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Slayers (Anime) add (All reviews)
Jul 20, 2023
Slayers is a show based on a book series about how it feels to play Dungeons & Dragons: 2nd Edition while at the mercy of a level 90, metagaming Black Mage addicted to Fireball. If you have any experience with magic users in tabletop RPGs, this should be enough to sell you on it.

If not, here's a few more words to better sell you on it.

Much like Dirty Pair, many of its gags involve said metagaming Black Mage, Lina Inverse, causing massive amounts of collateral damage while fighting assorted fantasy goons for one reason or another - so much that I feel like it and Dirty Pair work really well as "double feature" shows, for whenever you're in the mood for some surprisingly witty but overall absurd 90s anime comedy.

The characters all play on and with western fantasy tropes in a way that feels retroactively familiar without being stale, and while you'll mostly see this colorful cast of chucklefucks engaged in villain of the week hijinks, the weirdly paced overarching plot eventually reaches a properly engaging final arc, bookended by a surprisingly thoughtful conclusion which tackles issues I didn't expect the Silly Fireball Spam Anime to tackle.

The fact that, despite its classically fantasy setting, many of its more arcane locales and artifacts look like they were ripped straight out the dank tunnels of a Zentradi warship, is a detail that tells me the folks working on this adaptation probably had a lot of fun - which is always a plus in my book.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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