Slayers: KA-BOOM Intro
The music began, and Lina Inverse was shown in a dynamic spell-casting pose, chanting something as the camera whirled around and around her. But then, instead of Lina keeping her eyes closed, she dared to open them and caught a glimpse of the camera. She blinked a few times, then attempted to follow the camera circling her, looking a little perturbed at the constant turning. Then her expression changed, and suddenly with a small tilt of her head, Lina fell over, utterly dizzy, just as Megumi Hayashibara’s voice began to sing.
The angle changed to reveal Gourry Gabriev, holding the Sword of Light in his best heroic sense. Everyone had had a lot of confidence in this being the best shot of Gourry, his hair blowing in a fan-generated wind looking rather handsome. That is until Zangulus had sneaked into the shot and with one quick stroke of the Howling Sword, cut Gourry’s belt and snickered as the blonde swordsman’s pants fell down around his ankles. Blushing a bright red, Gourry pulled up his pants best he could, and grinning nervously, shuffled off screen. In the meantime, the main chorus started to play with Hayashibara’s beautiful voice apparently being the only thing to save this intro.
A large collage of different characters flashed across the screen, something that would have been very nice quick-motion footage of the cast, if not for a few… er… minor details. For example, when Filia was supposed to have her three-second long moment of glory taking a sip of tea, Xelloss had skipped across the stage dressed a school girl, and the Golden Dragon Priestess had spit the tea all over the lens. Also, during Martina’s cameo, her younger sister Avainne (A-Chan as we all know and “love” her ^^;) had tackled her sibling sixteen times during her close-up, the director decided to just leave it in. Where a beautiful shot of Martina laughing would have been, was a shot of a cackling princess, then a confused and scared princess, and finally, she was lurched violently out of the shot by some force unseen to the viewer. I won’t even mention the painful experience of Zelgadiss “accidentally” frying Xelloss each time he did a fireball, or Amelia putting the entire crew and cast asleep with what should have been a two second shot of her doing a justice speech. Bad idea, indeed.
The final scene, what SHOULD have been a beautiful zoom out picture of the entire cast starring in Slayers: KA-BOOM, ended up getting horribly messed up… to say the least. Naga and Martina started beating up on Lina, pulling her hair, insulting her chest size, and worst-of-all, laughing.
”AAHHH HA HA!! LINA INVERSE!!”
”OOOOH HO HO HO!! LIIINA INVEEERSE!!”
Gourry sat down and started to eat on a chicken leg of which no one had any idea where it had come from. Amelia pointed at Martina and Naga and began a justice speech, which caused novice ZoamelGustav worshipper Avainne to facefault and fall backwards to the ground, unfortunately knocking over Zangulus. She spent the rest of the shot helping up Zangulus, offering profuse apologies, dusting off his cloak and hat, all to the bounty hunter’s confusion. Zelgadiss fell into a deep depression over the fact the cast couldn’t even perform the intro for this series right, and began to pitifully ponder his existence and why he had to exist as such a monster. Of course, this didn’t last long, as Xelloss tried to cheer him up. It was then that Filia and Zelgadiss did a bit of a double-team on Xelloss, chasing him around the set screaming, waving mallets and tossing fireballs. All the other cast members sighed, shrugged, and nonchalantly walked off the set to leave everyone else to their arguments and insanity.
Gaav’s ghost sat on a little white cardboard cloud, white angel wings and a halo, strumming a harp and singing along to the theme song. How did Gaav end up an angel? Don’t ask me.
”Aiiiiii shiteruuuu!! Ba-by!!” He played a few more chords on the harp until a string broke and hit him on the cheek. The intro ends with a little angel ghost Gaav crying in SD.
Aren’t you just itching to see the REST of the series?!
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