Slayers Excellent

Slayers Excellent (スレイヤーズえくせれんと, Sureiyāzu ekuserento) is the second set of three Slayers OVA episodes featuring Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent, following the earlier OVA series Slayers Special. The series was written by Keiko Watanabe basing on the original stories in the light novels by Hajime Kanzaka, directed by Hiroshi Watanabe, and originally released in Japan in 1998–1999.

Slayers Excellent
スレイヤーズえくせれんと
(Sureiyāzu ekuserento)
GenreAdventure, comedy, fantasy
Original video animation
Directed byHiroshi Watanabe
Written byHajime Kanzaka
Keiko Watanabe
Music byTakayuki Hattori
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Released October 25, 1998 – March 25, 1999
Episodes3

Plot

In the first episode, "Labyrinth" (らびりんす Rabirinsu?), Lina and Naga first meet and are forced to travel together battling zombies, ghosts, a vampire, and Naga's own tomfoolery. In the second episode, "A Frightening Future" (恐るべき未来 Osorubeki mirai?), Lina is hired to escort a bratty and spoiled merchant's daughter to a summer villa. In the third episode, "Lina-chan's Lovely Makeover Operation" (リナちゃん・おしゃれ大作戦 Rina-chan oshare dai-sakusen?), Lina and Naga become involved in a dispute with each of them taking opposite sides in an argument between conservative and risque fashion designers.

Cast
Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor
Lina Inverse Megumi Hayashibara Cynthia Martinez
Naga the Serpent Maria Kawamura Kelly Manison
Steindorf Sho Hayami Mike MacRae
Tatiana Diward Aya Hisakawa Deanna Julian
Sirene Kumiko Watanabe Tiffany Grant
Marty Lenford Mayumi Iizuka Ayanna Grundy
Alphonse Shinichiro Miki Illich Guardiola
Fitzmeier Hiroshi Naka Jason Douglas

Release

Slayers Excellent was originally released in Japan in three parts between October 25, 1998 and March 25, 1999 on VHS and LaserDisc. ADV Films licensed the OVAs and released them on DVD on March 30, 2004.[1] It was included in the collection of digitally remastered Slayers films and OAV series,[2] released on Blu-ray in Japan on October 30, 2015.[3][4]

The series' ending song "Never Die" with vocals by Masami Okui was released as a four-track single CD (KIDA-174) by Starchild Records on November 27, 1998. It was also later included Okui's 1999 album Best-Est and in the CD collection The Best of Slayers vol. 2 (From OVA, Movie & Game).

Reception

Polish fantasy writer Aleksandra Janusz, writing for the magazine Kawaii, called Slayers Excellent "not much less brilliant" than Slayers Special, noting the second part to in her opinion be the most funny and the third one to be the weakest.[5] Dave Halverson gave Excellent a review score of three-and-half stars out of five in play, opining that while the first episode is indeed excellent, the other two "don't hold a handle to" Slayers Great and Slayers Gorgeous.[6]

gollark: Does the source code size not matter for bloat?
gollark: But they make the source bigger.
gollark: Why not? Can you provide a counterexample where adding "bees" reduces bloat?
gollark: Do you agree?
gollark: I'd like to propose the Bees Theorem: any application's bloat can be increased by appending "bees" in a comment to the end of its source code.

References
  1. "Slayers-Excellent DVD". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  2. "'Slayers' Anime Features & OVA Japanese Box Set Planned". The Fandom Post. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  3. "Delayed "Slayers" Film/OVA Blu-ray Box Scheduled for October 30, 2015". Crunchyroll. 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  4. "劇場版&OVA スレイヤーズ デジタルリマスターBD‐BOX [Blu-ray] DVD・ブルーレイ - 林原めぐみ, 川村万梨阿, 阪 脩, 高山みなみ, 白鳥由里, 平松晶子, 大塚明夫, 矢尾一樹, 内海賢二, わたなべひろし". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  5. Aleksandra Janusz (Ina, Błękitna Czarodziejka), "Slayers nie tylko w TV: Filmy kinowe oraz serie OAV." Kawaii 40 (October–November 2002), p. 12-15.
  6. Play 29 (May 2004), p. 76.


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