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Welcome to everybody... now
we're going to talk about a story of sword and sorcery: Slayers!
This is a fantasy series born as novels made from 1992 to 1995 by Hajime
Kanzaka and Rui Araizumi. Later are published also a Slayers manga collection
of short comics, a Slayers manga series and the Slayers TV series. Soon
the TV anime series is followed by two 3-part OVA (Original Video Anime)
series and four movies, based on Slayers Special (SP) short stories. Slayers
TV series has been released in three "seasons", each of them
of 26 episodes: Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try.
But of all that stuff, the first television series still retains an impact
that has left it a classic! Beyond the humor, Slayers have plots, sub-plots,
memorable character designs and a superb voice acting (referred to the
Japanese version, of course). And now let's go and discover Lina's world...
by Veggie

Slayers
- The story
There are two different Slayers "universes", with two
different cast: one in TV series and the other in movies and OAV. The
protagonist is always Lina Inverse, an amazingly powerful sorceress whose
primary motivation are getting enough to eat and getting rich preferably
by robbing bandits, evil sorcerers, and other villains. Is she a kind
of Robin Hood? Noooo... she keeps the loot! For the three TV series (78
episodes) she is assisted in her chosen vocation by Gourry, a tall,
blond, handsome and well-built fellow with a magic sword. It's evident
that these two care deeply about each other, but it seems that Lina always
makes a huge effort to hide her feelings for Gourry. There are also Zelgadis,
a remarkable (and rather tragic) character who is one-third human, one-third
golem (golem means a human body created by hand from clay with no soul!
ndVeggie), and one-third demon, and Amelia, a justice-obsessed
white magic practitioner, probably one of Lina's closest friends ever.
The OVA and movies take place before the three TV series, as they were
based on the Slayers Special (SP) short stories; that means Lina is only
14, hasn't met Gourry or the others yet, and still has Naga the Serpent
as an occasional traveling companion. Naga is a tall, black-haired sorceress
whith an almost total lack of clothing; she follows Lina around sometimes
a partner, sometimes a rival, but almost always doing the completely opposite
of Lina.
Well... we don't tell you more about Slayers world of fantasy, but let
us introduce the music videos we've chosen for you. There are many music
videos with clips of Slayers together with other anime, but less are the
ones made with Slayers as the only footage. It's easy to suppose that
the most of Slayers music vids has a lot of funny and magic scenes, but
we've found some videos with dramatic and action clips too. We're talking
about the first two vids below where the main character is Zelgadis. But
soon after, we'll laugh with a tribute to Gourry in version... female
and with the protagonists of Slayers movies, Lina and Naga, in a very
funny vid.
Ready...? Now your journey in fantasy can start...
by Veggie
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bma_ksa
bma_ksa@yahoo.com - www.geocities.com/bma_ksa
Note by the author
Things I'd like to say about Zelgadis...
Zelgadis!! (Who the hell is he!!?) Well, some might already know
that name which is one of the "the slayers" anime character.
It's not the first time doing an action/character profile video,
actually it's the second time (first was on Vash the stampded) and
people did liked The Stampede video. I tried my best on this video
and had one dam obstacle!!
I thought at first I had enough footage for the project and it seems
that Zelgadis wasn't a main character in "The slayers"
anime!?!? DUH But I have to admit that I like his way of talk and
act, even his costume and hair looks gre8 "something you don't
see in any anime". He's a unique character or at least to me.
I didn't like "the slayers" that much but with out Zelgadis
I wouldn't even continue the whole series!!
The video...
The video is no more or less than action and lip sync. I tried to
sync the music as much as possible and that was very hard on this
video for some reason, timing... timing and timing... O_O took much
time to fix it. Well... at the end watching the video for like 3
times I'd say the timing is really ok and am kind of satisfied with
the result. The quality of the video as all my videos I don't make
a huge MPG sized file to have a good video quality!! cause I believe
that MPG is not the best in quality no matter how much you give
bitrate to it!! I like other format like Divx or Xvid, and if your
asking why MPG then? The answer is... simply MPG can be played in
any PC on the world!! Not like DivX which needs the codec + fast
enough PC. I don't really see a huge difference when encoding to
1500 kbits/sec instead of 2000 kbits/sec "however some goes
to 3000 kbits/sec which is a huge file sized!!"
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=18703

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High Res Music video
352 x 240 - 1685 Kbps
Title: Zelgadis
Artist/Band: Linkin Park
Song: Faint LYRICS
Footage: Slayers
Size: 26,48 MB
Time: 2:16
Player: Windows Media Player (MPEG format)
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Astro Glidewell (acomalass)
Note by the author
This video can mostly be summed up as me learning to avoid subtitles,
sometimes with interesting results, sometimes with interesting flaws
that I didn't notice until afterwards. I still like parts of this
video, and I learned lots of useful stuff from editing it. Anyways,
here's the old news: Oh ho, lo and behold. I have through many hours
work removed the subtitles and made this video much much cooler.
People will actually sit through the whole thing without wandering
off half the time! WOOOO, time to post! The thanks goes out to the
guys (ok, just one guy) who emailed me about this vid. With these
OVERWHELMING inquiries how could I not remake this video?! Ah, I'm
just kidding, what kind of twisted psycho does music videos for
fame and popularity? Before you ponder that question too much, here's
something about the actual video...
This video is about Rezo's transformation in the first series; first
to Shabranigdo then to Zannafar. Oh yeah, SPOILER ALERT. One idea
I'm kind of kicking around is that Shab-Rezo wants to become a whole
person, but he gets taken over by a monster ("wanna be wanna
be wanna be..PRETTY"). Then Copy-Rezo wants to out-do his original
so he actually becomes the monster himself. Anyways, I've never
seen a serious or even just a darker action video to Slayers, so
that alone was fun to do with this and my other Slayers video.
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=7059

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High Res Music video
352 x 240 - 1400 Kbps
Title: Hail Shabranigdo!
Artist/Band: Mindless Self Indulgence
Song: Hail Satan LYRICS
Footage: Slayers
Size: 20,40 MB
Time: 2:11
Player: Windows Media Player (MPEG format)
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Lonley Driver lorddrake@aol.com
- www.lonleydriver.com
Note by the author
This was another quick AMV for me, and it was a ton of fun to make.
I actually got this idea after watching Adam Sandler's Anger Management,
because the song is featured in it. Then I took my favorite episode
of Slayers, paired them together and this is the outcome. Enjoy!
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=17008

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High Res Music video
352 x 240 - 1478 Kbps
Title: Ode To Gourry
From: West Side Story (1961) Original Soundrack
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Song: I Feel Pretty LYRICS
Footage: Slayers
Size: 9,01 MB
Time: 0:52
Player: Windows Media Player (MPEG format)
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BogoSort lsheng+amv@desu.org
Note by the author
My first amv, I used Premiere 5.0 with video captured from a DVD
source. Took about a few days of actual editing with lots of planning
before. Quality's a bit worse than I'd have hoped, but the video
overall is decent for a my first attempt.
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=661

FEATURES & DOWNLOAD
High Res Music video
352 x 240 - 1833 Kbps
Title: She's Actual Size
Artist/Band: They Might Be Giants
Song: She's Actual Size LYRICS
Footage: Slayers
Size: 24,30 MB
Time: 1:57
Player: Windows Media Player (MPEG format)
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