To quote an user from /vr/:
>I feel The Slayers is in that weird place that casual anime fans don't know it but hardcore fans thinks it casual. At least that's been my experience.
Would you agree or disagree, Zig Forums? I think user has a point, it's an anime that is "known", but not known-known as a gateway show like Dragon Ball, Naruto or even mother fucking Speed Racer.
Also Slayers and 90's anime discussion thread I guess.
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I feel The Slayers is in that thing most newfags anime fans don't know it but oldfags fans thinks it casual
I really like hearing people from the generation before mine talking about some of the hoops they had to jump to find some of the stuff they watched. Shit like digging through shady Nip TV-specific VHS rental shops, or mailing each other home-recorded shows.
Sounds like hell, but fun to listen people reminisce about.
>casual anime fans don't know it
Correct
>but hardcore fans thinks it casual.
I don't think this part is true. Slayers was a reasonably popular and prominent series during its heyday (90s and the earlier 2000s) and could have been considered casual back then, but it's become far too buried and forgotten by time to be considered casual in 2020. Slayers was my first anime, I got it for Christmas in 2003 when I was 16, but if I was a 16 year old getting into anime in 2020 I'd probably have no idea what in the fuck it was.
I think it's just old and not famous like Eva or Sailor Moon. Casuals don't know it, but oldfags remember it being pretty casual 20 years ago.
If it helps in some regard, back in the very early 00's, to be able to watch anime I was interested in but not localized (or butchered to hell and back, Rockman.EXE comes to mind), I used to have to download it from a bot on an IRC channel as a peer to peer transfer. The waiting always killed me, it took sooo long, but it felt so good when I could finally watch it.
Did you got it sub or dub? I've just been listening to the english dub for the first time and it seems reasonably good.
Also, I wonder if younger generations would interested on something like Slayers to begin with if it reaired on some fashion or something...
I've seen some pretty normalfag friends know what Slayers is. It and Dragon Half still coast on their old early-2000s animecon cred.
The DVDs I got featured both subs and dubs, but I was still a pure dubbie at this point. I didn't begin watching subtitled anime until 2006. I did switch over to the Japanese version for a bit on a whim during episode 2, though, and was immediately taken with the Japanese language (I compared it against Spanish, which I was taking as a 10th grader at the time and found really harsh and grating).
I remember having to spend around 15 hours downloading 100 MB Sega CD games using an FTP service since they allowed for download resuming; at the time, I don't think any internet browsers did so. If your connection blipped out for a moment or someone called the house, downloads would have to start back over from 0 percent.
It used to be a very normalfag anime, but as with all things, it slowly fades in obscurity.
Maybe I hanged around the wrong circles, maybe it's because I was a literal child, but I remember back in 1999 up to the mid-00's, no one really talked about Slayers in the forums I used to frequent. Discussion revolved more around DragonBall, Digimon, Naruto, etc.
And I remember this place which actively removed Narutard threads in it's very early days. The gatekeeping was real. I miss it.
This is a misconception. Low quality, off topic, shitpost, and bait threads were removed, and it was common for Naruto threads to be emblematic of that.
The Naruto ban is a myth, but mocking Naruto fans wasn't. And the idea that Zig Forums hated the Big 3 by extension is just as ludicrous, as Bleach was always loved on Zig Forums. One Piece though, most people were impassive about.
>Bleach was always loved on Zig Forums.
I still got all eight vhs tapes
Yeah, Slayers was never even remotely close to the sort of mainstream ubquity and visibility that Dragon Ball, Digimon, or Naruto enjoyed. Almost everyone that was heavily involved with online anime culture knew about it, but it was only a household name within that niche. In its prime, if Digimon and Pokemon were top-tier in terms of popularity, Slayers probably would have been in the second or third tier. Nowadays, of course, it would be around the 10th.
It got lost in the sea of fantasy anime which was everywhere in the 90s. Also didn't help that Naga wasn't in the main series.
Plus there wasn't much to latch onto when they burn the running gag of "Lina solves x by spamming Dragon Slave" into the ground.
He's not talking about Zig Forums, user
Man, Dragon Half, that's a name I've not heard in ages... What's your favorite 90's anime, Zig Forums?
Fuck dial-up.
Dial up was terrible and I'm glad we no longer use it but I do miss the sound when it connected. The internet was so new and exciting. Filled with so much potential. Shame it became centralized garbage.
That's one of the two series that I can't wrap my mind around.
It's way too generic (for my taste) for being a proper story and not very funny for being a parody of fantasy stories.
The other show is Outlaw Star but for other reasons
I was lucky enough that my parents bought a second phone line specifically for internet. But yeah I don't miss those days. I first got cable internet in 2003 and internet speeds still at times impresses me, like when you are streaming a 4k video.
Anybody else had this channel back in the day?
>digging through shady Nip TV-specific VHS rental shops
>mailing each other home-recorded shows
I've done both of these things. I still have a handful of raw ripped anime on VHS, and a bunch of old VHS fansubs, including all three Slayers TV series.
I once traded VHS recordings for all of Rurouni Kenshin for copies of the entire LoGH OVA series. Good times.
I didn't. Tell me more.
I'm retarded, LoGH?
I can agree with that stance. Once you have pretty much watched the "entry level" stuff, Slayers is in level 2.
Sometimes I wonder through if "entry level" does mean "low quality" to most people...
If only Slayers Revolution (& Evolution-R) took the series pride back instead of burying it. I always liked that following Slayers's main story and spinoffs always felt like picking up on a D&D campaign: settings would change, different enemies and allies but mostly same core cast doing shit from fighting small fries, travelling, having fun getting detracted and then fighting a boss
Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
I didn't think they were as bad as some of the doomsayers, but they were a definite low point for the series. At least the LN revival seems to be doing really well.
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I had it as part of some kind of advanced cable package. I actually did not watch Slayers on it back in the day, I was watching raw DBZ instead. In fact I only started watching Slayers this year.
It does, to people who had their brain burned by memes and buzzwords, their critical thinking is dead.
Wasn't Slayers also based on D&D campaigns? Just like Lodoss War.
Of course...
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