Talk:Slayers: Super-Explosive Demon Story

Anime: Yes or no?
I'm not that sure about the manga being based or even influenced by the anime, although I prefer much more the way it's expressed now on the article (or even a "could have influenced" would be better), since we don't have any real proof that it really was based on the anime. I even have on my site a report I did myself comparing each anime episode with both the novels and the manga, and it's more or less easy to see that there's little similarity between the anime and the manga versions. --shansito (talk) 23:04, November 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * The influence of the anime is noticeable only in some details. For example: Kanzel and Mazenda oppose our heroes as a team like in the anime, even though they had little to do with each other in the novel storyline. Still, the most obvious influence is the way the Lord of Nightmares is handled. In the novels, she stops possessing Lina's body after destroying Fibrizo almost by "accident". The anime changes this greatly by having LoN issue a speech to Lina's friends and then having Gourry chase after her - and the manga proceeds to use these elements as well. (It actually goes even further than this with Lina's miraculous recovery from her wounds at the start of the last volume, which is apparently also caused by the Lord of Nightmares, somehow. O_o) --Pip25 (talk) 23:47, November 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but at the same time... you know, the manga is kind of weird compared to both novels and anime xD first we have Kanzel helping Copy Rezo O.o and then re-appearing alongside Mazenda & creating Zanaffar by themselves (by the way, I still don't really get what Mazenda was doing with the cult if mazoku didn't want zanaffars to be created... almost seems that she appeared just to remove Lina's spell so that she had to buy the talisman from Xelloss xD). And the LoN-sama scene... yes there are those things, but at the same time, Phibrizo killing Lina since she ate parts of him was taken directly from the novel, while in the anime he just used that weird tower shooting rays of light to her. Anyway, I guess we can say there are some small similarities here and there, but it's hard to say if that was a direct influence or just that they simply decided to do it that way ^^u (I'd be great if Slayers had podcasts of the staff speaking about the episodes like a lot of series nowadays xD) --shansito (talk) 00:16, November 6, 2013 (UTC)