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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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!!"

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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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