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Slayers at its best
This is truly Slayers at its best. This DVD contains all 3 episodes of the the Slayers Special OAV. Full of homour and action, this DVD is a must have for all Slayers fans everywhere. The original and unique slap-stick humour found in everything Slayers is pulled to it's full extent in this truly hilarious piece of anime art. This 3-part OAV takes place before the original slayers series. As opposed to the usual Slayers group, Lina's only companion is Naga- quite possibly the funniest (and at times the most annoying) anime character ever. With Naga's annoying laugh and Lina's un-stopable hunger, This dynamic duo gets into many adventures! Take my advise and buy this DVD, you wont regret it.

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Naga.....Tone it down a bit
I love this series. And I have a strange affinity for Naga....Hmmm.. I wonder what it could be. I love how Lina calls Naga the "Bondage Queen of Darkness". Also that outfit of hers....My god... The only thing I can't stand is that ridiculous laugh of hers. It drives me mad.. But still, it's a very funny anime. You really should see it if you enjoy animes, or comedy...or both

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Give It A Rest Please
* I have picked up most of the SLAYERS anime series, about
petite and hot-tempered sorceress Lina Inverse in some
long-ago-far-away land of magic. I have found most of it
moderately amusing, if not necessarily much to write home
about, and so I decided to pick up the one item that
I hadn't seen: SLAYERS BOOK OF SPELLS (SBOS).

This DVD, consisting of three 25-minute episodes, recasts
the SLAYERS concept slightly, eliminating Lina's normal
gang of cronies for a new companion, Naga the Serpent,
a statuesque, overbuilt, scantily-clad female adventuress
along the lines of a Frank Franzetta or Boris Vallejo
character and possessed of a mocking laugh.

A survey of this item only leads to the conclusion that
SLAYERS is an idea whose time has passed. I once observed
that the mark of a bad comic book is that even the people
who made it obviously don't think much of it (unless of
course they are operating at an "Ed Wood" level of
self-delusion), and this same principle applies to SBOS.

The production values are indifferent at best and the
scripts are painful to watch, not merely because the
scriptwriters seem to have been working in their sleep
but because the humor is all but nonexistent. The
writing is about at the level of an weak Saturday-morning
cartoon, with some "jigglevision" thrown in and not
improving matters in the least. If you want a fun
swords-and-sworcery parody, try Sergio Aragones' GROO
comix instead, which if not absolutely the greatest
thing since icecream are at least usually fun.

I am far from against mindless silly entertainment.
However, though SBOS does achieve the "mindless silly"
part of the equation, it doesn't come close to
reaching the "entertainment" element. I suppose
people who have "never seen an anime they didn't like"
would be able to swallow SBOS, but any anime fans who
have mixed feelings about the genre, as I do, are
certain to find SBOS on the bad side of the mix.