Slayers Gorgeous
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| Directed by | Hiroshi Watanabe |
| Produced by | Kiminobu Sato |
| Written by | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Starring |
Megumi Hayashibara Maria Kawamura Akira Kamiya Kyoko Hikami Junpei Takiguchi |
| Music by | Takayuki Hattori |
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Toei Company Kadokawa Shoten |
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64 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Slayers Great: The Motion Picture "Go" | |
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| Soundtrack album by Takayuki Hattori | |
| Released | September 9, 1998 |
| Recorded | 1998 |
| Genre | Orchestral, J-pop |
| Label | King Records |
Slayers Gorgeous (スレイヤーズごうじゃす Sureiyāzu gōjasu?) is a 1998 comic fantasy anime film written by Hajime Kanzaka and directed by Hiroshi Watanabe. Gorgeous is the fourth film in the Slayers saga and the final anime entry in the prequels to the main series. It received mostly favorable reviews, and was followed by the short Slayers Premium in 2001.
In the film, the wandering sorceresses-for-hire Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent get involved in a war between Lord Calvert and his army and his rebellious teenage daughter Marlene and her legion of dragons. Lina sides with Calvert, while Naga joins Marlene's side.
The film was theatrically released in Japan on August 1, 1998, distributed by Toei Animation. It was screened as a double feature together with Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness. Kadokawa Shoten's home version was released on the VHS and LaserDisc in April 1999, and re-released on the DVD alone in 1999 and as part of the EMOTION the Best Slayers Movie Edition DVD-BOX (EMOTION the Best スレイヤーズ 劇場版 DVD-BOX) collection of all Slayers films in 2010. It will be included in the collection of digitally remastered Slayers films and OAV series, released on Blu-ray in Japan on October 30, 2015.
The film was released by ADV Films on the DVD in North America on February 17, 2004. Return was later released by ADV with the other four Slayers movies in a "Movie" boxset, and with the other four movies and both OVA series in a "Movies and OVAs" box set. The English dubbing version was directed and produced by Sandra Krasa. The film was also broadcast in the English version by ADV's broadcast on Anime Network and distributed by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand, by Déclic Images in France, and by ACOG and OVA Films in Germany (dubbed to German by into German by Circle of Arts).
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