New Slayers anime series/season coming this Fall

Oh god, yes. I haven't sought out a new anime series in quite awhile, so this is doubly fantastic news provided it can keep up the quality of humor the first 3 seasons had.

Originally Posted by Pokey

But then again, another big problem i hope they address in the new season is the fact that Lina tends to take the entire spotlight in the plot-centered episodes, leaving Zel and Amelia on the sidelines in terms of contributing something remotely useful.

While I don't remember them being completely tossed to the side, I agree that the side people (Zel/Amelia/Xellos) need larger parts if only because they're such great characters. I wasn't too fond of TRY's exploration/inter-dimensional storyline, so I'm hoping this will veer more towards uncovering more things about the Monster race.

Now if only we could get a 4th season of Full Metal Panic this Fall will be the best season in a very long time.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Even though there are only three new tracks Slayers always had some of my favorite OP/ED songs, so a compilation soundtrack works just fine for me. Besides, my versions of a lot of those are at different volumes and sound weird when burned together, so a replacement is more than welcome.

So happy to hear this is starting on July 2nd. I missed that post before, and it's perfect timing since Tower of Druaga ended last week.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Has there been any news of this getting licensed? It's a bit weird how ep. 7 was delayed for a week until an "anonymous" subber put it out as VivaLaRevolution, followed by Eclipse posting their 1-6 batch and supporting that group.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's not like that will stop the subs for a series as popular as Slayers. I just hope VivaLaRevolution starts putting out .avi versions too like Eclipse had been doing. .mkv is great and all, but I want a format that my 360 will play so I can watch it on my TV.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You must be several episodes behind, Summonmaster.

Spoiler:

Pokota's been teamed up with Lina & co. since ep. 5 and judging from the preview we'll get more information on Xellos once VivaLaRevolution subs ep. 8.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm not sure why no one is subbing eps 8 & 9. A second mystery group even subbed 7 for no apparent reason, but then both groups seem to have vanished.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The VivaLaRevolution links for 7 on Tokyo Toshokan still work, but apparently D-R pulled theirs already. Not sure why they bothered to sub 7 instead of 8 or 9 anyway.

FELIPE NO

Where's the sub of episode 8? The only one I've seen was in Italian, and that's not terribly helpful.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Episode 8 now comes in English! Truly miraculous. Judging by the Tokyo Tosho comment it sounds like it's been finished for a while, but they forgot to put it up.

Additional Spam:
And now we have ep. 9 too for some double post excitement! Best day ever.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just double-checked, and they both seem to be correct. All I did was copy/paste the links from Tokyo Toshokan for convenience, so just go there and do a search for Slayers. VLR posted a high quality version of ep. 9 a little later if anyone prefers those.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Pokey

Spoiler:

Especially the gang vs Xelloss at the end. However, i was puzzled as to why Lina didn't consider the Ragna blade, which might have done significant damage against Xelloss (as well as be the coolest thing to happen yet). Hopefully we'll see that in a future fight.

ep. 8 and briefly 9:

I thought about that, but it was probably partially because no one was really providing enough of a distraction to keep Xellos busy while she cast such a large spell. I'm sure she could also tell he wasn't really taking the fight seriously either, since all he was really doing was dodging and avoiding the use of magical attacks. With Xellos' tradition of secrets and plans, she probably expected this to just be a way to get them to Gioconda's castle faster.

The relationship between Wiser and Xellos was pretty great, especially when Wiser actually managed to surprise Xellos enough for him to open his eyes. I'd imagine he wasn't terribly pleased with also being tricked.

As for Zelgadis' voice, I watched everything but the movies dubbed so Crispin Freeman will always be Zelgadis to me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.