Slayers Revolution Episode 1 Discussion

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Jul 8, 2016 9:57 AM

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Funny first episode, I enjoyed all of the small call backs like the intro having a similar start to the first seasons opening, and even the same sound effect used for the title card.

Feb 12, 2017 4:56 AM

#52

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I've just finished watching Slayers Try yesterday, so I guess it was a bit too sudden for me

Apr 15, 2017 2:17 PM

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WTF is this? No, seriously. I don't know how people can give this season a 5/5 LOVE IT! Rate. This season (and no doubt the one that follows) is NOTHING LIKE the original series. I even liked fucking Book of Spells more than this. Of course, I'm not just shit-posting here. I am a HUGE Slayers now. A discovery that has been like a gold mine to me, but this new stuff for the series. OMG, what is this???

For one, although the writing is fairly consistent with the personalities and interactions between the characters, there is still some writing in it that is not consistent. They call Rezo "Red Priest Rezo." Umm. It should be "Rezo The Red Priest." When Gourry pulls out the Sword of Light, he says... "Come, Light." ??? It's "Light Come Forth!"

The Spells look as bad as they do ... even worse actually ... than in Book of Spells and Return. Some of them don't even look like what they originally looked like from as early as the first Episode of Season 1. The Dragon Slave that Pokota cast was like a energy ball... Some of the spells are like purple energy.

The Episodes in Revolution that I have watched thus far 1-11 do not end epically. In the original series the Episode usually, if not always, ended suspenseful. The way they end in Revolution, it's like... do I even want to continue to see what happens in the next Episode?

The animation, although Modernized, and thus "better" for being more up to date is actually Not Better. The original animation used for everything else in the original series was way higher in animation/art quality. And a lot of the scene-time in it was amazing. Especially in Next.

In Revolution so far, I have come across a lot of sloppy animation. Some of the background characters, like the Pirate Crew in the first Episode who were swimming in the water were unidentifiable. They were basically various colored dots, which I think was suppose to represent their heads? But we'll never know the truth for sure.

Some of the animating used in Revolution was fucking computer generated, like the flock of bird spell that Lina cast in like Episode 2 or 3, somewhere around there. By Episode 9 I actually just stopped paying attention to what the story is even dictating, so between Episodes 9-11, I am now lost. Because my lack of interest killed my focus on it.

*Farts*

Excuse me. Where was I there? The good that came out of the series was literally the Ragna Blade Spell and Lina with Twin Tails. The End.

Feb 9, 2021 12:21 PM

#54

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The last comment was in 2017? Holy damn, nobody's watching this anymore. I think it was alright.

Feb 11, 2021 3:29 PM

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Being arrested for being Lina Inverse. Legit.

Gator said:
The last comment was in 2017? Holy damn, nobody's watching this anymore. I think it was alright.

Not many made it to this entry lol I honestly like it a lot more than most fantasy anime of recent years

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron

Feb 11, 2021 11:13 PM

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FMmatron said:
Being arrested for being Lina Inverse. Legit.

Gator said:
The last comment was in 2017? Holy damn, nobody's watching this anymore. I think it was alright.

Not many made it to this entry lol I honestly like it a lot more than most fantasy anime of recent years

Seems so, even more funny though that we both comment just a few days apart from each other almost 4 years later xD

Oct 15, 2021 7:16 PM

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Gator said:

FMmatron said:
Being arrested for being Lina Inverse. Legit.

Not many made it to this entry lol I honestly like it a lot more than most fantasy anime of recent years

Seems so, even more funny though that we both comment just a few days apart from each other almost 4 years later xD

I am also typing in 2021

Etcetera-Oct 17, 2021 5:33 PM

Nov 20, 3:02 AM

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I really wish I could see what the deal was with that removed user that has half a million posts. The fact that that idiotic jabbering stood as the final comment on this series for several years is embarrassing. Sure, good 90s animation is charming and the older Slayers series were mostly well animated (Try has a lot of gross slop in it) but whining about how this season looks when its on a similar level but new because shows are animated differently now is very silly. And anyone that complains about subs without being able to at least somewhat speak the language being translated should never ever ever be listened to. Like "Rezo the Red Priest" vs "Red Priest Rezo" is possibly the most asinine translation complaint I've ever heard in my life.

Anyway, I suppose I'm in the minority in thinking this series started off quite well. I've watched the first three seasons of Slayers for the first time within the last few months and this is a lot closer to season 1 than Try was. I know the shows are based on light novels but Try felt like they were out of ideas and throwing crap against the wall; a totally meaningless world reset, terrible cardboard villains with no backstory (uhhh, we're gods sort of and uhhh, we need these weapon things for some reason. One of us has honor I guess and the other is a jerk. That's it), filler, god awful pacing that breaks the whole story by the middle of the season. So far this season is just back to basics with Lina being hell for random bandits.

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