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Summary:

At a tavern in town, Lina and Gourry are having an eating contest while Zel and Amelia watches. But the contest is interrupted by Investigator Weiser, who arrests Lina (again). The charges against her this time is for stealing the pets belonging to some wealthy women. Lina obviously protests, but the investigator stubbornly accuses her anyways.

Attempting to prove her innocence (and to claim the reward money for catching the culprit), Lina and friends head into town and ask around. However, most of the citizens are keeping their mouth shut, making Lina very suspicious. Later on, the party finds an island, and after making it past the giant jellyfish and the mob of lesser demons, Lina and the inspector end up inside a research lab. There she confronts and defeats a Chimera researcher (with the help of Gourry and a giant jellyfish of course).

It turns out the research is being backed by a wealthy prince, and that the inspector knew about this. But he used “attempting to capture Lina Inverse” as an excuse for accidentally stumbling onto the island and into the facility.

Thoughts:
Maybe it’s because I’ve slept a total of 12 hours the past 3 nights, but I found this episode slightly on the boring side. Xellos still refuses to make an appearance, and the comedy was fairly light this episode too (though some parts still managed to get a chuckle out of me).

Gourry makes a new friend

The bunny is just begging to be in blissmo’s comic

So moe Shin f-cking died (She even came with sparkles!)

Lina Inverse is Queen boobless!

Summary:

Lina discovers that many countries (including her friends’) has classified her as someone who could destroy a nation and after vowing to destroy all their home countries, Lina is interrupted by the inspector again. She convinces him that it was not her who was running around destroying their mage tanks so the inspector agrees to let them help him catch the imposter (as Lina has a few scores to settle with it too).

He takes them to the castle where they are keeping another mage tank and it’s instantly destroyed by the pokemon that followed them there. Lina and Gourry immediately chase the fleeing pokemon and battle ensues in the forest. The battle ends with Lina using an amped Dragon Slave, but the pokemon somehow dodges this and even takes out the Sword of Light that Lina and Gourry were looking for. However, it turns out that its only a replica, and the pokemon claims that the mage tanks and Sword of Light replicas were his creations and vowed to destroy all the stolen mage tanks. Just then, the inspector come running into the crater and accuses Lina of senseless destruction while the pokemon quietly escaped .

Thoughts:

Another good episode that made me chuckle at times and outright laugh-out-loud at others. Some favouries include:

“Next time I visit, I might as well turn it into ash…”

Gotta fight pokemon with pokemon. Pidgeot! I Choose you!

“You’re the Queen Boobless that came from Boobless kingdom to spread booblessness .. oh sh-”

Very cute! Maybe my next vector/wallpaper project?

PS. The cow mage tank is awesome.

Lina Inverse is back!!

Summary:

The series begins with Lina and Gourry attacking pirates because they have driven bandits to the verge of extinction. After getting the captain and crew to surrender to her, they are suddenly attacked by Seyruun’s navy. Lina recognizes Amelia’s voice and discovers Zelgadis is with her too.

The four are reunited in a nearby tavern, but the festivities are interrupted when the inspector arrives. He then arrests Lina for the crime of “being Lina Inverse”. Her friends/defence team think of ways to get her out, but they conclude that it is quite difficult to argue that she’s NOT Lina Inverse.

Of course Lina breaks free, and she starts battle with the army assembled to capture her. When the four try to escape, they are stopped by a giant turtle thing. And after knocking it down, Lina prepares to finish it off, when suddenly, a pokemon creature appears and uses Lina’s infamous “Dragon Slave” on it.

W… T… F?

Thoughts:
I don’t know how many of you out there have seen the original Slayers, but this is exactly as I remembered the series. It was good, clean, adventurous fun. Of course like all the others, the OP is sung by Megumi Hayashibara, although it’s not as upbeat as some of the older OPs, I’m sure it will grow on me. The first episode does a good job of getting me primed for the series again, and for those who haven’t seen the original, it was a great no frills introduction to the main characters and their personalities. Like all its predecessors, Slayers Revolution begins humorously but by then end of the series, I’m guessing that Lina and friends will be fighting for the fate of their world. I’m definitely looking forward to Lina’s abuse of her friends, her use of extremely destructive spells at the most inappropriate times and all the other running gags that I have come to love and enjoy. Only question is, have I grown too old for this series? I sure hope not.

Only thing missing is my favourite character, Xellos (who will definately appear later on and it looks like hes on the “good side” to boot. Of course, with the two-faced Xellos, one can never really be too sure).