Slayers Revolution

So another season of Slayers came out and I decided to watch it and now that I finished it I have . . . not much to say but then a lot to say at the same time.

I gave a 9 / 10 for the story , the story was a enjoyable but I have to say , I liked the old seasons of Slayers more then this one. Not that this one was horrible it just seemed like it was too short and they could have gone more in depth with it then the short , quick , and easy way. Like how the ... heck did Rezo randomly come into this again and why is he back. I'm really starting to think that this guy will just never leave which is starting to irritate me a lot and I'm pretty sure that it's irritating everyone else too. But it was interesting how they added the new characters with their own stories. Like with Pokota and Duclis. I have no idea if anyone else noticed , but with what happened to their town was like long long ago in England with the plague and all. Which seemed kinda interesting because they made their own version of the plague , and yet of course Rezo came in to save the day , which wasn't really all that surprising.

Art , I gave a 10 / 10 . The art is better I admit from the old seasons of Slayers , but only because the computer art stuff has progressed over the years , and then the series was taken over by a new company also. But the art has improved which I give cheers for.

Sound I gave 8 / 10. The music . . . is different now , but still kind of the same but I prefer the old music from the old seasons then the new one. But the sound affects were great along with all the blasts from the magic and sword fighting jazz stuff.

For characters I gave 9 / 10. I give them props for adding new characters , but the only thing that annoys me is Pokota. When he was in his original form before he got transferred to that weird doll thing , he looked WAY too much like a girl. He looked like a tom boy girl with long pink hair , and that large hoop earring on the left ear annoyed me , A LOT. Then theres also Zuuma , we barely got to know anything about him which bothered me. They should have gone more in depth with Zuuma other then announcing he's some big all time ' assassin ' that always gets the job done. Then they left a completely HUGE thing about him becoming an assassin because of Lina , they never explained that which entirely bothers me too and I want to know the reason in that. But then I'm also glad to see that they haven't changed any of the main characters personalities besides just making Lina more violent and more quicker to blast people with a dragon slave. But other than that , I'm content with all the characters in the anime.

For enjoyment I gave 9 / 10 , I'm pretty sure everyone will enjoy this anime if your into these kind of animes , but for those who are fans of the old seasons of Slayers you may be a little disappointed with some things but still be content. There is some flaws in this season of Slayers , but all in all it's very enjoyable.

And my overall score for this season of Slayers is 8 / 10.
Despite all the flaws of the season and how different it is from the old seasons , I'm pretty sure Slayer fans and people who are new to Slayers will enjoy it. You will be basically laughing all the time from the goofiness , silliness , and all the stupid parts. You can never be bored when Lina Inverse is there because she always makes things entertaining.

I hope my review helped you guys out and make all those who haven't seen Slayers yet , take a chance and decide to watch it.

Huge disappointment from someone who has seen all the Slayers seasons...

Story: Really poor compared to the story in Next and Try. It just gets way too predictable because none of the main characters do any training whatsoever so it's pretty much always the same spells. When will they learn that Fireball doesn't do anything to other magic users? The end is lame because of the cliche method used to win. If you read the series description, it says that Gourry needs a new sword, he doesn't really get one for keeps even though that was what they were doing in the first place. Along with ... filler, I give the story a 5. It just seemed very dry to me and it left a lot of things not taken care of. I have to give credit to episode 8 though. The fight was great and was the highlight of the series.

Art: I gave a 10 because I loved seeing these characters animated in a clean and consistent way. Despite that the old animation is dated, it was nothing amazing even for its time so it was nice.

Sound: Same cast doing the voices. I didn't mind that, no one should. It was great to hear Megumi Hayashibara doing voice acting again after such a long time. Ost didn't really stand out to me. The opening and ending songs were okay but to me, just not as good as the classic songs from the older Slayers series.

Character: I loved seeing Xellos again. He was in the opening and the ending making me think there'd finally be a main character in this series who actually knows what he's doing. I thought "Oh, man. This is gonna be great." Sadly, he hardly did anything and it took him a while to show up. He was totally ineffectual at the end too... he gets a less than one minute cameo in the last episode. While this section seems biased, Xellos was the main reason I watched this at all because the other characters are lame and very weak for a series like this. As mentioned in the story section, none of them are any stronger and they think junk like Fireball can take out a major enemy. Amelia and Zelgadis don't seem to be needed because they don't do anything. They aren't even good backup. For example...

In the previous Slayers series, Xellos would get weakened by positive statements. Say "The world is a happy place." and he'll kind of topple over and get weak. In episode 8 that I mentioned in the story section, Xellos fights Lina and friends (I know, awesome right?) but none of the characters thought to use positive thinking as a weapon. No, instead Lina and Zelgadis use Fireball... I guess after so many years the characters and writers have forgotten everything and threw continuity out the window.

The writers need to step up on these characters because this show is more than comedy, there's fighting so... the mains need to figure out how to do that and not be terrible at it. I know a huge part of what draws people in are the interactions between our main cast but seriously, Fireball gets old...

Now for the new guys. We have Pokota who is the Terriermon-looking thing who pretty much only argues with Lina. EVERYBODY argues with Lina so this was nothing new and it looks like Pokota's here to stay. He didn't stick to me either like Xellos did, as soon as I saw Xellos I knew he was good people. As for the villains, I didn't care for them. They even integrate Rezo back into the story which seemed lame to me.

Enjoyment: Episode 8, that is all I needed to see. The rest was pretty hard to sit through. Had to force myself to finish it, it was a pain waiting each week for a new episode only to be sadly disappointed. I did not enjoy watching this series.

Overall: They set us up for another season since a lot of the enemies need more development. One has a beef with Lina that went unexplained, one's name is Rezo spelled backward which has to mean something and one is now half horse and half tiger living in the forest. Trust me, those aren't really spoilers. I know I'll go and watch it despite my complaints if one comes out but I hope it's better than Revolution. I don't care that the averages of my scores don't add up to 6 but it's really that bad.

Thank you for reading my review. Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Hope this helped.

As a huge fan of the original 3 series I was excited when a new series of slayers came out, although not too expectant since inevitably it was much more likely to be an amusing expansion to the franchise rather than a hugely epic series. Still I expected I’d get some giggles and nostalgia and that would be fine.

Instead we got this hideous example of how to simultaneously milk your franchise while destroying it instead. It’s difficult to describe how sad this series made me after the ‘plot’ starts to take hold in the 3rd episode, and it only got worse until it finally ... hit rock bottom with the promise of going further downhill in time for the next series. There will be some mild spoilers in my ranting but nothing too serious.

This series did occasionally have some slayers –like moments but the vast majority of it suffered from a seeming disconnect I wasn’t able to always look past. All the spells seem to have been converted from the previous series in bland CG which by itself is nothing to complain about but somehow they all seemed to render ugly and often have effects wildly different then how the pervious series handled them. Somehow I also feel like they somehow managed to derail Linas character but making her less egomaniacal and more homicidal maniac (one episode she apparently seems to be willfully trying to kill Amelia, a person she would probably have taken a bullet for in previous series). I’m not usually a person to notice or care about these things but this seriously bothered me while I was watching.

The worst and most offensive part of this series is how it shamelessly steals it villains and plotlines from the original series, needlessly resurrecting perfectly resolved plot threads from 3 series ago. This is not only makes for heinously lazy story writing but also undermines events that happened way back in the original story. This is the sort of thing I expect from amateur fan fiction not a supposedly serious animated sequel. They even resurrected the rather badass eldritch abomination Zanaffer from the original series, gave him a completely needless origin story, and then reintroduced him as the kind of super villain character I would expect to get beaten up in an episode of captain planet, seriously who wrote this stuff and thought this was a good idea, and we haven’t even started on the new Rezo plotline. As if killing him twice in the original series wasn’t already enough they are apparently so stuck for ideas they felt the need to bring him back AGAIN 3 seasons later to facilitate their pathetic writing.

So in summery this is series is disappointing garbage without much in it to make up for that fact. It’s not funny enough or well presented enough to make up for its atrocious plot which seems bent on destroying its own franchise. I can’t recommend this to anybody.