Vaya que si me dejo llevar por los comentarios de los que compraron este fabuloso Boxset, ja, si, como no, veo con sumo desagrado que la mayor parte de los que escribieron un review, acerca de este articulo encuentran fallas en el sonido de la serie, inclusive dicen que poniendola en su television que no tiene sonido estereo se oye mal (porfavor;< )pues claro que se va a oir mal, antes que nada quiero aclarar que no defiendo a cpm, por su terrible error de sonido, pero vaya si tengo un dvd es por pura logica que me va a brindar mejor sonido, mejor imagen, etc... y ya teniendo este adelanto tecnologico en mis manos, no es para que al reproducir las peliculas del dvd la vaya a ver en una television de 12 pulgadas en blanco y negro, es lo mismo que decir, tengo sonido estereo y monoaural, pero a mi me gusta como se oye el monoaural (pero en que cabeza cabe esta idea?). Se tambien que tener una buena television, no es cualquier cosa, pero si el puro dvd (y mas si es multiregion, que es lo mas recomendable) cuesta una buena cantidad de dinero, no creo que no se cuente con el dinero suficiente como para comprar una buena television, las cuales son mucho mas baratas que el mismo dvd. A que voy con tanto rodeo, es muy sencillo: Si tengo la solucion al problema pues se arregla y ya, como en mi caso, yo tengo la pelicula de Perfect Blue, muy buena y se las recomiendo, y tiene el pequeño defecto que en las televisiones grandes se llega a pixelear demasiado la imagen, pero si la pelicula es reproducida en una television de menor tamaño el problema desaparece, o lo que es lo mismo (esto es referente al boxset) si se oye mal en monoaural (ahi viene la pregunta del millon de dolares) a que modo debo de cambiar? y haciendo esto se resuelve el problema, no fue tan dificil verdad? o es que acaso no les gusta la version con el audio original? (en japones) y lo prefieren an ingles? ¡Vamos,aprender tantito japones no le hace daño a nadie. Asi que ya no se quejen por "problemitas" que pueden ser facilmente resueltos, por que aparte de que le dan mala imagen al producto, muchos de los que compramos nos dejamos llevar muchas veces por lo que dicen los demas, sin que realmente sepamos lo que es y lo bien que esta hecho este producto, por lo que por mi parte se los recomiendo ampliamente, por que la trama de la serie, el SONIDO y el video estan geniales, un buen trabajo de compresion, por que mientras que transcurren los 26 capitulos no ves ni un pixel el cual haga bajar la calidad de video del producto y porfavor por lo que mas quieran ya dejen de ser tan exagerados (cito una linea de un review que dio un cliente referente al boxset de Slayers, logico traducido al español): TODO EN ESTE BOXSET ES EXCEPCIONAL, AUNQUE ENCONTRÉ UN PUNTO MALO: EN EL CAPITULO 4, EN EL MINUTO 14 CUANDO LINA DICE....... EL SONIDO BAJA UN 3%. Sinceramente esas son exageraciones (personalmente iba a poner otra palabra, ustedes ya saben cual) por que se supone,que nosotros compramos algo para que nos divierta, nos entretenga, mas no para estarle buscando defectos, o me equivoco?, por que si de encontrar defectos se tratase, todo lo que tenemos ya estaria en la basura, porque? pues por defectuoso. Asi que recuerden, hay que ser Criticos, No Criticones.

Pd: No se dejen llevar por los comentarios, mejor veanlo por ustedes mismos.

A defect in the Japanese language track has resulted in phase-inverted audio. On pro-logic and 5.1 systems this will result in a spacey sound with extremely low volumes making it nearly impossible to hear what is being said.

Central Park Media in their official press release has decided to leave this defect in place making no effort to correct this obvious flaw in their product.

Consider this before you spend the $100 on this set.

Okay, I'm a Slayers fan. I really like the characters and the first group of episodes leading up to the first big plot climax is highly entertaining. Also, several of the side episodes following the first plot climax are not only entertaining but laugh out loud funny. But then the last ten episodes or so are an almost complete repeat of the ones before them (and no I'm not just talking about the villan being eerily similar). Things got so repetitive that all dramatic tension was lost with only Amelia and Phil's antics to break up any of the monotony.

Fortunately Slayers Next (season two of this series) is an excellent step up and I suppose that most Slayers Next fans will want to see this. It's cetainly worth checking out but the final episodes really leave you with a bad taste in your mouth so it might be a good idea to rent this fist season rather then buying.

Meet sorceress Lina Inverse -- she's short, flat-chested, brash, loud, eats like a barbarian, ridiculously powerful, and has a temper as hot as her fireballs.

She's also the lovable anti-heroine of "Slayers - The Complete First Season," a thoroughly hilarious and warped little classic anime. The first season blends fantasy spoofs and a solid little story about good vs. evil (or justice vs. evil, depending on who you ask), when our heroes aren't dressing in drag or mugging bandit gangs.

Recently Lina robbed the bandit gang known as the Dragon Fangs of several valuable items, and when the gang's few surviving members attack her, she's rescued by a handsome but dumb swordsman, Gourry Gabriev. But the bandits aren't the only ones after her loot -- the mysterious Chimera Zelgadis and his weird minions want one of the items Lina stole, while the revered priest Rezo wants to stop Zelgadis.

But after being abducted and then freed by Zelgadis (and nearly molested by a giant fish), Lina discovers that she may have her allies and enemies switched around. And as Lina, Gourry and Zelgadis are pursued by Rezo's monstrous allies, they learn the real reason that Rezo wants the statuette -- yes, it's to unleash ultimate evil upon the world, and all that.

After all that, Lina and Gourry find themselves traveling with a justice-happy princess named Amelia, just in time for a bounty to be put on their heads. To find out who their new enemy is, they have to travel to the city of Sairagg -- dodging a crazy mercenary, a manipulative wedding-happy sorceress, a seemingly unkillable wizard, a gay sea dragon, and countless mercenaries and heroes.

But Sairagg only provides more questions, as Lina and her friends -- including Zelgadis and the timid shrine maiden Sylphiel -- confront the sorceress that has a grudge against him. But they're shocked to learn that the mastermind is an old foe that they had previously killed -- and he has a whole new evil plot to destroy the world. And all that.

Spoofs of the fantasy genre are a dime a dozen. The real challenge is creating a spoof that also has a story and mythology all its own -- and "Slayers" succeeds brilliantly at doing that. Not only is the complete first season gutsplittingly funny, but it also has a really solid storyline and thoroughly enjoyable characters -- although admittedly Amelia takes some getting used to.

There are two interconnected arcs of epic battles with Dark Lords and maniacal wizard-priests, with sword duels, hidden libraries, mystical ruins, frequent explosions, devastated cities and multi-coloured trolls ransacking quaint medieval villages. It's a solid enough fantasy series, and it takes the usual fantasy tropes -- big dumb guy with magic sword, sorceress, Dark Lord, plucky princess -- and promptly turns them on their heads.

And there's a lot of humour too, raging from a horde of Lina and Gourry clones ("It's... TINY!") to a series of running gags. At least half the episodes contain and/or end with some kind of massive explosion and possible rioting. And a couple stories wedged between the two arcs are entirely devoted to comedy -- including Lina being bribed to "marry" a rich boy, and the very macho Gourry having to dress as a girl ("Somebody please take my life!").

Lina is a brilliant fantasy anti-heroine -- she's flat-chested, assertive, hypersensitive and wonderfully bombastic, and Lisa Ortiz does an excellent job. Eric Stuart is a little more awkward as Gourry, a swordsman with a childlike attitude and a tiny brain, he improves as the season goes on. Hyperactive princess Amelia is kind of annoying at first, with all her jumping and yells about justice, but fortunately she becomes more likable when they get to Sairagg ("I hate fighting this thing!").

Zelgadis is the best-rounded character of the bunch, since he starts as a semi-villain but soon reveals that his only real goal is to become a human being again. Unfortunately Daniel Cronin voices Zelgadis for the first half of the series, and makes this complex character sound like a depressed stoner. Thankfully Crispin Freeman brings more humour, anger and power to the character after that.

The complete first season of "Slayers" is a solid fantasy series that also happens to be a hysterically funny spoof. Definitely a must-see.

Now, I know I may sound like some average teenager voicing their opinion, but Slayers is quite possibly the best anime ever, with only its own successors, Slayers NEXT and Slayers TRY surpassing them, and that's only because they have Xelloss in them ^_~ When Flat-chested bandit killer Lina Inverse sets out on a journey, she gets more than what she bargained for! When attacked by some vengeful bandits, she pretends to be all frightened and is "saved" by a nitwit blonde swordsman named Gourry. Together, she and Gourry go throughout the land, looking for bandits, treasure, and the next meal. On their journey the meet Rezo, the Red Priest, Zelgadis, a chimera with a personality problem or two, Ameilia, the champion of clutziness and justice, Sylphiel, the white priestess with a crush on Gourry, amidst a wide variety of fish men, werewolves, monsters, and mazoku (which software sculptors translates as monsters to make things confusing). Turns out someone wants to resurrect the dark lord of the world, Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu, the really hard to pronounce mazoku lord that was cut into seven pieces, but was still alive. If that happened, who knows what kind of chaos would ensue, so Lina and her newly formed gang team up with some serious magical firepower to see if they can stop him! Software sculptors, with a few doubts here and there, did a fairly good job on converting the series to english. However, there are some points I should bring up. The English Dub (the voices in english) sound horrible. Lina sounds 30, she's somewhere between 15 and 17 in the series. Gourry is played by Brock's (from pokemon) voice actor. Sylphiel's voice cracks me up every time I hear her get highly emotional (she's supposed to be sad, it's a very sad moment in japanese, why is it then that I always crack up when I hear it in the dub?) which accounts for why most people write of Sylphiel as a ditz, Ameilia sounds 25, she's only 14, and so on. Plus, the subtitles, which are there for your convinience, are highly screwed up when you compare it to what it's supposed to be translating- the japanese seiyuu. For example. Mazoku is a word in japanese meaning Race of Evil, which is the name of the most powerful evil things on this island of theirs. Software sculptors calls the mazoku "monsters" even though the monsters are defined in the official slayers books as slimes or vampires or those things in between. So if you don't mind small things like that, or some phrases that have been completely changed, you'll be perfectly happy. Overall, though, Software Sculptors did (I shudder to say it, but I will anyway) a fairly good job. All you have to do is listen to the japanese without the subtitles, and know japanese, and you'll be PERFECTLY content. If you don't know japanese, and aren't picky, watch it with the subtitles. but, if you really don't wanna read what's going on, listen to the dub. It's nice with the DVD that you can do all that and not have to pay for seperate versions. Thanks Software Sculptors, for finally coming out with it on DVD! GO SLAYERS! WHEE!

A while back I remember that some people whose opinions mattered highly to me kept telling me to get off my back and go see The Slayers. Sounded like some lame Buffy rip off so I refrained from suubmitting myself to legions of vampires hunting after a scantily clad and lame chick. Then they told me about the plot and I admitted I wanted to take a look. This box set runs over a hundred but I saw it on e-bay for 40 and snatched it up. I watched the whole first season in 2 nights...and now I wish I never had bothered! Because now I have to go spend more money and get the other boxed sets and see what happens to poor Lina and her band of idiots.

This story is absolutely brilliant, carefully thought out, and incredibly advanced in it's simplicity. It's a laugh riot and a half. Simple enough plot in the opening....Lina Inverse uses her amazing powers to steal some treasure from some bandits who come after her...and then she is saved (not that she needed saving) by a great swordsman and complete idiot named Gourry(voiced by Eric Stuart the voice of Brock/Squirtle/Dexter and may others on Pokemon). Gourry is upset cause she's not a babe but they travel together anyway running into dragons, an intriguing chimera/golem named Zelgadis, a fish guy named noonsa and Rezo the red priest who is blind and wants a rock called the philospher stone so he can set free and ancient evil that could destroy the world. And even after Lina battles through all that she still has to contend with the not so handsome Prince Phil and his clutz daughter Amelia who is a shining example of what would happen if you put a squirrel on sugar and angel dust and gave hims magical powers, a voice box, and two left feet-it ain't pretty folks. Lina and her band of not so great warriors get into one jam after another and never cease to be entertaining. I love many animes and it's hard to find great ones amongst a lot of the crap but this is a true gem.....why are you still reading this....go see Slayers...if you've seen it go watch it again! You don't want to mess with Lina-unless of course it's that time of the month!

Boy did SS/CPM drop the ball!! They inverted the soundfield for the Japanese audio. Beyond that, this is a long-awaited compilation of the most hysterical cross of D&D and anime to come along in a long time!

The Slayers was the first anime series that I owned, and it was a great inauguration to the world of anime. Lina is the incredibly energetic, violent and super-powerful sorceress who winds up having to save the world. She's accompanied by the dense but noble swordman Gourry, the somber Zelgadis and the cheerful and justice-crazed Amelia.

Doesn't sound too fresh or creative, does it? But Slayers seems to do just about everything right, and it adds up to an extremely funny and enjoyable experience. Lina is played by the wonderfully talented Megumi Hayashibara, possibly her best known role, and she also contributes the opening and ending songs. The rest of the cast is also solid, particularly Taketo Koyasu as the voice of Rezo. The English cast isn't as good. Everyone seems to go crazy over Lisa Ortiz as the voice of Lina, but she really can get pretty annoying at times, and is never all that brilliant. The highlight is definitely Crispin Freeman as Zelgadis.

Anyway:

I really like the timing on this series. It starts out light-hearted, and gets a little more serious until it culminates in episode 10. Then it becomes funny again for awhile, until it gradually slants toward seriousness at the end. The series is laced with slapstick comedy, and even at the end, one never gets the impression that the creators are taking themselves too seriously.

Slayers is a series that just screams fun. The animation quality is not very good, but that hardly matters. Plus, you get a fine array of extras on these discs. Slayers isn't quite top of the line, but anyone simply wanting to laugh and have a good time should see this.

p.s. for unknown reasons, the Japanese track in this set plays really really quietly. We found that plugging your DVD player (we used a PS2) directly into the television seems to clear that up.

子供のころに好きだったアニメ、中古ゲーム屋、ネットを探しても全巻入手できそうにないので北米版を購入しました。

・お菓子が入っているような厚紙の収納ボックス、100円ショップで売ってるようなDVDケース、キャプチャー画像の貼り付けのようなレーベル面です。

・誰かに自慢できるような外観ではないです。自分だけで楽しむ人向けです。

・DVDには他の作品の宣伝も入っていて懐かしかった(MAZEとかの富士見作品が数本)

・PS3でも再生します

・DVDのレーベルがディスク1、2、3、4ではなくディスクA、B、C、Dってなってた(笑)

悪い点は自分的にはメニュー画面でした

・選択項目が多かった。英語に弱いのでDVD特典を探すのに時間がかかってイライラした(自分、英語駄目なんで・・・)

言語選択、本編再生、場面選択だけで十分ですよ・・・

とりあえずお金に余裕のある、手軽にDVD-BOXが欲しい人にはオススメします