Believe it or not, the Slayers franchise is 30 years old. The series about sorceress Lina Inverse and pals that became a touchstone for anime fans in Japan and abroad started life as a light novel series back in 1990. The first anime adaptation, a …Read more »
Writer Hajime Kanzaka and illustrator Rui Araizumi’s Slayers light novels first debuted back in 1989, so last year marked their 30th anniversary. Just because it’s 2020 doesn’t mean the celebration has ended, though, and one of the upcoming pieces has Lina Inverse voice actress Megumi …Read more »
Writer Hajime Kanzaka and illustrator Rui Araizumi’s Slayers light novel series marked its 30th anniversary last year, but the celebration is far from over. The latest comes from Megumi Hayashibara, who voiced lead character Lina Inverse ever since the first TV anime hit the airwaves …Read more »
Man, being an anime fan in the 90s was something. Tapes (yeah, tapes ) were over 30 bucks and only had two episodes on ‘em, you had to choose between sub and dub, and the selection of stuff available in English was a drop in …Read more »
For fans of 90s anime in particular, the name Starchild is instantly recognizable. The anime arm of giant record label King Records, Starchild was involved with the financing and music production of a string of hits in the 90s, including Evangelion , Nadesico , and …Read more »
I think I have some kind of weird pseudo-nostalgia thing going on with The Slayers . I only saw a single volume tops of both Slayers and Slayers Next back when the videos first came out, but it's hung with me throughout the years as …Read more »
What do you get when you place the destructive power of a tactical nuclear missile in the hands of a capricious fifteen year-old girl? If your name is Hajime Kanzaka, you get over fifty light novels, three complete television series (with a fourth being released …Read more »
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