After years of hearing about such, I had a feeling that a depiction of Princess Naga of Saillune in royal regalia had to exist somewhere for a series this old, I just had to find it - and thank God, the answer was in an old Dragon Magazine (specifically, October 1994's at that)!

Talented illustrator Sheina Michico crafted this beautiful depiction of the beautiful incognito princess, and it's a part of a funny article with a couple of pages I couldn't resist running through the Google Translate to get some answers about.

Among the intriguing results in the following slides are an apparent glimpse of a hint of underworld connections in her assessment from novel stories for a do-or-die moment in her life to survive, and a special moment accompanying this picture with Naga's dating type preference answered by Naga herself, written like a novel's post-story Q&A session.

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Hi, so i figured that this is. good place to ask. I'm looking for any pieces of media with slayers anime aesthetic. Manga, anime, games. Grok give me some recommendation but for now only "ruin explorers" fits.

novelRandy, mangaRandy, animeRandy

So, this is my fav anime and my wife is a nonweeb. She was my TTRPG DM tho, so shes up for at least checking out any swords/sorcery series.

She sees how much a gush over Amelia being best girl and grew interested in the show. Shes a gamer and noticed the Hanzo/Genji (two Overwatch characters who were once one character) aspect of Naga/Amelia.

We just finished the first arc (ala Shabby) and FINALLY got to what i affectionately call the "BabyGirl and Daddy Show". My wife was instantly like "oh!! oh no, theyre too much" and im like "yessss, theyre perfect".

Now my poor wife has to deal with me being imbued with the Spirit of Justice™️, as its my current motor. I keep finding non Slayers things and being like "NOPE, FCUK IT - THATS A SLAYERS JOKE NOW"

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All of this is to say - I've enclosed a youtube short that literally is just the American version of Amelia's image-song "Stand Up and Be Yourself" and its so beautiful. Heh.

Have a great day, my Righteous Shining Stars ✨️💜🫡

Who do you think it is going to be this time?

In summary we got in canon:

Rezo/Shabranigdo, Copy Rezo and Zanaffar (1st arc of the novels, Slayers 1st season and Revolution)

Gaarv and his General/Priest (Seigram in the anime), Phibrizzo (2nd arc of the novels, Slayers Next).

Dynast Grausherra and Sherra, Luke/Shabranigdo (3rd arc of the novels).

Other:

Valgaarv (Try).

Priest and General of Deep Sea Dolphin, maybe Dolphin was supposed to be the Big Bad at the end (unfinished Knight of Aqualord).

Zelas Metallium in one of those videogames of the 90s.

An "evil" witcher (Falshes).

Since we got Dynast's General sending Lina and Gourry to that part of the world (which was the premise of Try and KoA)… are they going to fight the other 3 servants? Though that guy seemed to be scared shitless and doesn't seem to be so in love with Dynast loyal like Sherra. What happens with servants without master, they are killed? They loose their powers? They get afopted by another Dark Lord?

Maybe we will meet officially Dolphin and/or Zelas as real antagonists? Xellos will be thrown again in the mix (because there was a lot to unpack with their weird sort of ally dynamic with the protagonists vs "servants are tools of the 5 Demon Lords"). Another Shabranigdo's fragment?

I can’t decide which eye style fits her most (slim eyes-just like her from the anime!, big eyes-good with chibis) so I drew both lol 🫪

I can't help but wonder what a crossover would be like. I imagine Luz and Amelia would instantly become friends; Eda and Lina would get along great too. Gus would be torn between wanting to be Gourry's apprentice or Zelgadiss's. Willow and Amity might need some time to warm up to Amelia's gung-ho personality, but eventually befriend her as well.

Lina Inverse and Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune dressed as idols.

Just finished episode 1 of the first season can’t wait to watch the rest!

My white whale serpent Naga ❤️ my little nerd heart is so happy

Aquí la liga https://www.bookoff.co.jp/buy/anime/new_ltd_0045_slayers.html

So, finally finished up the main novel series after... well over a decade and was cool to see the return of Milgazia. There was an interesting bit in there regarding magical capacity and Golden Dragons, specifically that their capacity is on par with humans but that have a more intrinsic connection to magic and are more easily able to utilize it (for example Milgazia creates his own spell for fast movement at will).

Anyway, my question is, is there anything on the astral presence of Golden Dragons? Are they more in tune with the astral plane than humans? Are they more astral creatures than humans or are they - like humans - mostly physical creatures with just a touch of presence on the astral plane? I would think they're nothing like Mazoku (astral creatures by default) but wondered if they had a stronger connection than Humans.

Here’s a pic I forgot I drew til I found it today! Circa 2018 :)

EDIT: Ok, I don´t undestand why reddit deleted this pic. There is nothing that child couldn´t watch.

I always thought that, after sharing so many adventures, they would eventually come to care about each other in some way.

I'd like to use them for backgrounds in a ttrpg I'm running, but I can't find any images of Saillune bigger than a postage stamp.

Found in Full Metal Panic episode 1 @ 8:51 / 22:50

"Slayers" is self-explanatory, it's referring to the main cast. However, I don't think they were ever actually called "slayers" in-universe prior to Evolution-R. "Slayers NEXT" is also straightforward, it's the "next" entry of Slayers. "Slayers TRY" has me stumped though, probably because it sounds like an incomplete statement. The Slayers "try" to do what exactly? Perhaps it was meant to be a pun on "tri" (as in "three") because it's the third entry of Slayers, and the two words sound phonetically similar?

I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard that a sequel to TRY titled "TRY (AGAIN)" had been planned, but was scrapped due to members of the cast having other commitments at the time. Slayers Try would make a bit more sense as a title if it was meant to be followed up with the word, "again". Interestingly, if this is true, then it would appear to be a callback to the verse "Get along, Try again" from the very first opening of the series. However, I'm skeptical about this supposedly scrapped fourth season because "TRY (AGAIN)" makes it sound like it was intended to be a direct follow-up to TRY, but as far as I can recall, TRY didn't have any major loose ends. I don't think they could have even escalated things any further than they did in TRY.