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Oct 3, 2019 9:00 AM

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The three were actually capable of hurting a powered up Copy Rezo even without Lina by amplifying the Sword of Light with various magic effects. Very interesting!

Again I've just re-watched it because I was pissed with WatcMojo's Top 10 Craziest Anime Magic Battles on YouTube when Slayers wasn't even mentioned on it...and there it is, one crazy magic battle against Copy Rezo possessing Zanaffar's power, two magic swords; one readily amplified by various magic effects put into it, and another purpose built to seal and absorb a demon beast's miasma, a team of capable sorcerers and one swordsman, one giant holy tree to absorb and dispel said evil miasma, one justice after another! Eat your hearts out, WatchMojo!

Well I've got to admit, watched it for nostalgic sake as well. It has aged very well but still entertaining for me. 8/10
You see there's no need to wonder where your god is,
Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy.
May 13, 2020 12:44 AM

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bdsbff said:
The thing I liked about this series was the main five, well less so Gourry and Sylphiel but the episodic SoL kind of episodes were my favorite. I never cared about the villains or them actually getting to their destination. I cared about the journey and the fun these characters had together. So every episode that was about fighting big bad guys were just boring to me. That's like half the series making this one a miss.

The whole last act made me want to fall asleep. I missed when they were on the road, being in plays, making Gourry play dress up, having Lina get married. Those were the episodes I enjoyed. Not them just chanting a bunch of spells one after the other. Oh well, I'm not going to watch the second season but I might check out the prequel just for the Ojousama girl.

5/10


Couldn´t agree more on the matter. These type of "medieval fantasy" 90s anime only work when they dont take them too seriously and have instead lot of fun with their over the top character interactions. To make it worse, I watch 1 set of ovas and 1 movie involving this Naga girl and they were actually worst than the main series. If you want, you can try them, but they are not funny enough and the Ojousama girl is just a waste of potential, wich sucks because those 90s designs makes you want to like them.
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Jan 1, 2021 4:52 AM

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For an old anime which I have a hard time liking all that much, it actually was pretty good. I would've wished for another enemy in the second half then a demon-possessed Rezo AGAIN though, made the whole thing a bit boring to watch. 6/10
Nov 4, 2021 9:24 PM
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Surprisingly really had more fun with this show than I expected especially I thought I would be distracted by the bad art but the show had really good retro charm packs with great comedy and characters and start to had blast with the show once they grew on me.
Plot-wise, I think the show is better off when it does resolves around sillier conflict (which was the case for the most part) and only very few times serious plot can really work well like the first Rezo's fight was pretty fantastic but on the contrary, the last arc felt weaker as it felt like similar to the other (the buildup part was going great).
Nov 7, 2022 8:49 PM

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Great balance of comedy, adventure and interesting characters with unique idiosyncrasies. Fantasy elements mixed with lightheartedness makes this anime pretty fun.
Mar 18, 2023 4:10 PM
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I liked the reason Lina gave to copy Rezo why he lost, those were good words I even was surprised! Copy Rezo was really bent on surpassing the original and that was his downfall for me, he should've just focused on his future as Lina suggested. I was saddened that Sylphiel didn't get to join them in their adventure, but chose to stay behind and rebuild her city. I wonder what happened to her for Gourry, maybe she gave up after seeing him with Lina. I feel bad for Prince Phil whenever he encounters females who has this cliché noble image of a prince, and Sylphiel's reaction to him like Lina was priceless!

Overall it was alright. The problem was the mediocrity of the story, like i don't believe the original Rezo was the bad guy in my view. The guy just wanted to get his eyesight and would do anything to escape the darkness, I mean who wouldn't want to? The other is Lina's traveling with Gourry, I get it she wants the sword of light, but come on that's bull and I doubt it's love because she didn't mind it when he and Sylphiel were close. Gourry sucks in my view and didn't deserve to be one of the main characters, he was useless and has long hair. Also the show is full of too many gags to take it seriously. But I will watch season 2 maybe someday, just maybe though if I'm out of anime to watch or even remember it. I want to only know how will Zelgadis get his body back.

6/10
original rezo just wanting to get his eyesight back but willing to go extreme measures for it is honestly what made him interesting to me, copy rezo was kinda meh though.

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