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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I love the more serious tone this season has. It doesn't feel so much like a parody of fantasy anymore, instead Slayers is starting to feel more like a legitimate fantasy anime... and a damn good one at that. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| I don't understand where you're coming from. The two story arcs in the first series were definitely straight fantasy stories. "Defeat the resurrection of the Dark Lord" and "defeat the crazy wizard" are pretty classic pulp fantasy stories. And Slayers was never a very strong parody of fantasy, more of a fantasy story with frequent humor included. |
Fronzel said: I don't understand where you're coming from. The two story arcs in the first series were definitely straight fantasy stories. "Defeat the resurrection of the Dark Lord" and "defeat the crazy wizard" are pretty classic pulp fantasy stories. And Slayers was never a very strong parody of fantasy, more of a fantasy story with frequent humor included. It's been said many a time that Slayers is a parody of Dungeons and Dragons. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
insan3soldiern said: Fronzel said: I don't understand where you're coming from. The two story arcs in the first series were definitely straight fantasy stories. "Defeat the resurrection of the Dark Lord" and "defeat the crazy wizard" are pretty classic pulp fantasy stories. And Slayers was never a very strong parody of fantasy, more of a fantasy story with frequent humor included. It's been said many a time that Slayers is a parody of Dungeons and Dragons. It's inspired by/a rip-off of D&D, but where's the parody? Having jokes in makes it a comedy but not a parody. All the stuff about fighting demons and learning powerful magic is taken quite straight. You can make synopsis of the major story arcs without mentioning anything funny or unexpected for a fantasy story. |
| Remember that D&D itself was based on a number of other fantasy books, stories, and sources. The original D&D kit actually had a lot of material from Tolkein that had been "appropriated" by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax for their gaming sessions. Since it was a game there was an awful lot of humour generated in the dungeons, weapons, and artifacts (the powerful Vorpal Blade for example which did to my knowledge go snicker-snack). I find Lina and friends to be totally in that genre, in fact as a former halfling thief of dubious reputation I think I can vouch that this is not parody, it is reality! (er....well a darn good fantasy at least) |
Please don't feed the trolls! In my next life I want to collide at the corner with the cute transfer student carrying a piece of toast in her mouth...rodac |
| Hell yeah she just got stronger. |
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| Some points that count towards this being parody are where they self-consciously reference tropes. It's not terribly common, and the main plot is pretty much straight fantasy, but once in a while there's a scene that makes fun of it. I guess that's what you'd call "frequent humor". Same thing, really! |
| “Money can't buy dere” |
| So Lina learned a spell that is unknown to monsters? Nice! :-) It seems it will be quite powerful when she gets her powers back. |
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| So the Ragna Blade will be at least as powerful as the Giga Slave when Lina’s magic is restored. With her new amplification amulets, it will be even more powerful. And then, using her full power and the amulets, if she cast it onto the Sword of Light... Slayers does serious really well too. This episode was great. Also, I’m further convinced that Xellos’s motives are a little more complex than simple antagonism. I was surprised that he let Lina read a full manuscript of the Claire Bible, and didn’t destroy it until Martina snatched it. (That was one heck of a wizard doctor to have that in his possession, btw.) |
| Xenos let Lina read the Claire Bible manuscript then burned it again like the first one they've found. I understand the burning part so it wouldn't fall into the other (wrong ones?) hands but why let Lina read it first though it was incomplete as the ending was doodled over by the current Runan, does he/others have plan for Lina after all this? Lina herself partially deduced as much at the end of this episode as she might find Xellos suspicious but still not part of the current grand scheme of things. Woot! Ragna Blade! |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| Somehow it's refreshing to see so many derpy female characters like Martina in a setting like this, especially in such an old show. |
| A copy of the Claire Bible is found, Lina still doesn't have her powers back, and the others are brought to another dimension by the monsters. Lina has to get back to help them! But the Claire Bible copy's last pages were doodled on, so she can't completely understand it. Martina and Xellos are there, too, but Martina is mostly being her usual ineffective self. Lina does get back, tries out the spell she learned (Ragna Blade), but doesn't have very good control over it. She did, however, break the barrier, and bring everyone back. But now Phil has been captured. Another fairly serious episode, with Martina being the comedy relief. And now Lina has another very powerful spell at her disposal, once she figures out how to control it. Fun episode with plenty of action. Looking forward to some more comedy in upcoming episodes, though. |
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| Okay, I always thought so, but the fact that even the characters themselves acknowledge that they’re useless without Lina is just pathetic and lame as hell. |
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