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Grico
 Posts: 201 Location: Fort Wayne, IN |
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A new slayers series? Now? Ok its times for me to start hoping irrationally for a Tokyo Babylon tv series to be announced....
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ANBUx3
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I'd love to see that. The OVA didn't even begin to scratch the surface of the story. The only Slayers anime I've seen was the movie that involved Lina, Nagi, and...an old man? All I remember is that it had horrible transitions between scenes that made me wonder if I'd accidentally pressed some button on my remote and skipped something. I've read the first five novels, IMO, they went from kinda funny to just decent. But I'm going to give the new anime a try. |
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Emichan
 Posts: 83 Location: SF Bay Area |
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I am really excited about this! I just wrote a review a couple of weeks ago on the Slayers NEXT DVD box, and watching it got me all nostalgic about Slayers
I would rather see them 'going back to the well' with a series like this (which has already withstood several sequels and maintained the funny) than have another season full of stupid harem series. It is a good sign that the original team is back working on this. If it was a bunch of new people, I might be more worried. |
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enurtsol
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America is reviving franchises from the 80's.
Japan is reviving franchises from the 90's. (Japan already went thru their 80's kick awhile ago, like Maison Ikkoku.) |
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midori kou
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I sure hope that they bring back the original cast. It wouldn't be the same without them.
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mangajunky
Company Representative
 Posts: 72 Location: New York City |
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I snorted - I really did. Thanks, Zac! |
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jsyxx
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Leave it to anime fans to make everything into a negative. >_____> A fan-favorite is being brought back and that's some how bad news? Give me a break This is awesome news. Slayers was my first big anime. Definitely still a big fan. Last edited by jsyxx on Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:33 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Wyvern
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WOW. Most unexpected news ever. I am absolutly thrilled. Slayers was the first series I collected seriously. At first because the tapes retailed for $20 subbed instead of $30, and $20 was two months' allowance if I was lucky. I remember how CPM only licensed half of the first series and we had to wait a year and a half inbetween episodes 13 and 14, too. Oh, man, good times.
As weird as it sounds, I'm going to miss reading Software Sculptors' subtitles in this new show. The subs on Slayers were very characteristic; whoever did the translation had a great knack for dialog ; each character had a distinct manner of speech and interesting turns of phrase, without losing translation accuracy |
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jsyxx
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And I always knew they would do another series. The anime version never finished the story-line of the novels. So there's definitely some ground that has yet to be covered.
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FanFicGuru
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Me too Zac... me too. |
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jsyxx
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The fact that you don't understand the appeal of Slayers doesn't surprise me at all. 
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Celes
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Oh snap, this is exciting. Now if only Funimation would hurry up with the Try boxset, I could catch up and finally finish a series I started in the 90's and then get back on the franchise train with this new series
Please please please let Lina be the star...she is too cute to pass up. |
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GATSU
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It'll probably be a new story, but set in the same universe.
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Ataru
 Posts: 2310 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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So, I can expect Ranma ½ making a return? No, good. :p Good to hear Lina and gang coming back though.
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fighterholic
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Eh, right now there's no confirmation on whether or not Lina will actually come back herself. It may be just new characters to that extent. I'm hoping though that somewhere they'll be able to fit Lina in. |
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