Okay, for once, I finished a Slayers series at a decent hour. Now, time for a review!
Subject: Slayers Try!

***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!***

Before I say anything else, I'd like to say that I'm utterly PISSED at one specific point in the ending. I was hoping for Zelgadis and Amelia to wind up together, but NOOOOO. Of course, if you look at Zel's water bottle at the end, you see AMelia's bracelet on it, so maybe they won't stay apart....

Second off, I was really excited when Valgaav and Xelloss started fighting. After all, Xelloss killed thousands of dragons, and Valgaav, being an Ancient Dragon, had the power of thousands of Golden Dragons. Shame that Valgaav so utterly outclassed him.

Speaking of Xelloss, I was pleasantly surprised to see just how evil that jackass could be. Of course, he's a Monster, so I shouldn't be THAT surprised, but still.

I was glad that the ending DIDN'T rely on the DragonSlave. Sorry, but it's gotten to the point that, if Lina'd used GigaSlave on Dark Star, it would have seemed like Mommy coming down to spank widdle Dark Star for trying to end existence.

AND WHERE THE HELL DOES VALGAAV GET HIS FACTS? It WASN'T LINA who killed Gaav, it was HellMaster Phibrizzo. Plus, she/Lord of NightMares took Phibrizzo out in Next, so shouldn't Valgaav be thanking her or something?

Meh, enough with that bit

Now onto the Xelloss-Filia relationship!
It seemed really strange to me in the last episode when Xelloss and Filia were talking, and after Filia remarked that she wasn't going to "lower herself to speaking with a monster," Xelloss just laughed and said "Now, THAT'S the dragon I love!" It's obviously sarcasm, cause I don't really think Monsters can feel love. I mean, if positive emotions hurt them, then if he fell in love, he'd slowly be eaten away.

And I REALLY want to see the worlds of the other two Dark Lords. I wanna figure out who the hell they are.

Anyways, enough with that bit also.

I think Zelgadis was a lot more tolerant of Xelloss this series than in Next. I mean, it just seems out of character. I thought he'd be helping Filia out in pissing Xelloss off. SPeaking of pissing Xelloss off, I think Filia's the only one who's managed to get him REALLY angry. I thought he was going to rip her head off on more than one occasion.

And if no one picked up on the developing relationship between Gourry and Lina in Next (particularly at the end), Try gives absolute proof that they're closer than they were before. Remember, the original reason Lina decided to keep traveling with Gourry was because she wanted the Sword of Light, but at the end of Try, he gives the sword to the Overworlder, and in the credits, it shows that Gourry and Lina are still traveling together. Now, if they weren't closer than before, Lina woulda ditched Gourry, since he doesn't have the sword of light anymore for her to try and get.

And I'm REALLY upset that Sylphiel didn't show up this series. She gave probably the best line in Slayers Next ("I'll use violence, money, sex appeal!" [Lina]"You'll use money and WHAT on Phibrizzo?!"), and from how they all ran off together at the end of Slayers Next, I woulda thought that Sylphiel would have been traveling with at least one of the group. Maybe she ditched cause she realized she didn't have a chance with Gourry. I guess I'll never know.

And WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SECOND PIECE OF DARK STAR? After the portal opened, I thought it was going to merge with the half that was already in Lina's world, but it seems she destroyed that half before they could merge. So what happened to the remaining half? Did it just die because it couldn't live with half of its body annihilated? Or did it actually recombine when I wasn't looking?
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***END OF SPOILERS***

Overall, I give the series a 9.75/10. It could be better in palces, but overall, I liked it. Now all I need to see are the OVAs and movies and I'll have seen all the Slayers stuff! :D

Sorry i've been away for abit but in that time i've seen more or NAruto and the voices just plain piss me off , same goes for how they pronounce thing but there's not much i can do about it exept not watch it.

On a side not Guild Wars is a great game.

At 11/5/05 03:29 PM, BeanBagBoy wrote: Sorry i've been away for abit but in that time i've seen more or NAruto and the voices just plain piss me off , same goes for how they pronounce thing but there's not much i can do about it exept not watch it.

On a side not Guild Wars is a great game.

i really think how naruto says "believe it" EVERY OTHER WORd it gets really annoying i mean he'll be like "i like ramen BELIEVE IT and the sky is blue BELIEVE IT" i like the show but that gets annoying

Neon Genises Evangelion is a good Anime. I have the movie set, now i'm trying to get the series boxset.

Hey guys and girls... i am an Anime fan and i wuld like to join this club...how do i go about in joining??

At 11/6/05 02:30 AM, Sinner-BroKeN wrote: Hey guys and girls... i am an Anime fan and i wuld like to join this club...how do i go about in joining??

List your top 5 Anime and choose a character to represent you.

Did anybody watch the premiere of IGPX? I saw parts of it, but I got bored and put something else on.

Hmm..top 5 ay... Well...
1 Full Metal Panic! series (all of them, FMP! FMP! Fumoffu FMP!: TSR)
2 DN Angel
3 Chobits
4 Chrono Crusade
5 Steel Angel Kurumi
Not in any particular order...
Hmm..man now i gotta choose a char =(..so so hard.................ill choose Chii from chobits....now what do i have to do?

Just a quick question to those of you who read manga as well, has any of you ever seen an Anime that was in your mind better than the manga? I almost have 200 mangas, finding ones that are better than the manga itself is somewhat hard. But many of them come close though.

Naruto Mangas were released here today. I gotta wait until Friday to get one though...

At 11/7/05 12:47 AM, Sinner-BroKeN wrote: Hmm..top 5 ay... Well...
1 Full Metal Panic! series (all of them, FMP! FMP! Fumoffu FMP!: TSR)
2 DN Angel
3 Chobits
4 Chrono Crusade
5 Steel Angel Kurumi
Not in any particular order...
Hmm..man now i gotta choose a char =(..so so hard.................ill choose Chii from chobits....now what do i have to do?

Your character must be your own gender. Chii is a female, and your profile says that you're a male.

Hi everyone. I was hoping I could join, but I'm at your mercy I guess. Please consider me in joining this club. *bow*

Today i borrowed the Shamn King Manga from my firend today. I gotta says it's quite good! I Finshed it an hour ago.

At 11/8/05 10:47 PM, Kronik_The_Hedgehog wrote: Today i borrowed the Shamn King Manga from my firend today. I gotta says it's quite good! I Finshed it an hour ago.

What's with all the Shonen manga nowadays? I believe I may be the only one that gets Raijon, Dark Horse and CPM, as well as others. I'm not saying that Shonen labeled manga is bad or anything, but wow, I've seen that label the most lately around people just getting into manga. My first one was from Tokyopop.

Part 1

Well I¡¦m back from Nekocon 8. I had plenty of fun with this one. But the main thing I did was volunteer for about 20 hours. I did this to get free Nekocon 9 pre-reg! YEAH!

Anyway the new new convention center in Hampton Roads, VA was great! It more than sufficed to the ever quickly growing con. The dealer¡¦s room was 3 times bigger than the one they had last year! I mean it was huge! And for the 1st time in Nekocon history they had 3 video rooms! So there was plenty of anime to go around!

As for costumes I myself dressed-up as Keitaro :-P. But there were plenty of outrageous costumes! http://afansview.com..kocon/ne04b0017.html
Is the best place to see all the cosplayers. (but he hasn¡¦t put many up as of yet.) You will se a pic of my as Keitaro sooner or later up there. I¡¦ll probably be the only Keitaro up there. (blue sweat shirt, tan pants, yellowish/white collar.)

The animes I watched were:
Shuffle 1-4
Tsubasa Conical 1-2
Iriya no Sora UFO 1-4
Puni Puni Poemi 1-2
Full Metal Panic: Fumahuu 1-4
And the last 20 minutes of Appleseed

Things I bought:
Love Hina Christmas Movie

Love Hina Again

Shinobu Swim suit series #2 figurine (http://i24.ebayimg.c../04/1c/e8/7d_1_b.JP
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Festival Kimono Shinobu figurine (1 ON FAR LEFT http://animesekai.co..gure-lhina-set01.jpg

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A hentai movie that i will not mention but is does have the Love Hina Hentai movie on it :-P

A Chibi-usa keychain for my niece for Christmas.

But I still didn¡¦t get the Shinobu towel figure I wanted STILL. ƒ¼ I also came very close to getting the Chibi Nodoka figurine but I ran out of money.

Other things I saw in the dealer¡¦s Room that was Akamatsu related:

Love Hina Beach Towel $100!!!!! Out of my price range entirely!!

Both Negima PS2 games! $80 a pop! Again out of my price range¡K..

Negima figurines

Motoko; Mutsumi figures

Love Hina and Negima manga

One thing that bothered me was there was WAY too many Narutards (Naruto fans) and FF fans there. Another downside was that the convention center had to close at 2:00 am. So there was no overnight anime in the video rooms. But since I volunteered I got free crash space in the hotel! So that was a plus.

As for the art show there were plenty of great art pieces there. I even entered my own Shinobu drawing that took me a month to do. (http://i3.photobucke../Shinobu-Drawing.jp
g to see it, yea I used a grid. So what?!)

I wasn’t able to go to the dances or see the AMVs because I was either volunteering or watching anime in the video rooms.

There were plenty of voice actors there mostly from Funimation. Including Greg Ayers; Laura Bailey; Colleen Clinkenbeard; Steve Bentett; Sonny Strait; and Mike McFarland! I even got to talk with some of them!

I went to the Manga Erotica panel which was….fun

All in all I had a great time! Although I lost a $20 and my pillow (Yet to be found) This was the best Nekocon ever! I can’t wait till next year’s Nekocon!

Ahhh..hmm..sorry about that i didnt no...ill go with Daisuke from DN Angel then. ^_^

At 11/8/05 10:52 PM, Mast3rMind wrote: What's with all the Shonen manga nowadays? I believe I may be the only one that gets Raijon, Dark Horse and CPM, as well as others. I'm not saying that Shonen labeled manga is bad or anything, but wow, I've seen that label the most lately around people just getting into manga. My first one was from Tokyopop.

My first Manga was puiblished by Del Rey. Shonen Jump Mangas are HARD to find in the town I live in. I'm suprised the Naruto Mangas are here! Damn, I want one so badly, but I HAVE to wait!

At 11/9/05 12:33 AM, BigFan7 wrote: I went to the Manga Erotica panel which was….fun

About that, my friend has almost every manga out of that label anyone can think of. I first saw those at the age of 15. The stories are interesting, but to pay about $4.98 for each one that equals about to about 20 pages each at times is a rip off, that's why I stay bound to basic manga, $10-20. My friend suggested tha they have a collection of them and put them all in one book. I haven't seen one of those in years.

At 11/9/05 05:14 PM, Kronik_The_Hedgehog wrote: My first Manga was puiblished by Del Rey. Shonen Jump Mangas are HARD to find in the town I live in. I'm suprised the Naruto Mangas are here! Damn, I want one so badly, but I HAVE to wait!

I have six bookstores near where I live, I have a wide variety in manga. Some you will see in stores, and some that you'll only find in half price bookstores. Shonen mangas are everywhere, even in the half price bookstores.

At 11/9/05 05:41 PM, Mast3rMind wrote: I have six bookstores near where I live, I have a wide variety in manga. Some you will see in stores, and some that you'll only find in half price bookstores. Shonen mangas are everywhere, even in the half price bookstores.

There's only 2 bookstores here. Both of them hav little Mangas. Where I used to live, they had 3 or 4. I only went to one, which had 2 book shelves of Mangas. Yet there were NO Shonen Jump Mangas! >: (

Hellsing
Bleach
Azumanga Daioh
Monster
Giant Robo

If I had to choose a character, I would be Ivan the Terrible from GR.

At 11/9/05 12:03 AM, BigFan7 wrote: A hentai movie

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At 11/9/05 07:16 PM, Kronik_The_Hedgehog wrote: There's only 2 bookstores here. Both of them hav little Mangas. Where I used to live, they had 3 or 4. I only went to one, which had 2 book shelves of Mangas. Yet there were NO Shonen Jump Mangas! >: (

What's the big deal about Shonen Jump nowadays? I remember back in the day, just about everyone was carrying about mangas by Tokyopop. Oh well.

At 11/9/05 07:34 PM, ThinksWithBrain wrote:

At 11/9/05 12:03 AM, BigFan7 wrote: A hentai movie

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My friend has an abundance of those in his room.

Anime Fiction...at least I think it's called that.

At 11/9/05 07:42 PM, Mast3rMind wrote: What's the big deal about Shonen Jump nowadays? I remember back in the day, just about everyone was carrying about mangas by Tokyopop. Oh well.

Tokyopop Brand Mangas are common here! That's what my collection of Mangas is mostly made up of.....

At 11/9/05 10:21 PM, Kronik_The_Hedgehog wrote: Tokyopop Brand Mangas are common here! That's what my collection of Mangas is mostly made up of.....

Interesting. Think you can name all the mangas you have and from what company. Let's compare.

At 11/9/05 10:38 PM, Mast3rMind wrote:

At 11/9/05 10:21 PM, Kronik_The_Hedgehog wrote: Tokyopop Brand Mangas are common here! That's what my collection of Mangas is mostly made up of.....

Interesting. Think you can name all the mangas you have and from what company. Let's compare.

Let's see here: Saiyuki, Girls Bravo, .Hack, and Sekai Trilogy. That's it the other tow are Shonen Jump and Del Rey.

Tokyopop

A.I Love You 1-3
Ai Yori Aoshi 1-9
Arm Of Kannon 1-5
Battle Royale 1-13
Battle Vixens 1-8
Chobits 1-3
Getbackers 1-2
GTO 1-25
Happy Mania 1,3,4
I.N.V.U. 1-3
Kare Kano 1-2
Kind Of Hell 1-2
Lament Of The Lamb 1
Love Hina 1-14
Lupin III 2< Volume
Mahoromatic 1-6
Mars 1-3
Model 1
Peach Girl 5<Volume
Psychic Academy 1-9
Remote 3<Volume
Tokyo Tribes 1
Tokyopop Sneaks
Warriors Of Tao 1-2

Viz

Bastard 1-2
Blue Spring
Inuyasha 1,2,14
Maison Ikkoku 1-8
Ranma 1/2 1-2 (I've read it up to book 29, I've now just started to buy them)
Saikano 1-3
Sanctuary 1
Sensual Phase 1-3
Sneak Peaks 2003
The All New Tenchi Muyo! 1
The Big O 1,3

ComicsOne

Goku Midnight Eye 1
Offered 1-2 (Only two, but 400 page mangas, it costs $16, but I paided two instead, half price bookstore clearance sell)
Onegai Teacher 1-2 (Only two)
Sarai 2,3,4,8
Wounded Man 1,3,4,5,6 ( 1-3 were 400 page books, $15, but I got them all for $5, same place I picked up Offered)

Dark Horse

Berserk 1
Samurai Executioner 1-2

Raijon Comics

Bomber Girl

Anime Works

Baron Gong Battle 1

CPM Manga

Comic Party 1

ADV Manga

Maburaho 1

Broccoli Books

Juvenile Orion 1

CMX

Sword Of The Dark Ones 1-2

Ice Kunion

Sampler Sneak Peak

Del Rey

Negima 6<Volume

I think that's all of them. I've been reading and collecting manga for three years now, this is what I have. Well...all that's in my room anyways at the moment. I've seen most of which own made into an anime.

I don't have many mangas...

Viz
Nausicaa of the valey of the wind 1-7

TOKYOPOP
Abenobashi magical shopping arcade 1

Samurai Deeper Kyo 1

.HACK//The legend of the twighlight

ADV
Aria 1

Animage
kaze no tane no naushikaa (Nausicaa of the valley of the wind) 1-2

At 11/10/05 12:15 PM, _RanmaSaotome_ wrote: If anyone was a fan of the manga or anime Bastard!! I recently found out that they are making a mmorpg out of the series, although only in Japan :(. http://www.bastard-online.jp/

OH how I hate all other countries for not translating this game into a language I can understand...^^

I'm not meaning to be rude, but I feel like I'm being ignored here. If you don't want me in, just aknowledge me and at least say that to me, but don't ignore me.