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Slayers Gorgeous (1998)
Lina Inverse and her sidekick Naga the Serpent are happily enjoying lunch when the entire town ducks under cover before an invasion of Marlene Culvert and her legion of bloodthirsty dragons. The cause of the invasion? Marlene is in a feud with her father, the king, over her allowance. Lina leaps into action to defend the village against Marlene, her tetrad knights and her dragons, but her dependable Dragon Slave spell fails her. Right when she thinks she has won, the real battle has just begun.
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Lina Inverse and her sidekick Naga the Serpent are happily enjoying lunch when the entire town ducks under cover before an invasion of Marlene Culvert and her legion of bloodthirsty dragons. The cause of the invasion? Marlene is in a feud with her father, the king, over her allowance. Lina leaps into action to defend the village against Marlene, her tetrad knights and her dragons, but her dependable Dragon Slave spell fails her. Right when she thinks she has won, the real battle has just begun.
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Genre:Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Written By:Hajime Kanzaka
In Theaters:1/1/1998
Box Office:
Runtime:64 minutes
Studio:KADOKAWA Shoten, TV Tokyo, Toei Animation, Bandai Visual, J.C.STAFF
Cast
Hiroshi Watanabe
Director
Megumi Hayashibara
Lina Inverse (voice)
Maria Kawamura
Naga the Serpent (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Lord Culvert (voice)
Junpei Takiguchi
Gaizno (voice)
Kaneto Shiozawa
Thornfort (voice)
Kyoko Hikami
Marlene (voice)
Asako Dodo
Mother 1 (voice)
Hiroshi Naka
Soldier 2 (voice)
Isshin Chiba
Gatekeeper (voice)
Kazuhiko Kishino
Soldier 1 (voice)
Mikiko Enomoto
Tim (voice)
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