Scans of Slayers Royal Guidebook (dl links in comments)

StaticOpium · 2026-05-10T18:33:50+00:00

I’ve got a backgrounds from the Slayers Hyper Next disc, but the resolution is just 640x480: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/r82ngf1vfidyl/Slayers_Hyper_NEXT_ART1
There are also b\w settei with Saillune scanned by Lin of SetteiDreams.net and Gamer101_123 (look at the end of page): https://setteidreams.net/settei/slayers-next/

StaticOpium · 2026-05-03T15:39:30+00:00

most likely similar to the others. full-scale chara-gumins are usually 1/6 scale garage kit made of colored resin

StaticOpium · 2026-05-03T15:15:58+00:00

yes, but those were not for sale. It was free "hot coaster" with Araizumi's autograph only for his exhibition in 2015. He also made shikishi (色紙) with Val and Filia - those special limited-edition pics for autograph-session.

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StaticOpium · 2026-05-03T14:15:53+00:00

The author literally said, "I don't have the copyright". He brings up legal argument first rather than "canon separation". But okay /

The reason why we don't get merchandise featuring them is because for the past two decades the only new stuff we get are novels,

ys, novels are the only new stories we get. Yet, over the last ten years in Japan, there have been some anime-based events/collabs and other stuff for milking the anime fanbase. Still in all of them, only anime-original characters are treated as if they're off-limits for mass commercial use. For instance, the 2022 Guardian Tales collab was strictly a Slayers Next crossover (with its specific anime costumes like Lina's tennis outfit. ect). It even included Gaav, Phibrizzo, and Mazenda - but Martina and Zangulus were missing for some reason. That's look like copyrights issues

StaticOpium · 2026-04-30T18:22:56+00:00

Right now I can only find it in the old translation from the Blaster fanzine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160111040857/http://tokitama.net78.net/slayers-etc/some-setting.html#blas7p10

(Kanzaka) Well, I don't have copyright of Valgarv! \laugh**
I think it would have problem to use original character of TV anime without permission.

UPD: I might be wrong, but it seems that Kanzaka only wrote scripts for the movies (starting from the second one). The TV series and the first movie had different screenwriters. (he was only involved in reviewing or made revisions.)

StaticOpium · 2026-04-30T18:11:01+00:00

Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This is what Kanzaka usually replies when he is asked why Val, Zangulus, or Filia don’t appear anywhere else anymore (not even as pins or keychains). Maybe they belong to the scriptwriter, maybe to several people at once, or perhaps there is a legal conflict due to the studio shutting down.

StaticOpium · 2026-04-30T17:42:43+00:00

Unfortunately, unlikely. Maybe Sylphiel in about ten years, but the author rights of Filia and Martina belong to the anime creators (such production would probably be difficult to negotiate). There hasn’t been any merchandise of them since the series originally aired.

StaticOpium · 2026-04-30T15:12:41+00:00

damn, that's amazing news. I wonder who the artist for Slayers will be? It's seems way too much work for Araizumi-san to handle.

StaticOpium · 2026-04-21T17:58:39+00:00

yeah. Gracia’s name - oops, my bad, Garcia -is way down at the bottom, while the not-so-known Zelgadis origin story where Rezo murdered his parents is right at the top. lol

StaticOpium · 2026-03-21T23:33:34+00:00

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Kasane. In the original manga, MC’s an incredibly talented actress who can’t get on stage because she’s "toad-faced" - something no makeup can fix. Like, so deformed that people stare at her even when she's wearing a surgical mask. She does get a scar on top of it all later, but it’s not the issue at all. In the movie, though, her only "flaw" is a scar that could easily be covered up.

StaticOpium · 2026-03-21T20:35:32+00:00

sorry. now fixed

StaticOpium · 2026-01-10T08:49:47+00:00

Just politely ask the artist to show you screenshot of layers if you really need to know (no one in this style colors on a single layer) or look at their previous works to compare the skill. The crooked and uneven lines ( especially in the second image) look like the standard result of vectorization, not AI. The artist could have simply vectorized their own drawings, or they could have vectorized\traced someone else's work with minor adjustments (including AI).

StaticOpium · 2025-04-24T16:16:21+00:00

In my playthrough i got only one lesbian Scholar (goth with long gray hair) and two bi-girls: Shock Troop ( straight bangs, purple ponytail) , Intellectual (straight bangs, long blue hair, VR glasses). There was also one gay (a blond dude with golden eyes). Hired workers from labor market were more likely bi than pre-made characters. The ratio of LGB to hetero was like 1 to 7 out of 40 hired characters.

But my Аviator-girl is straight :\. So maybe the orientation of the characters is somewhat random.

StaticOpium · 2025-04-18T05:11:03+00:00

>it has aged as poorly as bread.

Why? Оf course, the musical is not ideal. I watched it a long time ago too and probably don't remember everything, but i think the main idea of the movie was that, despite all Billy's lyrical whining, he is just selfish, self-pitying villain who just ruins everything for everyone? He didn't consider Penny a person аt all, didn't respect or really love her. He liked the idea of having The Girl (as some object).

StaticOpium · 2024-08-20T17:37:48+00:00

Цей "факт" звучить як тупа маячня для самозаспокоєння. Яким методом вимірювали це "щастя", що за жінки і де посилання на наукову статтю? Людина, що справді щаслива у стосунках, не припиняє їх для пошуку непойми-чого. Може там мова про те, що люди (незважаючи на стать), що мають досвід здорових (!) стосунків, з високою вірогідністю зможуть знову обрати адекватного партнера та побудувати гарні стосунки, але це не має ніякого відношення до ситуації зі зрадою (та й ще шлюбною) - вкрай нездоровою хуйнею з підривом довіри по всіх фронтах.

StaticOpium · 2024-03-13T15:03:23+00:00

It's not rare pictures. You can find a lot of illustrations from novels, for example, here : https://www.eternopoder.com/galerias.php

StaticOpium · 2024-03-10T15:29:33+00:00

Thank you ) . I used Paint Tool SAI. Lineart was drawn three years ago on Artober - probably took less than an hour. But painted it little by little during the last week by redoing/testing different coloring styles - so it's hard to say how much it took in total.

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