Slayers Return

Slayers Return
Directed by	Kunihiko Yuyama Hiroshi Watanabe
Produced by	Kiminobu Sato
Written by	Hajime Kanzaka
Starring	Megumi Hayashibara Maria Kawamura Akiko Hiramatsu Kenji Utsumi Kazuki Yao
Music by	Takayuki Hattori
Production company	J.C.Staff
Distributed by	Toei Company Bandai Visual AUS Madman EU ADV Films UK NA ADV Films
Release date	August 3, 1996 (1996-08-03)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Slayers Return (スレイヤーズ RETURN, Sureiyāzu ritān^?), also known as Slayers Movie 2 - The Return, is a 1996 Japanese comic fantasy anime film written by Hajime Kanzaka and directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Hiroshi Watanabe. It is the second film released in the Slayers saga and a sequel to 1995's Slayers Perfect that was itself followed by Slayers Great in 1997.

In Slayers Return, the mercenary heroines Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent are hired to rescue a village from an evil wizard who is searching there for a legendary treasure that might be an invincible magical weapon instrumental for his plan of world domination. The film was met with a positive reception and was also adapted into a manga version by Kanzaka and Shoko Yoshinaka.

Young sorceresses Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent travel across the world in search of adventure and money, bickering with each other along the way. They meet a girl named Saleena, who seems to be a random victim of the result of their petty food fight that ended with a powerful spell explosion. Truth is she has been already injured since when she escaped from her village of Biaz, where the evil organization Zein enslaved the population. The usually selfish Lina inexplicably agrees to help them: she has heard about an ancient elven treasure made of the nearly indestructible magical metal of orihalcon and she would like to put her hands on it. Because of Lina's suspicious behavior, the equally greedy Naga decides to follow them.