Let me start off by saying that the original Slayers are some of my favorite anime. With that in mind, my hopes and expectations for this new season were impossibly high. Slayers Revolution came out somewhere in the middle. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't very good. All our beloved characters have been reduced to tropes with only the newer characters getting anything resembling emotions. Empy gimmicks that don't get laughs and characters acting in certain ways just because they're supposed to, its really a sad excuse for writing. Soulless. All in all it wasn't a bad watch, the story was semi-solid with only nitpicks for problems. I hated how they absolutely would not reference past seasons even though there was every reason to, talking about things as if they had never encountered them before or there was no past history (This isn't really a spoiler, but Sylphiel talking about the Demon Beast Zanifar as if she doesn't know anything about it is the most stupid thing ever). The time line of events kept shifting and changing to the point where it wasn't clear at all how much time has passed between back story and current times (Years? Decades? Centuries?). I think the most disappointing part was just how empty all the characters were and how there was never a real sense of danger. Lina didn't have any of her usual underdog humility to offset her bratty behavior. Gourry might as well have been a post for all he did (and whatever happened to their undercurrent? It was nonexistent). Zelgadas had none of his dry wit or any of his usual selfish motivations, going along with everything just because, "What choice do we have?" Prince Philonel was REASONABLE (Since when?) and Xellos was another placeholder without any of his usual mischievousness (with one notable exception), all the best characters seemingly on the screen for no other reason than because they're supposed to be there. To sum, its not so bad that it will ruin the old ones for you, but it's not even in the same ballpark with the first three seasons.
Review of The Slayers
