Slayers eps 1-9
Slayers is about Lina Inverse, a young (15?) sorceress. Lina is powerful and intelligent, but also brash, greedy and careless. After she steals treasure from thieves, the thieves go after her and she's "rescued" by a swordsman named Gourry. Lina didn't need rescuing, but rather likes the idea of being rescued by the handsome swordsman and swept off her feet. Unfortunately for her, Gourry takes one look at her supposedly scrawny body(I dunno, I'm not the best judge, but she looks decently endowed to me) and decides she's a kid. When he learns that she's travelling alone, he decides to join her as her bodyguard. Gourry is big, good with a sword, sweet, cute, chivalrous...and has flies buzzing around where a brain should be. Lina decides she may as well keep him, since he can be useful. And he's cute.
Before long they meet Zelgadis, a young man who was turned into a chimera who wants an artifact Lina has. He starts off bargaining with Lina(in possibly the bet scene of the series so far,) then they become enemies, and now they're friends. He has some very impressive angst going for him. First, he was a kid who wanted to be stronger. So Rezo, the villain, made him stronger by making him part demon and part golem. He has rocky, impenetrable(so far) skin and seems to be almost as powerful as Lina. He seems to have given up on becoming human again, and just wants revenge on Rezo. Except that Rezo is his father. Or his grandfather. Or maybe further back. He isn't sure, but he's positive he's descended from Rezo. I was mostly busy being impressed by the repressed emo. It earned him a place in my anime hall of angst. It was quality.
In separate stories, I probably wouldn't care much for any of the three characters. On her own, Lina is annoying, and Gourry TSTL. Combined, however, Lina functions as the brain for both her and Gourry, while Gourry helps ground Lina and help her with that moral compass thing. Meanwhile, Zelgadis would normally impress yet annoy me with his emo, but with Lina and Gourry as foilsm he becomes the one with common sense, and often works in the subtle snark and sarcasm. Zelgadis and Gourry are also remarkably good at shutting up and listening to Lina. She may be annoying, but she is smart, and seems to have a decent head for strategy. Meanwhile, Lina will also shut up and listen to Zelgadis when the situation calls for it. Gourry only gets such moments when it's time to show off his magic sword. I am very fond of Gourry's giant magic sword of light. Though, unlike Lina, I don't love it more than I love him.
I really do wonder how Gourry managed to survive before meeting Lina, though. When they're separated, she and Zelgadis are busy running nonstop from Rezo's men, while Gourry is aimlessly wandering around, looking for Lina.
The characters also run a lot. And I mean a lot. Oddly, while it's clearly a...err..."running joke" in the series, anytime they do it, they do it because it's the only smart thing to do. I rather admire that.
Though...we're only on episode 9, and already building up to the "end of the world battle against tyhe supervillain?" What will they do for the next 17 episodes?
Before long they meet Zelgadis, a young man who was turned into a chimera who wants an artifact Lina has. He starts off bargaining with Lina(in possibly the bet scene of the series so far,) then they become enemies, and now they're friends. He has some very impressive angst going for him. First, he was a kid who wanted to be stronger. So Rezo, the villain, made him stronger by making him part demon and part golem. He has rocky, impenetrable(so far) skin and seems to be almost as powerful as Lina. He seems to have given up on becoming human again, and just wants revenge on Rezo. Except that Rezo is his father. Or his grandfather. Or maybe further back. He isn't sure, but he's positive he's descended from Rezo. I was mostly busy being impressed by the repressed emo. It earned him a place in my anime hall of angst. It was quality.
In separate stories, I probably wouldn't care much for any of the three characters. On her own, Lina is annoying, and Gourry TSTL. Combined, however, Lina functions as the brain for both her and Gourry, while Gourry helps ground Lina and help her with that moral compass thing. Meanwhile, Zelgadis would normally impress yet annoy me with his emo, but with Lina and Gourry as foilsm he becomes the one with common sense, and often works in the subtle snark and sarcasm. Zelgadis and Gourry are also remarkably good at shutting up and listening to Lina. She may be annoying, but she is smart, and seems to have a decent head for strategy. Meanwhile, Lina will also shut up and listen to Zelgadis when the situation calls for it. Gourry only gets such moments when it's time to show off his magic sword. I am very fond of Gourry's giant magic sword of light. Though, unlike Lina, I don't love it more than I love him.
I really do wonder how Gourry managed to survive before meeting Lina, though. When they're separated, she and Zelgadis are busy running nonstop from Rezo's men, while Gourry is aimlessly wandering around, looking for Lina.
The characters also run a lot. And I mean a lot. Oddly, while it's clearly a...err..."running joke" in the series, anytime they do it, they do it because it's the only smart thing to do. I rather admire that.
Though...we're only on episode 9, and already building up to the "end of the world battle against tyhe supervillain?" What will they do for the next 17 episodes?