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Slayers Excellent (OAV)

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[ prequel of Slayers - The Motion Picture ]
Alternative title:
スレイヤーズ　えくせれんと (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy, supernatural
Plot Summary: In these earlier adventures of Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent, learn how the two rivals first met. In their first adventure, the two rivals meet and run into a vampire during a rescue mission. Next, Lina is hired to be the bodyguard of a rich man's daughter, Sirene. Lina is at first very enthusiastic about it at first, as she is being paid very well, but Sirene keeps spending all of Lina's first half of pay. (She gets the other half later) She puts together a fake kidnapping to teach Sirene a lesson, but when she really gets kidnapped, she must team up with Naga to save her. In the final episode, Lina and Naga find themselves on seperate sides in a fashion war.
User Ratings: 360 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 13 votes (dub:6, sub:6, Rus.sub:1)
 Excellent: 39 votes (sub:22, dub:14, Fre.sub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 90 votes (sub:61, dub:25, ?:2, Spa.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Good: 133 votes (sub:97, dub:28, raw:2, Rus.sub:2, Ger.dub:2, Spa.sub:2)
 Decent: 52 votes (sub:36, dub:15, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 19 votes (sub:14, dub:4, ?:1)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 851 users, rank: #707
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.169 (Good+.16), std. dev.: 1.4207, rank: #1369
Weighted mean: 7.137 (Good+.13), rank: #1280 (seen all: 7.14 / seen some: 7.37 / won't finish: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.147 (Good+.14), rank: #1089
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage:
1998
2007-06-29 (Germany, GIGA)
Ending Theme:
"Never Die" by Masami Okui
Official website:
Madman NZ's Official Slayers OVA - Collection Website
Madman's Official Slayers OVA Collection Website
Comment:
A sequel to the first OAV series, Slayers Special.
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Related releases:
    Slayers - OVA DVD Collection (DVD) 2007-10-23 (from $9.99)
    Slayers - Movies & OVAs (DVD) 2008-10-28 (from $40.99)
    Slayers Excellent (DVD) 2004-03-30 (from $4.87)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroshi Watanabe

Screenplay: Keiko Watanabe

Storyboard: Yoshiaki Iwasaki (ep 1)

Music: Takayuki Hattori

Original story: Hajime Kanzaka

Character Design:
Kouji Aso (ep 3)
Tadashi Abiru (eps 1-2)

Animation director:
Kouji Aso (ep 3)
Tadashi Abiru (eps 1-2)
Toshinobu Kikuchi

Character Conceptual Design: Rui Araizumi

Sound director: Katsuyoshi Kobayashi

Executive producer: Tsuguhiko Kadokawa

Producer: Kiminobu Sato

Color: Mieko Maruyama

Planning: Takeshi Tamiya

Production producer: Yuji Matsukura

Sound Effects: Masakazu Yokoyama

Theme Song Performance: Megumi Hayashibara

 

Maria Kawamura as Naga the Serpent

Megumi Hayashibara as Lina Inverse

Sho Hayami as Steindorf

Aya Hisakawa as Tatiana Diward

Hiroshi Naka as Man B

Katsuhisa Houki as Inn Owner

Kumiko Watanabe as Sirene (ep 2)

Mayumi Iizuka as Marty Lenford

Naoki Makishima as Crowd B

Shinichiro Miki as Alphonse (ep 2)

Toshihiko Nakajima as Man A

Yasuhiro Takato as Crowd A

Yuzuru Fujimoto as Village Headmaster

Japanese companies 

Production: J.C. Staff

Recording Studio: APU Studio

Sound Production: Audio Planning U

English staff 
English cast 

Director: Sandra Krasa

Script: Ron Searcy

Translation: Dan Kanemitsu

ADR Script: Thomas Martin Gonzales

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Producer: Sandra Krasa

Creative Director:
Chris Hawley
David Del Rio

DVD Coordination: Mariela Ortiz

DVD Menu Design:
James Bates
Patrick Givens

DVD Producer: Thomas Meerbott

Editing:
Neil O'Sullivan
Patrick Givens
Robert Marchand

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Mix: Brent Marshall

Packaging: James Bates

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Maki Nagano
Marta Bechtol
Miyuki Kamiya
Sara Muir

Recording engineer: Michael Callahan

Sound Design: Brent Marshall

Subtitling: Ron Searcy

 

Cynthia Martinez as Lina Inverse

Kelly Manison as Naga the Serpent

Illich Guardiola as Alphonse (ep 2)

Mike MacRae as Steindorf (ep 1)

Tiffany Grant as Sirene (ep 2)

Ayanna Grundy as Marty

Deanna Julian as Tatjana (ep 3)

Jason Douglas as Fitzmeier (ep 2)

Jaz McKay as Tavern Owner (ep 1)

Matt Kelley as Haniwa Collector (ep 1)

Rick Piersall as Restaurant Man (ep 1)

Bubba Callahan

Melanie Haynes

Miguel Gandara

Sara Gaston

English companies 

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

Recording Studio: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors

French staff 
French companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Déclic Images

French cast 
(none)

German cast 
German staff 
(none)

Shandra Schadt as Lina Inverse

Veronika Neugebauer as Naga die Weisse Schlange (Naga the Serpent)

Claus-Peter Damitz as
Alphonse (ep 2)
Steindorf (ep 1)

Beate Pfeiffer as Näherin #1 (ep 3)

Clemens Ostermann as Dorfbewohner #A (ep 1)

Jörg Stuttmann as
Bandit (ep 2)
Soldat (ep 3)

Manfred Trilling as Fitzmeier

Michelle Sterr as Tanja (ep 3)

Tolilah Jolas as Näherin #3 (ep 3)

Ulf-Jürgen Wagner as
Hauptmann (ep 3)
Netter Bandit (ep 2)

Willi Röbke as Dorfschulze (ep 1)

German companies 

Broadcaster: GIGA TV (2007-06-29)

Distributor: OVA Films

 
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