Trivia / The Slayers Abridged

• Acting for Two:
  • In the first 11 episodes, projectshadow99 played everybody in the show.
  • In episode 15, Demon Darastrix played both Cally and Paula, a nod to the actual dub where Rachael Lillis played both of them.
  • Sammisomara plays Lina, Gourry, and Sylphiel.
• Actor Allusion:
  • In episode 17, Amelia tells Lina to use thundershock.
  • In episode 15, Zangulus yells out "Prepare for trouble, bitches!" Ted Lewis, who played Zangulus, also played James in the first 9 episodes of Pokémon.
    • In the very first episode, Gourry tells an Onix that doesn't exist to attack the bandits. Lina lampshades about 30 seconds later that he sounds like Brock.
    • There's a lot of Pokemon examples of this, aren't there?
    • It makes it all the more ironic that almost all of the original voice actors were on Pokemon and one of the few that wasn't, Zelgadis, was the one who got the video game gimmick.
    • Actually, Crispin Freeman did do a bit of writing on the earlier episodes of Pokémon.
• Old Shame:
  • A lot of the earlier episodes, whether it's because of the bad writing, editing or overall quality, are things ps99 would love his viewers to forget, which is why he's making newer better versions of them.
  • And to try and make sure they forget, he's made episodes 1 through 10 private, and can only be seen by a few people that he allows to see them.
  • Of all the references he's made, the Jon and Kate reference he made in episode 15 is his least favorite by far, even though he Lampshaded it immediately after.
    • He also regrets whenever he bungles a reference, especially in episode 4 when Zelgadis mentions that they're stealing the joke from Sailor Moon Abridged, and Lina goes into an explanation why they're not. It's pretty easy to tell that ps99 only mentioned it as an excuse to namedrop SMA, and he regretted the joke immediately after the episode was put up.
• The Other Darrin: Oh, where to begin?
  • EVERYONE in the original 11 episodes was voiced by Project Shadow 99. In Episodes 14 and 15, Lunar Aiko voices Amelia. In all other appearances, she's played by Demon Darastrix.
  • As of Episode 14, sammisomara is now the voice of Lina. Then in episode 17, she began playing Gourry.
    • At the end of episode 5 of NEXT, her voice is cursed to go back to projectshadow99's. Then Martina is cursed shortly after to be played by sammisomara. In episode 13, the curse is lifted for no apparent reason. Whether one will be revealed or not is anyone's guess.
  • This is gradually becoming more and more the point of Gourry's character, as he's now been played by 5 different voice actors (and will probably end up played by more).
  • As of Episode 21, projectshadow99 took over for the role of Eris.
  • Strangely, Zelgadis is the only main character who hasn't gone under this trope, although the type of voice ps99 was using has changed a few times. Rezo is also like this, as he originally sounded like he did in the anime, and then in the revised episodes, he sounds like Dr. Facilier.
    • And now he sounds like Imperfect Cell, with no other explanation except that it's COOL.
• What Could Have Been:
  • When the rereleased episodes came out, Zelgadis was going to have an Irish accent because projectshadow99 is a fan of WWE superstar Sheamus, but he dropped the idea because he can't do an Irish accent.
  • Lunar Aiko was originally going to play Amelia full-time and Demon Darastrix was the understudy. This had to be changed as Aiko was almost always very busy with other multiple roles, high school, and at one point, a suspension on YouTube. Demon Darastrix was made the official voice of Amelia shortly before episode 1 V2 was released.
  • projectshadow99's sister, who is very involved in musical theatre, was originally going to play Lina. She backed out due to her lack of interest in Slayers and anime in general.
    • She eventually ended up playing a narrator in Season Two though.
  • projectshadow99 asked Kirbopher 15 if he wanted to play Mr. Rossburg. He politely declined.

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