Just when you thought Slayers was dead, Lina and the gang come back for more~! ;) ANN has an article stating that a fourth Slayers TV series has been announced. J. C. Staff will once again be producing it, and Takashi Watanabe is directing it again. Nothing has been announced regarding air dates, plot or characters, but the series will supposedly be 6 months (about 26 episodes) long.

It’s certainly been a while since the last Slayers production. While the original TV series aimed in 1995 (when I was 2 freaking years old) a movie, Slayers Premium, came out in 2001. Assuming this series premieres in late 2008 or early 2009, that makes it about 7 or  8 years since the last installment in the franchise! I think Evangelion went longer between movies, but that’s still strangely impressive. ^_^;

I loved what little I saw of Slayers Next, so I hope the new series will be good. The old series and movies really showed their age; it’ll be nice to see freshly animated battles and the like. I also reaaaaaally hope Megumi Hayashibara returns to play Lina, the main character. Slayers wouldn’t be the same without her…

^_^ I just realized this week has been very busy in terms of anime-related news and the like. Just today ANN also announced a new Trigun movie that’s set to premiere in 2009. Happy fans keep the industry going, niipaa~

~CJ