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Slayers Rewatch Podcast: Spell #10

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Lina Inverse: Bandit Killer, Dragon Spooker, and Beautiful Sorceress. That’s right, we decided to revisit the classic 90’s fantasy comedy Slayers.

The show is a mixture of comedy and adventure that is both a parody and homage to the various worlds of fantasy and roleplaying. Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia are your stereotypical D&D adventuring party (albeit with a rather spell-casting heavy focus) killing monsters, hording treasure, fighting amongst themselves, and causing tremendous amounts of collateral damage which sometimes inadvertently save the world. And in the 90’s Megumi Hayashibara was the queen of anime voice actresses and one of her most iconic roles was Lina.

Back in the day not everyone liked Slayers but almost everyone had watched it and had an opinion about it. Now even with the two recent seasons in 2008 the series is distinctly seen as a product of the 90s.

We are recruiting adventures for our journey to discover if Slayers is still an enjoyable 90s romp or a cursed relic better buried in the stream of time. If you are a high enough level, you should rewatch Slayers with our party!

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Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA 3rei!! #01: Tanaka-kun is Always Clueless

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hisui_icon_4040_round For awhile it seemed like I was doing an episodic review of some Type-Moon property every season with Fate/Zero, Unlimited Blade Works, and Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya leapfrogging between each other to make sure I was always writing about one series or another. But then there was a lull. The Heaven’s Feel movies are currently being worked on by Ufotable and considering the minor train wreck that was the God Eater I don’t mind waiting. Fate/Extra Last Encore was announced by Shaft but that does not come out until 2017. I have heard rumors about a possible Fate/Apocrypha or Fate/Grand Order animation but that is nothing more than rumors. But Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA is back in full swing so it feels good to be writing about Type-Moon shows again.

The Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA anime has never been a one to one reproduction of the manga. They have added material, removed various elements, combined events, and quite often moved whole scenes around to fit the schedule of the season or the differences between the media. Most of the time it has never been anything egregious and mostly things that would only annoy strict purists. Bu the last season was a bit different. The Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei!  manga lead directly into Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA 3rei!! without even a second for the story to catch its breath. The anime on the other hand very clearly hits the breaks after they defeat Gilgamesh only hinting at the next story line with its antagonists as part of the stinger.  So if nothing else I was a bit curious to see how quickly and seamlessly could they swing back into the main plot line after the break.
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