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Kanos posted:Specifically, the goblins show up to attack a town and their big strategy is they use a bunch of tower shields with naked and abused women tied to them as human shields. It being dealt with so quickly debatably makes it even worse, because since it's dealt with so quickly and trivially by the protagonists it is basically just an excuse for the artist to draw a bunch of tortured naked women for several pages with no actual ultimate purpose for the story. If it was a manga first that'd be a fair claim. But since it was a Light Novel first and this isn't one of the drawn scenes, not so much. That said the Goblin Slayer manga is apparently more horny than the novels, so I guess both are fair claims. Frankly, the Goblin Lord is kind of a boring final boss, It's less about fighting him than it is about showing the community coming together to ensure a happy ending and protect their home from tragedy. A better final boss is the Goblin Paladin, who's actually really cool and interesting, but we won't see him for a while. I will admit to not expecting that they'd avoid the route of "Oh he's a Paladin of an Evil God" and instead take the direction of "He's a Paladin of the God of Knowledge/Wisdom, whose goal is to become a Blacksmith and lacks the cowardly traits of his brethren, willing to take hits for them. Like it'd be so easy, doing a 'Goblin Paladin' to just have it be "Oh yeah empowered by the Demon Lord, he's a Blackguard." Like still a villain, but interesting. He doesn't appear until... Volume 5 though, the anime is covering 1 and 2, and one story from Volume 4. But Volume 4 is "A collection of short stories with no real overarcing plot" quote:Chapter 1: Of Rookie Warrior and Apprentice Priestess Chapter 5 will be a fun one to see adapted since it's Priestess, Elf, Cow Girl, Guild Girl and one other playing an RPG boardgame together. 
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Omni was right, it looks like they're going to close out the season with the farm raid. This... doesn't look like Slayers. What is this?
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Google says Matoi the Sacred Slayer. A magical girl anime from a few years ago. No clue if it is any good, but at least the art is cute 
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Dec 11, 2018 05:46
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It just got added to CR a week or so ago.
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And it has Slayer in the name so it counts.
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Sakurazuka posted:It just got added to CR a week or so ago.
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Grapplejack posted:Omni was right, it looks like they're going to close out the season with the farm raid. Farm Raid closing makes sense the moment you actually think about it and Water Town in the context of stories. Water Town is a story about an adventuring party having a tough dungeon crawl while one of the players tries to find creative ways to get around another player being annoyed that he always handles encounters in the most boring way possible (The best example of this being GS saying that, had the explosion not killed the Beholder, They would just shoot arrows from the door way and back off until it de-aggro'd rinsing and repeating until it died.) It's also a dungeon that was designed by the good DM, but then she got sick and the Bad DM decided to gently caress it up. This is actually canon. The Goddess Illusion is the one who designed the Water Town dungeon, and as always she designed a fair, reasonable dungeon with reasonable challenges for the players. Then Truth comes along and went "This looks boring, want my help?" And before Illusion can answer throws down poison gas traps, hidden passages, a Beholder far beyond the parties level, a Goblin Champion, increases the size of the horde exponentially and the Magic Mirror. I mean Truth is literally described as a dickhead God who places traps 11 feet away (to screw adventurers with 10 foot poles) gets party members to betray one another and takes delightful glee in TPKs. But in the end, it's just an adventure where we get to see the heroes get a bit more comfortable with one another. Farm Raid on the other hand, has the Slayer's home be threatened, and him concluding there is nothing he can do to actually stop this (Which mirrors his defence of a village in Year One, where he concludes to never fight Goblins outdoors again, as he was nearly killed because this is his first year and he's a dumb rookie.) When Cow Girl refuses to leave because it's the last thing they have to a home, and if they abandon it, then GS wont even have a home anymore. Since the choice is between "Die and fail my friend" or "Survive and fail my friend" he finally brings himself to beg the adventurers to help him. It's the whole community coming together to sort of accept the Slayer, him finding a proper friendship with Lancer (Who uses the flimsiest reward of 'buy my a drink' to actually help him, when most of the adventurers were holding out for better pay) and coming to realize that, as he doesn't see himself as an adventurer, he wants to become one. It's the community opening up and assisting him, and in turn, him opening up and going from pariah, to one of the family. It's also the moment he takes off the helmet and reveals himself to the adventurers (With lamentations in the betting pool that he wasn't a woman, or an especially tall Goblin.) Also, the boss. The big Goblin threat in Water Town is a champion. The threat in the Farm Raid is the Lord, who employs Champions. From a narrative standpoint, going on an adventure to fight the thing you essentially trumped in the previous adventure is de-escalation, while the boss of the previous arc becoming an elite enemy for the next boss, is proper escalation. It did create some narrative holes (In the manga/novels, GS specifically requests Lancer bring him the flour, calling him the swiftest and most dependable adventurer he knows. The adventure that GS ruins for the Elf isn't adapted, which leads to her restricting him from using Fire, Water and Poison, as he keeps ruining the adventures she's trying to show him.) But they did an okay job of writing around most of them. Next season's pretty well set up for the Harvest Festival, especially since this season's spent a few scenes establishing the Chosen Heroine and her Party, I think it'd be fair to predict it'll be Harvest Festival, A Day without Him (GS isn't around so Priestess and Cow Girl have a girls day out), The Tower (Guts, Lancer and GS go handle a dark wizard in a tower)and potentially Goblin Paladin. Probably with some interspersed stories from Volume... I think it's 4 or 5? One of them is essentially a novel of just short stories that were adapted into the Brand New Day manga and of which one has already been adapted for the anime (Of a Rookie Swordsman and Cleric)
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Sakurazuka posted:It just got added to CR a week or so ago. Oh, I guess that was the years the manga was out. Good to know!
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Watching The Slayers because of this thread. Needed something to get the taste of Goblin Slayer out of my mouth. This is exactly what I wanted! It’s 100% my poo poo.
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Verisimilidude posted:Watching The Slayers because of this thread. Needed something to get the taste of Goblin Slayer out of my mouth. This is exactly what I wanted! It’s 100% my poo poo. Watch the movies and OVA's. They're a blast.
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doomrider7 posted:Watch the movies and OVA's. They're a blast. Yeah, this. Still haven't gotten around to Revolution and Evolution-R since Smash came out, but I'm saving it for when I'm inevitably stuck at home with a cold.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Yeah, this. Still haven't gotten around to Revolution and Evolution-R since Smash came out, but I'm saving it for when I'm inevitably stuck at home with a cold. They kind of lack the magic of the previous seasons. The OVA's and movies are Lina's adventures with Naga the White Serpent before meeting Gourrey. Think Dirty Pair, but fantasy.
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doomrider7 posted:They kind of lack the magic of the previous seasons. The OVA's and movies are Lina's adventures with Naga the White Serpent before meeting Gourrey. Think Dirty Pair, but fantasy. Yeah they're not as good as the previous three (though I found Evolution-R to be the better of the two) but they're still decent overall. I've said it before but there really is no bad Slayers content (though Naga can be a little grating at times). I'm still hoping for an eventual revival of the anime one day though now that the novels have started back up again in Japan. Larryb fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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I thought I'd rewatch some of Slayers Try and I'd completely forgotten about the ad break title cards (Amelia in a waitress outfit, Lina in a school uniform, Zelgadis as a rock star etc.). Mostly they're humorous but there's one where Gourry is in an apron with a little girl with pink hair and I can't remember if she was a character from one of the previous two seasons.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I thought I'd rewatch some of Slayers Try and I'd completely forgotten about the ad break title cards (Amelia in a waitress outfit, Lina in a school uniform, Zelgadis as a rock star etc.). Mostly they're humorous but there's one where Gourry is in an apron with a little girl with pink hair and I can't remember if she was a character from one of the previous two seasons. I think that was the alchemist girl whose house they accidentally destroy in Next. Not spoiler tagging that because wanton destruction should be a given.
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I was always disappointed that they showed Lina's sister in the op but we never actually got to see her.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I was always disappointed that they showed Lina's sister in the op but we never actually got to see her. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the occasional silhouettes we see in the anime are the most we've ever seen of Lina's sister in any Slayers related media so far (though she was apparently going to be the main character back in the early planning stages of the series).
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All we know about Luna Inverse as far as I'm aware is that she's the Knight of Ceifeed, works as a waitress in her hometown of Zephilia, is ridiculously powerful and well known, and Lina is absolutely terrified of her. Provided they can make her live up to the hype I'd be down for actually meeting her in a future story arc. Somewhat related, I'd also like to see Amelia meet Naga at some point since they're canonically sisters according to the author. The closest we've come so far is Nama in Evolution-R and a few off-hand references in try (she mentions having a scary older sister that's about Gourry's height and later Lina does the Naga Laugh and Amelia tells her to stop because she hates it).
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Larryb posted:All we know about Luna Inverse as far as I'm aware is that she's the Knight of Ceifeed, works as a waitress in her hometown of Zephilia, is ridiculously powerful and well known, and Lina is absolutely terrified of her. Provided they can make her live up to the hype I'd be down for actually meeting her in a future story arc. Yeah they're sisters. Naga has PTSD about blood due to walking in on the assassination of her mom and strangling the guy with a wire spell. The outfit is actually something she found among her moms "secret stash" of outfits. Apparently she's gotten morphed into a walking armor or something a la Alphonse Elric.
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doomrider7 posted:Yeah they're sisters. Naga has PTSD about blood due to walking in on the assassination of her mom and strangling the guy with a wire spell. The outfit is actually something she found among her moms "secret stash" of outfits. Apparently she's gotten morphed into a walking armor or something a la Alphonse Elric. None of which is really mentioned in any actual media as far as I'm aware. In fact, I'm pretty sure nearly Naga's entire backstory exclusively came from interviews. Which is a shame because it honestly sounds pretty interesting (and kind of hosed up considering how much of a joke character she's usually portrayed as in the series itself). Larryb fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Haha, I forgot that Try had this whole bit where Valgaav turns into loving Devilman.
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Larryb posted:None of which is really mentioned in any actual media as far as I'm aware. In fact, I'm pretty sure nearly Naga's entire backstory exclusively came from interviews. Which is a shame because it honestly sounds pretty interesting (and kind of hosed up considering how much of a joke character she's usually portrayed as in the series itself). She has apparently told Lina she's royalty, but Lina thinks it's bullshit and ignores it. She's the one who told her where at the crossroads to meet the prince of Seylun and her PTSD about blood was used(albeit for comedy) when she fainted in one of the OVA's. I'd definetly love to see her appear more since in some ways I liked the OVA's more than the series proper. It's rare that you get a badass girl duo series so I take em when I can.
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Slayers Gorgeous was what got me into anime and it's been a downhill journey since then.
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Larryb posted:None of which is really mentioned in any actual media as far as I'm aware. In fact, I'm pretty sure nearly Naga's entire backstory exclusively came from interviews. Which is a shame because it honestly sounds pretty interesting (and kind of hosed up considering how much of a joke character she's usually portrayed as in the series itself).
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naga can't appear in the main story, because one naga is more than equal to every other member of lina's party. gourry, zel and amelia would have no choice but to slink off in shame.
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Naga doesn't have to be part of Lina's party. She is more than happy to work against Lina.
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Wasn't she initially supposed to be in the main series but Kanzaka couldn't figure out a way to make it work so we got Amelia instead? She did sort of join the party temporarily in Evolution-R though (Nama was voiced by the same actress and was heavily implied to literally be Naga in all aspects except for her name and the fact that her personality was just slightly off). She also made an (utterly pointless) cameo in the Slayers Premium movie. I'm sort of torn on seeing her again though, on the one hand I'd like to see her backstory explored in a bit more detail (as well as see what her relationship with Amelia and Prince Phillip is like) but on the other she does kind of get on your nerves a bit in high doses. Either way, as I've mentioned before I hope the recent revival of the novels leads to a new anime project one day (or at the very least a movie/OVA). Not sure about the English side but I'm pretty sure most of the Japanese actors are still in the industry at any rate (for example, Lina's VA has been voicing Jessie in the Pokemon anime since the beginning). Larryb fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Do we know how well the bluray boxsets are selling btw? If I recall correctly the first one should have come out around Christmas.
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Larryb posted:Either way, as I've mentioned before I hope the recent revival of the novels leads to a new anime project one day (or at the very least a movie/OVA). Not sure about the English side but I'm pretty sure most of the Japanese actors are still in the industry at any rate (for example, Lina's VA has been voicing Jessie in the Pokemon anime since the beginning).
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i am rewatching slayers for the first time in ~20 years in hi-def you are all now aware that I am rewatching slayers in high-def it's good. gently caress me up, Megumi
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Yeah, some new novels came out a little while back and as I understand it the series is still fairly popular so I don't see much reason why they wouldn't revive the anime again at some point (at the very least they could give us a movie and/or OVA). Also there was a little over 10 years between Try and Revolution so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility either. Larryb fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Larryb posted:Yeah, some new novels came out a little while back and as I understand it the series is still fairly popular so I don't see much reason why they wouldn't revive the anime again at some point (at the very least they could give us a movie and/or OVA).
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TenementFunster posted:goddamn, evolution-r came out in 2009? I thought it was just a few years ago!
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TenementFunster posted:goddamn, evolution-r came out in 2009? I thought it was just a few years ago! Yup, and before that we had Slayers Try way back in 1997. Point is, just because it's been close to a decade since the last season came out that's still no indication that the anime is dead at this point. Larryb fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Larryb posted:Yup, and before that we had Slayers Try way back in 1997. Point is, just because it's been close to a decade since the last season came out that's still no indication that the anime is dead at this point. i remember downloading realplayer fan subs of Try back when Clinton was president and now my knees hurt for totally unrelated reasons
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Hell, the original light novels themselves started in 1989 and are still going to this day. Off the subject, I recently started rewatching the series myself recently (this time with the dub cast). Ironically, I think there might actually be more swearing in the English version of Slayers than there is in original Japanese. Still though, I kind of like both casts more or less equally so that's a plus. Out of curiosity, why were the English versions of the movies handled by a completely different studio/cast than the main series was?
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Larryb posted:I recently started rewatching the series myself recently (this time with the dub
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