From recent interview with Megumi Hayashibara and Kanzaka Hajime:
M:
>"in the sub-series of prequel stories where you see Lina and Naga hang around together, which all take place before the first two video games were released in 1994 and first animated TV adaptation was released in 1995, you can easily notice that Lina looks much older, more voluptuous and mature, than her later TV show depiction. This created heavy confusion and total misunderstanding, and for that we sincerely apologize. There is actually a big secret to this which we were trying to hide for decades, but now we are going to reveal the truth to you all."
K:
>"in all actuality, none of the prequels, with the exception of just two stories, ever had Lina Inverse or Gracia Ul Naga Seyruun in them. Every Lina and Gracia you see in such animated features as Slayers Perfect movie, Gorgeous, Great, Special OVAs, and other prequel media that were leading up to TV series in the setting's timeline, are actually not same characters. All of them are near-perfect homunculi clones of Lina and Gracia, that were accidentally created prior. We actually planned all of this in advance many years ago and this is the direct sole reason why Lina Inverse looks much younger and less developed in Slayers TV series, than how she looks in movies and OVA releases.
M:
>"They are not same characters. Lina and Naga in movies and most OVA are homunculi clones of those two characters, not their initial original progenitors. Only two prequel stories have actual real Lina and Naga in them: the very first time Lina and Naga met, and the homunculi laboratory story (which actually serves as the setting-up point for all other subsequent stories)."
K:
>"actual real Lina Inverse never saw Sword of Light right until she met Gaurry Gavriev for the first time ever in the TV show. The Lina and Gracia which saw Rowdy Gavriev use SoL in the Perfect motion picture, were homunculi clones that were accidentally created earlier and ran away."
Everyone was fake. Only Pokota was the true Slayers MC all along.
>>280365477 (OP)Fucking retcons.
>>280365477 (OP)>Megumi HayashibaraFuck that fascist babaa
>>280365979>Fuck that fascist babaaIf I must...
Interview translation cont'd:
>Kanzaka:
>"Despite them technically being almost perfect clones, homunculi are still not completely equal to their progenitor or even to each-other. This is the core and actual reason why Lina Inverse in prequel movies and OVA looks much older and has voluptuous body with much bigger breasts than her real TV series counterpart. Original Lina Inverse is a bit shorter, has much smaller breasts and way less developed body, being a 15 years old teenager that she is at the start of the animated TV adaptation. Her homunculi clone from Perfect motion picture, however, is more akin to her being in her mid-to-late 20's sheer body composition-wise. Essentially, the Lina clone you see in the Perfect movie, is how real Lina Inverse would look in the future, as depicted in later official art provided by Araizumi Rui-san for Slayers novels past-volume 15 and further."
>Megumi:
>"The very first time you see real Naga in any Slayers content past the prequel stories, is in the Slayes PC-98 video game, as well as THE Slayers video game for Nintendo's Super Famicom platform, both of which were released in 1994, shortly before the first TV series was done and released. Both of these video games actually follow original novellas and not the TV series, thus. Next time you will see actual real Naga after that, is in Slayers Royal, Royal 2, and Wonderful video games."
>Kanzaka:
>"These are the only times in the entire franchise's history when Naga was depicted directly interacting with her sister, Amelia, in same shot, at the same time, being in the same party. PC-98 and Super Famicom games, however, are technically uncanon, they are original stories that are not connected to anything else. Several of their characters and characters' designs themselves, however, are directly taken from original Dragon Magazine novellas. Slayers Royal and Royal 2, on the other hand, are completely canon stories. Wonderful is another uncanon completely self-contained story."
>>280365921>openly says they've planned all of this for decades in advance, literally pulling a Genius Kojimbo'esque twist on all of us>"fukken REEEEEEEEEEEEtcooooooooons!!!11"
>>280365477 (OP)It's stupid that this is starting to make sense. I figured it was just classic titty inconsistency but said inconsistency carried on into new artworks.
OP still needs to post the source though.
>>280365585Lina's and Naga's clones are near perfect copies. Lina's clones can even cast Dragon Slave (but not Ragna Blade or Giga Slave, since those were obtained and learned by actual real Lina much later and they require demon blood clip accessories to handle, which clones never had), while only two of Naga's ELEVEN copies could cast some magic (the rest were essentially at "0 MP", if you will), such as Freeze Arrow, Elmekia Lance, Chaos String, some healing spells (lesser potency/power than real Naga was able to output), some Shamanistic stuff (specifically so Burst Rondo).
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okay so...
Clone Lina is with Real Naga
and I can assume that Clone Lina will meet up with Real Lina and merge somehow becoming extra powerful with combining the experience both the Real and Clone together
is this the probable outcome?
>>280367355I just want more light novel in English, or a new anime adaption
>>280367178Basically what was revealed, is that the actual canon timeline is first OVA of Slayers Excellent (the "Labyrinth"), where real Lina and real Naga meet for the first time ever, and then this is immediately followed by Special, where their clones/copies and "shadows" are created, then disperse throughout the world map. From thereon out, it's all only homunculi and "mirror shadows" of Lina and Naga, that are perfoming in prequel stories, right before first TV series happens.
Real Lina ditched/parted ways with real Naga at some point after Special, and real Naga returned only in two of the Royal games (Sega Saturn and PSOne) after that, both of which are post-first TV season and post-Next, but before Try and Premium (where real Naga appears at the end, but gets BTFO'd out of the screen quickly), in the overarching timeline. Naga and Amelia can be both taken into the party in PC-98 and SNES games, but those are not considered canon, despite including some of the novellas' characters and lore that never appeared or were never included in the anime.
>>280367355No, clone Lina is with clone Naga, in the movies and all OVAs after Special.
Real Lina and real Naga were only in Excellent and in Special. It's all clones after that.
Real Naga and real Lina don't meet until way much later, in Royal games (specifically so, first Royal game explicitly starts by Lina getting freaked the fuck out and dragonspooked to all hell, when she suddenly hears real Naga's laugh, because they haven't been together for several years, after Special).
And BOTH the real Lina and real Naga AND their many clones walking about together, some of which are BIGBOOBA and SMEXY Linas, are one of the primary core plot points of the Royal 2 game. There are even GOURRY'S CLONES in it now. It's even directly being shown in Royal 2's OP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3fuUwNm4k
Tryslop never happened, BTW. It was confirmed to be a completely uncanon inane fanfic, the literal equivalent of DBGT for Slayers.
In the canon overarching timeline, Next is directly followed by Royal 2, then Premium happens (a piece of inane shit in it's own right, but apparently canon nonetheless), then Revolution and Evolution-R, respectively.
Wonderful also never happened in the canon timeline. So there are five official Slayers-licensed video games made and released to date (NEC PC-98, Nintendon't Super Famicom, Sega Saturn/PSOne, and PSOne for Wonderful since it's an exclusive), out of which only two, Royal and Royal 2, are fully and indisputably canon (Lina and Naga were also featured in Magical Battle Arena, but that's a doujin circle game. Lina and Naga are also notoriously present in DoTA):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_v4TGrua4k
>>280367645>a new anime adaptionDid you see the garbage that the Ranma """""(((reboot)))""""" turned out being? Do you seriously want for Slayers, of all things, to be defiled, bastardized, dirtied, ruined?
>>280365979The fuck are you on about? Are you having a stroke?
>>280367178Every time you see any Lina art that has bra size larger than 32A/B or 34A/B, it's definitely a clone. Simple as.
>>280366290>they've planned all of this for decades in advanceOf which we only have their word. Which means no proofs.
>>280370022>we only have their wordAre you retarded? Hajime Kanzaka is creator of Slayers and Megumi Hayashibara is literally Lina Inverse for life. I'd take any of their words on any of it over anything or anyone else (unless it's also Hikaru Midorikawa/Zelgadis, Masami Suzuki/Amelia, Yasunori Matsumoto/Gourry, or Maria Kawamura/Gracia), ever.
>>280369953The fuck are you niggers even on about? Explain yourselves, you conniving shitheads. Are you some kind of a faggot?
>>280369422>>280370494>>280370505nta but she called non japanese an invasive species
>>280368153>>280368774my head is starting to hurt but I understand what I am reading
still dont know if this will imply NEW Slayers anime/material at all
I really miss my dynamic duo of misadventures
I just wanted to say i will always love Gourry, thats all.
>>280365477 (OP)Those were some fine clones
I would not mind the tv series featuring them instead of the original Lina who was lame tsundere only saved by LoN ass pulls
Iโd be WAY more interesting in seeing Linaโs absolute chad sister in a new story. Maybe Lina disappears and the sister moves out to find her.
Also thereโs SO much more that could be done in the setting. For example, with the Mazoku barrier being weakened and allowing travel it opens things up for war, diplomacy, adventure, etc, with the outside world. What does the outside world think of the Demon Peninsula which had been locked under the dominion of Mazoku for so long? Who fucking CARES about how big Linaโs clone tits are or what Naga has to say ffs.
>>280370847I can separate the art from the artist
besides she provided me years of entertainment
with an appreciation for strong non-mary sue female protagonists
>>280371355I don't know about that but I do know that it's pretty based
>>280371408would you not say Lina Inverse is a NOT a mary sue and a strong protagonist?
>>280370847What's wrong with that? She's absolutely correct.
>>280370895>if this will imply NEW Slayers anime/material--...anon...novellas are currently up to 17 volumes, with there being a nearly-20 years long "hiatus" between 15 (2000) and 16 (2018, the current latest one, the 17th, was released in 2019 and fully translated in 2023). Meanwhile, last anime was released in 2008, meaning in 2028 it'll be 20 years without any new animated Slayers adaptations. And first TV season and Next barely covered only 8 out the original 15 pre-hiatus novels.
Try never happened, it is a headcanon fanfic, and since Revolution/Evo-R are technical sequels of Try's continuity (I'm going to vomit), they never happened as well. It means we've been depraved and starved out off of any canon (novels-adapting) Slayers content right after next and two Royal games.
I think it's ogre. Novels from 9 to 15 were somewhat "covered" in the Aqualord arc, but that was only ever made into a mango, it was never adapted to onemoo. This sucks major donkey balls.
>>280370847>>280371355waits, whats the issue here?
Sounds based as fuck.
>>280371528>>280371544I don't think it's wrong I'm just explaining what the guy was talking about
>>280371242>seeing Linaโs absolute chad sister in a new storyWasn't absolutely disastrous trainwreck that was the whole entirety of Try(hard) not enough for you? Why would you want to torture yourself with such crap once again?
>>280371528tv series is a separate continuity from novels anyway
Outside of maybe the very first season
>>280371544>whats the issue here?Some anons are probably chinese or something
I don't think anyone else would give a shit
>>280371719Nationalists will always be an issue in any sovereign nation. I find it funny how someone who is a Japanese Nationalist has a very popular western inspired fantasy series. Nothing at all like any Eastern inspired story.
So the ending sequences were teasers on them being clones this whole time...
>>280371355For fuck's sakes, you kvetching glowniggers seriously need to stfu and go get laid. Megumi-sama is a literal EMPRESS of all seiyuu and she's literally Lina Inverse IRL, no one will ever be able to dethrone or supplant her, with her death Lina Inverse will die. And hearing Megumi-sama making such absolutely trad-to-a-tee based-as-f goodguy takes in these shitty DEIslop-ridden and LGBLMTQ faggot-infested dark ages of all media industries, is a true fresh breeze of the air. Fuck all of you faggots who think Megami Hayashibara is not GODLIKE in her opinions and takes. She's the literal IDEAL representative of actual proper normalcy and humanity.
>>280371875>Nationalists will always be an issueNot really. As long as they don't start wars I see no issue
Nationalism is healthy, enforced multiculturalism is not
>>280371679>tv series is a separate continuity from novelsFirst season and Next are literally covering first 8 novels straight up directly, you dumb fuck.
Try was literal GT'esque fanfic, and Revo/Evo-R continued off of Try, thus both are uncanon fanfics.
Real canon story thus far, ended in Next and Royal games (which follow novel continuity and content).
Aqualord was made into a manga, so it covered the other novels after 8, from 9 to 15. Then 20 years-long hiatus struck, for some bizarre reason (did Kanzaka HxH'd himself, or something?). Now we're back to the new canon ongoing arc in novels, but none of that shit was made into manga still, and definitely no anime on the horizon.
>>280371875>Nationalists will always be an issueThere is NO issue and NEVER was. YOU'RE the "issue" if you're thinking that way or believing in some ephemeral "issue" existing in fact that some countries' natives want to stay clean and undefiled by kvetching westardoid glownigger filth. Again - YOU are the issue, faggot. YOU are the problem, not literal GODDESS that is Hayashibara Megumi-sama.
>>280371993>Nationalism is healthy, enforced multiculturalism is nothard disagree, but to each their own
no one is enforcing multiculturalism anywhere
and no, not your bunker tranny schizoid corpo pride enjoyers count
>>280372071>you dumb fuck.They are literally not, you faggot
Next is anime original for the most part, it changed plenty of arcs and completely removed some characters
They turned some horror arcs where people died into comedy for no reason
>>280372206>hard disagreeGTFO. Now.
>>280372071>Try was literal GT'esque fanfic, and Revo/Evo-R continued off of Try, thus both are uncanon fanfics.and this is also not true btw, because there is some canon material in Revo, there was some tiger dude who appeared in the novels
>>280372276make me faggot
you aint shit
lol
lmao even
>>280372241>Next is anime original for the most partIt literally does novel up to 8th volume 1-to-1, you imbecile.
>>280372299You are fucking retarded, got it.
>>280372417>wiki screenshotWhat exactly are you trying to prove?
If you had read the novels, you would know that it is only loosely based on them
>>280372206>no one is enforcing multiculturalism anywhereNigger, are you even for real with that shit? You're huffing on some were strong fentanyl gasses coming from your own rectum, there. Japan LITERALLY had to issue a fuckton of warnings and ban """""(((tourist)))""""" niggers from ever getting close to Tori gates and other cultural/religious/culturally significant places and objects.
>>280372542I've been reading novels since 1989 in their original vanilla first-print form when you haven't even been born yet, faggot. I even own the extremely rare Slayers d20 set nowadays.
>>280372454even your screenshot shows volume 5, the silver beast
It is the volume that was entirely skipped originally and then r/evolution tried to retroactively adapt some parts of it
Don't be retarded, really
>>280372584Retard clout chasing KICK streamers is not enforcing multiculturalism you retard fucking baby piggu-dicku cuck.
Literally kill yourself you faggot and stream.
Enrich us with your useless death.
Death to fascists, just so know it.
>>280366290Anon this is some having a giggle bullshit about turbo-nerds bitching at them about meaningless inconsistencies. This is the weeb version of the Simpsons' "A wizard did it" joke
>>280372755Lina is Jewish. She can't be a fascist no matter what
Even if she tries to genocide people
>>280372755This is literally you, REEEEsetarded neoFAG:
>fragile bigots snap at true confrontation
tale as old as time
>>280372869>69Very nice, impressive even, HOWEVER:
>>280368774>Revolution and Evolution-RBoth worse than Try and if Try isn't canon to those seasons then why Try's characters show up in the openings and eyecatches
>>280372991>then whyIt's trolling. They know they fucked up, thus they've doubled down deliberately in a sadistic self-shaming memery. Japs LOVE self-flagellation.
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>>280365979Megumi's only crime was doing voice work for that shitty censored Ranma remake
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>>280373049>mfw I found out just 10 years later after watching Next that Martina Navratilova was actually named after Martina Navratilova and it made perfect sense to have a tennis episode because Martina Navratilova was a professional tennis player
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someone is mad
flatties are always self conscious
>when the fascist is small in stature and in bust size
>>280373078>cannot unhear foreverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brotlt7CvVE
>>280373651>>280373690>mayo>gunhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDgBPwAi24
So, basically, this means that every single official art of Lina and Naga being together in the same shot that was ever drawn and every piece of supplementary merchandise that had together (such as figurines or statues, badges, clothing and apparel, bags, cutlery, etc), right up until Royal and Royal 2 games released, is depicting clone copies of them, not actual Lina and Naga. We all got sold fakes. We were snakeoiled. This is fucking insanity. They bamboozled us all hard.
>>280374112>buying merchCongratulations!
You played yourselves!
>>280372816yeah, you should /pol/tard.
>>280374111That's just strong contrast. Or coloring mishap.
It's not brown, but rather "darkened blonde", it really seems to be a photoshop/LUT fuck up, or something like that. Monitors back then weren't nearly as good at outputting proper colors, like modern ones. It probably looked fine on Kanzaka's (or whatever was positioning that art) PC or cameras, but when it came down to printing they realized too late that the printer is giving out fucked up colors. Many such cases were in the past.
>>280374199>starts talking about the seiyuu political beliefs out of nowhere>calls me the /pol/tardkek
>>280365477 (OP)Anal sex with Lina
>>280365979>For all those who think Hayashibara is 'based'*clears throat*
WHITO PIGGU AND BURAKU PEPORU THEN MONKEYS GO HOME! ANIME IS NOT FOR YOU! GET ZA FAKU AUTO OBU JAPAAAAAAAAAAN
>>280374199/pol/tards are parasites and are only good for site traffic when you rile them up
they are like guppies splashing around at fish flakes
election tourists are not real people
>>280374173These are modern ones, after Royal 2 and since art style changed a bit to accommodate for post-Revo novels, so I'm personally fine with those. The post above was specifically about every Lina and Naga depiction prior to Royal, since Royal was the first time in a long time when real Naga appeared officially after the Special. Royals are canon, since they follow novels and continue right after Next in the timeline, after which Aqualord novels and manga are next canon entries in the line, and after that novels 16 and 17, the current ongoing arc with new designs and costumes.
>>280374488...anon, she can speak near-flawless English with almost no accent (also Russian to an extent, and Italian).
>>280374710she is just a shitposter
and knows where the money is
right wing incels who love 2d waifus
>>280374762imagine being so fucking dumb
dumb and lonely
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>>280374693>mfw imagining what booba their mommy had in her prime
>>280374762>>280374513sweety, you're also a /pol/tard
>>280374811on their father side actually
>>280374834lol
whatever you say senpai
>>280374788>three milquetoast generic boring "modern age" conveyor nu-sloppa waifus>vs>LINA-MOTHERFUCKING-INVERSEWooow, who to pick, the choice is truly difficult, almost impossibly hard...
>>280374882Never saw this one before. Tanks, shaved.
>>280365979>Fuck that fascist babaai already love her you don't have to sell me on her
>>280375040you misunderstood my intent
but I am glad you see the value in Lina Inverse by design not being outdated
Well, now...since we're having this thread...here y'all go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenEFlU9qU4
No, no, no need to thank me. You will never ever be able to unsee it, so need to thank me.
>>280374817>sixteen milquetoast generic boring "modern age" conveyor nu-sloppa waifus>vs>MOTHER-LINA-FUCKING-INVERSEDifficulty level in choosing - IMPOSSIBURU.
>only ever watched the TV series
kneel, no fake clone shit has ever entered my mind palace
>>280375022 whacking off Fibrizo
It was my first VN aeons ago. Glorious memory.
>>280375040>official cover>official art>C A M E L T O E>A>M>E>L>T>O>E
>>280375671Special's clone copies come back in Royal 2. And Royal 2 is canon continuation of Next, so, no, fuck off. Also, there is a high possibility that cursed-armor "Nama" Gracia from Revo is a Special clone as well, since it doesn't seem that she has real Naga's memories. There were at least 11 of them running away by the end of Special, they are roaming all around the world since then, so, hey. It is what it is.
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>>280374854https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knn4iDKAO4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60MnDJklnM
>>280374762She's not.
She's a completely trad orthodox normal human being that sincerely thinks the way she does and her talking points are what she really believes in.
>>280370847She's correct. Japan for Japanese.
>mofos don't know 'bout that one time Hayashibara starred in an actual movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Bmcv0bnc8
>warehouse was completely ripped out
>we were robbed to fucks
NIGGARUSU GETTO FAKKU AUTO!!!11
So what's the source for all this clone stuff? What interview?
>>280365477 (OP)Okay but was this supposed to culminate in something or is it just some gay in universe explanation for animation differences?
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>>280377213It was some your average normie interview, done by NHK apparently, and it seems they've decided to speak on it because they got tired of constantly being bombarded by emails and physical mails (yes, that's a thing in Japan) about "inconsistencies" between prequels and TV show with games and novel/manga art.
"They're all clones that were created in Special and got released into the wild" is actually a completely reasonable explanation for all this shit. It puts Excellent and Special at the very beginning of the timeline (not counting Lina's flashbacks from her home country of Zephyrus), with motion picture and other OVA prequels happening later.
>>280377699Without full context (the fuck happened in Worst/South Kuckrea and the fuck is that "no rice in Japan" shit?), these quotes seem like a monologue that doesn't explain much or anything. Did South Kuckreans tried to cancel her, or something? What the fuck happened? Also, what was that Kyoto bamboo stuff? Whappun? Did nigger monkes broke some bamboo figures or houses in temples, or what?
>>280376117>wojakselection tourists never learn
>tfw I have no idea what these anons are talking about since I'm an animeonly who stopped at the second season
>>280377655>It was some your average normie interview, done by NHK apparentlyWonderful. You will of course be providing a link to the original Japanese interview, given that it exists.
>>280377086we never speak of that trash here in these threads
only in remembrance of its shitty budget animation
>>280377938I think this thread was completely made up as someone's excuse to post his AI images
>>280377994Really? Oh well, so be it then.
>>280370847So you hate her for saying the truth?
>>280377994kind of like how Megumi Hayashibara has been accused of using AI to generate images
>>280375040I was thinking exactly that.
The Lina artwork on the right mogs the first three.
>>280377994Yeah I couldn't find any "recent interview" about any of this shit. At least post some more fat titty Naga while you're lying, OP.
>>280378371A shame she never met with the main party, just Lina.
>>280377938>since I'm an animeonlyExcellent, in which real Lina and Naga met for the first time, is both a novel and an OVA. It is technically the very first in the overall timeline of Slayers, the very beginning of it, if we don't account for Lina's flashbacks in the TV series where she's in her home country and was bullied by her sister Luna into running away (which led to her eventually meeting Naga in Excellent).
Special is next OVA, several episodes, in which Naga and Lina get several near-perfect homunculi (as opposed to golems) clone copies made out of their stolen DNA by a crazy alchemist dude. The experiment goes wrong and cloning machine starts producing Lina's and Naga's copies on a conveyor scale, which they barely manage to stop. Since then, there are at least 11 known near-perfect copies of Naga running around the Kanzakaworld, and at least just as much "shadow cloned" Linas, which were created via fucking around with some magical mirror.
All these clones don't have experiences and memories of their progenitors, but they have some of their magical and physical powers, and retain their behavioral quirks, mannerisms, and thought processes/feelings. For one, most (if not all) of Lina's clones are able to cast just as many spells as real Lina could, including even Dragon Slave. Same with Naga's clones. It's an absolute trainwreck of a total shitshow, starting from there. And real Lina with real Naga just let all of them go.
These exact clones were actually partially the cause of bad rumors that were spreading about Lina across the land, shortly before first season of TV series begins. Even if real Lina wasn't there, her near-perfect copy could've just as much BTFO'd a village or town with Dragon Slave if she felt like doing so. In this particular lieu, her clones were just as dangerous as the original vanilla is.
>>280377971Lost Universe is fine.
You're mistaking with such trainwrecks as Try, Premium, and "Meet Again" AMV clip. THAT was BAD.
>>280378408>shame she never met with the main partyRead the thread, dumbass. Read, nigger, READ!
>>280370847Damn, she sounds pretty based then. What's exactly wrong with Japan wanting to stay Japanese?
>>280377961>WonderfulNo, that's a PSOne exclusive and it's uncanon.
Royal and Royal 2 are canon, however.
This seems to be them pulling something retarded out of their asses to try and salvage any interest in the series after the LN artist was caught selling AI doujins of Slayers artwork, and using AI in general.
>>280379036The fuck are you on about?
First of all, that shit is least retarded shit ever, because it actually explains and fixes a massive discrepancy hole that existed in the franchise for decades.
Secondly, Araizumi BEGAN his career at ComiKet by drawing hentai doujins of different onemoo at the time, specifically so Ranma. And even BEFORE he started doing official arts for Kanzaka's novels in Dragon Magazine, he already did several hentai sketches of Lina, before her official looks were even revealed. More than so, Kanzaka continued doing Ranma, Sailor Moon, Evangelion, and Slayers porn even AFTER he already obtained official job as main Slayers artist for Kanzaka. And he STILL continues on doing doujins even today, as proven by
>>280376347 picrel, though porn was mostly dropped from those by now and it's just ecchi stuff. Where the fuck that "Araizumi did AI art" shit came from?
What the fuck is even going on in this thread.
>>280379153>It's just 280$, /a/non. Come on. You know you want to.
>>280365477 (OP)That was the plot of the SNES game and one of the OVAs already. This is hardly a Dumbledore was always gay asspull.
>>280379183What a slop. Whoever scanned it that badly should be kicked in the balls repeatedly for 2 minutes straight.
>>280365979>>280370847I will now watch your anime
>>280374488Good thing Iโm chinese
>>280379254Read, nigger, READ!
>>280379316Reading comprehension, learn it, retard.
>That was the plot of the SNES gameIt wasn't, learn to read before opening your shithole of a mouth.
>and one of the OVAFucking READ, you NIGGER!
>>280379233It just reeks of desperation, especially as others have said ITT, we only have their word for it. Doujin =/= porn book either, retarded ESLbro.
Araizumi has been using AI for a while now too, it's not a secret at all. It caused a bit more of a stink on Jap social media, but the series really doesn't have almost any public interest in it at all anymore, so coming out with a ebin wacky tweeeest is multipurpose. Helps distract from the LN artist being an AIfaggot and also tries to reignite some interest in the series again by going "Heh, all that shit you just read and watch for decades? Not canon ;)))))".
To put it briefly: it's seems really gay and desperate.
>>280365477 (OP)>Art variations are all foreshadowing something I refused to publish for over 40 years.Sounds like bullshit.
Produce ancient files that can only be opened by obsolete word processors or it didn't happen.
>>280377994Schizophrenia mostly, plus
>>280379254
>>280379329You're in for a helluva ride, if you never did before, then.
>>280379369>Doujin =/= pornDoujins are literally predominantly hentai, you dumb fuck.
Just because some doujins might be fanfic SFW shit, doesn't mean the word itself is not synonymous with porn, because that's what it was initially. For fuck's sake, we have prime example of this in form of entire fucking Nasuverse.
>ESLBitch I became N2 at ่ฝๅ่ฉฆ้จ in 2005, when you haven't even been born yet. And in 2018 I bought myself real estate (full-sized house with premises, not just some apartment flat) in ็ทด้ฆฌๅบ, obtaining full ๆฅๆฌ citizenship in 2020. Fuck off in with your bullshit.
>no link or any source on this supposed interview provided thus farYeeep
>>280379432 this anon is right on the mark, though it seems he got his quotes reversed.
>>280379369>Araizumi has been using AIShow direct proofs, faggot, or go and kys yourself.
>for a while nowAI became barely feasible in just last 14~16 months, it was absolutely unusable dogshit before that. Again, provide direct indisputable and irrefutable proofs, or slit your wrists.
>>280379374>something I refused to publish for over 40 yearsThe fuck are you on about? Learn to fucking read, for fuck's sake.
>>280379504They're known for it, but doujin is still =/= porn book, retarded ESLbro. And you're wrong, doujinshi were not porn initially.
Embarrassing.
>N2That doesn't disqualify you from being ESL, retard.
>>280379553It's been discussed at length before on the board. He's even gone so far to try and "disprove" that he uses AI by... posting one singular screenshot of photoshop of an outline of one of the images people called out as AI, which could easily be faked/dishonest, unlike a timelapse which would have proven it wasn't.
Don't worry though, I'm sure artists that draw the same character for nearly 40 years now just forget the ahoge, make the clothing blend into the skin, and forget appendages like feet in picrel.
Oh wait, they don't, ever.
>>280365477 (OP)So what am I supposed to watch and read to get into Slayers.
Which was the OVA or movie where there was Lina clone with big boobs, some green haired dude, and Naga, and all three of them were wearing Naga's skimpy nonclothing? The green haired dude looked like a straight up tranny drag queen faggot, in that.
>>280379327Yeah the see-through is pretty bad, maybe it's because of the printing material?
>>280379553>>280379663Oh yeah, and this is of course conveniently ignoring that he was dabbling with it back in 2022 and singing its praises
https://x.com/araizumirui/status/1600838917150113792
>>280379663The fuck are you even smoking? There's nothing wrong with that art, outside of the fact it doesn't use same style as Araizumi was doing usually. It was probably just a one-time take, he tried something different and it didn't fly, so he returned back to his usual post-Revo approach as shown in
>>280375437 (which a doujin) and
>>280374575 (which is official novel cover).
>>280379910>nothing wrong with that artI'm sorry you're blind/dishonest, but the frills are inconsistent and smear together all over the place. She has frills on her right shoe soles and is completely missing her left foot. This is of course ignoring the shiny rubber look to the clothing and skin that AI is notorious for.
There's also another one he genned of Lina without her signature 3 point ahoge, which he has never failed to detail correctly for nearly 40 years now. He's definitely genning and then touching up the typical telltale spots to hide it.
>>280374788why is lina in inferior art lol?
Lina taught me at a young age that bratty girls being punished and humiliated is the best
>>280374788>>280374817>Lina is the only character here that stands outGrim
>>280378468My brain exploded, but overall thank you for this info
>>280379669Novella was the very first Slayers content, started in 1989. It's still ongoing and to date 17 volumes were made, with a 20 years-long hiatus from 2000 to 2018 and from volume 15 to volume 16 respectively. By this time, all 17 volumes were fully remastered in high quality and fully translated by professionals, and released digitally.
Prequel movies and OVA technically all start before the actual Slayers novel and animated TV series, despite some of those movies and OVA being made and released after the first TV season's run. Prequels were also released in novel form first, before they were made into animated adaptations. Slayers Next is the second TV show season. Both the first season and Next technically directly cover first 8 novellas out of 15 made by 2000. Novels from 9 to 15 were NEVER made into anime or games, though they were transferred into manga form (and that manga was translated). It is known as "Aqualord" arc, or "Knight of Aqualord". The reason why Aqualord arc was never adapted to anime, is because Slayers Try came out before Aqualord finished, it was Dragon Ball GT'esque equivalent of a complete fanfic, which didn't have anything to do with novels or any other official Slayers content, it was not endorsed by Kanzaka. It BOMBED hard, totally flopped, incurring massive reputational and financial losses on TV Tokyo. Thus, there was simply no funding for Aqualord.
After that disastrous trainwreck of a total failure, it took them nearly 9 years to "recover" from the damage dealt to the brand, after which they made Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R, which was a single 26 episode season that was cut into two parts, due to execs' retardation. It was much better than whatever the fuck Try was, but the problem with it was that it was an uncanon fanfic as well.
>>280379669If you wish to do everything in a perfectly chronological order, then you should start with Slayers Excellent, then move to Slayers Special, then ANY of the movies (minus Premium, ignore it until after finishing Next. Premium is an inane anal circus shitshow anyway and is NOT required at all, despite it supposedly being canon as well) and other OVA in ANY order (it won't matter after you already did Special, since prequel movies and other OVA are not connected chronologically, only Excellent and Special are), then do first TV season, then Slayers Royal game (if able to), then Slayers Next, then Royal 2 game (if able to). After finishing Royal 2 (if able to), go read novels 9 to 15 (since first two TV seasons already covered novels 1 to 8, with Royal games being canon as well), then move to the new fresh currently ongoing arc that started 18 years later with novel 16 (there are currently two, 16 and 17). Then wait for 18 to drop and get translated in the future (if you don't know the language, that is).
So, to sum it up, the current official canon timeline goes as this:
Slayers Excellent => Slayers Special => Slayers prequel movies and other OVA in any order => Slayers TV => Slayers Royal (Sega Saturn or Sn0y PlayStation, PSOne is preferable because Saturn's vanilla version has worse quality of sound and framerate, and couple bugs that PSOne doesn't have) => Slayers Next => Slayers Royal 2 => Slayers Novels 9 ~ 15: Aqualord arc in manga form (or raw novels, whatever suits you more) => Slayers Novels 16 ~ 17: currently ongoing arc.
9001% uncanon shit:
Video games - Slayers PC-98, THE Slayers Super Famicom, Slayers Wonderful (PSOne exclusive).
Anime - Slayers Try, Revolution & Evolution-R.
Audio Doramas - Slayers VS Orphen (crossover).
Premium is considered canon, but it's such utterly inane shitshow that you won't lose on anything whatsoever, if you ignore or skip it altogether.
>>280379764I definitely saw that pic/page before, the scan was lower res, but didn't have that shit, so it's definitely a fuck up on the side of whoever scanned that particular one.
>>280380380AH I see thanks this is much more straight forward then I thought it would be
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>>280379779>twatter/bluecry/fecesgook/instawhore/telefag/disturd/tumblr/plebbit linksPost direct receipts and screencaps, or fuck off.
>>280377699Sounds not only perfectly reasonable, but also correct.
>>280379982Now THAT is what I call AI generated, alright.
>>280380927It's Araizumi's twitter where he was literally posting himself playing around with AI years ago, retardfag.
You lost.
>>280379663>>280380067Bitch it literally has ahoge in both of those arts. Are you fucking blind? It might be not as big or pronounced, but it's still there.
>>280381055>still retarded>still fucked over by his ESL reading comprehensionAnon, you don't just forget how to draw/detail a character's ahoge that you've drawn correctly 999999999/1000000000 times. You don't just add frills to the sole of one shoe, that shouldn't be there. You don't just "forget" to draw a foot and draw a stump leg. And again, this is ignoring the fact it has that shiny rubber look that AI is known for.
Try again.
>>280380162She's the one who punishes and humiliates literally everyone around here, though.
The only things in the entire universe that can "punish" and "humiliate" her instead, are slugs and Luna. Even her LoN summon form wouldn't been able to sustain that psychological and physical damage.
>>280380797The Mantou stuff kept coming up and thats what was confusing me the most but This makes the canon and non canon stuff easier
>>280380207>Eris Vrumugun>decent-looking half-punk rock half-goth chick, wears Naga-style shoulder spikes and cape>literally all of her clones are mid-looking dudes (huh?) that act like Rei Ayanami on adderall>one of the clones actually managed to surpass others in intellect and self-awareness, apparently a good goy nowWhat in the actual fuck did they mean by this?
>>280365477 (OP)>All of them are near-perfect homunculi clones of Lina and GraciaThis is some Zach Hadel shit.
>>280367178>OP still needs to post the source though.There isn't one. OP completely made this up.
>>280367178There isn't a source, as another anon said it's just schizophrenic ramblings to justify him spamming his AI folder.
>>280365477 (OP)sounds like bullshit.
>>280365477 (OP)This..... would explain more things than it breaks.
>>280380877It's sure as fuck not Nasuverseshit of Megami Tensei buttfuckery, that's for sure.
Still requires a bit of fiddling around due to the fact that you literally have to make a hard-stop after Next and Royal 2, and go read novels 9 ~ 15 or their manga adaptation, completely ignoring the whole entirety of Try altogether, as well as any video games other than Royal duology, then move to novels 16 and further, ignoring whatever the fuck was happening in Revolution and Evolution-R. It's kind of a mess still, but, yeah, it's definitely not so downright fucked as whatever the fuck Nasuverse and MegaTen franchises force you to deal with.
That being said, despite Slayers PC-98 and Super Famicom's "THE Slayers" (BOTH games came out in the same year with just a couple months difference, and they're NOT same game, they are completely different experiences, with SF's release being the latter out of the two, so they had to differentiate by making the "THE" distinction in the title), they are NOT bad games at all, in their own right.
Slayers Wonderful is also a somewhat decent experience, though a bit stubby and weaksauce, do the team that worked on it having zero-to-none previous experience of dealing with 3D battle engines (it's like Thousand Arms on the field, and a badly implemented clone of Final Fantasy VII in battles).
Both Royal and Royal 2, on the other hand, are a mixture of point & click Visual Novels and several mini-games on the field, and a Tactical J-RPG during battles. Royal games are notoriously famous for the fact they have DESTRUCTIBILITY of environments on the battle maps. You can literally cast a Dragon Slave and BTFO the fuck out of buildings/forests/mountains, etc., with aftermath of it all being directly rendered on screen (scorched earth, craters, etc).
Aside from that, Lina and Naga also appeared as playable characters in DoTA (famous for it), Magical Battle Arena, and several other games (mostly Japanese gachashit of differing quality).
>>280381007Show receipts with screencaps, or fuck off. Simple as.
>>280381304Yagami Dai (Chuuka Mantou, he's clearly immigrant chink in Japan, because "chuuka" literally means both a "seaweed salad" in Chinese-style, and a slang term for Chinese-immigrant-in-Japan) worked in collaboration with Araizumi Rui quite a bit back in the days when Araizumi was doing hentai doujins of popular anime shit left and right, including Slayers WHILE he was already working officially for Kanzaka and TV Tokyo. They're still collaborating and are friends even nowadays, though Araizumi wasn't doing any straight up porn for a while (definitely not in the last 10-or-so years). He was mainly only doing doujins with ecchi of Slayers characters and a couple re-releases of his very early pornographic hentai sketches of Ranma and Lina, Amelia, several other chars, from the early-to-mid 90's.
It's actually quite a bizarre feeling, to look at official normal Lina Inverse and other Slayers characters' art on one side, and then see straight up pornographic smut of her and others drawn in exactly same style by the same dude, on the other. It becomes especially unsettling when you realize the FACT that some of those were done essentially in parallel, roughly at the same time, so Araizumi was releasing official art for Dragon Magazine, manga, and doing TV series/movie/OVA Slayers cells in the day, and was drawing Slayers porn in the night and pushing it at ComiKet, sometimes even BOTH being set up on the same stand/lying on the same table in front of him.
>>280365477 (OP)>>280366213This reads like one person talking, not two. And why would the voice actor be the the one to talk about this? She had nothing to do with the writing or planning of the series.
>>280380380Knight of Aqualord is actually a completely original story. Volumes 9 through 15 has Lina fight Dynast and Sherra in the subcontinent, while the Aqualord manga has her leave.
>>280381697>he thinks it's an exaggeration...well, now (prepare Uranus):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFHOnJUs_U
>>280382232It literally doesn't break anything, other than just stuck-up idiots' (such as
>>280381779,
>>280381913,
>>280382101 and
>>280382187) butthurt reality-denying self-lying asses. They're literally being mind and buck broken in real time and you love to see it.
>>280382621>like one person talkingBlame that on the translator, not OP. The text was copy-pasted from the translator, so it's their problem if it looks like that. Besides, it was pointed out that the translation is literal, direct, so judging by things that were said, both persons were in the same room and they both knew all the details, so they were going back and forth in a "I take it from here" fashion.
>>280382934Nobody's saying it doesn't make sense. We're saying the interview OP is referring to doesn't exist.
>>280382621>She had nothing to do with the writing or planning of the seriesYou are gravely mistaken when it comes down to Megumi Hayashibara. She is not just a mere VA or seiyuu. Lina Inverse is literally her avatar, so she thoroughly and directly always supervises the entire creation process, at almost all stages of it.
They allow her to make animation and art style decisions and provide feedback that gets directly translated into the final work, to a certain extent, so that her VA work matches Lina's animation and looks perfectly. This even comes down to style of clothing or accessories Lina is wearing. Many of those were directly influenced and approved by Hayashibara, before they've seen the light of day in the final product.
When couple of Next's episodes (the necromancer maniac arc) were outsourced to other animators and artists (probably due to Araizumi's temporary sickness or something else), she was furious, and boy oh boy does it show. Those two or three episodes looked extremely jarring and out of place, with bizarre art style of characters and subpar animations.
>>280382643>nyaazi cartel>release orderKys.
>>280383170Megumi Hayashibara must be such a brat irl then hotโฆ
>>280382669Both are technically correct, due to Maximum Clonage.
>>280382345>the artist literally using it and posting results on his verified social media doesn't countRetard.
>>280365477 (OP)I fucking hate that it makes sense.
>>280382934Source, retard. So far you're just spitballing fanfic, and gullible normalfaggot tourists are eating it up.
>>280382999Sure, sweaty.
Whatever makes you feel better about yourself and lets you sleep more calmly at night.
>>280365477 (OP)>They are not same characters. Lina and Naga in movies and most OVA are homunculi clones of those two characterThis so fucking retarded.
>>280383320Why are you getting pissed off at me for? I'm literally agreeing with you that it's a good theory. And no one in the thread has said the opposite.
Itโs not that I like Naga less as time goes on itโs that I like Lina more as time goes on
>>280383219>Megumi Hayashibara must be such a brat irl...anon...well...she literally taught Inoue Kikuko (her long-time friend and peer) how to act and compose herself.
>>280383221Post screencaps, you faggot. I ain't clicking your retarded links.
>>280383370Because, knowing the actual canon of the timeline, watching or consuming any Slayers content in release order is the most dumbest thing anyone could ever do. You are literally shooting yourself in the foot with Dynast Brass.
>>280383170Okay, I'll rephrase it. Why would someone who's only meaningly input to the series has been how the character she voices look like be answering lore questions?
>>280383788>you need to spoonfeed me even moreYou're so mad and retarded. I already entertained your bad faith faggotry more than enough, already posted pics too. Cry more shitposter and bootlicker, Araizumi Rui uses AI.
>>280383768She can be the bratty daughter or the completely in control of everything mom amazing
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>>280383564Yeah...well...about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwCqO--7IeM
>>280383649>theoryIt was literally said by original creator and main heroine's IRL avatar actress, ffs. It's solidified in granite stone.
>>280384100Still no proof it was ever said by either of them. No links to any interview whatsoever.
I sure miss when headcanon fags had their threads deleted.
>>280384100Then surely you can post where or even when it was said?
I-No
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>>280383940>completely in control of everything mom...anon...you clearly don't know WHO Kikuko was in the last couple decades...let me refresh your memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JvmS5uSQgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9iudq6s8Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaeMEPgVbR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ9AVrpM9s
>>280384422I donโt see how thatโs not basically what I said
>>280365477 (OP)Apparently you can just say things 30 years after the fact
>>280383940She's a certified nurse with a license and worked as a DJ and VJ at a radio station for several years, before she got her first minor roles for Maison Ikkoku. Then she got female Ranma role. Unstoppable from thereon out. Megumi Hayashibara is not just a mere top tier seiyuu. She is literal ETERNAL EMPRESS of any and all seiyuus, in the entire industry of global VA. And Kikuko, thanks to her training and drilling by Megumi, became Queen of all seiyuus.
These two bitches are literally gatekeeping the first two places (third is Kotono Mitsuishi, fourth Emi Shinohara, fifth Aya Hisakawa - all OG BSSM chicks), never to be dethroned or displaced by anyone, right until their graves and then some (will stay popular and on the top even after their deaths, for a while).
MH is creamiest of the crops, the absolute top of mount Olympus, when it comes down to VA and seiyuu work. She's always top billed, always highest paid, always highly sought for and always wanted by everyone. She's THE hottest bitch around, alright. And been so for nearly four decades by now.
And then we have Kikuko Inoue, after which the entire friggin' character of I-no was named and directly modeled specifically to her mannerisms and acting (with costumes being pulled from Shiina Ringo's attire in her prime days). Just as Lina Inverse IS Megumi and Megumi IS Lina, so is Kikuko actually I-No, and I-No is Kikuko (which is HILARIOUS, when you find out about her real name in the Guilty Gear franchise's story). They are avatars of each-other, channeling back-to-back straight up. Kikuko became I-No in 2002, so 23 years straight by now, not as long of a record run as Megumi's Lina, but nevertheless. These bitches ARE hottest stuff around, they WILL fuck you up.
>>280384564My point was that it was Megumi, who turned Kikuko into I-No. Straight up. It was her teachings which initially turned Inoue from "eternal 17yo girl" and "lovely homely mom material" into Ihadurca Il Imella first, then "finalized" her into I-No. There is no coming back from this, now. It is done. Megumi claimed another one.
>>280365477 (OP)Dubs ain't enough:
Give sauce now!
AWTSW
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>>280385077Hey now, calm down and check 'em.
>>280382934...We know it's fake due to lack of sauce.
We're not saying that it's trash; just that it's false.
>>280385017I donโt know how I feel about this itโs evil being forced to pick between JK forever and Milfโฆ
>>280385275It's neither trash nor false. Also, if it's not trash, it automatically can't be false by the very definition of it.
Tryslop and Revo never happened. Let it go.
>>280385736Yeah as in like school girl forever 17 as you put it
What's the source on this, the voices in your head?
>>280383940Don't forget the walking blue-haired vegetable.
>>280385744What does JK stand for?
>>280385812joshi kousei It means high school girl or JK for short, middle school is JC, JD is college and JS is elementary.
>>280384100Oops, my bad. I forgot to post the last part of the interview.
>Megumi:>Of course, none of that is actually true. (laughs)>Kanzaka:>(laughs) Yes, it's an interesting theory, and it's impressive how well it fits into everything, but the real reason Lina has bigger breasts in the movies and OVAs is because that's what the director preferred.
>>280384941Itโs interesting how many actor types always push themselves to do more stuff. Itโs like yeah Iโm a voice actor Iโm also a singer, play 2 instruments, can dance, and be a host.
fag OP behavior for the entire thread is breaking rule 3 but it's allowed as brown ai spammers are protected on /a/
>>280385984.....where's the fucking sauce you faggot!
>I made it up
and that's a sage and report
>OG Ranma:
>Hayashibara is female Ranma (literal bratty bimbo whore)
>Kikuko Inoue is Kasumi (trad and orthodox waifu material)
>Minami Takayama is Nabiki (greedy conniving extortionist scammer)
>Noriko Hidaka is Akane (bisexual tomboy dyke with severe anger management issues)
>a decade later:
>Kikuko Inoue is a twisted aggressive overpowered promiscuous masochistic genocidal witch bitch
>Hayashibara is a psycho midget flatchest minmax magician that LARPs as a blue-haired vegetable
>Takayama is a lovely trad waifu
>Hidaka is a bratty tomboy still
Whatever did they mean by this?
>>280386193Hey, if you can, you can.
Megumi is a singer first and VA second.
Her DJ'ing and VJ'ing upbringing is pointing at this.
She had musical talent way before she started voicing.
>so many fucking dopes replying to the retarded Hayashibara bait
I really want the people who REPLY to bait to be permabanned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64KccOLyFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_imimZvyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-m-5gsV1w0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5LKUUYj4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUq24b4To-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHB19hYuTCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ2MumFV3SI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KcdKIAYHa0
>>280386568Why are you talking about yourself in third face form?
Could anyone confirm when does Naga appear?
When I was a teen I remember watching Slayers on TV. There's a chapter where Lina loses her powers due to her period and I'm 90% sure Naga jokes about it. At any rate, Naga was around.
Decades after those days, I'm trying to find what season that was and rewatch it in order, but I'm reading Naga doesn't appear in the TV series until 2008? The fuck? This was pre-2002 for sure. The aggregators and google is failing me.
>>280365477 (OP)>>280366213Be real, anon: this is just some shit churned out by chatgbt
>>280377864>these quotes seem likeSince you DO LACK THE CONTEXT, your opinions on what they "seem like" are irrelevant. You're not a Japanese resident and the post wasn't written in english for you, so what business is it of yours?
>Did South Kuckreans tried to cancel her, or something? What the fuck happened?You're not Japanese, so what business is it of yours?
>Also, what was that Kyoto bamboo stuff? Whappun? Did nigger monkes broke some bamboo figures or houses in temples, or what?You're not Japanese, so what business is it of yours?
"Everyone wanna be a nigga but no one wanna be a nigga". So many suburban retards constantly spouting "JAPAN SHOULD BE FOR JAPANESE, I AM LE HOLY GATEKEEPER OF JAPAN (EVEN THO THEY DIDN'T ASK)" but then constantly demand to know what's going on Japan and how they should politically spin and shill it.
If you don't live *here* in Japan and aren't culturally invested in this country, kindly fuck off.
>>280386634Naga/Gracia was never in TV series, aside from a sub-1 second joke "cameo" (which was just an >implying, not real reveal) in the first season, and a couple "nudges" in Next and uncanon Revo/Evo. The "closest" we ever got to having her in a TV, would be "Nama" cursed armor, but THAT shit was uncanon and technically might not even be real one, but a mere one-of-the-clones.
Either way, Gracia is mostly a movie and OVA locked character. She was in Premium, which was technically "extra TV episode" due to it's inanity and short length, but she was BTFO'd out of the screen nearly immediately as she appeared.
The running joke/gag is that she never ever appears in same shot or same party with Amelia, her sister. Despite this, this "rule" is violated in 1994's Slayers games (where you can build parties with both Naga and Amelia in), and further so in both Royal games (where Naga is officially canonically being in the party for the first time ever, because 1994's games are uncanon, but Royal and Royal 2 are). I don't remember if she can be in the same party in Wonderful, but that one is PSOne exclusive and is completely uncanon.
>>280386634>Could anyone confirm when does Naga appear?Naga is majorly a prequel, novel, and video game canon character. Lina meets her in Excellent after running away from home, then they travel for short while, get cloned and copied the fuck out of in Special, all of their clones and copies run away and get dispersed roaming all over the land, real Lina and real Naga part ways shortly after that, with the prequel movies and all other OVA taking place after that, where it's all clones from thereon out.
Real Lina Inverse only returns in first TV season after that, and real Naga appears only in the first Royal game, after that. First Royal takes place after first season of TV, but before Next. Then Next is on and Naga is not around anymore again, then Royal 2 takes place after Next and real Naga returns in it PLUS several of "Special" clones make an appearance as well, and ALSO Gourry gets cloned too. It's a mess, but all canon. Try and Revo/Evo are uncanon. Premium is considered canon, but it's a total shitshow.
>>280377699I'm a lefty and I agree with this.
>>280386785Naruhodo. Thanks for the explanation. I must be misremembering because they never showed OVAs or the movies AFAIK.
I managed to find the menstruation thing appeared during the first season (E04) and there's no other female character in that episode.
Maybe my childish brain saw Naga in some poster or magazine and mistook her for Sylphiel somehow.
>>280386955To easily understand on what principle and scale the whole shtick with Naga/Gracia operates, look no further than the infamous buttfuckery that is the entire Schrodinger's state of Rebecca Chambers in the BIOHAZARD/Resident Evil franchise. She's technically there, technically sometimes might get a bit of screen time, but, otherwise, pretty much nonexistent in the grander "mainline" scheme of things, past the very first entry in the franchise. If this finally gets overturned in the upcoming Re9uiem, I will be immensely shocked.
>>280386941You're a lefty, but are you a leftie?
Lie down and lick her soles for all eternity, bitches. You know you want to. You can't escape, it's inevitable.
>>280372206>no one is enforcing multiculturalism anywhereThis is the wrongest thing I have ever heard
You are either retarded or intentionally lying
>>280387483>or"or"? Really?
>>280371911Why are you writing like trump?
>>280387801The what now? Go back to your /pol/turd shithole, or whichever plebbitor resetarded hole you crawled out.
>>280377938How can you stop at the 2nd season? That's when the anime got good for me.
>>280385688I don't understand the hate for try.
>>280387838https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYY9_k8zl74
What I want is a series with Lina adventuring with Xellos and Naga and all three trying to kill each other every episode. Could be fun.
Gourry, Zel and Amelia are just baggage at this stage.
>>280388015It's bad, unfunny, trite and way too tryhard, drops the ball massively after half-way through (last 8 episodes suck donkey diarrhea balls and the "ending" is absolute dogshit outright), it's nonsensical, self-contradicting, badly drawn and improperly colored (oversaturated all over), cheaply and lamely animated, the logo design sucks ass, music is lame and forgettable, and most important of all - it's an uncanon fanfic, literal GT of Slayers franchise. It is shit. Dung. Manure. And it bombed, failed hard, deservedly so.
>>280388078LIES.
NOOOOOOOO.
>>280388179Dude, Xellos is not even a futa or trans, ffs. It's literally just a dude in drag with cotton balls in place of tits. It's one thing he was feminine any or was on HRT, but it's straight up just a dude for a couple moments. Otherwise, it is completely A MAN, MA'AN. Thus, you're GAY! WHOAAAAA, BUDDY!
>>280388134Xellos is a ourgoy (somewhat) since after shota was BTFO'd, so, nah.
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>>280388161nah
It has the best Xellos moments and also has Filia.
It's not as good as the 2nd season though.
I can't remember much though.
>>280388329>has FiliaLiterally uncanon, never happened, and never appeared anywhere ever again. It's over. Let it go.
But I guess if you don't like dragons or trickster crossdressing homos, I can see the hate for try.
Especially if your name is Lina.
>>280388359>Watching Slayers for the plot
>>280366213>Essentially, the Lina clone you see in the Perfect movie, is how real Lina Inverse would look in the futureAIEEEEEE
YAMETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>280381145>Anon, you don't just forget how to draw/detail a character's ahoge that you've drawn correctly 999999999/1000000000 timesHe didn't. It's there. You can see it in the very image you posted.
>>280379669The best is reading LN but you can start watching THE first 3 seasons then OVAs anytime.
>>280388398If it'd wasn't for the plot, shit would've never lasted more than two or three novels tops. People definitely care. And I've been reading that shit since 1989, when it just released in it's original first-print untranslated form, I was directly witnessing and observing with own eyes how Slayers was born and how it was growing, so I can definitely speak on it.
>>280388454Please kys, or GTFO.
Reminder, Xellos isn't technically male or anything... it's a trick.
>>280388536It's a dude. A man.
Stop being gay.
>>280388492I have heard novel fags screech autistically about the plot for a long time.
I came for the PLOT though.
Though really it's just a more engaging Gintama without all of the lolrandom shit that Gintama does.
There is pretty significant lore there though. It was good, but it wasn't THAT important to me.
>>280388563But it's a secret, anon.
Like his saturday nights at the docks in drag.
>>280388605>it's just a more engaging GintamaGintama didn't exist back then and for a long time, imbecile. For fuck's sake, you zooming toddlers are insufferable braindead cunts.
>>280388635Being lusting gay for Xellos is directly equivalent being lusting gay for Gourry and Xellos in drag.
You're gay. Gay, buddy. Look here
>>280375437. If you're getting aroused by this in any capacity, even if just 1%, then you're 9001% GAY! WHOAAAA, BUDDY!
>for Gourry and Zelgadis in drag
fix
>>280388750Gourry is also my wife. Zel too.
>>280388886At least you're openly admitting that you're a faggot.
Never have I lusted over so many female and male cast members in the same show.
/a/ would probably hate it if it came out today.
>>280388920But they're my wives anon.
Therefore it is not gay. That's the law.
End of discussion.
But why is Xellos so lust provoking?
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Sometimes, though, I wonder if Luna was really Xelloss the whole time.
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Seriously the resemblance is a bit uncanny.
>Luna is more or less equal in power to, if perhaps somewhat stronger than Xelloss
The source is goneski.
It would be funny if Xellos was just Luna the whole time.
>>280389301That is not Luna. It is a literal red herring, a misleading fake. It was confirmed years age that it was done intentionally for trolling purposes. I can't believe there are still faggots out there which fall to this bait.
Wait a second... Xellos isn't Lina and Luna's dad or something?
That could explain why Luna is somehow stronger than him and looks like him.
Oh you cheeky motherfuckers, that's the secret isn't it?
>explains why Kanzaka is a bit hesitant putting her with the rest of the cast, if she's him or his daughter or something
He also said that Xelloss's overuse in the story could make things grimdark... is this what he meant?
Because that's kinda fucked.
>>280389410>It was confirmed years age that it was done intentionally for trolling purposes.Isn't it in the opening of one of the seasons?
There are a few depictions of her, but I wouldn't be shocked if it's just Xellos.
>maybe he killed her sister and replaced her for a whileOoh, that could be nasty.
Maybe there does need to be a concluding season.
>>280389544It's literally just a random waitress.
>>280385688TRY is done so well that many fans consider TRY as semi-canonical. It was the last masterpiece of the Slayers anime, followed by misfortune thereafter.
>>280365979You're not but a slave for the jews.
>inb4 kill fascistsTry it, bitch. I'll make you taste lead. Leftoids cant even shoot
Maybe the homunculi shit is onto something...
I do need some sauce though.
>>280389556Who knows ay? They never ever feed us any clues and that's always frustrated me with Slayers.
It just goes on forever when there's serious questions that needed answering. So you just end up not taking the story as seriously.
Damn shame. It could still have potential as a plot and not merely as a PLOT.
>>280365979I'd fuck a fascist cougar.
>>280389572Revolution is not terrible. It's just sorta blah though.
>>280389502>He also said that Xelloss's overuse in the story could make things grimdark... is this what he meant?He's a demon. Demons in DnD world are evil alignment, the more you have them the worse things get. Pretty simple stuff.
>>280389817I don't think that's what he meant though.
I think something else is going on with him because why else would he stalk Lina all the time from a distance?
I always thought he would be the real final boss of the anime... though that never really eventuated.
He's sus as fuck.
I don't think he's a mere Happy Mask Salesman.
>Slayers thread over 300 replies
Haven't seen it in years. I have grown up with this Millennial's Frieren and love it although Hayashibara is being wacky lately, End Time bandwagoners are okay if only their stand is flawless and authentic. Sadly, Sushio and the two Megumis (Ogata) are not such a case.
It is kinda funny how Slayers did the whole meta demon shit well before people knew it was much of a thing (hell it took CSM recently for many people on /a/ to see structural personifications at all in manga, that's how dumb anime fans are kek).
>>280390002>>280390028Damn that is spooky. Fucking french hivemind.
>>280390002>I have grown up with this Millennial's Frieren and love it although Hayashibara is being wacky lately>End Time bandwagoners are okay if only their stand is flawless and authentic. Sadly, Sushio and the two Megumis (Ogata) are not such a case.The fuck am I reading?
Is this even English?
>>280390002>>Slayers thread over 300 repliesYoure welcome
https://web.archive.org/web/20161102044419/http://homepage3.nifty.com/QPHOUSE/slrev/blast12.html
Kinda sucks how enthusiastic the fanbase used to be before Revolution and how little of it is still online with all the interviews and shit.
Such a different generation of audience, gen Xers probably pushing 50/60 now.
>>280390229Her frim butt is her greatest weapon against all the older women. People always talk about boob sag but women's butts sag way before their tits do
I hope that Lina and Gourry fuck and have terrifyingly powerful children.
>>280390259Luckily, male butts don't. Take Xellos' old man butt for example.
>>280390331That is the worst case scenario for all of humanity.
>voluptuous lina
I have never seen any media that ever depicted her as voluptuous
Is OP 20, just learning about slayers, and can't understand why different animation studios have different looks to them?
>>280365477 (OP)THIS MEANS THE SNES GAME IS CANON
MULTIPLE LINAS CONFIRMED
ALL OF THEM CASTING DRAGON SLAVE
>>280365477 (OP)It's a pretty obvious joke, based on the fact that OVAs and movies don't sit well together with the TV show. Lina in the former is generally more mature than in the latter, and closer to her book counterpart. Her design also changed rather drastically, because the animation budget was night and day between the two versions, with the OVA version again being closer to the book original.
>>280390459Depends on your definition.
One thing Anime has done is made flat extra, extra flat, and voluptuous mean absolute titty monsters that make Naga look modest by comparison. In that climate, Lina could be seen as busty.
>>280367178>>280379316That SNES game is so good. Especially how 'Lina' picks up all the party members she's ever met and every one of them say that 'Lina' is acting way too nice to everybody.
>>280390577I forgot that was a thing.
>>280390601Not sure if AI.
>>280390539I want multiple Linas to be real only so every person she's paired with in official art gets a Lina.
>>280390653That's official art from the Slayers DX guidebook, released in 1995
Why I don't understand is why the series just went dead quiet after 2000, aside from revolution.
There's been nothing since then.
>>280390705>Why I don't understand is why the series just went dead quiet after 2000, aside from revolution.Oh yeah, yup.
Absolutely nothing after that.
That's weird haha
>>280390700Why is it giving me the same look where her vag is?
>>280390653It's obviously not, millennial.
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>>280390717Nothing indecent, just a puffy vulva.
Rui seems to agree in all the art, Lina Inverse = puffy vulva
>>280389502>Wait a second... Xellos isn't Lina and Luna's dad or something?Nahh Xellos is the DM
>>280390539Oh and speaking of every person she's ever been paired with in official art.
>>280391050Kissing and grabbing each others boobs is just Tuesday for girls.
>>280365477 (OP)Post link or it's bullshit.
>>280391891Sailor uniforms make everyone look great
>>280369097I also saw the Bastard!! and Yaiba reboots, so it's a give and take.
>>280373327That's just like, your opinion, man.
>>280391951Those two fill me with hope or show me what could be of the world was less lame
>OP by Megumi Hayashibara
>>280392167That's literally only Sakura Saku. She is usually great.
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>>280392167Say that again
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QsUieGWpQxs
>>280365477 (OP)all fake and gay
everyone knows instead of Lina, it was Luna Inverse pretending to be her all along
>>280369097it was mostly fine and Ranma 1/2 is litterally my favorite anime/manga?
There are things i`d improve, but overall first season suffered only from pacing, since adapted weakest manga chapters. It all gets better with Shampoo and Ukyo
>>2803895720/10, you must tryhard way more than just that.
>>280389667>They never ever feed us any cluesIt's literally just a random waitress, as was shown in Try. Despite Try not being canon, it's still what it is. They also tryed to pull that shit again in Revo/Evo, where one of the chars is a Luna-cosplaying fakeout maid too.
>>280393039It's the consensus of Japan and others. The latest 2 seasons were just disastrous and never recovered.
>>280389744Revolution is fine, tolerable at worst. They dropped the ball hard in Evolution-R, however. It's nearly just as bad as Try. Thank fucking god it's all uncanon fanfic shit, otherwise I would've had flipped the fuck out back when I saw that shit for the first time as it just came out.
If first TV season is a solid 9/10 right until about the last two episodes (they rushed the fuck out of that shit at the very end, unfortunately), Next is a 10/10 throughout (even WITH accounting of those fugly-ass two or three episodes were they suddenly outsourced drawing and animations to some third party monke niggers temporarily, due to unknown reasons, but most feasible explanation would be that Araizumi got ill and couldn't handle it), and Try is a 2/10 at it's "best", Revo is around a ~7'ish, and Evo is a definite 3 on a verge of falling into 2.
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>>280390028First anime adaptation of Megami Tensei (which was also based on original Nishitani's book and not fAtlus' gaym, BTW. And very first game was NOT fAtlus', but Telenet Japan's, and it's not even an RPG) was in 1987, kiddo. Two years before Slayers. And the vanilla book was even earlier, in 1986.
>>280365477 (OP)>Megumi HayashibaraI've been watching pokemon and she is incredible. Honestly carries the show
>>280373461Flat is justice. If fascists are flat, then fascism is justice.
>>280390156>how enthusiastic the fanbase used to be before Revolution>get fed garbage DBGT'esque fanfic instead of proper adaptation of canon 9~15 novels the first time>shit bombs hard and incurs massive reputational and financial losses on TV Tokyo, pissing fans off hard>7 years pass, Aqualord arc ended 4 years ago, no new novels, manga, games, or any other content since>get a badly drawn and horribly animated "rejuvenation" teaser in form of "Meet Again" AMV being suddenly released>fans slowly start to regain hope that something good is finally going to hit, maybe, perhaps>4 years more pass>Revo releases>OP is good, very close to good 'ole days of first Season and Next>content of episodes themselves is not bad, but not Next-levels of quality either>fans are somewhat pleased, though not fully content, especially after it's revealed that full 26 EP season was cut in two parts, like friggin' Harry Potter Deathly Hollows at the time>a year more passes>Evo gets out>it's a massive letdown, total drop of the ball, not just in comparison with first season and Next, but also in comparison with Revo>it's revealed that Revo/Evo are not canon due to them being in same continuity with Try, rendering Revo/Evo yet-another-fanfic>fans are frothing-at-the-mount SEETHING BUTTMAD all across the globe, for being baited and fooled into this headcanon fanfic slopshit twice, TV Tokyo heavily alienates it's core viewer audience base for the next 10 years straight to come, as people constantly continue on reminding them about Try and Evo every single fucking time they're able to, review bombing and ignoring/dissing/shitting on other of TV Tokyo's shows after Evo
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>9 years pass
>it's 2018, 10 years straight without any new Slayers content whatsoever
>Kanzaka "suddenly" releases Novel โ16, 18 years after the last one, exploding fans' brains
>Megumi releases "Two Thumbs Up" an AMAZING FUCKING song, that's just as good/on par with Get Along and Give A Reason
>bamboozled fans wait for proper Season 3 to hit
>7 years pass
>nothing happens
>2025 - YOU ARE HERE
>in 2028 it'll be 20 years straight without any new Slayers animated content
>>280390419>I have never seen any media that ever depicted her as voluptuousHere's a 1994 game (the very first one), literally kys yourself, newfag:
>>280390478>SNES GAME IS CANONIt and the prior PC-98 game both use novel characters and contents as a basis, but they're still fanfics that don't follow novels directly, and both of them were made and released before first animated adaptation, so they're not adjacent to TV series either. They're their own thing. For one, in the 1994's games you literally fight Xella Metallium herself directly, which never happened yet neither in the novels nor in anime.
They're not bad games at all, but they're not canon either. Wonderful is also not canon. Only Royal and Royal 2 are canon, because they both follow novel's established canon AND continue directly after the first TV season and Next respectively, in a linear fashion (First TV season => Royal => Next => Royal 2), and Royal's clone copies of Lina and Gracia are adjacent to Special's, so it all makes sense. Now, Gourry cloned as well, in Royal 2, is a bit on the nose, but, hey.
What mess and nonsense, all the anime stuff canon to the anime, simple as I don't care what the creator says no clones or whatever fuck that.
>>280390419Bitch literally all of Araizumi's arts used for novels, games, prequel OVA and movies, depict Lina as bigbooba and way more curvaceous, and way taller, than her actual real TV series form. Real Lina Inverse is a literal flat board, no T and NO A either, and she's a fucking midget. All of the bigbooba taller Linas are the shadow/homunculi clone copies from Special, that got loose and started roaming all over that planet, including Naga's clones too. For fuck's sake, go watch Royal 2's OP here
>>280368153, you underage newfaggot.
Real Lina and real Naga "interacting with" and "dealing with" their clones-on-the-loose, as well as newly created Gourry's clone copy, is one of the direct core plot points of Royal 2's story/scenario. And Royal 2 is 9001% CANON, for fuck's sake. Even uncanon games from 1994 already had "clone shenanigans" being used as a plot device.
And we also have THIS (whateverthefuckthiswa) in the first TV season:
>>280365477 (OP)Why are nips so bad at managing canon?
>>280393675>What messYes. And that's a good thing.
>nonsenseIt all now makes all the perfect sense. And that's a good thing.
>all the anime stuff canon to the animeFirst two seasons cover first 8 original canon novels directly, dumbass. And that's a good thing.
>I don't care what the creator says no clones or whatever...Special is both a canon novel and canon anime. Clones are from Special. And that's a good thing.
Get fucked, imbecile. This is literally you right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86MO-JWTNjo
>>280393474Dragadis Gaywords.
>>280390591>OVAs and movies don't sit well together with the TV showThey are all prequels and fully canon, dumbass. They are based on novels, mostly. And first two TV seasons directly cover 8 first volumes of novel. Also, Premium is literally "extra TV episode", despite being touted and billed as a """""(((movie)))""""" (it is a straight up grift, a scam), and Premium is considered canon, despite all of it's shitfuckery.
>>280390591>obvious jokeIt's the truth. Simple as. They didn't lie, they didn't exaggerate.
It's only a "joke" as far as the whole concept of Maximum Clonage is being a in-universe "joke" by itself to begin with, since multiple near-perfect clones of Lina and Naga roaming about the world since Special is a total gag full of shenanigans. It is Slayers' world's reality that they're forced to deal with. There are at least 11 Naga clones and at least just as many Lina copies, hanging around on that piece of rock. And then there's also real Naga and real Lina. And real Naga's and real Lina's sisters. And also Gourry's clones as well now, starting from Royal 2. It's a total fucking mess and we're lovin' every single second of it.
>>280390601They didn't "make" Lina "extra-extra flat" in TV series. That is ACTUAL REAL Lina Inverse. The way she always was all along, always have been. All Linas prior to that, are clone copies, which might differ in bodily structure and composition slightly, due to not being exact 1-to-1 flawless perfect copies. It's whatever the fuck their "creator" wished them to be according to his personal "tastes" and "preferences", basically equivalent to that Rei doujin shit of Mogudan's. The only time you see real Lina and Naga in prequel material, before TV series or games, is in Excellent and Special, and guess-fucking-what: she's FLAT and MIDGET in those.
>>280390635PC-98 and Super Famicom games are uncanon, unfortunately. They utilize a lot of canon elements due to them both being based on novels since anime didn't exist yet back then, but they're still not canon in overall. Royal 2, however, fully confirms that Special was canon and actually happened, and Royal 2 is fully canon as well.
>>280385984Look man, sauce or GTFO. That's how we do things.
>>280390644She's way better and more trad in first original DoTA, though. It also has Naga. DoTA 2 dropped the ball, though.
There is also Magical Battle Arena and a couple other (mostly gachashit) games, where they're included.
>>280390653Dear newfaggotring zoom-zoom, please go read
>>280379233 and
>>280382588. Educate yourself.
>>280390653You can be sure it's a clone.
>>280390682>I want multiple Linas to be realAre you a newfag too?
>>280390705>>280390712==>
>>280393497 ~
>>280393509. Pretty much 'nuff said in a nut. It is what it is. Just Saiyan.
>>280391966Not mine, it's from some dude whose excerpts of based takes and rants often get posted on /v/. Apparently that Steam dude is a massive Slayers fanboi4lyfe.
>>280392481Luna never left Zephirus. She couldn't care less.
>>280394350Shit, this gives me the SOGNA vibe, how fucking gorgeous will Naga be in that occasion
>>280392516>it was mostly fineSlit. Your. Wrists.
Immediately. Now. Right away. Do it. Faggot.
>>280393808This is actually an example of managing the canon GOOD and WELL, here.
You want real "bad"? Look at Nasuverse, fAtlus' Megami Tensei, Guilty Gear, Gundam, Macross, Votoms, City Hunter (speaking specifically so of Angel Heart), JoJo, Pokemon, Naruto/Boruto, Excel Saga (kek, if you know you KNOW), BSSM, Air Master (lmfao, if you know YOU KNOW), Hellsign, Trigun (AYYY LMAAAOOOOO).
>>280369422>>280370505she said japan is for japs
twitter crowds demanded an apologize
she refused
>>280394911Immeasurably based.
NIGGERU MONKE GHETTO ZA FAKKU AUTO!
>>280394083That's not OP, it's just some troll.
Actual OP posts are, well, the OP and
>>280366213.
what are the best lina doujins that have on model art?
>>280390459>>280390601>>280393539At best, that ONE game has her as one cup size bigger.
That's it.
There's no notable proportion differences in the rest.
>>280397234Yamamoto's one-shot.
It's nearly identical to how first TV season is drawn.
>>280397298You're an imbecile, clear and simple.
>author sick of people ackshullying him with pointless nitpicks
>"a wizard did it"
>people take it seriously
If serious, reeks of George Lucas. And it doesn't even make sense, Lina didn't ever let that bearded fuck from the first OVA near her, he only got to Naga, which is how he made those pointless Naga homunculi that could not even speak, only laugh. Then the ONE Lina clone we see is the "dark" Lina which was completely harmless and an inversion of her personality. This has to be Kanzaka poking fun at people being anal about artstyle differences.
>>280397365>pointlessRetard.
>wizardIt was an old fart, yes, but he's not a wizard. See here
>>280382847.
>>280397365>it doesn't even make senseRead the thread, imbecile.
You severely lack in comprehension.
>Lina didn't ever let that bearded fuck from the first OVA near her, he only got to NagaSpecial is a series of several continuous OVA episodes, cretin. First was Naga, then later Lina gets cloned as well.
>ONE Lina clone we see is the "dark" LinaThere are at least as many of them as clone Nagas. Also, you fucking retard, see
>>280368153 vid and
>>280384056.
>>280397438>>280397540Okay if the word pointless offends you how about "profoundly retarded". Definitely suits you better.
Which was the OVA or movie where there was this Lina clone with giant boobs, some green haired dude, and Naga, and all three of them were wearing Naga's skimpy nonclothing? The green haired dude looked like a straight up tranny drag queen faggot, in that.
>>280397574>"profoundly retarded"That's just Slayers in a nut.
And that's a good thing.
>>280397365It's not author. Kanzaka is not an artist, he doesn't draw anything in the Slayers franchised product. He only does the novel, after which other artists adapt it for manga, anime, games, etc. Drawing style discrepancies were Araizumi thing. People were bitching to both Kanzaka and Araizumi, because of this. Even Megumi was pointing out these things sometimes and directly influenced Lina's designs in certain ways, as was mentioned here
>>280383170.
So little Xellos lewds, even AI lewds.
Sigh...
>>280397960Gays and niggers are not welcome.
>>280394520Did slayers ever have nudity in it? I can't remember. I know Naga's nagas were "very much exaggerated" but that's about it.
Love this big titty amazon bitch from the second movie, she's really underrated. Slayers Return is just peak Slayers in general. Perfect comedic twist, great comedic villain, perfect Lina/Naga shenanigans, great animation, great one-and-done character designs for the mercenaries and villagers of the week, perfect and really hype ending with that amazing "Slayers OVA" fanfare playing. Love that movie.
>>280397628I think it's the second episode of the second OVA, after the one that shows Lina and Naga meeting and defeating that vampire dude.
>>280393782Lina is "plump and perky" but not stupidly curvy or flat.
If you saw her without a top on, she'd have those small breasts that perk upwards but are big enough to move around a bit.
>>280398017See
>>280379233 ~
>>280382588.
Look it up, if you don't believe it. It's available on panda and several other outlets.
>>280398032"second OVA"? Dude that's way to broad, because some of the OVA have several episodes.
>>280393377Her voice is absolute sex.
>>280398068She's literally a flat delichest, not completely 0, but definitely no bigger than 32A/B ~ 34A/B bra size, tops. Also, again, that is how real actual Lina is. Everything that's curvier, bigger (including just the height straight up, because real Lina is a fucking midget), or voluptuous, is her clone.
>>280398112The first OVA, iirc the 1996 one, has the two clone episodes and one with a pampered rich adventurer wannabe boy, and the second one from like... 1998?? Was called "Slayers Excellent" and had a bunch of stories about Lina being annoyed at Naga's influence. The Naga clone bitch you were thinking about is even on the cover illustration (pic related), so it has to be this one for sure kek so there, search for Slayers Excellent, as opposed to Slayers Special.
>>280393209>It's nearly just as bad as Try.Again, while I understand that it's not canon, I had fun with Try... though I have a hard on for Xellos. I just love the character. He's just perfect for fucking with Lina. I don't get why the author of the novels thinks he's overused, I think he should be one of the gang and always causing mischief, like Loki. Always with the upper hand too, like everyone around him is just eating out of his hands, or in his case - ass.
I just love these sick, twisted, powerful villainous tricksters. They're always my favourite.
>>280386704I'm culturally invested in Japan. They will literally die out because they're suffering from the community destroying effects of neo-liberalism. They must humble themselves and accept my superior seed so my offspring can grace their lands.
>>280397993But he's clearly a woman, anon.
Working long hard nights. Fucking old men for money. All part of his twisted plan of course. He would never be just a sick pervert that does it for fun.
>>280398261I rest of humanity would follow suit faster.
>>280398017>Did Slayers ever have nudity in it?Definitely in manga, some early TV series episodes, and earlier games. It's not much, but nipples definitely could be seen sometimes. Also, Araizumi constantly tries to include clearly pronounced cameltoe, almost like a wedgie, in the official art. See
>>280375040, for prime example. This is the latest novel and the official widely available cover of it, directly in print and on sale right now. Amelia was definitely shown with clearly visible nipples at least once, and Lina was showing them at least twice.
>>2803982911.
>>280388234.
2.
>>280388078.
3.
>>280388750.
End of story. No exceptions, no debating.
>>280398321I remember in the old days (2001) they had some shows for kids with nipples.
Outrageous ay?
We didn't give a fuck as kids either. It was cartoon tits.
Then again, kids didn't even know that hentai was a thing where I lived back then.
>>280398373Yeah, but it makes you upset when you see him dressed like this. Probably because your dick is feeling it and this upsets you.
>all according to keikaku
>>280398217...sigh...for fuck's sake...notto disu shitto agen...
Excellent is the first in timeline, Special is after it.
>>280398727Production order is the only order, who cares, etc.
>>280398458I couldn't care less about Xellos, he was never my favorite character. I'm completely indifferent.
>>280398760>Production order is the only orderGTFO. Now.
>>280398217That's a Lina clone with Naga's features spliced in, not Naga clone.
>>280365979truth nukes one after the other
>>280398959Get laid, tranny. YWNBAW.
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>>280398848No. The concept of a "Prequel" is an absolutely perverse and degenerate neologism that I will NEVER abide by. Phantom Menace is the fourth Star Wars movie, Devil May Cry 3 and MGS3 should be played as numbered, and so on and henceforth. What was made first informs the stories that were made on its wake and that's the end of that.
>>280399051Prequel novels were made before anime, dumbass.
>>280370847You are, just like the shitters that keep coming here to the US. Glad birthright citizenship is ending here.
>>280399072Who cares. The direct to video animated productions were produced in the order that they were produced and if you care that much about canon, you can stick to the novels.
>>280399166>what is world building and lore enrichingKys, imbecile. You're a total fucking retard, holy shit.
>>280365979I'm an American fascist, now what bitch?
>>280366213>Essentially, the Lina clone you see in the Perfect movie, is how real Lina Inverse would look in the futureZAMN!
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>>280399212Absolutely worthless compared to witnessing the artistic decisions and their results of the men behind animated projects in the same order they did in real life. You WILL have a much enriching and informed experience about Gundam if you go through og-Z-ZZ to the OVA from the 90s from the pov that if you pointlessly jump around arstyles and contexts just because muh timeline.
>>280399411>Absolutely worthlessGTFO from the internet and never ever come back. Better yet, leave our planet and solar system, ASAP.
>>280399411So you're saying Hunter X Hunter from the 90's was better than it's complete remake in 2011? Holy fuck, you are one braindead dumbass, alright.
>>280399506Never watched either because shonen jump is slop for morons but if I had to choose either of them that wasn't reading the manga I would absolutely choose the 90s edition which doesn't look like digital slop.
>>280399612Kys. No more wasting of my time on trying to reason with you. You're a total and complete imbecile, an absolute cocksucking loser.
>>280399648Goodbye and keep seething forever sperg.
>>280399612Remake of HxH was directly supervised by by Togashi and it's translating original manga nearly directly 1-to-1 into animated form, it is the most faithful and proper adaptation of that product. 90's HxH is dogshit slop rife with padding and outright fillers, it was cancelled due to how shitty it was. You literally don't know jack fuck all about things discussed here.
>>280371875>Nationalists will always be an issueHow? We simply don't give a shit about anyone outside our country. Fuck globalism.
>>280372755Death to globalists, hope the Jews bomb more tranny prisons.
>>280399739Damn right I don't know anything, and who gives a crap because HxH has always looked like embarrassing shonen slop which I'll probably never bother with, it's as simple as me finding HD era anime visually appalling. If I respected that manner of kiddy shonen and/or wanted something faithtful that doesn't make me wanna puke with I'd stick with the manga.
>>280399972>who gives a crap because HxHLike, 96.82% of entire planet that have good taste in onemoo? You're in factual indisputable minority here, kiddo. HxH is very hot and immensely popular. Togashi is one of the most famous mangakas out there, he's also creator of Yu Yu Hakusho (other very popular series) and is married to Sailor Moon's creator. You're a moron, buddy.
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>>280400109Right, lots of people like it, I see the error of my ways, I'll make sure to also get into Naruto and One Piece to rectify my taste for it to align with everyone's. Lmao get bent.
>>280365979Thanks for making me like her more
>>280400232One Piece is fine, but requires a fuckton of beforehand preparation. I disliked it before, due to the drawing style, but eventually got in too.
>>280400304I actually liked it as a teen, for its first like 40 volumes One Piece is imo a pretty decent and slick adventure comic with this boisterous cartoony charm to it in its art. Then the world building and powerscaling gets out of hand, the secondary cast gets cast into irrelevance forever and basically everything that made it great was discarded and replaced with this really generic shonen power pyramid with a trillion worthless characters and endless trite lore. Its art has gotten worse and worse over time not better, more generic, cluttered and less clean. Not a fan anymore, too long, nothing survives the rot that is Shonen Jump.
OP is using a fake interview in order to train his AI, and is pulling all the replies in this thread for data.
>>280400799And then you woke up.
>>280400529I was specifically referring to anime, since I'm never going to even try that manga monstrosity.
>Slayers thread
>540+ posts
We ARE winning, clones?
>>280400909I think when it comes to OP, the anime is definitely the biggest monstrosity here, and one of the worst of all time, no question. I still have memories of hating how story arcs were interrupted by 6 clip shows in a row and events ruined by recycled animation cycles, even as a 14 yo fanboy. Direct manga-to-anime adaptations will always be trash in one way or another, less interesting-looking, slower, and just plain subversive at times. Even cases where the anime is of good quality it's always worth it and interesting to take a look at the original manga or novel.
>>280401057Doraemon is bigger (and most of it was lost forevermore, in studio and archive fires and etc).
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