If you loved Slayers Return, try Slayers: The Motion Picture

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Slayers: The Motion Picture has roughly 64.8× fewer votes than Slayers Return — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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1996 · dir. Hiroshi Watanabe

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Slayers: The Motion Picture

1995 · dir. Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuo Yamazaki

What they share

Both films are directed by Hiroshi Watanabe, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Comedy / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Slayers Return, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Slayers: The Motion Picture is

One imagines this anime feature played very well on laserdisc. Lina Inverse must travel through time to prevent a terrible wrong. Anyone seeking knockabout magical adventure will find exactly that.

If you loved Slayers Return, try Slayers: The Motion Picture

Slayers Return

Slayers: The Motion Picture

What they share

What Slayers: The Motion Picture is

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