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Posted by QP/Diana on January 18, 2001 at 16:45:22:
In Reply to: Re: Lost Universe, Slayers, and how it fits together posted by Kane Bluriver on January 17, 2001 at 20:41:12:
As you already knew, Slayers and Lost Universe are the TV anime based on the
each novel series, and the author of two novels are the same, Mr. Hajime
Kanzaka. Meanwhile, the illustrator for those two series are different.
Rui Araizumi is the illustrator for Slayers novels, and Shoko Yoshinaka is the
illustrator for Lost Universe (she is drawing Slayers comics in the monthly
Dragon Junior magazine.)
In the afterword for the last book of Lost Universe series, the author mentioned
about the relationship between those two novels series.
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Dear readers, it has been a long time since I wrote the previous book.
Here I brought the last book of the Lost Universe, "Yami Owaru Toki".
From the beginning, this story had such words as "Dark Star" or "Nightmare", and
those words easily reminded the readers of another novel series that I'm writing.
I know that many many people are wondering how this story is related with Slayers.
Now, I give you the answer!
The correct answer is, "there is little relationship between the two stories."
.................
....Ouch! No! Please! Don't throw stones!
.... Well, to tell the truth, I liked those names Dark Star or Gorunnova, and I
used those names in two different stories. That was the beginning, and nothing
more.
Basically, Lost Universe and Slayers are different stories, so, even though they
have some common names or common words, it's no good to let those characters be
the same things. If I let Gorunnova in the two different stories the same thing, it would be unrifined for a Edokko (citizens of Edo. An "Edokko" is stylish
and don't stick to things.).
Anyway, I was born in Hyogo, and live in Osaka...
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By the way, here I show the outline of the story of Dugradigudo and Volfeed in
LU novels. I posted its first version in this WWWboard back in 1999, and I
revised some words here. Some people may feel it disturbing for their enjoying
LU anime. If you feel so, you'd better not to read this until you'll see the
whole episode of LU anime.
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There once was a civilization in one galaxy. The aliens of this galaxy parted
in two groups and fought each other for a many years. Finally, one of two groups
created a critial offensive program; "System Dark Star". It uses the "fear" of
the victims to kill themself. When this system works, the victims feel fear and
this emotion affects the brain and checks the exchange of living energy. This
system works without any distriction, so the creators of this system made an
automatic battleship (spaceship Dugradigudo) to load this system on. As spaceship
Dugradigudo was filled with the devices of the System Dark Star and there was no
room for the deffensive weapons, the creators of the system made five escorting
battleships; the spaceship Nezard, the spaceship Garveira, the spaceship Gorrunnova,
the spaceship Ragdo Mezegis and the spaceship Bordigar. They were all automatic
battleships and their energy was the power of human mind (in LU world, there is
a technology which uses the power of human mind as energy, for example, psyblade).
There are many patterns of human mind wave, and these battleships used the pattern
of fear, for fear is always available at the battle. These six battleships ate
fear and spread destruction in the whole universe. The first victim was their
creators and their home-planet.
When System Dark Star worked, people saw a huge pentagram (upside down) appeared
in the sky. It can kill all the living things on one planet during a few hours.
Then there came spaceship Vorfeed with erasing system for those six demonic
spaceships. Vorfeed's energy was hope of human. When it irradiated its enegy at
Dugradigudo and its guardian ships, their energy (fear) was erased by hope and
those six battleships became enable to work. They fought each other a long time
ago, and finally, Vorfeed succeeded in erasing the energy of the enemies, but it
lost its energy, too. These seven battleships fell down on to the nearby planet.
Many years passed by, and those battleships repaired themselve automatically.
Then there came a boy. The AI of Dugradigudo found the boy and influenced his
mind with its energy. This boy became human Dugradigudo, and when he was grown
up, he named himself as Nightmare. Dugradigudo affected the mind and body of
Nightmare so as to survive in the System Dark Star. He managed a powerful crime
organization Nightmare to ready for another annihilation.
Dugradigudo and Nightmare thought that Vorfeed would come back again, and it
begun to ready for that. It repaired its escorting battlships, and made a huge
fortress Hecatombkale. And finally, Dugardigudo and Nightmare found spaceship
Sword Breaker with AI Canal Vorfeed. So the battle begun again.
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This is the story of Dugradigudo and Vorfeed in LU novels.
So, those lostships aren't related with the dark lord Durgradigudo. The creators
of the System Dark Star named the system as Dark Star, because it ate human fear
and killed the peopel, just like the dark lord in the legend --- yes, dark lord
Dugradigudo was only a legend in the Lost Universe world. The creators of the
system named those five escorting spaceships as Nezard, Galveira, Gorunnova,
Ragdo Mezegis, and Bordigar, for the Dark Star in the legend had five weapon with
those names.
In the novels, the Lord of Nightmare, Night Dragon Vorfeed, and Dark Star Dugradigudo
didn't appear and weren't related with the story, however, TV anime LU suggested
that there was the supreme one, Lord of Nightmare, I know. Why the canon novels
and TV anime had different concept? It was because that TV anime LU had been
made before the last book of Lost Universe novel came out. So, TV staffs created
the story on the concept that Nightmare pserson was related with the dark lord
Dugradigudo, and AI Canal Vorfeed was related with the Night Dragon Vorfeel.
> It's obvious to me that Slayers world is in Lost Universe but is also not in there. The Slayers world is literary like our solar system isolated from the rest of the Universe for some reason. Maybe Nightmares has a special affection for this world. I don't know.
It is a very wierd idea. Slayers TRY was made on the concept that there were
four different universes and each of them exists on the Sea of Chaos. There is
a chart showing that those four universes are in each of the four parallel world-
planes, and this chart was taken from the one of the official book of Slayers TRY
TV anime. If you deny this concept, saying that Slayers' world is in the part of
the Lost Universe's universe, you deny the foundation of Slayers TRY.
