“Three comedic adventures of Lina and Naga battling monsters, knights, and magical duplicates for cash and survival.”
Slayers: The Book of Spells
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Synopsis
Three comedic adventures of Lina and Naga battling monsters, knights, and magical duplicates for cash and survival.
In these three self-contained half-hour stories, Lina Inverse and her partner, Naga The Serpent, take on a variety of jobs for quick cash, food, and/or their own skins. The first episode, "The Scary Chimera Plan," pits them against a lunatic magician who intends to use Lina to create a fearsome, spell-slinging monster. Then, in "Jeffry's Knighthood," they're hired by an overprotective mother to see that her son - a young man barely capable of holding a sword - becomes a respected knight, by "helping" him fight off the marauding soldiers terrorizing the area. Finally, "Mirror, Mirror" puts the two in a race to hunt down and capture (for bounty, of course) a rogue sorceror who's found an ancient artifact that can create loyal duplicates of anything or anyone, including his enemies. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
What 6 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 4.0
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Apr 2014 → Sep 2023
- 8 “The Slayers is a franchise I've discussed on multiple occasions, While I'll eventually get to the series proper, I've been looking at the films, OVAs and just generally the stuff that takes place...”
- 7 “The Slayers Special OVAs were released between July of 1996 and May of 1997. Three episodes were made in total. Overall, they are unrelated, short snippets into the lives and adventures of Lina...”
- 5 “Of all the Slayers stuff I've seen (and I've seen just about all of it throughout the years), this is the weakest I've encountered. None of the 3 standalone stories are particularly memorable, and...”
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- Format 3 × 29′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 27m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1996 – May 1997
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-1067 catalog
Produced by
- Kadokawa Shoten Producer
- Marubeni Producer
Licensed by
- ADV Films Licensor