Information on "Slayers REVOLUTION"
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    In february 2008, Slayers fans were excited with the news of the new Slayers TV anime both inside and outside of Japan. Here I introduce what happened and what is going on in Japan. The newest information (Update :May 9th) is on the top of the table.

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Those dates and times are in Japan Standard Time.
Coming SoonMay 10th/11th"Tokyo Boogie Night" and "Heartful Station" will be aired.
What's in MayMay 5thThe deadline fo their collecting submissions for the new Slayers best album.
May 9thJune issue of "Dragon Age" will be released. New Slayers manga "Slayers REVOLUTION" will start.
May 10thJune issue of three major anime magazines will be released.
May 20thJuly issue of "Dragon Magazine" will be released. / The first, second, and third book of Slayers main series will be re-published with new cover arts.


DateWhat Happened
May 9, 2008   It's new! The June issue of Dragon Age is released and the new manga "Slayers Revolution" begins. In the first episode, Lina, Gourry, Zelgadiss and Amelia appeared. There also appeared Wizer Freion (the psecial inspector of Ruvinagardo kingdom), the royal army of the kingdom, and a small animal which cast a Dragon Slave (it's Pocota).
May 7, 2008To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.   It's new! Someone bought June issue of New Type three days earlier than the release date, and posted the news in one of the bbs in 2channel. The information on Slayers REVOLUTION was soon forwared to the thread about "Slayers REVOLUTION". According to it, they'll broadcast "Slayers REVOLUTION" in the time zone between 25:00 and 27:00.

   It's new! (Added) According to the information in 2channel, one of the anime magazines had the illustration of the new character "Pocota". It is said that this character had cast a Dragon Slave using the Sword of Light. "Pocota" seems to appear in the upcoming manga "Slayers REVOLUTION".

   It's new! (Added on May 8th)The managaer of the web site "Moon Phase" posted the information from the anime magazines which he boought ealier in his web diary. According to it, Sylpiel and Prince Phil will appear in "Slayers REVOLUTION". The story begins at the time when Lina and Gourry start a new journey to look for Gourry's new sword with the power of magic.
May 4, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		   It's new! According to the articles in the blog "Slayers NEWS", they'll release the Slayers' background images for Japanese cell phones in May. This service is in the site for the cell phones "Mobile New Type". There is the section "Fujimi All Stars", and if we use this service, we have to pay 315yen per month including tax.

   It's new! According to another article in "Slayers NEWS", "Comic mo Choku Yomi!", the online book and comic site for the cell phones, will start to release "Slayers Super Explosive Demon Story" as the online comic for the Japanse cell phones in May.

     QP's note :
"New Type" is the anime magazine released from Kadokawashoten. And in order to promote their magazines, Kadokawashoten opened the site for the cell phones, "Mobile New Type". Here you can download the melodies for the cell phones, and the images for the screen of the cell phones. It maybe wierd for the foreigners, but the young people in Japan uses cell phones to browse the internet. It is said that the number of the people who access to the internet with their cell phone is more plenty than the number of the people who access to the internet with their PCs. And nowadays many websites have to make the pages for the cell phones in order to promote their own sites.
May 3, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		   It's new! "Tokyo Boogie Night" is aired in Ehime, and someone reported about the show in the thread about Slayers REVOLUTION in the bbs in 2 channel. Here is the translation of it.

 << The first half >>
    Megumi Hayashibara talked about the movie of Detective Conan and Evangelion.
    She read the post card from the listener whose birthday was June 25th, the release date of "Megumix".
There was no talk about anime or Slayers in the second half of the show.



   It's new! "Heartful Station" was aired in Iwate. And Hamariya posted the digest of the radio show in the blog "Slayers NEWS". Here is the summary of it.

      Megumi Hayashibara talked about the deadline of the request for "Megumix". It's May 5th.
    The staff of Starchild read all of your requests. And sometimes, they couldn't find the book or materials even in Kadokawashoten or Fujimishobou. In that case, the staff went to Japan National Diet Library and look for the materials.
    Megumi Hayashibara also reads the request and those requests for the favorite scenes reminded her of each episodes of Slayers TV anime.
    There was a post card from the Japanese net-friend of Maruchan. He explained that Maruchan is the enthusiastic fan of Megumi Hayashibara and Slayers. (On May 4th, "Heartful Station was aired on FM-Fuji, and I checked it. Here is the rough translation of that part.)

  "M" Megumi Hayashibara : "H" Soichiro Hoshi : "C" The message on the post card from the listener
M : Now, let me introduce a post card from the listener. This message greatly moved me!
C : Good night, Megu-san, Hoshi-san. Please forgive me for my printing out my message on the post card by the compurter and a printer.
M : No problem. If you want to print out your message on the post card, please go ahead and do as you like.
C : Well, some days ealier, I jumped when I listen to the radio show "Heartful Station".
H : He jumped. / M : Byon!
C : You read the post card from Maruchan, an Italian girl. To tell the truth, she is one of my net-friends.
H : Actually? / M : Oh, my! / H : Does he say Ita... Italy? / M : Italy, Italy. You know that there was a round post card with the picture of the dish of spaghetti. / H : Oh, I see! / M : And I read it. / H : So, this listener IS the net-friend with the Italian girl. / M : How wonderful!
C : She is an enthusiastic fan of Megu-san and Slayers. Waking or sleeping, she is absorbed in you and Slayers. (Really?) When I talk with her through the net, she always tells me about the information on Megu-san, and the information is alway very rare. I'm sure that there are few Japanese fans who have the same information. She listens to your songs every day, and she learns "Megumi-shi".
Ｈ : Megumi-shi / M : "Shi"is lyrics. My lyrics.
C : She learns your lyrics and masters Japanese (Wow!). And she surfed around the internet to collect almost all of your images. (Crazy!) Once she wrote a letter for you in English, and I translated into Japanese. (Really?) In the case of the post card you introduced in the radio show, she wrote the messages for herself with help from her sister and the dictionary. (Oh, I see.) Can you imagine how she was excited when she knew that you introduced her post card? (She was excited!) I could see that she was so flattered even if we talked through English, the language which isn't the mother's tongue both for her and me. (I see.) She said 'what did Megumi talk in her radio show?' 'do you think that Megumi remembers my name?' or 'do your think it's better for me to send another letter to her to tell my thanks message?'... and so on. (Great!) She was in very high spirit, and watching at her, I feel like happy as if my dream comes true. (Oh, do you?). I was impressed by her deep love for you and Slayers. With her deep and strong love, she can chase anything about you and Slayers for more than ten years.
H : Wonderful! / M : Yes, it's wonderful!！
C : Finally, you introduced her post card in your radio show. And at last, Slayers will come back!
H : Yes, it's coming back! Wow! All of Maruchan's dreams come true! / M : Maruchan!
C : I learnd from this foreign friend that when we keep our faith for something, our dreams will come true. We'll see Lina Inverse in the near future. We'll have Slayers Megumix in June, and the opening song of "new Slayers TV anime". I look forward to have them as soon as possible! I'm not so enthusastic as the Italian fan of you, still I'll keep supporting you.
H : Excellent!
M : How wonderful is the internet! It makes an Italian fan to be a friend with a Japanese fan. I like Italy, but I know little of Italian... "bono" and a few words, 'senta pazza'?(？)
H : You know 'manma mia!'
M : It's like 'the water without gass'. When I ordered 'water' in Italy, they brought me a bottle of water and gass.
H : It's interesting.
M : The water tasted like a carbonated drink... Anyway, I like Italy very much, and I want to go there again! Please remember me to Maruchan.
H : When this listener passes your message to Maruchan, she'll be excited very much again.
M : Yes, you are right... I don't mean that Maruchan has to write me again and again... Well, when you write me letters, I can't promise you to read your messages in my radio show every time. But as long as you will write me your messages, I'll read them one by one. Please settle down, keep calm. And when you have something to tell me, please write me again. I'm waiting for your message.

    Hamariya's comment :

        "Maruchan once gave me an e-mail. The mail was written in Japanese with romaji, and I could understand what she wanted to tell. I can't write in English, and I didn't send a reply. I'm sorry. Thank you for your sending me a message from such a far away place. I know that it's no use to write here in Japanese... Oh, if I could write in English..."
May 2, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		   It's new! In the official site of Kadokawashoten, they added the release date (June 20th) and the price (588 yen including tax) of the Slayers book 4, 5, and 6 with the newly drawn cover art in the upcoming books of the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko series.


   It's new! According to the blog "Slayers NEWS" the bbs of the director Watanabe's site "Neko-nanban-tei" is restructed.

    "Neko-nan bbs (forever remporary version)"
        The former bbs was suffered from automatic spam written messages which were written in English. When you'll leave a message, please be careful not to be confused with the sppams.

"Oekaki bbs for the 10th Anniversary of Slayers TV anime"
May 1, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    The special web page of "Slayers" novels is made in Fujimishobou's web site. In the bottom of the page, we can see the full-color illustraion of Lina Inverse drawn by Issei Hyouju.

    Here is the summary of the article.
  • From May to September, there will be three Slayers books with new cover art every month.
  • Those cover arts of three books will be one wide illustration.
  • There will be a questionary included in the first book. When the readers submit your answers, they'll get an exclusive bookmark.
    I found something in the cover arts of the first three books. Here is it.
Apr. 28, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    The image of front page of the July issue of Dragon Magazine was posted in Fujimishobou's webpage. We can read the titles "Slayers" "TV anime will start in July", and someone said that there is one more word, "In TV Tokyo network".
Apr. 28, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    It is officially announced that Megumi Hayashibara sings the opening song and the ending song of Slayers REVOLUTION. This official information is found in the news page of Megumi House, which is in the web site of Starchild. Megumi Hayashibara indicated in her radio shows that she would record the opening song and the ending song, but no magazines nor web sites confirmed the information. This is the first confirmed information from Starchild about the OP and EP of Slayers REVOLUTION.
Apr. 26, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    The website of Mr. Hajime Kanazaka's Official Fan-club, "Mega Brand Kikaku" is updated. According to the latest information from the author :

    The first three books of "Slayers" main series with new cover art will be published on May 20th. Those three books will come out with new afterwords as well.

    (Comment of Mr. Kanzaka)
    "I'm now polishing the last part of 'Abyss Gate 2'. When you read this comment, I may finish my work... After that, I have to do the next work for the Dragon Magazine and I have to write the new afterwords for the Slayers books with new cover art.
    I know that there will be many projects of Slayers, but I can't tell about them unless those projects are confirmed. Please check the articles in Dragon Magazine."

    "I went to Tokyo. I had dinner with Megumi Hayashbara and Rui Araizumi. Both of them seemed not to be changed and were alive and well."

    (Tamiki) At the talbe of them, there was the editing staff of Fujimishobou. They are planning to make a report of their talk and they'll put the report in a magazine, such as Dragon Magazine.
Apr. 26, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    June issue of monthly comic magazine "Dengeki Maoh" was released. In the issue there is a page in which they introduce the books of novels, and in the June issue, they are writing about the Slayers books with new cover art. In the article, they introduced the storyline of "Slayers Revolution". According to the article, the storyline will be both anime-exclusive and based on the second arc of the main series of Slayers novels. They also introduced the illustration of new cover arts. Someone posted the information in the thread about "Slayers Revolution" in 2channel, and Hamariya posted the image and the article in the blog "Slayers NEWS". I also bought the magazine, and here is the images. Images and articles updated : April 28th.
Apr. 26, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    "Tokyo Boogie Night" is aired in Ehime, and someone reported about the show in the thread about Slayers REVOLUTION in the bbs in 2 channel. Here is the translation of it.

 << The first half >>
    Megumi Hayashibara was very busy this week.
    She ate the dinner with Mr. Kanzaka and Mr. Araizumi. They ate roasted meat on the hot plate together.
    Megumi-san talked about the staff, Mr. Shimada. He was former editor of "Television Magazine".
    She recorded the ending song the day before she recorded "Tokyo Boogie Night".
    She read the post card with the request for the "best scenes of Slayers" which would be included in the booklet of "Megumix".


   It's new! "Heartful Station" was aired in Iwate. And Hamariya posted the digest of the radio show in the blog "Slayers NEWS". Here is the summary of it.

      Megumi Hayashibara recorded the song for Slayers REVOLUTION.
    They hadn't decided the release date of Slayers REVOLUTION yet. However, the anime producing company is working fast, and the voice actors will see the graphics when they'll record the voices.
    The opening song was written by Hidetoshi Sato (author of "Give a Reason") and the ending song was written by Go Takahashi (the author of "Meet Again").
    Megumi-san listened the demos not knowing who wrote which songs as usual, and she chose those two songs. The first song she listened was the song by Mr. Sato, and Megumi-san could see Lina when she heard the song. She felt that she didn't need to listen any other songs. And she wrote the lyric for it.
    She recorded the ending song first. They'll record the opening song later.
    Soichiro Hosh had listened the ending song, and Megumi-san asked him his impression. He said, "it's gorgeous. It is like an opening song even though it's an ending song..."
    Megumi-san said "I'll do my best more and more. I wrote such spirit in the lyric." And they'll introduce the songs when they will be allowed to do.
    Meugmi-san read a post card with the message about Lina's words. The listener liked Lina's words when she made up her mind to fight against Ruby Eye in the first season. Lina said "If you've only got a one percent chance of winning, but convince yourself you're going to lose, that one percent becomes zero percent!" Megumi-san said that she was affected by those words, and she tried not to think "it's impossible".
    In "Megumix" album, "Nemurenai Yoru wa" will be included. And Megumi-san will cover the Japanese version of "Somewhere".
Apr. 21, 2008
To those who aren't English speaking visitors. Here is simpler text.		    They uploaded two photos to the news page of Megumi House, which is in the web site of Starchild. The photo of Megumi Hayashibara was took when she had her lunch (curry and naan). She shows how big her naan is. Another photo shows the frame and the mirror which they used. The staff of Sekaido, the paiting materials company, let them use those frames and mirrors for free.


Tokyo Boogie Night    The radio show which Megumi Hayashibara does the personality. It is aired on fifteen radio stations at different times.
Nankai Housou (1116kHz in Ehime Prefecture): on every Saturday 22:00--22:30
KBC Radio (1413kHz in Fukuoka / 1485kHz in Oomuta): on every Saturday 24:00--24:30
KBS Kyoto (1143KHz in Kyoto / 1215 in Shiga): on every Sunday 22:00--22:30
Chugoku Housou (1350kHz in Hiroshima): on every Sunday 22:25--22:55
Hokuriku Housou (1107KHz in Kanazawa): on every Sunday 22:30--23:00
Tohoku Housou (1260kHz in Sendai): on every Sunday 23:00--23:30
Niigata Housou (1116kHz in Niigata / 1530 in Jo-etsu): on every Sunday 23:00--23:30
Sin-etsu Housou (1098kHz in Nagano / 1485kHz in Karuizawa): on every Sunday 23:00--23:30
Sanyou Housou
(1494kHz in Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture)		: on every Sunday 23:30--24:00
Tokai Radio (1332kHz in Nagoya): on every Sunday 23:30--24:00
Kumamoto Housou (1197kHz in kumamoto): on every Sunday 23:30--24:00
Shizuoka Housou (1404kHz in Shizuoka): on every Sunday 23:30--24:00
HBC Radio (1287KHz in Sapporo): on every Sunday 24:00--24:30
TBS Radio (954kHz in Tokyo)    The station I'm listening.: on every Sunday 24:00--24:30
IBC Iwate (684kHz in Iwate): on every Sunday 24:30--25:00
Heartful Station    The radio show which Megumi Hayashibara does the personality. There also is Souichiro Hoshi, who did the role of Kane Blueriver in Lost Universe, as the sub-personality. It is aired on fifteen radio stations at different times.
    IBC Iwate (684kHz in Iwate): on every Saturday 22:00--23:00
Ibaraki Housou (1197kHz in Mito / 1458kHz in Tuchiura): on every Saturday 22:30--23:30
Radio Kansai (558kHz in Kobe): on every Sunday 23:00--24:00
Gifu Radio (1430kHz in Gifu): on every Saturday 24:00--25:00
Tochigi Housou
(1530kHz, 864kHz or 1062kHz in Tochigi Prefecture)		: on every Saturday 24:00--25:00
HBC Radio (1287KHz in Sapporo): one every Saturday 25:00--26:00
Ryukyu Housou (738kHz in Okinawa): on every Saturday 26:00--27:00
FM Fuji (78.6MHz in Tokyo)    The station I'm listening.: on every Sunday 19:00--20:00
RKB Radio (1278kHz in Fukuoka /
1197kHz in Kitakyushu / 1062 in Omuta&Yukuhashi)		: on every Sunday 25:00--26:00