and fifth seasons, Slayers Revolution and Slayers Evolution-R, not coming out until 20. The anime was based on several different volumes of the light novel series, with the first season covering the first and third volumes in particular. Barnes and Noble has more affordable options for the manga available on the NOOK. The manga is sadly much harder to come by, with an older release of the first volume a good bit more expensive than typical manga. The original English translation of the novels can currently be read through Amazon Kindle, but there's also an upcoming re-release, with the new collected editions beginning their publication this summer. All of this reading material is surely intimidating for newcomers, but there are easy ways to get a hold of some of the foundational books. There were also several manga adaptations, with the most recent being 2008's Slayers Light Magic. There are also spinoffs and compilation novels: Slayers Special, Slayers Delicious, Slayers Select and Slayers Anthology. The author also wrote an additional arc in 2018, followed by an alternate universe arc in 2019. This light novel series was 15 volumes long and published between 19. These were eventually collected into light novels, which is where the franchise began to really pick up steam. The Slayers franchise began back in 1989, starting as short stories written by Hajime Kanzaka and published in Dragon Magazine.
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