#kanzaka

[prinzlucablight]

[isitfurbait]

Is Jillas from Slayers Try furrybait?

But of course this cute fox is furrybait. I know nothing of Slayers Try or Kanzaka, but I would like to know this character more based solely off his design. Look at those characteristic cheek fluff, that highly expressive face, the choice of clothing and being bipedal! Nothing in this design lacks the merit to become a furrybait character.

[prinzlucablight]

Slayers Try Episode 10

[jeneelestrange]

I’m not sure if no one’s addressed this or I just haven’t seen it.

But I remember hearing somewhere that in the Slayers novels, they say explicitly that Zelgadis cannot...have intimacies because of his chimera nature. It basically hinted that it would be like trying to copulate with concrete, he tried once, and it did NOT work out well for the girl. If anyone knows the actual source, or if you’ve actually read them and think someone might have made it up, please say so.

But I’ve been hearing for years, “Why doesn’t Zelgadis just give up on returning to normal and go be with Amelia?” And if this applied to other canon as well, it would explain a lot. She’s royalty--having procreative sex is basically eventually part of the job description. So maybe giving up is simply not an option if he wants to be with Amelia--or most people, but most especially Amelia(just saying, if this is true and unless Zelgadis happens to be asexual, this would be ENOUGH of a reason, but still). If so, then I take heart in Kanzaka saying that he will find it eventually, fuck you most recent seasons.

This has been my embarrassing musings on imaginary characters for the day. 

[caithyra]

"Mazoku can't love"? Where does it come from?

My recent post on the Tauriel hate and Reverse Cassandras took me waaay back. Back to when I was young and eager to watch the last season of Slayers, Slayers Try.

And I fell in love with the Filia/Xelloss ship. Happy, I went onto the internet (this was the late 90s, when the anime-web landscape was... Well, lets think about Geocities, lime green Comic Sans on animated hot pink backgrounds with autostarting midis of Spice Girls or Backstreet Boys, or, if you were lucky, Moonlight Densetsu, oh, and pop-up adverts and no adblockers in sight) and was having fun reading all these stories about them. Then I read a review on a story that said something like "mazoku can't love! The original author said so!" and my tiny, tween heart broke.

But again, an Anon on the net, you shouldn't trust everything, so I went on a quest to find out if it was true. I finally found a Xelloss shrine that said something like "Kanzaka said that mazoku can't love in an interview", but with no direct translation or scan of said interview. Oh well, my search went on.

Again, plenty of nebulous references to some interview in which the words "mazoku can't love" had been spoken. Pity, no other information seemed to come from that interview, or if it did, it was never mentioned in conjunction with the mazoku love tidbit.

Anyway, I grew up, figured that it didn't matter (besides, shinzoku have been shown as capable of producing hate, fear and other negative emotions, it isn't a stretch to believe that mazoku can produce their own love, happiness and other positive emotions. Phibrizzo seemed certainly happy enough when his plan was on track. It's possible that they only feel nauseous when a priestess force-feeds her own happiness to them through song, or Xelloss was just playing along or some other explanation, like Rule of Funny), so I went on with my life.

(BTW, apparently "The creators" told someone in an "interview" that Xelloss was once a human turned into a mazoku. Yeah, no one believes that nowadays but back in the day, it was a popular fanon theory [though it was regarded with skepticism].)

But now I want to know. Where does it come from? Was it just someone tired of all the Xelloss-shipping? The product of a ship war? Or just taken completely out of context of something else? I've tried googling it again, but I just can't find anything that doesn't lead back to nebulous rumors and mentions of some interview I'm not entirely convinced exists.

EDIT: Since I was apparently unclear: I'm looking for the source of the rumors of this interview (if there is a credible source), or at the very least, someone who remembers when it first made it's appearance in fandom, and if it was a "my friend's cousin's dog's breeder's uncle's best friend saw the scan and translation" situation. Not a debate about mazoku and their emotional capabilities in themselves.