スレイヤーズ 15 デモン・スレイヤーズ! [Slayers 15: Demon Slayers!]

スレイヤーズ [Slayers] #15

by Hajime Kanzaka (Writer), Rui Araizumi (Illustrator)

Hey, here’s a question. When demons are transforming into bigger, badder demons, otherwise temperate towns are getting unseasonal snow, and you’re catching sight of your own doppelgänger... that’s a bad sign, right? And when it all seems to be pointing you toward Sairaag—basically the world’s nexus of bad magical mojo—that’s a REALLY bad sign, isn’t it? But I know from experience what happens when you try to say no to a plot like this, so... let’s just get it over with, shall we?

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novel, Manga

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Hajime Kanzaka (神坂一) is a Japanese novelist and manga writer.

Reviews

[hotsake (André Troesch) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book started with a bang and never slowed down.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Possible Spoilers

What the efff?? So this was the supposed first ending? I would be so mad if I read the books back then! I now know the series would continue on for a bit, so I’m a little assuaged.

Anyway. This was anticlimactic again. A little fitting that if Mileena had to go, then Luke would have to go too, but… a tad predictable. But the whole Shabrangido and Luke thing was a bit far fetched; too convenient, if you will, however, it sort of explains how/why in the previous few books that Luke knew some pretty nifty spells that Lina didn’t.

The fight seemed a little too easy, despite having to destroy (she did destroy them?) her talismans in order to release the gods’ powers… I felt for Lina a bit when she was all depressed, and Gourry did well to get her distracted. It’d be fun to see how that develops here onwards.

[Marc Tinent · Rating 3 out of 5]

El final de la serie original de Slayers es guay, pero no es para tirar cohetes. La primera mitad del libro sigue la estructura de muchas otras (paseamos, damos con un mazoku, huimos, damos otra vez con él y luego hay una revelación), hasta el punto que es un poco repetitivo. Aunque hay cosas interesantes como lo de que haya un doppelganger de Lina (pero eso no se resuelve nunca! Solo dicen "bah, sería un mazoku" y ya). Luego coge carrerilla y la segunda mitad es más guay, con el enfrentamiento con Luke/Shabranigudu. El problema es que se siente más como un capítulo de una serie que como una novela como tal.

[CatSidhe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the last volume of the original series, so I might as well write a review for the whole series.

When I first started this series, I liked it a lot. Lina Inverse was a fun heroine to follow, and I loved the zany parody of fantasy tropes in the first few volumes and the weird demon-yokai antagonists.

However, at some point, I start feeling that the plots of the novellas were starting to get repetitive, and that there was very little point to them beyond "destroy the demons currently opposing the heroes". While Lina's antics were still funny, the fantasy tropes parody also started to disappear and be replaced by more straightforward adventures.

It also sometimes suffered from the author's hamfisted attempts at drama and from the increasingly nonsensical plot twists in each volumes. The way Amelia, Zelgadis and Xellos disappeared from the last volumes also hurt the series in my opinion.

So in the end, I felt that the series slowly declined in quality and went from good to mediocre, so this may be a good thing that it stopped here before becoming even worse.

[Frrobins · Rating 5 out of 5]

After decades, we finally have official translations of the first fifteen novels thanks to J-Novel Club. This was a wonderful way to end the second arc, engaging and tender.