Welcome to the first week of March! You have survived up until February and if you follow anime as it airs in japan like I do, you must be ripping your eyes out by now as this season has been full of terrible fucking shows with only a few exceptions.
The upcoming spring season should be better as this past fall and winter anime seasons have been lacking as a whole. There haven’t been any current shows that I rush home from school to watch every week. It is times like this in which I reflect back onto the shows of the past, the shows that I feel nostalgic while discussing.
So what is my pick for this week? The Slayers of course! This is the perfect time to recommend that everyone watch this show because in 2008 they began airing the 4th season of this show which is called Slayers Revolution. This show continues all of the long standing traditions of the old seasons and is actually really good. The 5th season, Slayers Evolution-R is currently airing in japan right now.
Enough about the new seasons, what makes this show so classic and worthy of watching? It may have many stereotypes that you have found in previous shows like the protagonists eating an obscene amount of food or the whole magic user fantasy setting, but this was one of the pioneering shows that brought those ideas full circle and solidified them as classic things. It is an absolute classic and FUNimation has recently secured the rights to re-releasing the DVDs in a slim pack box set so I highly recommend everybody go out and buy this as soon as humanly possible.
It is a world of fantasy, where magic reigns and monsters lurk, then there’s Lina Inverse! A cute, fireball-throwing sorceress who steals from the wicked and gives to herself! Along with Gourry, a handsome but not-so-smart swordsman, Lina faces the uncanny as she seeks fame and fortune. Meanwhile Zelgadis, a powerful soldier pursues Lina in an attempt to recover a magical item that can bring about the end of the world.
For now, you can stream the whole series on Hulu for free with commercials, but even if you watch the whole thing on there, I hope you will still go out and buy the show because it is one of my personal favorites and helped get me into anime to begin with. Find all of the episodes on hulu here.
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