The animation was very very bad,
but I dealt with it because the humorous plot kinda carried me along
the way ^^;;; Anyhoo, Slayers first starts off with the introduction
of Lina Inverse, a fifteen year old, physically underdeveloped, sorceress
who raids bandit camps to take their treasures and sell it off at
some shop. She's a really good sorceress and can perfectly take care
of herself.
In the first episode, Lina meets
Gourry, a really DENSE mercenary-for-hire, who "saves" her
from the remnants of the Dragon Fangs. He mistakes her for a kid,
and only came to "rescue" her because he thought that he
would save a pretty lady in distress. Honestly, Gourry fits the role
of a dumb blonde ^^. Oh yes, he looks like a replica of Nakago from
Fushigi Yuugi, but the looks are where the similarites end.
Gourry acts NOTHING like Nakago.
Anyhoo, still mistaking Lina
for a kid (and Lina playing along for a while), Gourry decides to
escort Lina to her destination. Along the way, he finds out many of
Lina's spells, including the most powerful black magic capable to
cast: Dragon Slave (hee hee, me and AyanamiChan grin and laugh evilly
whenever we hear the incantation). After about two episodes of nothingness
and plain random stuff (random is good), we finally get to see the
plot and Lina gets involved. She and Gourry meet Zelgaldis who is
a chimera (part demon, part golem, and part human) that is in search
of a statue that Lina holds. There's a whole bunch of plot twists
and random stuff (like Lina can't cast any magic because it's "that
time of the month"), and you find out that the main meanie is
Rezo, the Red Priest.
After about halfway through the
series, Zelgadis (who turns out to be a good guy in the end) leaves
Gourry and Lina and another quest begins. The three of them are wanted
for crimes that they had never done, and Lina is determined to find
out who is making these false accounts. Along the way, Gourry and
Lina meet Amelia (the justice girl ^^) who is the daughter of a fairly
ugly prince (ruining Lina's dream of a cute prince on a white horse)
and Sylpiel who was connected on a chance meeting with Gourry in the
past (and he only remembered her because of her great cooking). Zelgadis
meets up with the gang once again as they soon figure out who was
making false accusations against them.
Slayers, the first season, all
in all was pretty cool. I liked all the different spells and incantations
(hehe) as well as all of the random stuff that was going on. It turns
out that Lina and Gourry are equals in appetites (ie, as in eating
a LOT of food...I sometimes wonder how they get the money to pay for
it all ^^;;), Zelgadis is just...so tragic yet cool (he's *still*
looking for a cure to his curse as a chimera...it's all about the
tragic characters!), Amelia's a klutz when it comes to jumping off
of anything that's higher than 3 feet, and Sylpiel is the innocent
little maiden who is totally in love with Gourry (she keeps on calling
him Gourry-sama). Copy Rezo's laugh scares me to death....
The only thing that annoyed me
was during the second half: Zangalus (sp?) and that clone dude (dun
remember his name, but I will forever remember him as clone dude)
who were after Lina and Gourry were ALWAYS after them. Gar....
