Slayers: Complete Seasons 4 & 5 (Classic)

Something to show the ladies of your neighborhood
It's been over a decade since there was a new season of "Slayers," but better late than never.

And "Slayers: Complete Seasons 4 & 5" (which is really more like one longer season split in half) is a solid fantasy-comedy anime, although it suffers from some wobbles in execution (a replica of the Sword of Light?). Not only is it fun to revisit Lina, Gourry and their colorful unruly world, but the writers introduce some clever twists and concepts along the way, while dipping into some surprisingly dark subplots.

Lina and Gourry have been busy nabbing pirates on the high seas, but they're unexpectedly interrupted by Amelia, Zelgadis, and the Ruvinagald Inspector Wizer, who promptly arrests Lina for "the crime of being Lina Inverse"... and for blowing up some magic tanks with the Dragonslave. The actual culprit is actually a sort of... flying stuffed bunny thing called Pokota, who can cast almost every spell Lina knows AND has a Sword of Light replica.

The...

awesome
I got it for my daughter for her birthday. It came faster than was expected. She loves it! Only thing us, she is sad the series is over lol very happy customer!

Not Bad But Nothing To Brag About Either
While there was so much hype bout bringing the voice cast both the subbed and dubbed back after so many years to re-voice their character roles from this entertaining series at the end it just felt like a standard season with nothing really spectacular with either the story or really seeing the characters again. The story isn't bad but it just felt like another season of Slayers and that's it there wasn't any real epilogue on what happens too much with the characters except waht we saw with the previous three seasons before the fourth and fifth.

The animation is good and while they keep to how they did the previous seasons of this series there is some CGI effects thrown in not much but enough where you can tell the drawers and writers have been influenced by the direction that animes has gone the last decade. The voice cast for the subbed were terrific to hear again and while Crispin Freeman always a terrific voice actor did his role very well like with the other three...

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