Slayers Novels

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:56 pm

Apparently Tokyopop has released the first one. Anyone picked it up?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:58 pm

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:59 pm

And people were just talking about how you were never around anymore.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:59 pm

People talk about me? Wow.

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:04 pm

It's mostly bad things.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:06 pm

Negative attention is better than no attention. Unless the negative attention involves firearms.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:38 pm

Which Slayers novels? They had a bazillion of them, and so far all the ones released here have been flipped...

I did finally see Slayers Premium, which is pretty decent considering they had to squeeze so much stuff into one half hour. I sure the hell could stand another 26-episode adventure with Lina and Gourry, provided it doesn't suck like the last one.

Hey Pep, I fixed your avatar:

<img src="http://www.nathantsui.com/ghzforum/upload/files/pep.jpg">

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:48 pm

By the way, have you heard about Naga the White Serpent's evil twin?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:25 am

Green Gibbon! wrote:Which Slayers novels? They had a bazillion of them, and so far all the ones released here have been flipped...

I don't mean the manga, I mean the actual original novels that everything was based on. Ya know, the ones that are just text.

And no, I haven't.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:28 am

Ya know, the ones that are just text.

You mean, like... like books? Wow, I didn't know that. When people spoke of Slayers "novels" I figured they meant graphic novels. So then Slayers began as a series of books and Araizumi was lumped in later?

And no, I haven't.

Nigga the Black Serpent.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:43 am

As with most of your jokes, I would've never thought of that.

Anyway, Slayers started as a series of novels by Hajime Kanzaka which Rui Araizuma did some illustrations for. Araizuma then went on to do the comic adaptation, but then stopped after a few volumes. The job was later resumed by Shouko Yoshinaka, who I would imagine has done most of the Slayers comics out there to date.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:21 am

What time frame are we talking about here? Late 80's, right?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:40 am

I think it was first serialized in '89. But it looks like he was working on for quite a long period of time; the regular novel series is about fifteen volumes long, each with around 200 pages, and there seem to be over 20 prequel novels (with Naga). Although Tokyopop only seems to have six listed on their website...

Hey, didn't you do some sort of tribute to Naga years and years ago? I remember the link being broken by the time I saw it.

Post by Bo » Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:21 am

It was Naga for President in 2000.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:17 am

Yeah. I'd like to see that.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:33 am

Wait, so the ones with Naga did come first, right?

*snicker* The ones with Naga came first... heheheheh...

Radrappy · Post by **Radrappy** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:18 am

actually i really liked slayers premium too. There was somthing incredibly charming about the entire gang animated so well and in a new sharper stylish look. Minus that lame matrix bullet time scene of course.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:05 am

Green Gibbon! wrote:Wait, so the ones with Naga did come first, right?

*snicker* The ones with Naga came first... heheheheh...

Since I can't discern any innuendo from that... yes. You just realized this now?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:14 am

No, I thought I remembered it, but then if the first TV series was adapted from the novels... I guess it wasn't the first novel.

It's all very confusing to me, you see.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:14 am

Someone once told me that Slayers was the Japanese equivalent of "RPGWorld" . . . is that a fair comparison?

Cuckooguy · Post by **Cuckooguy** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:26 am

Slayers doesn't really parodize anything...

As for Slayers Premium, it was... alright. It would've benefited from an extra 5 or so minutes.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:27 pm

Slayers doesn't really parodize anything...

The Naga adventures are a pretty broad parody of fantasy in general...