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Rating: - Slayers Try Volume 1-- the Start of another great season
If you compare the first tape of all three seasons, it's obvious that Try's Tape 1 is the one with the most progression in plot. With a new almost central character, Filia ul Copt the Golden Dragon Priestess, and Valgarv (Valgaav, whatever), the enigmatic "Mazoku" (yes, I AM hinting at a big spoiler) whom you just KNOW has more to him, but you can't pinpoint what... the first two episodes are hilarious; and are great for a laugh, and the last episode has a really rather cool fight scene with Valgarv. (Two, actually. Make sure to cheer when Gourry roundhouses Val in the face!) I'm honestly impressed with the dubbing for Filia and Valgarv; I was expecting the worst after hearing some sound clips. To sum it up, I'm expecting Slayers Try to be the best season of all, if the first tape is anything to judge by. And Filia and Xellos are absolutely hilarious together... *grin*

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Rating: - Slayers gets better with each series ...
Slayers TRY has better art, fight sequencing and coloring then the previous two series, however, the plots still seem unmotivated and contrived. The characters stack up like cord wood yet again. Within 3 episodes, we have a bloated ensemble of a main cast which provide some pretty funny and believable interaction. I was pleasantly surprised by the snappy fighting; they finally cut out the ponderous power-up dialogue! Not a bad series for younger kids and teens, except that the main cast kills lots of innocent people and never seems to care. A real disappoinment are the 'monster' designs which are merely people with green skin or a horn on their head. Xellos appears in the end of the tape and spruces up the stories with his usual vague detachment. OK anime for anyone wanting a 90 minute bizarro adventure.

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Rating: - Slayers is back with a vengence! (So is Xellos! WOOHOO!)
Slayers. One of the best around animes there is. And the Try series (as far as i can tell) is the awsomeist one out there! The first volume (which has four lovely episodes! ) starts off with Lina, Gourry (jellyfish brains) and Zelgadis in Seryuurn preparing to go to the outer world. Lina is hired by some blonde mace wielding woman (who brains Gourry with it for looking up her skirt! ) to do something, but the blonde (whose name is Filia) only says that she needs to test their power. Through a couple of twists and turns, Lina and her pals meet up with Amelia and are attacked by a golden Dragon (Filia turns into it, kinda like Milgasia in the Next series) at a sea port. Oh what to do, what do to? Obviously, Lina fires up her mighty dragon slave, and blast the critter, which dissapears. Unfortunately, Lina-chan's dragon slave caused a huge tidal wave and they destroy the port. Now what are the Slayers gonna do? Go to the outter world, what else? Too bad though, because the ship they're on has no food. (And with Lina and Gourry, that type of situation can become very dangerous, very fast) And this is just the first episode! Later on, we meet up with Filia, Lina recieves a letter from her fearsome sister Luna Inverse, the powerful Knight of Ceipheed, and XELLOS-SAMA! Yes, our favorite little Purple haired Mazoku is back! With a vengence! The question is, what exactly he up to now? The fights between Xellos and Filia are hilarous! The only downside I can see to the dub is that Filia has this name for Xellos, Namagomi (translation, raw Garbage) that really pisses Xel off. But they didn't use it in the Dub, she only called him a creep. The battle between Valgaarve (Another extremely hot Mazoku, my sister says he dresses like aladdin though) and Xellos is sooo cool! Almost Dragon Ball Z like in the fighting (only not as drawn out, and they don't take forever to power up). THIS IS A GOOD TAPE! AND AN EVEN BETTER SERIES! The humor, the fighting, the spells, it's all BACK! Get this! It's better then the next series! (and believe me, that's hard to top)

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Rating: - Slayers: Try -- Majestic Journey + VCR = Comedic fun!
Slayers: Try is the best of the lot, it has all of the usual Slayers humor and them some. The interaction between Xelloss and the Golden Dragon Filia is hillarious, and definetly worth watching. So if you don't get this video for the plot -- get it for the fights!

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Rating: - Best of the Series to Date!
There are 4 eposides on the tape (which are great). All the characters from Slayers Next (including Xellos) are back in this tape. The interaction between xellos and the golden dragon is worth seeing. (Classic Slayer's Wit is Back! )