Slayers: The Motion Picture

Slayers: The Motion Picture (1995)

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Plagued by a recurring dream,​ master thief and sorceress Lina Inverse discovers ancient evil and lovers cruelly parted.​ Dragged into a vortex of time,​ she must fight to restore history to its proper course.​ But what will she do when the fearsome power of the Dragon Slave spell fails her as she tries to change the past and save the future!

Date of release
1995-08-05
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (35)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
Director
Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuo Yamazaki
Collection
Slayers Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Slayers – The Motion Picture, also known as Slayers Perfect and originally released in Japan simply as Slayers , is a 1995 Japanese animated comic fantasy adventure film directed by Hiroshi Watanabe and written by Kazuo Yamazaki, based on the novels by Hajime Kanzaka. It was the first animated entry released in the Slayers media franchise and received positive reviews from critics. In the film, young sorceresses Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent reunite to go on vacation to the magical island of Mipross, but they soon find that things there are not quite what they seem and a mighty evil force might be involved.

Production

Slayers: The Motion Picture was created during the peak of the franchise's popularity, and was produced by J.C.Staff in co-production with Kadokawa Bunko. Unlike the later films in the series, this one was not directly written by the Slayers creator Hajime Kanzaka.

When ADV Films first acquired the rights to the film, they originally had contacted Lisa Ortiz, who had been the English voice of Lina Inverse in the Slayers TV series, to reprise her role in the film, however she had to turn down the part because of scheduling conflicts. ADV Films was forced to open up a last minute casting call for Lina, and cast Cynthia Martinez, who made her acting debut as Lina in the film.

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