Slayers Next

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Japanese: スレイヤーズNEXT

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Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 1996 to Sep 27, 1996

Premiered: Spring 1996

Broadcast: Fridays at 18:30 (JST)

Producers: J.C.Staff, TV Tokyo, SoftX

Licensors: Funimation, Central Park Media, Enoki Films

Studios: E&G Films

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.03¹ (scored by 37,914 users)

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Ranked: #589²

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Popularity: #2579

Members: 70,920

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In the kingdom of Xoana, Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev unexpectedly come across their old companions, Zelgadis Graywords and Princess Ameilia Wil Tesla Saillune. Upon their reunion, the friends end up easily foiling the King of Xoana and his daughter's dastardly plans of world conquest.

Soon after, it is revealed that Zelgadis is in search of the world's most valuable magical tome, the Claire Bible, hoping to discover a method to recover his human body among the many secrets sheltered within it. Despite his protests, the rest of the group decides to join in the quest after hearing of his mission. However, just when they were wondering where to start looking for the legendary book, they stumble upon a mysterious priest by the name of Xellos, who claims that he may be of some help in their pursuit.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Inverse, Lina

Main

Hayashibara, Megumi
Japanese

Graywords, Zelgadis

Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese

Gabriev, Gourry

Main

Matsumoto, Yasunori
Japanese

Saillune, Amelia Wil Tesla

Main

Suzuki, Masami
Japanese

Xellos

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Nels Laada, Sylphiel

Supporting

Touma, Yumi
Japanese

Lord of Nightmares

Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi
Japanese

Phibrizo

Supporting

Ikura, Kazue
Japanese

Navratilova, Martina Zoana Mel

Supporting

Ishimura, Tomoko
Japanese

El Di Saillune, Philionel

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Anzai, Masahiro
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Kobayashi, Noriko

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Watanabe, Takashi

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Yoshida, Shunji

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Yamaguchi, Takeshi

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Opening Theme

"Give A Reason" by Megumi Hayashibara (eps 1-26)

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Ending Theme

"Jama wa Sasenai" by Masami Okui (eps 1-26)

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Sep 30, 2023

Just_Matt_

Recommended

In 1989, nearly 40 years before The Legend of Vox Machina and Konosuba, The Slayers came out and showed people how a Dungeons & Dragons animated series is actually done. It was, in a nutshell, the opposite side of Record of Lodoss War's coin, embracing the sillyness that comes from an unhinged magician, an extremely dense paladin and a chuuni-esque white mage being put in situations that can and will be solved by blasting the room with a Fireball.

In 1995, 6 years after that, The Slayers Next came out and blew the original series out of the fucking water. A near-perfect 26 episode run without ...

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Apr 14, 2023

ktulu007

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I've talked about Slayers multiple times. The films, OVAs and the first series proper. Now we're going to look at the second series, Next. This one aired mid to late '96, shortly after the first series.

Story:

We open with Lina and company meeting up in the Kingdom of Xoana where they're all trying to get a peek at their pieces of the Claire Bible manuscript, a magical tome of great power. This results in the group traveling together, along with the enigmatic Xellos, searching for pages of the book. On their way they stumble upon several strange plots by various monsters that seem to be ...

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Dec 30, 2015

Luquillo

Mixed Feelings

Slayers was such a smash hit and a wonderful action/comedy series with so much potential it was a must that it would see a sequel. Thus, a year later Slayers Next would be released and fans could enjoy the newest adventures featuring Lina Inverse and crew. When moving into a new series which laid out the ground work so well in the original, one would hope that none of the charm is left out while along the way making some improvements. Slayers Next definitely sticks to what made the series great for sure: the wit, comedy, action, mild development, it's there; yet at the same ... time, outside of the visuals there really isn't too much improvement.

The plot follows Lina Inverse as she searches for a magical artifact called The Claire Bible which contains some very necessary spells for her. Her friend and comrade in arms Zelgadis wants the book in hopes to returning to his human form. The band once again comes together and it's off on a new quest.

The visuals are clearly the most noticeable improvement with character designs, setting and static backgrounds appearing to be more crisp and detailed. Castles and underground labyrinths look a lot better, and there are also some pretty moments when the characters travel to other dimensions or alternate worlds. The final battle towards the end has a nice dark, end of the world like setting that truly feels as if this is the end. The battles look a little better as well despite the lack of choreography at times; the light shows are still something to get pretty excited about. The BGM is still just as good creating the right feeling for whichever situation is necessary.

This season sticks to its guns delivering the comedy along with action and it does succeed a good portion of the time; but one's enjoyment is clearly going to be decided on how much they bought into the characters earlier on. The first half of the series spins its wheels on delivering something of a plot. It's true that smaller details come into play, such as a major demon by the name of Gaav possessing a hidden motive to lure out Lina which leads into his personal feud with another demon; but there's so much filler taking place and stories that serve no purpose it's difficult to hide that this stuff is simply to prolong the series. I did have fun watching some of this, yet the lack of progress grew a little frustrating. The second half finally starts to deal with these plot threads that were introduced, and things to start get good, and I mean really good leading up to a couple of good battles and an ending worth waiting for.

Lina sees some development and becomes a bit more well rounded, and some of the side characters receive a bit as well coming together more as a family; the characters aren't even 60% developed but they really don't need it because their personalities alone carries the weight. Some of the battles are quite creative with nice outcomes and I loved their use of teamwork on some things.

In closing, although Slayers Next looks better and retains everything that made it special in the first place. It still suffers from the repeated jokes and obvious episode stretching; the jokes worked very well in the original because it was new stuff and many times unexpected. I like the characters a lot, still I need something more than watching Lina blast bandits to bits and watching the gang chow down practically every episode. It just gets to the point where some things aren't as funny anymore. I still recommend giving this a shot to everyone who fell for the original series.

Highs: Maintains everything that made it great, better visuals

Lows: Needed better progress, some jokes are redundant

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