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Summary: A Whole New World
Review: Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Slayers Try comes out, reuniting you once more with all your favorite characters and giving you a few new ones.
Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, Amelia, and Xellos are all here, set to explore the lands across the ocean. Joining them is the beautiful and enigmatic Filia.
A whole new slew of deadly enemies show their faces. Opposing forces battle for possession of Gourry's Sword of Light, with Lina and crew caught in the middle.
The most compelling segment of the Slayers mythos, it is also the darkest.
But that's not to say that this series is missing the playful banter that made Slayers so popular to begin with. With hijinx, mayhem, a spoof of the sentai (Power Ranger) shows in Japan, and even a blatant parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion, making use of the fact that two of the voice cast from that show (Japanese dub only) are on the cast of Slayers.
The only drawback is that this is it. The series can't be topped. I'm already limited to having to give this five stars. There's no way they can top it.
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Summary: If you've followed the series you HAVE to get this one.
Review: Ok, I will try to make this short and sweet. If you already shelled out the cash to get the first 2 DVD collections ( slayers & Slayers Next) you have to get this one to see how to series turns out. Try is a very enjoyable series. Although not as good as NEXT, and not as fresh as the original, it is still crammed full of what makes Slayers such a fantastic series.Just go buy it, its better than 99% of whats out there.
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Summary: Slayers Try!! Love it or Hate it. Hey it's Slayers
Review: Ok, so the 3rd season of Slayers is a little lame, but I found it to be as funny as Slayers Next. Slayers Try finishes off the Slayers series which was very funny from the start. Who would have thought this series would last 3 season and spawn several movies and a special or two. Slayers Try brings an end to a series that could have gone another season or 2. Linna and Gorury are back so is that rougish Xellos and the rest of the gang for one last season. Here we are caught in the middle of another monster trying to take over the world. Xellos role is less but I really thought it should have been in less in Next. His tag line is "That a secret" is missing from this season. This tag line was Xellos's only saving grace. This season could stand without him all together. Not going really tell you everything but keep an eye on the sword of light. That's it for now kiddies. If you like Slayers you will like Try. IF you haven't seen Next Try will be very confusing to you. Hey the movies are great as well. Naga keeps Lina on her toes in the movies just like Gourry keeps Lina on her toes in the series.
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Summary: Coming up next, series four: Slayers Fail
Review: Slayers equals big fun. Slayers Next equals even bigger fun. Slayers Try equals...not much fun at all, actually. The idea of a third series seemed highly questionable to me from the start, given how well Next seemed to wrap things up, but what the hell, thought I--it's Slayers. Even if it's not brilliant, it still can't help but be at least somewhat entertaining, right? Well...sort of. Try is not wholly devoid of merit, I'll grant you. It has a few--but far TOO few--genuinely comedic moments, Filia is a decent addition to the cast, and Valgaav is an okay villain, but ultimately it would seem to be a very clear instance of going through the motions. The main characters have, by this point, become utterly predictable and more than a little boring, as has the action--another world-threatening menace. Whee. They do make a half-hearted attempt to shake things up a bit by adding in moral ambiguity, but it never really goes anywhere. In fact, all culminates in what is very likely the most excrutiatingly dull climax I've ever forced myself to sit through (featuring a couple of characters who look like Dragonball Z rejects--which seems inadvertantly all-too-appropriate in this case), which, in addition to everything else, includes the hoary old fantasy cliche of having the villain ask why the heroes bother to fight since they're so pathetic and weak and stuff, to which the hero (heroine, in this case) reels off an allegedly inspiring speech about the value of living. Blech. Kefka's immortal "you sound like chapters from a self-help booklet" line has never been more applicable. And then, after all this, what do we get? A rushed and wholly unsatisfying ending. It's inevitable that one would want to see this, after viewing the first two series, but extreme caution is nonetheless advised. I am having a hard time fathoming that anybody could think it worth five stars. In the future, let's try to make use of our critical thinking faculties when we write reviews, eh guys?
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Summary: Dont remember Slayers this way! Stay away!
Review: Slayers is a great series in general; with the parody and humor of the first season, and the finely-tuned and exciting second season it has great rewatchability. As a diehard fan of Slayers, I might eventually get the third season but I prefer to pretend it never existed. That way my memories of the series will stay with Next where they were the best so far. After a promising start, it nosedives rapidly into the boring. They don't make use of their best characters very much or follow up the promising plot threads. The middle of the Try series seems entirely disconnected, you could rearrange most of the episodes in the middle or leave them out without missing anything (except boredom and the time you'd have yawned through watching them) and barely picks up at the end. Someone seems to have told the directors that you can make a series more interesting by giving the evil characters a "good" side. So they gave good sides to all the bad guys. Specifically, they gave the *SAME* good side to all the bad guys. Each one seems to have nobly saved their underling from certain death and earned their underlings undying loyalty. I was just waiting for the final boss to have saved somebody too. Fortunately the final boss had no speaking parts and was pretty one-dimensional. Do yourself a favor. Remember the series by the best parts and don't watch this. If you *must* watch it, immediately watch the second season (Next) over again so you don't have any bad memories...
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Summary: Dont remember Slayers this way! Stay away!
Review: Slayers is a great series in general; with the parody and humor of the first season, and the finely-tuned and exciting second season it has great rewatchability. As a diehard fan of Slayers, I might eventually get the third season but I prefer to pretend it never existed. That way my memories of the series will stay with Next where they were the best so far. After a promising start, it nosedives rapidly into the boring. They don't make use of their best characters very much or follow up the promising plot threads. The middle of the Try series seems entirely disconnected, you could rearrange most of the episodes in the middle or leave them out without missing anything (except boredom and the time you'd have yawned through watching them) and barely picks up at the end. Someone seems to have told the directors that you can make a series more interesting by giving the evil characters a "good" side. So they gave good sides to all the bad guys. Specifically, they gave the *SAME* good side to all the bad guys. Each one seems to have nobly saved their underling from certain death and earned their underlings undying loyalty. I was just waiting for the final boss to have saved somebody too. Fortunately the final boss had no speaking parts and was pretty one-dimensional. Do yourself a favor. Remember the series by the best parts and don't watch this. If you *must* watch it, immediately watch the second season (Next) over again so you don't have any bad memories...
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Summary: Not the best but good just the same
Review: Take heart ye who don't understand Japanese, the audio bugs are not in the English. Enjoy this seemingly simple story of a sorceress and her friends as they destroy evil in the world for the sake of a buck.
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Summary: Slayers Next is the best of the slayers series
Review: The Slayers NEXT is the best of the entire slayers series. The animation is top notch unlike the first series. Its packed with Action, Comedy, and tons of slapstick humor! There are some scenes that will make you laugh and some even that will make you shed tears. Overall this DVD collection is one that you definetly want if your an anime fan!
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Summary: Following the path between light and darkness
Review: The Slayers Try brings us once again into the realm and world dominated by the fiery-tempered Lina Inverse and her coterie. Continuing the epic, we find ourselves engaged in yet another desparate struggle to save the world. It sounds cliché. The characters have already been well-developed in the first two series, their traits ironed out from comically flamboyant and exaggerated to more manageable levels. Lina has already saved the world twice--first from the Dark Lord Shabranigdo, then in the climax of Next from the vile mechanations of Hellmaster Phibrizzo. That climax certainly left little room for further expansion. Try enters the stage knowing how it seems an overdone battle between good and evil--of the great flairs of Slayers has always been the self-deprecating commentary--but Try is not about a battle between good and evil; it is a battle between hope and despair. The creators seem to have attempted to blur the lines between good and evil--and they succeeded. What we find are not immaculate heroes squaring off against debased villains, as was the case before, when it was readily apparent that Gaav and Phibrizzo were well rooted in the side of evil. Instead we find characters that are flawed, fallen, but not inherently good or evil. We find a struggle in Almayce and his Overworld companions over the risks of destroying one world to save another; we find the Golden Dragons that serve the Fire Dragon King acting for what they believe is good, but willing to accomplish that goal through horrible means. Finally we have Valgaav, who is drowning in despair and hatred and yet still possesses a compassion that, while twisted, is still admirable. What we see in Try is not the forces of good confronting the tides of evil, but people--be they dragon, human, monster, or god--each with their own often conflicting agendas, struggling to save the world they live in the best way they know how. And yet, Try still preserves the natural Slayers flair, the comedy and slapstick, the evergoing quest for more food. I challenge any Slayers fan to examine this series in the light of the others, to trace the maturation of the characters from the onset of the first series to the conclusion of Try, to find the depth that yet exists in a story that is not inherently complex yet carries a beauty all its own.
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Summary: Following the path between light and darkness
Review: The Slayers Try brings us once again into the realm and world dominated by the fiery-tempered Lina Inverse and her coterie. Continuing the epic, we find ourselves engaged in yet another desparate struggle to save the world. It sounds cliché. The characters have already been well-developed in the first two series, their traits ironed out from comically flamboyant and exaggerated to more manageable levels. Lina has already saved the world twice--first from the Dark Lord Shabranigdo, then in the climax of Next from the vile mechanations of Hellmaster Phibrizzo. That climax certainly left little room for further expansion. Try enters the stage knowing how it seems an overdone battle between good and evil--of the great flairs of Slayers has always been the self-deprecating commentary--but Try is not about a battle between good and evil; it is a battle between hope and despair. The creators seem to have attempted to blur the lines between good and evil--and they succeeded. What we find are not immaculate heroes squaring off against debased villains, as was the case before, when it was readily apparent that Gaav and Phibrizzo were well rooted in the side of evil. Instead we find characters that are flawed, fallen, but not inherently good or evil. We find a struggle in Almayce and his Overworld companions over the risks of destroying one world to save another; we find the Golden Dragons that serve the Fire Dragon King acting for what they believe is good, but willing to accomplish that goal through horrible means. Finally we have Valgaav, who is drowning in despair and hatred and yet still possesses a compassion that, while twisted, is still admirable. What we see in Try is not the forces of good confronting the tides of evil, but people--be they dragon, human, monster, or god--each with their own often conflicting agendas, struggling to save the world they live in the best way they know how. And yet, Try still preserves the natural Slayers flair, the comedy and slapstick, the evergoing quest for more food. I challenge any Slayers fan to examine this series in the light of the others, to trace the maturation of the characters from the onset of the first series to the conclusion of Try, to find the depth that yet exists in a story that is not inherently complex yet carries a beauty all its own.
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