Slayers
| Slayers | |
Cover of the first light novel
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スレイヤーズ (Sureiyāzu) |
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| Genre | Adventure fiction, comic fantasy, sword and sorcery |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Male |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 1989 – 2000 |
| Volumes | 15 |
| Light novel | |
| Slayers Special | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Male |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 1991 – 2008 |
| Volumes | 30 |
| Manga | |
| Medieval Mayhem Slayers | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Published | 1995 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Shoko Yoshinaka |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 1995 – 2001 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takashi Watanabe |
| Written by | Takao Koyama |
| Studio | E.G. Films, J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | April 7, 1995 – September 29, 1995 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Anime television series | |
| Slayers Next | |
| Directed by | Takashi Watanabe |
| Written by | Jiro Takayama |
| Studio | E.G. Films, J.C.Staff |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | April 5, 1996 – September 27, 1996 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Anime television series | |
| Slayers Try | |
| Directed by | Takashi Watanabe |
| Written by | Jiro Takayama |
| Studio | E.G. Films, J.C.Staff |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | April 4, 1997 – September 26, 1997 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Light novel | |
| Slayers Delicious | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Male |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 1997 – 1999 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Special | |
| Written by | Tommy Ohtsuka |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 2000 – 2001 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Knight of the Aqualord | |
| Written by | Tommy Ohtsuka |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 2003 – 2005 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Premium | |
| Written by | Tommy Ohtsuka |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 2004 – 2005 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Light novel | |
| Slayers x Orphen | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka Yoshinobu Akita |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi & Yuuya Kusaka |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Male |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Published | 2005 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Light novel | |
| Slayers Smash | |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Illustrated by | Rui Araizumi |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Male |
| Magazine | Dragon Magazine |
| Original run | 2008 – 2011 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Revolution | |
| Written by | Issei Hyōji |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Dragon Age |
| Published | 2008 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Legend | |
| Written by | Issei Hyōji |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Dragon Age |
| Original run | 2008 – 2009 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Evolution-R | |
| Written by | Issei Hyōji |
| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Dragon Age |
| Published | 2009 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Slayers Light Magic | |
| Written by | Yoshijirō Muramatsu |
| Illustrated by | Shin Sasaki |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Kerokero Ace |
| Original run | 2008 – 2012 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Slayers Revolution | |
| Directed by | Takashi Watanabe |
| Written by | Jiro Takayama |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 2, 2008 – September 24, 2008 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Slayers Evolution-R | |
| Directed by | Takashi Watanabe |
| Written by | Jiro Takayama |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | January 12, 2009 – April 6, 2009 |
| Episodes | 13 |
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Slayers (Japanese: スレイヤーズ Hepburn: Sureiyāzu?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated by Rui Araizumi. The novels had been serialized in Dragon Magazine, and were later adapted into several manga titles, anime television series, anime films, OVA series, role-playing video games, and other media. Slayers follows the adventures of teenage sorceress Lina Inverse and her companions as they journey through their world. Using powerful magic and swordsmanship they battle overreaching wizards, demons seeking to destroy the world, and an occasional hapless gang of bandits. The anime series is considered to be one of the most popular of the 1990s.
In the Slayers universe, the ultimate being is the Lord of Nightmares, the creator of at least four parallel worlds. An artifact known as the Claire Bible contains information about the Lord of Nightmares' task to regain its "true form", which is only attainable by destroying these worlds and returning them to the chaos that it itself is. For unexplained reasons, though, the Lord of Nightmares has not acted upon this desire by itself so far. On each of these worlds are gods (shinzoku, lit. "godly race") and monsters (mazoku, lit. "demon race"), fighting without end. Should the gods win the war in a world, that world will be at peace. Should the monsters win, the world will be destroyed and returned to the Sea of Chaos.
In the world where the Slayers takes place, Flare Dragon Ceiphied and the Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo are, respectively, the supreme god and monster. Long ago, their war ended more or less in a stalemate, when Ceiphied was able to split Shabranigdo's existence into seven pieces in order to prevent him from coming back to life, then seal them within human souls. As the souls are reincarnated, the individual fragments would wear down until Shabranigdo himself would be destroyed. However, Ceiphied was so exhausted by this that he himself sank into the Sea of Chaos, leaving behind four parts of himself in the world. A millennium before the events in Slayers, one of Ruby-Eye's fragments (which was sealed in the body of Lei Magnus, a very powerful sorcerer) revived and began the Resurrection War (降魔戦争 Kōma-sensō?, alternately "War of Demon Conquering") against one of the parts of Ceiphied, the Water Dragon King, also known as Aqualord Ragradia. Ultimately, the piece of Shabranigdo won, but Aqualord, using the last remnants of her power, sealed him into a block of magical ice within the Kataart Mountains. Nevertheless, Shabranigdo's lieutenants remained at liberty, sealing a part of the world within a magical barrier, through which only mazoku could pass.
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