I’ve just posted my latest Recommendation on Substack, and it’s a pretty logical follow-up to my previous post about Dragon’s Crown, due to being another Fantasy nostalgia trip, namely 90s anime Slayers
As always, I’ll be posting an excerpt here, and the full version is on Substack.
Slayers Revolution: J.C. Staff and Crunchyroll
There’s a saying among certain segments of the Internet — specifically, TV Tropes — that:
Lodoss War is the DnD campaign we all dream of playing. Slayers is the DnD campaign we actually end up playing.
Slayers: E&G Films and Crunchyroll.
And, yeah, that about sums it up. Although both works are both quintessentially Fantasy-y in terms of worldbuilding, character archetypes, and plot beats. But whereas Lodoss War (while not devoid of humour) is a self-serious, unironic “Save the World” High Fantasy story, Slayers is a silly show featuring a cast of complete lunatics alleged heroes doing their best, darn it who occasionally buckle down to save the world from the forces of Evil in climactic final showdowns that are generally presented seriously and unironically.
We have Lina, a young sorceress who tends to solve her problems by blowing them up, Gourry, a swordsman with an IQ of approximately -12, Zelgadis, the serious one, and Amelia, a princess whose boundless desires above all to be a great hero of justice is matched only by her general ineptitude.
But, like I said, they’re doing their best, darn it.
Slayers: E&G Films and Crunchyroll.
Incidentally, in this, the Year of Our Lord 2025, it’s probably actually easier to find and read the original light novel series than to watch the anime, which I’m not sure is available to stream legitimately anywhere…
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